Here's mine, what's yours?

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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.

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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.

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"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.

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)

Prince

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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...

"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.

milesb said:

milesb said:

What's the second image?

kpowers said:

milesb said:

What's the second image?

this

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.

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????????

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

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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.

kpowers said:

milesb said:

What's the second image?

Batdance video shoot Prince

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!

nayroo2002 said:

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!

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!).

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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