The Durutti CD was called Domo Arigato. It was also my first CD and I listened to a tape of the CD for about 2 years until I bought a CD player.My first CD was a live Durutti Column one, a Japanese import I think. I bought it thinking it would come in useful when I eventually got a CD player, though I got drunk later that evening and left it in the back of a taxi (along with a guitar lead). I've been trying to figure out what it was ever since, but I can't place it.
It was quite a few years later that I eventually bought a CD player, a Rotel RCD965BX, and I grabbed The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld and REM's Automatic For The People on the way back home with it. I bought it because I was sick and tired of tick and pop on the electronica stuff that made up much of my diet in those days, in fact I'd returned about three copies of the Orb album hence it being my first CD.
Might it have been Domo Arigato, Tony? By the band that caused me to buy a CD player (a Sony CDP M79) when my local record shop told me the Durutti Column's then new album Obey The Time was not being released on vinyl. Liars!My first CD was a live Durutti Column one, a Japanese import I think. I bought it thinking it would come in useful when I eventually got a CD player, though I got drunk later that evening and left it in the back of a taxi (along with a guitar lead). I've been trying to figure out what it was ever since, but I can't place it.
It was quite a few years later that I eventually bought a CD player, a Rotel RCD965BX, and I grabbed The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld and REM's Automatic For The People on the way back home with it. I bought it because I was sick and tired of tick and pop on the electronica stuff that made up much of my diet in those days, in fact I'd returned about three copies of the Orb album hence it being my first CD.
Yes, I remember my reaction very clearly, I thought the sound was very tinny, like a cheap little transistor radio.I think the player was a Philips, in a local Hi-Fi shop. I couldn't imagine ever liking the new format. It was nine years later before I bought a CD player. Twenty one years later I hardly ever listen to the little silver discs, but in between times they provided some wonderful musical moments.Do you remember your reaction on hearing your very first CD if all you were used to up till then was tapes and LPs?
My first CDP was a Yamaha something or other around 87/88. I was amazed how some cd's sounded better than others and for a while would only buy on cd if it was DDD. This was based on a Sting cd that sounded as good as my Oracle Alexandria and a pile of AAD cd's that were unlistenable.
A few years later for my MBA dissertation I wanted to explore how the new technological advances with CD would make vinyl redundant and what strategies Linn would have to adopt as their market leading LP12 was made redundant. Who would have thought there would still be a market for turntables 25 years later and that the CD's own life cycle would be under threat from new technology.