Nominations for Best Album By An Artist Who Only Released One Album poll

Eivets Rednow

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Wild Tchoupitoulas - S/T

This is a great record. (I'm listening to The Wild Magnolias as I type...)

I think Modern Lovers s/t should count because only David Robinson was on both albums with Jonathan. They lost two really important members!

no

this is like nominating the Velvet Underground because Nico was only on the first album

unicorns kicked out btw per sean g's point

- velvet underground

Wild Tchoupitoulas - S/T

This is a great record.

Agree. I'll be voting for this if this ever ends up in a voting stage.

What about various combos of artists who did one album together? Like Eno & Cale, or Reed & Cale, or the Stills-Young band?

no. the idea is not to get as many names as possible. it's to poll albums by unique artistic entities who never recorded an album again. otherwise there's a trillion jazz combos that were never technically the same thing again, the Byrds probably'd qualify, etc etc.

Oh damn xp yr right abt unicrons :(((

like if you count engineers & sidemen as contributors, which is really a fair proposition to make, you could technically nominate every album ever made for this poll

Cowboys international - the original sin

Christgau:

The Wild Tchoupitoulas [Island, 1976]
Here we have eight songs about dressing up in Indian costume on Mardi Gras; many of them are also about fighting with other Indians. You've probably heard the New Orleans nonsense patois before, and maybe the irresistible melodic elements, too, although I can't tell any more, because I've played this "repetitive" record so many times it sounds like where they all started (which it may be). For a while, I believed side two inferior, but eventually a longing for "Big Chief Got a Golden Crown" set in and now I prefer it for listening. Side one is the best non- (or anti-) disco dance music in years--it had folks who'd never heard it before shouting "Indians here they come" at a thirtieth birthday party. Allen Toussaint produced, the Meters played, and mighty kootie fiyo. A

citizen's arrest - colossus
los crudos - canciones para liberar nuestras fronteras
charles bronson - youth attack
torches to rome - torches to rome
heroin - destination
worst case scenario - worst case scenario

holy fuck at strongo's noms

oh, and

the vss - nervous circuits

Good call with the Herion! I was thinking of adding Antioch Arrow to this list, but they released two full-lengths didn't they?

Anyway, Exploding Hearts will probably be forever my best and only answer to this question. I played the album in the car during a drive out to my parents a few weeks ago, forgetting that my wife had never heard the whole thing, and she fell instantly in love with it and we ended up playing it like 6 times in a row.

Yes, great call with VSS too.

Cosign on VSS.

Meantime: Rodan, Rusty

^^^^

VSS makes me think of Behead the Prophet NLSL who put out only one album (I am that Great and Fiery Force) but I don't remember it really.
See I saw both bands play the same club...

yeah, antioch arrow put out two 12 inches. they're only like 20 minutes a piece, but i had to stick to the rule.

Marie Queenie Lyons- Soul Fever

why does steven tyler hate me and/or LAMF

also I'd nominate kilslug for answer the call but they are putting something new out 25 years later so n/m

suggest anyone into those picks checks out that torches to rome record. not many people seem to know it, but it's one of my fave 90s hardcore records. (ex-fuel guys. the hardcore/emo fuel, not the shitty mod rock fuel.)

would also suggest checking out the worst case scenario record, which is justin from unwound doing really intense touch & go style hardcore, except i can't find a copy of it anygoddamnwhere now.

does 2 Bad Mice - Kaotic Chemistry count or would that be considered a compilation?

Daughters of Albion S/T for sure, though not enough people here have heard it for it to win.

Info: http://www.groovytunesday.com/descriptions/music/daughters_albion.html

I second the Afros nomination. Hoe Cakes is just untouchable.

I can think of a lot of albums that fit the criteria but few I would call "great"

as in, this is one of my top 10 albums ever

which LAMF is btw

feel like 2 Bad Mice counts though I'm afraid it opens the door to several dozen HxCx discography CDs

I've never even heard the Thunderclap Newman album, just the one single, so drop it if you want.

Altern8 - Full On Mask Hysteria
LA Style - LA Style

well if we're going there:

sonz of a loop da loop era - flowers in my garden

foul play - suspected

Acen - 75 Minutes

^^ YES

which LAMF is btw

these are the albums released by that band before Thunders died:

L.A.M.F. (1977, Track)
L.A.M.F. Revisited (1984, Jungle)
L.A.M.F. The Lost '77 Mixes (1994, Jungle)
Live at Max's Kansas City (1979, Max's Kansas City Records)
D.T.K. Live At The Speakeasy (1982, Jungle)
Live At The Lyceum Ballroom 1984 (1985, Jungle)

T99 - Children of Chaos

(kind of mad that Eon and Bizarre Inc released multiple albums)

Kemet Crew - Champion Jungle Sound

Unique 3 - Jus Unique

(also kind of mad that Omni Trio released Haunted Science but that is mostly because it sucks)

I feel like there must be tons of great housey/IDM/electronic stuff that would fit here

haha there was a shitty omni trio after that too

see also: the semi-crummy lfo records after frequencies

wow there were SEVERAL shitty omni trio albums after deepest cut.

jesus

Did anyone else in that scene piss away their potent faster than that dude? Maybe Photek (tho I thought he kind of got things back together around Form and Function Pt 2)?

lol "potent" should obv be "potential"

still I guess someone had to be a drum n blouse pioneer

most of them?

lol fair point, but then you've got all of those fucking amazing Hyper-On Experience tracks