"ONE OF A KIND" records/albums

I do hope you write about music for a living. Bravo.

check em out, yo. Also second Boredoms, Rock Bottom, PE, and Loveless.

You know what? Some of the best writers about music don't write about music for a living. It's hardly a surprise.

Early 70s Euro-bubblegum with primitive synths, of course, but also lots and lots of fuzz guitars. Are there any other records like this? I'd sure love to hear them. I mean, i think I've heard instrumentals and movie soundtracks that sound a bit similar--the Crippled Dick Hot Wax stuff comes to mind--but nothing quite so bubblegum.

One of a kind in what sense, StanM? It's a bloody fantastic album - as my email address may attest - but it's hard to escape its obvious electro antecedents: Depeche Mode, Fad Gadget, even (shocker) The Aloof.

Unless you mean one of a kind when compared to the rest of Slater's work, in which case, fair call!

AGF - Westernization Completed (what else is like this outside of the laptop fuckery genre? Laurie Anderson?)
Asa Chang & Junray - Jun Ray Song Chang
Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses (1986)

'one of a kind', albums that plough a furrow that seems to be somewhat unique.
I guess the thing with a lot of potential suggestions is that they have been heavily imitated since. I'm not going to nominate Aphex Twin, or The Black Dog but I kind of feel they should be in. If 'Bytes' had been the only thing they ever released it would be in.

I'd suggest As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade by Mark Stewart and the Maffia, but as I've said before, if it weren't for Warzone by The Missing Brazilians it would never have been recorded.

DM, Fad Gadget, The Aloof: I see what you mean, but those are all regular songs with just an electronic backing. (I'm a DM and Fad Gadget fan, so I'm not dissing them, but I feel they don't have the dance angle Alright On Top has)

Or am I making things even more unclear now?

I would rather say "Trout Mask Replica" OTM, even though personally I hate it.

Also, "Plastic Ono Band", "Trans". Plus "Spirit Of Eden" would have fit into here before the release of "Laughing Stock".

heck, to answer my own question here... Natalie "Tusia" Beridze a.k.a TBA (also known as the second performer on the Monika "4 Women No Cry" Compilation). She reminds me of AGF a lot (from some other samples I've been listening to), and I'm just about to order her "Annulé" album right now.

Strike that one off the list then!

Hmmmm....dunno if I agree with this, as Duty Now for the Future is equally brilliant (and, if I'm correct, recorded swiftly after the first one).

I've heard records that sound like it, but have yet to hear another album that accomplishes what Mike Skinner does on it..

This is the weirdest record I have ever heard. Anybody can make a record that sounds strange. True weirdness occurrs when bizarre people (e.g. Brian Wilson in 1977) try to make a record that in their strange universe sounds like a hit.

perhaps my favourite record of all time.

I'd say 20 Jazz Funk Greats, but I'm not certain Throbbing Gristle didn't make other similar albums as I haven't explored them yet. It's certainly one of a kind within my collection though!

Bill Dixon - Intents and Purposes. Overwhelmingly distinctive, particularly when compared to the work of his contemporaries. As one reviewer wrote,

Very few records are genuinely unique; musicians usually work with known frameworks, and in the rare instances where really new territory is charted, it doesn't take long for settlers to arrive. When RCA released trumpeter Bill Dixon's Intents and Purposes in 1967, however, it sounded like nothing under the sun

Elsa Popping and Her Pixieland Band - Delirium in Hi-Fi

(space age tape loop polka)

The Who Sell Out - charting the migration from AM to FM, before it happened.

Salem - King Night

/troll

Lovless is OTM
― That One Guy (That One Guy), Sunday, June 5, 2005 3:08 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe 7 years ago

there's nothing else like dr. dopo jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy3zTj89sTI

Zappa?

zappa is way too self-conscious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5Jq89LHhpU

Sparks - Little Beehoven

Ed Barton - "Here is my Spoon"

John Gavanti. And I realize I may be severely in the minority, but I love it.

Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth

Not like The XX then?

Emmanuelle Parrenin Maison Rouge
Linda Perhacs Parallelograms
Sylvia Moore Jungle Magic

Eugene MCdaniels Headless Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Alone Again Or
Astral Weeks

Meant to say Forever Changes for the first one. It's Monday morning.

Faust s/t is a big one here

4 of a Kind by DRI is def not a one of a kind record/album

http://www.on-parole.com/shop/14919-32814-large/dri-four-of-a-kind-cd.jpg

"Ctrl"-"F" for Monks
Nothing found.

A travesty nobody mentioned their one album yet.

Not like The XX then?

Only inasmuch as the YMG album is amazing and the XX are boring and unengaging.

The Orb - Pomme Fritz

oh yeah, good call. i gave that one another listen and it disturbed the hell out of me. in 20 years it may be seen as the Orb's best release.

I personally have seen it as such for some time. Love that fucked up thing to pieces.

eugene chadbourne's banjo album of bach partitas / sonatas / whatever is a thing of beauty.
starfuckers' "infrantumi" - post industrial trebly free clatter . whispered italian language psychosexual diatribes & manifestos. dub.
nobukazu takemura: songbook. plinky plonk nursery rhymes that mostly seem to be missing several tracks of their accompaniment. simple. spooky. some weird paranoiac morton feldmanesque vibe despite the cutesy wonder of the whole thing.
robert martin - the long goodbye. plangent lo-fi celestial folk that makes lou barlow & nick drake sound like the uptight squares they really were.

Miles Davis made several of these. in a silent way, Bitches Brew, and On The Corner are the ones that immediately come to mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqgnSZJAV00

http://lpcoverlover.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01.resized/harvey-matusow-01.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X5av3mF1Hw

I never knew about that Dion McGregor record. Wow!

Jaws harps bring to mind:
Makigami Koichi & Anton Brühin's "electric eel" on tzadik, which is some fine cosmic buzz if ever there was - i think brühin even uses some sort of artificial mouth & breath for his buzz harps. koichi yammers freely without resorting to phil minton's worst daffy duck excesses & twangles thumb piano & toots a trompette. they get pretty far out there.

funnily enough, tzadik released unreleased dion mcgregor recordings on cd.

ryuichi sakamoto - esperanto

I never knew about that Dion McGregor record

wtf is this

haha, pretty much what it says there on the cover -- recordings of a dude who talked in his sleep!

huh. wiki entry kinda sets off my bullshit detector

I don't think anything anywhere near Remain in Light by the Talking Heads has ever been made.

having fun playing youtubes of Dion McGregor and Elsa Popping simultaneously

Zappa?

― nostormo, Sunday, February 10, 2013 6:04 PM (Yesterday)

zappa is way too self-conscious

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, February 10, 2013 6:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I think Lumpy Gravy would fit the bill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion_McGregor

skip spence - oar

I don't think anything anywhere near Remain in Light by the Talking Heads has ever been made.

― I Be Ballin Outta Control, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:47 (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Speaking in Tongues was written, produced and arranged in a very similar way. Better choice - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts.

36 chambers

does "trout mask replica" work here, given the captain's own mirror man, decals, doc at the radar station, & beefheart emulations such as natural dreamers etc?
does "Neu!" work here given Neu! 2, la düsseldorf, Michael Rother solo LPs etc?
weren't xinlisupreme just a terrible les rallizes denudes tribute act?
isn't sakamoto's "esperanto" like hosono's "the endless talking", except not really as good?
not trying to rain on anyone's parade, but this is a difficult Q to answer. not even goodiepal meets the criteria, cos he's made more than one record that sounds like goodiepal.

Jimi Tenor's "Intervision" is my highly personal nomination. Actually, I don't like much else he's done, but I love this record and can't think of much else like it.

i don't know. in some ways every album i listen to is one of a kind, because if it wasn't i wouldn't listen to it. (i could go for the joke answer and post a link to that bruford record, but that would just be lazy, wouldn't it?) but i guess there probably aren't a lot of records out there that sound like pascal duffard's "dieu est fou". are there?

Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
Cornelius - Point
Numan - Pleasure Principle

These are the ones I thought off the top of my head. I think they're all ones that have been imitated a lot or used ideas tried by many (like Point) but IMO these albums are all successful in capturing the far out sound they were aiming for and I don't think anything quite comes close to them.

Moondog - Moondog 2 (the one with the rounds & his daughter singing)

i just listened to "intervision" for the first time. it's a great record! but, uh, it kind of reminds me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GWLS6XAMoA

(which is also a great record!)