Oldest CD in your collection

[Big Al]

Was thinking about this the other night. I think the oldest ones in my collection are three that I bought in the summer of '89 which still get semi-regular play:

Benny Goodman VOLUME 3: ALL THE CATS JOIN IN

Benny Goodman SEXTET

Duke Ellington PRIVATE COLLECTION VOLUME 1

How about you?

Edited May 27, 2006 by Big Al

[Rooster_Ties]

Jimi Hendrix - "Live at Winterland" --- Rykodisc, released circa 1987.

Maybe technically not the oldest CD in my entire collection (maybe I later bought something used that was actually issued earlier), but Jimi @ Winterland was definitely the very first CD I ever bought, I'm pretty sure of that.

I was a senior in high school that year - and vaguely remember buying it in the Spring of '87, a couple months before I graduated. I'm also pretty darn sure I didn't own a CD-player back then either, and I had to get a friend to tape it for me, in order to listen to it. Had a roommate in college with a CD player (thankfully), and finally got one of my own around late 1988 or early '89.

Still have that Hendrix disc too.

Edited June 5, 2006 by Rooster_Ties

[7/4]

I think it's either or

[Dave James]

Stan Getz Quartets, a Prestige OJC. Close second, Jimmy Forrest, Most Much, also an OJC. Those are the first two CD's I ever bought, jazz or otherwise.

Up over and out.

[Claude]

I bought my first CDs in 1985 during a $15 sale (CDs were $20-25 at the time), even before I had a CD player:

- Moussorgsky - Pictures at an exhibition (Chicago Symphony, Solti)

- Al Di Meola, Paco DeLucia. John McLaughlin - Friday night in San Francisco

- Dire Straits - Love over gold

- Yes - 90295

I bought my first CD player a couple of weeks later, a very basic Philips CD100, for $400 (the introduction price in 1983 was $1000) with no time display and no remote control

[kh1958]

The first two CDs I bought (in 1984) were:

Max Roach Quartet--In the Light (Soul Note);

Art Blakey--A Night In Tunisia (Bobby Watson edition of Jazz Messengers)--Philips.

They both still play fine.

[kulu se mama]

i still own the very first cd i ever bought, and i listened to it last night.

"into the music" by van morrison.

i bought it 1/2/86, the day after i bought my first cd player.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

My first two, bought on the same day, were both by Jimmy Smiff.

Go for whatcha know and

Compact Jazz - because I missed "Walk on the wild side" so very much and "Bashin'" wasn't available.

That was 1989, BTW.

MG

Edited May 27, 2006 by The Magnificent Goldberg

[gdogus]

My dear wife bought me a CD Player for my birthday in 1986, and two CDs to go with it:

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

I remember very clearly being astonished at the sound quality. I still own both discs.

[Christiern]

The very first CD I actually bought was Miles' Sketches Of Spain--which was of very poor audio quality and cost me $35 at The Colony. I already had quite a few CDs, but they were freebies (Warner Bros. sent me about ten and said they wanted them back after I finished reviewing them. Why?, I asked. "We have a CD return policy," the lady told me. I told her that I had a no return policy. She said "okay."

BTW this was also my first CD player--Stereo Review sent it to me.

[GA Russell]

On Dec. 9, 1988, I bought my first two CDs: The Beach Boys' Christmas Album and Manfred Mann Chapter Three (the first album).

As I recall, I had bought my first CD player earlier that day.

I still play both CDs regularly, in season of course.

[Soul Stream]

Mine was Hank Mobley's "Workout". A used bookstore got a whole batch of Blue Note CDs when they first came out. That was the first one I bought. I went back the next day and bought the remaining 10 or so titles they had which included, to my memory, Bud Powell's "The Scene Changes" among others.

[sidewinder]

If my memory is correct it's Hilton Ruiz 'El Camino' on RCA Novus. Bought at Sam The Record Man in Toronto the day I bought my first CD player. Still extremely fond of this fine CD (with Sam Rivers featured in the band).

[ejp626]

I got a CD player in 1987 as I was heading off to college. It came with a Columbia jazz sampler. The first CD I bought was probably The Beatles' Help. First jazz CD was probably Mingus Ah Um and Brubeck's Take Five a bit after that. I was still buying tapes in those days, which is why I didn't get Monk's Genius of Modern Music 1 & 2 and Miles' Sketches of Spain earlier (before Mingus and Brubeck at any rate).

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

The 3 oldest cds in the collection are all by Tangerine Dream. I'm pretty sure that I bought them all in '86. 'Underwater Sunlight' was a UK import disc put out by Jive Recs. The other 2 are 'Green Desert' and 'Pergamon,' which was recorded live at the Palast Der Republik in East Berlin.

The original 'Green Desert' cover that I have looks like:

....it was changed years ago and of course now looks nothing at all like a green desert. Go figure.

Edited May 28, 2006 by Son-of-a-Weizen

[kinuta]

Beatles - White Album & Revolver

Cannonball Adderley -Somethin' Else

I think these were the first. I was a die hard lp fan and held off buying a cd player at first.

[Quincy]

I didn't buy a CD player until 1990. Had too much invested in vinyl and it took things like Hank Williams Sr.'s Health & Happiness set to draw me out.

I bought 5 at once after I bought my player. I didn't believe in buying things I already had on vinyl (and still lean that way.)

Billy Bragg - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry

Bob Marley - Talkin' Blues

Shakti with John McLaughlin

Not sure what the other two were.

The last sealed new release LP I bought was this:

Guess it took a 3 sided clear vinyl release to make me switch.

Edited May 28, 2006 by Quincy

[rostasi]

Before actually buying CDs, I used to draw shapes on their playing surfaces

and use their altered sounds during performances. When I finally broke down and

decided to actually buy one, I actually bought two:

• Klaus Schulze: Dune:

and

• Brian Eno: Thursday Afternoon

I think that this was '85.

I remember that a big deal was made about

the Eno being the first CD to take advantage of

the longer format and that you could now

have an hour of uninterrupted sound.

My sweetheart's first CD was in '88:

• Elvis Hitler: Disgraceland

As for a CD Player: that wasn't until '92.

Up to that time, I used the ones at my workplace.

Edited May 28, 2006 by rostasi

[BFrank]

These were my first 2 - in the late 80's sometime.

I still have the FZ CD and have since "upgraded" Harmony Row to a newer remaster.

[Noj]

I was into alternative rock, my first few cds were Echo & The Bunnymen - s/t, REM - Eponymous, and The Smiths - Meat Is Murder. They don't get much play time these days.

[Shawn]

It's a tie, I purchased these CD's on the same day. The upper CD is the Elektra version with the bonus tracks from the Creeping Death EP. You can see about 50 holes when you hold it up to the light...but it still plays!!!

My mother picked out the Deep Purple disc, she loves Child In Time (she says it reminds her of me because it came out the year I was born).

[7/4]

• Brian Eno: Thursday Afternoon

I think that this was '85.

I remember that a big deal was made about

the Eno being the first CD to take advantage of

the longer format and that you could now

have an hour of uninterrupted sound.

It also only came out on CD, which was why I had to buy it. I don't think I even got a CD play for a couple of years...

[Kalo]

I held off from buying CDs until about 1990, when the writing had already been on the wall for vinyl for a few years, and I received a CD player as a birthday gift.

My first CD was Andrew Hill's "Point of Departure."

[brownie]

I'm another one of those who tried to stick to vinyls but had to give up when the record stores aliminated their vinyl sections. Gave up the fight in the late '80s.

First CD purchases were the Swedish Tax CDs of the Count Basie Orchestra 1954 concerts in Stockholm.

Then came those Japanese BN discs with additional material. Could not resist!

[Clunky]

Canonball Adderlerly- Live in San Francisco- bought in 1987. £11.99 at the time, it's a Japanese Victor ( with yellow spine ) edition transfered in 1986 and still sounds fantastic. These Japanese CDs were available long before I saw and OJC series discs.