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Thread started 12/25/20 9:27pm

kpowers

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The first Prince CD you bought

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Here's mine, what's yours?

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Reply #1 posted 12/25/20 10:15pm

milesb

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Reply #2 posted 12/25/20 10:31pm

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Batdance CD single.
I didnt even own a cd player 😂
I had a friend copy the cd to cassette
Cant believe my purple psychedelic pimp slap pimp2

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Reply #3 posted 12/25/20 11:05pm

Phase3

Purple Rain from Walmart in the mid 90's
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Reply #4 posted 12/25/20 11:07pm

Vannormal

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Sting's 'Nothing like The Sun' together with The 'Beatles For Sale', 'Sign 'O' The Times' and 'Level 42'.

My very first four CD's.

The first one I listened to was 'Nothing Like The Sun', with it's very warm intro that sounded like nothing I ever heard coming from my speakers.

It sounded so fresh, clear and new.

I remember it very well.

Cause I got my first CD player as a birthday present from my parents in 1987 with those 4 CD's

Best birthday ever. smile

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Now I barely listen to my CD collection anymore.

Vinyl won over the impersonal CD releases, which I found disappointing because they were so small, had no smell or feel, and you couldn't see 'the songs' like you would on a vinyl record.

Call me a freak. wink

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Reply #5 posted 12/26/20 3:50am

Romeoblu

Graffiti Bridge.
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Reply #6 posted 12/26/20 4:10am

jazzz

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SOTT in 87
One of the first cds I ever bought! I probably even bought a cd player to hear this album on cd. I was amazed how much more audio detail and clear sound a cd gave compared to vinyl (sorry to all present-day vinyl lovers...).
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Reply #7 posted 12/26/20 4:32am

RJOrion

1999 vinyl album. i wasnt using CDs yet. they only started selling CD players in late 82
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Reply #8 posted 12/26/20 6:23am

SPYZFAN1

"Crystal Ball"....Only because it wasn't being sold as a cassette package. This was couple of years before audio cassettes woud be phased out.

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Reply #9 posted 12/26/20 7:33am

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first CD? I got several at once. It was in late 1988. I was in the ARMY in AIT. I used one of thoes 10 CDs for a dollar deals. They had most of the 10 that were out at the time... (a buddy had a full catalog so I used the numbers to get the ones not listed in on the sheet). it was funny the package came... and the Drill was mad! He knew what it was! And another buddy was laughing that it was mostly (maybe all) Prince CDs... and said "You don't even have a CD player..." I said "I will get one tonight!" (and I did)

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Reply #10 posted 12/26/20 7:37am

ForbiddenFruit

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Reply #11 posted 12/26/20 7:40am

OnlyNDaUsa

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RJOrion said:

1999 vinyl album. i wasnt using CDs yet. they only started selling CD players in late 82

the first 1999 cd did not have D.M.S.R. on it! They said it was omitted to make it fit on one CD. I felt they could have made it work. Maybe use the DMSR edit made for Risky Business? or some other edit elsewhere? (an edit is better than being deleted) (it also seems to be the album with as many as: 4 if not 5 different track listings--6 if you count sequence)

in 1986 I also remember a friend of mine was a hacker and he kept winning CD players from the local radio station. He had some box that he could call the station as many times in a row at once... so if he had to be the 100th caller he could do that. But after a few times they told him he had to stop. So he helped other people get some...

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Reply #12 posted 12/26/20 8:35am

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The first CD of his I bought was Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic boxed (my brother had previously burned copies of Hits 1 &2 for me)

I guess that's why I'll always have a soft spot for that album/era
If you will, so will I
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Reply #13 posted 12/26/20 9:51am

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"Crystal Ball" because it wasn't available on cassette and I didn't have a CD player yet because they were still too expensive. Actually, I bought "Crystal Ball" before I got a CD player so it wouldn't go out of print on me and then bought a CD player later when I got my tax refund check.

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Reply #14 posted 12/26/20 11:19am

JayCrawford

Hmmm... Diamond and Pearls. But after 91 Prince was forgettable to me
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Reply #15 posted 12/26/20 1:00pm

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milesb said:

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Same here
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Reply #16 posted 12/26/20 5:54pm

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The Diamonds and Pearls album in 1991. I'd heard 'Gett Off' and 'Cream', but it was hearing 'Money Don't Matter 2nite' on the radio that really made me pay attention. Not bad taste for a 14 year-old. Love Symbol the following year cemented me as a life-long fan. And at that point, I was only vaguely aware of his 80s work.
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Reply #17 posted 12/26/20 5:56pm

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milesb said:

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What's the second image?

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Reply #18 posted 12/26/20 7:20pm

OnlyNDaUsa

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kpowers said:

milesb said:

Batman (album) - Wikipedia

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What's the second image?

this


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Reply #19 posted 12/26/20 11:09pm

thedoorkeeper

1999 on vinyl.
Back then a single record
usually cost $4.99.
$3.99 if it was on sale.
1999 was specially priced at $6.99.
A great price for a double album.
Couldn't pass up such a great bargain.
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Reply #20 posted 12/27/20 1:17am

Shannyn

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Reply #21 posted 12/27/20 1:37am

olb99

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kpowers said:

Here's mine, what's yours?

Same here (The Hits / The B-Sides). But I had been a fan for 4 years at that point.

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Reply #22 posted 12/27/20 3:06am

kpowers

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thedoorkeeper said:

1999 on vinyl. Back then a single record usually cost $4.99. $3.99 if it was on sale. 1999 was specially priced at $6.99. A great price for a double album. Couldn't pass up such a great bargain.

And the first CD you got????????

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Reply #23 posted 12/27/20 3:07am

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In the first week of its release, I bought Dirty Mind on cassette.

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Reply #24 posted 12/27/20 4:01am

ThePersian

What was the 1st Prince CD released in the UK?

Retrospectively and (then) current?

I definitely remember buying the Alphabet St. CD single. Then Lovesexy, when it came out the following month.

(Did Alphabet St. CD single come out the week after the 12" & 7"?)

Or is that just my memory playing silly buggers with me?

So I'm going for Alphabet St.

CD releases started really proliferating around 1988 in the UK if my aged memory recalls.

Up to 1987 CDs were only a very small segment in the record shops where I lived.

I guess London might have had a wider selection. I hopped onto the CD bandwagon in 1987.

And I remember that Sign of the Times was not available on CD on the day of release anywhere in the city I lived in. And back then I couldn't afford to double buy.

But then I'm sure I owned some of the older albums on CD by the time Alphabet St. was released.

Or perhaps not. Memory fuzzy.

First Prince record I bought I don't actually remember buying it as I was 9 or 10.

But it was I Wanna Be Your Lover 7".

I had heard it on (I think) BBC Radio 1, when they used to have a segment dedicated to records outside the top 40. Was it called Bubbling Under or something like that? It was always before the top 40 count-down on Sunday afternoon.

I think it was the 2nd or 3rd record I'd ever bought. The first being Since You Were Gone by Rainbow for 99p.

Then for the next 4-5 years I totally forgot Prince and that record.

Purple Rain movie and 1999 / LRC - When Doves Cry changed all that.

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Reply #25 posted 12/27/20 4:44am

milesb

kpowers said:

milesb said:

Batman (album) - Wikipedia

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What's the second image?

Batdance video shoot Prince

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Reply #26 posted 12/27/20 7:28am

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Prince And The Revolution – Around The World In A Day (1984, Target,  Gatefold Longbox, Card Sleeve, CD) - Discogs

The first album on cd back in '85

Like many, i didn't have a player, yet, either.

but, it was so fascinating that i had to buy it!

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Reply #27 posted 12/27/20 8:36am

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nayroo2002 said:

Prince And The Revolution – Around The World In A Day (1984, Target,  Gatefold Longbox, Card Sleeve, CD) - Discogs

The first album on cd back in '85

Like many, i didn't have a player, yet, either.

but, it was so fascinating that i had to buy it!

mine was the ATWIAD long box too! I had other albums before that but when that came out in 85 or so I had to get it. It was one of my first CDs. Still a great one!

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Reply #28 posted 12/27/20 10:30am

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Around The World In A Day longbox. I didn't even own a cd player then (they were d*mn expensive back then! I spent more on a 5-disc cd player than I spent on my new 50" flatscreen TV and don't forget to adjust the price of the cd player for today's prices. I mean that they were expensive!).

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Reply #29 posted 12/27/20 10:58am

scs2000

Graffiti Bridge cassette tape on the release date at Sam Goody's in August of 1990

Could be The Time's first album in '87, since that was Prince and it introduced me to Prince !

As for actual CD it would have to be Sign of the Times in 1993.

Agree with the price of CD players. First one I received was a boom box CD player Christmas of '93

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