My First CD

[woodchipper]

I'm pretty sure my first CD was New Order's Substance. Followed by more New Order, the Smiths, the Cure - total late 80s new wave.

Guin, I was just listening to that this weekend! Perfect for a road trip.

[satellite]

Jun 12, 2008 14:25:44 GMT -4 @woodchipper said:

I'm pretty sure my first CD was New Order's Substance. Followed by more New Order, the Smiths, the Cure - total late 80s new wave.

That reminds me, I was into The Cure and a little bit of New Order since high school, but discovered The Smiths because my freshman roommate had their live CD "Rank" but she had no idea who they were. I guess someone gave it to her but she was more of a Dave Matthews/ Hootie/ Blues Traveler fan (all the music I hated that year), so "Rank" sat there collecting dust before I informally adopted it. I thought "I Know It's Over" was just the deepest thing ever, like where has this been all my life?

[woodchipper]

Jun 12, 2008 14:52:33 GMT -4 satellite said:

I thought "I Know It's Over" was just the deepest thing ever, like where has this been all my life?

That so got me through a bad breakup in high school. Oh the drama!

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Jun 12, 2008 14:25:44 GMT -4 @woodchipper said:

I'm pretty sure my first CD was New Order's Substance. Followed by more New Order, the Smiths, the Cure - total late 80s new wave.

I am all up in that collection.

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Jun 4, 2008 10:48:53 GMT -4 Ripley said:

I miss being able to replay a section of a song instead of replaying the entire song but that's progress I suppose.

I do that all the time with my iPod. There's a song by Loreena McKennit which I don't like the beginning of but love the ending, so I just skip the beginning. The best part of using the iPod this way is that you can memorize the time in the song where the good part starts and go straight to it.

There's an 8-bar section of Rhapsody in Blue (St. Louis Symphony version) that's so powerful (the entire orchestra at full tilt) that it makes me euphoric whenever I hear it, and I tend to fast-forward to it.

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Jun 8, 2008, 8:17pm, Aurora B wrote:

I can't wait for the day when I can be comfortable with buying digital music online and not feel the need to own a hard disc version. Cause, you know, music from the internet is just air...or something. Lol.

You can hold the cover of the Grateful Dead Live Dead double album open in your lap at an angle and separate the seeds out of your pot.

You can't do that with a download from iTunes.

Just sayin', man.

[ratscabies]

Jun 12, 2008 21:57:36 GMT -4 @pianoforte said:

You can hold the cover of the Grateful Dead Live Dead double album open in your lap at an angle and separate the seeds out of your pot.

You can't do that with a download from iTunes.

Just sayin', man.

All my friends used the "Dark Side Of The Moon" cover to separate their pot seeds. This was so universal in these here parts that more often than not, you could find particulate pot matter in the hinge of copies in the used bin.

My first CD was Jeff Beck's "Blow By Blow". My parents got me the coveted Sony D5 Discman for Christmas the year it hit the streets, and my sister knew the whole reason I wanted a CD player was to hear that album on CD, so that was my gift from her that year (1985?). It was quickly followed by Mannheim Steamroller's "Fresh Aire II", which all the stereo stores here used to use to demo speaker systems.

I haven't counted CDs in years, but I built shelves in my music library that are in a corner and have 2 four foot wide sections that go floor to ceiling, and I would estimate there are at least 1200 on the shelves. The more recently acquired stuff the doesn't fit and is stacked or boxed around the house could easily be another 2 or 3 hundred. Hell, I have about 50 SACD and/or DVD-Audio discs, because I love surround mixes. And, I may be estimating conservatively. I am certainly not counting the stuff TrafficChick brought in when we got married; we haven't even gotten them out of the boxes they're packed in! I know that last time I counted vinyl, I had well over 4000 albums (including my first record, which was either "Bay City Rollers" [featuring Saturday Night] or the Beatles' 1967-1970. I don't remember, now, which it was. I was in the second grade, so it was 1974!)

I have some weird genetic thing that compels me to try and keep every recording I buy, even if it turns out to suck (thus explaining the presence of the Pin-Ups album in my collection). Unfortunately, this problem developed into the dreaded "gear-itis" which plagues all too many musicians, which is how my guitar collection hit 32, and my studio got built....

[kateln]

I'm pretty sure mine was actually "Live: Mental Jewelry"* which actually is a pretty good album. It wasn't until their 3rd or 4th album that Ed became "cuddly" and stopped being fun.

*No dolphins cried during the making of this album.

[normadesmond]

Jun 12, 2008 14:25:44 GMT -4 @woodchipper said:

I'm pretty sure my first CD was New Order's Substance. Followed by more New Order, the Smiths, the Cure - total late 80s new wave.

I'm impressed. My first albums were all atrocious. I still don't have great musical taste now, but I definitely couldn't tell the cream from the New Wave crap back in the day.

[woodchipper]

Oh, I have to confess my first vinyl albums were total crap - Air Supply anyone? (I was 8) I credit my improved taste in music to MTV, especially 120 Minutes. That's where I got all of the good stuff.

[WitchyPoo]

Jul 1, 2008 12:47:49 GMT -4 @woodchipper said:

Oh, I have to confess my first vinyl albums were total crap - Air Supply anyone?

I still have my double vinyl of Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits & the soundtrack to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. I think I got those both in 1978 or 1979. Just before I discovered the Ramones and punk rock.