{"id":94,"date":"2021-02-14T12:46:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T12:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.murpworks.com\/musicfan6160\/?p=94"},"modified":"2023-01-04T20:43:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T20:43:52","slug":"a-condensed-history-pt-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.murpworks.com\/musicfan6160\/history\/a-condensed-history-pt-4\/","title":{"rendered":"A Condensed History Pt. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Condensed History Pt. 4<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As discussed in The Start of a Music Blog<\/a>, this is Pt. 4 of a condensed history of my love of music as a fan. It covers the age of CDs.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might want to start at A Condensed History Pt. 1<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1990 – 2000<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Impact of the Compact Disc<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

It was the 1990s, my stereo system from 1980 had gone the way of all things. Moving locations did bad things and it just didn\u2019t survive as a system. The car stereo played tapes and then CDs. The Compact Disc<\/a> was introduced in 1982 and my collection may well have started some time after this (obviously not before).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At some point in the \u201890\u2019s I purchased a Technics CD Player and coupled it with Sennheiser Headphones. I distinctly remember it, sat high on a shelf with the headphones draped over the corner of the unit, with the cable dangling down. Sadly, I don’t remember the model number. The first CDs I bought for this were Classical and I experimented to try and find out what part of the Classical spectrum I liked. It ended up being Mozart’s Operas (especially “The Magic Flute”) and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by Mendelssohn. Although this was the CD in ascendency, tapes still played a part.<\/p>\n\n\n

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At some point my daughter reminds me I bought her a Spice Girls CD. She remembers it playing and listening to it on the headphones. So, moving on, it was The Shamen<\/a> in 1990\/91\/92 that dominated my listening. I amassed several CD singles from this period. New Order included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roxy Music – The First Five<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

At some point I bought Roxy Music\u2019s first five albums on CD from The Designer Outlet Village<\/a> in Swindon (I worked in Swindon for many years). I remember seeing Billie Piper walking around at some point – a random name check but she was excellent in Dr Who. The Roxy CDs play into a future step in my music appreciation, as we will see in a later post<\/p>\n\n\n\n