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| Blind Music Purchases: Going With Your Gut
In this day and age where an album leaking on the internet is more common than a rpolitical scandal, and music rrstreaming services like Spotify and Pandora rule the world, ra lot of the surprise and thrill of buying a new rrecord rwithout already hearing it rbeforehand has gone out the window. Some of the best moments for me as a rmusic rrlistener have come from buying an album with no idea or very little idea of what the rmusic inside rsounds like, rand while there have been some albums I would've been rbetter off leaving on the record store rshelf, there have ralso been plenty of great rpurchases I've made solely on going with my gut. Below are some rof those pleasant rrsurprises | | 1 |  | Bjork
Homogenic
Bought simply because I had bought Post by her about a year prior, but I had heard none of the songs off of this at the time (at least that's what I
thought, when I got to Pluto I actually remembered hearing it when I was younger but I didn't know it was her who performed it). Ended up becoming
one of my all time favorite albums | | 2 |  | Siouxsie and the Banshees
Peepshow
My dad was introducing me one night to some of the stuff off of "Juju" and "Superstition" online, and the next day I went out to buy a copy of one of
them. The store unfortunately had neither of those records, but they had this which I was completely unfamiliar with. Ended up solidifying my love for
the group even more | | 3 |  | Marilyn Manson
Mechanical Animals
Bought this up in a small record store in Salem, MA last summer. I only owned Antichrist Superstar at the time and enjoyed it a lot, but hadn't heard
one track off of this. Ended up becoming my favorite Marilyn Manson record | | 4 |  | Brand New
The Devil and God are Raging Inside me
I had heard Jesus and Sowing a Season when in 6th grade, but that was it, and I wasn't a huge fan of either of them at that age. At the end of high
school/start of college when fighting with a huge bout of depression, I wasted any money I got on CDs to help curb my emotions. This was one of
those albums, and while I didn't like the songs I heard from it originally, I decided to give it a chance all those years later. Ended up being another one
of my favorite albums, and it holds a special place to me for helping me through some rough times psychologically | | 5 |  | Type O Negative
October Rust
Heard they were like the gothic metal version of The Cure. Disintegration has always been a favorite, so I snagged this for 7 bucks without hearing
any of it before. Great choice on my part | | 6 |  | A Tribe Called Quest
The Low End Theory
Saw this album cover in the Rolling Stone 500 greatest albums book my Uncle bought for me in middle school. I didn't even know it was a rap record,
I just always thought the art was cool. Bought it one day Sophomore year of High school online with some spare cash, and lo and behold, it ended up
being my first rap album, and the one that showed me that hip hop wasn't just mainstream garbage | | 7 |  | Hum
Downward is Heavenward
I owned You'd Prefer an Astronaut for years, but always heard how this was their magnum opus. Without listening to it beforehand, I picked it up for 6
bucks and was happily impressed | | 8 |  | Converge
Axe to Fall
Only had heard Dark Horse, but bought it anyways. While now it is one of my least favorite Converge records, at the time I liked it enough to give the
rest of the discog a listen, with Jane Doe coming out as a favorite | | 9 |  | Silversun Pickups
Carnavas
Only heard Lazy Eye and Well Thought Out Twinkles at the time. Opened me up to the idea that indie rock could actually rock | | 10 |  | Tool
Aenima
My dad one day when I was in middle school got pissed when I told him I wanted him to drive me to the record store to buy an Avenged Sevenfold
record. He told me not to buy that shit and get something "actually heavy" (Tool's Undertow) instead. Being impressed by that at the time, he went
out the next day and got me Aenima. My life was forever changed right from the first moment I heard the bizarre intro to Stinkfist. I could tell it was
something special, and it became not only my favorite album of all time, but the album that influenced me to become a musician. Thanks Dad | |
sapient
01.22.14 | Lemme know about some of the albums for you guys that this has happened with! | neurisis17
01.22.14 | Osibisa - Woyaya (the cover was awesome... Roger Dean... I thought it would be some obscure prog I had never heard, turned out to be some obscure afro-pop I had never heard.
Julia Holter- Loud City Song (saw her performance on KEXP's YouTube channel, had to get the album, but I've still yet to listen to it)
Inter Arma - Sky Burial (saw them live at the Relapse Showcase at last year's SXSW, and buying the album at that show was probably the most successful impulse buys I've ever made)
Alaskan - The Weak & The Wounded (they were on the same label as a group called Omotai, who opened for Inter Arma and Black Tusk at a show in November, and looked interesting. Another Excellent find)
| sapient
01.22.14 | I still need to try that Julia Holter album, I only heard about it recently from the end-of-year list here. Lemme know what you think of it when you get to listen to it finally | OysterizerInsomniac
01.22.14 | I've discovered a lot through blind picks, but to be fair, most of them were from the library. | tempest--
01.22.14 | Was thinking about this the other day actually.
My dad will often just go buy some CDs or movies without knowing anything about it, but I don't think I've ever really done that except for when I was first getting into metal and bought like Metallica and Judas Priest without checking them beforehand | zakalwe
01.22.14 | Digital age blows.
Neutral Milk Hotel was a good one for me. There was a bit of a buzz about it years back, I saw it cheap and just thought fuck it and it blew me away. | PunchforPunch
01.22.14 | what are you babbling about old fart | sapient
01.22.14 | Like, I do still listen to plenty of albums on youtube and download on the internet, but recently I've been holding myself back on doing that to bring back some of the initial thrill that I used to have a lot more of from getting a new album. Btw I'm 19, so maybe I just think like an old person, @Punch xD | bloc
01.23.14 | Every time I've bought an album blind it never ended up being a good decision | GnarlyShillelagh
01.23.14 | cool list i never do this but one of my best friends likes to pick up random things from cd/record stores when he sees cool artwork
one day he and my other friends went to a cd store and he bought a few albums and when he showed me them later i pulled them out of the bag and my jaw hit the goddamn floor as i saw that the top album was slow riot for new zero kanada
he listens exclusively to hip hop and bought it just bc of the artwork i thought it was a joke at first and then when they told me it wasn't i started raving about it being the best ep ever and they thought i was joking
total holy shit moment |
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