My Very First Album - A Life-Altering Experience

CDs had become the new technological craze for a couple years by the time I had turned eight, and so of course, as with tamagachis, pogs, and gimp I had to jump on the bandwagon. "I'm Just a Girl" by No Doubt had been one of my favorite songs for some time, and so when I was perusing the CD section at Target for the first time, and spotted No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom album. I was obsessed with the catchy song, where No Doubt's front woman Gwen Stefani belts out lyrics that were the anthem for teenage girls everywhere at the peak of their adolescent angst. Though I had yet to enter my teen years, I grabbed the album immediately, and tugging on my mom's shirt begged her to buy it for me. "But, Sarah, you don't even have a CD player!" my mom reasoned with me. And yes, pathetic but true, my first CD was purchased before I even had any method to listen to it. However, once that new purple Sony Discman became my most prized posession, I must have listened to the album repeatedly for over a month. "Sunday Morning", "World Go Round", and "Spiderwebs" were among some of my favorites. No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom album made my love for music grow, transforming my tastes from the Lion King soundtrack to the more mature Chumbawumba's Tubthumper. To this day, that album remains in my car CD player, still one of my all-time favorites. Oh, and the No Doubt reunion tour, I'm there.