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Posted: December 07 2016 at 09:02

^ I have that one as well, the quality is terrible Dead

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Posted: December 11 2016 at 12:48

Guldbamsen wrote:

First cds?

Must have been Queen's greatest hits part two as well as a comedy album done by a famous Danish "group" called Monrad & Rislund. Then came Michael Jackson's Bad Cool

Kinda funny reading this thread as most started out with LPs and then moved onto cds. I am the other way around - collected thousands of cds and then suddenly decided to go the vinyl route LOL

Nowadays I buy both but prefer vinyl. There's a reverence about the medium that escapes the aforementioned plastic disc, I find.

That's awesome! I can't imagine going back to vinyl (though I have about 5000 in storage in my brother's basement). It's the space and playing equipment that prevent me. When I was single I had my whole living room set up for the best sound possible. Now I'm just happy to stream it on my headphones.

Agree whole-heartedly with the superior intimacy of the vinyl form--there is NOTHING like sitting down in the lazyboy in the sweet-spot of your surround sound speaker system and poring over the album cover and lliner notes . . . .

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Posted: December 28 2016 at 07:48

Stuck with cassettes well into the 90s, Don't remember the first CD: Classic Yes or Days of Future Past maybe.

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Posted: December 28 2016 at 08:21

I got my first CD player for Christmas 1985. I wasn't exclusively buying CDs right away, though, because they were still relatively expensive. The first three CDs I got--also for that Christmas, were Philip Glass - Glassworks, Laurie Anderson - Big Science, and Peter Gabriel - "Security".

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Posted: December 28 2016 at 09:56

I got my first CD player around 1990/91. I remember my cousin telling me "a CD can hold a hundred songs." My first CDs came from Columbia House as a part their get-12-CDs-for-free deal. I think it was 12 and i don't remember what they all were but I know these were amongst them...

Megadeth - Rust In Peace

Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Faith No More - Introduce Yourself

Living Colour - Time's Up

I still have the FNM.

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Posted: December 28 2016 at 11:26

In '84 I bought this novelty player, second hand and slightly battered (belonged to an airline pilot) , and along came Quadrophenia in 2 separate jewel boxes, which became my first CDs ever - Gggggreat Music, but later bought the much better remastered edition

I still have the player and it spins like a hurricane

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Posted: December 29 2016 at 11:07

I believe it was either Tool's Aenima or Led Zeppelin's In Through the Outdoor back in 2002 as I was being dragged kicking and screaming into transforming my cassette collection into this format.

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Posted: December 29 2016 at 11:42

It annoys me big time that I can't for the life of me remember what my first CD(s) was/were. I mean, in terms of the music the first CD after loads of LPs isn't a big thing really but still, I remember that at the time starting with CDs felt like starting with something really new that could be with me for a long time in the future... but I don't have the slightest clue with which music I started it. Angry

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Posted: December 29 2016 at 12:41

Judas Priest - Stained Class, I think. I remember it was in one of those weird long, boxes that they made so they could fit into the record bins.

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Posted: January 03 2017 at 11:41

It's funny, when CDs came out I tended to buy compilations such as 'Classic Yes' to get a sweep of what stuff sounded like 'on CD'. I can remember the last vinyl I bought at the time: Peter Blegvad's King Strut...

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Posted: January 11 2017 at 18:52

My first CDs (presented to me by relatives along with compact CD player) were: The dark side of the moon, Queen Greatest Hits I&II Box Set, Rush's 2112, Enigma's The Screen Behind The Mirror.

More interesting were my first audio cassettes. The first one was "Iron Maiden. Collection 90-93". It was a release from Polish audio pirates Eurostar. Till this day I wonder where these guys took those versions of IM's songs. In short, all songs had melodicism in the vein of Fear of the dark. Was it another master tape? I liked No Prayer For The Dying and Alexander The Great - but when I listened to real studio versions 15 years later, I was heavily disappointed. The second one was "Aerosmith. Big Ones". The third was "Roxette. Greatest Hits".

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Posted: January 11 2017 at 20:31

It's funny, I can recall quite clearly the first record albums I had, but not the first CDs.

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Posted: January 16 2017 at 11:28

My first CD was Union from Yes. The funny thing is that I thought it was really good...

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Posted: January 16 2017 at 12:29

^It's not half bad (at least it wasn't Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, and Howe).

"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno

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Posted: January 16 2017 at 13:25

Rednight wrote:

^It's not half bad (at least it wasn't Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, and Howe).

I played the hell out of ABWH when I first got it...on cassette! (Not sure why, but I wasn't buying everything new on disc yet at the time, and I often got tapes for the car or boom box). "Themes," "Brother of Mine," "Fist of Fire," "Birthright"...great songs. Yeah, "Order of the Universe" was cheesy, but hey, it was 1989.

The concert at the Greek was awesome.

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Posted: January 16 2017 at 13:42

verslibre wrote:

Rednight wrote:

^It's not half bad (at least it wasn't Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, and Howe).

The concert at the Greek was awesome.

I was at the Greek too. Agreed as it was truly awesome!

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Posted: January 16 2017 at 14:05

The Clash s/t

Man, was I ever upset with the sound quality. Gone was the fury and snarl. All the greatness sucked right out of it. Pissed.

Some things should never go digital.

Luckily most Prog translated well onto the new format.

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Posted: January 18 2017 at 08:53

ecasasmusic wrote:

My first CD was Union from Yes. The funny thing is that I thought it was really good...

So did I, still do, parts of it.

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Posted: January 18 2017 at 11:18

Nearly 25 years ago, I think my first CDs were Christmas gifts: a compilation of horror/fantastic movies themes (including an abridged cover version of Oldfield's Tubular Bells) and, maybe, the Celebration anthology of the Dubliners.