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mellotronwave 
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 Topic: Your First CD!Posted: April 29 2024 at 10:27 |
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Selling England by the pound when I bought my first CD player :-)
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"Mellotron is to progrock what watercolor is to painting. Diaphanous and mesmerizing"
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verslibre
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Posted: April 29 2024 at 00:00 |
I first owned that on cassette, then CD. In fact, last month, I rebought an inexpensive like-new CD from a brick and mortar, so it's back to stay. |
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cstack3
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Posted: April 28 2024 at 22:25 |
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My first CD was a used copy of an early CTTE disc by Yes! It was one of the ones that was made using Eddie Offord's master tapes & no remastering, so I could experience all of the lovely tape hiss that Eddie would have heard!!
I still have it & cherish old CDs cut from masters without much monkeying around. I also have my first CD player, a Sony "Disc-Man" portable, that I still love!
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I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!!
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mathman0806
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Posted: April 28 2024 at 18:47 |
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A group of us ranging in age from 33 to 66 were discussing music and generational differences. I mentioned I bought my first CD in 1985. The youngest in the group (33) mentioned he has never owned a CD. All his music are digital downloads.
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Intruder
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Posted: April 28 2024 at 17:35 |
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Clearly remember buying my first CDs - it was before I even bought my first CD player. I was a student at Penn State, it was 1988 and there was a little record shop going out of business and those expensive long box CDs were selling at a reasonable rate. I picked up:
Bob Marley "Live" Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery "Dynamic Duo" The Band "Big Pink".....sounded terrible! Van the Man "Astral Weeks" |
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I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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Steve Wyzard
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Posted: April 25 2024 at 13:12 |
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June 1985: Yes - 90125, of course!
I still have it to this day, but I've been through a number of CD players since then.
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Archisorcerus
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Posted: April 25 2024 at 07:09 |
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My first CD was Once Bitten by Great White, which I owned in the early 90s. However, I didn't "buy" it myself.
The first CD that I bought... I can't remember at all. |
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JD
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Posted: April 25 2024 at 06:15 |
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Peter Gabriel - So My wife bought it for me, then about a month later I got my first CD player
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Thank you for supporting independently produced music
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David_D
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Posted: April 25 2024 at 05:31 |
I bought my first (and only) CD player in 2000 in Copenhagen, and the first CD, I got, was Ragas and Sagas by Garbarek & Khan which I bought about a year before the player in a rather small specialist shop also in Copenhagen. It was a bit exiting to buy this first CD, many years after the technology came to Denmark. I can tell too that the first time, I heard a CD, was in 1984 demonstrated in a music shop just when the CD technology came to Denmark, and it sounded really terrible to me, even at that point of time I hadn't yet become an audiophile. |
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Gentle and Giant
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Posted: April 25 2024 at 05:22 |
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I bought an Akai CD player in 1986, but where I lived at the time there were no shops that sold CDs. I eventually found 3 or 4 for sale in a newsagents so I bought Be Yourself Tonight by the Eurythmics. I was expecting it to sound amazing - unfortunately it didn't.
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Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: April 25 2024 at 05:11 |
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First vinyl was either Pink Floyd - Momentary Lapse of Reason or Scorpions - Blackout, can't remember, I was about 12 years old. First CD came later ... the earliest I can remember were Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers and Van Halen - OU812.
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suitkees
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Posted: April 25 2024 at 04:46 |
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It must have been 1988, I think. I got a second hand CD-player from a friend (yes, he was already upgrading his system with a new one...) and I may have bought a couple of CDs even before that, but it was around the same time. Not sure which was the fist one, but these are some of the first ones: - Don Airey - K2 - GTR - GTR - Jan Akkerman & Thijs van Leer - Focus - Pink Floyd - Momentary Lapse of Reason - Pink Floyd - The Wall (never had that one on vinyl...) - Barclay James Harvest - Berlin - Benny Andersson, Tim Rice, Björn Ulvaeus - Chess - Asia - s/t and a couple of cheap classical music cds. There were some good record stores in my university town (it even had a "symphonic rock" section) and in the town nearby my parent's (all this in the Netherlands), though at that time their vinyl sections were still much bigger than their CD sections. And the vinyls were also to be found in a couple of good second hand stores, so I continued buying those too.
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Posted: April 25 2024 at 03:53 |
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I bought my Sony five-disc changer in early 1995, which I still use to this day. My first CDs was ELO's Secret Messages and Time. Both were in a bargain bin at a place called Blue Train in State College, Pennsylvania. That same month I bought Pink Floyd's Shine On box set for about $100, from the same store. I still have all three releases.
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Posted: April 25 2024 at 02:53 |
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My first deck (used) was roughly in 91/2, when I started buying CDs... Which might've been Anglagard's Hybris or RHCP's SBSM - not sure anymore
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Jared
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Posted: April 25 2024 at 00:54 |
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I *think* my first CDs were Rush: Signals & Journey: Infinity, bought together around 1991/2. Even at this late stage, CDs were still relatively limited and expensive in the UK if IIRC?
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Octopus II
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Posted: April 25 2024 at 00:34 |
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Pink Floyd, of course.
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I prophesy disaster
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Posted: April 24 2024 at 22:36 |
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I moved to Queensland from New South Wales in mid 1992. I initially moved into a rental for six months while the house I currently live in was being built a few kilometres away. I recall buying my first CD player, but don't recall where in Queensland I was living at the time (the shopping centre where I bought the CD player isn't a clue). Let's say I got my first CD late 1992 or early 1993. I wasn't especially keen to move over to the new technology, but eventually succumbed as it was becoming clear that the old technology was becoming obsolete. I can only recall one CD although there may have been another one or two that I bought at the same time. The CD I do recall was 10cc - A Decade of Hits. I didn't have any 10cc in my collection at the time, and I never bought any since, though I do like the CD I bought. |
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No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.
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Posted: April 24 2024 at 19:39 |
I'm not sure if you know this but that Dire Straits cd was the first cd to go platinum in sales.
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mathman0806
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Posted: April 24 2024 at 19:36 |
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My dad got a CD player in 1985 and had bought all classical CDs. I bought the first non-clsssical CD, which was Dire Straits Brothers in Arms. I got that because it was one of the earliest recording done directly to digital tape. I still have it but haven't played it in years.
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Posted: April 24 2024 at 17:48 |
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Bowies Spiders from mars was the first CD I ever bought at Licorice Pizza in Pasadena Ca.
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