Unpopular Music Opinions

**Janszoon** · 07-31-2018, 04:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Blank.

I kind of hate this thought. There is so many albums out their that I feel like you kind of have to judge them by the cover to know whether you're going to listen to it or not.

Yeah, the fact of the matter is that album covers are pieces of marketing designed to reflect the music in some way, so to a certain extent you can judge an album by its cover.

**Frownland** · 07-31-2018, 06:05 AM

~~MicShazam~~ · 07-31-2018, 06:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I wish I could know how many people bought it because they thought it was something more fitting to the cover. A pretty good troll.

The Batlord · 07-31-2018, 08:19 AM

I like how everyone is smiling but Genesis P. Orridge is standing a bit back so you don't really look at him at first and his face is the real album.

Key · 07-31-2018, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Yeah, the fact of the matter is that album covers are pieces of marketing designed to reflect the music in some way, so to a certain extent you can judge an album by its cover.

I've lost count of how many albums I've listened to solely based on the album cover. Makes for some interesting discoveries.

~~MicShazam~~ · 07-31-2018, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Kiiii

I've lost count of how many albums I've listened to solely based on the album cover. Makes for some interesting discoveries.

It's a solid percentage of the stuff I find.

Blank. · 07-31-2018, 02:29 PM

Album covers are a perfectly legitimate thing to judge off of.

~~MicShazam~~ · 07-31-2018, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

I'm confused as to where you're in a situation of having to judge of album covers anymore

unless you frequent your local record store and buy things you haven't heard in which case props I need to get into doing that

but otherwise don't you use a "similar artists" search or something

Album covers are still displayed on review sites and Spotify, so you'll still have that as a thing that can pull you towards an album if it's got an interesting cover.

I use this a lot for music discovery. Many of my most recent favorites can be traced back to this website:

https://www.allmusic.com/newreleases/editorschoice
&
https://www.allmusic.com/newreleases

Album covers factor in to what I click on. Totally admit that.

Contrarian1 · 07-31-2018, 03:49 PM

I like 80's KISS a lot.

**Frownland** · 07-31-2018, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

plus it's so easy to do a quick youtube search play 30 seconds of something

that's admittedly not a good thing to go off of

but loads better than the cover

It's not either/or imo. If album art is the only selling point that you need then you're probably not in it for the music anyways. It's a relevant component though when figuring out what to listen to (even if it's just 30 seconds on Youtube).

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