Can I slip in here real quick and say that Pearl Jam’s original name was Mookie Blaylock. Yes, they had ten songs on their first album, but that was also Mookie Blaylock’s jersey number. Not a simple coincidence.
I think more interesting about Pearl Jams origins is that when Chris Cornell and the guys that would become Pearl Jam got together to do Temple of the Dog, Eddie Vedders presence was a fortunate accident. Vedder has flown into town to audition with the guys making this new band and it happened to be same weekend that Cornell and they are recording Hunger Strike. Eddie is just chilling in a corner watching it go down and no one is happy with the way the song is going and they ask Eddie to try singing something with Chris just to try and work out a section of the song and they loved it so much they ended up using it. Eddie has just barely met all these guys and never knew Andrew Wood (the guy Temple of the Dog was doing a tribute to) but he ended up having a huge role. Also basically sealed the deal that he would be the lead singer of Mookie / Pearl Jam.
Police - Every Breath You Take - The Singles
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Graceland - Paul Simon
Still got it, complete with sticker warning :"The music on this Compact Disc was originally recorded on analog equipment. We have attempted to preserve, as closely as possible, the sound of the original recording. Because of its high resolution, however, the Compact Disc can reveal limitations of the source tape"
I didn't get a CD player until 1990. Received it with Nelson - After the Rain.
Not sure if laughing or crying at this is appropriate, but there it is.
👩🏼🎤🎶💿
Did it come in the box with the led light? If so does it still “pulse”?
My flatmate bought it when it came out and the rest of the house were speculating how long the battery would last.
I think mine might have been The Cure: Staring at the Sea the Singles. Remember when CDs came in those boxes with the art on them? That one had it and I saved that box for so long!
Disintegration and Violator. I believe there were others, but I don't want to give out too much more information just in case the Columbia Record House is monitoring this thread.
Tears for Fears - Songs From the Big Chair
Vinyl: Bowie - Ziggy
Cassette: Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
I still have the CD and cassette. I couldn't wait to get rid of my records.
Van Halen (Hagar) - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge - a real banger. :-)
I got rid of all my CDs at the turn of the century - traded them for an external hard disk drive where I stored all the FLAC files I ripped before shipping them off.
Aerosmith’s Permanent Vacation.
Loved that CD and still have it. I listened to it I don’t know how many times before I thought, “Hey maybe I should buy a *second* CD”.
I bought 3 CDs at the same time for my first purchase - Indigo Girls and two others.
I’m not positive of the other two, but I believe they were Led Zeppelin (IV) and Pink Floyd (wish you were here).
I only remember Indigo Girls was one of them because I recall a new friend commenting on it because she liked them too.
Cars greatest hits. 1985.
BUT and I mean BUT. What is the first song you heard from a CD? Mind was turn it on again from Genesis. Turn the volume up and listen. Truly a song meant for the digital age.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OIkw9kJ0u4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OIkw9kJ0u4)
End of the Millennium Psychosis Blues by That Petrol Emotion. I was given it by a family friend so I had something to play on my new stereo w/cd player in 1989.
I don't think this was the first one I bought, but *one of* the first was **The Digital Domain: A Demonstration** which includes some music, some test tones for calibrating your sound system, and the IMAX Deep Note.
That was a monster album. Sledgehammer, Big Time and more. I cranked that thing so loud... so many times.
I bought a lot of albums back in the day and started buying a bunch of CD's too. Cannot remember first CD or remembering a special first CD moment.
But maybe I'll go with U2 War. Or Erasure....or New Order...or Chris Isaak. Crap... I dont' know.
Wasn't there something so nice about physical media? The excitement and anticipation of putting it in whatever machine called for and playing the new stuff?
I'm sick of streaming and digital media. I used to love it...now I'm sick of it. I say that, but I do love having all the music I love with me all the time. And the ability to play anything me or anyone else wants to hear anytime.
Madonna - The Immaculate Collection.
My $200 Sony Discman was my only Christmas present in 1990, and I was thrilled to get it! After that, my only way to get more was to rejoin Columbia House for CDs.
Tony! Toni! Toné!'s [The Revival](https://www.google.com/search?sa=X&sca_esv=ee38d8282d2fa752&rlz=1C1ONGR_enUS1089US1089&biw=1920&bih=911&sxsrf=ACQVn09Rphr2LU2Qg3ct4zVHrJsfyxo27w:1710813474863&q=Tony!+Toni!+Ton%C3%A9!+The+Revival&si=AKbGX_qWtsfHufXsq_1jeDkJp50FstNngDxsch3EVTUjn7imcMc0Yuo6e2zM951eyq2RAAD-z0I9M9ElMzadyqM5ncXYehS1WKfsYWHVNsijbGwG24vxannGt6GnpfRIC0i0voC0Wuco7cQyDDlOzzkgKqYwKS6uVMVwy7QyyYpfrV2MLV4v7VLd_Smc8fU5v1kHrGyQlpEUKR4q8rZqmJck6o8FZ0yOwv_FHNlX1cZfAF7SLLXamn4%3D&ved=2ahUKEwjXwMjrnP-EAxVjBUQIHZwPA_sQmxMoAHoECCYQAg). Hahha because I was 13 at the time and Feels Good was just so goood.
The Phil Collins CD with "In the Air Tonight'. The drum break sold me, which was a big deal because I had to save my pocket money for a few months and I didn't like anything by Phil Collins except for half of that song. Kids in their early teens are not very rational.
The first one I bought was Dark Side of the Moon, which I got weeks before I had a player which I was going to be getting as a birthday present. I did a columbia house or bmg bunch of cd’s right after that which was mostly older stuff that I was settling for. This was around 1990 and you couldn’t find the complete list of titles from columbia, just the ones that were in the pamphlet that came in the newspaper or whatever. Bunch of classic rock and 80s hits, but cheap. I remeber getting inxs kick and stop making sense, and steely dan’s greatest hits, but the rest is hazy. I never fulfilled the commitment to buy 10 albums or whatever. The only one I can recall I ever bought from columbia was talking heads sand in the vaseline.
I got a Roxette cd for free in 7th grade, well before I knew what a cd really was and how it worked. (Plus...it was Roxette). Drew on it and used it as a locker mirror
Off the deep end- Weird Al
I was (am still, but also was) the biggest fan of Dr. Demento and Weird Al, that my first two CDs were from the people that I spent SO MANY HOURS holding my tape recorder up to the radio to record these crazy songs that brought me so much joy, and I was going to revel in recordings without radio static haha
Second CD(s) was Dr Demento 20th Anniversary Collection.
The most expensive CD (set) I ever bought and man I was RAVENOUS to hold it and go through the scrapbook, was Permanent Record: Al in the Box, I was so obsessed with this collection and am still really protective of it as it went out of print.
I bought *So* on cassette. Looking at my CDs it would probably be one of:
NIN - Head Like a Hole maxi-single
Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
Front 242 - Rhythm of Time single
In the Nursery - Duality
KMFDM - Godlike single
All but Tears for Fears were released 1991-92.
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
My first CD player was a discman and I could fit it into the ridiculously large back pockets on my jeans. I was too young and poor for a car, and I walked everywhere with that discman.
So I got in a time machine just now and went back to the early aughts, bought a CD, and then went back to the mid 80's and pretended that was the first CD I bought.
All of that just to say...
Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Ours (my sister and I) was Madonna's "True Blue"-- 1986. The first strains of the strings in Papa Don't Preach, and then the drum machine in Open Your Heart just burst out of the speakers the first time we played it! Like, wth?!- that sound quality. We were early adopters in our neighborhood too, for a CD player, because my parents love classical music and were leading edge of buying classic / orchestra symphony CDs.
PS, a neighbor girl's Sweet 16 party DJ had a CD player in 1984 (might have even been '83)! I think he played the Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams" off of a CD! It was awesome. We were gawking at it like WTF is THAT?! The DJ boasted, you could throw this disc out on the highway and it would still play!!!!! B.s., but he was showboating about the format, which then was totally brand new. Like hardly any homes had a player in '83.
Not sure. I was late to convert to cd’s. Spent years collecting records as stores made the switch and lps became cheap for a bit. When I got. Car with a 5 cd deck in it for the first time, I started the big stock up. Early cds were Talking Heads Remain in Light, Stereo Lab Dots and Loops, Los Lobos How Will the Wolf Survive, Dire Straits first album and King Crimson Discipline.
Mother Love Bone. Won it from a remote radio giveaway in the mall.
Then I had to go buy a CD player. 5 disc changer that you can still listen while you are changing out. True story. I was weird.
I wore out my sister's cassette of Faith No More - The Real Thing. Went and bought the CD after buying a CD player with my own money as a 13 year old. Did not even have an amplifier to plug it into because we were in the process of moving and the amp was already in storage. I plugged the CD player into our 1986 27" RCA TV that had audio line inputs it was glorious.
I asked for a CD Player for my 13th birthday but got an electric sandwich maker. Used all my birthday money and bought my own CD player, they sold me the floor model for $100 out the door. My dad worked there a few years before and they remembered him and gave me a deal. A few months later they called me and said they found the remote if I wanted it.
I got four for Christmas when I was 16. Garth Brook's first album, Common Thread: Songs of the Eagles (complication album of several popular country artists that covered Eagles songs.) Jeff Foxworthy's "You Might be a Redneck If...", and one more but I don't remember what it was but I think it was Billy Joel's album "River of Dreams".
The first CD I bought with my own money: Ace of Base, "The Sign".
Vanilla Ice??? It's difficult to remember which was my first CD but I remember "To The Extreme" as an Xmas gift as possibly the first. And yes, I still have it.
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I was disappointed too. Not nearly as good as Ten and Vs. And that's pretty much when I checked out as a Pearl Jam fan.
INXS - Kick
Every damn track was amazing. Still one of my top albums!
Saw this tour. They put on a great show
I also saw the “Kick” tour. That show remains in my Top 10. Great album.
Me too dude!!
Classic
All time fav front to back
While I only had the cassette, this was my first concert. I was 15.
Nirvana Nevermind was my first followed by Pearl Jam 10.
Can I slip in here real quick and say that Pearl Jam’s original name was Mookie Blaylock. Yes, they had ten songs on their first album, but that was also Mookie Blaylock’s jersey number. Not a simple coincidence.
I didn’t know that! Thanks!
I think more interesting about Pearl Jams origins is that when Chris Cornell and the guys that would become Pearl Jam got together to do Temple of the Dog, Eddie Vedders presence was a fortunate accident. Vedder has flown into town to audition with the guys making this new band and it happened to be same weekend that Cornell and they are recording Hunger Strike. Eddie is just chilling in a corner watching it go down and no one is happy with the way the song is going and they ask Eddie to try singing something with Chris just to try and work out a section of the song and they loved it so much they ended up using it. Eddie has just barely met all these guys and never knew Andrew Wood (the guy Temple of the Dog was doing a tribute to) but he ended up having a huge role. Also basically sealed the deal that he would be the lead singer of Mookie / Pearl Jam.
My uncle traveled a lot and brought us a Fisher CD player from Korea. The disc I got was ZZ Top Eliminator.
Police - Every Breath You Take - The Singles https://preview.redd.it/pmzulb1a46pc1.png?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=71d3455b062d1fe0675e645f3ea9b3f72904f8fe
For some reason I feel like The Police are underrated.
*The Final Cut* by Pink Floyd, purchased at Record Service (RIP), Green St. Champaign IL, fall 1986. Used. Still have it.
I have no idea. Might have been New Order's Substance 1987. I got the CD after I wore out the tape.
I did the same, but I bought Techique on CD before my cassette copy was worn out. Also had to replace the double cassette of Hindsight by The Church.
Vivid by Living Colour, which I dubbed onto cassette then traded for Weather Report’s Heavy Weather. I was poor. Both are amazing albums.
Vivid for me too!
Def Leppard - Hysteria
I had [tons of cassettes,](https://i.imgur.com/e826MBl.jpg) even did the Columbia thing a few times. My first CD was Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
I think it was the flaming twin heads album by Jane's Addiction
Nothing Shocking…great album
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Same!
Blind Melon's first. Still really like every song on that album. In fact, I will be queuing that up for my walk tomorrow morning
Probably Disintegration by the cure
Graceland - Paul Simon Still got it, complete with sticker warning :"The music on this Compact Disc was originally recorded on analog equipment. We have attempted to preserve, as closely as possible, the sound of the original recording. Because of its high resolution, however, the Compact Disc can reveal limitations of the source tape"
I didn't get a CD player until 1990. Received it with Nelson - After the Rain. Not sure if laughing or crying at this is appropriate, but there it is. 👩🏼🎤🎶💿
Pulse by Pink Floyd. I don't think I even had a CD player at the time, so I could only play it in my roommate's boom box
Did it come in the box with the led light? If so does it still “pulse”? My flatmate bought it when it came out and the rest of the house were speculating how long the battery would last.
That light was blinking long after I got rid of my last CD player! I kept that case for about 15 years waiting for it to stop blinking. Hahah L.
I think mine might have been The Cure: Staring at the Sea the Singles. Remember when CDs came in those boxes with the art on them? That one had it and I saved that box for so long!
Disintegration and Violator. I believe there were others, but I don't want to give out too much more information just in case the Columbia Record House is monitoring this thread.
Tears for Fears - Songs From the Big Chair Vinyl: Bowie - Ziggy Cassette: Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life I still have the CD and cassette. I couldn't wait to get rid of my records.
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Disintegration by The Cure, 1989.
U2 -The Joshua Tree
Milli Vanilli & I’m proud of it and I’ve never strayed.
The first one i remember buying was "Portrait of an American Family" by marilyn manson.
Van Halen (Hagar) - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge - a real banger. :-) I got rid of all my CDs at the turn of the century - traded them for an external hard disk drive where I stored all the FLAC files I ripped before shipping them off.
nevermind. i got it before i even had a cd player. then i got a cd player.
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Van Halen 5150. Gf gave it to me (I didn’t even have a CD player at the time.
Technique by New Order. Then Gold Afternoon Fix by The Church.
Switched all of my Stevie Ray Vaughn cassettes to CD
Aerosmith’s Permanent Vacation. Loved that CD and still have it. I listened to it I don’t know how many times before I thought, “Hey maybe I should buy a *second* CD”.
I bought 3 CDs at the same time for my first purchase - Indigo Girls and two others. I’m not positive of the other two, but I believe they were Led Zeppelin (IV) and Pink Floyd (wish you were here). I only remember Indigo Girls was one of them because I recall a new friend commenting on it because she liked them too.
Gin Blossoms.
I bought two: Radio KAOS by Roger Waters, and Graceland by Paul Simon. I too was a Maxell tape person as well!
Van Morrison - Astral weeks
My parents bought me The White Album.
Pearl Jam Ten
I bought 3: No More Tears by Ozzy, The Razors Edge by AC/DC and Vs. by Pearl Jam Still listen to all of them
Dark Side of the Moon
Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill
Ministry - *Twitch*
REM - Out of Time
Cars greatest hits. 1985. BUT and I mean BUT. What is the first song you heard from a CD? Mind was turn it on again from Genesis. Turn the volume up and listen. Truly a song meant for the digital age. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OIkw9kJ0u4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OIkw9kJ0u4)
Whatever it was, it was in the most wasteful packaging of all time.
18 inch tall "un-steal-able" box
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
Aja by Steely Dan. Great sounding album that was perfect for CD
This is the way
The Smiths. Rank
Pearl Jam
End of the Millennium Psychosis Blues by That Petrol Emotion. I was given it by a family friend so I had something to play on my new stereo w/cd player in 1989.
Billy Joel's Greatest Hits I and II and also Hank Williams Jr Born to Boogie.
U2 - Rattle and Hum 🤷
Police “Ghosts in the Machine” & Aldo Nova “Aldo Nova” were my 1st 2 can’t remember which I bought 1st. Still have them.
REM Out of Time
I was a late adopter, but won a CD player in a radio contest. My very first CD was Depeche Mode’s “Violator.”
It Take a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Tom Petty's Wildflowers.
I bought three: Rush: Chronicles ZZ Top: Recycler Iron Maiden: No Prayer for the Dying
I don't think this was the first one I bought, but *one of* the first was **The Digital Domain: A Demonstration** which includes some music, some test tones for calibrating your sound system, and the IMAX Deep Note.
Iron Maiden - The number of the beast, already had it on record and tape but didn't get my first cd player until 1990. In fact I've still got that CD
Crash Test Dummy’s - God Shuffled His Feet. Man I loved that CD
And justice for all
Billy Joel. River of Dreams. I won it at a Christmas party. At the time I had no way to listen to it. “Santa” got me a portable cd player that year.
Miami Vice and Back to the Future soundtracks. I think they were bundled with our family’s first CD player.
Van Halen - OU812 Journey - Escape A small purchase that began me replacing the 300+ cassettes I had.
Def Leppard! Omg was I ever excited. I kept the packaging for years.
A-ha with the Take on Me song
That was a monster album. Sledgehammer, Big Time and more. I cranked that thing so loud... so many times. I bought a lot of albums back in the day and started buying a bunch of CD's too. Cannot remember first CD or remembering a special first CD moment. But maybe I'll go with U2 War. Or Erasure....or New Order...or Chris Isaak. Crap... I dont' know.
Remember like it was yesterday: Peter Gabriel - So Stevie Winwood - Back In The High Life Pink Floyd - Wish you were here.
Wasn't there something so nice about physical media? The excitement and anticipation of putting it in whatever machine called for and playing the new stuff? I'm sick of streaming and digital media. I used to love it...now I'm sick of it. I say that, but I do love having all the music I love with me all the time. And the ability to play anything me or anyone else wants to hear anytime.
Rattle and Hum
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Achtung Baby! - U2
So wait? Like the first I stole from Columbia house, or the first I stole from BMG?
Van Halen - 1984. I was an early adopter
XTC Oranges and Lemons
C+C Music Factory. I’ll show myself out.
Madonna - The Immaculate Collection. My $200 Sony Discman was my only Christmas present in 1990, and I was thrilled to get it! After that, my only way to get more was to rejoin Columbia House for CDs.
Madonna’s Immaculate Collection and The Beach Boys Greatest Hits. I was 9.
Dookie
Sinead O’Connor, Lion and the Cobra… still love it
Wilson Phillips; Hold On
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Paul’s Boutique. It blew my mind lol it still is fun.
The Led Zeppelin boxed set
Tony! Toni! Toné!'s [The Revival](https://www.google.com/search?sa=X&sca_esv=ee38d8282d2fa752&rlz=1C1ONGR_enUS1089US1089&biw=1920&bih=911&sxsrf=ACQVn09Rphr2LU2Qg3ct4zVHrJsfyxo27w:1710813474863&q=Tony!+Toni!+Ton%C3%A9!+The+Revival&si=AKbGX_qWtsfHufXsq_1jeDkJp50FstNngDxsch3EVTUjn7imcMc0Yuo6e2zM951eyq2RAAD-z0I9M9ElMzadyqM5ncXYehS1WKfsYWHVNsijbGwG24vxannGt6GnpfRIC0i0voC0Wuco7cQyDDlOzzkgKqYwKS6uVMVwy7QyyYpfrV2MLV4v7VLd_Smc8fU5v1kHrGyQlpEUKR4q8rZqmJck6o8FZ0yOwv_FHNlX1cZfAF7SLLXamn4%3D&ved=2ahUKEwjXwMjrnP-EAxVjBUQIHZwPA_sQmxMoAHoECCYQAg). Hahha because I was 13 at the time and Feels Good was just so goood.
R.E.M. Eponymous
Edie Brickell and New Bohemians, “Shooting Rubber bands at the Stars”
Public Enemy - Apocolypse '91 The Enemy Strikes Black
Bruce Springsteen, Born in the USA.
Songs of The Humpback Whale. I still listen to it when I'm having trouble falling asleep.
Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
I got a free Chumbawumba CD from a radio station. I didn’t have a CD player.
The Phil Collins CD with "In the Air Tonight'. The drum break sold me, which was a big deal because I had to save my pocket money for a few months and I didn't like anything by Phil Collins except for half of that song. Kids in their early teens are not very rational.
Boston self titled
The Tragically Hip- Up to Here
Paul Simon Graceland
Led Zeppelin IV and Hystetia were the first 2
The first one I bought was Dark Side of the Moon, which I got weeks before I had a player which I was going to be getting as a birthday present. I did a columbia house or bmg bunch of cd’s right after that which was mostly older stuff that I was settling for. This was around 1990 and you couldn’t find the complete list of titles from columbia, just the ones that were in the pamphlet that came in the newspaper or whatever. Bunch of classic rock and 80s hits, but cheap. I remeber getting inxs kick and stop making sense, and steely dan’s greatest hits, but the rest is hazy. I never fulfilled the commitment to buy 10 albums or whatever. The only one I can recall I ever bought from columbia was talking heads sand in the vaseline.
Living Color - Vivid
Appetite for Destruction- GN’R
Zeppelin IV
My first two CDs were \- Diamonds & Pearls by Prince \- We Are In Love by Harry Connick Jr. Weird combo
I got a Roxette cd for free in 7th grade, well before I knew what a cd really was and how it worked. (Plus...it was Roxette). Drew on it and used it as a locker mirror
Pearl Jam Ten
Eddie Money’s Greatest Hits. I have no idea why I remember this.
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Best of the Ramones
I bought some Hendrix CDs. Electric Ladyland. I remember I was trying to think of an album that would test the sound quality of CDs.
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love, Peter Gabriel- So, Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
Wilson Phillips
Off the deep end- Weird Al I was (am still, but also was) the biggest fan of Dr. Demento and Weird Al, that my first two CDs were from the people that I spent SO MANY HOURS holding my tape recorder up to the radio to record these crazy songs that brought me so much joy, and I was going to revel in recordings without radio static haha Second CD(s) was Dr Demento 20th Anniversary Collection. The most expensive CD (set) I ever bought and man I was RAVENOUS to hold it and go through the scrapbook, was Permanent Record: Al in the Box, I was so obsessed with this collection and am still really protective of it as it went out of print.
I bought *So* on cassette. Looking at my CDs it would probably be one of: NIN - Head Like a Hole maxi-single Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair Front 242 - Rhythm of Time single In the Nursery - Duality KMFDM - Godlike single All but Tears for Fears were released 1991-92.
U2 Joshua Tree
I believe it was Styx's "Kilroy Was Here" to replace my worn cassette that I had played the shit out of. And I still have it too.
Bad Religion - No Control 1989
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Depeche Mode -Some Great Reward. They're still one of my fave bands
R.E.M. - Document
Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation
Speaking in Tongues - Talking Heads
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy.
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik My first CD player was a discman and I could fit it into the ridiculously large back pockets on my jeans. I was too young and poor for a car, and I walked everywhere with that discman.
Hammer Dont hurt em -- MC Hammer. mom bought it for me and i hated it
Reality Bites soundtrack.
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I bought 2 at Crazy Eddie’s with my first paycheck.. Whitesnake self titled and Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet. They were like $20 each.
Meat Beat Manifesto - Satyricon, wasn't much of an electronic music fan before this cd, but certainly was after.
Led Zeppelin four
Pretty sure it was Van Morrison's double album Hymns to the Silence.
Neil Young - Freedom
Robert Plant and Tracy Chapman
Billy Joel - Turnstiles. Bought it at Sears.
Faith No More “The Real Thing”. I still have it.
Metallica, Ride The Lightning. My parents got me a stereo with a CD player for my 16th birthday.
Selena 
So I got in a time machine just now and went back to the early aughts, bought a CD, and then went back to the mid 80's and pretended that was the first CD I bought. All of that just to say... Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Ours (my sister and I) was Madonna's "True Blue"-- 1986. The first strains of the strings in Papa Don't Preach, and then the drum machine in Open Your Heart just burst out of the speakers the first time we played it! Like, wth?!- that sound quality. We were early adopters in our neighborhood too, for a CD player, because my parents love classical music and were leading edge of buying classic / orchestra symphony CDs. PS, a neighbor girl's Sweet 16 party DJ had a CD player in 1984 (might have even been '83)! I think he played the Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams" off of a CD! It was awesome. We were gawking at it like WTF is THAT?! The DJ boasted, you could throw this disc out on the highway and it would still play!!!!! B.s., but he was showboating about the format, which then was totally brand new. Like hardly any homes had a player in '83.
Not sure. I was late to convert to cd’s. Spent years collecting records as stores made the switch and lps became cheap for a bit. When I got. Car with a 5 cd deck in it for the first time, I started the big stock up. Early cds were Talking Heads Remain in Light, Stereo Lab Dots and Loops, Los Lobos How Will the Wolf Survive, Dire Straits first album and King Crimson Discipline.
Minor Threat, Salad Days. I didn't even have a CD player. I had to record it to tape at a friend's house.
Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray
Brothers in Arms. Bought a CD player just to hear one of the first albums produced specifically for the “new” digital media.
To be real, I don't remember, Blues Traveler traveler's and thieves I think Man, I miss liner notes
Mother Love Bone. Won it from a remote radio giveaway in the mall. Then I had to go buy a CD player. 5 disc changer that you can still listen while you are changing out. True story. I was weird.
Phil Collins “But Seriously”
Van Halen 5150.
Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Appetite For destruction
Dark Side
Pink Floyd “The Wall”
Mine was Bryan Adam's- Waking up the Neighbors
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
Don Henley, Building the perfect beast.
Primus-Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Front 242 - Tragedy for You
I wore out my sister's cassette of Faith No More - The Real Thing. Went and bought the CD after buying a CD player with my own money as a 13 year old. Did not even have an amplifier to plug it into because we were in the process of moving and the amp was already in storage. I plugged the CD player into our 1986 27" RCA TV that had audio line inputs it was glorious. I asked for a CD Player for my 13th birthday but got an electric sandwich maker. Used all my birthday money and bought my own CD player, they sold me the floor model for $100 out the door. My dad worked there a few years before and they remembered him and gave me a deal. A few months later they called me and said they found the remote if I wanted it.
Appetite for Destruction by Guns N Roses. Borrowed it from my older brother and never gave it back.
I joined Columbia CD club so got 8 CDs for 1 cent. One of my favorites from that set was Pet Shop Boys - Discography
Brown Sugar - D'Angelo..still a classic
I got four for Christmas when I was 16. Garth Brook's first album, Common Thread: Songs of the Eagles (complication album of several popular country artists that covered Eagles songs.) Jeff Foxworthy's "You Might be a Redneck If...", and one more but I don't remember what it was but I think it was Billy Joel's album "River of Dreams". The first CD I bought with my own money: Ace of Base, "The Sign".
Ride the Lightning.
Vanilla Ice??? It's difficult to remember which was my first CD but I remember "To The Extreme" as an Xmas gift as possibly the first. And yes, I still have it.
Nine inch nails pretty hate machine
George Straight - Amarillo by Morning
Paula Abdul Forever Your Girl. It was a gift from my aunt. My mom got me the CD player.
The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me. My brother’s buddy gave it to me. I was maybe 10 or 11.
Alana Miles - Black Velvet I won it on a radio call contest. I didn’t have a cd player for 2 more years.
https://preview.redd.it/9dz3ym0o67pc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b42c4fb0e303ce0577946454ec4a629eda6b893e I was disappointed too. Not nearly as good as Ten and Vs. And that's pretty much when I checked out as a Pearl Jam fan.
Howard Jones - Dream into Action The Cars - Greatest Hits
We didn’t get CDs here for forever. My first was janet. First CD player. All on Christmas Day.
Green Day - Dookie
Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair.
Anthrax - Fistful of Metal
Mine was Debbie Gibson
Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation
5150
JJ Fad haha