I am CRAZY about this album - I don't want to hear any others by this artist / band - C or D?

Duran Duran - 'Rio'

Happens a lot to me. I can't think of anything off the top of my head, but often I'll love a certain track and not bother checking out the band any further in case the rest of their stuff sucks.

Good idea for a thread.

The Darkness: Permission To Land
The Verve Urban Hymns
Boston: Boston
REO Speedwagon: Hi Infidelity

The Verve Urban Hymns

Really?? I've always found that album to be widely mediocre (apart from "Bitter Sweet Symphony", of course) and prefer "A Storm in Heaven" hands down

I wouldn't know.

I deliberately slowed down my pace of purchasing Built to Spill records, after really enjoying Keep It Like a Secret. Knowing that I don't have their whole back catalog gives me something to look forward to.

I don't think I could actually completely ignore an artist's other records unless I was ambivalent about them. If I enjoy them, I get too curious to check them out. This has lead to a lot of disappointment though, so maybe you're on to something.

Guns n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

i was so in love with television's marquee moon -- and all reviews of adventure basically said, "eh, it's no marquee moon, so no need to bother" -- that i had no desire whatsoever to hear adventure. finally heard it a good 15 years after first hearing marquee moon, and yeah, it ain't insanely great, but it's got its moments.

Hahahaha I STILL haven't heard Adventure, and mostly for the same reasons as you!

Skip Adventure, but don't sleep on the 1992 S/T album.

Van Morrison -- Astral Weeks.

For the relatively poppier, tuneful aspect of Marquee Moon, do try Adventure; for the raw lyricism of guitarrrrr, get the set once booted as Arrow, then (some of it with other live)on the ROIR label as The Blow-Up (hopefully they eventually improved on ROIR's originally-notoriously cheapass sound), and most recently as whatever the title is on Rhino Handmade (Live At The Boarding House or At Your Father's Mustache) Also burn together the best tracks from Tom Verlaine's fairly recent vocal and instrumental albums on Thrill Jockey (and seems like all his solo albums were worth checking out, though haven't played 'em in a long time, cos my turntable's messed up; never could get into Richard Lloyd's voice on his solo albums, and there was too much of it---shut up and play yer guitar!)

You won't be sad when you check out the last Okkervil album ("Black Sheep Boy") as it's actually better than the new one (which is excellent).

I think Adventure rules. Some of their greatest stuff is on there

confining it to songs, I love Eye in the Sky sooo much but have no idea what Alan Parsons project sounds like otherwise, and conversations about him are ALWAYS so inscrutable and vague I don't know what to think.

from the AMG biography no less:

Engineer/producer Alan Parsons and his colleague, songwriter and lyricist Eric Woolfson, formed the Alan Parsons Project in 1975. Throughout their career, the Alan Parsons Project recorded concept albums (including adaptations of Poe and Asimov books), with a revolving cast of session musicians. 1982's Eye in the Sky was their greatest success; the title track charted in the Top Ten on the pop charts and the album went platinum. Although they weren't able to repeat that success, the group maintained a devoted cult audience.

the hell? It's like no one on earth has ever really heard them but they're conspiring to fake it while i'm around. there seems to be no solution.

I've never felt the need to try REM beyond Out of Time and Automatic for the People. I think they count.

I love Eye in the Sky sooo much but have no idea what Alan Parsons project sounds like otherwise, and conversations about him are ALWAYS so inscrutable and vague I don't know what to think.

I love most of their output, but "Eye In The Sky" is more straightforward and considerably less of a concept album than most of the rest of their output.

The Average White Band's self-titled, 'white' album, their first for Atlantic is great. Yet I never felt the need to buy or even try and get to hear any of their others.

I'm afraid I don't understand the concept this thread mentions. If I like an album enough, I will indeed go looking for more from the same artist. The fact that I am sometimes disappointed doesn't deter me.

It's not neccessarily fear of disappointment, it's more than that, which is why it's a symptom to be studied! It's a combination of stubbornness, indifference, and lethargy. If an album so encapsulates everything a 'good' album should be to your ears, why get greedy? Ya know?

Well, I don't think of it as greediness. It's an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, perhaps mixed in with a tendency/desire to be obsessed with one artist.

I'm that way with Joni Mitchell Blue, Emmylou Harris Wrecking Ball, The Strokes Is This It?...

The Grifters' Crappin' You Negative was such a huge album for me in the mid/late 90s that it was nearly a decade before I could bring myself to pick up anything else by them. Even then, I only got One Sock Missing and the Eureka EP (which I only picked up b/c I found in the $1 bin). Still can't bring myself to get their last two albums.

I've also never heard <i>Adventure</i>.

no one has mentioned <i>Loveless</i>? (OK, I'll do it).

I actually feel that way about <i>I See A Darkness</i>, too (and yes, I know I'm wrong).

Let's try that again:

I've also never heard Adventure.

no one has mentioned Loveless? (OK, I'll do it).

I actually feel that way about I See A Darkness, too (and yes, I know I'm wrong).

I See A Darkness is the overrated NPR version of Oldham. It's a good album, but far from his best, IMHO.

My vote goes to Suicide.

The Strokes - Is This It? No way. Room on Fire is a hell of a sophomore album.

I know I have more, but I can only think of Buzzcocks - Single Going Steady. Does the rest of their stuff live up to this?

IS there any other Buzzcocks stuff? Aside from "Boredom" and the shitty reunion stuff, I mean.

the thing is (in my case at least), this is rarely done consciously, and more often than not it isn't because i'm scared that the material i'm avoiding will be poor, but that the artist's other output will be too similar to what i enjoy so much already. sort of a preemptive against some sort of familiarity breeds contempt reaction i guess, especially when what i like is the 'single' (or 'their best album' etc) and the rest of the record might end up just being a handful of poor imitations

OTM lucas

I don't have any "don't want to hear" examples of this, only "this seems to be the only album of theirs I ever listen to, even though I have (and know I like) their other work too" examples. Sonic Youth's Sister, Built To Spill's Perfect From Now On, Tortoise's Millions Now Living..., Ministry's Psalm 69, Swell's Too Many Days Without Thinking, and I have a feeling Bloc Party's first album will become part of this list as well.

NoMeansNo's Wrong too, by the way. I know I love the rest too, but I only ever seem to pick Wrong when I feel I want to hear NMN.

Can I add the Magnetic Field's 69 love songs?

I did get a different album, but it was "oh".

if you've only heard 'loveless', i'd recommend still checking out 'isn't anything' even if you're scared of it ruining your perception of the band

also, the first rem album is far and away the best. might want to give at least that one a listen.

Happened with me and Wildlife Documentaries by Deadbeat. Still haven't really gotten into any of his other albums in spite of considering him one of my favourite musicians out there. It's just that good of an album!

The one band that comes instantly to mind is The Cranberries. I liked the first album, but nothing after that.

Whoever said "Rio" is missing out. The debut is excellent, and "Seven And The Ragged Tiger" is not far behind.

Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles. i love the album but one is enough for me.

xpost, the last Grifters album turns out to be surprisingly good...I wouldn't fear it.

Anyway, I've still got this going on with Tim Rose (terrified to check out his later albums) and Jake Holmes (ditto), though in both cases I love two of their records.