August 17, 2007

• I bought my first CD player in the mid 1990s. It was second hand and I got it along with an amp and some speakers for (I guess) about the equivalent of 150 dollars. Up to then I could only afford cassette tapes. My first CD? I've no idea. I subscribed to one of those music club things and got a bunch of them cheap. I think there was a Bjork album in there and probably some Beatles. The first CD I heard was in a friend's house in 1986 or '87. The quality seemed amazing to me at the time.
• My first CD was James Brown - Live at the Apollo, which I bought at a record & CD show long before I ever owned a CD player. In fact, I rented one just to hear that disc.
• First CD was Cohen's I'm Your Man, which I won in a contest from MuchMusic. It was a special CD done in gold, before they figured out that was completely unnecessary. It was years before I had a CD player to play it on, though. Second CD? Shakespear's Sister's Sacred Heart. D'oh!
• U2's Unforgettable Fire which was all digitally supersounded. Just a few years ago I got Dark Side of the Moon on some kinda Super Double Secret 7.1 CDDVD++ format which is foreign to me, obscure, and possibly abstracted to some degree. It sounds all regular coming out of my regular CD player though. I think I have to buy some special equipment to hear it with the enhanced double super sound or whatever. What's a "bong"?
• First CD I ever bought was Husker Du's Zen Arcade. Bought it used at a store where they sold this stuff called 'vinyl' (ask yer parents, kiddies). That was, oh, probably back in '87 or so. Several more years past before I got my first CD player to play it on.
• I think my first DDD CD was a Flim and the BB's album.
• /mangles self
• Oh God. I'm still listening to cassettes. (Probably because I'm driving a 21-year-old car.) I've been putting MP3s on CDs then transferring them to tape. If this trend continues I'll be using wax cylinders soon. *sighs, ignores laughter, applies more Oil of Olay*
• My first DDD was a stripper at some joint out by the airport. My first DDD CD was probably a Zappa compilation called You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore. Frank was into all-digital recording & mixing way before anyone else, so a lot of his old stuff is DDD capable.
• First CD: Ozzy Osbourne's Blizzard of Ozz. Was during my first attempt at college, so say, Jan-Feb 1986? I still have and play my vinyl. Because I don't think they've reissued Asia's Alpha yet.
• First CD: the Replacements' "Don't Tell a Soul." Huge fan of the band. Huge mistake of a CD purchase.
• Oh, and influenced by Neil Young's thoughts on the warmth of analog sound relative to digital, I held out till the 90s before getting a CD player. What a maroon.
• My stepfather bought a CD player when they first released Sgt. Pepper on CD. Must of been, '85 maybe? My brothers and I listened the hell out of that thing. The first CD I personally bought was the Pretty in Pink soundtrack. I borrowed money from my friend John and bought it from the Strawberries over by the Worcester Center Galleria. I listened the hell out of that one, and, hundreds and hundreds of CDs later it still finds it's way into my player from time to time. That's cost efficiency, especially because I don't think I ever paid John back.
• My parents bought a big stereo system for Christmas one year, and we all got CDs to play on it. I got Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation and INXS Kick, so it must have been about 1990?
• First owned CD was a gifted U2's Joshua Tree, which I listened the fuck out of. First purchased CD was probably... ah jeeze, Phantom of the Opera. I really loved that when I was a teenager. Can't hear it without cringing now, though. I hardly bought any CDs though, because my father had a huge collection that neatly encompassed my burgeoning taste.
• My first CD player was a Sony compact stereo which also came with a pair of cassette players for "dubbing" and a radio tuner. It was insanely expensive at $750 around 1990. I think my first CDs were a Brandenburg concerto set and Led Zepellin. Haven't used the cassette player in years and the CD player has gone a little wonky but it still works.
• Kinnakeet: I used to use Oil of Ol'lady, too. That stuff's gotten expensive since they started putting it into the fancy bottles!
• Ahhhhhhhhhhh... Was that off topic? What I meant to say is that these CDs are so shiny, I can see by my reflection that my skin has been firmed and toned by this skin care product. There, that's better.
• Sgt. Pepper released 1987, but the mono version? . . . Never released! *X-Files theme*
• My first CD player would have been 20 years old this Christmas. My father bought it for me as a Christmas gift the night before he died of an unexpected heart attack. I cried when I finally gave it up even though I'd long since moved on to using a multidisc changer. I don't remember what my first CD was, but my senior year in high school (1984-85), I worked after school in a high-end audio store that sold CDs, almost all classical. I was still on cassettes; it wasn't until I started dating an audiophile (now my ex-husband) in college that I got into CDs on my own.
• Louder Than Bombs. My first CD player was a hand-me-down from my dad, back in '88 or so. It was gi-normous. Because I don't think they've reissued Asia's Alpha yet. *high five* It was the heeeeeeet of the moment .... the heeeeeeet of the moment .... the heeeeeeet of the moment ....
• Must have been some Kraftwerk... damn, can't recall. More than the quality, it was the random access to tunes that I found incredible, over the clumsy way tapes worked on my walkman.
• fes -- There is some sort of Asia anthology. I believe it is called Anthologia (I am not making that up). It is available on disk, and it has all of Asia, Alpha, and Astra, along with the tracks from Then and Now. It includes "Daylight" (available on Alpha cassette, but not Alpha lp). DirtDirt -- Are you from Worcester? I visited my grandparents there for many years and also went to Holy Cross. My first cd was a bootleg Black Album by Prince. I bought it in 1988 for thirty dollars. Not only was it exciting because of its reputation, I also thought it might be worth some money some day. Of course, in 1994 Warner Bros wound up releasing the album officially. For reasons that escape any sort of logic, I bought that, too. I didn't get a cd player until I 1997. I then bought my second cd, U2's Pop.
• My first cd was viphilis, but I went to the plinic and now it doesn't hurt anymore when I see. Also, the cpell shecker on this bite is sroken.
• Oh God. I am so uncool. 1989, bought a CD player and three CDs under the influence of my audiophile then-boyfriend, who insisted I needed them for college. The only one of the three CDs I can remember was that Elton John live double album. But my collection of '80s cassette tapes? Totally awesome. No, really.
• I got my first cd player when I turned 21 in 1990. I ran right out and bought two of my favorite albums at that time on cd, The Smiths "The Smiths" and Bob Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks." I still have both cd's and the cd player!
• I worked all summer at a hundred-dollar-a-plate restaraunt in my little town in VT, just so I could buy a Teac cd player in 1989. My first cds were the dozen you get for a penny a piece from RCA or whomever when you subscribe (and reneg) to their program. I was a folkie, I still have the Joni Mitchell, Tom Paxton, and Pete Seeger cds -- but I also ordered hendrix and tull in the same batch. so that makes me, what, a college freshman?
• The Beatle's Revolver. I don't remember how I got it for free, only that I did. At the time in '92, I didn't have a CD player. I had to wait until '93 for that. I'm quite the late adopter of technology, as some of you monkeys know.
• Bob Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks." *adds kittenhead to top of list of monkeycrushes*
• I still have both cd's and the cd player! Come to think of it, I still have my first CD player as well, though the cassette deck doesn't work so well (the young 'uns say, "the what?!?).
• Bernockle - Shrewsbury, actually. But I did all my malljamming in Worcester. I moved away from central Mass many years ago, but I still remember it fondly.
• Nofuckinway, dirtdirt, I'm frum around theyah. (Acton)
• fikkin pissah!
• My first CD was 'NME Singles of the Week 1993'. I still have and play my vinyl. I also have mixtapes from friends that I have kept, just because you can hear the needle being put down, then the lid of the player clunking down, then the music starting. Evocative. I still have the same Marantz CD, but the drawer belt has perished.