Your very, very very first C.D.
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Topic: Your very, very very first C.D.
Posted By: Witchwoodhermit
Subject: Your very, very very first C.D.
Date Posted: February 26 2007 at 23:40
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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. ------------- Here I'm shadowed by a dragon fig tree's fan ringed by ants and musing over man. |
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date 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:
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Posted By: soundsweird
Date Posted: February 26 2007 at 23:57
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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.......... |
Posted By: Logan
Date 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. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 00:29
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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.
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 05:20
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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. ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 05:23
| Phil Collins Greatest Hits |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 06:41
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The Doors - LA Woman
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Posted By: kazansky
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 06:53
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i can't quite remember what was it, looks like Dream Theater - Awake ------------- The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 07:46
| 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. |
Posted By: Paradox
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 07:49
I think it was the 'Robson & Jerome' cover of 'Saturday Night At The Movies'. Oh dear  Probably will only be known by UK members.
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 07:51
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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. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 08:33
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Sting's excellent "Soul Cages" ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: Witchwoodhermit
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 10:46
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[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. ------------- Here I'm shadowed by a dragon fig tree's fan ringed by ants and musing over man. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 10:48
I honestly can't remember ... it could have been Van Halen - OU812.
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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 11:01
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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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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 11:03
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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. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 11:03
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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. ------------- Blog this: http://artrock2006.blogspot.com |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 13:10
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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 |
Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 13:10
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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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Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 13:54
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My roommate had a CD player before I did, so I relied on his collection. I did buy a couple of CDs before I had my own. The first one was Sting, "Nothing Like the Sun." I think the second one was The Church, "Starfish." ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 14:33
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If we are talking CD only, and prog only, then DT's Images And Words.
If we are talking CD only, but any rock-genre, then THE DOORS Greatest Hits (Double album)
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 14:37
Yeah, getting Hounds of Love on CD was a priority for me. I just had to hear 'The Ninth Wave' on the headphones. It didn't dissapoint. It's funny now after all these years of digital, how much praise there is for the sound of vinyl.. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
chopper wrote:Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 14:37
| Oh and my first prog cd is Rush - All The World's A Stage |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 14:37
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Steve Winwood's Back In The High Life
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 14:39
Ah yes, I remember my first experience of Rush on CD. Exit Stage Left and Hemispheres. They sounded mindblowing. Still do.. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Bastille Dude
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 15:27
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I can't remember the exact year, Must have been around '85 or '86. I didn't even have a cd player yet but my best friend did so we would listen to our discs at his house. My very first cd purchase was Tull TAAB, followed by Marillion Misplaced Childhood.
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Posted By: Witchwoodhermit
Date Posted: February 27 2007 at 17:10
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[QUOTE=Dragon Phoenix]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. I'm the same. If a disc has even the tiniest potential, I'll never throw it out. It's like a library, all additions welcome. ------------- Here I'm shadowed by a dragon fig tree's fan ringed by ants and musing over man. |
Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 06:49
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The first CD I bought was Just Like Heaven by Dinosaur Jr. I bought about a dozen CDs before I got myself a CD player.
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Posted By: herring
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 07:25
| The First album of Spice Girls... really i'm not kiddin |
Posted By: herring
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 07:27
My First LP was DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
 only 1€ |
Posted By: r-u-n
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 07:41
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My very first cd was TEN by Pearl Jam. My first CD from a progressive act was Moving Pictures from Rush. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 07:43
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David Coverdale - Into the Light. (CD)
Iron Maiden - No Prayer for the Dying (MC)
Marillion - Live from Loreley (DVD)
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Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 07:53
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CD: Megadeth - Youthanasia MC: Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time Vinyl: Metallica - Garage Days DVD: Tindersticks - Bareback ------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 07:55
my first prog CD was Queen - II ------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 07:57
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Hmm - I still remember that. I bought those two on the day I bought my first CD player: Gary Moore - After the War Alannah Myles - Alannah Myles Not long after that I bought Dream Theater's - When Dream and Day Unite. ------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 08:19
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Well I was born after the CD player, so I just naturally ended up with my dad's first purchases. Would be impossible to tell which was the first. ------------- Beauty will save the world. 
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 10:56
The first CD I bought myself was Rubber Soul by The Beatles. 
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Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 11:09
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The Beatles - Yellow Submarine
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Posted By: magnus
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 11:37
The first one that I bought myself with my own money must've been Metallica - Ride the Lightning, I think. Or perhaps Kill 'em All... not sure 
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Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 11:47
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Disco Inferno.- D.I. goes pop. I heard about them in a very unusal radio show. Next day, my father gave me my first CD player and a bit of money and said: "go and buy somthing to use this". Given that it was a lot of money, I asumed that he didn't meant "go and buy batteries". So I went to a weird (and now pretty much extint) record store and the rest is already told... ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: Prince_Rupert
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 13:43
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I wasn't alive when CD's first came out. Now, I'm doing the reverse! I'm switching to vinyl for improved sound quality. Did you know that there's a turn table out that records vinyl records digitally. I'm not quite sure how it works, I don't have one yet. I am ashamed to say that my first CD was some offspring album. |
Posted By: Pablo_P
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 14:56
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The first CD I bought was the first, self-titled album of Queen... ------------- Pablo P. |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 14:59
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory 
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Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: March 12 2007 at 01:43
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Smashing Pumpkins - Meloncollie & The Infinite Sadness. then Are You Experienced? by Hendrix. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 05:17
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My first vinyl was Crime Of The Century in 74 (I was 11)
but I can't remember what my first Cd was. I was a late convert to CD. I started testing and renting CD in 92, and it was at least another year before I started buying them.
I'd say RHCP's Sex Blood Sugar Magic or Noir Desir's Tostaky or French Funk Federation (known as FFF) 's Free For Fever.
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 05:36
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Mine is either Eddie Jobson's Theme Of Secrets, or Tony Banks' The Fugitive. It was back in 1986, I know that much, but for the rest: I don't remember which one was first.
I remember being v-e-r-y c-a-r-e-f-u-l with the cd's, because I didn't want to make a scratch on them. I'm not so careful now anymore
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Posted By: Witchwoodhermit
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 23:41
Yeah, I know what you mean.
I remember all the hype about c.d's, when they first came out. "you can use them as coasters, frisbees etc". They were supposed to be indestructable, NOT!
After dropping a disc and having it bounce off a speaker, the scratch it caused made it unplayable. Once more it was "The White Album", a double disc.
 $$$Since then it's been softly, softly, all the way.
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Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 10:57
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I'm 24, just old enough to remember the days before CDs. My firsst cd wwas an Elvis Presley collection, but the first album I bought that I really loved was Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell.
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Posted By: Mandrakeroot
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 11:10
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Posted By: Ben2112
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 20:19
| I was a latecomer to the CD age, not finally getting my hands on a player until around 1990. The first CD's I bought, both at the same time, were Pink Floyd's WYWH and Stevie Ray Vaughan's Texas Flood. |
Posted By: martinn
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 20:36
My first Cd....hmmm.. I'm pretty sure it was Red Hot Chilli Peppers- Californication. Right before my Punk journey ... 
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Posted By: anael
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 21:24
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my first cd was Cosmos Factory by Creedence and I LOVE IT, then i bought Meddle
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Posted By: Ghandi 2
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 23:44
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The Beatles--Rubber Soul
First prog CD was DSOTM 20th anniversary edition (I didn't like the cover of the 30th).
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: March 15 2007 at 00:18
Californication is a GREAT album though!  My first CD was Dark Side Of The Moon, but that was in 2003 ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: March 15 2007 at 11:38
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I'm pretty sure it was DSOTM, in 1986, or whatever year it was that CDs first came out. If it wasn't, then it was probably "So" by Peter Gabriel. ------------- The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Posted By: Trademark
Date Posted: March 15 2007 at 11:45
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My first CD contained Symphony No. 6 and a Piano Concerto by Howard Hanson and Symphony No. 7 by Willaim Schuman.
My first vinyl record was The Archies. 
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Posted By: darksideof
Date Posted: March 16 2007 at 16:57
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Well I was so against CDs at first. You know how it is when something ;BIG' is about to happen and buying my whole collection on CDs was the hardest thing to do in my whole entire life. It was areal big deal But I did it.!!! I think it some RUSH, ELP,a nd YES. ------------- http://darksideofcollages.blogspot.com/ http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Darksideof-Collages/ |
Posted By: King Zappa
Date Posted: March 16 2007 at 18:36
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Snow - 12 inches of snow. Wonderful White Canadian Regae ------------- Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest, Till your Good be Better and your Better, Best |