The compact disc phenomenon really started rolling like a snowball in the 1980s. The first 80s CD I bought was Julia Fordham's self titled album (1988).

Check it out!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/music-glance/B000000WGJ/qid=956947140/sr=1-3/103-2678947-1310223

Ok, I jumped on the CD bandwagon a bit late!

I followed up with Styx's "Cornerstone" : )

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Are you asking CD or album in general? If it's CD then it would be Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi in 95 I think (i was 11 at the time). But the first album I ever got was Metallica's Black album.

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Amy Livin

Oh, Amy. You got into the Metallica game just as they were getting soft! Shame, shame! hehe Oh, just kidding.. Ahh, let's see. My first 80's CD. Yeah, I bought that around, ahh.. 2 months ago.. haha Yes, you think YOU got into the CD game late?! Right... http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smile.gif

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Sal Collaziano

My first 80's cd..had to be "Like a Virgin"..just had to have that on CD. (Thanks to BMG..I now have close to 200 cd's)

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Hey, Nikki.. Does BMG have a website? I am really nuts to not be registered with them. I have years of catching up to do!

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Sal Collaziano

I was also late in getting CD's (about a year ago)I thought I would be a cassette freak forever LOL

I got 12 CD's at one shot, let's see if I remember which ones they were

Night Ranger-Greatest Hits
Loverboy Classics
Bon Jovi- Cross Road
Duran Duran -Greatest Hits
U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky
Bryan Adams - So Far So Good
Violent Femmes
Ozzy Osbourne -The Ozzman Cometh
Paul Laine -Stick it in Your Ear
Judas Priest- Living After Midnight
Bad Company - 10 from 6
Foreigner- The very Best of and Beyond

Now some of these have a mix of 70's,80's & 90's.
What a wierd collection huh?
I didn't mention my Bay City Rollers, Temptations and ABBA CD's http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smile.gif

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www.bmgmusicservice.com (http://www.bmgmusicservice.com)

Link to BMG : )

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Ahhh!!!! Not the "M" word...please! To cheesy for me.

The first 80's cd I bought was Ozzy-"Diary of a madman.

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[This message has been edited by Not Man (edited 04-28-2000).]

I just bought 4 cd's this week..
Human League-Greatest Hits
Culture Club/VH1's storyteller collection
(it's a 2 CD set)
Red Hot Chili Peppers-Greatest Hits
Janet Jackson-Design of a Decade (Greatest)

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Thanks for the link, Pindooka!

Not Man! Sorry! I didn't think you were looking! http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/redface.gif

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LOL @ Sal http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smile.gif

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Hmm... I got CDs... but I have more tapes!
And I'm not even gonna try and list them... yeah there's that many! My collection dates back to '91... so there! http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/tongue.gif

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Tydestra
Rock is't dead... I'm still here.
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Forget about it.. Tapes? I started collecting in the mid 80s! http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/tongue.gif

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Actually, the first CD I bought was not an 80's CD. It was Bob Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks." I was going through that whole granola-eating phase, during my freshman year of college. My first 80's CD was Soul II Soul....remember that group? "Back 2 Life," etc. My tastes were and are still very eclectic. When we were growing up, we listened to all kinds of music. Remember how many different styles of music there were back then? I loved metal, pop, soul, R&B, techno-- in fact, I remember the second 80's CD I bought was Yaz-- "Upstairs at Eric's." I still own it! Now everything is so compartmentalized. Kids only listen to one type of music and put down anything different. I think our generation was a lot more open-minded. At least you could understand the lyrics to most of the songs...er, unless you are talking about REM!

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No idea! I think it might have been the Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits, then a few compilations. The most recent being Gary Numan's Premier Hits, Duran Duran's Decade, and Culture Club's Greatest Hits.



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DuranDuranRules. We have alot in common. Starting with Soul II Soul, we have the same music tastes... I listen to a large variety of music. I like everything except country. I'm not too much of a country fan...

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I started to actually collect 80s CDs last spring, but before that I had lots of tapes. Bangles and other stuff.

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The first 80s CD i ever owned was The Police's Every Breath You Take compilation, then a compilation disc called | looks around for it http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//spin.gif |, "The New Wave, Pop Music of the Early Eighties". It has songs like 99 Red Balloons (American version, my favorite), Pretty in Pink and that song where the girl sings "Ma'd like you better if we slept together,". It was really cool, but of course i scratched it. The second one was the Transformers Movie soundtrack- the theme song by Lion kicks! Also, god help me, i have a "best of" Debbie Gibson CD which has a couple of songs that i liked. For a few days lol. Still its cool to own 'em! Everyone has different preferences, and if it's 80s its good no matter if i like it or not. http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//ANGEL.gif

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This is a tough one. When cd's hit, I had a couple of hundred cassettes (I wish I had that collection now!). I think it was Iron Maiden's "Somewhere in Time".

I didn't get my first CD till about 1991. My first CD I think was The Smiths "Meat Is Murder" album.

Air Supply Greatest Hits :eek: and Loverboy I went down and bought those when I was 12? My Mom and Dad had some KISS albums that I always listened to, but they weren't mine

Let's see...

First Cassette - Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger First CD - The Beatles - Some Greatest Hits compilation First 80's CD - Bullet Boys - Self Titled

Sorry....those were cassettes and NOT CD's...My first CD ever would have to be
AD/DC...Back in Black

I bought my first CD player and 2 cds on the same date. TRIBUTE by Ozzy featuring Randy Rhodes and BAD ANIMALS by Heart.

I believe the first CD I got was Bobby Brown's My Perogitive. Then Johnny Gill's first CD, not really 80's, but that was them! :)

Pebbles......I just want you to know, that because of your signature, I've been running around singing that song for the last 2 days. At work I even made a parody and added "dogs" instead of guys...and "bones" instead of me..... :D

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Really? That's funny!! I just bought an 80's CD a few weeks ago and I bought it since it had that song, Mickey, I Ran (So Far Away), I Want Candy...and I couldn't stop listening to I Know What Boys Like. I love to bring the radio in the bathroom and sing in the shower!! :eek:
:rolleyes: :o

[ May 09, 2001: Message edited by: Pebbles42 ]

I think it was The Cure's Kiss me kiss me kiss me. I didn't get my first CD player 'til 1991, and the first CD I received with it was Michael Bolton, which I promptly gave to my stepmother! LOL!

My daughter was running around the house singing I Want Candy...I was, like, cool...she's listening to my radio station. Only to find out, she thinks that AARON CARTER sings that song!!! *gasp* I had to correct her and play it the way it was supposed to be played... <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">

Let's see... My first 80s cd(s)... That would be:
Midnight Oil-Diesel and Dust
Mental as anything-Cyclone Raymond (an Aussie thing goin' here <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0"> )
Aerosmith-Pump

Those are the three I recall as my first!

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Originally posted by morningmyst:
<STRONG>My daughter was running around the house singing I Want Candy...I was, like, cool...she's listening to my radio station. Only to find out, she thinks that AARON CARTER sings that song!!! *gasp* I had to correct her and play it the way it was supposed to be played... <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0"></STRONG>

There's an episode of The Simpsons where they also sing that song. So when I play that song, my son sings along and he says its from The Simpsons. How funny! <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

I remember that Simpsons episode. Yes, definately make sure they hear the CORRECT version of the song. There are too many of these new groups trying to sing our classics.

I hate to bring this up Iluv80s but The Strangeloves did the original version of "I want candy" in the 60's. However, Bow Wow Wow did it better <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

DJ, I didn't know that. Wow! I learn something new on here everyday.

In all the confusion I forgot to mention the first 80's C.D. I bought. It was actually in the 80's. I bought Elton John's 1989 C.D. "Sleeping with the past" before I had a C.D. player. I knew I was getting one for Christmas.

By the way Sal, you should really listen to today's country because it sounds more like 80's pop then anything else today.

The first CD that I every bought was Madonna's "Like A Prayer" CD in 89, I think. I had just gotten a portable boombox with a CD player for Christmas, which was quite the luxury back then!!! <img src="eek.gif" border="0">

I did'nt get a CD player until about 1992 and I think my first CD was Zeppelin remasters. All in all I only own about 20 CD's I buy only the groups I REALLY like<img src="smile.gif" border="0">

Originally posted by djdaffy1227:
<STRONG>By the way Sal, you should really listen to today's country because it sounds more like 80's pop then anything else today.</STRONG>

I agree! A lot of today's country is REALLY good! <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

My first was "Diary of a Madman" - Ozzy


Only 20 CD's topcat? I have around 650. <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

650 CDs! Dang, Not Man<img src="smile.gif" border="0"> Who did you sell your soul to Columbia House or BMG??? <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0"> Where would you put that many CDs? All I can say is, WOW<img src="smile.gif" border="0">

only 650 C.D.'s Not Man. I have well over 3,000 C.D.'s. You need to get crackin' here <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

3,000 CDs! Go to your room, you are grounded <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> Wait I would like to add 1 to my collection. I just bought Lifehouse's CD. Back off Mr.Dj you have some serious competition here <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">

Originally posted by djdaffy1227:
<STRONG>only 650 C.D.'s Not Man. I have well over 3,000 C.D.'s. You need to get crackin' here <img src="smile.gif" border="0"></STRONG>

You must be a DJ <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">


Actually topcat most of my cd's were bought before I joined BMG. The majority of them are of the metal/hardrock genre. <img src="cool.gif" border="0">

I get at least 6 C.D.'s sent to me a month. 5 to 7 from a company called Top Hits USA and 1 a month from Promo Only. I don't need to buy new C.D.'s anymore for one or two songs that are usable. I do buy greatest hits comps and best of. A good percentage of my discs are best of and compilations.

Ya lucky b*stard <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

Are you calling me a fish poop. You know, Bass turd <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

<img src="biggrin.gif" border="0"> @ djdaffy1227

I don't remember what the first 80's CD I bought, the mind is going. <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

I got my first CD player in 1985 (I've gone through quite a few of 'em). I bought 2 CD's before I even got a player, because some electronics store in my mall carried discs for a few months, then decided to get out of it, thinking CD's would never "work." They were selling off all their discs for $9.99 (which was super cheap in 1985!)

Anyway, my first two CD's were "Phantoms" by The Fixx and "Steeltown" by Big Country. Now I have well over 4,000 CD's. Of course, I've been in the music business for a long time, so I get a ton of free stuff. But I still buy discs all the time to add to my "library." <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">

I bow to you Surlyone.

I made mine.It has hits such as kid nplay and , petshop boys.

First CD huh? 80's at that. I would have to say....I'm not sure. I'm thinking it was Pornography by The Cure (wore two cassettes out of that before getting the cd). I was stuck on cassettes until about '91. Which, the first cassette I ever bought was Kiss- Animalize (in 1984, I think, memory aint what it used to be)

The very first CD I ever bought was Heart's Bad Animals CD. Bought it at the same time I bought my first CD player (single tray, sensitive to mild vibrations and bumps, etc.) back in '88. I was 18 at the time and I guess I got a late start, too, but it wasn't till then that I actually had a job that paid enough for me to save for it.

I really got started late buying CDs. Bought my first one in 1992 hahaha Devo's Greatest Hits. My first cassettes were more interesting though: Scorpions - Love At First Sting and Slade - Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply. A little diversity. <img src="cool.gif" border="0">

Very first CDs I ever bought were Michael Jackson's "Bad" and Janet Jackson's
"Control" on the same day (I'm a HUGE Jackson fan). I remember I was so excited that at 7 years old I had saved up enough money to buy them. <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

My first 80's CD was Depeche Mode, "Catching Up With Depeche Mode." That was followed up with Pretenders' "The Singles" and Journey's "Escape". Then of course I had to buy all the Duran Duran I'd had on vinyl and cassette. LOL

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Lora

My first Sony, ahem, CD...the maxi-CD of TinTin, "I Beg Your Pardon". Was a cover version to the one of KonKan...dang, mistaken the names. Wasn´t too bad, though.
Bought it way before I owned a CD player, as I wanted to check the "new" format out.

Got my first CD-player in 1989, together with a complation called "Dance Max I" and "Backcatalogue" by Front 242.

Now, I´m owning close to 1.200 CD´s and only one is a promo presented to me - Accepts "Predator" (which was very negatively reviewed by me - since then, the company representing Accept never sent me another). Would´ve been more, but in the last two years, money was very short, so I had to cut back my habits. I also owned over 2.200 pieces of vinyl, but since a thief had taken the opportunity of me being away for a weekend, only 300 remained...

The first CD that I purchased to the best of my knowledge, was the Pet Shop Boys album, Actually, in 1987 when I was 16. The first one that was purchased for me was Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair in 1985.
1987 was quite a late part of the '80's to purchase a CD, but when you get $5.00 a week pocket money and CDs are $29.95 and 12" vinyl is a very affordable, $5.99, one can see why it took me so long...

The First CD I ever got was Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms, back in 86. My cousin had just bought his first cd player (I come from a small town, it was the first cd in town and everyone came to listen to it!!!!!)

My brother still has the tour program from when Dire Straits came to Australia in 86. In it there's an ad stating Dire Straits make music perfect for the clarity of CD, or words to that effect. It's funny to think CD was SUCH a big deal back then. (Jeez you cant even buy vinyl, commercial anyway, in OZ anymore

It was either Eurythmics:Revenge or Sandra:In the heat of the night

Can't really remember

I didn't get a CD player until 1992....but my first 80s CDs were:

The Cure: Staring At The Sea - The Singles
The Human League: Dare

Kristina

first cds,
i kept buying cassettes so I could hear them in my car. My first cd was probably mid 90's.
Sophie B. Hawkins, "Whaler".
First 80's cds were,

Berlin (Best of) (had to have those song, "Masquerade" and "Metro"..<img src="smile.gif" border="0">
Bananarama (best of)

ok..totally misunderstood the q.

I didn't get a cd played until 1994! (yes I know..SHOCK HORROR..I was definately the last person in the free world not to have one. I know! I know! <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">)

..let me think..I think it was KD lang - Hush Sweet Lover. I liked it cause it sent me to sleep!

heh heh..aww shuddup..I'm not even *telling* you what my next cd was....(too embarassing)

Peace Sells- Megadeth

Garsh I dont think we got a CD player until the late 90's either. We bought a huge lot of our first cd's from Columbia House, but I dont think any of them were from the 80's. I bought my first 80's cd when I was in Wal-Mart one day. I was just flipping through the music when I ran across the soundtrack for the movie "The Lost Boys", my FAV movie of all time!! I just had to have that CD!! <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0"> http://www.plauder-smilies.de/tales/vampanim.gif

The first CD that I ever bought was Poison's "Open up and say Ahhhh!" <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">

*Whooo-Hooo* I just got 3 new CD's in the mail yesterday!
Madonna- The immaculate collection
Rick Springfield- The best of
Van Halen- 1984

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Let's see...

I got my 1st CD player in '90. I went up to Camelot, (or some crazy chain that is around here...before Best Buy), and bought,

1. Aerosmith - Pump
2. Yaz - Upstairs at Eric's
3. Led Zepplin - Houses of the Holy
4. Madonna - Like a Virgin
5. Carly Simon - Coming Around Again
6. MTV's - Class of 1983

It's a broad range, and even I can't believe that my taste is so broad. I even like a bit of country now!

My very first album I bought was Kiss Destroyer...and my first cassette I bought was Barbara Streisand Guilty. (I got Kiss's album, if I am not mistaken, in 1977, and Bab's album in 1980.)

~G

My first 80s CD was A-ha - "Hunting High and Low". That's still a favorite of mine. That was in December of 1990.

I can't remember which one I got first, but these 2 were my first CDs.

The Smiths - "Peel Sessions"
Depeche Mode - "Catching up with Depeche Mode"

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the 1st CD I ever bought was Rush's 2112
the 1st 80's CD i ever bought was Living Color's Vivid <img src="cool.gif" border="0">

Originally posted by nolanbuc:
the 1st CD I ever bought was Rush's 2112


The man has a ear for music....Excellent choice <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

I got my first CD player Christmas of '89. The first CDs I got were:

The Sensual World - Kate Bush
Wow! - Bananarama
Greatest Hits Vol. 2 - Olivia Newton-John

Being the electronics freak that I am...
I got my first CD player in '85. and that was when CD's were just starting to get big but you still had to wait for the Record Companies to release older music on CD. New releases, you had to wait a month an a half to get the CD so I wound up buying the Cassette first, then the CD.

Very first CD- Van Halen's 5150.

I know they didn't have any VH CD's with DLR so I got it anyway :p ;)

I didn't get my first CD until last year.

My first CD? Ace of Base's Greatest Hits album (2000).

The first cd I ever purchased was Propaganda: A Secret Wish...and I still have it in my collection.

The first 80's CD I ever purchased was Winger.

I didn't buy any 80's CD's........I burn my own. :)

Got my CD Player around 1992/93, and "Please - Pet Shop Boys" was my first CD, soon followed by "Green - R.E.M." and "Information Society - Information Society". As a side note: it's only me, or vinyl records are much, much better sounding than CDs?

Seeya,
Luis Marka

Pet Shop Boys and Information Society...it doesn't get much better than that. :)

It's not you - I like the sound of vinyl as well. :)

I got my first CD player in 1990. I bought two CDs that day... Sinead O'Connor's The Lion and the Cobra and Scritti Politti's Cupid and Psyche. I still have them both, though I mostly listed to my 80's compilation CDs.

AHH i remember all two well my virgin voyage into the realm of them funny little disks. happy to hear im not the only one who clung to the beloved cassette tape way past its prime.. anyways those first historic purchases where Pat Benetar-Promises in the Dark and a "special Edition" of Def Lepard's Pyromania which was one of the gold CD's that where supposed to be far and away better then just the basic silver and cost me double what a normal CD woulda ...Whooo Haaa boy did they see me coming..well the say theres one of us born every minute...a true lover of the 80's that is :)

Aerosmith's Greatest Hits & Get A Grip
Def Lep's Retro Active
& Poison's Native Tongue

1984 by Van Halen when I was 9. I had the hots for Eddie Van Halen. I stress, HAD...

First album I ever bought was an EP by Duran Duran called Carnival (I must say that cover has the most delicious picture of the boys on it...ahhhhh) and I remember my first cd player was given to me by my parents in 1988 when I was suffering from the Chicken Pox and I believe my first cd was Bon Jovi's New Jersey....Getting the Chicken Pox at 18 really sux! Now I am a cd and music in general-aholic.

The first 80's CD that I ever bought was Master of Puppets by Metallica.

My parents got me a CD player for Christmas-1991. But the strange part was I didn't have any CD's to play, except for some radio jingle demos CD's from JAM & TM Century (both companies are located in Dallas, TX.), and a promo for the (then-new) Tina Turner song called "Love Thing"! I have to admint that I was skepticable about switching over from vinyl and cassettes since CDs were costing anywhere from $15.99 to $17.99 back then, but after dealing with many cassette tapes that were poorly recorded, I found that I was better off using CDs for mixing tapes.

FWIW: The first 2 CD's that I've bought were Duran Duran's "Decade" (which was missing several singles like "New Moon On Monday"), and Bryan Adams's "Reckless".

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it!
Robyn

The first cd I bought was The Cure's "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me" back in 1988.

My first CD was Living Colour. The one with Cult of Personality on it. My parents had just bought me a really cool Fisher compenent system that took up half the wall in my bedroom. Dad said it was the only one in the store that had a CD player and a turntable too. I don't have that CD anymore.

The first 80's cd I bought was of off my friend it was D.J. Jazzy Jeff and The fresh Prince the cd with Parents Just Don't Understand on it but the first real 80's cd I bought(I don't if you would consider this or not) was the soundtrack to the Wedding Singer and after that was These Dreams-Hearts Greatest Hits.

I recorded music off the radio when I was a kid (around '79/'80) cuz I couldn't afford to buy albums (since I was a kid and all). My first album (actually, a cassette) that I purchased was Men At Work. I honestly don't remember my first CD purchase but needless to say more than a few are 80's compilations.

The first ever 80's CD that I bought was by country artist Reba McEntire, called "Sweet Sixteen".

My first cd was Please by Pet Shop Boys. I had to wait three months to listen to it, because I could not afford a cd player until later.

I didn't get a CD player until my 21st in 1990. I ogt it a week before my birthday and the first CD I bought was The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs.

People had always said that the quality of CD's made it sound like it was live playing in your room. Well I put it on and it did sound like it was at a concert for a couple of days, then I realised one of the phono leads was a bit loose lol.

Tears for Fears - "Songs Fom the Big Chair"


circa - 1988

AC/DC - "Highway to Hell" in 1992, after I won my first CD player in a poster design contest in high school. "Who made Who" was next and so is my first '80s CD.

I got my first CD player back in 1989, and the I got four CDs. Three were 80s one was 60s. The 80s CDs were:

The Sensual World - Kate Bush
Greatest Hits Volume 2 - Olivia Newton-John
Wow! - Bananarama

The 60s one was:
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles

Tonight I just ordered the Sounds of the 80s collection from Time/Life. I already have their Sounds of the 70s collection, which I love. The Sensual World - Kate Bush Greatest Hits Volume 2 - Olivia Newton-John Wow! - Bananarama

The first cassette...oh man, it was probably like The Little Mermaid soundtrack or something.

The first CD I ever bought was Ace of Base - "The Sign" circa 1994. Remember them? I saw the sign, and it opened up my eyes...

The first 80's CD I ever bought was in 1999 and it was a compliation called "Millennium 80's New Wave Party". It's a really good CD, but my 80's music tastes have changed from new wave to rock 'n roll/hair metal. :banger:

The first CD I bought was Heart's 1985 self-titled "Heart" album. :) Bought it with my CD player in 1989 or so, when I was 19.

I've been collecting a lot of greatest hits compilations on CD. When I got my first computer with CD Rom (Before I actually got a sterio with a CD Player) I bought Spandau Ballet's greatest hits. There is not a Spandau Ballet song I didn't love.

As I like to say, you know you're getting old when a majority of your CD titles start off with "The Best of..."

:lol:

I had 2 firsts. Since i bought them at the same time
Pink Floyd's 2cd set(which was like $45.00 if i remember right!!)
"Delicate sound of thunder"
and...Fleetwood Mac's "Mirage"

Too far back to clearly recall, but I do remember among the first were The Cure and U2 in about '87. I was slow to cd since I loved vinyl so much back then.

I stocked up on the Pet Shop Boys CD's when they were re-released along with the "Bonus Discs".

My 80's collection would primarily be compilation albums (and cheapies at that) from Big Audio Dynamite, Joboxers (remember them?), Johnny Hates Jazz, Haircut 100 and so on.

My fave of the lot still remains Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Welcome to the Pleasure Dome"

When Sheena Easton's albums were all re-issued 2 years ago on the One Way label, I got most of those as well

It was one of those smaller half size cd's. Terence Trent D'arby Sign Your Name. Oh the days of love songs and innocent dreams.

I'm positive my first album was
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac.

My first cassettes were(bought at the same time) Back in Black - Ac/Dc and Loverboy's first one.

My first CD I'm not so sure of I think it was Duran Duran - Rio (because I had lost my cassette.

Red Flag - Naive Art

The first 80's CD i bought was Bangles Everything, and i still play it all the time now.

I can't stand!!! All those stupid singers/bands who try to remake Eternal Flame. No one can do it.

I got my first CD player in 88 for my 8th grade graduation. So, I bought two CD's for it. Anthrax's Antisocial and Megadeth's So far so good so what. And I still have them both!

Remember those huge box things they used to come in?

My first tapes were in 1982 J. Geils Band and Prince 1999

First album I remember buying was Into the Gap by the Thompson Twins...I have it on CD now but I have no idea what the first 80's CD I bought was....probably "Actually" by Pet Shop Boys.

I was a die-hard vinyl fan. My dad actually got me my first CD boombox player -- I think it was X-mas of 91 or 92. My first 80's CD that I purchased may have been New Order Substance. Otherwise my first 80's album was Adam and the Ants Kinds of the Wild Frontier.

First 80's cd was Pyromania by Def Leppard
I now have alot of 80 collection cd's

the first 80's CD I bought was back in 1994... it was the soundtrack to Streets of Fire :thumb:

the first 80's cassette I can recall owning was a Canadian made Polytel top 40 hits compilation called Hits in Overdrive. It had a song called You've Got to Be A Winner by Huey Baby Harris. I still love that song to this day :thumb:

I didn't own a CD player until December 1991. My first 80's CD I bought (right after getting the CD player) was Book Of Love's self-titled album. Unfortunately I accidentally cracked the CD while spinning at a club but have since retrieved another copy. :)

Men at Work - Business as Usual

Guns N Roses- Appetite For Destruction

The first 80's CD I ever bought, was the first CD I ever bought. It was David Lee Roth's Skyscraper. I didn't even own a CD player at the time! (Borrowed my brothers). If only I could have stopped at one CD, I would probably be a rich man now!!!! :(

Journey-Escape it came with the cd player.

Rio by Duran Duran, which was already several years past it's release date at the time. I can't remember how much I paid, but CD's were just coming out and the price was outrageous. They were packaged in those long cardboard sleeves. :)

My first CD was Paula Abdul's "Forever Your Girl". I got the CD by mistake from one of those school fundraisers. ("GREAT, how am I supposed to listen to Straight Up in my new Walkman?")
Rather than send it back, I thought I'd use my Dad's new CD player (That probably cost about a million dollars, or so) and immediately broke it. Ooops!

My first CD was Huey Lewis and The News- Sports. I bought it my freshman year of high school, fall '89. Recently, I've been going back and buying a bunch of 80s albums on vinyl that I never owned, Sports being one of them. What can I say, I was all about cassettes for the longest time! I still have that CD though, lying around with a stack of other CDs that haven't been played in forever, i.e. MTV Party To Go Vol. 1, etc. :D

On a somewhat related note, I recently bought Elvis Costello's album, My Aim is True. My understanding is that Huey played on that album. I had absolutely no idea. Pretty cool!

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The first CD I purchased was Peter Gabriel's "SO" album, which I bought way back in 1986. CD's in general had a slow start to begin with in the market, but it was just starting to become popular over in the UK. Yes, I know that the UK was behind in this new technology at the time, and lots of people didn't know what a CD was and thought that it was something to rest your tea cup on ! :thumb:

My first 80s CD ever was Laura Branigan's 2nd album, Branigan 2

Branigan 2 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002IG6/qid=1119030371/sr=1-10/ref=sr_1_10/103-9722673-7944656?v=glance&s=music)

Oh, and I also got in the CD buying game really late too. I didn't get this CD until 1992 :lol:

First album I bought was Cheb Khaled - DiDi first 80's cd was Working With Fire And Steel, China Crisis. Still one of my fave albums.

I think it a Michael Jackson cd....he was really big in the 80s!!!

Captain & Tennille

This one to be exact !

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Oh God I am showing my age !!! :bigcry:

U2-War
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
Squeeze - The Singles

All together in the same day with x-mas money!

My first 80's cd..had to be "Like a Virgin"..just had to have that on CD. (Thanks to BMG..I now have close to 200 cd's)

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I have two accounts with BMG and have been able to replace most of my tapes with CDs even lots of the 80's music that I love. It's great! I get most of the CDs for under $7 a piece due to their specials. The shipping and handling sucks tho:talkhand:

wow great thread! I think my first CD when I was old enough (12? 13?) was

Judas Priest - Ram it Down or
Rod Stewart - Infatuation

I really can't remember and looking back both these albums were quite a few years apart! Hmm...damn this short memory!

I can't remember which one was first, but one of them was Vulture Culture by Allan Parsons. I'm a big Parsons fan. Always have been.

Wow, okay. I *think* the first 80s CD I ever bought was probably around '89 or '90, and it was the Slaughter CD with "Up All Night" on it. What was it called? My little brother stole it and used to use it to get pumped up for his football games. I once came into his bedroom unannounced...he was hopping around and playing air guitar like a madman!!

:slayer:

I used to be 'up all night' partying to the 80's sounds

:lol:

My first CD's were a joint buy in 1988.

Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses
Duran - Rio
Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart
INXS - Kick

The first CD I purchased was Peter Gabriel's "SO" album, which I bought way back in 1986. CD's in general had a slow start to begin with in the market, but it was just starting to become popular over in the UK. Yes, I know that the UK was behind in this new technology at the time, and lots of people didn't know what a CD was and thought that it was something to rest your tea cup on ! :thumb:

I still DO use them to rest my cup of tea on.

Got that many copies of the things, I've ran out of space.

:rollin:

You have awesome taste in music. But Tea cups? Please.!! Good thing you have other copies.

This one is easy! First 80's CD was Holy Diver ~ Dio

I wonder how I knew that. User name? Maybe? :Grin

Judy Garland - Live at Carnegie Hall.
Not 80s related, but you asked! :P :)

Two more that were in the first batch that I got were, "At Face Value,with "In The Air Tonight onit, and "Love Zone." by Billy Ocean.