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rushfan4
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 22 2007 Location: Michigan, U.S. Status: Offline Points: 66057 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 07:56 | |
I bought my first CD player along with Van Halen's OU812 and Cinderella's Long Cold Winter in the summer of 1988. I'm thinking that I may have used my high school graduation gifts to make this purchase as both albums came out in May of 1988 and I graduated in June.
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Mandrilium
Forum Newbie Joined: November 04 2016 Location: Chile Status: Offline Points: 8 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 09:50 | |
First CD: La Ley - Invisible... I was young and naive
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JD
Forum Senior Member Joined: February 07 2009 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 18396 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 10:06 | |
Peter Gabriel - So
I had gone into a stereo shop in a mall in Toronto and asked about the whole CD thing. The sales guy asked what i like to listen to and I told him prog. He pulled out the So CD and put on Red Rain. I never looked back. My biggest regret is that as I bought up CD's, if I had the vinyl and the packaging was the same, I's unload my vinyl. Why would I need both. Dumb, dumb, dumb. I still have 1000 vinyls, but I lost a great number of truly classic prog as a result of my impetuousness. |
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lazland
Prog Reviewer Joined: October 28 2008 Location: Wales Status: Offline Points: 13356 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 10:07 | |
My first cd was A Trick of the Tail, and, like others, I did not notice too much difference between that and my vinyl copy. My first original cd was Holidays in Eden by Marillion.
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Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org
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Michael P. Dawson
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 22 2016 Location: California Status: Offline Points: 197 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 11:31 | |
My fiancée had bought a player and gave me my first CDs for Christmas 1984: King Crimson Discipline and Marillion Fugazi. |
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Buy this thing!
https://store.cdbaby.com/Artist/MichaelPDawson |
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doompaul
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 02 2015 Location: boise id Status: Offline Points: 414 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 11:45 | |
I think it was a Judas Priest...I don't remember which one. Maybe sad wings of Destiny. I do remember it was in one of those weird long boxes made to fit in record displays.
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BrufordFreak
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 25 2008 Location: Wisconsin Status: Offline Points: 7980 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 11:54 | |
I mostly stream music now,too, but, thanks for sharing this story! It opens up a whole new discussion topic that I've been thinking of posting for quite a while: Is music only for the rich? Both the collection of music and the playing/composition/publishing of music? Is music another medium that incites elitism? I had the privilege of being born into an affluent family in an affluent country (the U.S.), but I always thought I was very lucky to have the means to buy music and musical instruments and recording equipment. So, can a "poor" or even "middle class" person hope to either collect music or become a musician? |
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Drew Fisher
https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
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doompaul
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 02 2015 Location: boise id Status: Offline Points: 414 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 12:08 | |
I would completely say so. I am no means a wealthy man, but I collect records like a madman. I give myself a limit. I try, emphasis on try, to keep the price on each record I buy to be under $12 each. It doesn't always work out that way, but I have managed to amass a considerable collection by keeping within my budget. I will buy one or two records every Friday.
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octopus-4
Special Collaborator RIO/Avant/Zeuhl,Neo & Post/Math Teams Joined: October 31 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 13444 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 12:26 | |
Amused to Death because was not available on vynil
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Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half.
My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
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tdfloyd
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 06 2008 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 967 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 23:21 | |
Easy, same as my first album. Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon!
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ster
Forum Newbie Joined: May 15 2012 Status: Offline Points: 19 |
Posted: November 21 2016 at 23:35 | |
My first CD was Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire followed shortly after with Yes - The Yes Album. December 1987.
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Sean Trane
Special Collaborator Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 19716 |
Posted: November 22 2016 at 03:19 | |
Apparently not in the US (or via import maybe) I did see it as a vinyl, but it was a double album... and not easily available, even in Europe... and rather prohibitively priced, so indeed, I went for the CD as well.
Edited by Sean Trane - November 22 2016 at 03:20 |
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octopus-4
Special Collaborator RIO/Avant/Zeuhl,Neo & Post/Math Teams Joined: October 31 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 13444 |
Posted: November 22 2016 at 03:28 | |
It was released in vynil years after the first CD release. At least in Italy
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Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half.
My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
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presdoug
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 24 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 8164 |
Posted: November 22 2016 at 05:08 | |
I bought my first CD player in 1990. My first CD was Quatermass's debut. And my second CD-and first classical music one-was Elgar Symphony 1 conducted by Sir John Barbirolli and the Halle Orchestra, paired up with the Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings, the same.
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Progfan1958
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 18 2005 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 545 |
Posted: November 22 2016 at 05:30 | |
My first CD was Peter Gabriel IV ( Security ) bought in 1983. I had been waiting for the technology to be available to the public since first reading about it in 1979. The biggest obstacle the producers faced was manufacturing the discs, which required a level of precision not commonly available at the time. I still have this CD, and even at 33 years of age it looks and plays like new. I never regretted the phase out of vinyl, and was eager to replace my LP collection. ( Though I still have most of it )
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Progfan1958
"Peace to you all" "La paix est avec vous" "Pax vobiscum" "Al salaam a'alaykum" "Vrede zij met u allen" "Shalom aleichem" |
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BrufordFreak
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 25 2008 Location: Wisconsin Status: Offline Points: 7980 |
Posted: November 22 2016 at 07:37 | |
I don't remember this last stuff, Dean! I guess I was too busy playing with my G & L guitar, Magnepan ribbon speakers and Carver amp & pre-amp! |
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Drew Fisher
https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
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BrufordFreak
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 25 2008 Location: Wisconsin Status: Offline Points: 7980 |
Posted: November 22 2016 at 07:45 | |
Lots of Peter Gabriel and Van Halen here! interesting. I forgot about Dark Side of the Moon. That was a very early one for me, too.
I never could tell the difference between AAD, ADD, and DDD--and I thought I had a discerning ear, but that analog vs. digital argument never affected me. Even the mp3 vs. wav vs. Flac differences are lost on me. Again, I find this weird cuz I think I am very attentive to sound engineering cues. Guess not! Recorded/reproduced music is still music!
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Drew Fisher
https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
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AlanB
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 19 2013 Status: Offline Points: 1136 |
Posted: November 22 2016 at 09:51 | |
If I remember correctly, a Mozart compilation, a Phil Collins live album, Billy Joel's An Innocent Man, and a Wishbone Ash compilation.
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lazland
Prog Reviewer Joined: October 28 2008 Location: Wales Status: Offline Points: 13356 |
Posted: November 22 2016 at 10:38 | |
I think this is pretty much how I feel. |
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Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org
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33rpm
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 14 2006 Location: Ohio USA Status: Offline Points: 327 |
Posted: November 22 2016 at 21:34 | |
"Octopus" Gentle Giant
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Vinyl just sounds better!!
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