How, then, do we consider those CDs when we are evaluating our own music collections? There have actually been a couple of instances in which I have thinned out my collection, just a bit. I'd rather not have a disc at all, rather than have the dead weight of music that just doesn't do it for me at and and of which I'll probably never have another enjoyable listen. But what about the CDs that, although you would never buy them again, you hang onto due to either because you don't find the music entirely vile or as a result some hopeless notion that you just might be in a certain mood someday when the songs will work the same magic as they did when you first bought the disc in 1986? In 1986, indeed, was my first CD purchase: Chicago 16 which, incidentally, did not make the first cut of the aforementioned "thinning out." But what about the ones that have survived a couple of cuts and still remain, but largely languish, in my media storage shelves to this day? They are easy enough to spot. The once-clear jewel cases are now somewhat cloudy and transluscent, with a multitude of tiny scratches. And the CDs themselves are all plain black text on disc-manufacturing had not gotten sophisticated enough for 4-color printing directly on the disc face. The artist roster is solid enough; at least, in terms of how their music endures; though if I were to make a list of the CDs from that first brood that have since fallen by the wayside and are no longer in my collection, it would read like a list of upcoming episodes for VH-1's "Behind the Music." Or some "Where Are They Now?" segment in a magazine.
Some "notables" from this First Brood that still remain (I may have some "Second Brood" ones in there, but these are the few that remain and that I recall:
- Hall & Oates: Rock & Soul Part One (I've been waiting about 19 years now for Part Two!!! Not really...)
- Eric Clapton: Timepieces
- Journey: Raised on Radio
- Aerosmith: Permanent Vacation
- Billy Joel: Greatest Hits (2-cd set)
- Rod Stewart: Out of Order (honest to God, not sure why that one's still there. May not make the next cut)
- Thompson Twins: Greatest Mixes (would be a lot better if it was just "Greatest Hits")
What a funny collection of music!
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You think that is bad, well take a close look at mine the next time you come down. Coutry heavy early in my CD buying college days.
Well, if some of that shit you had early on has not gone through a few cuts in the years since, shame on you.
What the hell am I going to do with those CD's? Who the hell wants a CD from Reba McIntire? Do you want it bitch? :)
I do not want it. But that's no reason to hang onto something that adds clutter to your life. Donate it to Goodwill. Recycle the disc and booklet. Throw it away. But just get it out of there. Unless, of course, you still derive enjoyment from listening to it.
I don't think I started a cd collection until 1988 or 1989, the coming of the Sharp boombox.
My first cd was Regattat de Blanc by The Police, a cd that remains an enjoyable listen to this day.
I'd have to go back and look at them to recall what other early ones were.
I have gotten rid of some, and there was a turd in architecture school that I believe stole a couple.
Those that I consciously got rid of:
Aerosmith Pump
DOn Henley The Age of the Innocent
Some others that I'm not recalling.
What of Eric B. and Rakim?
And Bobby Brown?
I never had Eric B & Rakim on CD-only cassette. I had to get it for a review I was doing for "The Spectator."
Bobby Brown? Shall I launch into a list of those that are no longer with me?
Bobby Brown: Dance: Ya Know It!
Madonna: You Can Dance
Chicago 16 (Mentioned Already)
ALSO Aerosmith: Pump (which may have been a birthday gift from you three bitches-Pat Pat Jason)
Milli Vanilli (I sold it PRE-scandal)
One funny Bobby Brown story: I remember getting this very funny call from Gibbons (summer before college) telling me that there was now a CD that had all of Bobby Brown's Greatest Hits PLUS the theme from Ghostbusters II.
I believe it is no longer in his collection, either.
I think we may have just hit upon the theme for a future, unlistenable, Coalescence volume...
I remember the day you two wankers bought that Bobby Brown disk. Not shared it of course, but each bought a copy at the same time. The ridiculing began in Gibbs basement, as many things did in that era. I can picture it in my head quite clearly.
You Can Dance was simply awful. One continuous track. Gibbs and I listened to that crapfest sitting on the couch in my first dorm room, the one shared with the room-ape. Not a word was spoken during the listen, me being stunned into an absolute stupor. He entranced, imagining her naked. I couldn't get past the music in order to fantasize.
A lot of the original songs were OK, but the "house mix" versions ruined them. It was not truly one track, it just seemed like it. Prince's Lovesexy: now THAT's one track.
Full Moon Fever was in your first brood, if I'm not mistaken.
FMF would definitely have been early, and I still have it. Still a good album, though by your strictest standards I should get rid of it, since I haven't listened to it recently.
You Can Dance wasn't one track technically, but each track melded into the next without any silence between it.
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ze6ibks96akq
No tracks less than 6 minutes long.
Jeebus!
And how can I not forget....
Stetsasonic.
Talk about a different Dan.
Stetsasonic's "All that Jazz" actually made it onto my "Mix Mash" CD of singles from entire albums that could no longer justify inclusion in my collection. Along with selections by Bobby Caldwell, McFadden & Whitehead, and Collective Soul, among others.
Cory remembers Stestsasonic well, I'm sure. 1989 was the summer of Stetsasonic and Batman.
My first three CDs were Sgt. Pepper, Rubber Soul, and Eric Clapton's Journeyman. All three survive. I have Full Moon Fever on LP, and recently thought about buying the cd. While not a big Petty fan, that is a good album.
Yeah, but how old were you when you got your first CD, and what year was it?
My first three broods were before I was ever out of high school.
I was either a junior, or a senior in high school.
Well, la ti da. I guess I my orignal CDs stand apart from yours & Mix's, in terms of being mind-boggling.
But my history of those years is pretty well documented. I had the disadvantage of being from a background and home environment that was artistically bankrupt.
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