Do you remember your first Compact Disc?

Snowflake · 08-17-2007, 01:47 PM

Rimsky Korsakov Sheherezade with Kyrill Kondrashin & the Concertgebow
Berlioz Symphony Fantastique Colin Davis & the Concertgebow
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2 (can't remember which one now)
Mahler Symphony #1 with Berstein
Boston's first album
Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

all from Tower Records and they were $22.99 way back then. I had a Sony first generation player and it lasted a good long time, too. In fact, when I gave it away many moons later, it was still working like a dream, and probably still is.

Collection of cds increased a good deal once I started working for Tower, between promo copies and the employee discounted ones. Still have many, a few in lean times were sold to Streetlight Records, but about 2500 still left so I'm not lacking in music.

Kevy Baby · 08-17-2007, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Snowflake

Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Very surprisingly, I STILL do not own this CD! Not for lack of wanting!

DreadPirateRoberts · 08-17-2007, 02:42 PM

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Snowflake · 08-17-2007, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Very surprisingly, I STILL do not own this CD! Not for lack of wanting!

And I don't have The Wall, Animals nor Dark Side of the Moon. Pathetic!

flippyshark · 08-17-2007, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Snowflake

Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Snowflake, was this the early MCA disc? that release eliminated some tracks so that the double album could be fit onto one cd. For that reason, I wouldn't buy it.

This was common practice in the earliest days of the CD. I did accidentally pick up an abbreviated version of Mike Oldfield's "Incantations," which cut out by far my favorite four minutes of the piece.

I well remember my first stack of CD purchases, all of which I still have:

Chess - original studio recording
Phantom of the Opera - original cast
Frank Zappa - London Symphony Orchestra
Mike Oldfield - Islands
Genesis - Genesis
Yello - Claro Que Si

At the time, selection was fairly limited, and a lot of my punk and new wave faves were no shows.

Snowflake · 08-17-2007, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by flippyshark

Snowflake, was this the early MCA disc? that release eliminated some tracks so that the double album could be fit onto one cd. For that reason, I wouldn't buy it.

Yes and it has been replaced

08-17-2007, 01:47 PM	#1
Snowflake lost in the fog Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: San Francisco Posts: 7,831	Rimsky Korsakov Sheherezade with Kyrill Kondrashin & the Concertgebow Berlioz Symphony Fantastique Colin Davis & the Concertgebow Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2 (can't remember which one now) Mahler Symphony #1 with Berstein Boston's first album Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road all from Tower Records and they were $22.99 way back then. I had a Sony first generation player and it lasted a good long time, too. In fact, when I gave it away many moons later, it was still working like a dream, and probably still is. Collection of cds increased a good deal once I started working for Tower, between promo copies and the employee discounted ones. Still have many, a few in lean times were sold to Streetlight Records, but about 2500 still left so I'm not lacking in music. __________________ Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde
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