Best albums done under an alias?

I've been listening to Paul McCartney's new one under The Fireman moniker, Electric Arguments, and it's so much better than anything else he's put out in...well, decades that it got me to thinking about what other artists have been able to perform better under an alias or in another band than under their real names. Paul Mac certainly has joined that group. Others?

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This is maybe better known as "side projects under another name." Otherwise, loads of rappers and electronic artists record under aliases, not to mention solo artists that use "bandonyms," like Final Fantasy, Mountain Goats, Smog, etc.

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Dukes Of Stratosfear is obviously the correct answer.

Props to The Costello Show for "King Of America" too though.

And Per Gessle's album as Son Of a Plumber was also really great.

Yeah, probably should have specified here but was on the way out the door. I was thinking more along the lines of high profile artists, not the newer bunch like the entire series of strokes side projects and all that.

Megan Remy as U.S. Girls is really great. Her album ...Introducing on Siltbreeze this year is one of the best releases of theirs all year!

But yeah, Dukes of Stratosfear wins it for sure.

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Hmmn. The Don Killuminati (The 7 Day Theory) was what I was trying to post.

"Otherwise, loads of rappers and electronic artists record under aliases"

Not sure why this would be an issue actually.

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how different is the new Fireman from the second Fireman? (leaving aside that The Fireman is a "band" not an alias, too...)

CHEMICAL TOILET vs THE PECAN SANDIES vs ELECTRIC DREAM MACHINE

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As I understand it, The Further Adventures of Charles Westover was supposed to be the reverse -- an alias-ed artist releasing a record billed under his real name -- but Liberty Records balked & titled it as by Del Shannon. Tremendous album anyway.

Aphex Twin kind of pwns this thread really.

But the Foxboro Hot Tubs album (i.e. Green Day) is rather good too.

Ach, apart from "Alligator" which is TOO MUCH like You really got me.

The rest are mostly "How would the Sex Pistols do this song oh they already did..."

(It is rather good though,in the end)

Hard to drum up passionate love for the Damned as Naz Nomad & the Nightmares, but it was cute. The Stranglers did a much worse one as the Purple Helmets. Get it?

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No shit.

Is this Macca thing good ? hadn't heard about it. what's it like ?

first two are half-decent and then quite decent ambient, one presumes the newie continues in that vein but I await mr vision's reply!

thanks !
the 90s ambient aspect is not too appealing to me but from the few things I've just read, the latest one seems more interesting (to me).
the latest macca official didn't do anything to me but backyard was great.

and speaking of macca, there is of course :

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I don't suppose the KLF/JAMMs count in all this...

nah, they're too eccentric marcello.

Is this the same band that collaborated with Bedhead on that album I sold years ago, or is the band I'm thinking of "macha" or some spelling variation like that??

Ok, sorry, it was "Macha", nevermind me...

British people call Paul McCartney "Macca."

which is not the same as "Mackems"

No, we British call him "Wacky Thumbs Aloft."

or, to give the full nomenclature, "Fab Macca Wacky Thumbs Aloft."

Dunno if it's among the best, but I like some of Madlib's Quasimodo stuff.

Mercury Rev's Harmony Rockets album was an interesting diversion.

I think I'll go with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (if that counts)

CHEMICAL TOILET vs THE PECAN SANDIES vs ELECTRIC DREAM MACHINE - Pecan Sandies, easily. Night Man vs. Day Man?

MF Doom/Viktor Vaughn thing is the bestest I can think of.

any Plastikman

Specifically, F.U.S.E.

I don't really understand the difference between most of MF Doom's alias (except for the ones where he's collaborating obviously.)

That F.U.S.E. album is a good pick, definitely.

I'd take Yung Wu over at least two of the Feelies' albums.

Likewise, I like World of Skin more than about 80% of Swans.

The Strands vs. Shack?

I think these all count...

anderson bruford wakeman and howe

i dont know if ciccone youth counts, but i always liked it

How about Aztec Camera's debut? All Aztec Camera albums were basically just Roddy Frame under an assumed group name :)

"Megan Remy as U.S. Girls is really great. Her album ...Introducing on Siltbreeze this year is one of the best releases of theirs all year!"

I had no idea Megan was doing so well for herself. Just goes to show--you have to move out of Portland if you want to get successful. Go Megan go!

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