Slime Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 For those of you who grew up on vinyl, here is my question. Which is the very first Compact Disc you bought? Was it a re-issue of a vinyl record, something that was available in both formats or a totally new find? Discuss! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softfilter Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 That's a good question, I was kinda(real) late adapting to the new technology not sure but I think it was Roll The Bones my first cd purchase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobodys hero Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 I had a friend who made CD's of all my Rush albums as well as his and many other bands too. This was like 10 years ago when nobody really knew much about burning CD's and he was a computer whiz and figured out how to take albums and turn them into CD's. I seriously got nearly all my vinyl copied and ended up with like 60 CD's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 I can't remember what mine was, but it was 1991, I'd previously sworn never to get a CD player but by then I had to, it was the only way to get all the albums I wanted... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YYZ Working Man Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 if the question what was the first cd i ever bought it was Dire straights Brothers in arms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roddy Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 It IS a good question, and it's got me thinking: what WAS the 1st CD I bought??? I most definitely remember the 1st vinyl albums I bought.....Power Windows and Dio's Sacred Heart back in '85, the former remaining to this very day my all time favourite album. I honestly can't remember the 1st CD. Strange that!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 My very first CD was "Architeture & Morality" by OMD. My only CD for a long time maybe a year or so. That one played every evening then. It was at the age of 12, before that I had some Vinyl by Jean Michelle Jarre & Vangelis. I got the used CD-Player from my parents as they bought themselves a new one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fritz44 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 This is hard! I can remember the first vinyl LP I bought - Sheer Heart Attack by Queen, but not the first CD. When I was poorer, I had about 12 CD's in my collection, but had them all stolen! I think the first CD might have been Powerage by AC/DC, one of my favourite vinyl LP's. The CD has different track listings to the original UK vinyl release. The CD has Rock 'N' Roll Damnation as the opening track, but the vinyl doesn't even have it on my copy, which is fanatastic, as this track is possibly the worst of the Bon era. The UK LP contained Cold Hearted Man - a superb track! I don't own Sheer Heart Attack on CD. It must have been an early teenage thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchetaxe&saw Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 QUOTE (treeduck @ Nov 19 2006, 05:29 AM) I can't remember what mine was, but it was 1991, I'd previously sworn never to get a CD player but by then I had to, it was the only way to get all the albums I wanted... I had exactly the same issue, I was fighting a lone rearguard defence against the tide of CDs', the last new release vinyl I bought before the switch was Queen's "Innuendo". A few months later, defences weakened, I gave in and bought a CD player. The first cds' I bought were "The Yes Album", which sounded like it was remastered using cow-dung when compared to my ancient vinyl copy, Teenage Fanclub's "Bandwagonesque", and the Aerosmith box set "Pandora's Box". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangy Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Hemispheres. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 I got a cd pretty soon after they came out, around 1983 or so. If I remember correctly, I think this was my first one (which I still have): http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y268/rushgoober/rushgoober3/rushgoober4/1stCD.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madra sneachta Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 As far as I can remember it was Enya's Watermark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelcaressed Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Steve Winwood-Back in the High Life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 I resisted the change to CD format for as long as I could, continuing to buy vinyl until 1991 or '92... Then Rush released a new CD that wasn't widely available on vinyl, and I caved to the pressure. I bought my first CD player and my first CD on the same day... the release date for Roll the Bones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
circumstantial tree Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 I got my first CD player Christmas Day, 1988. Along with that, I got 3 CD's as presents also. They are: Yes - Relayer Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good til Tuesday - Everything's Different Now The latter two were current, but "Relayer" was the first to be "tried out" on my new CD player. Can you imagine hearing the opening to "Gates of Delirium" that way? However, it was not the remastered one. I can tell that this CD release had some "noise" on it that I would hope does not exist on the remaster which I may get someday. Anybody remember CD's being packages in those long oversized cardboard boxes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 QUOTE (circumstantial tree @ Nov 20 2006, 09:35 AM)Anybody remember CD's being packages in those long oversized cardboard boxes? Oh, yeah! In fact, I remember it was adjustment getting used to them selling the jewel cases by themselves! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Moving Pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Nov 20 2006, 02:04 PM) Moving Pictures. Moving Pictures? What year? Wasn't Grace under Pressure the first album to be issued on CD as well as vinyl and cassette upon it's release date? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 QUOTE (treeduck @ Nov 20 2006, 03:09 PM) QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Nov 20 2006, 02:04 PM) Moving Pictures. Moving Pictures? What year? Wasn't Grace under Pressure the first album to be issued on CD as well as vinyl and cassette upon it's release date? I don't know. I think '93 or '94. I had bought my first CD player the day before. Before that, I had all my music on cassettes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Looking back I think my first CD was Steve Morse's Southern Steel, I liked Morse anyway (The Introduction, High Tension Wires, Dregs stuff and Kansas) but after seeing the review in guitar world I HAD to have it, so I bought a CD player for my technics system and bam there was Southern Steel on vinyl so I got the vinyl version after all but later on still got the CD version anyway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
circumstantial tree Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 As an addendum to my previous post, the next CD that I bought was "A Show of Hands" which I got the day of it's release: January 9, 1989. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Moving Pictures! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddy Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 A Psychedelic Furs CD-single because it had 2 bonus tracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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