What Was The First Music CD You Acquired?

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Pump Up The Jam - Technotronic

Jeff

[Will Collier]

I was a very early adopter... I think the first disc was Deep Purple's "Perfect Strangers"--because that was literally the only rock CD the then-RCA Music Club offered. They only had 10-15 discs, total, in their first ad, but it was "one free now, buy nothing later" as a getter-inner.

I think I still have the CD. The Sanyo CD player with a wired remote, not so much.

[OWC Jamie]

Dunno.
Probably bought it at Lechmere's though.
Probably Dire Straights or Stevie Ray Vaughan

Don't recall where I bought a Sony Discman when they first came out in 84/85 but I did.
That D-50 should still be around here somewhere, but I may have finally thrown it out.

[deckeda]

freeradical wrote:
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Dire Straits first CD. I believe it was the first CD that was completely digital as opposed to analog recording converted to digital.

That wasn't their first CD - that was Brothers in Arms. It set the early standard for what a recording on CD could achieve.

Dire Straits first album was vinyl, and definitely analog, so any CD would have to be AAD.

There were vinyl albums back in the late 70's where the master tape was digital; they were primarily classical recordings on Deutsche Gramophone etc.

I have a vinyl copy of Ry Cooder's "Bop till you Drop". This was the first digitally recorded pop album. It sounds far better than the CD's that followed. Sadly, when CD's became popular, the standard for digitizing music went down. I remember how horrible Stevie Ray Vaughn's album "In Step" sounded. :barf:
The poster child for shitty sound on a CD was always The Police's Synchronicity, a weaksauce, virtual screechfest compared to the LP.

The music labels, Sony's "Perfect Sound Forever" ad campaign and audio magazines who should have known better all lied to us with nonstop hype, instead of revealing how good LPs could sound with a little effort. But each had agendas to sell instead.

Thankfully, CDs and players have become much better over the years. But 16/44 files' time has long since past being a standard to strive for, and so many years of subpar sound quality paved the way for the public's acceptance of even worse sound later from lossy files. Don't get me started.

[raz]

On my way to the university shipping/receiving facility to pick up my D5, I stopped in a record store. They had about 6 CDs in the glass case under the cash register. I grabbed Dark Side Of The Moon and Meddle - both Harvest imports.

The battery pack that made it portable took 6 C Cells. I might have used it once or twice, but it reminded me more of a Tricorder than anything else.

I also built a custom carrying case for it and some disks for when I was on business trips. I remember having to explain it to the airport screeners.

[DRR]

I tell people it was GNR Appetite for Destruction, but in reality it was Bon Jovi's New Jersey.

[lost in space]

I don't remember the first CD I had, but the first CD player I saw was in the lobby of the Mac team building on Bandley Drive around 82 or 83. The lobby had a Bosendorfer grand, Steve's old Beemer, several arcade games, and a monster stereo system with a CD player. It was as big as the VCRs of the day and was rumored to have cost $1200 for the player. I remember tapping on the case while it was playing, which made it skip.

[decay]

i recall buying CDs that were much longer than their LP counterparts.

example: David Byrne's The Catherine Wheel

i especially like CDs that include lots of extras, like impossible-to-find singles and rarities. or albums that were expensive imports, or out of print.

example: Tones On Tail's Everything, Rhino/Warner's Ramones remasters/reissues.

i have a soft spot for those CD3s, the 3-inch discs that weren't produced in large numbers. i have the Dickies, Iggy Pop, Peter Murphy, Wall of Voodoo, The Church, XTC, The Cult, and a few more.

[Lew Zealand]

Boston - Don't Look Back
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

Both were on sale and I didn't get the player (a Sony) for another week. Nov. 1985 IIRC.

[Black]

lost in space wrote:
I don't remember the first CD I had, but the first CD player I saw was in the lobby of the Mac team building on Bandley Drive around 82 or 83. The lobby had a Bosendorfer grand, Steve's old Beemer, several arcade games, and a monster stereo system with a CD player. It was as big as the VCRs of the day and was rumored to have cost $1200 for the player. I remember tapping on the case while it was playing, which made it skip.

Hopefully the CEO at my workplace isn't sitting in IT reading this for fun-- no room for a motorcycle in the hospital lobby.