A gold CD is one in which gold is used in place of the super pure aluminium commonly used as the reflective coating on ordinary CDs or silver on ordinary CD-Rs
Gold CDs can be played in any CD player. Blank gold CD-Rs are also available. They can be recorded in any CD recorder and played in any CD player.
The advantage of the gold reflection layer is its resistance to corrosion, in contrast to the ordinary aluminum layer found on normal compact discs, which reacts with the glue and plastic material and gradually becomes transparent over time, ultimately resulting in reading errors or total playback failure.
Many gold CDs, including those from Mobile Fidelity and DCC Compact Classics, are packaged in lift-lock cases, a special type of case where the CD is lifted out of the case automatically and a latch unlocked when opened. The advantage of this design is that only the edges of the disc are handled when removing it from the case, and the disc is never subjected to any bending force while removing it. From the outside, they appear almost identical to a standard jewel case. They have the same dimensions as a standard jewel case, and use standard booklets and back cards.
ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits
Al Stewart - Last Days of the Century
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child Is Father to the Man
Bryan Adams - Reckless
Jimmy Buffett - Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Jimmy Buffett - Son of a Son of a Sailor
Jimmy Buffett - Songs You Know by Heart
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
The Doors - Strange Days
The Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
Joe Jackson - Night and Day
Joe Jackson - Will Powerยด
Michael Jackson - HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I
Michael Jackson - Bad
Michael Jackson - Limited Edition Minimax CD
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Elton John - Elton John's Greatest Hits
Enya - The Memory of Trees (Japanese limited edition)
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
John Coltrane - Blue Train
John Coltrane and Paul Quinichette - Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette
John Lennon - Imagine
Nirvana - Nevermind
Nirvana - In Utero
Pat Benatar - In the Heat of the Night
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - The Wall
The Police - Ghost in the Machine
R.E.M. - Murmur
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Metallica - Master of Puppets
The Who - Who's Next
Paul & Linda McCartney - Ram
Yuridia - Entre Mariposas
