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What is the oldest CD that you have ?

Reply #25 –
My first CD was Talking Heads True Stories from 1986.  I had it originally on vinyl and bought the CD because it had a remix of "Wild Wild Life" on it.  Unfortunately, I can't say how the sound quality compared as it was also the first CD I sold used.

It was strange at that time to have a shiny new toy (a portable CD player) and only one thing to listen to on it.

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Reply #26 –
My oldest one could be "If You Want Blood You've Got It" by AC/DC. It says "(P)©1978" on the back. Unfortunately, it doesn't say when the CD was pressed, since the "1978" refers to the vinyl. I assume it was pressed around 1982 when CDs started to become popular?

Anyway, it sounds good. I love the sound, in fact.

Edit:
It's a live recording, so I guess it was some kind of an achievement to get such good sound from a live recording in 1978!

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Reply #27 –
My oldest is "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" by Frankie goes to Hollywood from 1984. It's a DDD cd - actually the first if I'm not mistaken. Still gives perfect rips.

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Reply #28 –
Quote from: Emanuel on
My oldest is "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" by Frankie goes to Hollywood from 1984. It's a DDD cd - actually the first if I'm not mistaken. Still gives perfect rips.


Not the first DDD by a long shot.  By the end of 1982 there was a fair selection of CD's especially in big cities like Los Angeles.  Most of them classical and quite a few DDD as well. 

Another thing to note, the year on the back of the CD is not always the year the CD was actually made.  The date is a lot of times the year the Music first came out, not the CD.  You would actually have to do some research into the catalog numbers and such to verify when your CD first actually came out.

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Reply #29 –
My Michael Jackson Thriller CD says it is from 1982 but I'm sure that in that year I enjoyed that album recorded on tape, a copy from a vinyl of a friend. I think I bought it around 1990.

My Welcome to the Pleasuredome by Frankie goes to Hollywood is AAD and was released on CD in 1985, i bought it in Germany in 1986. In the same year I bought Disco, The Pet Shop Boys Remix album (ADD) and Dire Straits Brother in Arms. I think the Disco album was the first CD I bought. All my pre-1990 CD's still rip accurately.

Curious I don't remember the order of buyings as well as my first vinyls (Tavares Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel and Lime Unexpected Lovers) 

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Reply #30 –
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I think some of the "original" Beatles CDs sound awful. There are moments on Please Please Me where it sounds as if the tape is going to fall apart.


According to Steve Hoffman on his forum, the reason some of the tracks on that first LP sound so bad on their CD transfer is that in 1986/7, EMI engineers weren't familiar enough with digital, and (1) used a stereo playback head on the mono tape, and then on a few tracks, worse still, (2) digitally summed the stereo transfer to mono for some happy phasing.

Strange though, I haven't felt the urge to put on early Beatles in a while - wore out the old cassettes (the ones with the track listings scrambled to allow for similar side lengths!) in adolescence.

My oldest CD until recently was an early W. German pressing of Roxy Music's Avalon. I donated it to a library as I've determined to spend the rest of my life listening only to music (no matter how elegant) that makes me feel alive rather than puts me to sleep, even if Bryan Ferry does charm the ladies...  other candidates would be a number of ADD or AAD transfers in the 1980s of various classical releases recorded in the 1970s.

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Reply #31 –
I believe that my oldest CD is Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Soles For Rock N' Roll.  I think it was pressed around 1984-1986, I am not sure.  Either way, it is the oldest CD in my collection.  Well, I have all of the original AC/DC CD pressings so some of those may be a little older but I have no idea what their manufacture dates were.  I also have Led Zeppelin - IV but I have no idea what the pressing date is for that as well.

Now, the first CD I ever purchased was in fall of 1994 and it was a newly released CD.

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Reply #32 –
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Quote from: Emanuel on

My oldest is "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" by Frankie goes to Hollywood from 1984. It's a DDD cd - actually the first if I'm not mistaken. Still gives perfect rips.


Not the first DDD by a long shot.  By the end of 1982 there was a fair selection of CD's especially in big cities like Los Angeles.  Most of them classical and quite a few DDD as well. 

Another thing to note, the year on the back of the CD is not always the year the CD was actually made.  The date is a lot of times the year the Music first came out, not the CD.  You would actually have to do some research into the catalog numbers and such to verify when your CD first actually came out.

I think you may be right, tehre are some indications that my cd is a german pressing from 1985: ztt records cid 101 / island 610 195-222

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Reply #33 –
Scorpions Love at First Sting, an early CD in which the disc itself looks like the label on an LP.  No silver showing through.  I'm at work, so can't say the year exactly, but I think it was 1986-87. 

I think this CD sounds pretty good, but you need to turn it up.  It has true dynamic range, at least.

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Reply #34 –
Quote from: eofor on
Actually, the early CDs sounded terrible.
This is not necessarily true.
There are many early or first-pressing CDs that are highly prized for their sonics.
The original 1983 "black triangle" pressings of Dark Side Of The Moon and Abbey Road, the original 1983 "two-track" Wish You Were Here, the 1984 Japanese pressing of Aja, and original West German "target" pressing of Rumours all come to mind - and I'm certain there are many others.

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Reply #35 –
Think my oldest original cd's are:

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
INXS - KICK
Scorpions - Love at First Sting

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Reply #36 –
I'm willing to bet that the Target version of Rumours is no different than pressings released a few years later.  I've looked at plenty of these prized Target versions such as titles by Van Halen and Led Zeppelin only to see that they have a different TOC and offset.  In some cases there may be errors due to corruption, but in general the data is exactly the same.

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Reply #37 –
My first CDs were Joy Division - Substance and Dukes Of Stratosphear - Chips from the Chocolate Fireball, summer '88. They still play, though the sound is slightly improved on the Joy Division box set.

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Reply #38 –
First personal CD I owned was the KV626 Requiem by Schreier, a DDD recording by Philips in 1991. (Bonus weirdness: my mother had bought it for me, owing to me being a young'un, and neither of us had any idea what we were getting into.) Since then I believe I've bought a 1986 Karajan recording of Tchaikovsky 6.

Both sound more or less perfect, with no rot that I'm aware of, although I'm no fan of Karajan's warmed-over production practices (which also show through on his vinyl!) At the very least, even with listening to my earliest CDs on the headphone out of a CD-ROM drive with $30 headphones (!), the emotional connection was still very much there.

Having grown up in the CD age, I have very little experience with the Beatles on vinyl, although I have inherited several late-period LPs. From what I've ascertained, I haven't missed out on much.

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Reply #39 –
after much diffing around and reading dates it's a tossup between two...

the original german pressing of AC/DC's "Fly On The Wall"
And the american pressing of Dokken "Under Lock and Key" both 1985.

I thought I had something older, but if  do I can't find it.

AD

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Reply #40 –
Warrant - Cherry Pie in 1990.  I bought this because it contained an "extra" bonus track (Ode to Tipper Gore) that was unavailable on cassette at the time. 

On another note, I find it funny that I bought my first portable cd player in 1994.  It was a Kenwood and had 3!!! seconds of anti-skip as well as 5 eq presets for the princely sum of close to $400 dollars.
"You can fight without ever winning, but never win without a fight."  Neil Peart  'Resist'

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Reply #42 –
The first CD I bought was Van Halen - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (1991).  I still have it, in fact just ripped it, and am listening to it through headphones on my Vista PC because of this thread. 

The oldest original pressing CD that I have is Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman (1981), but I actually bought it later.  A few other old original pressing CD's purchased many years after release are Stryper - To Hell With The Devil (1986) and Joe Satriani - Not Of This Earth (1986).

I don't personally think CD's started sounding really good until about 94/95, Queensryche - Promised Land time frame.

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Reply #43 –
Satriani - Surfing With The Alien. I bought it in 87 and didn't have a cd player until sometime in 88.

I had worn out multiple cassette copies of the LP trying to learn the licks and decided it was time to go digital. One of my friends had a cd player, so I spent a lot of afternoons on his living room floor with my one CD!

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Reply #44 –
The oldest I own is "The Madman's Return" from SNAP!. Must've been 1991 or so.

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Reply #45 –
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I don't personally think CD's started sounding really good until about 94/95, Queensryche - Promised Land time frame.



Still very high up on my "best sound discs" list.
"You can fight without ever winning, but never win without a fight."  Neil Peart  'Resist'

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Reply #46 –
My oldest CD happens to be the first one I ever bought. I bought it at the same time as buying my Philips CD150 CD player to test it as much as anything.

The disc is dated 1985 and is marked as a DDD recording and is part of the Philips Digital Classics series and features the 1812 Overture performed by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Essa-Pekka Salonen.

I haven't checked the disc for errors other than in CDex where CDParanoia displays all tracks as OK. It still plays with no audible errors in the 1986 Philips CD150 CD player too. It's still one of the finest sounding recordings I have and still gets used as a personal reference CD when checking out sound systems. It certainly makes the most of the dynamic range available from the format and is, to all intents and purposes, totally noiseless.

Cheers, Slipstreem. 

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Reply #47 –
The first CD I purchased was The Nightfly by Donald Fagen. 

As I recall, one of pop music's earliest digital recordings.

I still have it and it still sounds great.

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Reply #48 –
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Isn't the first pop CD an ABBA album The Visitors from 17th of August, 1982 ?
And  Claudio Arrau had recorded for the new medium CD some Frederic Chopin valses, the very first CD

Don't know about the Claudio Arrau but I also think the ABBA was the first one.
I still have the a Philips demo CD of 1982 that Philips gave just before lauching the players, maybe I should have some other CD's dated end of 1982.

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Reply #49 –
Slightly off topic, but the first record I ever bought was Elvis Presley "All Shook Up" on 78 when it was in the charts!  Didn't trust those new-fangled 45s!