Your Greatest Individual Day In Music Exploration?
 

In the last.fm thread I posted that I discovered Aceyalone, Freestyle Fellowship, Latyrx and Wu-Tang Clan (or more to the point, '36 Chambers') on the same day. It got me thinking about individual days where you seem to just come across a few really good artists that go on to have a lasting impression on you.

I am not sure if I would say that was my greatest of all, but it must come close.

Obviously with a site like this you can pretty much expect the very best recommendations, so I would rather you discussed moments in your life that were more personal, for example, visiting a record store and grabbing a few gems or listening to something like spotify/last.fm radio and thinking "Holy sh*t! then going on to repeatedly listen to that artist.

Cheers.

I think I listen to too much to be able to recall a single day, but I had a really good run last week where I found a ton of great albums.

In my 54 years, there have been a few of those moments....here is one: In 1974 I had been visiting a friend in Texas and I was driving back to Oklahoma when I remember he had gifted me a 8 track tape of Robin Trower`s Bridge Of Sighs, So I plugged it in and "Day of the Eagle" came busted out of my Jensen 6" X 9"s and I was blown away.

One day I picked up David Bowie's Low and The Jam's All Mod Cons from my local record store. This day started my love affair with Berlin-era Bowie and The Jam in general!

Twas a very nice day.

I'm one of those people (as are probably a bunch here) that literally spends HOURS in a record store. My friends won't go to record stores with me anymore.

Probably one of my best record store excursions was a day when I had my girlfriend at the time pick a CD at random from the 'experimental' aisle, after I'd already snagged copies of Boris' Absoluteego++ (my first introduction to their more drone side), Merzbow's Merzbeat (blew my mind with the idea of beat-oriented harsh noise), and Jandek's 'The Place' (I could dedicate an entire thread to the ways Jandek has affected me, longterm).

The CD my girlfriend pulled was Yoshimi & Yuka - Flower with No Color. Along with being one of the most strangely pretty ambient albums I've ever heard, it also cemented in me my ability to recall completely useless information about music and bands at the drop of the hat, because the Yoshimi of the duo is Yoshimi P-we, who is rather connected, in the music world.

That's a big stupid tangent. The point is that everything I found on that one day blew my mind and opened me up to new realms of music and learning. Completely awesome.

the day i got the NME top 25 albums of all time (this one was in the late 80s and had more divergent picks than usual lists)

i went out and bought Iggy & The Stooges' Raw Power

i came back, put it on, my brains were splattered all over the floor, the walls and the ceiling

I bought Kick Out The Jams & Raw Power on the same day.

I don't think I ever really recovered.

I don't know if it was actually the best day, but I vividly remember...I think it was my 17th birthday?...getting a couple hundred dollars.

I knew I wanted to buy albums, but I knew also that I didn't want to spend ALL of my money on them, because I was putting money back for the NYC trip. The music store in my area had just started buying pre-owned CDs, and I walked to that section. Not a CD over $6. Excellent.

The only unfortunate part of this is that for whatever reason, I was unable to sample these CDs. I thought it was based on barcodes, but alas, no. They also weren't even remotely sorted by genre or anything. I decided to go in blind and grab a bunch that seemed cool. I ended up coming out with:

Monster Magnet - Powertrip
Muse - Absolution
The Mooney Suzuki - Electric Sweat
Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill
Tool - Lateralus

I definitely wore every single one of those CDs out, and can't remember having ever been so excited about purchased music as that day.

Decent. I do remember discovering MC5, Flamin' Groovies and The New York Dolls on the same day. Was fun.

I remember a fine day back in early 1999, still in college, still on a dialup net connection (all of 5k/second) and using Napster to reacquire old tunes I used to have on cassette tapes for my computer. While getting some tracks from Faith No More's 'The Real Thing' album I noticed a particular user had some Mr. Bungle as well, I remembered the name from seeing their t-shirts in magazines back in the day and figured, why not?

So I queued Merry Go Bye-Bye and The Existential Blues to download.

Anyone familiar with those tracks knows what happened next (my head exploded a little). It was also the launching point to get into more experimental and avant garde music like Frank Zappa, John Zorn, and The Secret Chiefs 3.