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AS I understand it (Capn?) the first CD pressed was ABBA - Visitors? First one released Billy Joel 52nd Street? First million sales of Cd's Brothers In Arms. It is claimed Bowie was the first artist to have his entire catalouge released on CD but that I am afraid is nonsense.

Anyway Norriemaclean first CD was Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love:

Bruce Springsteen - Brilliant Disguise

last new release vinyly purchased was quite a few things at Record Store Day

Bruce Springsteen - Gotta Get That Feeling (Live) 10"

Steve Earle - I'll Never Get OUt Of This World Alive 7"

Villagers live lp - Becoming A Jackal

TUESDAY


I think my memory is accurate(ish) on the vinyl - CD question. It's a wee bit complicated because between buying vinyl and buying CDs there was a long spell of buying cassettes. (For listening to in the car).


LAST VINYL

Lionheart - Kate Bush ~ Please play Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake


FIRST CD

I had this album on tape before it became available on CD, at which time I saluted its availability!

Longing in Their Hearts - Bonnie Raitt ~ The title track, please.

Or any other track from the album. They're all fab!

:o)

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Apropos of not very much;

I purchased a copy of Tubular Bells on CD two or three years back.

It wasn't as good as I remembered, but a great nostalgia trip! A fine driving album, IMHO.

last LP

Midnight Stroll: Walk Around Time - Robert Cray

first CD

Shame + a Sin: Don't Break This Ring - Robert Cray

that's a brilliant track, but anything off this album would be fine. Just listening to it again right now and remembering how good it is.

same as you, SG, there were many cassettes overlapping for the daily drive to and from Glasgow.

Think first CD was Cher - 'Heart Of Stone'.
Couldn't tell you the last time I played it!

Much happier with last vinyl which I'm pretty sure was Del Amitri - 'Waking Hours' which I still play but on CD (only due to the turntable being kaput)

Del Amitri - 'When I Want You'

I think I know which CD LouiseJuliefromEdinburgh'sPal bought first too! Can't remember my own name half the time but I remember that ;o)

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Thanks for the intro Julie...the first CD I ever bought was Chuck Berry's Greatest Hits (Chess Records).

Having lent my much treasured vinyl copy to a friend of my Husband who then did a moonlight flit (friend not Husband), when I saw the CD I bought it straight away - despite not actually owning a CD player at the time!

I quite liked the contradiction of the new technology playing one of the founding fathers of Rock and Roll. As Keith Richards said - "Without Chuck Berry there would be no Beatles, no Rolling Stones, no Bob Dylan".

I used to joke about spinning the disc on my finger whilst shining a torch onto it with the other hand...and of course, a player was purchased soon after.

Any track Bryan, they're all brilliant.

Last record: Steely Dan's Greatest Hits. Please play "My old school".
First CD: Gloria Estefan's "Into the Light". Please play "Coming out of the dark".

Joe
Linlithgow

Can't remember either as being an event I would store in the back of my mind for any reason. Either my memory is failing me or I was too busy with other stuff to notice the incredible historical/ musical significance of the shift between vinyl and CD. Ah kain - I'm a fraud. I'm just not especially fussed by updates that aren't always an improvement.
I could try making something up, but ...... I'm looking forward to a very unpredictable show instead!

I remember the first time I saw a cd. My pal Allan MacNeil was the manager of Hue & Cry and I remember being in his office inside the CaVa studio in Kelvingrove Street and he had a copy of 'Remote' on cd - this would be about 1988, I think. I was completely facinated by the cd player.

Sweet Invisibility - Hue & Cry

At that time cd's were very much an eletist minority thing and cost about £13 a pop - the labels issued endless greatest hits compilations so there wasn't a hell of a lot to buy early on.

I'm quite unsure about this but I think the last vinyl I bought was Paul Siimon's 'Rhythm Of The Saints' - funnily enough I've never bought it on cd and I've just watched a great video of my favourite track from that album on You Tube.

Proof - Paul Simon I'd forgotten how great this is.

The CD player turned up as my Xmas pressy 1990 and was accompanied by what I think might have been the first CD box set simply called 'Lennon', it contained John's solo work. I still have it though it's not 'Gracenoted' so it's a disappointemt not to be able to read all the stuff you'd like to see as it's playing. It's a bit of a rarity I guess and probably worth a few quid.

Instant Karma - John Lennon

I accept, of course, that this isn't contemporanious with the arrival of the cd format - though the industry was keen to have us buy our albums all over again, so much of the early cd issue looked backwards.

So although i can't remember which came first, these are three things I bought on cd early on:

Season Of Hollow Soul - k d lang from Ingenue

The Rythm Of The Blues - Mary-Chapin Carpenter from Come On -Come On

Nick Of Time - Bonnie Raitt from Nick Of Time.

This all seems quite sedate to me now, but that's what I was into at the time.


regardez youse

henri

Johnny Strikes Up The Band - Warren Zevon
Slow Death - Flamin' Groovies

I bought Warren Zevon's Excitable Boy and played it on my computer until I got a CD player. I could probably throw away all my CDs apart from Zevon's I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, The Stones' Let It Bleed and CCR's Chronicle.

The last vinyl I bought was a live Flamin' Groovies album from Amoeba Records in Hollywood for my good friend Wee Heavy.

This is where I admit to being too young to really buy Vinyl so I infortunately have no last Vinyl I bought first cd I bought for myself is Def Leppard's - Adrenalize so guess maybe from that album the following songs would be good.

Heaven Is
I Wanna Touch U

or possibly one of my favourites from that album which was

Stand Up (Kick Love Into Motion)

To add to the above for me the last Vinyl would in a sense be the last Cassete I purchased and if I recall correctly it was the single

Sit Down - James

Rember listening to that on my walkman :).

I'm a bit like Mary-Doll I suppose in that I can't exactly remember details. I have a feeling that Paul Simon's Graceland was the last LP, or was it Tanita Tikaram? Or Michelle Shocked?

Anyway, I thought it pointless purchasing a CD system if I didn't have any CDs to play on it so I started a collection about a year beforehand. And yes, these tended to be of the compilation variety, simply because I wanted to hear my favourite songs but without having to buy a hundred CDs in order to hear them.

Sorry I can't suggest anything here!

DC

I cant actually remember what the last vinyl i bought was.
I do remember going to buy a midi hifi and the salesman waxing lyrically about why i need to get one with a CD on it. He let me hear a cd of the dallas theme tune and said 'how good is that'. I remember thinking 'not very'.
I opted for the non CD version on account of the fact i owned two rooms of vinyl and no CDs.

When vinyl became harder to buy I eventually succumbed to the digital revolution and my first CD was Joe Jacksons greatest hits of which i would like to hear

Be my number two / Joe Jackson

paolo that is a great song, would really like to hear that.

A theme suggestion inspired by the cover version of 'First Cut Is The Deepest' played last night... which I have to say I found verging on tripe (certainly compared to the Cat Stevens original).

Suggest tracks which have been covered and argue why either the original is superior, or infact the cover version is an improvement!

the last album i bought was clive james and pete atkins 'live libel'....which was quite a nice album and funny....anything from that would be a joy to hear again.
i remember going to see them on tour promoting the album at the queen margaret union.they were very funny and i hugely admired the boots clive james was wearing.......just writing this has reminded me that i should have a look on amazon and see if its on cd
it has also reminded me what a brilliant tv reviewer clive james was...his reviews in the early seventies really opened my eyes as to how much more entertaining the reviews were than the programmes. (george melly was another outstanding reviewer)..................

my first CD was bought for another one of these 500 mile chess road trips ..this time to see nigel short beat gary kasparov in the savoy theatre in london.....we were very fortunate being at that game as it was the only victory for short in this unofficial world championship battle.............kasparov stormed off the stage withouth shaking hands. there was a real needle in that match................

'very'................pet shop boys which i thought at the time had the sound of london about it.

and of course it finishes off with that magnificent version of 'go west'

cheers frae the dale

I really couldn't afford CDs (let alone a CD player) until I was a student in 1988. I outrageously exploited the fact that I was a Music student to strongarm a certain bank into loaning me almost £300 for a stereo with multi-disc CD player. It was so I could listen to a whole opera without getting off my lazy backside and changing the disc (the horror!).

So my 1st CD was a full recording of Don Giovanni (cond. Rafael Kubelik).

Not sure that'll get played this evening, so let's talk about the 1st popular music CD I bought instead:
* Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
from which let's go for Lavender rather than the Klaxon track.

Last Vinyl:
Again, I bought a number of classical records after acquiring the stereo (CDs weren't cheap y'know!), but the last popular music was probably
* Pink Floyd - live album, which tour I'd seen in Manchester a couple of years before.
Most of the tracks are way too long (the version of Money is stonking though), so let's go for the relatively friendly Wish You Were Here.

It's worth noting that (according to Wikipedia): This was the last Pink Floyd release made with vinyl as its primary medium; all subsequent releases have been made with CD as their primary medium so it's doubly suitable for tonight's transitional show.

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Liking that one, Mike.

And might I suggest Hendrix's version of All Along The Watchtower? Bryan graciously played the original once after heavy blogger requests to hear it for a change, and we regretted having asked!

I think an important watchword for that show would have to be that the cover's significantly different to the original, rather than just a near note for note replica. So Bragg's Walk Away Renee would qualify, but Debris wouldn't.

My last record on vinyl was Document by R.E.M. I think. I was a late convert to CD as I went through a phase of buying tapes for my Walkman. One of the first CDs that I bought was Waking Hours by Del Amitri as I had worn the tape out!

Please play R.E.M. - The One I Love or anything from Waking Hours (they're all brilliant)

Furry videos cert...

It looks like another really busy night.

The last LPs I bought for myself were Stevie Ray Vaughan's Soul To Soul and Johnny Winter's Serious Business in the library's vinyl clear out. My son (whose fiancée happens be researching with Nobel Prize winner Brian Schmidt) gave me George Harrison's Concert For Bangla Desh for a recent birthday.

It Take A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry - Dylan, Harrison Starr & Russell

I take back everything I've ever implied about the quality of shouts on f***book.

To my utter astonishment, Ronnie McGowan has just revealed that the last LP he bought was 'Songs For A Tailor - Jack Bruce'.

Never mind the Mamas & The Papas, Ronnie - Jack is the daddy...Massive 2nd for for 'Tickets To Waterfalls' - Jack Bruce

regardez - youse

henri

Aye Henri - what a cheek eh? Having a good taste in muisc, being able to wander into a shop to buy a record AND be able to type on facebook. What is the world coming to.