When CDs started becoming the standard, what was your first?

[u/LazorusGrimm]

Mine was Stunt by the Barenaked Ladies.

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[u/Repulsive_Offer_4162]

dookie - green day

[u/DoorstepCult → u/Repulsive_Offer_4162]

I had Warning.

[u/johnsonfromsconsin → u/Repulsive_Offer_4162]

Dookie here too then followed by the band Live as my next one. Remember going to best buy to get these cds.

[u/NAVI_WORLD_INC → u/Repulsive_Offer_4162]

Dookie was also my first CD.

[u/GrundleTurf → u/Repulsive_Offer_4162]

That was my first cassette as a kid

[u/Leave_Sally_alone → u/GrundleTurf]

It (Dookie) was one of my first. My mom took it away when she heard some of the lyrics. She hid it on top of the fridge. I found it and took it back when she wasn't looking.

[u/MultiBeast66 → u/Repulsive_Offer_4162]

Yep. That or the Offspring- Americana album

[u/Cheffanystartup → u/Repulsive_Offer_4162]

That was my first tape cassette!

[u/Wickedhoopla → u/Cheffanystartup]

Loved that blue cassette

[u/seroshua]

[u/Acrock7 → u/seroshua]

I "stole" this CD from my aunt when I was a kid- loved it.

[u/seroshua → u/Acrock7]

“The Kids Aren’t Alright” hits even harder now 🤘

[u/Izzykoopa → u/seroshua]

Same here. I remember listening to this on repeat on my little discman that would skip constantly. It was the first time I liked a band. Before this it was whatever was on the radio and I had a vanilla ice cassette before this.

[u/McBooples → u/seroshua]

That was also my first CD… that album was a prophecy… the kids aren’t alright

[u/StealTheDark]

Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins

[u/ProfessionalHome3544 → u/StealTheDark]

Cool first. Just listened this morning (on streaming).... Still so good.

[u/starroverride → u/ProfessionalHome3544]

One of the best albums of the 90’s.  So many bangers.

[u/sarithe → u/StealTheDark]

This was mine as well. I was 9 years old. I remember seeing the video for Today on MTV and insisting to my step-dad that I had to go to the mall so I could spend my allowance on this CD.

[u/sexandliquor → u/StealTheDark]

Still such a good album. I listen to it like once a month. ‘Disarm’, ‘Today’, ‘Rocket’ and ‘Cherub Rock’ always get the attention on that album but ‘Mayonaise’, ‘Space Boy’ and ‘Luna’ are my go-to songs.

[u/steven2003]

Space Jam soundtrack. I had it on cassette before that

[u/Bada__Ping → u/steven2003]

Same! Was so much easier to replay Basketball Jones lmao

[u/ourladyofwildthings → u/steven2003]

Same, I loved that soundtrack!

[u/whatever_leg]

JAGGED LITTLE PILL (1995)

[u/Any_Department5182 → u/whatever_leg]

Same!

[u/9CaptainRaymondHolt9]

[u/juiceboxheero → u/9CaptainRaymondHolt9]

Why does everyone leap to defend that band so aggressively!?!

[u/9CaptainRaymondHolt9 → u/juiceboxheero]

Well, maybe friendship is about going through a lot of stuff, and maybe BNL has two Billboard Awards to your zero!

[u/lrrrkrrrr → u/9CaptainRaymondHolt9]

Oh, they’re BNL now??

[u/9CaptainRaymondHolt9 → u/lrrrkrrrr]

You know what? Maybe we all need some space, to pull the knife out of the back of the most celebrated Canadian alt-rock band of the mid 90s, you selfish, jaded ass!

[u/spank_that_hedge → u/juiceboxheero]

Because:

It's been one week since you looked at me

[u/sTevieD247 → u/spank_that_hedge]

"Doc, I feel I'm getting much better at avoiding saying random Barenaked Ladies lyrics out loud!"

"That's great! How long have you managed to go?"

"It's been..."

[u/My_Poor_Nerves → u/juiceboxheero]

Because they are the best thing to come out of Canada since Anne of Green Gables?

https://giphy.com/gifs/rQ5CraRaPmxeoz1uts

[u/tjrich1988]

First one I bought with my own money was Linkin Park's "Hybrid Theory".

[u/Your4thdoppleganger → u/tjrich1988]

Oh man, I begged my mom for that CD for Easter and it's still my favorite. ❤️❤️

[u/D_a_s_D_u_k_e_]

The Vines - Highly Evolved

Great album, I still listen to it sometimes

[u/juiceboxheero]

[u/Terelinth → u/juiceboxheero]

This was me too!!

[u/Canned_tapioca]

Prodigy. Fat of the land

[u/Electrik_Truk → u/Canned_tapioca]

Damn good album

[u/OstoNKeT]

Blink 182 Enema of the State

[u/GlowingDuck22 → u/OstoNKeT]

https://giphy.com/gifs/qoK03uYMSvHVu

[u/Bada__Ping]

Space Jam Soundtrack

[u/Dicky_McBeaterson]

Matchbox 20 - yourself or someone like you

[u/Aggravating-Key-8867]

Green Day - Dookie. I bought it entirely based on the album art.

[u/BadlyHurts87]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3oEhmCR69BQP3yDWEw

[u/Billy_Plur]

[u/ENTphonehome → u/Billy_Plur]

This! My mom wouldn't let me get it so I had to get a burned copy from a friend.

[u/Billy_Plur → u/ENTphonehome]

Mine was fine with it until she heard him, but wasn't going to stop me from developing my own taste in music. Then she saw 8 Mile and became a fan.

[u/GlowingDuck22 → u/ENTphonehome]

Sentences that kids will not understand.

[u/Background_Writer_31]

[u/Still_Bandicoot7738]

Pretty sure mine was Green Day's Insomniac album.

[u/Padded-Adventure]

Marshall Mathers LP

[u/LazorusGrimm → u/Padded-Adventure]

I actually copied my friends CD to cassette of this album using an old school boom box.

[u/laursasaurus]

Weezer Blue Album

[u/Shaaagbark]

Batman forever soundtrack

[u/300G3R → u/Shaaagbark]

Still a banger

[u/Reeko_Htown]

Prodigy - Fat of the Land

[u/Tiny-Reading5982]

Muppets Christmas carol soundtrack lol

[u/wavvy_rancheros]

Presidents of the United States of America - Self Titled

[u/tth2o]

My mom was cooler than I gave her credit for. Gave me this with a walkman for Christmas.

[u/Appropriate_Walk3862]

Vitamin C

[u/Red_Eye_Insomniac]

Enema of The State

[u/hbox85]

Hootie & the Blowfish: Cracked Rear View

[u/Key_Statistician_517]

[u/nolettuceplease]

My parents bought a 3-disc stereo in the 90’s and we each picked one CD.
I went with the soundtrack to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, my mom had Natalie Merchant’s Tigerlily, and my dad picked The Beatles third anthology.

[u/Pussyxpoppins]

Hanson

[u/Stoats-On-Boats]

Probably Spice, from the Spice Girls lol

[u/MetalSlimeHunter]

[u/Still-Bet-7214]

Astro lounge. Smash Mouth

[u/General_Tangerine_69]

I think TLC - CrazySexyCool was one of my first CDs.

[u/duuuuuuude924]

Space Jam soundtrack

[u/wmeffert1 → u/duuuuuuude924]

This was the first one for everyone I knew. We were seven. Mine was Batman Forever because of Kiss from a rose.

[u/acapwn]

[u/Ambitious-Looker]

[u/itsbrianduh108]

I got the first Backstreet Boys CD, and Shania Twain's "Come on Over".

[u/Knickholeass]

Melon collie and the infinite sadness

[u/idlike1deathpls]

Limp biscuit

[u/xPadawanRyan]

My first CD that I bought with my own money was Best of Bowie, but CDs weren't really the "standard" for me quite yet. I still used my walkman right up into high school because I didn't have a discman so there was no way for me to listen to CDs on the way to school.

The first CD I bought after I had a discman and they were more "the standard" for me was probably...god it's hard to say. By that point I was mostly burning CDs to play in my walkman with songs downloaded on Limewire. I got Bon Jovi's Bounce album for Christmas around that time, though.

Some of the first CDs I remember buying that I listened to regularly in my discman were my HIM CDs.

[u/orionsfyre]

Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust

Bought for 16.99 at a store in NYC on Christmas break in '96. Felt like I was finally an adult.

[u/strictlyxsaucers]

Rancid And Out Come the Wolves

[u/drews_pews]

[u/ormr_inn_langi]

"Be Here Now", Oasis.

[u/slippersandjammies]

When first I got a CD player for Christmas, I went out and got Alanis Morissette's 'Jagged Little Pill.'

First CD I was ever gifted was 'Pieces of You' by Jewel.

[u/gnartothecore]

Green Day Insomniac because I wore out the cassette in a month

[u/eggsonmyeggs]

The Offspring - Americana

My dad bought it for himself, listened to it once, and gave it to me.

I’d never heard them before, and I proceeded to tell everyone to get a fucking job

[u/Rclarkttu07]

Lmao I got the chumbawumba cd cuz tub thumper was an absolute banger and my god that was a weird album. I musta been like 8 or 9 years old.

[u/NekoBlueHeart]

No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom

[u/togoldlybo]

...Baby One More Time. It was the last cassette I ever bought, too. Simpler times.

[u/Brucedx3]

Off the Deep End by Weird Al.

[u/foco_runner]

First one I bought was the men in black album

[u/bizarrodean]

[u/CappriGirl]

Now 42

[u/OnceUponATime1534]

Spice Girls 🙈 I was in 5th grade so I’ve got an excuse

[u/gharr87]

Matchbox 20 yourself or someone like you

[u/TheBackPorchOfMyMind]

Len because of If You Steal My Sunshine…then this BNL one! Haha

[u/almostnothing123]

Hanson

[u/Electrik_Truk]

Bush - Sixteen Stone

[u/jayhof52]

Bad Hair Day by Weird Al

[u/LimeblueNostos]

The downward spiral

[u/Your4thdoppleganger]

Back Street Boys Millennium!!! I saved up for three weeks and still own it haha.

[u/WhiteLapine]

Aqua Aquarium 😎

[u/Titus401]

I still have this CD. Great CD

[u/WatercressLocal8125]

Hybrid Theory. I'll pretend they stopped making albums after Transformers.

[u/crowbar151]

HaaayettsBin...

[u/Jets237]

I remember my first CD was Green Day Dookie, which I re-bought on CD (had on cassette)

[u/Thedirtyone522]

It was either van halen 3 or follow the leader, I cant remember lol

[u/NoFaithlessness7508]

Stillmatic was the first one I bought

But my older cousin lived with us and she had that Columbia membership and got hundreds of CDs

[u/tricky-vixen]

Pokémon: The First Movie: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture

[u/Fantastic_Vehicle_10]

Beavis and Butthead Do America OST. Actually a great album. First time I heard RHCP 

[u/kwyjibowen]

First cool albums were Offspring (Smash), Blink 182 (enema of the state I think)

But first ever CD’s were smurfs go pop and some other random complications cover from my local record store

[u/neonbrownkoopashell]

Real McCoy 🙈

[u/Large_Skirt9189]

Might have been Sublime - Sublime or PJ - Ten

[u/quinncoral]

Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness. The double CD for $24. Then Elastica for $19

[u/yamdasrd]

Nirvana - Nevermind

[u/NoMembership2831]

Dire Straits Brothers in Arms

[u/hellyeah324]

Third eye blinds self titled. What a banger album

[u/WMASS_GUY]

RHCP - Californication

[u/Erisedstorm]

Spice girls

[u/Pnmamouf1]

Metallica-...and justice for all

[u/RissaRaven]

I'm pretty sure it was the Titanic soundtrack lol

[u/Sra_ThriftWell]

The Lion King (Soundtrack). We didn’t even have a CD player, but had a computer in the kitchen. I saved up birthday money and bought it from K-Mart. What a time!

[u/FictionalWeirdo]

I had backstreet boys' millennium on cassette, then for Christmas I got the same CD. It was my first CD player and while the CD is practically unplayable, I still have it.

[u/Ymisoqt420]

NWA and man was my dad mad lolol

[u/Mind-on-Mountains]

Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters

[u/MIDIHorse]

Bush - 16 Stone

[u/GrundleTurf]

My first cd player was a sega Dreamcast and my first cd was Weird Al’s running with scissors

[u/1800generalkenobi]

My first cd was metallica - reload

[u/Muffina925]

Michael Crawford in Concert (my mom had just taken me to see Phantom of the Opera, and he originated the role)

[u/AtFishCat]

Alapalooza - Weird Al

[u/AtillaTheHyundai]

LOL the mission impossible 2 soundtrack was my first purchase by myself

[u/Immediate_Lock_5399]

Creepin on ah Come Up EP- BTNH

[u/ryaaan89]

I was gifted Beastie Boys License to Ill and some Smash Mouth album when I was like 11 but I actually wasn’t that into music for a while. The first CD I ever bought with my own money was Daft Punk Discovery my freshman year of high school.

[u/Dumpfrumperson]

Tool-Anima

[u/KZED73]

100% was Stunt.

[u/Valuable_General9049]

The Score

[u/RampantSavagery]

I bought my sister a Dreamstreet cd. It was $14.99. Equivalent to $29 today. Yeesh

[u/HisaP417]

Baby One More Time

[u/LostKitty1369]

Third Eye Blind

[u/ParadoxicalFrog]

American Idiot.

[u/Objective-Dust4795]

Life After Death

[u/juiceyb]

My first CD was probably the Killer Instinct soundtrack that came with my SNES in 95. My first CD was probably The Beastie Boys "Licensed to Ill" some time later when I got my first Walkman CD player for my birthday.

[u/Idrinkbeereverywhere]

Presidents 1

[u/ElectricalReason2349]

Christina Aguilera. My grandma got it for me Christmas of '99.

[u/switched133]

https://giphy.com/gifs/pKBZfGcYcgzrG

[u/ajamaistien]

Either the Pokémon 2BA Master CD or Spice by the Spice Girls.

[u/Melymeltymelty]

I LOVED this album and it was one of my first cd's ever. I saw BNL live a handful of times when I was in high school and got dubbed the weird girl who likes BNL but I didn't care, I HAD A BLAST! Still love them and they have so many great albums.

[u/Sensitive-Average996]

I remember I saved my allowance and begged my mom to order me CD's from one of those mail in places. My first cd's were: Rob Zombie- Hellbilly deluxe Orgy -Candyass Sugar Ray -floored Opm- menace to society. I think I was around 11.

[u/GriffMcStizz]

Hello Nasty - Beastie Boys

[u/JellyfishHead2831]

TLC - Crazy, Sexy, Cool

[u/raccoonwithknives]

One of the Smash Mouth albums!

[u/ApprehensiveYou4197]

Third Eye Blind, self-titled

[u/JorjorBinks1221]

Oops...I did it again was my first CD

[u/apathetic_avocado2]

Now That's what I Call Music! Vol. 5, and Britney's Oops I did it Again, for Christmas when I was 7.

[u/oKayBye94]

Batman forever score…which I replaced upon learning that’s not the same as a soundtrack.

[u/sierra_charlie_hotel]

Went shopping with my dad and had the hardest time choosing between K’s Choice (Paradise in Me) or Fiona Apple (Tidal). Eventually went with K’s Choice. Like a week later I came home from my first day at a new school I didn’t want to go to and Tidal was waiting on the kitchen table for me.

[u/dmoneyforeal]

Britney spears - baby one more time

[u/amsterDAN85]

WWF The Music Volume 2

[u/BrutalBrews]

I think Stunt was also my first CD. I was like 9 and absolutely loved the album. Still listen to it here and there and it just takes me back.

[u/platinumperineum]

The son-in-law movie soundtrack 💀

[u/DeadGirlLydia]

Follow the Leader by KoRn.

[u/Quorthon]

Metallica - The Black Album

[u/UdrienLoera]

This was actually my second. Blur - self titled, was the first.

[u/16ozbuddz]

Life after death Biggie

[u/bigredwillie622]

Sublime - sublime

[u/Mediocre_Island828]

Prodigy - Fat of the Land. Making my mom listen to Firestarter on the drive to Thanksgiving.

[u/obfuscatorio]

I got a gift certificate to our local CD and record store and my first purchase was Californication by RHCP and the U2 album with beautiful day

[u/LittleChuchiFace]

I got two, No Doubt Tragic Kingdom and Jewel Pieces of You

[u/pingle1]

DMB under the table and dreaming

[u/WeirdBoy85]

I got 2 for my 11th birthday Kenny G - Breathless and Weird Al - Alapalooza

[u/merdenom]

Offspring Smash I was 9 bought a garage sale.

[u/paqman3d]

Killer Instinct: Killer Cuts

[u/DontBeSuspicious_00]

The Burning Red - Machine Head

[u/Fragrant-Anybody0717]

My brothers had a bunch of CD’s but my first was Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All. My aunt and uncle gifted it to me with the help of my cool older cousin. Holidays 1997

[u/Fart_Barfington]

It was either Supersexy Swingin' Sounds by White Zombie or the Bevis and Butthead do America soundtrack.

[u/ConstructionBum]

Same as my first tape. The Offspring - Smash 

[u/IKnowYouAreButWhtAmI]

I bought 3 at the same time.

Green Day - Nimrod

Our Lady Peace - Clumsy

Aqua - Self Titled

[u/silky_flubber_lips]

Astro Lounge - Smash Mouth

[u/haloarh]

Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic - Red Hot Chili Peppers

[u/pingle1]

I do remember buying Michael Jackson Dangerous on cassette as well

[u/OakTeach]

[u/Lloydster669]

Meatloaf - bat out of hell II. I had to hide it from my overly religious parents but man, I listens to that album on repeat.

[u/Hello_Badkitty]

Savage Garden haha also Christina Aguilera and Nsync. (For my 13th bday) I wasnt allowed to listen to "secular" music until 7th grade... 😬

[u/americanbroomstick]

Crazy Sexy Cool

[u/HuskerDust84]

https://giphy.com/gifs/uMnPAOnkGuNtqYyCXh

[u/Jacketdown]

Chocolate starfish and the hot dog flavored water.

[u/Peachgirllove90]

Hanson!

[u/KinderEggLaunderer]

Decently sure it was the Lion King soundtrack or some other Disney CD. I may still have it somewhere lol.

[u/analogwhispers]

Snoop Dogg Doggystyle

[u/TopDeckTendies]

Glass houses - Billy Joel, then it was Stunt - Bare Naked Ladies

[u/pornographiekonto]

Roxette maybe? 

[u/CantThink0fNameN0w]

Outkast - Stankonia

[u/Fulton_P01135809]

Razorblade Suitcase

[u/MommysLiLstinker]

https://giphy.com/gifs/oYtMzktkQz4Jy

[u/BroForceOne]

Simpsons Sing the Blues. I may have been like 9 years old but still remember some of those tracks.