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I was just listening to the Siddeleys, and realised that their 16 tracks comprise a tiny yet conspicuously well-formed oeuvre!! This (plus the recent thread on how much music one needs to hear in order to declare HATRED of a musician) got me thinking about the minimum amount of music one must create before being declared TRULY GRATE. Can one 7" single be enough?

Tell me about your most favouritest bands whose output fits on, saaaay, one CD or less.

I'll also nominate:

Desperate Bicycles
The June Brides
Young Marble Giants
Black Tambourine

I guess this is different from the artists of whom one NEED ONLY OWN one release. I suspect there are zillion of the latter...

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 25 July 2003 07:12 (twenty-two years ago)

X-Ray Spex.
Stump.

I obv second YMG.

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 25 July 2003 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Pseudo Existors (just the one EP, sadly)

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 25 July 2003 07:17 (twenty-two years ago)

The Las

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 25 July 2003 07:20 (twenty-two years ago)

the stone roses' best of...?

― Ramon (Ramon), Friday, 25 July 2003 07:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Rubberoom: just one LP and a couple of singles. Then again, given that the group was somewhat one-sided, I might've grown tired of them had they released more material. Or maybe they would've become diverse as time goes on. Who knows?

Eusebe: another rap crew that released just one great LP, then seemingly disappeared. No one seems to know what happened to them after that one record. A pity, because they might've had a brilliant future ahead.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 25 July 2003 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)

shoes this high!

― your null fame (yournullfame), Friday, 25 July 2003 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Funky 4 + 1

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 25 July 2003 07:38 (twenty-two years ago)

TH3 N0RM4L OWNZ0RZ

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 25 July 2003 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

tintern abbey own this thread

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 25 July 2003 08:32 (twenty-two years ago)

several spring to mind. my jealous god 3 ep's no lp. loved em for all their baggy worth. sunsonic 3 singles one lp. predated the underworld pounding bass beats against surreal lyrics. a missed one. delakota, one fun lp that still makes me smile. i could go on and on ..

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 25 July 2003 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)

About 80% of the bands featured on the Bam Caruso Rubble series: The Clique, Orange Seaweed, The Brain, all fantastic British Psych bands. A lot of them only managed one single. More recently, how about:

Freight Train (Julian Cope's brother's band): one perfect single.

Grantby: one seminal 12 inch on Cup of Tea Records, then....nothing.

― Kim Tortoise, Friday, 25 July 2003 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Plush! A single, an album. Your Null Fame Brent Hayward continues to make music to this very day, I saw him "busking" (well he WAS busking in literal terms, but y'know I doubt he needs the money) the other day. It's very poor.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 25 July 2003 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I was listening to the rather marvellous Wild Swans double CD this morning. The sleevenotes are all about the romance of a group who releases one single as unimpeachably great single ("The Revolutionary Spirit" is unbelievable) and then stops.

Ilx should do the same thing, of course.

CF: Suede Crocodiles, btw.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 25 July 2003 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Lori and the Chameleons. 'The Lonely Spy' is about perfect. They had another single, I got told once, I don't know anything about it.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 25 July 2003 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

plush made a second album (only rel. in japan so far)

― rar, Friday, 25 July 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Shit, really? Do you know much about it? They had another single but it was just one non-Lp song, no big deal forgetting really.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 25 July 2003 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Slum, who as far as I know released only three tracks on their "Twilight Mushrooms" single on Warp.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 25 July 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Stump - they;ve already been mentioned but I'll do it again "STUMP!!"

― tigerclawskank, Friday, 25 July 2003 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

green scarab!

― your null fame (yournullfame), Friday, 25 July 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Omnium: one great track, "Extua Textua", appears on Ninja Tune's FunKungFusion comp. That and three others show up on an EP. That's about it.

Also: Exploding Hearts. :(

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 25 July 2003 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)

april showers. only one single as far as i'm aware

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 25 July 2003 10:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Re: Plush, that album released in Japan ("Fed") is really worthwhile...not sure it hits the sublimity peak of "Found A Little Baby" (what does?,) but it's no kind of letdown, the record you wish the one on Drag City had been...

― M Specktor (M Specktor), Friday, 25 July 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Andrew, Lori and the Chameleons come up here every so often. "The Lonely Spy" is the single it's hard to find! "Touch" / "Love On the Ganges" is a record you see around and it's a complete masterpiece. Mark S claims to have seen / heard an LP but I think he lies.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 25 July 2003 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

YMG seconded (although there is a 2nd CD, _Salad Days_, full of demos)
Black Tambourine also seconded, and depending on my mood, I'll even add another Pam Berry band, Glo-Worm, to that list.

TALULAH GOSH!
URINALS!!

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Friday, 25 July 2003 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

The Bounty Hunters

The Sweetest Ache

The Orchids

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Friday, 25 July 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

YMG seconded ...and thirded! Talulah Gosh & The Siddeleys both seconded.

Fantastic Something probably only needed If She Doesn't Smile... (although the recent Siesta release is a corker imo).

On the subject of Nag Nag Nag - Cabaret Voltaire would be well remembered even if this were their only single.

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 25 July 2003 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark e:
Delakota... oh yes! Still waiting for a follow up.
Squiresk guitar, laid back feeling,...

Sugarblast: 1 ep? (Mind) Loved it back then

Clinton

― daarkbee, Friday, 25 July 2003 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Tim- I don't have the single (sadly) just the Zoo compilation "To the Shores of Lake Placid", how common is that? It's a FANTASTIC record, and sat around in the store I was working in for about a year until I needed something to fill out my pay. I suppose the b-side is just as wonderful as 'LS'? Specktor- shit, I love the DC Lp. Hopefully I'll run into the Japanese thing sometime. Do you know if there's some hope for a DC release?

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 25 July 2003 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually it was more like the whole time I shopped then worked there, so say 6 years. Poor little record.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 25 July 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

darkbee .. dont hold breath. cass is now a fully fledged gorillaz dude. doubt we'll see more from delakota, but you never know ..

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 25 July 2003 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

The (Mighty) Ballistics (Hi-Power).

One mini-album, one 12" single.

Should have been the next Clash.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 25 July 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Liquid Liquid

― direct_program, Friday, 25 July 2003 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Me me me.
Just the one single i think, but it was great.

― Slump Man (Slump Man), Friday, 25 July 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Latyrx.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 July 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Woo -- "It's Cozy Inside"
Algarnas Tradgard (unbelievable Swedish psych band)
The Shaggs (forget about that second album)

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Friday, 25 July 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

some more : hyperhead. the apples. eskimos and eygypt .. nah they were sh*te, one lp was quite enough !

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 25 July 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

People are probably going to want to smack me in the head, but Operation Ivy.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Friday, 25 July 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Orchid Spangiafora
How many pause buttons(tape decks?) did he wear out?

― Stephen Boyle (SBoyle), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The Assembly

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

If by "smack you in the head" you actually mean "give a big make-your-hand-bleed high-five while yelling 'SHIT YEAH!'", then I think you're right Tom.

Translationalicious - one of my favorite bands EVAH that Op Ivy was! Very good call!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

The Chords
The Rezillos
NNB (at least what's released, they apparently have a closet full of material)

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Friday, 25 July 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

John Henry West. Made one 7" (on Gravity) of generic post-Minor Threat hardcore that somehow, inexplicably, busted right through its genre and distinguished itself as something utterly unto itself. A revelation. (They also had one track on a four-band emo 7" comp around the same time, but I don't recall the name.)

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Friday, 25 July 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Owls.

I played that disc to death the past couple years.

i don't care for JoArc, tim Kinsellas, friend/enemy though.

― tk, Friday, 25 July 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Shiva Affect (LP+10"+7")
Tea (10"+C60)
Yogur (2 7"s. did they become another band?)

Woo had a second album, Plume. not nearly as good as the first.
actually, so did Älgarnas Trädgård. same story.

― summerslastsound, Friday, 25 July 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Alva.

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Hush Harbor
Hot Toasters

― Sam J. (samjeff), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

DNA, one of the few groups that, give or take one or two tracks, seem to have been left off the conveyor belt of no-wave reissues.

― Jason J, Friday, 25 July 2003 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

the vaselines

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 25 July 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

the distractions. "boys cry (where no one can see them)" and "time goes by so slow" are near-perfect, and all that you need from their small-to-begin-with catalog.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 25 July 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I second HushHarbor...

and also mention Pot Valiant.

― tk, Friday, 25 July 2003 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

mummies
memphis goons

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Friday, 25 July 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

bob pollard

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 25 July 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

cobra killer

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 25 July 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Minor Threat

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 25 July 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The Nerves
I play their one four-song 7" over and over again and can't get enough. Supposedly some Spanish label issued a 10" discography with other demos and stuff, but I've never been able to find it. So all I have is four songs, and I love them to death.

― Ben Boyer, Friday, 25 July 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

David Axelrod

― oops (Oops), Friday, 25 July 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The Nerves
The Normal
Savage Resurrection
The Fans

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Friday, 25 July 2003 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

KMD
DOC

― oops (Oops), Friday, 25 July 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

the pixies three -- they of the giddily sublime early-'60s teenpop hit "442 glenwood avenue," which alone is better than many bands' 10-album discographies.

sandy rogers -- sam shepard's sister, whose entire output as far as i know is her fab soundtrack to the movie "fool for love," a song on the "reservoir dogs" sdtk, and a late '90s album i've never heard, nor ever wanted to hear, because i always thought her one-album discography was perfect as is and i didn't want to ruin it. i'm reasonably sure it all could fit on a single cd anyway.

the banana splits -- they of the giddily and psychedelically sublime "i enjoy being a boy."

(not to mention the beagles, whose entire output was released on the *same* cd as the banana splits' entire output.)

i've also got a soft spot in my heart for country bob and the blood farmers, whose sole (i think) album, "going to hell in a hatbasket," contains "honky tonk cunt," "god fearin' man" and other disturbed honky-tonk classics.

― fact checking cuz, Friday, 25 July 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

A few of the LA punk bands - The Bags, The Eyes, Catholic Discipline, and post-punk - Monitor, B People, Human Hands.

And I kind of remember liked a Seattle band called Chinas Comidas a lot but I've never seen anything in the stores by them, just a mail-order ad in a zine once. Googling shows only a couple of singles. But I don't remember anything of what they sounded like, just that I liked it.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 26 July 2003 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

did catholic discipline ever release anything? i've been trying to find a good version of "barbee doll lust" for-fucking-ever.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Saturday, 26 July 2003 01:57 (twenty-two years ago)

They're on the soundtrack to the first Decline of Western Civ movie. I have a live (radio appearance) track of them doing "Babylon Must Fall" (or was it "Die"?) on cassette.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 26 July 2003 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Mary Margaret O'Hara - only one album (until a soundtrack a couple years ago), but very influential.

― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Saturday, 26 July 2003 05:08 (twenty-two years ago)

bubblegum splash!

(the exclamation mark is theirs not mine, btw)

― kieron, Saturday, 26 July 2003 05:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i.e. yes, one 7" single can be enough

― kieron, Saturday, 26 July 2003 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Invisible Sex (one song in Urgh! A Music War, not even on the soundtrack, AWESOME)
Screeming Custard! (also has exclamation point in their name: one single, one 12", one split flexi)
Laito Lychee (incredible live band, one 30-second song and one 8-second song recorded and that's it)

― Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 26 July 2003 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

life without buildings

― ron (ron), Saturday, 26 July 2003 06:45 (twenty-two years ago)

life without buildings

Oh my gosh! They did indeed break up already! Definitely seconded. *sob*

BTW, are these YMG Salad Days demos up to much then?

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 26 July 2003 08:26 (twenty-two years ago)

desert hearts (one album and one single of pure pop noise goodness)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 26 July 2003 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

The Monsoon Bassoon, one sky-kissing wondrous album and a few 7"s and then phut.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Saturday, 26 July 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Can't *believe* Rapeman haven't been given their dues yet... there, that's better.

Re: Slum... they changed their name to Parsley Sound. Twilight Mushrooms is on their new album.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 26 July 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Mary Margaret O Hara seconded. What was the soundtrack?

― Jamie Conway (Jamie Conway), Saturday, 26 July 2003 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Flux. One amazing tribal-dub/industrial album produced by Adrian Sherwood in 1986.

― sucka (sucka), Saturday, 26 July 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

O'Hara did the music for this flick - I read that she also starred in the film:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf100/f182/f18239s7yyi.jpg

It's out of print, but I'm trying to track it down!

― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Saturday, 26 July 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The Fizzbombs

the Dils

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 26 July 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Growing Up Skipper. One 7".

― Wandering Boy Poet, Saturday, 26 July 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Most of Apartment Hunting> is pretty soundtrack-noodly/bad but there are a handful of proper MMO'H songs that are as fine as anything ever recorded.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

scarce (a quite appropriately named band)

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

ESP.Summer. there is too little post-Pale Saints Ian Masters music in general.

― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 26 July 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Screamers

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Saturday, 26 July 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

fahrenheit 451

― sucka (sucka), Saturday, 26 July 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

WB Poet, Growing Up Skipper actually recorded two more songs (my old band Forget, which included G.U.S.'s drummer Laura, used to cover one of them, "Peepshow"), but they were never released...

― Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 26 July 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Firmament and the Elements!

― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 26 July 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Four Be Two: One great B side (and one crap A side).
Peter Laughner (solo, at least).

― Uncle (Methuselah), Sunday, 27 July 2003 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Sexual Harrassment

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Sunday, 27 July 2003 06:37 (twenty-two years ago)

got a CDR of the homossexuals record a couple of weeks ago and I'd say they qualify for this thread.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 27 July 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, I'll second Minor Threat.

― OCP (OCP), Sunday, 27 July 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Indian Summer
Anton Bordman
Halo Perfecto
Man Afraid
Black Masks For Secrecy
Rites of Spring
Minor Threat

What about favorite artists with massive discographies?
Jandek, Prurient, Nurse With Wound, Johnny Cash, Wolf Eyes, Forcefield (deceptively large, especially when including solo projects by Puffy & Lobe)

― Ian Johnson, Sunday, 27 July 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, Von Ryan Express only released two singles, I think.

― Ian Johnson (elmo oxygen), Sunday, 27 July 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

also, One Last Wish

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 27 July 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Kevin Dunn (1 7" w/ the best version of 'Nadine' ever recorded)
The Basics (1 7", 1 compilation track)

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Sunday, 27 July 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Bird Nest Roys
Wanton Loveboy

― brg30 (brg30), Sunday, 27 July 2003 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Help pt 2: I think the Dolly Mixture has maybe a couple 7" and a set of demos and I haven't been able to find a #(**(# thing since the tape somebody made me broke, augh!!

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Sunday, 27 July 2003 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

well good news for you, apparently a complete DM retrospective is on the way, possibly on Kill Rock Stars. i'd guess it'll be a couple of years before it gets released though.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 27 July 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

ASHHHHAHHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHA WHERE'S ME TARDIS!!!!!??!?!?

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Sunday, 27 July 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

the and band & the perfect strangers

― duane, Sunday, 27 July 2003 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Souls&&k seems to have a lot of Dolly Mixture, including the demo collection. Granted that this isn't the best time to start file-sharing.

― kieran, Monday, 28 July 2003 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anybody mentioned the NY Dolls yet?

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Monday, 28 July 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

For the thread title to really be accurate, we need to find an artist who's only released stuff on 3" CDs, hip pocket records, or microcassettes.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Monday, 28 July 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Acen

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 28 July 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Funny you brought up Owls 'cause I would say THE Owls, who had the name first, and are the best pop band from Minneapolis in decades...

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 28 July 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

Monks - Black Monk Time

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Saturday, 23 August 2003 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

BELFEGORE
Stump (yes, me too!)
Fidelity Jones
S.O.A.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 23 August 2003 03:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Rocket From the Tombs
The Elastik Band
The Jokers Wild

― Mister Snrub (MisterSnrub), Saturday, 23 August 2003 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

eight years pass...

I wish someone would reissue The Siddeleys comp but on vinyl, I love most everything they've done but I'm not paying £50 for the 12" with 'Sunshine Thuggery'. Maybe £30. One day.

― Yeah Yeah Bohney (Craigo Boingo), Monday, 16 January 2012 12:17 (fourteen years ago)

The Prefects

― Mark G, Monday, 16 January 2012 12:59 (fourteen years ago)

The United States of America

― willem, Monday, 16 January 2012 13:12 (fourteen years ago)

Minneapolis' NNB: one single, one track on a magazine flexi and two cuts on a comp. Ridiculously great, pretty much unknown band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AWTGExPigI

― Oops, just a little Santorum surge... (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 January 2012 16:13 (fourteen years ago)

Belreve!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Val0teM7uEI&feature=related

Radio city!

http://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/2009/08/radio-city-north-sea-7-1993-vhf.html

― Evan, Monday, 16 January 2012 16:49 (fourteen years ago)

Suburban Lawns

― skip, Monday, 16 January 2012 17:46 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs3DpB1iR1k

Sunbelt: a one-man project that released only one awesome synth disco single (that sounds like proto-helium house) in 1981. The guy behind was diagnosed with MS in 1984, and sadly never released any music again, dying in 1994.

― Tuomas, Monday, 16 January 2012 19:13 (fourteen years ago)

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