Keith Hirsch’s CD Resource

The first Japanese CD issue of The Police Synchronicity was released under catalog number 38XB-2.  There are two pressings that differ in several ways.  Importantly, the first pressing mimics the original LP release in that it has just 10 tracks rather than the typical 11.  “Murder by Numbers” does not appear on this disc.  Shown below are pictures of [...]

Here is another disc that I had been searching for for a very long time.  It is the original Japanese CBS/Sony pressing of Jethro Tull Aqualung for the U.S. market.  This pressing is very rare in my experience, as I have only come across three copies.  The disc has “CSR COMPACT DISC” repeating in the [...]

A recent acquisition is the rare Japanese Target CD of Randy Newman Trouble in Paradise.  I first became aware of it in 2006 and know of only two other copies.  The disc was pressed by CBS/Sony, as evidenced by the text “MANUFACTURED BY CBS/SONY RECORDS INC.” stamped on the clear plastic ring at the center.  [...]

Featured here is an early Japanese sampler CD from Epic/Sony entitled American Best Selection.  The catalog number is 35 8P-35, and the copyright date shown on the disc and inserts is 1983.  It is a compilation of 12 U.S. radio hits from 1983.  The tracks are as follows:

“Beat It”, Michael Jackson
“Who Can It Be Now?”, Men [...]

I just obtained a disc that I had been searching for for a very long time.  It is the first CD issue of the outstanding Rush album Moving Pictures.  The disc was pressed in West Germany by Polygram and bears the original “green-arrow” design.  This design was used for a short period for the earliest [...]

I’ve been busy lately, buying both new and used stuff.  Here are a few of the used discs I’ve purchased recently:

Huey Lewis and the News Sports: Japanese JVC pressing for the Canadian market with catalog number VK 41412.  I did not know that this pressing existed until finding it in the bins.  It looks like [...]

The story goes like this. Back around 1983, Warner Bros. released Donald Fagen’s The Nightfly as a West German Target CD. Word got back to Warner Bros. that something was wrong with this release. The sound was not right. It has even been said that Stevie Wonder was so displeased with the sound that he [...]

I don’t only collect first pressings and other out-of-print CDs. Here are some new discs I’ve bought recently. Many of them are still sealed, as I’m too busy to listen to everything!

The Traveling Wilburys deluxe and regular edition box sets
The Police two-disc compilation
Sly and the Family Stone box set
The Doors 40th Anniversary remasters (all six studio albums)
The [...]