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Kingsnake 
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Joined: November 03 2006 Location: Rockpommelland Status: Offline Points: 1578 |
 Posted: November 21 2016 at 01:41 |
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When I started to listen to music and actually buy my first albums, vinyl was out, and cd was the whole great new thing.
I'm talking about 1988/1989. But the cd was expensive. Hot Damn, were they expensive. 40 guilders, wich translates to 20 or 25 euros. So I bought mostly the musicassettes (as they were called). They were cheaper, and I could play them in my walkman.
But only new albums were on musicassette, and I was a Queen- and Saga-fan so I had to buy some cds in order to make my collection complete. I guess my first cds were: Queen - A Night at the Opera and Queen I and Saga - The Works and The Beginner's Guide to Throwing Shapes. When I realised, collecting cds was only fo the rich, I started checking out second hand stores to buy vinyl, because they cost 1 guilder per LP. In no time I had thousands and thousands of lps. Got rid of them though. Now I only stream music. |
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Hercules
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Joined: June 14 2007 Location: Near York UK Status: Offline Points: 7024 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 02:34 |
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The first 3 Mostly Autumn albums, simply because they had never been released on vinyl and I had no other choice if I wanted them, and I knew I had to have them because they were so brilliant.
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A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life.
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hellogoodbye
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VIP member Joined: August 29 2011 Location: Troy Status: Offline Points: 7251 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 02:52 |
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I remember perfectly. It was Zappa's Apostrophe / Overnite Sensation. A single CD with 2 albums. I bought my first CD player the same day.
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someone_else
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VIP Member Joined: May 02 2008 Location: Going Bananas Status: Offline Points: 24674 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 03:08 |
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I bought my first CD's in 1988. I wsa a bit upset by the price of a new CD: CD's were terribly expensive compared to LP's: LP's had been priced c. 20 guilders since the early 1970's or so, CD's were newly bought for 40 guilders, as Kingsnake stated.
I still remember that my first two CD's were compilations (which I usually avoid): Another Arable Parable by Barclay James Harvest and B'sides Themselves by Marillion.
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BarryGlibb
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Joined: August 28 2010 Location: Melbourne, Oz Status: Offline Points: 1781 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 03:36 |
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First CD was "Benefit" by Tull in the early 80s...cost me ~$30 Oz...as all CDs were worth that much at that time. And the recording was (as we Australians would say) "sh**house".
Sounded like it was mastered in a "sh**house" (i.e. public lavatory) BTW. Anyway, finally gave said CD away to a friend once I got the Benefit remaster in the 2000s. Incidentally, I have lots of those 3" CDs...mostly by Living Colour but have a Japan 3" CD of Ghosts.......the 3" CDs can be worth a pretty penny and are getting more collectable as the years go on. They're cute....("go back to bed Barry"). |
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uduwudu
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Joined: July 17 2007 Status: Offline Points: 2601 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 03:43 |
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Does Humour Belong in Music by FZ on the day I purchased a CD player.
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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 03:50 |
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One thing we early-adopters picked up on very quickly was those mid-80s reissues didn't sound any different to their original vinyls apart from lacking the clicks and scratches, and in some cases (such as that "The Complete Old Mikefield" compilation I showed earlier) perhaps even a little worse.
Ignoring the Audiophilatelists, who in 1985 still favoured reel-to-reel tape and valve/tube amps over vinyl and solid-state, (and whose opinions of CD and digital would never be positive in a million years of smashing their heads against an anechoic chamber wall), CD was struggling to live up to the hype and everyone looked for explanations of why CD wasn't all it was cracked up to be every-which-way and jumped on every plausible explanation thrown our way to little avail. While we know now that this was primarily because the remastering didn't make full use of the advantages (and limitations) of the new media, and in some cases in the rush to re-issue vinyl in CD format they weren't even remastered, at the time everyone jumped on the SPARS codes, {AAD, ADD and DDD}, since there appeared to be a direct correlation between albums that sounded blegh! [AAD] and those that sounded yay! [DDD]. In reality SPARS codes weren't an indicator of quality at all and so began the backlash against digital recording and mixing that persists to this day (which again is no indicator of quality). The other perceived "problem" was down to the hardware, I guess we all remember those every expensive CD players festooned with buzz-words like oversampling, interpolation, anti-aliasing, sin(X)/X (which no lay-person can really understand no matter what they try and tell you) and such passing fads as the MASH converter and that over-priced nonsense, when most of the real issues were mechanical rather than electronic but as Sony & Philips had the joint monopoly on transport manufacture no one could do anything about. The 1980s were early days for the technology and there were inevitable bugs to iron out, but the engineers have done all that now so no amount of post-production tinkering by enthusiastic amateurs will make a blind bit of difference. What's worth noting here is my second CD purchased was (predictably) Dark Side of the Moon and the third was Diamond Dogs, both of which to this day sound pretty damn good for CDs issued in 1984 because EMI and RCA took care in the mastering process. The Old Mikefield thing on the other hand is passably acceptable as a pair of drinks coasters and little else.
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SteveG
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Joined: April 11 2014 Location: Kyiv In Spirit Status: Offline Points: 20617 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 04:15 |
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The Beatles: Past Masters II
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Tom Ozric
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Joined: September 03 2005 Location: Olympus Mons Status: Offline Points: 15926 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 04:42 |
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Does anyone remember the hype surrounding CD's when they were first introduced to the mainstream ?? I seem to recall an ad on the box showing a car running over a CD then someone placing said CD in a player and it played fine !!?? Unbelievable - like anybody would run over a CD, especially after having forked out a chunk of your hard-earned........
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 12 2011 Location: Melb, Australia Status: Offline Points: 7951 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 04:51 |
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The very first CD I ever got when I was a youngen':
 Just look at that tracklisting!  1. Arnee And The Terminators - I'll Be Back 2. C&C Music Factory - Here We Go, Let's Rock & Roll 3. George Michael - Freedom 4. L.L. Cool J - Around The Way Girl 5. Hi Tek 3 - Spin That Wheel 6. De La Soul - Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturday" 7. Sound Unlimited Posse - Unity 8. Nikki - Daddy's Little Girl 9. 2 In A Room - Do What You Want 10. Young M.C - Principal's Office 11. Public Enemy - Can't Do Nuttin' For Ya Man 12. Candyman - Knockin' Boots 13. B.G. The Prince Of Rap - This Beat Is Hot 14. Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam - Let The Beat Hit 'Em 15. New Kids On The Block - Step By Step 16. The Simpsons - Do The Bartman Listening to the Candyman's song now, I wonder if he can still claim to ride around in limousines these days...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1gbn2vUaBw Heh, I can also still remember word for word the "Step 1 - We can have lots of fun, step 2 - There's so much we can do...." etc break in the New Kids on the Block song. Listening to a lot of these again, there's a kind of crummy innocence to a lot of the light R&B/New Jack Swing/Hip hop songs on this disc. I'd take that any time over most modern rap, makes me smile. So it's crap, but I'll be honest, I treasure the hell out of this CD!  Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - November 21 2016 at 04:54 |
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Atavachron
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 30 2006 Location: Pearland Status: Offline Points: 65701 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 05:02 |
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As I recall, word was that as long as any marks were on the surface ~ not felt by fingers ~ that it would play fine. Yes and no, but I rarely have a problem with a new or used disc unlike the flaws so common twenty years ago. I also give it to the CD for generational fidelity, transportability, lack of distortion and warpage, digital space, ease of storage, and all the great obscure releases that would never have seen daylight again were it not for the compact disk fad. |
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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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Meltdowner
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 25 2013 Location: Portugal Status: Offline Points: 10279 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 05:24 |
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Seems like a lifetime ago already  I only started collecting vinyl five years ago, mainly because it's very difficult to find used records in good condition at an acceptable price around here.
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JediJoker7169
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Joined: May 05 2009 Location: West Coast, NA Status: Offline Points: 195 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 05:51 |
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CDs came on the scene before my time, but my parents invested early and I think their first CD might have been Flim & The BB's Tricycle. Recorded in digital and released in 1983 and it still sounds excellent today, an audiophile demo disc in perpetuity.
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CaP
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Joined: August 20 2016 Location: Monza Status: Offline Points: 63 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 05:55 |
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My first CD... 1988: I bought (or better, my dad bought me, as I was 14) the cd player and then went to the record shop and bought "Seventh son of a seventh son". Two months later I was at the Monsters of Rock festival in Modena (with my dad), with Maiden as headliners.
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E per tutti il dolore degli altri è un dolore a metà
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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 06:09 |
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Over here in Blighty many of us recall seeing seeing a TV demonstration of a CD being liberally coated in jam and then playing perfectly well when put into the player. Unfortunately everyone thinks this was on a TV programme called Tomorrow's World but none of the presenters of the program recall doing that so this has since been decreed "an urban myth" by The Internet, and as "proof" here is the Tomorrow's World clip where Kieran Prendiville attacks a CD with an abrasive but doesn't demonstrate that it is subsequently still playable. Yet the memory of the Jam incident is pretty persistent as I certainly recall seeing it myself so if it wasn't TW then it must have been another topical science or current affairs programme. There is a clip of a Breakfast TV presenter spreading honey and coffee over a disc and then playing it but that is poorly edited so you cannot see how he cleaned it off before playing, however this isn't the demonstration I remember seeing as I never watched Breakfast TV back then so would not have seen it anyway. I suspect it happened on an early evening live magazine programme such as Nationwide so no recordings of the episode exist as I distinctly remember laughing as the presenter spread the jam on the label-side.
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Manuel
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Joined: March 09 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 13481 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 06:25 |
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I really don't remember which was my first CD, which I though was an awesome concept, but I'm also sure sure was one of Jethro Tull's albums, probably Stand Up.
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Sean Trane
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Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 20450 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 06:31 |
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I was a late convert to CD.... I think I waited until I discovered Hybris, Gothic Impression, Vemod and Ryktigt to get into my first CDs, because it was difficult (and financially prohibitive) to import vinyls from Sweden, but I was still buying vinyls with RHCP's SBSM, Nevermind, Mama Said or Ragged Glory
And I really started buying CDs as a medium of preference when Division Bell was released (spring 94) ... and have not returned since to vinyls (OK, I buy a couple of them a year) mainly for user-friendliness issues
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emigre80
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Joined: January 25 2015 Location: kentucky Status: Offline Points: 2223 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 06:51 |
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I remember occasionally getting a bum CD back in the early days. There was a Tracy Chapman CD I returned (most indignantly) because none of the tracks would play properly. I remember very well the first CD I ever bought. It was the summer of 1987, and I had a broken jaw, which is probably one of the most miserable physical experiences possible short of amputation. My husband was great the whole time, waiting on my hand and foot and keeping me well supplied with ice cream and soup. I wanted to do something special for him once it was over so I bought him a CD player and Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms. After that we embarked on a huge 3 year CD buying spree. At the end of it we had about 500 CDs, mostly replacing our favorites that we had on vinyl. We were living in the Netherlands at that time, and CDs were very expensive, so we used to stock up when we visited America, usually buying 50 or so on each trip. I know there are people who swear by vinyl but I never had any issues with the audio on CDs and I really don't miss the scratches and hisses.
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progaardvark
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Crossover/Symphonic/RPI Teams Joined: June 14 2007 Location: Sea of Peas Status: Offline Points: 52965 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 07:01 |
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I bought vinyl up through about 1991, then switched to cassette through 1995, buying my first CD player in 1995. I still have the CD player (a Sony 5-disc changer) and have never bought another one. Strangely enough, my first CD was ELO's Secret Messages, followed by the Pink Floyd Shine On box set. A couple cassettes still remain and about 20 vinyl. The rest were sold at yard sales many, many moons ago.
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Jeffro
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Joined: March 29 2014 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 2201 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 07:34 |
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Have no idea what my first CD was. Probably a Rush album. Most likely Presto
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