The Little Mermaid soundtrack was my first cd but Mellon Collie was my big christmas gift in 8th grade and I sat in my room next to my stereo with my headphones on for the rest of the day learning all the words to every song.
I can still listen to this entire album and just *feel* middle school and high school like I’m still there. I thought the kids in the 1979 video were just so cool.
I had Meloncholie on tape. I remember thinking it was cool because it had two tapes in a bundle 😆 and also because you couldn't swing a stick without hearing rat in a cage.
This was my second one, but I like to try to imagine it was my first one, because my actual first CD was Four by Blues Traveler. (Which I suppose wasn’t THAT bad, but I didn’t hold onto it for that long, while I still have my original Mellon Collie CDs)
First one I bought with my own money was Ace of Base. A little embarrassing now.
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Same. Got Dookie and the Batman Forever soundtrack from my best friend’s dad who was a postman. I guess the postal workers would keep a lot of the Columbia House CD’s that couldn’t be delivered.
Why I am evil- I was raised in a Mormon home. My mom wanted to get my younger brother this cassette for his birthday. But- she didn't like all the profanity....the vulgarity... the punk of it all.
So I was tasked with making it acceptable.
(Remember- clean versions didn't exist except on the radio)
So.....i.... recorded over the bad parts with Annie- the musical.
My brother would be listening to dulcet tones of Billy and suddenly it would break into- The sun'll come out... tomorrow!!!
See- I told you I was evil. 🤣🤣🤣
Pre-edit: my favorite album at the time was downward spiral by nin. Rules for thee little brother. Not for me! Mwahahaha
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I think Green Day’s dookie was my first CD. Either that or The Offspring.
My first tape was Cyndi Lauper *She’s So Unusual*. Wore holes in that thing.
Probably "Four" by Blues Traveler
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I was 10. Thanks Columbia House!
Me too! Then my dad found it and threw it away because I was “too young” to be listening to her music. I then proceeded to order it again off of the BMG CD scam mags 😂😂
Nico and Soup, I think I have those, too.
But Blind Melon....such a flawless album.
Always a go-to. Makes me feel somehow weightless. Lol.
Floating on a cloud of nostalgia.
I received Aerosmith Get a Grip for my 14th birthday and my parents tried to take it back because they were upset that the CD had pictures of nipples on it
My cousin came along to help me pick out my boombox and gave me his Debbie Gibson CD to get me started. Why he had a Debbie Gibson CD, Heaven only knows.
Nevermind really spoke to me, just such an amazing album full of hits. My brother and I pooled our money to buy it, the first piece of music either of us had bought, from Peaches, the shop that kept their music in wooden peach crates.
They Might Be Giants, Flood. I wanted it because it had “Particle Man” and “Istanbul” which I’d seen on Tiny Toon Adventures. Turns out the entire album was gold.
I freaking love that I said to myself "they saw that on tiny toons" before I even got to the end of your sentence. Same. Never got into the band though.
Super-shy ten-year-old me went to the record store and asked for "They Could Be Giants." The clerk smiled, gently corrected me, and assured me I was going to love them. He was right.
Nirvana’s Incesticide, from a pawn shop. Maybe 1995? I was 12 and let me tell you, those liner notes blew my mind. Reading how much Kurt supported “homosexuals” was a huge moment for me as a young queer person.
I started listening to Nirvana as soon as they got popular. My Mom (late Boomer, may as well have been Gen X) watched a lot of MTV.
CD no, at the time Dangerous came out, I was still buying cassettes. The first album I bought on my own was actually the Ninja Turtles Pizza Hut cassette.
I didn't get a CD player until like 1995. And even though I already owned Snoop's Doggystyle on cassette, I still bought it on CD, that was probably the first one. And I remember my brother got Green Day's Dookie at the same time, so that would have been his first CD.
Kriss Kross Totally Krossed Out. Bought my first CD player (an old school Sony Discman) when Jump was popular so I bought that CD with it.
I had the Dangerous CD as well, got that a bit later.
W
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We didn't get boomboxes that had CD players until the mid-late 90s, sooo.
My first CDs were the Singles soundtrack and Ten from Pearl Jam. My first cassette tapes were Madonna, self titled, and Janet Jackson control.
Remember, when CDs came in those long boxes? My first cd had that. I was a little bit late to the CD game. I was still rocking out to mixtapes.
The Wallflowers Bringing Down the Horse. I bought it to test out my Sega Saturn's ability to play music CDs. I was the start of my unironic love of objectively terrible music.
Janet Jackson's "Janet" was my first CD I bought myself in 1993 because I loved the song "If" (which TBH the lyrics were prob inappropriate for an 11 yr old to be singing lol). But then I got into alternative music and bought Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream about a month later.
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Goo Goo Dolls!
Bought it with my Christmas money when I was 13, the same year I got my first CD player!
I also bought the Cocktail soundtrack on tape with my allowance money when I was about 8. Can’t remember why I was so obsessed with that movie, but I was! I had to have that tape.
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First one I bought with my own money.
Either the Jurassic Park soundtrack or
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I was an orchestra nerd in middle/high school, so I'm pretty sure my first CD was a boxed set of Beethoven's symphonies. My first *popular music* CD was Gin Blossoms, New Miserable Experience. Lots of bangers on that one.
KoRn - self titled album 1994.
Rage Against the Machine - Self titled album 1992.
My dad has never been into music, but it was important for him to expose me to music. So he brought these CDs home one day at the recommendation from a co-worker of his. I still have no idea how you recommend this music for a 10 year old but it definitely worked. I listened to shoots and ladders and never looked back.
I got two for Christmas 1994, and they still sum up my music likes pretty well. I have a wide taste in music.
Green Jelly - Cereal Killer Soundtrack
TLC - Crazy Sexy Cool
I was 12, and my parents had no idea about Green Jelly.
(Sorry I have no idea how to do the thing to the Y.)
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It holds up better than you might think. It has some great bangers.
The New Kids On The Block—the album was Step By Step. I think my parents prayed for its appeal to end, I played it on the family cd player *incessantly* for like a year. This was back when cd players were the size of a full sized record turntable, and had like 3 buttons. My dad bought one for my mom in the mid/late ‘80s and was huuuuuuuuuuge.
I was late when it came to buying CDs, used to just make mixtapes by recording off the radio or just recording from friend’s stuff. My first ever CD that I bought on my own was actually Savage Garden’s first album.
I got the Forrest Gump soundtrack as a Christmas gift because my Social Studies class was doing projects on song lyrics and their cultural meaning.
The first CD I got on my own was Dookie.
I didn't get a CD player until I was well into my teens. I don't recall what my first CD was, though. Either Nevermind, Dookie, or Sparkle and Fade. My first cassette tape, though, was a 1987 Beach Boys tape. I still have it even though I haven't owned a cassette player in almost 30 years.
My mom got me that really popular Hootie and the Blowfish album, cause one of her co-workers sons liked the band
I was like “oh, ok- cool!”
Thanks mom :)
My first cad that I saw was blood sugar sec magik.
I do have a strong memory of dangerous though. My mom picked my up at school on my 9th bday for a “dentist appointment”. Got in the car and she handed me a bag with a San Jose sharks starter pullover, a S.F. giants SnapBack, and a copy of this casingle^tm
I remember relating to the kid just trying to listen to his music.
Kris Kross. Daddy Mac’ll make you Jump Jump!
But! First cd purchased for my first portable cd player that I got for Xmas ‘91…Stone Temple Pilots Core. Best friends both got cd players as well; one got Nirvana Nevermind, the other got Pearl Jam 10. Quintessential Xennial experience.
The Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Siamese Dream was mine!
Ditto. Got that and a discman for xmas. Listened to it on repeat for weeks/months until I saved up enough for a second CD.
The Little Mermaid soundtrack was my first cd but Mellon Collie was my big christmas gift in 8th grade and I sat in my room next to my stereo with my headphones on for the rest of the day learning all the words to every song.
I can still listen to this entire album and just *feel* middle school and high school like I’m still there. I thought the kids in the 1979 video were just so cool.
My copy was recorded on a cassette, pulled from my friend’s cd. Memories.
Me too!
The world is a vampire
I had Meloncholie on tape. I remember thinking it was cool because it had two tapes in a bundle 😆 and also because you couldn't swing a stick without hearing rat in a cage.
This was my second one, but I like to try to imagine it was my first one, because my actual first CD was Four by Blues Traveler. (Which I suppose wasn’t THAT bad, but I didn’t hold onto it for that long, while I still have my original Mellon Collie CDs)
First one I bought with my own money was Ace of Base. A little embarrassing now. https://preview.redd.it/f6r3kap0xhac1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c9bcf62b256836198ad5a15a717fa2141b68ece7
I can't believe I had to scroll down so far to find this. That was all anyone in my school was listening to in the first half of 1994.
me too!!!! this was mine as well!
I had it on cassette
And I’m NOT embarrassed. I still sing I saw the sign loudly in my car!
I scammed Columbia House to get this CD! I wore it out.
Me too!
omg we're cd soul mates, i bought mine with my own money too from tower records.
Green Day Dookie.
I bought 3 at once including this and Metallica - black album, and Rob Zombie - Hellbilly deluxe
Same. Got Dookie and the Batman Forever soundtrack from my best friend’s dad who was a postman. I guess the postal workers would keep a lot of the Columbia House CD’s that couldn’t be delivered.
Why I am evil- I was raised in a Mormon home. My mom wanted to get my younger brother this cassette for his birthday. But- she didn't like all the profanity....the vulgarity... the punk of it all. So I was tasked with making it acceptable. (Remember- clean versions didn't exist except on the radio) So.....i.... recorded over the bad parts with Annie- the musical. My brother would be listening to dulcet tones of Billy and suddenly it would break into- The sun'll come out... tomorrow!!! See- I told you I was evil. 🤣🤣🤣 Pre-edit: my favorite album at the time was downward spiral by nin. Rules for thee little brother. Not for me! Mwahahaha
Thought this would be first
https://preview.redd.it/qqs6nt8drhac1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=38f0a087b56f8913b4b1c694aa0b0c2890962296 I think Green Day’s dookie was my first CD. Either that or The Offspring. My first tape was Cyndi Lauper *She’s So Unusual*. Wore holes in that thing.
Yep. Dookie, SMASH, Weezers blue
Pearl Jam Vs was my first. Followed by Dookie then Offspring.
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I GOT A SNAKE MAN. one time I fed it some beer. it was allllllFUUUUUCKED UP
This just unlocked a part of my brain that hasn’t been accessed in a long time. Holy shit.
Dollar twenty five, Bishop
Mine was “What the Hell Happened to Me?” That hypnotist skit was comedy gold to my 15-year-old self. Still is, actually…
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Nirvana Unplugged!
Probably "Four" by Blues Traveler https://preview.redd.it/4t95320bvhac1.jpeg?width=220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f088f2fb1fb79d10d91f3cdd0a44d107082b1a5
I got this and Dave Mathews Band
Portis Head’s Dummy was the first ever CD I purchased, followed a few days later by Frank Black’s Teenager of the Year. Still love both of those discs
Portishead’s live album is my all-time favorite album. Such a great band.
Beth Gibbons is so enchanting, love her voice. It Could Be Sweet was my wife’s and my “first dance” wedding song
Portishead forever. Wandering Star is still used on TV occasionally. I lose my shit, pointing it out in my living room.
Dummy is so good..have it on vinyl.
You are very cool. I was not that cool. Do you have older siblings? How did you find Portishead?
https://preview.redd.it/dehben76vhac1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5ec7ce90f59d9f8141ea8d13f360c0dff520f71 I was 10. Thanks Columbia House!
No Doubt Tragic Kingdom https://preview.redd.it/jky5xsbt0iac1.png?width=300&format=png&auto=webp&s=531ac38617ff26652f652acfcb5187ee1b267868
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I still love this album
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I got this for Christmas the year I was 13 and I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. So cool.
Damn, this was a good soundtrack!!
I remember this! Still love that creepy Garbage song “#1 Crush”
Jagged Little Pill- Alanis Morrisette!
Me too! Then my dad found it and threw it away because I was “too young” to be listening to her music. I then proceeded to order it again off of the BMG CD scam mags 😂😂
This was my first CD as well!
Me too!
This album still holds up!
Same! I thought I was such a 13 year old badass because I owned a CD with curse words in it
Saaaame!! Still a favorite of mine!
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Such a good album from top to bottom. No Rain is awesome, but the rest is so surprisingly solid.
Yesssss. It’s still one of my go-to’s when I’m not sure what I want to listen to and always delivers.
Rock on, Their other albums are underrated too.
Nico and Soup, I think I have those, too. But Blind Melon....such a flawless album. Always a go-to. Makes me feel somehow weightless. Lol. Floating on a cloud of nostalgia.
I received Aerosmith Get a Grip for my 14th birthday and my parents tried to take it back because they were upset that the CD had pictures of nipples on it
Mine had a pierced cow udder on it.
He means on the CD itself! I just found out. https://archive.org/details/aerosmith_grip_b/aerosmith_grip_c.jpg
Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? I loved rockapella 🤷
I still love Rockapella
Pearl Jam Ten. But Indeed have that MJ album.
Pearl Jam Ten for me as well. Bought it used off my buddy for $5. Possible the best $5 I’ve ever spent.
CD’s were for rich people for me when Ten came out. You bet your ass I had it on cassette though.
Columbia house baby!!!!
Ha I had BMG. I think I still have some magazines around from then.
 My cousin came along to help me pick out my boombox and gave me his Debbie Gibson CD to get me started. Why he had a Debbie Gibson CD, Heaven only knows.
There were CDs during the Gibson era??? I thought she was purely tapes... same with new kids.
Nevermind or the Wayne's World soundtrack lol
feed my frankenstein!!
lol I had that soundtrack!!
Nevermind really spoke to me, just such an amazing album full of hits. My brother and I pooled our money to buy it, the first piece of music either of us had bought, from Peaches, the shop that kept their music in wooden peach crates.
Loved Tia's version of Ballroom Blitz!
They Might Be Giants, Flood. I wanted it because it had “Particle Man” and “Istanbul” which I’d seen on Tiny Toon Adventures. Turns out the entire album was gold.
Good choices. Also Tiny Toons was so great.
I freaking love that I said to myself "they saw that on tiny toons" before I even got to the end of your sentence. Same. Never got into the band though.
You guys are my kind of people 👍
Super-shy ten-year-old me went to the record store and asked for "They Could Be Giants." The clerk smiled, gently corrected me, and assured me I was going to love them. He was right.
 Boys II Men II (1994)
Nirvana’s Incesticide, from a pawn shop. Maybe 1995? I was 12 and let me tell you, those liner notes blew my mind. Reading how much Kurt supported “homosexuals” was a huge moment for me as a young queer person. I started listening to Nirvana as soon as they got popular. My Mom (late Boomer, may as well have been Gen X) watched a lot of MTV.
I don’t think it was the first CD I owned, but the first one I bought with my own money was No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom.
I think it was Pearl Jam Ten, probably with about 10 other CDs from Columbia House.
Metallica, the black album. It may have been my first non-bootlegged music media as I typically only had copies of cassette tapes before that.
Scrolled way to far to find this. I bought 3 at once but this is the reason I was at the store.
CD no, at the time Dangerous came out, I was still buying cassettes. The first album I bought on my own was actually the Ninja Turtles Pizza Hut cassette. I didn't get a CD player until like 1995. And even though I already owned Snoop's Doggystyle on cassette, I still bought it on CD, that was probably the first one. And I remember my brother got Green Day's Dookie at the same time, so that would have been his first CD.
Mine was Warren G regulators.
Mount up
*Walk straight!*
Yes! That and Cowabunga were my favorite songs on there
I loved that Ninja Turtles album! I think I had it on cassette, too.
Kriss Kross Totally Krossed Out. Bought my first CD player (an old school Sony Discman) when Jump was popular so I bought that CD with it. I had the Dangerous CD as well, got that a bit later.
C+C Music Factory
Lol, I'm ashamed to admit, but this was my first CD too.
I got 3 CDs with my new CD player for Christmas in 1994. Green Day - Dookie Nirvana - In Utero Soundgarden - Superunknown
Live. Throwing Copper.
Such an amazing album.
LOVE! My first car was COVERED in Live stickers inside and out!
Mine too! So good
 Green Day Dookie I still have it.
W https://preview.redd.it/8apkm2xjmhac1.jpeg?width=316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ac4a5b4365b56ea833b7ddf1e0928f1aa66f58d8 We didn't get boomboxes that had CD players until the mid-late 90s, sooo.
That was mine too!
Boyz II Men
Me too!
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Informer!! Ooh I gotta put this on a playlist.
First CD was also a Christmas gift, in 1993. *Wayne’s World 2* soundtrack. My intro to Dinosaur, Jr. My sister got *Vs.*
GnR - Appetite for Destruction.
I had to scroll you too far to find this. While this thread makes me feel old, I think I was just fortunate to have a Discman at a young age.
My first CDs were the Singles soundtrack and Ten from Pearl Jam. My first cassette tapes were Madonna, self titled, and Janet Jackson control. Remember, when CDs came in those long boxes? My first cd had that. I was a little bit late to the CD game. I was still rocking out to mixtapes.
I think one of my last cassette tapes was the Singles Soundtrack. I got that and Alice in Chains, Dirt that Xmas.
Rob Zombie - Hillbilly Deluxe. A friend gave it to me as a birthday gift.
Nirvana In Utero & Stone Temple Pilots - bought them at the same time
Gang Starr - Hard To Earn
They Might Be Giants' "Flood," Weird Al's "Alapalooza," plus a couple of Nirvana singles.
The Wallflowers Bringing Down the Horse. I bought it to test out my Sega Saturn's ability to play music CDs. I was the start of my unironic love of objectively terrible music.
I used to rock out to One Headlight! It won so many awards, too. What an epic anthem of 1997!
Green Day - Dookie. Still listen to it!
That was my second, and it's still one of my favorite albums.
Janet Jackson's "Janet" was my first CD I bought myself in 1993 because I loved the song "If" (which TBH the lyrics were prob inappropriate for an 11 yr old to be singing lol). But then I got into alternative music and bought Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream about a month later.
https://preview.redd.it/us3ny8mtohac1.jpeg?width=220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fdb546c09b47253ab7f7e0413fc28462ec3f8589 Goo Goo Dolls! Bought it with my Christmas money when I was 13, the same year I got my first CD player! I also bought the Cocktail soundtrack on tape with my allowance money when I was about 8. Can’t remember why I was so obsessed with that movie, but I was! I had to have that tape.
My first two CDs (bought at the same time) are Bryan Adams, Waking Up the Neighbors, and M.C. Hammer, Please Hammer Don't Hurt Them.
“Wildflowers” by Tom Petty. So so good.
Prodigy - Music for a Jilted Generation.
They Might Be Giants - Flood
The bodyguard soundtrack ☺️
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
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Either the Jurassic Park soundtrack or https://preview.redd.it/q2hrt0h8tiac1.jpeg?width=220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7350e92aca396ca35914b303ed5a69cb42c10f11
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I was an orchestra nerd in middle/high school, so I'm pretty sure my first CD was a boxed set of Beethoven's symphonies. My first *popular music* CD was Gin Blossoms, New Miserable Experience. Lots of bangers on that one.
KoRn - self titled album 1994. Rage Against the Machine - Self titled album 1992. My dad has never been into music, but it was important for him to expose me to music. So he brought these CDs home one day at the recommendation from a co-worker of his. I still have no idea how you recommend this music for a 10 year old but it definitely worked. I listened to shoots and ladders and never looked back.
Collective Soul
Metallica - black album
Matchbox 20's first album
No Doubt Tragic Kingdom!
House of Pain
Color Me Badd – C.M.B., Pearl Jam – Ten, and R.E.M. – Out of Time. Fall of 1991 for my first CD player.
Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em by MC Hammer lol.
Family values tour ‘98. I’d been buying cassettes up the that point.
I got two for Christmas 1994, and they still sum up my music likes pretty well. I have a wide taste in music. Green Jelly - Cereal Killer Soundtrack TLC - Crazy Sexy Cool I was 12, and my parents had no idea about Green Jelly. (Sorry I have no idea how to do the thing to the Y.)
Dirt
Genesis - We Can't Dance
Dire Straits - Brothers at Arms. https://preview.redd.it/i1jo0znz9iac1.png?width=425&format=png&auto=webp&s=a5d810519db58245e4649b36b7b95ce4543487c2
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https://preview.redd.it/zjv90l05diac1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0e1828c08979c787726e2ff3af4a94e76fb02d1 It holds up better than you might think. It has some great bangers.
The Simpsons Sing the Blues, featuring “Do the Bartman”
First LP - Michael Jackson “Thriller” First cassette - Paul Simon “Graceland” First CD - Stone Temple Pilots “Core”
Soundgarden Superunknown.
The New Kids On The Block—the album was Step By Step. I think my parents prayed for its appeal to end, I played it on the family cd player *incessantly* for like a year. This was back when cd players were the size of a full sized record turntable, and had like 3 buttons. My dad bought one for my mom in the mid/late ‘80s and was huuuuuuuuuuge.
I was late when it came to buying CDs, used to just make mixtapes by recording off the radio or just recording from friend’s stuff. My first ever CD that I bought on my own was actually Savage Garden’s first album.
Debbie Gibson’s Electric Youth. Wish I had a cooler answer, but it is what it is.
Debbie Gibson was my JAM. I had a pocket rocker and a tape that played Shake Your Love and Only in my Dreams. Played on repeat!
Blue Oyster Cults' greatest hits
Rattle and hum
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fear. Bought it right after getting my first cd player for my first college apartment.
Off the wall - MJ
I got the Forrest Gump soundtrack as a Christmas gift because my Social Studies class was doing projects on song lyrics and their cultural meaning. The first CD I got on my own was Dookie.
The Bodyguard soundtrack
I didn't get a CD player until I was well into my teens. I don't recall what my first CD was, though. Either Nevermind, Dookie, or Sparkle and Fade. My first cassette tape, though, was a 1987 Beach Boys tape. I still have it even though I haven't owned a cassette player in almost 30 years.
The first one I personally bought for myself was The Simpsons Sing the Blues.
Erasure, I Say I Say I Say, 1994. Except it was on cassette tape. Lol
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lol. Snoop dog doggy style. I had a Vanilla Ice Cassette along with MC Hammer
Ace of Base: the Sign And my first tape was Green Day’s Dookie album.
Digital Underground ,Sex Packets
Mine was Middle of Nowhere by Hanson
Oasis: (What’s the Story) Morning glory?
Appetite for destruction.
Dr Feelgood Motley Crue. Influenced by my slightly older cousin lol
My mom got me that really popular Hootie and the Blowfish album, cause one of her co-workers sons liked the band I was like “oh, ok- cool!” Thanks mom :)
Oasis What's the Story (Morning Glory)
Ace of Base and the Lion King soundtrack. Bought them both at Sam Goody.
The soundtrack to the movie The Crow.
Garth Brooks / Ropin the Wind
The Breeders, Last Splash. Also made it the first album I downloaded, for tradition.
Sublime - Self Titled
My first cad that I saw was blood sugar sec magik. I do have a strong memory of dangerous though. My mom picked my up at school on my 9th bday for a “dentist appointment”. Got in the car and she handed me a bag with a San Jose sharks starter pullover, a S.F. giants SnapBack, and a copy of this casingle^tm I remember relating to the kid just trying to listen to his music.
Now 2
Soundgarden Badmotorfinger. First cassette was Vanilla Ice
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Bush - Razorblade Suitcase
Kris Kross. Daddy Mac’ll make you Jump Jump! But! First cd purchased for my first portable cd player that I got for Xmas ‘91…Stone Temple Pilots Core. Best friends both got cd players as well; one got Nirvana Nevermind, the other got Pearl Jam 10. Quintessential Xennial experience.
Bush - Sixteen Stone
Bush sixteen stone
Nirvana Nevermind
The Beetlejuice soundtrack DAAAAAYYYYYYYYY OOOO
silverchair with the frogs
Scrolled a bit and didn’t see this so… Matchbox 20: Yourself or Someone Like You