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Gold compact disc, the Glossary

A gold compact disc is one in which gold is utilized in place of the high-purity aluminium or silver commonly used as the reflective coating on ordinary CDs and CD-Rs respectively.^[1]

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"Heroes" (David Bowie album)

"Heroes" is the twelfth studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released on 14October 1977 through RCA Records.

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Al Stewart

Alastair Ian Stewart (born 5 September 1945) is a Scottish-born singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician who rose to prominence as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Aluminium

Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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Aphex Twin

Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), known professionally as Aphex Twin, is a British musician, record producer, composer and DJ.

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Aqualung (album)

Aqualung, released in March 1971 by Chrysalis Records, is the fourth studio album by the rock band Jethro Tull.

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Atom Heart Mother

Atom Heart Mother is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd.

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Audiophile

An audiophile (from +) is a person who is enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction.

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August and Everything After

August and Everything After is the debut studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released September 14, 1993, on Geffen Records.

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Équinoxe (Equinox) is the fourth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released in December 1978 on the Dreyfus record label, licensed to Polydor Records for its worldwide distribution in 1979.

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Bad (album)

Bad is the seventh studio album by the American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson.

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Blonde on Blonde

Blonde on Blonde is the seventh studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released as a double album on June 20, 1966, by Columbia Records.

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Blondie (band)

Blondie is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1974 by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein.

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Blood, Sweat & Tears

Blood, Sweat & Tears (also known as "BS&T") is an American jazz rock music group founded in New York City in 1967, noted for a combination of brass with rock instrumentation.

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Blue Train (album)

Blue Train is a studio album by the jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Bryan Adams

Bryan Guy Adams (born November 5, 1959) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and photographer.

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Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette

Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette is a studio album by jazz musicians John Coltrane and Paul Quinichette released in October 1959 on Prestige Records.

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CD player

A CD player is an electronic device that plays audio compact discs, which are a digital optical disc data storage format. Gold compact disc and cD player are compact disc.

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CD-R

CD-R (Compact disc-recordable) is a digital optical disc storage format. Gold compact disc and CD-R are compact disc and optical computer storage media.

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Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes is the seventh studio album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett.

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Changesbowie

Changesbowie is a compilation album by English rock musician David Bowie, released by Rykodisc in the US and by EMI in the UK in 1990.

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Child Is Father to the Man

Child Is Father to the Man is the debut album by Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in February 1968.

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Chosen Lords

Chosen Lords is a compilation album by Richard D. James, released under the aliases AFX and Aphex Twin.

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Compact disc

The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. Gold compact disc and compact disc are optical computer storage media.

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Compact disc bronzing

Compact disc bronzing, or CD bronzing, is a specific, uncommon variant of disc rot, a type of corrosion that affects the reflective layer of compact discs and renders them unreadable over time. Gold compact disc and compact disc bronzing are compact disc.

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Counting Crows

Counting Crows is an American rock band from the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.

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Disc rot

Disc rot is the tendency of CD, DVD, or other optical discs to become unreadable because of chemical deterioration. Gold compact disc and disc rot are compact disc.

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Eagles (band)

The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971.

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Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is a British singer, songwriter and pianist.

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Enhanced CD

Enhanced CD is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both compact disc and CD-ROM players. Gold compact disc and Enhanced CD are optical computer storage media.

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Entre Mariposas

Entre Mariposas (Among Butterflies) is the third solo album by Mexican singer Yuridia.

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Enya

Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin (born 17 May 1961) known mononymously as Enya, is an Irish composer and singer-songwriter.

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Extended Resolution Compact Disc

Extended Resolution Compact Disc (XRCD) is a mastering and manufacture process patented by JVC (Victor Company of Japan, Ltd) for producing Red Book compact discs. Gold compact disc and Extended Resolution Compact Disc are compact disc.

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Ghost in the Machine (album)

Ghost in the Machine is the fourth studio album by British rock band the Police.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.

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Greatest Hits (Elton John album)

Greatest Hits is the eleventh official album release for English musician Elton John, and the first compilation.

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Hell Freezes Over

Hell Freezes Over is the second live album by the Eagles, released in 1994.

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Highway 61 Revisited

Highway 61 Revisited is the sixth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on August 30, 1965, by Columbia Records.

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HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album containing the first non-Motown greatest hits album and ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995.

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Imagine (John Lennon album)

Imagine is the second solo studio album by English musician John Lennon, released on 9 September 1971 by Apple Records.

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In the Heat of the Night (Pat Benatar album)

In the Heat of the Night is the debut studio album by American singer Pat Benatar, released on August 27, 1979, by Chrysalis Records.

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In Utero

In Utero is the third and final studio album by the American rock band Nirvana, released on September 21, 1993, by DGC Records.

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Jean-Michel Jarre

Jean-Michel André Jarre (born 24 August 1948) is a French composer, performer and record producer.

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Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band based in San Francisco, California, that became one of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock.

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Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire, in 1967.

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Jimmy Buffett

James William Buffett (December 25, 1946 – September 1, 2023) was an American singer-songwriter.

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Joe Jackson (musician)

David Ian "Joe" Jackson (born 11 August 1954) is an English musician, singer and songwriter.

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John Coltrane

John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer.

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John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Last Days of the Century

Last Days of the Century is the eleventh studio album by Al Stewart, released in August 1988.

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Let's Dance (David Bowie album)

Let's Dance is the fifteenth studio album by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie, released on 14 April 1983 through EMI America Records.

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Linda McCartney

Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (Eastman; September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American photographer and musician.

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Low (David Bowie album)

Low is the eleventh studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released on 14 January 1977 through RCA Records.

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Master of Puppets

Master of Puppets is the third studio album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released on March 3, 1986, by Elektra Records.

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Meddle

Meddle is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released by Harvest Records on 5 November 1971 in the United Kingdom.

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Metallica is an American heavy metal band.

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Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist.

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Michael Jackson's Ghosts

Michael Jackson's Ghosts is a 1996 short film starring Michael Jackson, directed by Stan Winston, and written by Stephen King and Mick Garris.

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Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL or MoFi) is a record label that specialized in the production of audiophile issues.

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Mother's Milk (album)

Mother's Milk is the fourth studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on August 16, 1989 by EMI Records.

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Murmur (album)

Murmur is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on April 12, 1983, by I.R.S. Records.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Nevermind

Nevermind is the second studio album by the American rock band Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991, by DGC Records.

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Night and Day (Joe Jackson album)

Night and Day is the fifth studio album by English musician Joe Jackson, released on 25 June 1982 by A&M Records.

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Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American rock band formed in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987.

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Off the Wall

Off the Wall is the fifth studio album by the American singer Michael Jackson, released on August 10, 1979, by Epic Records.

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Oxygène

Oxygène (Oxygen) is the third studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre.

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Parallel Lines

Parallel Lines is the third studio album by American rock band Blondie, released on September 23, 1978, by Chrysalis Records to international commercial success.

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Pat Benatar

Patricia Mae Giraldo (Andrzejewski; formerly Benatar; born January 10, 1953) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon.

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Paul Quinichette

Paul Quinichette (May 17, 1916 – May 25, 1983) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Quadrophenia

Quadrophenia is the sixth studio album by the English rock band the Who, released as a double album on 26 October 1973 by Track Records.

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R.E.M.

R.E.M. were an American alternative rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe, who were students at the University of Georgia.

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Ram (album)

Ram is the only studio album credited to the husband-and-wife music duo Paul and Linda McCartney, and the former’s second album post-Beatles.

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Reckless (Bryan Adams album)

Reckless is the fourth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams, released by A&M Records on 5 November 1984 to coincide with Adams' 25th birthday.

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Reckoning (R.E.M. album)

Reckoning (alternatively titled File Under Water)Hoskyns, Barney.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1982, comprising vocalist Anthony Kiedis, bassist Flea, drummer Chad Smith, and guitarist John Frusciante.

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Remaster

A remaster is a change in the sound or image quality of previously created forms of media, whether audiophonic, cinematic, or videographic.

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Sagarika

Sagarika Mukherjee, also known as Saag, is an Indian singer and actress.

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Silver

Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.

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Son of a Son of a Sailor

Son of a Son of a Sailor is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett.

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Songs You Know by Heart

Songs You Know by Heart: Jimmy Buffett's Greatest Hit(s) is the 18th album and the first greatest hits compilation by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett.

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Sonny Rollins

Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American retired jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians.

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Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders

Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders is a 1959 album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, recorded for the Contemporary label, featuring performances by Rollins with Hampton Hawes, Barney Kessel, Leroy Vinnegar, and Shelly Manne with Victor Feldman added on one track.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_compact_disc

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