Most musically diverse selections purchased in one shopping trip

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Early Fall `89. I'm paylessly interning at SPIN. Summoned to jury duty (who actually pay). My first day waiting to be selected, I'm already bored with the mix tape I'd brought with me (ah...the days before iPods). During lunch, I visit J&R Music World on Park Row, and buy the following two cassettes.

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In retrospect, not only am I impressed at how 90's-prescient this pairing was, but how musically polar.

yer turn...

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

We should rule out Salvation Army visits, because diverse selections are the only things you'll leave with.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

In high school, I remember buying both Business as Usual by Men At Work and Speak of the Devil by Ozzy in one go.

Incidentally, the point of this thread is not to scream from the highest rooftop: "OOOOOH, WHERE'S MY MEDAL? ME SO ECLECTIC!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Incidentally, the point of this thread is not to scream from the highest rooftop: "OOOOOH, WHERE'S MY MEDAL? ME SO ECLECTIC!"

Then I guess I don't understand.

― shueytexas, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

VISIT ONE AMOEBA

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

The first two CDs I purchased on my fourteenth birthday were:

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http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002H97.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Then I guess I don't understand.

Well, for a start, I guess the entirety of ILM is devoted to showcasing one eclecticism, but I was more interested in the random pairings than in anybody's conscious wide taste.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

(that's my general answer to this thread, not a comment addressed to shueytexas)

xxpost

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

The day I bought my first cd player in 1992, I also bought 4 cds. They were:

Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
Curve - Doppelganger
Shakespeare's Sister - Hormonally Yours
AC/DC - Back In Black

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

i remember in 1991 buying "1992: the love album" by carter USM (yes, it did so come out in 1991) and "chorus" by erasure at HMV in blackpool.

and on my birthday in 1989 i got a beach boys best-of and "dazzle ships" by OMD on tape. (first time i'd heard the latter. wow, did that rewire my synapses).

thing is, i really can't decide if these are odd juxtapositions or not. in a way they make perfect sense to me still.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

but i think mrjosh has just won this hands down.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

http://www.anus.com/metal/images/godflesh2.jpg
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005JAZ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Not especially super-diverse but:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005YXZH.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg + http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005JC5.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Alex, I don't know why, but I am utterly tickled by the thought of you wordlessly bopping to "Move This" and "This Beat Is Technotronic".

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Well, I once bought Highway to Hell and Aerosmith's Greatest Hits (on vinyl; I'd had the cassette since Gr 6 obv) along with a Ravi Shankar record, drone/improv disc Hands of Caravaggio by MIMEO/John Tilbury, and Kevin Drumm's extreme noise release Land of Lurches. The first 3 were second-hand though. I used to do stuff like this all the time. I think I've become more mid-rangey in the last year or two.

― the fucker that will burn you (sundar), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

http://art.towerrecords.com/coverart.asp?S=2749171&X=178&Y=178

http://art.towerrecords.com/coverart.asp?S=2901723&X=178&Y=178

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Johnny Fever, it's frightening that you bought the Cowboy Junkies on the day you got your first CD player. I did the same thing when I got mine (a few years earlier). And with it I bought that Midnight Oil disc with "Beds Are Burning". I suppose not a particularly random pairing; two discs that scream "safe choices for pseudo-intelligentsia".

More recently, I bought the Decemberists and that new Luaka Bop Afro-psych compilation in one go. I guess they seem weird next to each other.

― southern lights, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

Alex, I don't know why, but I am utterly tickled by the thought of you wordlessly bopping to "Move This" and "This Beat Is Technotronic".

Well, it was via the influence of the editor of a crappy music rag I'd been writing for at the time. He moonlit as a d.j. at the China Club, so every time I was at "the office" (his crappy apartment), he'd be playing all sorts of that stuff, so by osmosis I started to actually appreciate a lot of it. Eventually, I succumbed and sprang for the Technotronic cassette (haha...cassettes....remember those?) Still have it somewhere. I think I have the cd single for "Pump Up the Jam", but I never re-bought the full album of disc (and do not feel my collection is sorely lacking as a result).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

I remember taking these home together one time, presumably as one or more of the prices were marked down [me being a cheapskate]:

Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Olivier Messiaen - Pieces for Church Organ [actually a French title I can't recall]
A Certain Ratio - To Each...

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

I remember getting Prince Charming by Adam & the Ants the same day I picked up For Those About to Rock by AC/DC.....at Disc-o-Mat on 58th St. & Lexington Avenue (for those of you playing along at home).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

Ghostface - Ironman
Wilco - Being There

i only remember cuz the clerk, who was a tangentally related to rhymesayers commented on it, and i felt cool cuz of the compliment.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism (I'm still not really sure why I bought that fucking thing)
Jay-Z - The Black Album

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 7 April 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

belle and sebastian - if you're feeling sinister
kanye west - the college dropout

― jonathan - stl (jonathan - stl), Thursday, 7 April 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

Ghostface - Ironman
Wilco - Being There

and

Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism (I'm still not really sure why I bought that fucking thing)
Jay-Z - The Black Album

haha! these were like the exact same purchase run except we obv. went to college at different times!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 7 April 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

i bought both of these at the same store on the same day in February 1990:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003JB7.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://www.808state.com/discogs/808pages/albpages/albninet/albnine3.jpg
i remember it vividly. while i really liked the sinead album, 90 blew my mind.

― heywood jablomi (heywood), Thursday, 7 April 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

Just recently:

The Ex - Turn
Fennesz - Venice
Munly - s/t (Weird country music)

And I was tempted to also buy a Ruins CD.

― Curtis, Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

my last trip to Eat Records I got a John Fahey album and a Sly & The Family Stone album. They're pretty dissimiliar.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

big l - lifestylez ov da poor and dangerous
willie nelson - red headed stranger

― Sym Sym (sym), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

The Spice Girls -- Spice
Merzbow -- Music For Bondage

― alext (alext), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:31 (twenty years ago)

First:

http://www.anus.com/metal/images/voivod4.jpg http://www.chipin-kaiya.com/JazzKnowledge/AudioCite/OrnetteColemanFreeJazz%239DD3.jpg

And on a different occasion:
http://book011.co.kr/mart/upload/s5815_1.jpg http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/dre800/e853/e85348xwknd.jpg

And finally, here's a show-stopper:
http://www.addreviews.com/images/albums/2003-08-10-22-05-57.jpg http://www.musiq.pl/images/18/Barbra_Streisand_Second_Barbra_Streisand_Album.jpg http://www.mukebox.com/pics/al/07/7069.jpg

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

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