Every once in a while I "obtain" music based solely on album titles, track titles, or album art without knowing anything about the band or their music. A handful of times this has resulted in me wasting money and/or time on some really shitty music, but more often than not, it's been awesome. The first example I can remember of this was Mindless Self Indulgence's album Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy, which I purchased because of the album title and cover art. Com Truise and the similarly named Mord Fustang are both bands I picked up music from based just on their names, as is Fuck, I'm a Ghost.
Bleep Bloop, an excellent glitch-hop/trap musician is the newest group I've found in this manner, just yesterday. And I believe Itch-E & Scratch-E & iamamiwhoami round out that list.
There's an onslaught of post-rock bands that I've picked up based just on their names, I mean, who can resist with some of these?
65daysofstatic - And So I Watch You from Afar - ...And Stars Collide - Collapse Under The Empire - The Declining Winter - The End of Science - Explosions In The Sky - Fuck, I'm a Ghost - I Am Waiting for You Last Summer - If These Trees Could Talk - There Will be Fireworks - These Hands Could Separate the Sky - Three Steps to the Ocean - We Are Ghosts - We Invented the Night
Some other bands I've found in fun ways have been two bands named Mono, who I found while I was searching for another band named Mono. So I now have three bands named Mono in my catalog. The one I was searching for in the first place is Mono, the U.K trip-hop group famous for their track '
Life in Mono.' The next Mono I found was the Japanese post-rock group who I believe I've posted about on the blog before. Here' a track from them: '
Everlasting Light.' And the third and final Mono I found was a house/prog house group. Here's '
Let's Go' from them.
I also found a band called Moogwai, whilst searching for the band Mogwai.
Moogwai is an electronic/trance DJ while
Mogwai is an experimental/post rock group.
I found the band Infected Mushroom when I helped my Grandparents purchase a new computer. They opted for an iMac (
the big old round ones, this particular one had blue dalmatian print) which had been used as a model on the store's floor. Because of this, the iTunes library already had a couple songs in it already and I was intrigued by the band name, so I checked out the song '
Symphonatic' which had an amazing sample that just struck me for some reason and that lead to my beginning to delve into psytrance/goa.
And last but not least is the mystery bands Mileece, Lullatone, Aus, %, and Bola. Aus, %, and Bola had all been in my music folder for quite some time, and I had thought they had come from my friend Matt, but he said that I gave them to him and that he hadn't heard of them. So really, I have absolutely no idea where they came from.
Mileece and
Lullatone are a different story. One morning I woke up and found a note on my computer desk that said "Mileece" and "Lullatone" both underlined a few times. Now, the night before I had done some drinking, and was chatting on some yahoo chat rooms. The typical people I chat with about music all said they hadn't heard of the bands, so I don't know who it was that told me to check them out, but whoever you are/were, mystery yahoo chatter: Thank you!
