Arthur and Friends: The First Almost Real Not Live CD was the first album for the series, issued in October 1998.

Many of the songs on this CD aired in shorter forms on the TV episode "Arthur's Almost Live Not Real Music Festival."

Tracks on this CD included the show's main title theme, "Library Card," multiple tracks of D.W.'s favorite song "Crazy Bus," (by former show writer/executive story editor Joe Fallon), "Leftovers Goulash" (which utilizes a range of classic music and opera compositions, most notably the Hungarian Rhapsody No.

2), "The Ballad of Buster Baxter," (a more complete form than that heard on the television story) and "Jekyll and Hyde."

This CD contains only one song heard in the show, a remixed version of the main title theme.