One Song Per Album

I did this the other night with Sleater-Kinney -- I'd just listened to their new single, and I went back through (on Spotify) and listened to one song from each album in succession. It was an interesting way to tour the catalog and hear what's changed and what hasn't. The songs weren't necessarily my favorites from each album, just the ones that made me at that moment want to hear them. Forthwith:

Sleater-Kinney: "A Real Man"
Call the Doctor: "Stay Where You Are"
Dig Me Out: "It's Enough"
The Hot Rock: "Get Up"
All Hands on the Bad One: "Leave You Behind"
One Beat: "Oh!"
The Woods: "Jumpers"
The Center Won't Hold: "The Future Is Here"

I have ambitions to do Dylan, but that'll take a while. So here's the Police:

Outlandos d'Amour: "So Lonely"
Regatta de Blanc: "Bring on the Night"
Zenyatta Mondatta: "Voices Inside My Head"
Ghost in the Machine: "Too Much Information"
Synchronicity: "Synchronicity II"

You missed an album. xp

Right!

No Cities to Love: "A New Wave"

Ok, here is Pulp.

It: "Blue Girls"
Freaks: "Being Followed Home"
Separations: "My Legendary Girlfriend"
Intro: "O.U."
His 'n' Hers: "Acrylic Afternoons"
Different Class: "F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E"
This Is Hardcore: "This Is Hardcore"
We Love Life: "The Night That Minnie Timperley Died"

the Who:

My Generation: “My Generation”
A Quick One: “So Sad About Us”
The Who Sell Out: “Tattoo”
Tommy: “We’re Not Gonna Take It”
Live At Leeds: “My Generation”
Who’s Next: “Won’t Get Fooled Again”
Quadrophenia: “The Punk And The Godfather”
The Who By Numbers: “However Much I Booze”
Who Are You: “Who Are You”
Face Dances: “Daily Records”
It’s Hard: “Cry If You Want”
Endless Wire: “Mike Post Theme”

Pet Shop Boys

Please: Love Comes Quickly
Actually: King's Cross
Introspective: Left To My Own Devices
Behaviour: Being Boring
Very: Yesterday When I Was Mad
Bilingual: Red Letter Day
Nightlife: I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Anymore
Release: The Samurai In Autumn
Fundamental: The Sodom & Gomorrah Show
Yes: The Way It Used To Be
Elysium: Leaving
Electric: Inside A Dream
Super: The Pop Kids

gish: snail
siamese dream: luna
pisces iscariot: hello kitty kat
mcis:: mcis
tafh: pastichio medley
adore: blank page
machina: I of the mourning
machina II: vanity

Tigermilk - We Rule the School
If You're Feeling Sinister - Seeing Other People
The Boy with the Arab Strap - The Boy with the Arab Strap
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant - Don't Leave the Light on Baby
Storytelling - Big John Shaft
Dear Catastrophe Waitress - If She Wants Me
Push Barman to Open Old Wounds - The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner
The Life Pursuit - Mornington Crescent
Write About Love - I Want The World To Stop
Third Eye Centre - Your Cover's Blown
Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance - Nobody's Empire
How to Solve Our Human Problems - I'll Be Your Pilot

First song on the second side of each B-52s album:

Lava
Devil in my Car
Cake
Trism
Theme for a Nude Beach
Roam
Is That You Mo-Dean?
Eyes Wide Open

Because I'm procrastinating, I've made Spotify lists of all of these so far (at least as much as they're available on Spotify, which most are).

Sleater-Kinney
The Police
Pulp
The Who
Pet Shop Boys
Smashing Pumpkins
Belle & Sebastian
B-52's

nice

Creep
Just
Let Down
Idioteque
Pyramid Song
Myxomatosis
Reckoner
Lotus Flower
Identikit

Nick Cave

Saint Huck
Train Long Suffering
Somthing's Gotten Hold of My Heart
Up Jumped the Devil
The Witness Song
John Finn's Wife
Do You Love Me
Henry Lee
Idiot Prayer
Love Letter
Babe, I'm on Fire
There She Goes My Beautiful World
We Call Upon the Author
Jubilee Street
Magneto

Saint Etienne with no hits, some key comps included

Foxbase Alpha: Spring
So Tough: Calico
You Need A Mess Of Help...: Archway People
Tiger Bay: Cool Kids Of Death
Continental: Sometimes In Winter
Good Humor: Goodnight Jack
The Sound Of Water: Downey, CA
Interlude: Red Setter
Finisterre: Finisterre
Tales From Turnpike House: Lightning Strikes Twice
Words And Music by Saint Etienne: I Threw It All Away
Home Counties: Sweet Arcadia

Was just about to post Saint Etienne, came up with a totally different listing.

Nothing Can Stop Us
Hobart Paving
Marble Lions
Lose That Girl
How We Used To Live
Soft Like Me
Teenage Winter
Over the Border
Magpie Eyes

R.E.M.

Murmur: Talk About The Passion
Reckoning: Time After Time (Annelise)
Fables of the Reconstruction: Driver 8
Lifes Rich Pageant: Fall On Me
Document: Disturbance at the Heron House
Green: World Leader Pretend
Out of Time: Shiny Happy People Half a World Away
Automatic for the People: Find The River
Monster: Let Me In
New Adventures in Hi-Fi: Electrolite
Up: Sad Professor
reveal: Imitation of Life
Around the Sun: Around the Sun
Accelerate: Hollow Man
Collapse into Now: Walk It Back

Tong Poo
Technopolis
Nice Age
Taiso
Cue
Kimi Ni Mune Kyun (Uwaki Na Bakansu)
You've Got To Help Yourself
Pocketful Of Rainbows

condor ave
the white lady loves you more
alameda
pitseleh
i better be quiet now
the last hour
new disaster
true love

Interstellar Overdrive
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Grantchester Meadows
If
Echoes
Brain Damage
Wish You Were Here
Dogs
Comfortably Numb
Two Suns in the Sunset
On The Turning Away
High Hopes

regret
where i'm from
money, cash, hoes
snoopy track
1-900-hustler
heart of the city (ain't no love)
the bounce
allure
oh my god
success
already home
beach is better
family feud

Bufo Alvarius: Adhesive
Amanita: Wank
Lapsed: Tommygun Angel
Set & Setting: Walking Stick Man
Dilate: Two Planes
On the Ellipse: Every Man
Ticket Crystals: Montana Sacra II
Bardo Pond: Undone
Peace on Venus: Kali Yuga Blues
Curanderos: Muscalito Pt 1
Vol. 8: And I Will

Catch the Breeze
Souvlaki Space Station
Blue Skied and Clear
Sugar For the Pill

Crazy Frog Sounds
Who Let The Frog Out
Crazy Frog In The House (Knightrider)
Go Froggy Go
Join The Frog

The Antichrist
Aggressive Perfector
Hell Awaits
Epidemic
Mandatory Suicide
Skeletons of Society
Divine Intervention
Filler/I Don't Want to Hear It
Scrum
Exile
Jihad
World Painted Blood
Piano Wire

Roxy Music - Is There Something
For Your Pleasure - Editions Of You
Stranded - Amazona
Country Life - Out Of The Blue
Siren - Both Ends Burning
Manifesto - Spin Me Round
Flesh & Blood - Same Old Scene
Avalon - More Than This

School
Territorial Pissing
Scentless apprentice

Poing

Three Imaginary Boys
M
Primary
One Hundred Years
Dressing Up
Push
Just Like Heaven
Plainsong
From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
Strange Attraction
Watching Me Fall
alt.end
Underneath the Stars

Pavement

They have a messy discography so this is their studio albums plus Westing, in order of release, then one song each from the four double cd reissues.

Summer Babe (Winter version)
Home
Silence Kid
Fight This Generation
Fin
The Hexx
Rain Ammunition
All My Friends
Easily Fooled
Roll With the Wind

studio albums only:

Viola Lee Blues
Alligator
China Cat Sunflower
Dire Wolf
Brokedown Palace
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleoo
Ship of Fools
Franklin's Tower
Terrapin Part 1
Stagger Lee
Althea
Black Muddy River
Standing on the Moon

Hope For Happiness
As Long as He Lies Perfectly Still
Slightly All The Time
Teeth
Pigling Bland
Between
Penny Hitch
The Floating World
Aubade
Soft Space
(Black) Velvet Mountain

Telephono: Nefarious
A Series of Sneaks: Car Radio
Girls Can Tell: Everything Hits at Once
Kill the Moonlight: Small Stakes
Gimme Fiction: My Mathematical Mind
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: The Ghost of You Lingers
Transference: Trouble Comes Running
They Want My Soul: New York Kiss
Hot Thoughts: First Caress

Some more Spotify playlists:

Radiohead
Nick Cave
R.E.M.
Pink Floyd
Slowdive
Roxy Music
The Cure
Pavement
Spoon

Velvets (studio only, VU is canon):

All Tomorrow's Parties
I Heard Her Call My Name
Pale Blue Eyes
New Age
Foggy Notion

Steely Dan:

Can't Buy A Thrill – Do It Again
Countdown To Ecstasy – Your Gold Teeth
Pretzel Logic – Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Katy Lied – Bad Sneakers
The Royal Scam – The Caves Of Altamira
Aja – Josie
Gaucho – Glamour Profession

What’s an Album, grandpa?

Super-Electric
Perversion
Ronco Symphony
Analogue Rock
Exploding Head Movie
Ping Pong
Pop Quiz
Motoroller Scalatron
Pinball
The Flower Called Nowhere
Speedy Car
Caleidoscopic Gaze
Household Names
Suggestion Diabolique
Mass Riff
Feel and Triple
Interlock
Self Portrait with “Electric Brain”
Sun Demon
University Microfilms International

Kraftwerk:

Ralf und Florian – Tanzmusik
Autobahn – Autobahn (duh)
Radio-Activity – Radio Stars
Trans Europe Express – Europe Endless
The Man Machine – Neon Lights
Computer World – Computer Love
Electric Cafe – The Telephone Call
Tour de France Soundtracks – Vitamin

(The last one is from the as yet unreleased Switched On Vol. 4)

Duran Duran - Anyone Out There
Rio - Last Chance On The Stairway
Seven & The Ragged Tiger - New Moon On Monday
Notorious - Winter Marches On
Big Thing - All She Wants Is
Liberty - Serious
The Wedding Album - Ordinary World
Thank You - Perfect Day
Medazzaland - Out Of My Mind
Pop Trash - Someone Else Not Me
Astronaut - Nice
Red Carpet Massacre - Zoom In
All You Need Is Now - Runway Runaway
Paper Gods - Sunset Garage

superchunk - my noise
tossing seeds - cool
no pocky - cast iron
on the mouth - from the curve
foolish - kicked in
incidental - night of chill blue
strings - detroit has a skyline
indoor - unbelievable things
come pick - honey bee
shutting up - art class
cup of sand - fader rules
majesty - everything at once
i hate music - jackie mittoo
what a time - break the glass

Gallowsbird’s Bark - Two Fat Feet
Blueberry Boat - Mason City
EP - Here Comes the Summer
Rehearsing My Choir - Seven Silver Curses
Bitter Tea - Police Sweater Blood Vow
Widow City - Navy Nurse
I'm Going Away - Even in the Rain
Remember - Chris Michaels

if jaymc even cared about ilx he would average out the best track numbers

i predict track 2

LZ: Communication Breakdown
LZ 2: Thank You
LZ 3: Since I've Been Loving You
LZ 4: When the Levee Breaks
Houses of the Holy: No Quarter
Physical Graffiti (record 1): Custard Pie
Physical Graffiti (record 2): In The Light
Presence: Achilles Last Stand
In Through the Out Door: In the Evening

does it look like i'm here (jon123) at 12:00 26 Jun 19
Kraftwerk:
Ralf und Florian – Tanzmusik
Autobahn – Autobahn (duh)
Radio-Activity – Radio Stars
Trans Europe Express – Europe Endless
The Man Machine – Neon Lights
Computer World – Computer Love
Electric Cafe – The Telephone Call
Tour de France Soundtracks – Vitamin

I've been think about queen lately so:

Queen - keep yourself alive
Queen II - White Queen
Sheer Heart Attack - Killer Queen
A Night at the Opera - Death on Two Legs
A Day at the races - Tie Your mother down
News of The World - Sheer Heart Attack
Jazz - Bicycle Race
The Game - Another One Bites the Dust
Flash Gordon - Flash’s Theme
Hot Space - Under Pressure
The Works - Hammer to fall
A Kind of Magic - One Vision
The Miracle - Breakthru
Innuendo - Headlong
Made in Heaven - Let me Live

Low

I Could Live in Hope – Words
Long Division – Shame
The Curtain Hits the Cast – Do You Know How To Waltz?
Secret Name – Weight Of Water
Christmas – Little Drummer Boy
Things I Lost in the Fire – In Metal
Trust – Canada
The Great Destroyer – Silver Rider
Drums and Guns – Dragonfly
C’mon – Nothing But Heart
The Invisible Way – Plastic Cup
Ones and Sixes - …missed this one
Double Negative – Always Trying To Work It Out

Waiting Room
Provisional
Repeater
Latin Roots
Smallpox Champion
Bed For The Scraping
Recap Modotti
Little Debbie
Epic Problem

don't think I own/know many complete catalogues of acts with more than a few albums

Nothing posthumous, and I just punted a lot of stuff from 1984 on.

Who Are the Brain Police?
Call Any Vegetable
Part Two
The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny
Anything
The Dog Breath Variations
Peaches en Regalia
Holiday in Berlin, Full-Blown
Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula
Sharleena
Little House I Used to Live In
Call Any Vegetable
It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal
Blessed Relief
Montana
Uncle Remus
Echidna’s Arf (Of You)
Inca Roads
Debra Kadabra
Black Napkins
The Black Page Drum Solo/Black Page #1
RDNZL
Sleep Dirt
City of Tiny Lites
Naval Aviation in Art?
Watermelon in Easter Hay
five-Five-FIVE
Variations on the Carlos Santana Secret Chord Progression
Canard du Jour
Love of My Life
Theme from the 3rd Movement of Sinister Footwear
Envelopes
Tink Walks Amok
Baby Snakes
Strictly Genteel
Dupree’s Paradise
Sinister Footwear II
Night School
In-A-Gadda-Stravinsky
Outrage at Valdez
Amnerika

"uh, think you may have missed a couple of lines there, surely"

To be honest, I don't care about their first two albums in the slightest, and The Mix is an abomination that should never have seen the light of day.

Kraftwerk 1 = (possible tie for) best Kraftwerk

Yea, what happened to Kraftwerk 1 & 2? If you're including Ralf und Florian, you have to include them.

Echo & the Bunnymen

Crocodiles - Stars Are Stars
Heaven up Here - Over The Wall
Porcupine - Clay
Ocean Rain - Nocturnal Me
Echo & the Bunnymen - Bombers Bay
Reverberation - Cut & Dried
Evergreen - Empire State Halo
What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? - Fools Like Us
Flowers - An Eternity Turns
Siberia - Siberia
The Fountain - The Idolness Of Gods
Meteorites - Constantinople

Really enjoying these playlists. Cure and Spoon were excellent tours where I didn't know much outside of the biggest albums.

Mott the Hoople

Rock and Roll Queen
Walkin' with a Mountain
Waterlow
The Journey
One of the Boys
Honaloochie Boogie
Alice

spotify

reminiscent of this great thread(s): The Rough Guide to . . .

Cocteau Twins

Wax and Wane
Glass Candle Grenades
Lorelei
Whales Tails
Ooze Out and Away, Onehow
Athol-Brose
Cherry-Coloured Funk
Theft, And Wandering Around Lost
Half-Gifts
(from singles/EPs) Love's Easy Tears

My version for The Cure would be:

Another Day
At Night
All Cats Are Grey
Siamese Twins
Shake Dog Shake
Kyoto Song
Like Cockatoos
The Same Deep Water As You
From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
Trap
The Loudest Sound
Lost
It's Over

For Orbital:

Satan
Halcyon and On and On
The Box
Way Out -->
Funny Break (One Is Enough)
Acid Pants
Wonky
Vision OnE

Breeders

Fortunately Gone
Divine Hammer
(Dedicated)
Son of Three
Night of Joy
Dawn: Making An Effort

xp and from Snivilisation?

oh oops

Kein Trink Wasser

Siouxsie and the Banshees:

Suburban Relapse
Icon
Christine
Night Shift
Cascade
We Hunger
Land's End
This Wheel's on Fire
Peek-a-Boo
Little Sister
Stargazer

Spinning Top
Battery Brides
Complicated Game
No Language In Our Lungs
Jason and the Argonauts
Ladybird
Reign Of Blows
What in the World??...
Season Cycle
Little Lighthouse
One Of The Millions
Rook
Harvest Festival
The Wheel and the Maypole

Paul Simon

The Paul Simon Songbook (1965) - Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall
Paul Simon (1972) - Peace Like A River
There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973) - Loves Me Like A Rock
Still Crazy After All These Years (1975) - Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy
One-Trick Pony (1980) - Ace In The Hole
Hearts And Bones (1983) - Hearts And Bones
Graceland (1986) - Under African Skies
The Rhythm Of The Saints (1990) - The Cool, Cool River
Songs From The Capeman (1997) - Born In Puerto Rico
You're The One (2000) - That's Where I Belong
Surprise (2006) - Another Galaxy
So Beautiful Or So What (2011) - So Beautiful Or So What
Stranger To Stranger (2016) - Proof Of Love
In The Blue Light (2018) - Love

Young Marble Giants

Colossal Youth (1980): "N.I.T.A."

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Lipstick Vogue
Green Shirt
Opportunity
Good Year For The Roses
Pidgin English
Pills & Soap
The Comedians
I Want You

the Jam

Away From The Numbers
Standards
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
Thick As Thieves
Scrape Away
Carnation

THE BOOKS

Thought for Food: read, eat, sleep
Lemon of Pink: tokyo
Lost and Safe: be good to them always
The Way Out : chain of missing links

The Four Horsemen
Ride of Lightning
Master of Puppets
Helpless
One
Wherever I May Roam
The Outlaw Torn
Fixxxer
Breadfan

And after that who the hell cares.

THE AVALANCHES

Two hearts in 3/4 time
If I was a folkstar

Just spent a good minute trying to recall "What in the World" and "Little Lighthouse" by XTC!

ignorance is bliss
a.d.h.d.
money trees
king kunta
untitled 06
duckworth.
king's dead

Passing on the live albums, soundtracks, Tin Machine and "Pinups"

Love You Til Tuesday
Space Oddity
Width Of A Circle
Queen Bitch
Five Years
Drive-In Saturday
1984
Young Americans
Station To Station
Breaking Glass
"Heroes"
Look Back In Anger
Ashes To Ashes
Modern Love
Blue Jean
Time Will Crawl
Nite Flights
I'm Deranged
Dead Man Walking
Seven
Slow Burn
The Loneliest Guy
The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
Blackstar

Hey King
Through With Six Six Six
Running From Kabob
Open A Rose
My Lil Shocker

A TRIBE CALLED QUEST

Can I Kick It?
Check the Rhime
Electric Relaxation
The Jam
Like It Like That
Space Program

The Messerschmitt Twins
Stanlow
Georgia
Genetic Engineering
Talking Loud and Clear
Crush
(Forever) Live and Die
Pandora's Box
Best Years Of Our Lives
The Moon And The Sun
New Holy Ground
Night Café
The View From Here

Tried doing this in such a way that would come up with a solid standalone album, I guess?

BJORK

Debut: "Venus as a Boy"
Post: "Hyperballad"
Homogenic: "Unravel"
Vespertine: "An Echo, A Stain"
Medulla: "Who Is It"
Volta: "Wanderlust"
Biophilia: "Virus"
Vulnicura: "Black Lake"
Utopia: "Blissing Me"

Afterwards
White Hammer
Killer
A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers
Scorched Earth
Childlike Faith In Childhood's End
Masks
Chemical World
Every Bloody Emperor
Over The Hill
Your Time Starts Now

and I can't pick one off the latest, didn't like any of it really :(

I'm So Bored With The U.S.A.
Last Gang In Town
Complete Control
Clampdown
The Street Parade
Straight To Hell
This Is England

On & On
Didn't Cha Know
I Want You
The Cell
Gone Baby (Don't Be Long)

God Save The Queen

THE AVALANCHES

Two hearts in 3/4 time
If I was a folkstar

one per 20th century release:

Rock City (original)
Yamaha Superstar
Run DNA
Do You Know The Way To San Jose
Information
Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life

Eric H I am shocked that you picked all the same Björks as I would pick (esp. "An Echo, A Stain") wow

Hey Hey We Are Not The Monkees
Disaster Fund Collection
Justified And Ancient Seems A Long Time Ago
Justified And Ancient

Sheela-na-gig
50ft Queenie
Hardly Wait
C'mon Billy
Civil War Correspondent
Angelene
A Place Called Home
No Child of Mine
White Chalk
April

Goldfrapp

Utopia
Hairy Trees
Satin Chic
A&E
Hunt
Thea
Everything Is Never Enough

there is no way to get the Goldfrapp run wrong

Monkees (avoiding the hits)

"Sweet Young Thing"
"Look Out (Here Comes Tommorow)"
"For Pete's Sake"
"Daily Nightly"
"Zor and Zam"
"As We Go Along"
"You and I"
"Oklahoma Backroom Dancer"
"I Can Love You Better"

"Kraftwerk 1 = (possible tie for) best Kraftwerk"

Ha ha ha. Bless you guys.

Eric H I am shocked that you picked all the same Björks as I would pick (esp. "An Echo, A Stain") wow

Aside from your categorization of much of Homogenic as "hectoring," I think we're on the same page much of the time with Björk.

Abbalution

Ring Ring
Waterloo
SOS
My Love, My Life
Eagle
If It Wasn’t for the Nights
Our Last Summer
The Visitors
Should I Laugh or Cry [Bonus Track]

So Long Marianne
Bird on the Wire
Joan of Arc
Take This Longing
Memories
The Window
Hallelujah
Take This Waltz
Anthem
Alexandra Leaving
The Faith
Show Me The Place
Born In Chains
Treaty