Keith Hirsch’s CD Resource

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 convinced Warner Bros. to recall the disc and reissue it.  The disc was recalled and reissued with a different mastering, though I cannot say for sure whether Stevie Wonder was actually involved.

The first pressing that was recalled has “02″ at the end of the matrix code. The disc is shown below. Note that the catalog number is shown as 23696-2. This disc was replaced by a considerably more common Target with the matrix code ending in “03″. This Target shows the catalog number as 923696-2.

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 Doors The Very Best of The Doors 40th Anniversary compilation (two-disc set, German import)
• The Kinks Arista Years SACD box
• The Kinks RCA Years SACD box
• The Kinks Celluloid Heroes SACD
• The Kinks Come Dancing With The Kinks SACD
• Genesis 1976-1982 SACD/PAL DVD box (Virgin)
• Genesis 1976-1982 CD/NTSC DVD box (WEA)
• The Jackson 5 Anthology box (out of print, but sealed)
• Chicago Portrait box (out of print, but sealed)