re: List me 2 or 3 albums you bought as a kid where you knew nothing about the band.

Failure- Fantastic Planet

I had heard their cover of "Enjoy the Silence" but none of their original music. I was wandering through a record store one day trying to find something that looked interesting when I saw this album. Bought it mostly based on the cover art. I can remember listening to it for the first time and pretty much every track I would think, "That was fricking incredible. That's got to be the highlight of the album." And then the next track would start and somehow be even more amazing than the last.