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

Billy Nicholls- Would You Believe?

The original LP of Would You Believe is one of the rarest rock albums you're likely to (not) find - only about 25 were made, intended to be sent to promoters and radio, but financial problems at Immediate prevented it ever going into full production, despite excellent reviews and the support of several of rock's aristocracy.

simon warner, simon pretentious, simon awful.

simon warner, simon pretentious, simon awful.

haha.
a few years ago someone on ILM told me that lp was a good'un.
i bought it cheap. got 3 tracks in. gave up.
never listened all way through.
could be time to go a diggin' in the archive and see if it clicks now that i am older and more openminded ?

It's available on spotify for those who are curious http://open.spotify.com/album/3EZEosVwVwad7Two87a1Kg if you don't like Bowie at his most rococo or the Divine Comedy then best to move on. Needless to say I partly disagree with keythhhtyek in that it's awful. Pretentious, absolutely but that stuff is catnip to me.

love bowie, hate divine comedy.
where does that leave me i wonder.
found it in archive : now if smallkid leaves me alone for a few minutes ..

My cursory glance at Billy Nicholls on discogs didn't show a second album, so we can pull that one. Sorry guys. I thought of another good one to take its place that is 100% legit for this: Amanaz- Africa. It's awesome, too.

can't believe fucking BABYLON ZOO managed two albums

― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Friday, 12 August 2011 21:15 (2 days ago) Bookmark

cant believe i have them both.

[second album = glam via 90s alt.rock production]

Motorbass - Pansoul

UMCs

― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, August 11, 2011 3:07 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

UMCs had 2 albums

I can't find much online about Philamore Lincoln, except that his sole album (on Epic) was released in 1970, and features half of Led Zeppelin backing him up (Jimmy Page on guitar, John Paul Jones on cello), but was likely recorded a few years earlier given that Pagey and JPJ were otherwise occupied by this time. But in 1968, Page had recently joined the Yardbirds after years of studio session work, and Jones continued backing recording sessions for one more year, including the late-period Yardbirds. Yet another Yardbird, Chris Dreja, took the front and back cover photos. There seems to have been no promotion for the album; but Mary Hopkin had a UK hit with a cover of his "Temma Harbour" which appears in original form on this album.

Anyway, the music itself probably already sounded dated when it was first released, but strong hooks never go out of style, and songs like "You're the One" and "When You Were Looking My Way" remain tasty morsels of wistful '60s British pop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kDwPiFR1bs

A couple Metal ones:
Winter - Into Darkness
Mysticum - In The Streams Of Inferno
Sort Vokter - Folkloric Necro Metal

xp I was going to nom Von Sudenfed but thought better of it. The record only came out 4 years ago and y'know, there may be another one.

other than that the participants are notoriously unprolific of course

mark hollis IIRC

Jackson C. Frank- Blues Run the Game

Stalk Forrest Group

Circuit Rider s/t
Jim Sullivan - U.F.O.
Moolah - Woe Ye Demons Possessed
Relatively Clean Rivers s/t
Peter Grudzien - The Unicorn
Virgin Insanity - Illusions of the Maintenance Man (later recordings surfaced on CD; up to aero whether or not to include.)

^^ private press category

International Submarine Band - Safe At Home
Erica Pomerance - You Used To Think
Gentle Soul s/t
The Wildweeds s/t

also my most srs nom i hope was not overlooked--the hackamore brick album is incredible and everyone should listen to it all the time like i do.

Willis Allen Ramsey: s/t

― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, August 11, 2011 5:57 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

^^^^ one of the first rekkerds i moved into my new apartment

no surprise that this lot haven't had the nod so far, but it sprang to mind

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1392360-1274231411.jpeg

what's up with willis allan ramsey? why no 2nd record?

not really sure of the whole story, but there's some footage on youtube of him performing recently in texas (austin iirc)

Billy Nicholls- Would You Believe?

I thought of that one too. The other album is so forgettable I think.

Jim Sullivan - U.F.O.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MjasIDaFL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

It's high up on my must-hear-in-2011 list.

Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth.

tear da club up thugs - crazyndalazdayz

Silicon Teens - Music For Parties

Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea

Isn't one of the recent Smashing Pumpkins incarnations actually Zwan?

Izzat rilly the same Jim Sullivan? awesome

Grodeck Whipperjenny s/t

Bobby Beausoleil and the Freedom Orchestra - Lucifer Rising

This made me dust off God Macabre's _The Winterlong_ as this thread needs some more metal. But, uh, yeah, it's just a really good album, so no nom, son.

The Ec Nudes - Vanishing Point
Disembowelment - Transcendence Into the Peripheral

Cody Chesnutt - The Headphone Masterpiece

this is a funny thread... any band that records one album that's even remotely remarkable or successful inevitably makes a second, unless some sort of tragedy intervenes. so this thread's pool is fairly narrow, consisting of bands who either never had a hit or found an audience EVER (ie, no reunions or comeback albums a la Gary Wilson or whoever), or bands who willfully disbanded (ie Young Marble Giants) following their initial foray.

remarkable and successful are two v v different things, and i'd argue that there are plenty of artists who made just a single remarkable album.

well not a lot of people found their first album's too remarkable at the time, otherwise they would have made another one

I say this after realizing that a bunch of the acts I was going to list here actually made little known follow-up albums several years later that bombed

Izzat rilly the same Jim Sullivan? awesome

I can't find much online info about him. Really obscure even by cult-figure standards, and much of what I can find doesn't agree with other sources, and not many people who knew him seem to be speaking up. Here's what seems certain: He made his first album in 1969 backed by the Wrecking Crew; here's the best information I found from the guy involved in the recent reissue (a good quality needle-drop, since a search didn't turn up any master tapes). Made a second self-titled album in 1972, on a different label, that's likeable but doesn't seem to draw the sort of raves its predecessor did. Also released a single on RCA around that time. The 2nd album was also recently reissued on CD by this Korean company whose legitimacy or quality I know nothing about. The song track listings are in the wrong order, although they play in the correct order on the CD itself (the two songs they made available on their site for streaming are also misidentified). He drove out to Nashville in 1975, stopping at a motel in Santa Rosa on the way. That's the last he is ever seen.

Accounts of those last days vary maddeningly. He was driving either a VW Beetle or a truck. His guitar and wallet were found in the motel room, or maybe he never even checked into his room and there was no sign he ever occupied it. He told friends he was depressed and just wanted to disappear, or he told friends how excited he was about the impending third album he was going to record in Nashville where he thought his music would be better received. A search of the area turned up a body that didn't match Sullivan at all. Both cases remain unsolved.

Col. Poo has it right about Black Tambourine. Singles compiled twice, no studio album

Nominating Postal Service - Give Up (fuck the hater) and Madvillain - Madvillainy

of course, both of these feature artists who have a ton of other albums, so maybe they're not in the real spirit of this

the extra glenns album was pretty good i guess

Not nominating, but...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ztdodDHvAU8/SdSjSXgNY2I/AAAAAAAAAuk/X56nrT-iB-4/s320/Oasis_Front.jpg

I'm pretty sure Oasis had more than one album...

ah, but.

Looks like they had a complete chage of lineup after that album though, so maybe it counts?

Tony McCarroll became their drummer, the rest is history.

Uncarved Block is another fav, hadn't really considered it in the terms of being a one-off record. Fans of Flux should check out the Von Spar S/T from a few years ago.

Nominating Postal Service - Give Up (fuck the hater)

Yeah, thought about nominating this as well, but figured it might be ixnayed.

can I get a call on The Crickets?

The Loved Ones - Magic Box