[net.audio] CD-only releases

gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon Letwin) (10/10/84)

I just bought "TriCycle - Flim & the BBs" and noticed that
its a CD-only release... there is and will be no vinyl version
available.

Does anyone know of any other CD-only releases?  At the moment, it
clearly indicates a concern for sound that transcends commercialism...

p.s. - the music is wide-dynamic range instrumental "jazz" (kinda)
	and is great!

gayde@ihuxp.UUCP (Peter Gayde) (10/12/84)

Deutsche Grammaphon has recently released a NEW recording of Mahler's
9th Symphony performed by the Berlin Philharmonic under Herbert von
Karajan.  Their advertising states that it will be a CD-only release.
-- 
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dave@rocksvax.UUCP (10/12/84)

The Police "Synchronicity" CD has "Murder By Numbers" on it whereas
the vinyl version leaves this off.  Seeing this was one of my favorite
Police songs I was a little disappointed to find out that all albums
with the same name are not the same.

p.s.  It was released only on the cassette, CD and I believe on the
back of some 45.

ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (10/17/84)

> The Police "Synchronicity" CD has "Murder By Numbers" on it whereas
> the vinyl version leaves this off.
> 
> p.s.  It was released only on the cassette, CD and I believe on the
> back of some 45.

It may be that there isn't enough room on the LP format to squeeze
that last song in.

emjej@uokvax.UUCP (10/17/84)

Also, *The Digital Domain* (synthesized/digitally hacked sound and music)
is a CD-only release. It merits that currently cheapened word "awesome."

(Although this isn't net.music, as a *St. Paul Sunday Morning* listener,
I can recommend Flim and the BBs. (I was always worried that it was
"Phlegm and the..." :->))

						James Jones

boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) (10/19/84)

> From: rocksvax!dave

> The Police "Synchronicity" CD has "Murder By Numbers" on it whereas
> the vinyl version leaves this off.  Seeing this was one of my favorite
> Police songs I was a little disappointed to find out that all albums
> with the same name are not the same.

This is not particularly new, though it's not exactly common, either. I bought
a 10" disk by Rickie Lee Jones called GIRL AT HER VOLCANO, and then ended up
buying the cassette for it because the tape had a "bonus song not available on
LP" (I don't off-hand recall which song it was). Because this happens so rarely,
I don't get as irritated about this as I do the increasingly common habit of
record companies to use songs "not available on LP" as flip sides of hit
singles. Of course, no one's *forcing* you to buy the singles just for those
songs, but if you really like the artist/group, you're stuck between a rock and
a hard place.


--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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dat@hpcnoe.UUCP (dat) (11/23/84)

	(I leap, brandishing keyboard, into the fray)

	As far as I am concerned, the public is being sold a real
bum rap as far as the CD players - ask any engineer at a company
that makes them - THEY AIN'T GUNNA BE COMPATIBLE WITH THE NEW
STUFF IN TWO YEARS!  For purely monetary gain, the record companies
and a bunch of electronics companies are pushing CD's and CD players
harder than I have ever seen ANYthing pushed in this industry.  

	Subjectively, I have heard 'mediocre' records (vinyl) on
top-notch turntables, versus CD's of the same selection...the vinyl
was far more 'listenable'.  (What else IS there, with music, anyway?)

	Admittedly, if you want to spend less than $250 on a turntable,
or buy some Japanese piece of sh*t (most, not all) then it DOES make
sense to pick up a CD...but I hope everyone who is spending hundreds
and hundreds of dollars on this equipment is throwing it into a cesspool
of no-returns!  By next Christmas, I predict that the industry will
not only come out with wider bandwidths (essential) on CD's, but will
also have 'record' capabilities.

	In the meantime, I am planning on buying a Linn turntable for
$300+ and enjoying my $1500 record collection (99% of which will NEVER
appear on CD's) and waiting for read/write CD players.


	Any comments?

					Dave Taylor
					Hewlett-Packard
					Colorado Networks Operation