Remember the first Compact Disc you ever heard?

I'm listening to the Talking Heads greatest hits discs today, and I'm thinking back to the first time I heard someone play a CD. It was the "Stop Making Sense" album, and I remember sitting there, amazed, hearing all these things I never heard before, that I never knew were there to be heard.

My first DVD experience was similar, but not quite as mind-blowing. HDTV is sharp, but I didn't find myself standing looking at one in awe for an hour. I wonder what the next "holy cow" tech like this will be...? :)

The album with "Money for Nothing"

A friend of mine received a CD-player for his birthday and he also received the Dire Straits CD.

I believe my first CD was A-Ha's Hunting High and Low.

I'm not sure I agree. I liked not having the hiss between tracks, but I don't honestly listen for the sections between tracks. :)

My impression is that the turntable did a better job of conveying the kind of bass that you feel as well as hear. We've had a sub-woofer forever, and the bass drum in the revenge duet in Otello used to feel like a mild earthquake. I don't think I've heard anything that good from a CD.

Maybe I'm just one of those old fuddy-duddies. I'm certainly old enough. :)

"The Matrix" sold me on DVD, though the release of tv shows onto disc are varied in quality.

HDTV sets? I've looked at a lot of sets. Considering their ridiculously high cost, 75% of them are outright RIP-OFFs because they remove the black borders from letterboxing and stretch the image (an option to be enabled or disabled I hope) and, more damningly, many - and I mean many - sets don't show a clean image. The block-like artifacts are visible; but when you look at another hdtv next to it, the problem does NOT exist. The problem appears worse on those LCD plasma $10000 pieces of junk too.

The only "holy cow" about it is how people buy these things without really LOOKING at the picture quality. :eyes:

Still one of the best albums ever.

It was Clapton Unplugged...oh wait...that's not the first CD I ever heard, the first I ever heard on my CD player, which I resisited buying until early 90s.

The broadway album, i listened to somewhere on my really huge speakers on an afternoon and loved it

of course it was also the first piece of recorded music I owned. I like vinyl more than CDs now.

LoL

But it sounded awesome! It was so clear!

Phil Perry's Pure Pleasure

Didn't get to hear it until the next year when we got our first computer with a CD rom Drive.

Blew my socks off.

but better even still on vinyl.

CD's? DVD's?

They deliver equivalent quality at first, but doesn't it bother anyone that they more and more control your ability to fast forward or ignore?

Gotta love that technology!

tivo is abigger improvmentment to tv than cd was to audio

i'd make this comparison (dialup vs broadband)

I remember when the father-in-law got it, and we went up to his house for dinner and a hockey game. I was so blown away that we could finish dinner, then go down and "start" the game that was still going on, watch it, skipping through ads, until we caught up with "real time" in the third period.

Yeah, I was blown away. Although it's more a remarkable change in the style of service, rather than the thing itself like the first digital audio. Same w/broadband, IMO. :shrug:

If a quiet part of Petrushka, you can hear the violin section putting the bows down on their stands, and some pages turning.

In ELP's pictures at an Exhibition, you can hear some audience members coughing, too.

The Sex Pistols and the Ramones, however, don't seem to gain anything from digital mastering...

First one I ever heard.

the opening few seconds of "Debaser" made my pants fit funny, in a musical sense.

That's so funny, I'm ripping that off. :D

I got my portable Sony CD player and that CD for Christmas in 1986.

it was classical recording with a flute solo

made me jump a bit when I heard the person playing the flute take a breath

I first heard CD's (don't remember which) demoed at a big Electronics Show in Washington. The guy doing the demo had no idea what he had. He thought that, because of the dynamic range, CD's let you play music louder, so he just drove the speakers into clipping. If I hadn't known something about them, I *never* would've gotten a player after that!

The softs, without hiss.......now *that's* a CD!<G>

At boss's house, circa 1987. Proceeded to buy a Discman soon thereafter.