Your very, very very first C.D.

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   This is question of vintage. 20 years later.

This is mostly directed at the old vinyl spinners out there.
Do you remember when C.D's first hit the mainstream market in 87?
All of us and our vinyl collections, now had to go out and replace our essential vinyl with a new shiny compact disc.
So, as the albums in the record stores rapidly faded away, being replaced just as fast by it's new master.Do you remember your first player? How about THE VERY FIRST COMPACT DISC you bought? Do you recall? Is it still in your collection?

My first C.D player was a single disc from Sony (still using today). On the same day of it's purchase, I picked up, to replace, my most beloved Floyd album. Umma Gumma. Soon after, Elton John-Madman Across the Water, Crosby ,Stills, Nash, and Young- Deja Vu and then Beatles- (White Album). All of which, still a long playing part of my collection.

Which is the "relic" in your library.

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Witchwoodhermit Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 23 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 871	Topic: Your very, very very first C.D. Posted: February 26 2007 at 23:40
	This is question of vintage. 20 years later. This is mostly directed at the old vinyl spinners out there. Do you remember when C.D's first hit the mainstream market in 87? All of us and our vinyl collections, now had to go out and replace our essential vinyl with a new shiny compact disc. So, as the albums in the record stores rapidly faded away, being replaced just as fast by it's new master.Do you remember your first player? How about THE VERY FIRST COMPACT DISC you bought? Do you recall? Is it still in your collection? My first C.D player was a single disc from Sony (still using today). On the same day of it's purchase, I picked up, to replace, my most beloved Floyd album. Umma Gumma. Soon after, Elton John-Madman Across the Water, Crosby ,Stills, Nash, and Young- Deja Vu and then Beatles- (White Album). All of which, still a long playing part of my collection. Which is the "relic" in your library.
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moreitsythanyou Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: April 23 2006 Location: NYC Status: Offline Points: 11682	Posted: February 26 2007 at 23:50
	Well considering I'm quite young I never had to deal with other audio formats besides CD...actually no because the car stereo only had a cassette player for a while there.Either way, this was my first CD: White Stripes - White Blood Cells
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soundsweird Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: December 08 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 408	Posted: February 26 2007 at 23:57
	I can't remember, but I do recall this: at first, I planned to just get CD's of my very favorite albums, maybe 25 total out of the 1,000 or more vinyl LP's I had. HA!!! Pretty soon I had a hundred, then a thousand, now 2 thousand..........

Logan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum & Site Admin Group Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 37102	Posted: February 27 2007 at 00:23
	The first CD I purchased for myself that I recall was The Hunger in 1990. I think I got my first personal CD player, the Sony Discman, at some time that year.

Atavachron Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 30 2006 Location: Pearland Status: Offline Points: 65578	Posted: February 27 2007 at 00:29
	what I remember is how many great albums sounded bad on CD 'cause they hadn't been remastered. Also, how the CD format subverted the two-side structure. Edited by Atavachron - February 27 2007 at 00:30

Dick Heath Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12818	Posted: February 27 2007 at 05:20
	Probably a John Martyn CD ep issued by Island records, including a couple of tracks from Solid Air. I know that a wish list I created to replace about a 107 LPs on CDs in the late 80's, was only completed with the CD issue of Jan Hammer Group's Oh Yeah last October. And completely concur with the aural problem of CD releases taken from the original masters intended for vinyl pressing - to my ears the previous background noise of cymbals was now right up front in the mix. Meant I could hear more of Phil Collins in Genesis for the first time.............. but really detracted from my previous listen pleasure of Jean Luc Ponty's Enigmatic Ocean.
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	i can't quite remember what was it, looks like Dream Theater - Awake
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	I bought my first CD player in 1988. After buying it I went straight out and bought my first 2 CDs - The Joshua Tree and Hounds Of Love.

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	I got my first CD player for christmas 1998, along with two CD's (both of Norwegian bands). My first CD purchased was Jean-Michel Jarre's "Zoolook" a few days later.
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Witchwoodhermit Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 23 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 871	Posted: February 27 2007 at 10:46
	[QUOTE=Atavachron]what I remember is how many great albums sounded bad on CD 'cause they hadn't been remastered. Also, how the CD format subverted the two-side structure. True. One of the hardest things to get used to, especially on double albums, was the one side issue. The loss of album cover size was a disapointment aswell.
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	I honestly can't remember ... it could have been Van Halen - OU812.
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mystic fred Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 13 2006 Location: Londinium Status: Offline Points: 4252	Posted: February 27 2007 at 11:01
	i was rather disappointed with cd when i first heard it, in '86 i'd saved up £150.00 for a new player, bought a few discs including Purple's "House of Blue Light", JM Jarre "Magnetic Fields" and Def Leppard "Hysteria". they sounded rather muddy, i took it all back to the shop, and didn't pick up with cd again till some years later when they'd vastly improved. I read Ian Paice found the same thing , he bought a copy of "Machine Head" , rushed home to try it and was disappointed. cd has come a long way since then, i'm using DVD-Audio/SACD 5.1 surround sound now and played a copy of "Fragile" this morning which had just come in the post - fabulous! can also recommend "Magnification" , Dire Straits "Brothers.." and DSOTM in 5.1. CD has come a long way but Vinyl still has a place in my .
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	My first CD's were 'The Doors' and 'Hounds of Love' by Kate Bush, bought them on the same day as my Marantz CD player. 1991.
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	I can think of two CD's around 1986 that could have been my first: Schubert's Unfinished Symphony Paul Simon's Graceland Both still in my collection - I never get rid of a CD.
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erik neuteboom Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: July 27 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 7659	Posted: February 27 2007 at 13:10
	It comes immediately to my mind: Magnetic Fields by JM Jarre, I still remember vividly that I was waiting for the sound of a needle touching the vinyl but this doesn't happen, I could hear directly music, without that sound and without scratches

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	The first CD I got is Dark Side of the Moon's 20th anniversary edition in 1993. I was 6. My father gave that to me saying this would be a great start for my musical journey. I'm so glad my father did.
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