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Friday, August 17, 2007
11:48:00 AM EDT
Hearing Avalon -- Roxy Music
Today is the 25th anniversary of the first widely available compact disc (the artist? ABBA. Oh, dear), and to celebrate, a little quiz:
For those of you old enough that buying your first CD was an actual event, what were the first CDs you bought?
My first CDs were three I bought at the same time: Sgt. Pepper, from the Beatles; Dark Side of the Moon, from Pink Floyd; and Security, from Peter Gabriel. If I'm not mistaken, Security was the first "DDD" album: produced, mastered and released in digital format. So, you know. Had to have it.
What were your first CDs?
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11:48:00 AM EDT
Hearing Avalon -- Roxy Music
25 Years of CDs
Today is the 25th anniversary of the first widely available compact disc (the artist? ABBA. Oh, dear), and to celebrate, a little quiz:
For those of you old enough that buying your first CD was an actual event, what were the first CDs you bought?
My first CDs were three I bought at the same time: Sgt. Pepper, from the Beatles; Dark Side of the Moon, from Pink Floyd; and Security, from Peter Gabriel. If I'm not mistaken, Security was the first "DDD" album: produced, mastered and released in digital format. So, you know. Had to have it.
What were your first CDs?
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I'm so old! I was in middle school!
http://journals.aol.com/blondefairy1975/an-itsy-bitsy-blog/ entries/2007/08/19/25th-annive rsary-of-cds/1235 -
My first CD was the Best of Chicago.
WOW, can't believe it has already been 25 years.
Kate -
Unfortunately I can't remember my first CD, LOL. But my husband got 12 CDs at once for the first time. He only remembers an Enya CD and A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Krissy :)
http://journals.aol.com/fisherkristina/SometimesIThink -
For some reason Pink Floyd's "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason" sticks in my mind. I'm pretty sure that was not the very first CD I owned, but I'm almost certain it was the second. You know I'm not going to sleep tonight, now, right?
-Paul
http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/
8/25/07 7:33 PM
In 1983, when a top-loading Magnavox model was offered for sale at $300, I snapped one up, thinking it would Never be cheaper than that (Ha!). The first CDs I remember buying were:
Donald Fagan - The Nightfly
The Police - Synchonicity
Steely Dan - Aja
Bob Dylan - Infidels
Almost all of those I had on LP, but getting the CD sounded great, especially The NightFly. Fagan was known for his perfectionism in recording sound quality but it wasn't until the CD until it could be fully appreciated. Sure, a clean well pressed Half-Mastered Superdisc played on a perfectly adjusted stylus/tonearm/turntable system could sound fantastic, but with the CD there was NO background noise and NO limits or fiddling with stylus angles and tornarm balancing.
I bought a few duds that were bad sounding because of sloppy transfering namely Sprngsteen's Born To Run, but careful checking of reviews from Stereo Review magazine and other sources helped weed out the duds.
The prices were all over $20. In fact the very first CDs I saw in a music store in 1982 were priced at $29 (Thriller & Toto IV). They're still too high.