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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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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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Atavachron
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 30 2006 Location: Pearland Status: Offline Points: 65707 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 05:02 |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 01:39 |
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Bought a CD player and on the way home realised didn't have anything to play on it so nipped into HMV and picked up this:  |
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Windhawk
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: December 28 2006 Location: Norway Status: Offline Points: 11401 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 00:08 |
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Mid 80's sometime first CD purchase.
Lime Spiders: The Cave Comes Alive Bought it because it looked interesting |
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infocat
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VIP Member Joined: June 10 2011 Location: Colorado, USA Status: Offline Points: 4671 |
Posted: November 20 2016 at 23:46 |
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Didn't buy CDs until 1989. Bought Wish You Were Here before an actual CD player so I could test out CD players.
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Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
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Progosopher
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Joined: May 12 2009 Location: Coolwood Status: Offline Points: 6472 |
Posted: November 20 2016 at 23:02 |
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My first CDs were A Momentary Lapse of Reason and Brothers in Arms, which I won in a radio contest (I think). I also won a copy of a Christine McVie solo album from another radio station by identifying Jane Relf as the vocalist for Illusion despite the fact that I did not, and still don't, have any albums by them.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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cstack3
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VIP Member Joined: July 20 2009 Location: Tucson, AZ USA Status: Offline Points: 7420 |
Posted: November 20 2016 at 22:47 |
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My first CD was a used copy of CTTE. I still enjoy it, as it was an early CD pressing, made from the analog studio tapes & not remastered. Therefore, I'm hearing a digital rendition of CTTE that is very much how Eddie Offord would have heard it in the studio at that time.
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Tom Ozric
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Joined: September 03 2005 Location: Olympus Mons Status: Offline Points: 15926 |
Posted: November 20 2016 at 22:30 |
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1991 - Jefferson Airplane - 'Bless Its Pointed Little Head' Japanese pressing.
It was a gift from my sister when I caught up with her in Bali, and she and her (then) other half came from their Hong Kong stay and I just wanted to stay in Bali. Hated CD's then, hate 'em now
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AreYouHuman
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Joined: April 12 2013 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 470 |
Posted: November 20 2016 at 21:42 |
They required an adapter similar to the old vinyl single adapters, except it was worn on the outside. The one I had and still have wasn’t too compatible with my first player, it couldn’t get through most of it without skipping something fierce.
I know my first few (or more) CDs because I’ve always been anal-retentive about cataloging my collection, including all purchase information. So my first ten, from the summer of 1987, are:
Camel – Pressure Points Live Cream – Goodbye Frank Zappa – We’re Only in It for the Money/Lumpy Gravy (the first, initially expensive Rykodisc version) Penguin Café Orchestra – Broadcasting From Home Kitaro – Silk Road Suite (the orchestral version) Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells Allman Brothers Band – Beginnings Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow (the badly-mastered 1st version) Genesis – Wind and Wuthering (ditto) Ralph Towner – Blue Sun |
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