Nominations for Best Album By An Artist Who Only Released One Album poll

all genres. accepting nominations for however long, until we have a decent selection of serious candidates together. hoping to limit nominations to "no, really, this album is truly great" rather than "really good album" - I suspect there are tens of thousands of bands who had a decent album in them, made it & then moved on.

I'm starting this thread to say how phenomenal an album Break Through by the Slickers is, which is one of two nominations I'll make. Amazing, all-time, track after track. Black Ark at full strength.

radiohead - pablo honey

^ think you're missing the idea here

So, this is for:

"The La's"
"The Avalanches - Since I left you"

etc?

first thing that comes to mind is Never Mind the Bollocks. has to go in there but I suspect we need a ruling that posthumous collections of odds and sods do not exclude an album which was released in the artist's lifetime

Propaganda - A secret wish

I dunno, I'm trying to think of one I love, as opposed to ones that'd qualify (but I know would do well in the eventual poll)

"Artist Lifetime" would mean Jeff Buckley "Grace"..

see they had a remix album as well and also another album 1234

xp

Revolution 9, You Might As Well Live

and yes, this album is truly great (although I think I'm the only person who has ever heard it)

baby huey & the babysitters, the baby huey story

Should there be some way of ruling out newer artists who have only released one album? Like only including artists that are inactive/deceasd/broken up or haven't released a follow up in over 5 years? And what about side projects/supergroups?

Anyways I nominate:
The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
Propellerheads - Decksandrumsandrockandroll

Life Without Buildings - Any Other City

Lowell Davidson Trio

The Slingbacks - All Pop No Star

johnny thunders and the heartbreakers - LAMF

^ truly great

Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too

^New Radicals

The Nerves

is this a gag thread or not, i cant tell

well I did regurg in my mouth a little when somebody suggested the new radicals

what about artists who released the same album multiple times

e.g. the Cocteau Twins

I was thinking The Ramones but ha

Operation Ivy - Energy

xp lol

Big L - Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous

Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth

Modern Lovers - s/t. Everything after that was with a new band and called Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers.

Rites of Spring
Skip Spence
I think the Homosexuals count...?

Thunderclap Newman, Hollywood Dream

it doesn't matter why they only released one, it only matters that they only released one. Stockholm Monsters Alma Mater is my other nom. A singles comp came out 20 years later, that ok. I personally am disincline to accept the Modern Lovers because while the first one may be best, it's not like "Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers" is a completely different deal - nom'ing that seems like sneaking something in on a technicality to my mind

I can't type or remember my tenses because I'm angry about this asshole judge in Pennsylvania who took bribes from prison architects to incarcerate a bunch of teenagers so sorry for bad typing, fuck you asshole judge

FM Knives - Useless and Modern

how long ago should their last album have been? like, how unlikely that they're going to release another album

i keep feeling like i should know a ton of these but am drawing a total blank atm

If Mary Margaret O'Hara hadn't done a soundtrack a few years ago, I'd definitely nominate Miss America.

The United States of America - S/T

I wonder if we can include acts that released one album and then nothing for 30 or 40 years when they attempted some kind of comeback (thinking Simon Finn, T2, Vashti Bunyan, etc.)

Linda Perhacs- Parallelograms
Mayo Thompson- Corky's Debt to His Father
Derek & the Dominoes- Layla
Blind Faith

I wonder if we can include acts that released one album and then nothing for 30 or 40 years when they attempted some kind of comeback

no

just people who made one and as far as you know are done

Coulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint - Lo and Behold
(great album of Dylan covers from early 70s)

can they also have released singles/eps? or just ONE ALBUM? because i could be listing punk and hardcore bands here all day.

Willis Allen Ramsey: s/t

The Amps - Pacer (?)

Cree Summer - Street Faerie
Brie Larson - Finally Out of P.E.

can they also have released singles/eps?

I'm operating under the assumption that singles/eps don't disqualify, as long as they only have one regular, full-length, non-compilation studio album

Black Tambourine!!!

Dadamah- This Is Not a Dream

Propaganda - A secret wish

Propaganda actually did release another album, 1,2,3,4, so they don't qualify. And yeah, I really wish they hadn't.

Nuno Canavarro- Plux Quba

The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair etc

Brise-Glase- When In Vanitas
Karuna Khyal- Anemone 1985
Brast Burn- Debon
Love Live Life +1- Love Will Make A Better You

Skip Spence was the first to come to mind when I saw this thread and "Oar" would easily get my vote.

what about Fotheringay since the second is sort of a compilation?

http://rateyourmusic.com/board_message/message_id_is_2369950

I have not read this

More discussion of artists who only released one album here:

Cult bands who only made one album

I'll second United States of America and Young Marble Giants.

I'm operating under the assumption that singles/eps don't disqualify, as long as they only have one regular, full-length, non-compilation studio album

^^^ otm. The idea is "one album, which rules, no other albums." Singles comps do not d/q. EPs do not d/q. Any other full-length album by other permutations of the band does d/q.

can i get a ruling on Fotheringay then?

Eivets Rednow - Eivets Rednow

Germs!

Propaganda actually did release another album, 1,2,3,4, so they don't qualify.

yeah I already made that point

Best Chris Bell Solo Album

ok so what we have so far is

Revolution 9, You Might As Well Live
baby huey & the babysitters, the baby huey story
The Exploding Hearts, Guitar Romantic
Propellerheads, Decksandrumsandrockandroll
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
Lowell Davidson Trio
the Slickers, Break Through
New Radicals, Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
The Nerves
Operation Ivy, Energy
Big L - Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Thunderclap Newman, Hollywood Dream
Rites of Spring
Skip Spence, Oar
the Homosexuals
Stockholm Monsters, Alma Mater
FM Knives - Useless and Modern
the United States of America, s/t
Linda Perhacs- Parallelograms
Mayo Thompson- Corky's Debt to His Father
Derek & the Dominoes- Layla
Blind Faith
Coulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint - Lo and Behold
Willis Allen Ramsey: s/t
Black Tambourine
Dadamah- This Is Not a Dream
Nuno Canavarro- Plux Quba
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair
Brise-Glase- When In Vanitas
Karuna Khyal- Anemone 1985
Brast Burn- Debon
Love Live Life +1- Love Will Make A Better You
Eivets Rednow
the Germs, (GI)

there's hardly any rap which seems weird to me so I'm gonna bump the B-side of Queen Mother Rage's Vainglorious Law right now to see if it qualifies as well as I'd remember it - it's like a great lost X-clan album, sonically - fuck I love this record

also I'm asking the mods to auto-ban anybody who votes for the New Radicals

can i get a ruling on Fotheringay then?

Amazon editorial review:

2008 release of the long lost sophomore album from one of the great might-have-beens of British music. They lasted less than a year, and released just one album, but their disappearance robbed the early-'70s scene of a group of musicians capable of taking Folk-Rock to new heights of subtlety and musicianship. Sadly they broke up during the recording sessions for their second album. Incredibly all the tapes survived in various record company archives. 38 years later the surviving members of the group have mixed all the material to finally complete this remarkable album.

d/q'd

are all you guys being careful to only nominate albums you think totally fucking rule instead of just albums that people might possibly vote for because they fit the criterion

man i would've voted the shit out of Fotheringay :(

Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog

whoops xxpost

Son of Bazerk

UMCs

The Afros

what about bands that released NO albums lol - the Weirdos, the Screamers, etc

are all you guys being careful to only nominate albums you think totally fucking rule instead of just albums that people might possibly vote for because they fit the criterion

Do YOU see postal svc or dfa1979 on here?

I will go to bat for Mother Love Bone - Apple, though.

everything I've mentioend so far I think is genuinely great - maybe not BEST EVER but whatever, this is a narrow criteria

Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers - The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon

Son of Bazerk

DQ'ed! http://www.amazon.com/Well-Thawed-Out-Explicit/dp/B0042GFHRO

Psi Com - Psi Com

Some info on Lowell Davidson.

Not only was it his only record as a leader, he never even appeared on other records as a sideman.

NASA - Insha-Allah! (this one's for you, Ned and jjj)

teedra moses - complex simplicity
cassie - cassie

what about bands that released NO albums lol - the Weirdos, the Screamers, etc

such bands have nothing to do with this poll

can I add Wavepool Abortion? their album is coming out soon

I also nominated Never Mind The Bollocks, which if allowed (and I can't see why it wouldn't be, Swindle not being a proper album) will own this poll

are all you guys being careful to only nominate albums you think totally fucking rule

Refrained from nominating Julian Schnabel's OK Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud.

Randy Holden, Population II

I think Modern Lovers s/t should count because only David Robinson was on both albums with Jonathan. They lost two really important members!

I nominate Hexendanz, which I think is awesome even though no one has heard of it out of Alburtis, PA.

NASA - Insha-Allah! (this one's for you, Ned and jjj)

Too kind. But I don't think I ever heard the damn thing all the way through!

I think Fotheringay should count as well. It should be one album released in the artist's lifetime. That second album is really just some kind of compilation/odds and ends thing.

xp: WAHT

okay that will not do at all

I just remember that "Shah Shah" single...and not fondly. xp

I also nominate

Draytons Two - Raw Spouge

So psyched wikipedia has a spouge article now. It is probably the most informative thing on the internet about spouge.

Cannibal Ox, don't think the live album counts

you have not lived until you have heard "Magic Jewlled Limousine"

Rebecca Black

What about various combos of artists who did one album together? Like Eno & Cale, or Reed & Cale, or the Stills-Young band?

Weakling - Dead as Dreams

Wild Tchoupitoulas - S/T

yeah I already made that point

Yes you did. My bad. I should save my posting until the evenings when I don't have to sneak ILX reading/posting in between other chunks of work. :\

Erratum:

Unicorns released TWO albums - Who Will Cut Our Hair is the second. I know because I own both of them.

Nominations:

Mark Hollis - s/t
Sister Suvi - Now I Am Champion

Hackamore Brick - One Kiss Leads To Another

Eivets Rednow

lolwhat

Wild Tchoupitoulas - S/T

This is a great record. (I'm listening to The Wild Magnolias as I type...)

I think Modern Lovers s/t should count because only David Robinson was on both albums with Jonathan. They lost two really important members!

no

this is like nominating the Velvet Underground because Nico was only on the first album

unicorns kicked out btw per sean g's point

- velvet underground

Wild Tchoupitoulas - S/T

This is a great record.

Agree. I'll be voting for this if this ever ends up in a voting stage.

What about various combos of artists who did one album together? Like Eno & Cale, or Reed & Cale, or the Stills-Young band?

no. the idea is not to get as many names as possible. it's to poll albums by unique artistic entities who never recorded an album again. otherwise there's a trillion jazz combos that were never technically the same thing again, the Byrds probably'd qualify, etc etc.

Oh damn xp yr right abt unicrons :(((

like if you count engineers & sidemen as contributors, which is really a fair proposition to make, you could technically nominate every album ever made for this poll

Cowboys international - the original sin

Christgau:

The Wild Tchoupitoulas [Island, 1976]
Here we have eight songs about dressing up in Indian costume on Mardi Gras; many of them are also about fighting with other Indians. You've probably heard the New Orleans nonsense patois before, and maybe the irresistible melodic elements, too, although I can't tell any more, because I've played this "repetitive" record so many times it sounds like where they all started (which it may be). For a while, I believed side two inferior, but eventually a longing for "Big Chief Got a Golden Crown" set in and now I prefer it for listening. Side one is the best non- (or anti-) disco dance music in years--it had folks who'd never heard it before shouting "Indians here they come" at a thirtieth birthday party. Allen Toussaint produced, the Meters played, and mighty kootie fiyo. A

citizen's arrest - colossus
los crudos - canciones para liberar nuestras fronteras
charles bronson - youth attack
torches to rome - torches to rome
heroin - destination
worst case scenario - worst case scenario

holy fuck at strongo's noms

oh, and

the vss - nervous circuits

Good call with the Herion! I was thinking of adding Antioch Arrow to this list, but they released two full-lengths didn't they?

Anyway, Exploding Hearts will probably be forever my best and only answer to this question. I played the album in the car during a drive out to my parents a few weeks ago, forgetting that my wife had never heard the whole thing, and she fell instantly in love with it and we ended up playing it like 6 times in a row.

Yes, great call with VSS too.

Cosign on VSS.

Meantime: Rodan, Rusty

^^^^

VSS makes me think of Behead the Prophet NLSL who put out only one album (I am that Great and Fiery Force) but I don't remember it really.
See I saw both bands play the same club...

yeah, antioch arrow put out two 12 inches. they're only like 20 minutes a piece, but i had to stick to the rule.

Marie Queenie Lyons- Soul Fever

why does steven tyler hate me and/or LAMF

also I'd nominate kilslug for answer the call but they are putting something new out 25 years later so n/m

suggest anyone into those picks checks out that torches to rome record. not many people seem to know it, but it's one of my fave 90s hardcore records. (ex-fuel guys. the hardcore/emo fuel, not the shitty mod rock fuel.)

would also suggest checking out the worst case scenario record, which is justin from unwound doing really intense touch & go style hardcore, except i can't find a copy of it anygoddamnwhere now.

does 2 Bad Mice - Kaotic Chemistry count or would that be considered a compilation?

Daughters of Albion S/T for sure, though not enough people here have heard it for it to win.

Info: http://www.groovytunesday.com/descriptions/music/daughters_albion.html

I second the Afros nomination. Hoe Cakes is just untouchable.

I can think of a lot of albums that fit the criteria but few I would call "great"

as in, this is one of my top 10 albums ever

which LAMF is btw

feel like 2 Bad Mice counts though I'm afraid it opens the door to several dozen HxCx discography CDs

I've never even heard the Thunderclap Newman album, just the one single, so drop it if you want.

Altern8 - Full On Mask Hysteria
LA Style - LA Style

well if we're going there:

sonz of a loop da loop era - flowers in my garden

foul play - suspected

Acen - 75 Minutes

^^ YES

which LAMF is btw

these are the albums released by that band before Thunders died:

L.A.M.F. (1977, Track)
L.A.M.F. Revisited (1984, Jungle)
L.A.M.F. The Lost '77 Mixes (1994, Jungle)
Live at Max's Kansas City (1979, Max's Kansas City Records)
D.T.K. Live At The Speakeasy (1982, Jungle)
Live At The Lyceum Ballroom 1984 (1985, Jungle)

T99 - Children of Chaos

(kind of mad that Eon and Bizarre Inc released multiple albums)

Kemet Crew - Champion Jungle Sound

Unique 3 - Jus Unique

(also kind of mad that Omni Trio released Haunted Science but that is mostly because it sucks)

I feel like there must be tons of great housey/IDM/electronic stuff that would fit here

haha there was a shitty omni trio after that too

see also: the semi-crummy lfo records after frequencies

wow there were SEVERAL shitty omni trio albums after deepest cut.

jesus

Did anyone else in that scene piss away their potent faster than that dude? Maybe Photek (tho I thought he kind of got things back together around Form and Function Pt 2)?

lol "potent" should obv be "potential"

still I guess someone had to be a drum n blouse pioneer

most of them?

lol fair point, but then you've got all of those fucking amazing Hyper-On Experience tracks

The Avalanches - Since I Left You

speaking of which:

shy fx - just an example

okay Source Direct had 2 albums??? don't think I knew that

I really like the phrase "he pissed away his potent," like lost his strength!

My '04 and '05 favorite albums never had follow-ups. Been recently wondering what the people in those bands have done since.

Casual Dots s/t
Veronica Lipgloss and the Evil Eyes - Witch's Dagger

tho' I don't think I"d vote for them over Colossal Youth. Guitar Romantic might be my fav of '03.

What's the deal on one off collaborations e.g. Plant/Krauss, Reed/Cale, Eno/Wobble etc?

Would nominated 'Colourbox' the 1985 album by Colourbox but there's a 'mini-album' of the same name released in 1983, would that be eligible?

see also: the semi-crummy lfo records after /frequencies/

Dude, no.

really should have instituted an "only nominate the album you would vote for in such a poll" rule at the outset

bird nest roys 'first album'
although they did go on to do that horrible record as the tufnels.

What's the deal on one off collaborations e.g. Plant/Krauss, Reed/Cale, Eno/Wobble etc?

the ruling is no on these.

oh, but you didn't institute that rule. you didn't.

and so

coptic light - coptic light

really should have instituted an "only nominate the album you would vote for in such a poll" rule at the outset

okay mister, I would vote for any of the dance albums I've listed on this thread

I would also make everyone listen to Nasa, because that's just one of those things everyone needs to do once

these are the albums released by that band before Thunders died:

L.A.M.F. (1977, Track)
L.A.M.F. Revisited (1984, Jungle)
L.A.M.F. The Lost '77 Mixes (1994, Jungle)
Live at Max's Kansas City (1979, Max's Kansas City Records)
D.T.K. Live At The Speakeasy (1982, Jungle)
Live At The Lyceum Ballroom 1984 (1985, Jungle)

c'mon you pedant

live albums and remixes of the same damn album don't count!

they released one studio album ONE

don't deny me the right to vote in yr poll this is like fascist franco style oppression only online

and it's hurting my heart and I only have one of those

yeah, c'mon!

Ton Ton Macoute - Johnny Jenkins

Satwa - Satwa
Ze Ramalho and Lula Cortes - Paebiru

okay Sunscreem had FOUR albums

EG & Alice: "24 Years Of Hunger"
The Grays: Ro Sham Bo

Ultrasound-Everything Picture
Cory Daye-Cory & Me
Tom Brock-I Love You More & More
Sam Dees-The Show Must Go On
The Milennium-Begin

Don Bradshaw Leather - Distance Between Us
The Units - Ready for the house

2nd one is cheating really, I guess?

Ann Steel-Ann Steel

Ugly Casanova

Terry Manning - Home Sweet Home. only solo album by the guy who engineered "I'll Take You There", Zep III & Tres Hombres, released on a Stax subsidiary in 1970, & opens with a ludicrously awesome 10 minute "Savoy Truffle".

wow there were SEVERAL shitty omni trio albums after deepest cut.

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:25 (1 hour ago) Permalink

jesus

Did anyone else in that scene piss away their potent faster than that dude? Maybe Photek (tho I thought he kind of got things back together around Form and Function Pt 2)?

― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:25 (1 hour ago)

he makes good records again! see here:

Robert Haigh and Sema and Fote and Truth Club: C/D, S/D

I need to think about this some more and do some ctrl-f action.

Logg - Logg
Cheri Dennis - In And Out Of Love
Shareefa - Point of No Return

What about Rise by Louie & The Lovers? There was follow-up that was thought lost forever, but was eventually recovered and released, but only in a "Complete Recordings" collection, so one could argue they could be categorized as bonus tracks to the original set.

Kendra Smith - Five Ways Of Disappearing
Sleepers - Painless Nights
The Glove - Blue Sunshine
The Count Five - Psychotic Reaction
A Primary Industry - Ultramarine

this kind of record always fascinated me

oh and

The Underneath - Lunatic Dawn Of The Dismantler

The Monks - Black Monk Time

Majesticons - Beauty Party
Neon Neon - ST
MC Tunes/808 State - The North At Its Heights
Silver Bullet - Bring Down The Walls
World Domination Enterprises - Let's Play Domination
Thorr's Hammer - Dommedagsnatt
Rapeman - Two Nuns And A Pack Mule

sachiko kanenobu - misora

Lispector - Human Problems And How To Solve Them. Discogs lists ' Guide to personal happiness' for her as well, but it's a compilation album including tracks from 'Human Problems', so I don't think it counts.

I'd like to talk about this record more but I guess here isn't the place!

Lift To Experience - The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads

Baxendale - You Will Have Your Revenge

Daphne and Celeste - We Didn't Say That!

There are going to be a lot of one vote #1s in this poll, I think.

Jon Wayne - Texas Funeral

J-Rock - Streetwize (I think?)

Joost Visser- Partners in Hair. Where has this guy been hiding for the last 15 years?

Acen - 75 Minutes. It's not really a structured album as it just chucks together all his singles, including multiple remixes of several tracks, but much of the music on it is incredible.

Admiral Angry - Buster

Fingers Inc. - Another Side

Oh scratch that, I believe it's just a singles comp.

The Units - Ready for the house

― kraudive, Thursday, August 11, 2011 10:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

2nd one is cheating really, I guess?

― kraudive, Thursday, August 11, 2011 10:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

YES IT IS.

I apologize for this thread as it will result in another waaaay-too-many-candidates poll

Joost Visser- Partners in Hair. Where has this guy been hiding for the last 15 years?

― International Waters, Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

that there is a great record. feel like Joost made more records though.

Kendra Smith - Five Ways Of Disappearing
Sleepers - Painless Nights
The Glove - Blue Sunshine
The Count Five - Psychotic Reaction
A Primary Industry - Ultramarine

see now -

Kendra Smith - that's a solo album from a person in a band - really not the same thing. technically, sure, but it's not something where you say "this is pretty much all we got from this artist"
the Glove - that's a side project/supergroup deal isn't it?

don't know the others

http://image.kazaa.com/images/26/074644036626/Don_Johnson/HEARTBEAT/Don_Johnson-HEARTBEAT_3.jpg

Detroit w/Mitch Ryder - S/T (his post Detroit Wheels band)

D.C. Entries:
Metamatics - s/t
Antelope - s/t
Embrace (D.C.)
Pupils - s/t
Void- Split LP (would that count? They recorded a full length for Touch and Go that was never released)

but it will be soon.

Metamatics have like 29 albums

Oh dc hardcore nm please sb me

The Nils - S/T

I oughta reboot this thread with a "let's not nominate every album we can think of that fits the category" option so we can actually have the poll because 200+ option polls are like the dumbest thing ever

Kubichek - not enough night

Brise-Glase- When In Vanitas
Karuna Khyal- Anemone 1985
Brast Burn- Debon
Love Live Life +1- Love Will Make A Better You

Skip Spence was the first to come to mind when I saw this thread and "Oar" would easily get my vote.

Great list. I totally forgot about that Brise-Glace album.

The first thing I thought of was Germs.

How about The Millennium?

Sand - Golem
Modulo 1000 - Não Fale Com Paredes
Dinosaur L - 24-24 Music
International Submarine Band - Safe at Home

The Langley Schools Music Project - Innocence & Despair

Hm, Wikipedia says they recorded two albums and Innocence & Despair was a compilation of the two. So scratch that one.

re: the glove: blue sunshine - yeah, it's a side project, and hell siouxie even sings on half the tracks under a pseudonym

which is too bad cause otherwise i'd totally vote for it

Tony, Caro & John - All On The First Day

Snatch - Snatch (but I think is more of a comp of bits and pieces, so probably not)

Kubichek - not enough night

used to work with the guy this band were named after. is it really truly a great album? really?

I'm not sure Chris Bell qualifies - he released only a 45 during his lifetime, (a classic - I Am The Cosmos b/w You And Your Sister), but the album wasn't released until about 15 years after he died, and I'm not convinced this was ever intended to be released as an album any more so than, say, "My Sweetheart, the Drunk" and thus fails the posthumous odds-and-sods exception.

90% of those I thought of are already present and accounted for... here are some others that should be....

Armageddon s/t - ex-Yardbirds' vocalist's last record. Makes it kinda ironic that Keith Relf left the Yardies in large part because he wanted to persue softer, folkier music styles.

Roger Nichols & the Small Circle of Friends - s/t - In 1966, lyricist Tony Asher took a couple of breaks from his day job at an advertising agency to help write lyrics for two pop albums. One of those was Pet Sounds. This was the other.

One Dove - Morning Dove White - Has a cult following.

Five Thirty - Bed Doesn't have a cult following, but deserves one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhnQMB5K6bc

Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue - only completed solo album from the Beach Boys' drummer. Doesn't sound like a Beach Boys album. Still sounds good.

Mark Eric - A Midsummer's Day Dream - It was 1969, and power trios, serious R&B, the first pangs of metal, and Jimi Hendrix's guitar pyrotechnics were changing the face of music, and 16-year-old Mark Eric was ignoring all of the above, instead preferring the softer, sunnier pop of a few years earlier. It evokes Spanky & Our Gang, the Mamas & Papas, anything produced by Curt Boettcher, and of course the Beach Boys, although more Dennis than Brian, not only because his soulful voice recalls the middle Wilson brother, but also because like Dennis, Mark Eric was also a real surfer, and his songs capture those emotions in a way that even Brian's accounts of the sport picked up secondhand from Dennis don't quite capture. Listen to the track below and you can just feel the loneliness of a guy in his wet suit looking for stray waves on a dreary September day, surveying a bleak scene where those vaunted California Girls have disappeared with the cool, drifty weather, and only a few diehard surfers stay to brave the bleak, empty beaches. I love the way the lyrics become more personal as the song goes on. Great, great stuff, but it was not for its time, and it didn't sell. Mark Eric never made another record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6tCYQw2V0Y

aah, "Air Conditioned Nightmare" was a non-album single not on Bed , but you get the idea.

Anyone mentioned "Quality Street" World of Twist yet?

I've not heard it myself but it seems to be a qualifier.

One more one-album wonder I'll rep for: Dios (s/t). I saw them opening for Beulah's last show in my area and was impressed, their music drew influence from both Pavement and the Beach Boys (who decades earlier attended the same high school). They already had an EP out, but before they could gain much traction with their new album, they were sued by Ronnie James Dio, who thought his band "Dio" sounded too much like "Dios". Ronnie James Dio also had alot more money and could afford better lawyers. Guess who won the case? Dios, both the band and the self-titled album, were renamed "Dios (Malos)" - yes, with parens. They also took the opportunity to change a few album tracks, so arguably they are disqualified since there are two versions of their only album. I fend for both versions being combined into one which is probably how it will eventually will be sold, much like UK and US albums with same title but slight track differences. In any case, they never followed up Dios/Dios (Malos) with further recordings.

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

3 to add to the list.

flykkiller - experiments in violent light
johnny boy - s/t
sunsonic - melting down on motor angel
map of africa - s/t
colourbox - s/t

each of which are very special to me.

oh, and seeing as Doran has dropped the MC Tunes album, i'll add :

The Dust Junkys : Done and Dusted

Okay, here's a few nominations:

The Lady of Rage - Unnecessary Roughness
Dub Trees – Nature Never Did Betray the Heart That Loved Her
Kébekélektrik – Kébekélektrik
Apani - Story 2 Tell
Planet Patrol - Planet Patrol
Serkkupojat - Tulitus, tilitys, tiputus
Hal Willner - Whoops I'm an Indian

wow that Mark Eric track is something & I'm not even a Beach Boys fan

Whoops, sorry, that Lady of Rage album is called Necessary Roughness, not "unnecessary".

I'd probably vote for Main Source's "Breaking Atoms" if not for that shelved album the 2 DJs made after Large Professor bounced.

I love that first Dios album, too - but didn't they have a follow up LP on Buddyhead Records (called "WEAREDIOS")?

Thought of another one (in addition to the Lowell Davidson Trio posted upthread): The Moves, western MA-based band, one s/t record on Mr. Lady in 2000 or 2001.

Hampton Grease Band - Music To Eat
Debris - Static Disposal

Would totally vote for either of these - they're in my alltime personal top 50.

American Football - American Football

Wolfgang Riechmann - Wunderbar

Fox Bat Strategy - whatever its title is

Anyone mentioned "Quality Street" World of Twist yet? - Mark G

Fkk yeah! Was about time somebody posted that:)

Is there a thread for people/bands who only released one SONG? Or one A-Side/B-Side single?

http://images.45cat.com/fleetwood-mac-somebodys-gonna-get-their-head-kicked-in-tonight-immediate.jpg

there was another Don Johnson album so he's disqualified

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31dIzdSVLoL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

I cannot believe Bruce Willis had two albums

I oughta reboot this thread with a "let's not nominate every album we can think of that fits the category" option so we can actually have the poll because 200+ option polls are like the dumbest thing ever.

Truly. Okay, as much as I love Young Marble Giants and United States of America (both worthy choices) I have played The Suicide Commandos "Make A Record" 20x more than either, and maybe 100x more than "Never Mind The Bollocks." So this is my vote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_b9kCJwEMc&feature=related

So what's going to happen?

Will the album list get compiled, and we get to choose 20 and put them in order?

kind of annoyed by the reasoning for excluding The Glove

So what's going to happen?

I'm going to look at the .txt file I compiled from the names, think "that's too many and makes for one of those dumb polls with a trillion options," and then probably have a beer

j/k I'll put up a ridiculously long poll when I get a chance I got my hands full today

Confining it to only albums that got more than one mention would whittle it down considerably.

Arc Angels
Black Star

Neither were exactly side projects when they happened.

oh shit suicide commandos!

that's my vote for sure

Elias Hulk - Unchained
Alamo - s/t

as a proud owner of "make a record" i was gonna nominate suicide commandos until wikipedia informed me of their 1979 live album

come to think of it, john sinclair put out a shitty bootleg-quality live album of mitch ryder's detroit (my nominee) so i guess single-album status is elusive at best

CRU - Da Dirty 30

Original Concept - Straight From The Basement Of Kooley High

RE Commandos, I thought live albums didn't count (wasn't it decided that Layla counts above?) but I'll sadly withdraw my vote if that's the verdict.

ah guess you're right. suppose I'll stick w/Detroit. wish I would've seen Suicide Commandos live

fwiw there's a live derek/dominoes at fillmore east from the 90s that's basically the best clapton I've heard besides layla, those southern guys brought out some funk in him

Original Concept - Straight From The Basement Of Kooley High

i hope whoever picked up my cd copy after i traded that one in is enjoying it as much as i am missing it

a lesson i learnt way too late : never trade stuff in.

Commandos still reunite occasionally, and are still a helluva lotta fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3q1IKtkosY

I thought about The Rezillos too (one studio, one live) but then The Revillos was pretty much a continuation.

Cromagnon - Orgasm (rereleased as Cave Music but its the same exact album so shut the hell up)

Cave ROCK. whatever

Wiseblood - Dirtdish

The Ann Steel Album is one of many albums by Roberto Cacciapaglia, not Ann Steel herself.
I think The Glove should be included

And though "Colossal Youth" LP is my favourite of all time, YMG issued a Peel Sessions, a compilation of demos+EPs, and a live album... I dunno....

I reluctantly accept disqualification of Kendra Smith & The Glove, but the Sleepers record is great and I will also stand by A Primary Industry (who turned into Ultramarine) and The Count Five.

The Underneath is kind of a Karl Blake side project so go ahead and cut it.

Delia & Gavin - The Days of Mars

I would argue that U.N.P.O.C. released only 1 album since the "second" live album released around the same time, and it was nothing more than a 250 copy limited edition CDr that had all but two of the same songs

And judging from all the bands that I recognize in this thread, I'd vote U.N.P.O.C. as the best artist

so yeah
U.N.P.O.C. - Fifth Column

* - ,and it

If The Germs don't win this, there is something wrong.

what was the verdict on side projects and super groups?
because we might have to scratch my nomination for Ugly Casanova since it's a super group (debut album from Modest Mouse vocalist/guitarist Isaac Brock and featuring members of Red Red Meat, Black heart Procession & Holopaw)

Germs is a good one, but I'd rate most of these first:

X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks...
Minor Threat - Out Of Step
Scratch Acid - Just Keep Eating

some great picks there!

I think the Special AKA should count

I wouldn't rate this one at the top but will throw it in the pot anyway:

Dead Fingers Talk - Storm The Reality Studio

Was gonna add Tin Huey but they had a reunion album. Actually X-Ray Spex did too, even though I'd never heard of that 1995 album before. I don't think it was all the original band members, so I wouldn't count it.

Was gonna add Tin Huey but they had a reunion album.

Me too; wish the reunion album was better.

Oh, hey, I'm a big fan of Remy Shand, The Way I Feel. Guy slipped off the map afterwards.

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/r/remy-shand/album-the-way-i-feel.jpg

I mean, I also love X-Ray Spex, so.

however he feels, he at least has a warm head

can't believe fucking BABYLON ZOO managed two albums

I fear I've fallen out of my "make serious nominations" phase

felt the same way when I checked Tin Machine's discography

start an "artists who should have released only one album" poll!

haha okay I need to stop because I was about to nominate "Chris Gaines"

Flux - Uncarved Block

(I do not want to hear any crap abt how this is Flux Of Pink Indians cuz it isn't all of the same people and it is totally different musically & lyrically)

yo i'd just like to say this is a cool idea. a lot of these are on spotify so i started to playlist that shit:

http://open.spotify.com/user/callalldestroyer/playlist/5DgQcF6WXYybf3a6yZKC78

i will work on it when i am bored. new radicals will not be on the playlist fyi.

I love that first Dios album, too - but didn't they have a follow up LP on Buddyhead Records (called "WEAREDIOS")?

Would Death count? (one studio album, ...For The Whole World To See during their existence, one posthumous odds & sods compilation)

The Ann Steel Album is one of many albums by Roberto Cacciapaglia, not Ann Steel herself.
I think The Glove should be included

― classic albums live! (Ówen P.)

I'm pretty sure it was put out under her own name and self titled in 1979. The 2003 reissue is credited to Roberto Cacciapaglia and the album title changed to The Ann Steel Album. I was hoping it would count but realise this may be a long shot.

Would Death count? (one studio album, ...For The Whole World To See during their existence, one posthumous odds & sods compilation)

Someone nominated Big L upthread, and he too got one of those posthumous compilation albums after he died, besides the one album he released while living.

@ KP Really? That is interesting! I haven't read anything about that record, all of my knowledge about it was gathered from extemporaneous commentary from the friend who introduced it to me, including "Sears catalog model" "from middle America" "contacted by Italian dance producer" "she wrote all the lyrics herself, and cheekily calls punk 'boring' in 1979"

Yeah those were the things I knew about her too before I started looking for the album late last year. I quickly discovered you could either pay an absolute fortune for the orginal vinyl with her name on it or the Roberto Cacciapaglia CD version which was slightly less and the one I ended up settling for. It's probably the last album I heard that really blew me away.

Tranquility Bass "Let The Freak Flag Fly"

Tranquility Bass "Let The Freak Flag Fly"

yeah that guy completely disappeared, didn't he??

wait no he didn't!

http://tranquilitybass.bandcamp.com/

astoveboat - new bedford

Sarah Winton - You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down.

If compilations don't count, Black Tambourine never released an album btw.

Also The Nerves, unless it is a different The Nerves.

Handsome - Handsome

Simon Warner - Waiting Rooms
Strawberry Switchblade - Strawberry Switchblade
A Girl Called Eddy - A Girl Called Eddy
Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll

I'd like to nominate these but think that their involvement elsewhere will nix it.

Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man - Out of Season.
Von Sudenfed - Tromatic Reflexions

Billy Nicholls- Would You Believe?

Sibylle Baier - Colour Green is my solitary nomination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyy8bEDi1Eg

that's lovely.

was feeling v good about only having nominated one thing, a thing i'd vote for, here, & this is never gonna win, but is so great, but feels worth including because there do not seem to be an abundance of private press gospel/w/e records here:

the spiritual singers: ntsamina

Fille Qui Mousse- Trixie Stapleton 291

Sorry to have nominated so much stuff in this thread. Not trying to contribute to an unwieldy poll, but I've just been enjoying the process of figuring out albums that fit this criteria.

Fibonaccis: Civilization And Its Discotheques

Their only LP. Otherwise there was an EP and a posthumous collection of odds n sods.

2 more :

hardwater - s/t : david axelrod tries his hand @ producing 60s psych-byrds type grooves.

the holy mackerel - s/t : quality paul williams tunes via 60s psych

both are major players on my playlist these days.

Billy Nicholls- Would You Believe?

The original LP of Would You Believe is one of the rarest rock albums you're likely to (not) find - only about 25 were made, intended to be sent to promoters and radio, but financial problems at Immediate prevented it ever going into full production, despite excellent reviews and the support of several of rock's aristocracy.

simon warner, simon pretentious, simon awful.

simon warner, simon pretentious, simon awful.

haha.
a few years ago someone on ILM told me that lp was a good'un.
i bought it cheap. got 3 tracks in. gave up.
never listened all way through.
could be time to go a diggin' in the archive and see if it clicks now that i am older and more openminded ?

It's available on spotify for those who are curious http://open.spotify.com/album/3EZEosVwVwad7Two87a1Kg if you don't like Bowie at his most rococo or the Divine Comedy then best to move on. Needless to say I partly disagree with keythhhtyek in that it's awful. Pretentious, absolutely but that stuff is catnip to me.

love bowie, hate divine comedy.
where does that leave me i wonder.
found it in archive : now if smallkid leaves me alone for a few minutes ..

My cursory glance at Billy Nicholls on discogs didn't show a second album, so we can pull that one. Sorry guys. I thought of another good one to take its place that is 100% legit for this: Amanaz- Africa. It's awesome, too.

can't believe fucking BABYLON ZOO managed two albums

― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Friday, 12 August 2011 21:15 (2 days ago) Bookmark

cant believe i have them both.

[second album = glam via 90s alt.rock production]

Motorbass - Pansoul

UMCs

― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, August 11, 2011 3:07 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

UMCs had 2 albums

I can't find much online about Philamore Lincoln, except that his sole album (on Epic) was released in 1970, and features half of Led Zeppelin backing him up (Jimmy Page on guitar, John Paul Jones on cello), but was likely recorded a few years earlier given that Pagey and JPJ were otherwise occupied by this time. But in 1968, Page had recently joined the Yardbirds after years of studio session work, and Jones continued backing recording sessions for one more year, including the late-period Yardbirds. Yet another Yardbird, Chris Dreja, took the front and back cover photos. There seems to have been no promotion for the album; but Mary Hopkin had a UK hit with a cover of his "Temma Harbour" which appears in original form on this album.

Anyway, the music itself probably already sounded dated when it was first released, but strong hooks never go out of style, and songs like "You're the One" and "When You Were Looking My Way" remain tasty morsels of wistful '60s British pop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kDwPiFR1bs

A couple Metal ones:
Winter - Into Darkness
Mysticum - In The Streams Of Inferno
Sort Vokter - Folkloric Necro Metal

xp I was going to nom Von Sudenfed but thought better of it. The record only came out 4 years ago and y'know, there may be another one.

other than that the participants are notoriously unprolific of course

mark hollis IIRC

Jackson C. Frank- Blues Run the Game

Stalk Forrest Group

Circuit Rider s/t
Jim Sullivan - U.F.O.
Moolah - Woe Ye Demons Possessed
Relatively Clean Rivers s/t
Peter Grudzien - The Unicorn
Virgin Insanity - Illusions of the Maintenance Man (later recordings surfaced on CD; up to aero whether or not to include.)

^^ private press category

International Submarine Band - Safe At Home
Erica Pomerance - You Used To Think
Gentle Soul s/t
The Wildweeds s/t

also my most srs nom i hope was not overlooked--the hackamore brick album is incredible and everyone should listen to it all the time like i do.

Willis Allen Ramsey: s/t

― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, August 11, 2011 5:57 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

^^^^ one of the first rekkerds i moved into my new apartment

no surprise that this lot haven't had the nod so far, but it sprang to mind

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1392360-1274231411.jpeg

what's up with willis allan ramsey? why no 2nd record?

not really sure of the whole story, but there's some footage on youtube of him performing recently in texas (austin iirc)

Billy Nicholls- Would You Believe?

I thought of that one too. The other album is so forgettable I think.

Jim Sullivan - U.F.O.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MjasIDaFL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

It's high up on my must-hear-in-2011 list.

Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth.

tear da club up thugs - crazyndalazdayz

Silicon Teens - Music For Parties

Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea

Isn't one of the recent Smashing Pumpkins incarnations actually Zwan?

Izzat rilly the same Jim Sullivan? awesome

Grodeck Whipperjenny s/t

Bobby Beausoleil and the Freedom Orchestra - Lucifer Rising

This made me dust off God Macabre's _The Winterlong_ as this thread needs some more metal. But, uh, yeah, it's just a really good album, so no nom, son.

The Ec Nudes - Vanishing Point
Disembowelment - Transcendence Into the Peripheral

Cody Chesnutt - The Headphone Masterpiece

this is a funny thread... any band that records one album that's even remotely remarkable or successful inevitably makes a second, unless some sort of tragedy intervenes. so this thread's pool is fairly narrow, consisting of bands who either never had a hit or found an audience EVER (ie, no reunions or comeback albums a la Gary Wilson or whoever), or bands who willfully disbanded (ie Young Marble Giants) following their initial foray.

remarkable and successful are two v v different things, and i'd argue that there are plenty of artists who made just a single remarkable album.

well not a lot of people found their first album's too remarkable at the time, otherwise they would have made another one

I say this after realizing that a bunch of the acts I was going to list here actually made little known follow-up albums several years later that bombed

Izzat rilly the same Jim Sullivan? awesome

I can't find much online info about him. Really obscure even by cult-figure standards, and much of what I can find doesn't agree with other sources, and not many people who knew him seem to be speaking up. Here's what seems certain: He made his first album in 1969 backed by the Wrecking Crew; here's the best information I found from the guy involved in the recent reissue (a good quality needle-drop, since a search didn't turn up any master tapes). Made a second self-titled album in 1972, on a different label, that's likeable but doesn't seem to draw the sort of raves its predecessor did. Also released a single on RCA around that time. The 2nd album was also recently reissued on CD by this Korean company whose legitimacy or quality I know nothing about. The song track listings are in the wrong order, although they play in the correct order on the CD itself (the two songs they made available on their site for streaming are also misidentified). He drove out to Nashville in 1975, stopping at a motel in Santa Rosa on the way. That's the last he is ever seen.

Accounts of those last days vary maddeningly. He was driving either a VW Beetle or a truck. His guitar and wallet were found in the motel room, or maybe he never even checked into his room and there was no sign he ever occupied it. He told friends he was depressed and just wanted to disappear, or he told friends how excited he was about the impending third album he was going to record in Nashville where he thought his music would be better received. A search of the area turned up a body that didn't match Sullivan at all. Both cases remain unsolved.

Col. Poo has it right about Black Tambourine. Singles compiled twice, no studio album

Nominating Postal Service - Give Up (fuck the hater) and Madvillain - Madvillainy

of course, both of these feature artists who have a ton of other albums, so maybe they're not in the real spirit of this

the extra glenns album was pretty good i guess

Not nominating, but...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ztdodDHvAU8/SdSjSXgNY2I/AAAAAAAAAuk/X56nrT-iB-4/s320/Oasis_Front.jpg

I'm pretty sure Oasis had more than one album...

ah, but.

Looks like they had a complete chage of lineup after that album though, so maybe it counts?

Tony McCarroll became their drummer, the rest is history.

Uncarved Block is another fav, hadn't really considered it in the terms of being a one-off record. Fans of Flux should check out the Von Spar S/T from a few years ago.

Nominating Postal Service - Give Up (fuck the hater)

Yeah, thought about nominating this as well, but figured it might be ixnayed.

can I get a call on The Crickets?

The Loved Ones - Magic Box

*SMFH*

cntrl+F not found:

SHAGGS - PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD

*SMFH*

Col. Poo has it right about Black Tambourine. Singles compiled twice, no studio album

Nominating Postal Service - Give Up (fuck the hater) and Madvillain - Madvillainy

of course, both of these feature artists who have a ton of other albums, so maybe they're not in the real spirit of this

― Fellini.Kuti, Monday, August 15, 2011 9:10 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hoping when aero compiles these, he wont include oneoffs and sideprojects and supergroups tbh

what about shaggs own thing? xpost

Green River - Rehab Doll

what about shaggs own thing? xpost

― rice-a-roni eyes (electricsound), Wednesday, August 17, 2011 2:27 AM (26 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

a compilation iirc and i definitely rc

oic

Green River - Rehab Doll

― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:27 PM (3 minutes ago)

I don't own them anymore but I seem to think Come On Down is longer than Rehab Doll... not sure why one would be considered an EP vs. an LP.

ok according to wiki:

Come On Down: 27:43
Rehab Doll: 28:40

the other people place lifestyles of the laptop cafe

oar better walk with this

junkanoo band - key west
peaceful solutions - peaceful solutions

the other people place lifestyles of the laptop cafe

The Other People Place was James Stinson, who released several albums under other pseudonyms, so I don't think this counts. Otherwise there'd be plenty of electronic music albums to nominate, as those folks are fond of changing their artist names all the time.

Shaggs Own Thing is a compilation but of stuff recorded after their debut and no previously released.

How is it a compilation then? Isn't "stuff recorded after their debut and no previously released" = album. Or how do you define an album?

Exactly my point.

Then again, upthread: Does "Grace" Jeff Buckley qualify? If so, so do The Shaggs.

It's not a studio album. It's a collection of stuff put out long after they broke up. It doesn't take molecular science to figure this out. it's like the 8 billion sex pistols comps but they only made one album iirc tbh ffs

Also until they record a new one... That Death album that Drag City reissued

Oh, hey!!!

http://www.theindiemusicarchive.com/Images/cover-Indio1.jpg

So are the best selections here going to be folded into an actual poll?

Let's not and say we did.

Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby

(EPs & comps not applicable, right?)

Cree Summer - Street Faerie
Brie Larson - Finally Out of P.E.

― Super Villains With Drum Machines (MintIce), Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:22 AM

this is the only mention i could find of the cree summer album on ilx. i loved it at the time, but listening now for the first time in ages and it's, uh, idk. it sounded great when i was nineteen and that seems about right. it's just the right amount of edgy cheese and cringe to still be listenable in a novelty sort of way (i mean c'mon, the guitar solo on 'mean sleep'? hilarious!). i also wonder what most of the songs are about because they don't really make sense. overall, i don't remember it sounding so overproduced. it sounds very thin and lightweight when i hear it now. seems like the exact kind of music that only gets listened to in "recommended if you like. . ." scenarios.

I know this is a dead thread, but I'd have nominated:

Rosie Vela - Zazu
Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Sound-On-Sound (if it doesn't count as a Bill Nelson album)

Wow – Brie Larson released an album as a teenager(?)

Ernie Graham's self-titled album from 1971, backed by Brinsley Schwarz, is a fave. One album and one single, seven years later (appropriately issued on 1 Off Records (a Stiff sub-label)).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueoUNT1RyE8