The Compact Disc Turns 25!

Happy 25th to the CD

http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/happy-25th-birthday-compact-disc/
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On August 17th it will be the 25th "birthday" of the compact disc.  Yes, you heard that right.  It's been 25 years since the first CD was manufactured by Philips in a factory in Germany.  Philips estimates that since then more than 200 billion CD's have been sold throughout the world.

Some of you might be asking what super fantastic band had the honor of being the first on disc, and that title would go to ABBA.  I'm trying to think back through the years of how many CD's I have collected and I can't possibly come up with a number, but I know it's well over a thousand.

My question to you is, do you remember what was on the first CD you acquired?

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think the first two I got:
  • The Sound of Music Soundtrack
  • Stravinsky's The Firebird
I remember the first player we got was HUGE.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think it was Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits.... Still have it!
Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Rush 2112   
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I bought The Beatles White Album and Joe Satriani's Surfing With The Alien at the same time.

Still remember the first vinyl I bought as well.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My first was a 4-CD set of Beethoven's symphonies from the Musical Heritage Society.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Wow, 25 years. My first CD was Dream Theater's 1992 "Images and Words", and to this day, they are still BY FAR my favorite band.

I also remember my first cassette, Journey's "Escape"...

I don't believe I owned any vinyl records... I'm only 34...
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Led Zeppelin 4
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Neil Diamond's greatest hits. (had to appease the mrs. for spending so much money for the player!)
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think it was a computer CD.

I have an old tape reel of the Moody Blues's "Days of Future Past" album.
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well, I can remember because I still have my first CD and it was Dire Straits, "Brothers in Arms" as well - Still play it quite a bit. My second CD was Pink Floyd's The Wall.
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
First computer CD Star Wars: Rebel Assault in 1994 and first music Guns and Roses - Use Your Illusion 2 in 1995
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
First CD: Dire Straits "Love Over Gold" and i still have it.


I remember i did almost blew up my speakers with it, because when i did play it i did think "hmm i don't hear nothing, what's happening" and suddenly .. a lot of music   


That was the very big difference with the LP, the big dynamic....


Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Back then, hmmm...had to been Pink Floyd!
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Not sure about the first CD...probably Dark Side....

...but first Vinyl was Janis Joplin - Pearl. [still have it]...

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Queen: The Works and Wings: Greatest Hits - they both came free with the CD player   

I started by buying about a dozen cds all at once. I can only remember a few:-

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon - cause it's the best album ever
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours - cause it's my all time favourite album
Dire Straits: Communique - a classic great
Holst: Suites 1 & 2 (Telarc Digital) - the one with the huge bass drum whack, woah! Great music too.

Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It was AC/DC Back in Black and yes I still have it!
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Green Day- Dookie not that, that was so long ago but yes I still play it.
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My first ever CD's were...

Brother in Arms....Dire Straits
Love Over Gold.....Dire Straits
The Wall.....Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here....Pink floyd
Dark Side of the Moon...Pink Floyd
Caress of Steel....Rush
2112...Rush
6 CD Box Set (every studio recording).... Led Zeppelin
Machine Head...Deep purple
One More From the Road...Lynyrd Skynyrd
Hot Wires ....Roy Buchanan
When a Guitar Plays the Blues...Roy Buchanan.

Bought that lot in the one hit the day I got my first CD player....I currently have 977 CD's, though it would be closer to 1700 had I not been robbed while I was in hospital once.
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I currently have 977 CD's


Lot of time on your hands starkers?.... I've never counted my CDs
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
first cd i ever had was van halen - 1984
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Lot of time on your hands starkers?.... I've never counted my CDs


After being robbed and losing so many before, taking hours to determine which ones were missing, etc, I now keep all my CD's catalogued on my PC and disc, and each is marked for police identification with a micro dot.