i was in the record store and the guy there was playing this awesome record and i went up to him and i'm like, "what record are you playing?" and he's like, "that's.....

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"there's nothing wrong with love" -- built to spill

― notfazed (notfazed), Friday, 11 April 2003 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

good rekkid, overlong tho

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 11 April 2003 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I got sick of that album faster than cotton candy.

― gazuga (gazuga), Friday, 11 April 2003 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

perhaps the most overrated indiepop album ever! i thought i was the only one...

― Aaron A., Friday, 11 April 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"Deep" by Peter Murphy. Long, long time ago.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 11 April 2003 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Weird Al's version of "MacArthur Park", "JURASSIC Park". Except I had never heard the Richard Harris song so I was pretty annoyed this amazing chorus was by Yankovic, someone I'd never particularly enjoyed hearing.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 11 April 2003 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Readymade, 'On Point and Red'. The clerk and I agreed they sounded kinda like Lush. I bought the album right away, and was very glad I did.

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 11 April 2003 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

have you heard Readymade's previous single "The Block Alone"? dead set dreampop classic, no mistake

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 11 April 2003 03:37 (twenty-two years ago)

mr. partridge - "take away/the lure of salvage." only copy they had at the time and someone had already claimed it, didn't find my own until 4 or 5 years later. xtc dub mixes forever.

(another time it was this heat's "made available.")

― your null fame (yournullfame), Friday, 11 April 2003 03:38 (twenty-two years ago)

regardless if it's overrated it's one of the best fucking indie rock albums in existence. i would say guided by voices is more overrated.

― JP Albin (John Paul Albin), Friday, 11 April 2003 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I was pretty annoyed this amazing chorus was by Yankovic, someone I'd never particularly enjoyed hearing.

DIE!!

― Evan (Evan), Friday, 11 April 2003 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Any attempt to kill all non-Yankovic fans would amount to genocide. If not ethnic cleansing.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 11 April 2003 04:26 (twenty-two years ago)

the general's daughter soundtrack.

one time i should've asked: the strokes. when i first heard it i thought, "what is this another lame malkmus record?"

i ended up buying 'is this it' at different store a couple days later and had a moment or two of vertigo. i got over it, though.

― brian badword (badwords), Friday, 11 April 2003 04:51 (twenty-two years ago)

on the last occasion this happened to me it was the Mendoza Line's latest elpee

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 11 April 2003 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The Best Bootlegs in the World CD
Parliament's Osmium
Kevin Ayers Joy of A Toy

those were the days. Now i recognize everything.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 11 April 2003 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

You gotta love his version of Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise, though - Amish Paradise. The video had me in tears laughing. OK, so I was in a pretty silly mood and susceptible to particularly idiotic humour, but it worked for me...

― Dave Stelfox, Friday, 11 April 2003 08:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I was in HMV a few years ago in the classical dept and they were playing '1000 Airplanes on the Roof' by Phillip Glass, which totally blew me away. Unfortunatley, the import price on the CD prevented me from getting it.
I found it used a few months later, which I was very happy about.

― Jonathan, Friday, 11 April 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

something off mum - "finally we are no-one"

new mum album

see?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 11 April 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"Agassiz" off Bel Canto's White-Out Conditions. This was in 1987.

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 11 April 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

This just happened to me in reverse in that a student just came up and asked what I was playing; the answer = Standards by Tortoise.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 11 April 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

"This Conversation is Ending Starting Right Now"- Knapsack

― Brandon Gentry (Brandon Gentry), Friday, 11 April 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"....none of your business - you don't look like the kind of person who should be allowed to buy it."

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 11 April 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Last time this happened, it was Love. I'd only ever heard "Alone Again Or" -- which I like -- but the song they were playing convinced me that I need to really own me some of them. Forever Changes, yes?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 11 April 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

This never happens to me. I already own every record.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Some Rocket From The Crypt Album ... "Burn Dracula Burn"?

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

The new Radio 4

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

What about that one, though?

Over the years, examples included Peter Wyngarde, Van Morrison being very drunk and probably something by the Frogs I didn't already have, though I doubtless recognized who it was anyway.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"...the sound you hear before a punch in the bag!"
pow!
honestly, this is one of the sad, sad rituals of the pathetic, lonely men who hang out at my local record store. I love those guys.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The only time I can remember doing this, it was a Messiaen piece. I bought the CD, but apparently I had caught the only interesting part while I was in the store.

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Not a record store, but I was in the subway once and this guy with headphones on was listening to what sounded like (from what I could hear leaking out and muffled) some AMAZING hip-hop... I never do this (and never will again), but, very embarrassed, I tapped on his shoulder and did a "please lift your headphones" motion -

"What are you listening to?"

"--- ----" (I couldn't hear him, he spoke too softly")

"Excuse me, I'm sorry? What is it?"

"Puff Daddy."

― Sam J. (samjeff), Friday, 11 April 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I did this on World Saxophone Quartet's "Takin' it 2 the Next Level" and listened to it once, maybe twice after I left the store. It sounded cool at the time.

― scott m (mcd), Friday, 11 April 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"3 little pigs" - green jello

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 11 April 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Some collection of mid-60s Bollywood spy movie theme music that I can only describe as "surf sitar"

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Friday, 11 April 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm curious what one must think a good indie pop album is if they're nuts enough to disregard "There's Nothing Wrong With Love"

― theodore fogelsanger, Friday, 11 April 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Last thing I remember BUYING after asking what was playing was Nubian Mindz' "Check Da Vibe", a great ruffneck broken beat/garage one-sided 12". It was cool to finally hear Hermann Nitsch at Mondo Kim's when I was in New York on vacation.

― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Friday, 11 April 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

In A Priest Driven Ambulance - Flaming Lips. It was playing at Wax 'n' Facts in Atlanta... I bought it.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Friday, 11 April 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing @ Missing Link in Indianapolis, the LP came out a couple of weeks before the CD. They put on the first side with the intro and "Building Steam with a Grain of Salt" and I was hooked. It definitely was the record I played the most for the next year or so.

A friend that owns a record shop that is connected to a coffee house said to me around a year or two ago that he sold many copies of Boards of Canada's "Music has the Right to Children" to people that overheard it playing and came into the store to ask about it.

― earlnash, Saturday, 12 April 2003 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Burning Spear's debut album.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 12 April 2003 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

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