Favourite bands who you only really really love one album by?

I don't really need any of either act's other records, as far as I'm concerned.

Everything else I've heard by him - crap.

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Elastica: First album - timeless classic.

Second (much delayed and anticipated) album - unlistenable.

Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man

i like some of the other stuff (even the elvis covers album has some fun moments !) but Flaunt It is still right up there in my playlist.

HS

(Heard an unidentified bit of new Stones musik in the shop the other day for the first time - wasn't half bad.)

Unlistenable crap, unlistenable crap, semi-listenable crap (the Kids soundtrack), theamazing One Part Lullaby, and back to our regularly scheduled programming of unlistenable crap.

Everything else I've heard by him - crap.

The Hot Fives and Sevens are like eight albums dude.

I can only listen to "Good News...". Is that wierd?

it is just really good, catchy pop/rock music. but any album after that.....SNORESVILLE.

Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld

Well, I've got them all on one disc. Any, even in vinyl, there weren't enough to make eight albums out of - nowhere near.

it is just really good, catchy pop/rock music. but any album after that.....SNORESVILLE.

Totally agree.

Ultramagnetic M.C's-critical beatdown (there are earlier 12"s like "mentally mad" and later 12"s like "chorus line" and "poppa large" remix but the "funk your head up" and "the horsemen" albums are lame and not worth owning).

Bad Brains-roir sessions ("black dots" is good but hardly essential, and anything post-"roir sessions" is too lumpen and proto-funk metal)

Black Sheep-a wolf in sheep's clothing (best Native Tongues album that isn't by ATCQ but their "non fiction" floow up was such a disappointmrnt).

Dag Nasty-can i say (after Dave Smalley left and Peter Cortner joined they became ghey).

Cro Mags-age of quarrel (classic NYHC but as soon as Bloodclot left and they went metal they sucked).

Hell No-skin job (still one of my favorite albums/bands from the early 90s but i doubt i'll ever listen to their 7" or 2nd album ever again).

Monster Magnet-spine of god (their next few albums were alright, i guess, but after John Mcbain left they lost their really nasty edge).

Snoop-doggystyle (alright so he's done a few amazing singles with The Neptunes and everything he touches that Dre produces is gold - "the chronic", "2001", tracks like "lay low" - but all his solo other albums are trash).

Raekwon-only built 4 cuban linx. ( probably my favorite rap album but this other two solo efforts are atrocious).

I've never heard any other Pulp album besides Different Class. Any other worth hearing?

oh god yes.

His n Hers, This Is Hardcore, We Love Life, and at least 1/2 of Separations are all fantastic.

liz phair - exile in guyville

Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin - Two People...Probably Talking About Me EP

and, uh, Counting Crows - This Desert Life (Recovering the Satellites is pretty decent, though)

posies - frosting on the beater

is that a bit harsh?

Aztec Camera. I mean, "Love" and "Dreamland" are both OK, but really, "High Land Hard Rain" is the only true gem.

And picking only "Frosting On The Beater" is way harsh considering "Dear 23" is a lot better. :)

Meat Puppets, Up on the Sun

supergrass - i should coco

diminishing returns since then

Meat Puppets, Up on the Sun

Have to agree. I go through phases where I obsess over all of their SST albums (yes, even the first one -- I love it!) but Up On The Sun is the only one I'd take with me to the desert island.

Also:

Minutemen - The Punch Line

I love love love the Minutemen, but The Punch Line is the only essential document they ever recorded. I love it far more than Double Nickels.

The Rain Parade made more than one album.

The Grays. Only one album and that album was damn great!

And The Feeling, for now. Hopefully their next album will be as excellent as the debut though.

supergrass - i should coco

diminishing returns since then

In It for the Money was good too, though, in some places at least. It was definitely downhill after that.

The Rain Parade made more than one album.

oh, you're right come to think of it. i only really counted the David Roback stuff in my head.e

minutemen totally fit this description for me, though it's Double Nickels for me.

Fleshtones - "Roman Gods" Top ten all time easily. Tried to get into all of the others, couldn't make any headway.

age of chance - one thousand years of trouble.

been a long long time since i dropped their name on an ILM thread, and this is a perfectly suitable reason.

while mecca was an interesting direcdtion, i don't think anyone would be shocked to hear that it never featured that highly in my playlists.

Spinanes Manos, although The Imp Years has a couple of great songs on it, too. Not as big a fan of the two albums after Manos.

But Manos is one of those formative albums for me, I will always love it.

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

emperor, 'prometheus'
legendary pink dots, 'any day now'
christian death, 'ashes'

Kitchens of Distinction - Love is Hell

Thrush Hermit "Clayton Park"
Run On "Start Packing"

I know there are others...

Buzzcocks
Slayer

thee notorious b.i.g. "ready to die"
cecil taylor "unit structures"

slayer otm

Mr. Bungle (Disco Volante)

B.A.D. II, The Globe. Shocking to me how much I love this, given that I don't think I've liked even a single song on any other record they ever made.

gotta mention Ride, though I recently saw someone defending "Tarantula"... was it here on ilm?

a bolder mention is Japan, with "Adolescent Sex." yes, the only Japan record I like is "Adolescent Sex."

Again, this depends on the definition of "Favourite" bands, but Oasis and Radiohead are acts that I may list among my favourites, although the only Oasis album I really love is "Morning Glory", while with Radiohead, it is "OK Computer" that is in a league of its own.

And The Zombies. Surely The Zombies. I mean, "Begin Here" is OK and all, but still.....

Coldplay - Parachutes
Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
KLF - Chill Out
Aphex Twin - saw vol. 2

With the Age Of Chance there's no argument that of the two albums, only one is classic while the other defines dud, but you gotta take into consideration about another album's worth of killer singles, b-sides, eps etc.

Fear - The Record
Black Flag - Damaged
Mini-Moni - Minimoni Song Daihyakka Ichimaki

Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed

Seven marvellous albums from that one onwards. They didn't lose it until the second half of the 70s.

I love "Kid A", the rest range from "alright" to "I'm bored now"

Deadbeat - Wildlife Documentaries. One of my, like, top 20 albums ever, but I haven't even liked the stuff off his other albums, although I'm quite confident about his new one, so we'll see.

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - the first solo EP

Bran Van 3000 - Glee

Aztec Camera so very OTM.

I don't agree, but I've heard the B-52's debut described in these terms on more than one occasion.

Shocking to me how much I love this, given that I don't think I've liked even a single song on any other record they ever made.

If you love The Globe you couldn't hate Kool-Aid.

With the Age Of Chance there's no argument that of the two albums, only one is classic while the other defines dud, but you gotta take into consideration about another album's worth of killer singles, b-sides, eps etc.

a) that's about half the premise of this thread and b) I don't think there's any doubt the guy you're talking to knows this very very specifically!

b) I don't think there's any doubt the guy you're talking to knows this very very specifically!

ta numismatic.
i'm just glad that everything is of the same opinion as me in regards to the bands non-lp material.
reissue campaign for 2009 ? we can but hope.
agree re kool aid - i actually listen to that more often than the globe.

Spoon, Gimme Fiction

Interesting question.

I'd say Stars: "Heart"

Pale Saints - Comforts of Madness

Monsterland 'Destroy What You Love'

I think they only did one album and this was it...

Seek it

It Takes a Nation of Millions is the only PE album I stand by en total (despite the critics' choice of Fear)

Boat to Bolivia by Martin Stephenson and The Daintees. Bought the next album, but the moment had gone.

Sonic Youth - Sister (though I usually like a couple of songs from their other albums)

seeing people talking about new duran duran stuff is always hilarious, but rio is a legit all-time record, confusing huh

jaded yet knowing

Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Talking Heads - True Stories

Love all of these, tried other albums by them but none of them grabbed me.

For me it's Blur's Think Tank. Think Tank is in my top 20 or so all-time favorite albums, but I usually just like a song or two from their previous releases. I guess I'm not much of a Graham Coxon fan.

billy squier

shearwater - palo santo

the first Futureheads album definitely qualifies for me