Cult bands who only made one album

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― snowballing (snowballing), Thursday, 16 March 2006 09:49 (twenty years ago)

Fraction?

― rizzx, Thursday, 16 March 2006 09:53 (twenty years ago)

Pistols

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:03 (twenty years ago)

Young Marble Giants

― snowballing (snowballing), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:06 (twenty years ago)

Embrace (DC)

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:06 (twenty years ago)

Silicon Teens

― snowballing (snowballing), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:07 (twenty years ago)

Rapeman? Do EP's disqualify a band?

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:09 (twenty years ago)

No, that's even better. And the Normal counts then.

― snowballing (snowballing), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:15 (twenty years ago)

Monks?

― mikko (mikko), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:20 (twenty years ago)

The classic Pink Floyd line-up with Syd, which was almost a different band.

― zeus (zeus), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:25 (twenty years ago)

Ah, I was this close to saying the Syd era Floyd. Instead I'll throw in Rites of Spring.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:26 (twenty years ago)

Ah, but Syd is on "A saucerful of secrets", two tracks at last count.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:29 (twenty years ago)

I also wonder if a band would be disqualified if they put out a couple of singles as well only one album.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:39 (twenty years ago)

Mono (the nineties english duo) - Fornica Blues

― snowballing (snowballing), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:42 (twenty years ago)

Obvious, yet compellent(?) entries: The Shaggs, The Vaselines, Alexander [Skip] Spence. M/A/R/R/S.

― b0ring, Thursday, 16 March 2006 11:01 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and Hulk Hogan

― b0ring, Thursday, 16 March 2006 11:06 (twenty years ago)

The Shaggs have two albums.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 16 March 2006 11:07 (twenty years ago)

Mono (the nineties english duo) - Fornica Blues

I love that album. I dug it out again a few months ago.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 16 March 2006 11:20 (twenty years ago)

Rema-Rema (only one EP)
Deadly Weapons
Rainy Day
In the "cult bands who only made one single" dept.: Egg Hunt!
Never made an album (posthumous live stuff doesn't count): The Dils

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 16 March 2006 11:23 (twenty years ago)

Spoonie Gee (tons of classic 12"s and 1 patchy album)

Lightnin' Rod (an album and a single)

Void (a split lp and a few extra songs which didn't make it)

Honeydrippers (to my knowledge there's the "impeach the president" 7", the "roy c's theme" song and nothing else ?)

Baby Huey & The Babysitters (2 singles and an album)

Main Source (handful of singles, 2 compilation tracks and 1 album..that lame mark 2 version minus Large Professor rhyming/on production doesn't count)

Deep Wound (a 7" and two comp songs)

Siege (a demo bootlegged onto 7" and 3 comp songs)

Odd Squad (1 album)

Real Live (an album and a compilation track)

Kiss It Goodbye (an album and a single)

Manzel (a couple of singles and some unearthed songs 20 years later)

Marva Whitney (a few singles and an album)

Negative Approach (amazing 7" + comp song + so-so album)

Negative F.X (a demo that was released as an album)

Money Boss Players (one ep, a few 12"s and a couple of comp tracks)

Swing Kids (a 7" and a split 10")

Diamond Shell (1 album made by Biz Markie's brother with Biz on production)

― MR PERFECT, Thursday, 16 March 2006 12:26 (twenty years ago)

Also, since people are mentioning Embrace/Rites Of Spring/Egghunt

Skewbald (a posthumous 2 song 7")

Pailhead (an ep)

One Last Wish (a compilation song and a posthumously released demo tape album -which i've never heard)

A couple of other rap ones too :

Stezo (an lp and a 12" of unreleased tracks)

T. La Rock ("it's yours", an album and 2 more 12"s)

― MR PERFECT, Thursday, 16 March 2006 12:32 (twenty years ago)

Minor Threat

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 16 March 2006 12:38 (twenty years ago)

True.

― MR PERFECT, Thursday, 16 March 2006 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Fotheringay.
Cardinal.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 16 March 2006 13:29 (twenty years ago)

The Shaggs have two albums.
-- mark grout (mark.grou...), March 16th, 2006

Ooops. So compilation albums count as full albums, then?

― b0ring, Thursday, 16 March 2006 13:30 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe that no one has suggested The United States of America yet! Plus, there are no pesky compilations to confuse matters either

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Thursday, 16 March 2006 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Life Without Buildings

― ample parking (Garrett Martin), Thursday, 16 March 2006 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Ooops. So compilation albums count as full albums, then?

No, they actually made two entirely original albums: Philosophy of the World (1969) and Shaggs' Own Thing (1982). The eponymous Rounder comp came out a few years after Shaggs' Own Thing.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 16 March 2006 13:50 (twenty years ago)

Crash - I Feel Fine

― bham, Thursday, 16 March 2006 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Montage (Michael Brown's post-Left Banke group). One terrific pop album.

― James, Thursday, 16 March 2006 14:39 (twenty years ago)

The La's

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 16 March 2006 14:42 (twenty years ago)

The Human Switchboard: Who's Landing In My Hangar?

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:00 (twenty years ago)

The Jook - Watch Your Step
Milk 'n' Cookies - s/t

― youth problem (YouthProblem), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Hackamore Brick - One Kiss Leads to Another

― Jeff K (jeff k), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:18 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe that no one has suggested The United States of America yet! Plus, there are no pesky compilations to confuse matters either

-- Robin Goad (rgoa...), March 16th, 2006.

they didnt just fall off the face of the earth, though. a few of em were on the field hippies album

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Hampton Grease Band
Debris
Fifty Foot Hose
Original Concept
Twinkeyz
Neu!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Neu! made three albums.

― Jeff K (jeff k), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Simply Saucer
Icky Joey (members of Mudhoney, Love Battery, etc.)
Blacktop (Mick Collins band bet. Gories and Dirtbombs)
Dee Dee King
The Nerves

― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:05 (twenty years ago)

The Modern Lovers

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Smif-N-Wessun

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Os Brazoes
skip spence only made oen solo album

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Black Randy & The Metrosquad

The Exploding Hearts

― cdwill (cdwill), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)

To save some time: every band that only made 1 album.

― Pangolino 2, Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:06 (twenty years ago)

jeff buckley, i guess

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Orchestra Luna, although admittedly the cult is quite small.

The Secret, who did the Cockney Rebel soundalike "I'm Alive."

There's that "Phantom's Divine Comedy" record that does for The Doors what the first Klaatu LP did for The Beatles.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Dart - 36 cents an hour (on che). they did an ep later kind of.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:28 (twenty years ago)

let's empty the cupboards:

Moldy Peaches, Avalanches (I'm not holding my breath), Moby Grape, Fire Engines, New Radicals, Linda Perhacs, Simon Warner, Ultrasound, and Subway Sect (I think)...

― hank scollard (hank s), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:29 (twenty years ago)

lift to experience

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Neu! made three albums.
-- Jeff K

Heh heh...I know, but they all sound the same to me! (Same LP covers too.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Ummm, Moby Grape had at least six albums (more, if you count reunion LPs). Or did you mean Skip Spence? Or Bob Mosley? (one solo LP apiece).

― James, Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:39 (twenty years ago)

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The monks (seconded).

The Chesterfields.

― Sven Hassel Schmuck, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

The Monsoon Bassoon. oh yes.

― m the g, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 00:34 (eighteen years ago)

Tones on Tail

― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:15 (eighteen years ago)

unicorns had a lot of other stuff, maybe even an LP before Cut Our Hair i can't remember

― Kevin Keller, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:34 (eighteen years ago)

Delta 5
Weekend
Girls At Our Best
The June Brides
Shop Assistants
Cardinal

― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:37 (eighteen years ago)

Smif-N-Wessun

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), 16. maaliskuuta 2006 19:14 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Just because they had to change their name for legal reasons doesn't mean Cocoa Brovaz/Tek & Steele aren't the same duo.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:45 (eighteen years ago)

Liaisons Dangereuses, just saw some very cool live stuff by them on youtube, they were definitely cult, and only made that one album!

― lynshroom, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

World Of Twist

― mark e, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

Sunsonic - though not a cult band as such, just that one of the duo supposedly joined a cult causing the band to no longer exist.

― mark e, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

The Postal Service

― Dodo Lurker (Slim and Slam), Sunday, 8 May 2011 14:42 (fifteen years ago)

henry's dress
tiger trap

― jumpskins, Sunday, 8 May 2011 17:16 (fifteen years ago)

Revolution 9
Mellow Candle
Towering Inferno

― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Sunday, 8 May 2011 17:32 (fifteen years ago)

Death from Above

― The Sunspots In Your Eyes Are Actually Cataracts, Mr. Rudich (AWALL), Sunday, 8 May 2011 17:56 (fifteen years ago)

For a band that only released a demo and a 7", Strid has a remarkable cult status in Metal circles.

― Siegbran, Sunday, 8 May 2011 20:14 (fifteen years ago)

Eleven Pond

― it is his "enigmatic signifier" (the table is the table), Sunday, 8 May 2011 20:18 (fifteen years ago)

Cynic - Focus -- the robot death metal classic

― larssen (larssen), Monday, March 20, 2006 11:43 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark

this one no longer applies

― BIG YNGWIE aka the malmsteendriver (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 May 2011 20:26 (fifteen years ago)

xpost. Cardinal didn't release another album, it's true, but 3-4 songs emerged from their attempted reunion, and they're pretty great. Google can find...

― dlp9001, Sunday, 8 May 2011 21:05 (fifteen years ago)

The Grays

The Monroes

― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 8 May 2011 21:11 (fifteen years ago)

Willis Allan Ramsey

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 8 May 2011 21:15 (fifteen years ago)

Oh, Vaselines (mentioned upthread) obviously not so anymore.

V-Effect not yet mentioned, and their one is pretty great. Skyband is another one, though that's more of a supergroup.

― dlp9001, Sunday, 8 May 2011 21:20 (fifteen years ago)

Lucia Pamela!

― crabbbittts (Abbbottt), Sunday, 8 May 2011 21:23 (fifteen years ago)

Laser Pace - Granfalloon (Takoma - 1974) Wow!

― Stomp! in the name of love (WmC), Sunday, 8 May 2011 21:25 (fifteen years ago)

Electribe 101

― kokokeho, Sunday, 8 May 2011 21:27 (fifteen years ago)

Sluts Of Trust

― Beggar On A Beach Of Shite. (PaulTMA), Sunday, 8 May 2011 21:32 (fifteen years ago)

M/A/R/R/S.

Didn't make an album.

― I have some kind of staph infection, and the only prescription is IALEX (sic), Monday, 9 May 2011 00:54 (fifteen years ago)

The Glove - Blue Sunshine

― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 9 May 2011 21:37 (fifteen years ago)

Thunderclap Newman

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 9 May 2011 22:52 (fifteen years ago)

The Other People Place

― Evil Eau (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 14:30 (fifteen years ago)

Dennis Wilson

(yes he was also in a very mainstream band, but his one solo album is a cult fave and doesn't sound like his band)

― Lee626, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 14:51 (fifteen years ago)

Winter

― Siegbran, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 15:44 (fifteen years ago)

Morgan (I can't find out anything about these psych rockers, their song "Welcome to the Void" is so classic!)
― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Thursday, March 16, 2006 6:54 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

I think this has finally been answered between the latest version of Vernon Joynson's Fuzz Acid & Flowers REvisited and Richard Morton Jack's Endless Trip. Love that lp, wish it would get a legit reissue. Should appeal to fans of Wooden Shjips I think

― Stevolende, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 21:54 (fifteen years ago)

Black Tambourine

― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 22:00 (fifteen years ago)

Rebecca & the Sunnybrook Farmers

― yuoowemeone, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 22:16 (fifteen years ago)

The Millennium

― Lee626, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 09:40 (fifteen years ago)

Oasis

― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 09:51 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.mclub.com.ua/images/alb/cover19468_140397.jpg

― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 09:52 (fifteen years ago)

ach:

http://www.mclub.com.ua/images/alb/cover19468_140397.jpg

― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 09:52 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KewzkwA6k1M

― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 09:53 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.vinylsearcher.com/largeImages/25180488.jpg

― Beggar On A Beach Of Shite. (PaulTMA), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 12:24 (fifteen years ago)

http://991.com/newGallery/Black-Affair-Pleasure-Pressure-438656.jpg

cheatin' a little i'll admit ..

― mark e, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 12:31 (fifteen years ago)

One Dove been mentioned yet?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 13:05 (fifteen years ago)

Armageddon

― Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 13:16 (fifteen years ago)

good call re One Dove.

i'm still holding out for the pre-touch up version of that album to get a release.

never heard it, but it was supposed to be a lot better than the official version.

― mark e, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 13:19 (fifteen years ago)

I believe it was released, as the LP version (a double, I had one, and I think it's on a minidisc somewhere)

― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 13:50 (fifteen years ago)

oh !
didn't know that. i thought it was only ever made available prior to them signing to Boys Own as a promotional item and so never officially released.
guess its time to go a googling.

― mark e, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 13:57 (fifteen years ago)

Well, there's nothing confirming my viewpoint. I was more "someone told me" so..

― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 14:20 (fifteen years ago)

nine months pass...

hmmm
spinning the grays ro sham bo at the moment
haven't listed to it in years - first four songs are really great, then a little bit more like really good from there on

also don't think mentioned in this thread: erik voeks' sandbox - groovy power pop with good guitar playing throughout

― jimmy_chop, Friday, 9 March 2012 15:36 (fourteen years ago)

ok both belong is great great great
after listening to this three times straight

something's wrong with me

― jimmy_chop, Friday, 9 March 2012 15:50 (fourteen years ago)

Delakota only made one (pretty good) album (which had one all-time favourite amazing single on it).

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 9 March 2012 20:30 (fourteen years ago)

Bark Psychosis only made one lp as a band. They also had 2 compilations of early stuff etc plus about 10 years later Graham Sutton came back and used the bandname for another lp with none of the other members.
Can't really think of a Bark Psychosis without John Ling

― Stevolende, Saturday, 10 March 2012 10:16 (fourteen years ago)

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