An LP you bought knowing nothing about the band

When I was younger I had more time hanging around on flea markets and in record shops, and I'd occasionally buy things that were cheap enough just from cover and information (back in the day I thought longs tracks are a qualification so I'd look for that, too, making me more likely to buy prog in this way). Examples that come to mind right now are
Pulsar - Pollen
Flame Dream - Out in the Dark
East of Eden - Mercator Projected.
Although far more often I'd have read a little bit about a band or an album in advance or I'd buy because of a listed band member who I know has done other good stuff, which I think doesn't count here.


Edited by Lewian - October 19 2017 at 09:50

Quinino wrote: It came to my mind another record I bought sometime ago - not prog, though - from the jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, based only on the appealing cover art . It happens the album is superb and the lady became one of my favorite voices of that genre. This one is from '95 and the one before that (the 1st she recorded for Blue Note, in '93) is even better

I have that album. Nice choice.

As for albums I bought on the srength of the cover without knowing the band..Greenslade. Like the Roger Dean cover. Music didn't do much for me though.

Also, Astra by Asia. Ditto.

I always have to sample the album first.

AMBROSIA "Ambrosia" 1975

Iron Maiden's Killers; based on the cover alone. 

I've had a couple, mostly just in the past year. Some turned out splendidly, some less so.

Too many to mention. It was the only way back in the seventies. Also the guy in the music store actually knew a heck of a lot about music. I have never bought an album over the internet. All my albums have come from a record store and I can tell you exactly where and when I bought each album. I remember picking up Omega's 200 Years After The Last War in  Cheap Thrills when they had their store on Bishop St in Montreal. They used to stamp the records so you could bring them back. It still has the the sticker on it. $2.50 back in the summer of 1978. I was looking for a used copy of Mike Oldfield's Hergest Ridge but came across this weird album with a lady with a fish head and band members with weird names who turned out to be from Hungary. So i bought it, brought it home and was blown away. Did this with so many albums. Just hit and miss. Grobschnitt's first album was another one.  Bought lierally tons of albums this way. Never got rid of them and rarely listen to CD's or downloads to this day..

Alan Sorrenti's second album. I had never heard anything about RPI. A difficult and unloved music but the beginning of a love story with Italy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlyTI4KHZ3U

Symphonic Slam and Maxophone.

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: I bet at least one person bought ITCOTCK that way and I'm sure many people bought albums based on the Roger Dean artwork alone. I personally can't remember doing it though. Usually I at least heard of the band.

I can say that I have done this with Roger Dean.  I bought a Space Needle album because it had Roger Dean artwork. 

In regards to King Crimson, I was a fan of Yes, and I wanted to check out Bill Bruford's "side project".  :)  I don't remember off hand which King Crimson album I bought first.  I think it was Three of a Perfect Pair.