What was the first CD you ever bought?

[Rob Babcock]

<font color='#000000'>What was the first CD you ever bought?
I was going thru my CDs a few days ago, putting away my discs after buying a few new ones, and I came across an old CD that I had (in my youthful ignorance) written my name and the date on: Back In Black, 8/11/87. That got me thinking about just when I bought what.

I bought 3 CDs together on the day I got my first CD player, I think in '86. I bought two Judas Priest discs, &quot;Turbo&quot; &amp; &quot;Defenders of the Faith&quot;, as well as &quot;Rage For Order&quot; by Queensryche. I can't recall the order or dates of numbers 4 thru 750, tho!</font>

[Clint DeBoer]

<font color='#008080'>Rush - Moving Pictures</font>

[Yamahaluver]

<font color='#0000FF'>The Beatles: Red, White and Blue Albums. Also the ABBA Gold.</font>

[gene]

<font color='#000000'>Bruce Hornsby &amp; Range &quot;The Way It Is&quot;

However I no longer own it. *My second CD purchase was Bob James &quot;Ivory Coast&quot; and I have recently rediscovered it and love it!

Bob James - Ivory Coast Review (http://audioholics.com/productreviews/avsoftware/cd_other/bobjames_ivorycoast.php)</font>

[Khellandros66]

<font color='#000000'>Metallica-Black Album 1993

Bob :0~</font>

[petermwilson]

<font color='#000000'>Hi,
It's funny I've missed a generation of technology.
I had a record player and in the 80's a reel to reel, but the only cd player i ever had was a walkman and I bought 2 discs on the first day. it was Journey and Asia's first discs, anyway, one of them had Eye of the Tiger on it and i used to jog playing that song. &nbsp;I don't have those discs anymore, my girlfriend had one of those Blasters that i guess we used from time to time.

Now I have 5 dvd players including 2 dvd-a and 1 sacd and almost 140 discs all purchased in the last 6 months.

#### happens

Peter m.</font>

[pds]

<font color='#000000'>Bruce Springsteen &quot;Born In The USA&quot; 1984. *When I purchased this disk there were very few titles to choose from. *The disk I purchased was manufactured in Japan. *This was before there was very much cd production capability in the US. *I believe the current disks of the above title are made in the U.S. <img src="http://www.audioholics.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'></font>

[allengarman]

<font color='#000000'>My first CD was REM Eponymous around 1988-1989. &nbsp;It is one of the few disks lost during my college days. &nbsp;Wish I had it back. <img src="http://www.audioholics.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('> &nbsp;

&quot;It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine&quot;</font>

[duff]

<font color='#000000'>I think it might have been Rob Base. *I don't know how many of you are familiar with him. *

But Moving Pictures was right at the beginning somewhere, after my tape warped in the summer heat in the car.</font>

[Rip Van Woofer]

<font color='#000000'>Beethoven 9th, Dohnanyi/Cleveland, on Telarc. At least it was one of the first.</font>

[jhstn58]

<font color='#000000'>Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms.</font>

[jeffsg4mac]

<font color='#000000'>It was a telarc CD, some guitar player, joe pass I think.</font>

[seabiscuit]

<font color='#000000'>Back in 1985 it was a Telarc Sampler, #1 I believe. Bright and grainy!

<img src="http://www.audioholics.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'></font>

[A. Vivaldi]

<font color='#000000'>My first CDs were Led Zepplin 3, and Metallica's ...And Justice For all, back in 1988. I had one of those cd players that let you see the disc spinning inside and I remember not feeling right about the disc spinning so fast, with the music coming out normally. *I was very much used to the LP back then. I remember giving away the CDs to my girlfriend and I took the player back to the store. I stuck with LPs for a couple more years after that, eventually giving in to CD. I'd have to say that CD has gotten way better than it used to be. Remeber those CD longboxs they used to come in? I hear they're minor collectables now.</font>

<font color='#000000'>U2 - Achtung Baby. &nbsp;I'm still impressed at how different it was in 1991</font>

[Rip Van Woofer]

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>A. Vivaldi : <font color='#000000'>Hey, anybody remember those CD longboxs they used to come in? I hear that those are a minor collectable now.</font>
<font color='#000000'>For who? People who collect torture implements? <img src="http://www.audioholics.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'></font>

[Rob Babcock]

<font color='#8D38C9'>I still have Tesla's &quot;Psychotic Supper&quot; CD in the cardboard longbox, never even ripped the plastic.</font>

[A. Vivaldi]

<font color='#000000'><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Rob Babcock : I still have Tesla's &quot;Psychotic Supper&quot; CD in the cardboard longbox, never even ripped the plastic.
You must not have liked Tesla too much huh? lol. That was their best and last album as far as I'm concerned, at least I thought so at the time. It's been a looooong time since I've heard it. *<img src="http://www.audioholics.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'></font>

[Rob Babcock]

<font color='#8D38C9'>Actually, I loved Tesla. &nbsp;The first album, &quot;Mechanical Resonance&quot; was brilliant. &nbsp;The second one was superb, too. &nbsp;I saw them opening for Def Leppard right after the first album came out, and it was one of the best shows I saw that decade. &nbsp;But I thought &quot;Psychotic Supper&quot; was sorta lame, and &quot;Bust a Nut&quot; was a crime against music (the band actually issued a public apology for the album later!).

I bought if for my brother for his birthday many years ago only to find he already had it. &nbsp;The disc got tossed in a box somewhere and I found it years later. &nbsp;It's a cool souvenir of the 80's!</font>

<font color='#000000'>Denon Technical Audio CD.</font>

<font color='#000000'>I remember the day I bought my 1st CD player(1993), I ran out &amp; bought Supertramps' &quot;Even in the quietest moments&quot; &amp; Judas Priests' &quot;Unleashed in the east&quot;. Figured I had to have some soft &amp; hard to start my collection.Still got em.</font>

[bombadil67]

<font color='#000000'>. . . a little late to the party, I see. &nbsp;But, what the heck . . . Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon . . . bought it in 1987.</font>

[BroonsBane]

<font color='#000000'>As I was prepping to buy my first CD player in 1990 (the prep took about 8 years!) I kept telling myself that the first disk I would buy was going to be Rush 2112.

Well, the day of the big purchase finally came so off I went to the music store with CD player in the trunk, just purchased, brand new and in the box, me feeling like I was 7 on Christmas morning. Devastatingly, they did not have 2112 in stock but they did have Supertramp Crime of the Century so I reluctantly bought it, effectively ruining my dream of 2112 being the first (i'm a HUGE Rush fan).
I then headed across the street to our main mall and into another music store that I hated (our options were slim back then). Lo and behold, in all it's glory...2112! Scooped it, headed straight home and promptly hooked my spanky new Yamaha player up to my ghetto blaster!! Sonic Nirvana!! &nbsp; <img src="http://www.audioholics.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':laugh:'> &nbsp;

My system has come a long long way since then but I still have those two disks. In fact, of all the disks I currently own including DVD-A and SACD that Supertramp disk is one of the finest sounding CD's I have ever heard.</font>

[zumbo]

<font color='#000000'>Robert Plant: the principle of moments.

Phil Collins is the drummer on most of the tracks on this one.

Still one of my favorites, along with Fate of Nations!</font>

[MerlinMacuser]

<font color='#000000'>I think it was Brothers in Arms but it may have been Let it Bleed...in 1985.

I remember buying a case that would hold 25 cds thinking that it would last me for a long time since they were so expesnive and not readily available. By the end of that year I had purchased as many of these cases as I could find since I was buying cds like hotcakes. I now have ~1,800 cds and over 2,000 LP records...and now 26 SACDs!</font>

<font color='#000000'>Billy Ocean-Suddenly (the one with Caribbean Queen)
Dire Straits-Brothers in Arms</font>

[mikenyc]

The first CD I ever purchased was "Take On Me", a japanese CD ep by A-Ha.

The first CD I ever saw was a japanese CD by the Bee Gees, in the middle to late 80's !

[jjadams]

Fleetwod Mac: Greatest Hits

[Mudcat]

I have no idea what the first CD I bought was. But seeing some of the entries got me to thinking about what you wish you never made public about your musical tastes. For instance, when I was a kid, my sister had a boat load of 45's. I wanted a 45 (even though I would have to borrow her record player). So my mom bought me a 45 - the Partridge Family's "I Think I Love You" :( . About 1 week later, it was also the first record I used for skeet shooting. :cool:

[joelincoln]

I think it was Billy Joel "Song in the Attic" some time in 1986.

[Hawkeye]

For instance, when I was a kid, my sister had a boat load of 45's. I wanted a 45 (even though I would have to borrow her record player). So my mom bought me a 45 - the Partridge Family's "I Think I Love You" :( . About 1 week later, it was also the first record I used for skeet shooting. :cool:

Though I've never admitted this before, I bought that 45 as well. I think I eventually used it as a frisbee.

The first vinyl album I owned was The Beatles Second Album, received as a gift when it was first released. I wish I still had it.

The first cd I bought was "Speed of Light" by Pete Bardens.

The first DVD-A I bought was "Hotel California"

[race4aliving]

Flim & the BB's Tricycle

[av_phile]

In 1987, got my first CD - the Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony from Lorin Maazel conducting the Cleveland Symphony on TELARC, dated 1979, to replace my worn out LP of that title.

[kode3]

Michael Jackson's "Bad" album.

[Biggus_Dickus]

<font color='#000000'>What was the first CD you ever bought?
I was going thru my CDs a few days ago, putting away my discs after buying a few new ones, and I came across an old CD that I had (in my youthful ignorance) written my name and the date on: Back In Black, 8/11/87. That got me thinking about just when I bought what.

I bought 3 CDs together on the day I got my first CD player, I think in '86. I bought two Judas Priest discs, &quot;Turbo&quot; &amp; &quot;Defenders of the Faith&quot;, as well as &quot;Rage For Order&quot; by Queensryche. I can't recall the order or dates of numbers 4 thru 750, tho!</font>

I do believe it was Rage for me as well.

[Unregistered]

"Weird" Al Yankovick - Fat

[Gatorchong]

My first CD was Sir-Mix-A-Lot, "Mack Daddy".

I like big butts and I cannot lie, you other brothers can't deny. . . .

That's actually the first CD I bought. The first one that I owned was some Randy Travis album. Gift from an uncle. :confused:

[nadnklipsch]

"You must not have liked Tesla too much huh? lol. That was their best and last album as far as I'm concerned, at least I thought so at the time. It's been a looooong time since I've heard it."

Get Tesla's new disc, its one of the best rock disc's of the year in my opinion.

First c.d, well since i'm only 15 i got my first c.d. when i was 5 metallica's kill em' all.

[FallenAngel]

Beethoven's 3rd, cheap-o Naxos edition.

Last vinyl was Peter Gabriel - Us. Will be one of my first SACD as well.

[Polkfan]

Rush's Moving Pictures was my first CD back in '87. Still have it too. I can tell it's older because the case and disk are much thicker and heavier than the new disks.

[slmcdonald7]

The first CD I ever purchased is still on my top 10 of greatest albums ever:

The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

[Stryf3]

My first CD...hmmm, it was summer of '88 and I bought Judas Priest:Defenders of the Faith and Rush:Grace Under Pressure at the same time.

[JoeE SP9]

What's really interesting is that I can't remember the first CD I bought but I can remember the first 2 LP's. Aretha Franklin Running Out Of Fools and Lou Rawls Soulin'. I bought them in 1967 :cool:

[djoxygen]

"Love" - The Cult, probably late 1987

Big Country's drummer, Mark Brzezicki, played brilliantly on all but the most well known of the tracks, "She Sells Sanctuary", which could just as well be a drum machine as whoever banged on those cans.

The best part: In order to get my CD player hooked up to a pair of speakers, I had to pull the back of my Sears brand all-in-one (as in, turntable, tuner, cassette, and *recordable* 8-track) stereo and wire into the turntable feed post-phono-preamp.

[Francious70]

Metallica - ReLoad in 1997.

Dang I'm young.

Paul

[ben_wood]

My first cd was "Thriller". My first player was a Sony CDP-101 (the first commerically available player in the U.S.) I still have the disc (although I haven't played it in probably 15 years). The Sony has long expired.

[Resident Loser]

...the first CD I've bought for myself was this past Labor Day week-end...no kidding!

It is the RVG re-issue of Miles Davis "Birth Of The Cool"...haven't had the chance to listen however...I have heard the original(as transferred to CD) via my local library...found this one by accident and also found "The Complete BOTC" as re-done by Mark Levinson et al using Cello gear...Since Rudy Van Gelder did the original sessions, I figured the RVG release was the way to go since it uses the original tapes. I have read reviews saying it has a better sound quality than the "Complete" version which has additional live cuts...

I have bought 'em previously tho'...the first two, some Linda Ronstadt discs for my wife to replace the old vinyls..."New Favorite" by Allison Krauss and Union Station, also for m'lady...the soundtrack from "O' Brother Where Art Thou?" for both of us( I love "The Big Rock Candy Mountain")...She bought the soundtrack for "Chicago" the movie...now a little MD...that's it so far...although I have been trying to purchase Bill Frisell's "Gone, Just Like A Train" which IMHO is THE BEST sounding recording I have ever heard...bar none...our only "music" DVD is The Eagles "When Hell Freezes Over"...

jimHJJ(...brought up on 78s, 45s, LPs and tapes dontcha' know...dang, I'm old...)

[Gerald]

My first cd was "Nancy Sinatra - The Hit Years" by Rhino in 1987. I still have it in mint condition and enjoy it very much.

:cool:

[Unregistered]

Winter of 1985, I purchased The Best Of Kansas and John Cougar Mellencamp Scarecrow. Funny thing was I actually bought these a week before I had a CD player. Back then stores only carried a few titles on CD and in limited quantites, so bought them before someonelse did.

[outsider]

The first CD I can remember buying is the Lost Highway soundtrack back in 96 or 97.

[av_phile]

The first CD I bought was an EMI CD of a Paganini Violin Concerto by Itzhak Perlman and an orchestra I can't remember. That CD is now with a colleague. And in my effort to change all my LPs into their CD transciptions, I was fortunate enough to get a TELARC CD of Lorin Mazel's Tchaikovsky 4th Symphony digitally recorded in 1979 as LP and issued as CD in 1980. Got those in 1987 with my very first Technics 4X oversampling CD player.

[JoeE SP9]

My only real regret from that era is that I didn't try to by all the vinyl people were getting rid of. :cool:

[av_phile]

Well, there's some reason not to regret all that much. Many LPs then had recycled vinyl materials as a result of that oil crisis of the 70s. So much surface noise. And most POP music were using thin or warped vinyls that made excellent resonating drum material when loaded on any turntable. :D But those hefty and clean audiophile-grade LPs are another thing.

[JoeE SP9]

Although I have a large vinyl collection surface noise has never been a problem for me. It may be that the LP's with excessive surface noise don't get played. I do have quite a few that people have mistaken for CD's. I also have some selections on both CD and vinyl. Interestingly, most of the time my guests prefer the vinyl when both versions are played. Please note that all of my vinyl has been vacuum cleaned, stored in rice paper sleeves and quick brushed and Zerostated before playing. :cool:

[Az B]

I'm a new member here, but I'll jump in, if a little late. I probably have more vinyl than CDs. Back in the old days I put much of the vinyl on reel to reel so some of it is still in good shape.

My first CD was Pink Floyd Meddle. I think Moving Pictures was probably in the first ten somewhere.

After CDs, I never looked back. I still play the vinyl sometimes, but it's all stuff that's not available on CD.

[bluesarebest]

Steely Dan's Aja, (82') was my first CD, they were one of the first bands to
record & publish stuff which was digitally mastered. They were and are still
pioneers in music. Man, I still can't believe how much that first CD player cost!
It was played so much, the optics only lasted about 18 months.

[Quig]

Nice thread... lol

My first CD? I can't believe I remebmer this but it was Def Leppard; Hysteria. Still one of my favorites...

[Red]

This is probably very late, but hey I just joined yesterday :eek: and am just looking around the various forums...

Actually the first purchase was 3:

Chicago II
LZ - Physical Graffiti
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam

[jaguars_fan]

1982 - I was in Japan. I purchased a $350 Yamaha single CD player and a copy of Pink Floyd's The Wall (complete with Japanese and English).

Those were the days...$350 CD players and $40 CDs! :D

[20to20K]

I got my first CD player, a Pioneer 6 disk changer with those hokey magazines, as a Xmas present. On December 26th I went to Sam Goody
(They still around?) and layed out about $75 on 5 CD's. They were:

1) Santana - Abraxous
2) Earth, Wind and Fire - All n' All
3) Steely Dan - Aja
4) Manhattan Jazz Quartet - Manhattan Jazz Quartet
5) The Great Jazz Trio - Monks Mood

Amazingly the top three on the list still get plenty of play! The last
two were so-so. Just bought them cause I had the money and a new
CD player!

The obvious question is why did you only buy 5 CD's if you got a 6 CD
changer? Cause I was in college and money was too tight to mention!
That's all the money I had!

[Epilespaul]

Dream Theatre Images and Words, I was Hooked on Vinyl for years and decided to take the plunge about ten years ago :D

[Engine Joe]

The four-disc Led Zeppelin boxed set (the original version that came in that huge box).

[BMXTRIX]

At least I can hold my head up when I say this:
Van Halen - 5150

I was remember going into the CD store, because there were no CDs being sold at Tower or other music shops, they were still vinyl and cassette. I bought CDs almost as soon as they came out and used my Dad's CD player to copy them to tape.

It was about 5 years before I actually owned a CD player, but I only bought CDs from 85 or 86 on.

My first CASSETTE (first music ever purchased): Air Supply - Greatest Hits... that one is still great.

[Shadow_Ferret]

I honestly can't remember the first CD I ever bought. Seems like a rather insignificant event considered I'd already been purchasing music in general for 20 years.

I do recall the first vinyl album I ever bought, besides The Archies, hehe, it was Black Sabbath Vol. 4 and it just blew me away because it was so different from anything else that was happening at the time.

[Rob Babcock]

Really? It was a watershed moment for me. I could sense somehow that the future of music was going to be changed by those shiny discs. I'd been buying music for ages, too, but I felt there was magic in the CDs- you could tell must by watching it glisten with it's beautiful rainbow shimmer. :p

[rschleicher]

My first LP purchases (not counting 45's) were (all at one time):
- Sly and the Family Stones Greatest Hits (still great)
- Led Zeppelin III (not one of their best, but still very good)
- James Gang - Rides Again (not bad - highlight is "Funk 49")

I think I didn't convert over to CD until 1987. I'm not sure what the first CD purchase was, but it might have been the Beatles "Help!", since the CD was the 14-song UK version. Actually, although critics seem to view the best Beatles albums as Sgt. Pepper, or sometimes Revolver, the White Album, or even Abbey Road, over time I have come to like the UK version of Help! the best. Sure its pretty "poppy", but uniformly excellent.

Actually, this reminds me that the first 45 I bought was the Beatles - "Nowhere Man" as the A side, and "What Goes On" as the B-side. "What Goes On" is actually a great little Rockabilly song, with Ringo fully exercising his half-octave vocal range, and great little 2 or 3-note trebly guitar fills from George, in a Carl Perkins style. I must have been about 10 years old at the time.

[Shadow_Ferret]

Rob,
I actually actively resisted purchasing CDs. I was a die-hard vinyl fan. My main argument was, and still is, that vinyl more accurately presents the music than CDs. CDs "sample" music. It is digital, therefore it is on or off and I still believe you cannot recreate the warmth, breadth and depth of music by having something go on and off.

CDs may be "cleaner" without the pops and clicks that sometimes come with vinyl (not a problem if you know how to take care of the records and have a quality needle), but I'd still take a vinyl record over a CD any day.

I don't believe I bought a CD until the early 90s and then only because they weren't producing vinyl any more and even cassettes were being pushed aside.

And to start my collection I probably joined Columbia House and bought several, so I don't really recall what would have been the "first."

Funny, but I'm currently looking to buy a "home theater" a/v receiver and my first priority is getting one with a phono input. hehe

[Rob Babcock]

It was just the opposite for me. I found even early CD superior to vinyl, which I'd never been very satisfied with. LPs just sound "mechanical" to me- which of course makes sense since they are mechanical! ;)

[Shadow_Ferret]

Hehe. I'd actually be curious to try a blindfold test using a pristine vinyl record and a CD to see if there actually are any noticeable differences between the two. But theoretically, you are probably correct since the needle actually is dragged through the channels of a record, there must be some sort of resonance created by that where as only light touches the CD.

I'm just old school and can't let go. :D

[Rob Babcock]

I did always like that the big jacket had room for more art. :p

[Shadow_Ferret]

Collecting LP artwork is an end unto itself. CDs killed album art and I think the world is worse off for it. ;)

Oh, and could you check something out for me? I cannot start my own posts. It says that feature is disabled. I tried to send the admin a PM, but unfortunately, that feature is disabled, too. Nor can I email anyone through this forum. :(

[Rob Babcock]

Have you tried clicking on the "User CP" button towards the upper left hand side of the page? Something might be set wrong. Otherwise, have you tried today? No matter, I'll check with Admin & see what's up.

[hopjohn]

My first ever cd ever was Van Halen's Title Album

[Nomo]

Oh, and could you check something out for me? I cannot start my own posts. It says that feature is disabled. I tried to send the admin a PM, but unfortunately, that feature is disabled, too. Nor can I email anyone through this forum.

Are you behind a firewall?

[markw]

...from a garage sale before I even had a CD player.

[sjdgpt]

Christopher Cross's debut album.

Second CD was Alan Parson's Greatest Hits.

Third? I have no clue.

All the CD's were remasters of older albums.


The first CD that I remember being introduced at the same time as the vinyl album that I bought was Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms".


PS: the Alan Parson's CD was lost in a jammed up car CD player in 2004. My copy of the CD was only 19 years old. :(

[MDS]

PS: the Alan Parson's CD was lost in a jammed up car CD player in 2004. My copy of the CD was only 19 years old. :(

Fortunately, it is still in print. Run, don't walk, to the store and get another copy. :)

[Shadow_Ferret]

Are you behind a firewall? I have a software firewall. All these features work at other sites I post at, and as you can see, I can REPLY to topics. I just can't START any or send PMs.

This is the exact message I get when I try to start a new post:

Shadow_Ferret, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

1) Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?

2) If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.


Didn't mean to distrupt this thread, but since I can't reach the admin because of this problem, I had to do it somewhere. :(

[Hawkeye]

Fortunately, it is still in print. Run, don't walk, to the store and get another copy. :)Or better yet, pick up all the individual releases, or you'll be missing out on way too much. Most of the Project's albums are theme-oriented, getting only a song or two from each album takes away from the experience. Also, be sure to check out Parsons' newest solo effort, "A Valid Path." This cd is Parsons' foray into electronica, and actually features Pink Floyd's David Gilmour on the opening track. BTW, the DVD-A 5.1 surround version should be out sometime soon.

[sjdgpt]

Fortunately, it is still in print. Run, don't walk, to the store and get another copy. :)

I have been checking the sales bins at WallyWorld. Those clerks have no idea what a jewel they have. But alas, not in the sale bins at Wallyworld, nor on the full price shelves at the dedicated music stores. Might have to order it.

[Rob Babcock]

I have a software firewall. All these features work at other sites I post at, and as you can see, I can REPLY to topics. I just can't START any or send PMs.

This is the exact message I get when I try to start a new post:



Didn't mean to distrupt this thread, but since I can't reach the admin because of this problem, I had to do it somewhere. :(

I checked with Admin, and it looks like your registration isn't final. Did you check your email for a link to activate? If you have any more problems, let us know here.

[Shadow_Ferret]

I checked with Admin, and it looks like your registration isn't final. Did you check your email for a link to activate? If you have any more problems, let us know here.Hmm. Never got an email and I just double-checked my email address in my profile and it's correct. Oh, well. Thanks for you help.

[nibhaz]

First CD...Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Suger Sex Magic

[bpape]

The Moody Blues - Days of Future Past

[GaryZ06]

Pink Floyd....Darkside of the Moon

[WooHoo]

Best of Alan Parson's Project. Still one of my favorites! :rolleyes:

[Gelder]

Dolly,Linda,Emmy Lou - "Trio"

[Hawkeye]

Best of Alan Parson's Project. Still one of my favorites! :rolleyes:Do yourself a favor, buy the rest. There's some real good stuff that's not found on the Greatest Hits cd. And if you're a bit adventuresome, check out Parsons' latest: "A Valid Path." Its his first fully "electronica" cd.

Also, check out these video clips of a recent Parsons concert from Madrid, Spain in late 2004 at: http://www.alanparsonsmusic.com/media/videos.htm

The band is touring, if they come nearby check them out. If you're a fan of their music, you won't be disappointed.

[WooHoo]

The band is touring, if they come nearby check them out. If you're a fan of their music, you won't be disappointed.

Thanks Hawkeye. Good stuff! I'll check it out.

[Mudcat]

I did always like that the big jacket had room for more art. :p

Yeah, like Hendrix'x "Electric Ladyland" or Zep's "Houses of the Holy", and any Jorge Santanna.

[Engine Joe]

Do yourself a favor, buy the rest. There's some real good stuff that's not found on the Greatest Hits cd. And if you're a bit adventuresome, check out Parsons' latest: "A Valid Path." Its his first fully "electronica" cd.


Isn't this supposed to be coming out in DVD-A or SACD soon? I've been holding off on getting it with the surround release in mind...

[Hawkeye]

Isn't this supposed to be coming out in DVD-A or SACD soon? I've been holding off on getting it with the surround release in mind...Yep. Supposedly a DVD-A version should be coming out sometime early in 2005, according to Parsons. I've read the finished product has been delivered for manufacturing, but I haven't heard of an exact release date yet. I have the regular cd and judging from that, it should be amazing in high-resolution surround.

BTW, they have tentative plans to play BB King's (and I think Moheghan Sun as well), sometime in April I believe. His touring band now consists of four NYC/NJ musicians and a L.A. vocalist, not the original "Project" But fear not, I've seen both iterations and this one blows the originals out of the water, at least in one main category: vocals. All six on stage handle vocals, (and are all excellent musicians), so they are able to dive far deeper into the APP catalog than in years past.

http://www.american-entertainment.net/artists/parsons/