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H Rocco Oscar® Winner	I bought my first (portable) CD player and first CDs during my first solo trip to Tokyo, in June of 1987. (My father had a CD player and I got for Xmas CDs to THE BLUE MAX and LEGEND, but until then, that was it.) I still remember the department store I picked the CDs from, and the quintet they were: POLTERGEIST II (Goldsmith, Victor CD version of the Varese CD, which in turn was the CD of the 30-minute Intrada LP) RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II (Goldsmith, Victor again) KING KONG LIVES (John Scott, Victor again, wonderful cover by Noriyoshi Orai) STAR WARS TRILOGY (John Williams, performed by the Utah Symphony conducted by Varujan Kojian, Victor version of the Varese release, again) OSTINATO (Akira Ifukube, stereo rerecordings of cues tracked over the "Special Effects Encyclopedia" videotape special that had just come out that spring) (By the end of the summer I'd also laid in THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK, ROBOCOP, INNERSPACE and Maurice Jarre's TOKYO BLACKOUT, among many many other Ifukube titles.) Until 1987, I had collected LPs almost exclusively, but that summer I began to stock up on CDs for the first time. Maybe it's different for the younger crowd, who ONLY have collected CDs. In any event, for anyone who wants to answer: What were your first CDs?
posted 02-12-2000 05:54 PM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Oscar® Winner	My old friend Robert Smith was always telling me to get the CDs and a player, but I was resisting it until they stopped putting out LPs of most stuff in 1989. So in late 1988 my first CD was Lionheart II for 6.50 in a clearance here in Lawrence. Then the next two I got were Peter the Great and Battle of Neretva. 4.00 each. Now 525 CDs later I'm going broke. Bob, you started something I can't stop. I had 1200 LPs in my collection before that and since I have bought about 150 more of those too. Take care, John.
posted 02-12-2000 06:38 PM PT (US)

LRobHubbard Oscar® Winner	In 1993, I finally got a cd player, only because it was practically impossible to find new soundtrack albums on vinyl. I was still collecting lp's (living in the SF Bay Area at the time, and it was rife with bargain vinyl), and while I didn't hate CD's, I hated how quickly the vinyl format was phased out. The very first CD I bought was Micheal Nyman's DROWNING BY NUMBERS.
posted 02-12-2000 08:34 PM PT (US)

Wedge Oscar® Winner	The Best of John Williams and the Boston Pops Skywalker Symphony The Accidental Tourist The Star Wars Anthology Ben-Hur 2-CD box set Gremlins 2 It was aaaaall downhill from there. Good memories.
posted 02-12-2000 09:07 PM PT (US)

SEBULBA Oscar® Winner	My first CD's were Empire Strikes Back and Dreamscape. Those are the first 2 I remember.
posted 02-12-2000 09:14 PM PT (US)

JJH Oscar® Winner	way back '89-'90 I got Batman and Dances With Wolves. Didn't get real serious about scores until the last year or 2 though. Now I'm a score-aholic.
posted 02-12-2000 10:07 PM PT (US)

Rang Oscar® Winner	STAR TREK II was definitely the first, and I'm certain STAR TREK III was my follow-up. That's about as far as my memory can "trek" back...
posted 02-13-2000 12:36 AM PT (US)

Kris Oscar® Winner	Among my first soundtracks: Dances With Wolves Top Gun Basic Instinct Batman
posted 02-13-2000 04:23 AM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	The first 2 c.d.'s I bought were Brainstorm and Legend ( the old Up-Art issue ) way back in 1987!
posted 02-13-2000 04:32 AM PT (US)

Dan Brecher Oscar® Winner	First CD eh? You know....I have no idea whatsoever...... Dan (UK) NP: Stargate (***/***)
posted 02-13-2000 05:27 AM PT (US)

Cole Oscar® Winner	This should make Jeron Happy The first CD (that my dad bought for me) was the 13 James Bond Songs. Later the first score I got was Jurrassic Park. Imagine that as an introduction to film scores. that means that only about %1 of all the other scores I have gotten were as good as "my first time." NP The Specialist
posted 02-13-2000 05:51 AM PT (US)

Will Oscar® Winner	I collected scores in cassete till the end of 1996. The first score CD bought was Mission: Impossible by Danny Elfman. Wanted to buy it in cassete but unavailable. Good thing though. And from then on CDs only for scores! The main reason I prefer scores to be on CD is because I know which track I am in. I only buy cassetes only when it is a song album, because cassetes here costs a third of the price of a CD. But now it has gone up to almost half the price.
posted 02-13-2000 07:01 AM PT (US)

Dr.Evil Oscar® Winner	Sure was in 1989, Born Of Fourth Of July. I remembering saying : "whoa, what a difference! " Tsc...
posted 02-13-2000 07:25 AM PT (US)

Greg Bryant Oscar® Winner	My first CD was the Fred Steiner recording of King Kong, which he did with the National Philharmonic Orchestra. This had been floating around as an LP since about 1976. However, finally deciding I wanted this recording in the mid 80's I also found it completely unavailable on LP, as CD's were making their inevitable inroads against LP's (and I was still a stuanch LP person at the time). The availability of this recording on CD only made the decision for me, that I would have to invest in a CD player. So I did that in early 1989. I still alternated between buying on LP and on CD, but the die was cast. By the way, I still have and use the same CD player I purchased in 1989. It's a Technics with way too many features that I never use; except for about a four week period on the shop in 1996, it's been a fine workhorse. [This message has been edited by Greg Bryant (edited 13 February 2000).]
posted 02-13-2000 09:40 AM PT (US)

Eric Paddon Oscar® Winner	My first player was purchased in 1987 (and was stolen six months later from my college dorm room). Fortunately, the first CD's I purchased are still functioning. The Mission (First score CD. And oddly enough, I've never bought another Morricone CD even though I loved this score) The Mystery Of Edwin Drood (the now long OOP Polygram CD that had all the different endings. The Varese rerelease only has two)
posted 02-13-2000 11:21 AM PT (US)

Hard Target Oscar® Winner	I started collecting soundtracks on cassette around 1993, but then a year later my family and I got a cd player especially since most of the scores I wanted were only available on CD. And the first CD, I got and still treasure to this day is Mark Isham's Timecop, which is the reason I bought a cd player since I bought it before we got one. LOL And by that Christmas I had these scores to start off my collection: Total Recall Kindergarten Cop The Saint of Fort Washington Street Fighter Junior The Thing Predator 2 Richie Rich I got a few scores in 95, but it was in 96 that my collection really began to take off. And hasn't stopped since, but now I'm a bit more picky. Except when it comes to Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Danny Elfman or Thomas Newman. P.O. Chain Reaction (Jerry Goldsmith) /**
posted 02-13-2000 11:28 AM PT (US)

Scott Oscar® Winner	My first cd, oh I remember it well. It was John Williams' "Jane Eyre" and I didn't even have a cd player yet. Scott
posted 02-13-2000 03:31 PM PT (US)

sabbey Oscar® Winner	The first CD player I got was during Christmas of 1990. However, unfortunately for me the first 2 CDs I bought were not soundtracks but were, INXS: Kick Heart: Brigade What can I say, at that time, I only just stated buying music, and was not really into film music yet. At that point about 70% - 90% of the CDs I bought were not soundtracks. However the first soundtracks I have recollections of buying are, Batman (Score & Songtrack) Back to the Future I - III Star Trek: TNG Vol. 1-3, and most of the other Star Trek CDs. The Rocketeer Danny Elfman's Music for an Darkened Theater Star Wars ST: TESB ST: ROTJ Top Gun Transformers: The Movie And too many other Songtracks that I care to remember. Sean Robert Abbey [This message has been edited by sabbey (edited 13 February 2000).]
posted 02-13-2000 10:24 PM PT (US)

Pete M Oscar® Winner	My first CD would be Gremlins 2, in '94 I think it was. I got my sister to buy it for me, since she was going to University in Newcastle at the time, where they had big music shops with big soundtrack departments. Where I lived, the most we got were a couple of song CD's if lucky. And I remember really wanting the CD because I loved the music, so when she said she'd seen it, I asked to get it for me. In fact, I still haven't paid her back for it... np Propellerheads/D Arnold - OHMSS
posted 02-14-2000 06:10 AM PT (US)

SBD Oscar® Winner	Sure, I had gotten Music for a Darkened Theatre Vol. 1, Beetlejuice and Casper as presents, but the first CD I bought with my own money was the score album to Batman Forever(it was in a used bin - virtually every CD I bought with my money has been cheap). In the coming months, I bought Basic Instinct, Batman, The Abyss, Space Jam and The Carl Stalling Project Vol. 1. Then I discovered the Internet...AHHHHHHH!
posted 02-14-2000 06:30 AM PT (US)

Audacity Oscar® Winner	My first CD was Chicago 18. My first score CD was Waterworld. Audacity
posted 02-14-2000 11:16 AM PT (US)

MWRuger Oscar® Winner	Well, way back in 1984 there were very few choices for early adopters. 1. Pointer Sisters - Breakout (hey, it was the 80's!) 2. Rush - Moving Pictures 3. Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition 4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
posted 02-14-2000 11:17 AM PT (US)

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