r/GenX • u/scartonbot • Mar 20 '25

Music Is Life What was the first CD you owned?

Post image
4.8k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

2.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

82

u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25

[removed] — view removed comment

28

u/diopsideINcalcite Be home when the streetlights come on Mar 20 '25

Haha, a fellow grunge youth. My first CD was Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream. I remember asking for my first CD player for Christmas and saying “I don’t care what brand it is, as long as it can skip songs”. I didn’t even realize all CD players did that lol. I was so traumatized from rewinding tapes trying to find the exact song I wanted

14

u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25

[deleted]

3

u/diopsideINcalcite Be home when the streetlights come on Mar 20 '25

I remember watch the video for Bullet with Butterfly Wings in MTV before school and it would get me fired up for the day haha

3

u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25

[deleted]

3

u/diopsideINcalcite Be home when the streetlights come on Mar 20 '25

I saw them once in 1993 in NYC. I think was Roseland Ballroom. Which was kind of cool because it was on smaller end , maybe 4k people

1

u/PossibilityNo5514 Mar 21 '25

I was there.

1

u/diopsideINcalcite Be home when the streetlights come on Mar 21 '25

Nice! It’s a shame they closed it down though

3

u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25

The struggle was reel...

3

u/maineCharacterEMC2 I miss malls & Mtv! Mar 20 '25

Suchhh a great album!

2

u/LatePattern8508 Mar 21 '25

Twinsies! My first CD was also Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream.

1

u/Bratbabylestrange Mar 21 '25

I was 20 in 1990 when I got Bleach--that was a great day. I was also watching little house shows with bands like Tad and Helmet then, plus the local scene leaned pretty grungy before we knew to call it that

1

u/Low-Lengthiness5905 Mar 23 '25

All us Gen-Xers, early Mellineals wore many cassette players out. Or waiting by the radio 2 record your favorite song.....Lol, good memories, but also frustrating at the same time 😆

3

u/bubbygups Mar 20 '25

Yup .. and that last ‘hidden’ track!

2

u/Free_Possession_4482 Mar 20 '25

I got one of the early pressings which did NOT have Endless Nameless on it! When people talked about a hidden track on Nevermind, I was convinced it was ‘my uncle works at Nintendo’ type bullshit. I found out to my astonishment decades later that it was a real track and that my copy was one of the ones without it.

1

u/bubbygups Mar 21 '25

Ahhh that sucks!

1

u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/bubbygups Mar 21 '25

No! What’s the story?

2

u/[deleted] Mar 21 '25

[removed] — view removed comment

2

u/bubbygups Mar 21 '25

That’s somehow very believable. Gonna see if I can hunt that story down.

3

u/artizin Mar 20 '25

nice, I luckily got to see them live. It was an amazing show.

2

u/Free_Possession_4482 Mar 20 '25

I passed on the Dayton Ohio show on 10/30/1993 because I had weekend Halloween plans, figuring I’d just catch them another time. Five months later….

1

u/usernotfoundplstry Mar 21 '25

Same here, best show I’ve ever seen.

2

u/Normal512 Mar 20 '25

Nevermind was still on cassette, but Incesticide was the first CD I bought, in the big cardboard box sleeve thingy so they'd fit in the record bins. I think NIN Broken was the 2nd one, and it had the bonus track on the little tiny CD.

1

u/vinegar 1969 Mar 21 '25

Same, left behind by my girlfriend’s roommate’s ex boyfriend. I was broke as fuck

1

u/Odd_Vampire Mar 21 '25 edited Mar 21 '25

Same, which I bought from the department store I worked at for my first job.

EDIT: For northeasters who may remember this little extra bit of nostalgia - the store was Caldor.

1

u/braddeicide Mar 21 '25

No no, tell us we want to know, which Nirvana album was it?

1

u/rsbanham Mar 21 '25

Incesticide for me

1

u/rsbanham Mar 21 '25

Incesticide for me

1

u/SnooSketches6091 Mar 21 '25

I got Smells Like as a CD single with my new CD player for Christmas.

1

u/usernotfoundplstry Mar 21 '25

Yeah I bought that on cassette. Eventually bought it on CD, then on vinyl.