First CD

Minor, little anniversary: twenty years ago today, I bought my first CD, a copy of Mozart's Mass in C-Major K317 performed by the Bavarian Radio Chorus under Eugen Jochum.

Kind of a silly thing to remember, I guess.

For those keeping score at home, here were the subsequent nine:

2. Mozart, Requiem K626: Academy of Ancient Music, Hogwood
3. Mozart, Mass in c-minor K427: Berlin Philharmonic, Karajan
4. Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique: Chicago Symphony, Solti
5. Fauré, Requiem: Atlanta Symphony, Shaw
6. Händel, Messiah: Chicago Symphony, Solti
7. The Beatles: Beatles for Sale
8. The Beatles: Abbey Road
9. Les Miserables, London cast
10. Mozart, Symphonies #40 and #41: Vienna Philharmonic, Karajan

So, yes, 20 years ago I was a classical nerd. I still am, but I've expanded my tastes. A little. The last ten CDs I've bought were:

811. Joan Osborne, Pretty Little Stranger
812. Glen Hansard/Marketa Irglova, Once
813. Glen Hansard, The Swell Season
814. The Frames, The Cost
815. Kate Rusby, Underneath the Stars
816. Gemma Hayes, Night On My Side
817. Badly Drawn Boy, The Hour of Bewilderbeast
818. Joan Osborne, Breakfast in Bed
819. Robert Plant/Alison Krause, Raising Sand
820. The Corrs, Talk On Corners

OK, so my tastes are still a little unusual, and I tend to scoop up entire ouvres when I find someone I like.

Also, just when you thought I couldn't possibly provide more useless information about myself, I plan to put my CD catalog online at some point, as part of a larger project that would actually be a commercial R&D effort. The CD catalog will be an example, not the app itself. So, stay tuned.