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What was your first CD?
In the mid 80s, CD's were gaining in popularity but seen as luxuries compared with records and cassettes. Everyone I knew bought records and tapes, and when someone said they had a CD, there was an ooh of admiration and envy. We had a CD player, an inexpensive secondhand player from a family friend, but we mostly rented CD's from the local library, like Pictures In An Exhibition by Mussorgsky and The Planets by Holst. The first CD I remember getting was in 1986 or 87, Echoes of Gold (1979), a compilation of flute pieces by Adrian Brett.
I am unsure which record was the first that I bought for myself, but it may have been the Motorhead compilation No Remorse (1984). I was really taken by Motorhead playing Ace of Spades in an episode of The Young Ones and I had to get it!
@AndyCapp @CMur12
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rangefinderforum.com
What was your first CD?
In the mid 80s, CD's were gaining in popularity but seen as luxuries compared with records and cassettes. Everyone I knew bought records and tapes, and when someone said they had a CD, there was an ooh of admiration and envy. We had a CD player, an inexpensive secondhand player from a family friend, but we mostly rented CD's from the local library, like Pictures In An Exhibition by Mussorgsky and The Planets by Holst. The first CD I remember getting was in 1986 or 87, Echoes of Gold (1979), a compilation of flute pieces by Adrian Brett.
I am unsure which record was the first that I bought for myself, but it may have been the Motorhead compilation No Remorse (1984). I was really taken by Motorhead playing Ace of Spades in an episode of The Young Ones and I had to get it!
@AndyCapp @CMur12
chuckroast
Established
My first record was probably CCR's "Cosmo's Factory".
My first CD was probably the Tchaikovsky "1812 Overture", either a Deutsche Grammophon or Telarc recording, I don't recall specifically. But almost everyone bought that ... for the cannons ...
My first good tape recorder was an MCI 24 track that I maintained for a recording studio while working my way through college. THAT was a "hifi" system ...
My first CD was probably the Tchaikovsky "1812 Overture", either a Deutsche Grammophon or Telarc recording, I don't recall specifically. But almost everyone bought that ... for the cannons ...
My first good tape recorder was an MCI 24 track that I maintained for a recording studio while working my way through college. THAT was a "hifi" system ...
wlewisiii
Just another hotel clerk
Record:
Asked for? ELO "Out of the Blue"
Bought? Styx "Pieces of Eight"
Given and changed my world? My father was a janitor at the local university and brought home The Ramones "Rocket to Russia" from the lost and found.
CD:
Heard: The Pretenders "The Pretenders" At that point, I stopped caring about vinyl.
Bought: my something-th copy of The Who "Who's Next"
After that I have never bought vinyl since and usually only mp3 now.
Asked for? ELO "Out of the Blue"
Bought? Styx "Pieces of Eight"
Given and changed my world? My father was a janitor at the local university and brought home The Ramones "Rocket to Russia" from the lost and found.
CD:
Heard: The Pretenders "The Pretenders" At that point, I stopped caring about vinyl.
Bought: my something-th copy of The Who "Who's Next"
After that I have never bought vinyl since and usually only mp3 now.
CMur12
Well-known
My first CD was the "Traveling Wilburys."
My first record, other than early kiddie records (78s, then 45s), was Ray Charles' "Hit the Road Jack" (a 45 single).
I also won James Brown's "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" on the radio.
- Murray
My first record, other than early kiddie records (78s, then 45s), was Ray Charles' "Hit the Road Jack" (a 45 single).
I also won James Brown's "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" on the radio.
- Murray
MISH
Well-known
d.keljikian
Established
Talk Is Cheap, Keith Richards and The Expensive Winos
laurentb
Established
First cd was Suzanne Vega's Solitude Standing.
First "adult" record, LP Nun Sex Monk Rock from Nina Hagen
First "adult" record, LP Nun Sex Monk Rock from Nina Hagen