Ever bought the wrong album...

[[Syl]]

...and liked it? The first time I did this was early on in high school. I mistook Alice in Chains for STP (Dirt and Sex-Type Thing were both out at that time). To this day, I'm glad I did. While I eventually listened to STP, it's had nowhere near the impact on me that AiC has.

Now, I find myself listening to Oneida rather than Unida. I noticed I lost the latter's albums when I had to reformat my hard drive, and for reasons beyond my understanding, I typed in the wrong name. Maybe I'd been looking at flatware the other day or something.

Anyway, it's strange, but I like it. Somewhere between Ween and Mogwai. Not sure if it will make it to my car, but it's good background music if nothing else.

[Cagliostro]

That I can remember, I've only bought the wrong album once. I was in Amoeba Records a few years ago, and digging through their zillions of CDs. There was a little bitty band I had one CD from called Pooka, and I really liked it, and wondered if they might have something else from them, since I was finding everything else I had been looking for for years. Well, I found one that said Pooka Stew which I thought was Pooka - Stew, but I was wrong. Dead wrong. As you may have guessed, the band was named Pooka Stew, and was self titled (or I was an idiot and didn't noticed the album name). Pooka Stew was definitely not my thing. But at least it was a cheap mistake.

[wayfriend]

I heard Somehow, Somewhere, Someway by KWS on the radio. I bought Ledbetter Heights thinking that was the album; it wasn't, but ended up liking it better than Trouble Is....

[dANdeLION]

I bought Boston's 2nd album Don't Look Back when I was a 14 year old kid, thinking a track on it was something I heard at the skating rink, and I liked the cover, so I figured I liked it enough to buy it. I took it home and asked my dad to use his stereo. He said okay, but I had to use the headphones. At this point in life, I only had a dinky AM radio, and the only loud music I heard was at the rink, and that was mostly disco. And disco was what I was expecting when I dropped the needle on this album. Talk about an OMG moment; the album blew my mind! Disco was no longer something I could even pretend to be interested in......

[Mr. Broken]

Mistook New Found Glory, for Pride and Glory, one of the best mistakes I ever made . These kind of things happen when you order, instead of buying direct.