What was the first cd you ever bought and how does it sounds now?

[matengawhat]

first cd i ever bought was Shakespere Sister which is from 1992 - its an AAD disc - Analog tape recorder used during initial recording, mixing/editing, Digital mastering

initial thought sounded a little forward in the hi frequencies but now a couple of tracks in actually sounds really sweet!!!

 

[idc]

I bet it does on your kit matengawhat. You are the most likely person on the forum to find me having broken into your house listening to my music on your system! My CD collection started off with about 30 bought at the same time, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Genesis and ELP. That was early 1998. The Led Zep were just post remastering by Jimmy Page and I tried a couple against a relatives pre-remastering ones and the difference was clear. Remastered were better.

 

[nads]

one of the first i bought (i bought 10 in a go at a closing down sale before i even had a CDP) was Pure by the Primatives IIRC i bought Shakespere Sister on vinyl at about the same time.

 

[Dave_]

Not 100% sure,but it was probably The Prodigy-Experience, which i had on tape & vinyl also.

 

[Anonymous]

My first CD album was UB40s 'Promises and Lies' and my first CD single was Gary Clails 'Who Pays the Piper'. Still have a soft spot for these yet!

 

[El Hefe]

The first CD I bought was in 1995. It was Bad Religion - Recipe for Hate album. The remastering was of course better compared to cassette. But at that time I was only using a mini compo. Playing CDs of old albums do sound a tad soft now on my system.

 

[the record spot]

Tom Robinson - Living In A Boom Time from 1992. Still sounds excellent. Vocals and acoustic guitar only. Tend to prefer the AAD discs for the most part having heard some remastered discs that were butchered (Genesis...!).

 

[Anonymous]

The first CDs I bought were Remote by Hue and Cry and Innocents by Erasure both in 1988.

As I remember it I got them the week before I actually bought a CD Player. I'm sure the thinking was that if I had some CDs I'd definitely go through with the purchase of the CD player.

I don't know how either would hold up today, not too bad I'm sure, but I can't say the same for the other disk I have from that era a CD Single of Americanos by Holly Johnson (1989).

Just thinking about the song makes me cringe. I need to find it and give it a spin.

 

[ear]

My first 3 cd's were back in 89 or 90 , Mike Oldfield's- Discovery,Dire Straits-communiqu‚, and Level 42- Running on the family(great bass lines).I still remenber the first time I heard a cd...What a difference!

 

[shooter]

The first cd's bought back in the 90's i played through a PS1 (which i still have) and listened via a colour TV !! They were Bjork Post & Pulp Fiction sound track and they still get played. I was amazed by the sound quality even through the TV!!

 

[margetti]

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms (1985) - that opening on 'Money for Nothing' just blew me away on what was then a Technics midi system. Playing it now takes me back to being 16 again and hearing for that first time. Also saw them live in '86 - first ever concert I went to.

 

[Big Chris]

I bought 2 at the same time. Metallica's 'Ride The Lightning' & 'Master Of Puppets'. Both classics which 20 odd years later still sound awesome.

 

[Anonymous]

the first cd i bought was dire straits love over gold
and jon and vangelis the friends of mister cairo way back in march 1983 the month cd was launched in the uk
i also bought some bowie rca cds and these ended up collector items

 

[aliEnRIK]

Big Chris:I bought 2 at the same time. Metallica's 'Ride The Lightning' & 'Master Of Puppets'. Both classics which 20 odd years later still sound awesome.

Gotta agree with you there chris (In fact generally better than their newer albums)

 

[Clare Newsome]

Just before i'd saved up enough for my first CD player (bought in 1989), EMI brought out the Rolltop boxset of all the Beatlles CDs. I couldn't afford that, either, but managed to convince a guy at HMV to sell me just the box/booklet, plus the two boxset--exclusive Past Masters CDs, so I could buy each disc as my impoverished-student funds allowed.

By the time my first Technics CD player had been saved for, I had Sgt Pepper, Revolver and Rubber Soul - plus those two PM discs - to play! Fortunately I still had a stack of vinyl and cassettes for non-Beatles listening!

Still have the same Beatles boxset and CDs now, with the addition of the far-better produced Let it Be Naked and the Love album - the latter especially showing just what potential is sitting on those Abbey Road master tapes. Bring on the remasters!

 

[the record spot]

I'll second that with the proviso that if they treat the remasters with the same care of the guys whose work I really enjoy (Joe Gastwirt, Bernie Grundman, Bob Ludwig, etc), then perfect. if they treat them like they did the recent Genesis efforts, then save your money!

 

[Anonymous]

My first Disc was in 1984 Dire Straits Love over Gold. I gor it for christmas from my grandmoter.

In my opinion one of the best produced albums ever. That opinion came with the years and ,not at that time, I was 5 years old, thought the music was great! Still have that disc and listen to it frequently.

The first I bought myself was a bootleg from Iron Maiden, live in USA, on a local fair in 1985. Terrible sound, if you listen to it now. After that I don't remember which one I bought, But it was a lot of Iron Maiden and Metallica.

Nice to see, more people bought the same thing first,

 

[manicm]

The very first two CDs I bought was Led Zep IV and Beethoven's Fifth.

My third, and very first modern recording was Prefab Sprout's Jordan: The Comeback. A great album and great recording 18 years to today. And proves that often 'remastering' is hype. I would change absolutely nothing on this CD.

 

[John Duncan]

Moving Pictures by Rush. First thing I play on any new kit,pretty much. Also the one thing I've heard on a NaimUniti, muchto Simon's horror...

 

[Lost Angeles]

I bought "Brothers in Arms" and Sting "Dream of the Blue Turtles" CDs at the same time in 1986 and both sound better than they did then as my system is better, although my hearing may be worse. I actually played this morning the 2nd or 3rd LP I ever bought Led Zeppelin 1 and that sounded better than it did 40 years ago although the production is no better.

 

[Anonymous]

The first CD I bought sounds exactly as it did then. No deterioration at all, which is what you'd expect from a format that is supposed remain perfect for 50 years.

 

[matengawhat]

tarquinh i meant more from the how has the way music is mastered changed in the last 20 years - for example the first cds i bought are considerably quieter and require more volume, seem to have better dynamics - the quiet bits quiet/loud bits loud more so than new cds and some were obviously made from analog tape recorders used during initial recording, analog mixing/editing, before being Digital mastered!

 

[Anonymous]

My first CD was "There Is Always One More Time" by BB King. I bought it a couple of days before my parents bought me my first CD player for my birthday in May 1992. We went to the Richer Sounds store near London Bridge and I picked out a Philips CD 604. Initially I played it through a rather nasty Aiwa all in one system but it wasn't long before I bought a second hand Technics receiver and found a couple of speakers from a midi system a friend's mum was throwing away. I guess I've been box swapping ever since.....

As for how th CD sounds now, the answer is pretty good, but I think that is a lot to do with the care that went into recording. I still listen to it from time to time and it often appears when I am listening to new kit or listening to someone else's gear,.

 

[Superaintit]

The first cd I bought was Greatest Hits II by Queen. Although many have followed, it's still one of my favourites.

 

[Tonya]

Can't remember the exact year, (early 80's), but I actually got sent one of the first CD players from Philips called the CD-100.
It's still in the attic somewhere.
As discs were understadably rare at launch, they packaged a few demo discs with each player which I still play sometimes, one was a Dire Straits and the other a compilation.
Still sounds great even today but of course it's been sonically but never emotionally surpassed.
I'll post a tracklist when I can dig it out . . . . I seem to recall the usual suspects such as 10cc, Straits, some Dutch jazzband, etc.
A vocalist called Florence Warner had a brilliantly haunting track on it called "pirates"

The first discs I actually purchased myself was a classical set of Beethoven Symphonies (they were the first to be officially released I believe), followed by some Polygram pop stuff such as Elton John, Steve Miller and of course Dire Straits.
Abba were pretty early adopters of DDD, I seem to remember Led Zeppelin making the trek to Sweden early on to record in Abba's Polar digital studio which was one of the few at the time. * cred alarm *

Ry Cooder was also releasing some excellent CDs early on as well.
The sound when connecting my Beyer Dynamic headphones direct to the CD player is still one of the great audio milestones.

Now I'm rediscovering much of the same music in DTS disc releases.
It's amazing how detailed and warm the recordings were back then, even early Elton John stuff rematered in DTS is valid demo material today.

Thinking back, Dire Straits were always one of the first out with material on any new digital format, CD, LaserDisc, DCC, et al.
I'll wager if anyone comes up with a recordable banana device, the first SonicFruit that would be available would be "Love Over Gold".