Revolution 9, You Might As Well Live
and yes, this album is truly great (although I think I'm the only person who has ever heard it)
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Thursday, 11 August 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
baby huey & the babysitters, the baby huey story
― sbgorf (stevie), Thursday, 11 August 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
Should there be some way of ruling out newer artists who have only released one album? Like only including artists that are inactive/deceasd/broken up or haven't released a follow up in over 5 years? And what about side projects/supergroups?
Anyways I nominate:The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic Propellerheads - Decksandrumsandrockandroll
― MarkoP, Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
Lowell Davidson Trio
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
The Slingbacks - All Pop No Star
― jer.fairall, Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
johnny thunders and the heartbreakers - LAMF
― hello I love you but I've chosen darkness my old friend (Edward III), Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
^ truly great
― hello I love you but I've chosen darkness my old friend (Edward III), Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
― gman59, Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
^New Radicals
The Nerves
― peter in montreal, Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
is this a gag thread or not, i cant tell
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
well I did regurg in my mouth a little when somebody suggested the new radicals
― hello I love you but I've chosen darkness my old friend (Edward III), Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
what about artists who released the same album multiple times
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
e.g. the Cocteau Twins
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
I was thinking The Ramones but ha
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
Operation Ivy - Energy
― kkvgz, Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
xp lol
Big L - Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous
― streetball technician in the flesh (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Thursday, 11 August 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 11 August 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
Modern Lovers - s/t. Everything after that was with a new band and called Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers.
― asthmatic american, Thursday, 11 August 2011 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
Rites of SpringSkip SpenceI think the Homosexuals count...?
― bentelec, Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
Thunderclap Newman, Hollywood Dream
― L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
it doesn't matter why they only released one, it only matters that they only released one. Stockholm Monsters Alma Mater is my other nom. A singles comp came out 20 years later, that ok. I personally am disincline to accept the Modern Lovers because while the first one may be best, it's not like "Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers" is a completely different deal - nom'ing that seems like sneaking something in on a technicality to my mind
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
I can't type or remember my tenses because I'm angry about this asshole judge in Pennsylvania who took bribes from prison architects to incarcerate a bunch of teenagers so sorry for bad typing, fuck you asshole judge
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
FM Knives - Useless and Modern
― o. nate, Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
how long ago should their last album have been? like, how unlikely that they're going to release another album
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
i keep feeling like i should know a ton of these but am drawing a total blank atm
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
If Mary Margaret O'Hara hadn't done a soundtrack a few years ago, I'd definitely nominate Miss America.
― saint dominic's p4k review (Eazy), Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
The United States of America - S/T
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder if we can include acts that released one album and then nothing for 30 or 40 years when they attempted some kind of comeback (thinking Simon Finn, T2, Vashti Bunyan, etc.) Linda Perhacs- ParallelogramsMayo Thompson- Corky's Debt to His FatherDerek & the Dominoes- LaylaBlind Faith
― President Keyes, Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder if we can include acts that released one album and then nothing for 30 or 40 years when they attempted some kind of comeback
no
just people who made one and as far as you know are done
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
Coulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint - Lo and Behold (great album of Dylan covers from early 70s)
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
can they also have released singles/eps? or just ONE ALBUM? because i could be listing punk and hardcore bands here all day.
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
Willis Allen Ramsey: s/t
― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
The Amps - Pacer (?)
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
Cree Summer - Street FaerieBrie Larson - Finally Out of P.E.
― Super Villains With Drum Machines (MintIce), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
can they also have released singles/eps?
I'm operating under the assumption that singles/eps don't disqualify, as long as they only have one regular, full-length, non-compilation studio album
― o. nate, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
Black Tambourine!!!
― my life as liz cho (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
Dadamah- This Is Not a Dream
― International Waters, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
Propaganda - A secret wish
Propaganda actually did release another album, 1,2,3,4, so they don't qualify. And yeah, I really wish they hadn't.
― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
Nuno Canavarro- Plux Quba
― International Waters, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair etc
― my life as liz cho (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
Brise-Glase- When In VanitasKaruna Khyal- Anemone 1985Brast Burn- DebonLove Live Life +1- Love Will Make A Better You
Skip Spence was the first to come to mind when I saw this thread and "Oar" would easily get my vote.
― International Waters, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
what about Fotheringay since the second is sort of a compilation?
― MoMA said knock you out (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://rateyourmusic.com/board_message/message_id_is_2369950
I have not read this
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
More discussion of artists who only released one album here:
Cult bands who only made one album
I'll second United States of America and Young Marble Giants.
― Sugar-coated Satan Sandwich (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ otm. The idea is "one album, which rules, no other albums." Singles comps do not d/q. EPs do not d/q. Any other full-length album by other permutations of the band does d/q.
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
can i get a ruling on Fotheringay then?
― MoMA said knock you out (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Eivets Rednow - Eivets Rednow
― I am Louise Boat (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Cody Chesnutt - The Headphone Masterpiece
― bamcquern, Monday, 15 August 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 August 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 15 August 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
well not a lot of people found their first album's too remarkable at the time, otherwise they would have made another one
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 August 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 August 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Lee626, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Fellini.Kuti, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
the extra glenns album was pretty good i guess
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 02:25 (twelve years ago) link
Not nominating, but...
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ztdodDHvAU8/SdSjSXgNY2I/AAAAAAAAAuk/X56nrT-iB-4/s320/Oasis_Front.jpg
― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 08:27 (twelve years ago) link
I'm pretty sure Oasis had more than one album...
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 12:57 (twelve years ago) link
ah, but.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 12:58 (twelve years ago) link
Looks like they had a complete chage of lineup after that album though, so maybe it counts?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 13:07 (twelve years ago) link
Tony McCarroll became their drummer, the rest is history.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 13:25 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― bendy, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
Nominating Postal Service - Give Up (fuck the hater)
Yeah, thought about nominating this as well, but figured it might be ixnayed.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
can I get a call on The Crickets?
― it is a nine-dimensional exposure-based ** "fairy" faction (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
The Loved Ones - Magic Box
― Vernon Locke, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:18 (twelve years ago) link
*SMFH*
cntrl+F not found:
SHAGGS - PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD
― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:23 (twelve years ago) link
Col. Poo has it right about Black Tambourine. Singles compiled twice, no studio albumNominating Postal Service - Give Up (fuck the hater) and Madvillain - Madvillainyof course, both of these feature artists who have a ton of other albums, so maybe they're not in the real spirit of this― Fellini.Kuti, Monday, August 15, 2011 9:10 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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hoping when aero compiles these, he wont include oneoffs and sideprojects and supergroups tbh
― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:26 (twelve years ago) link
what about shaggs own thing? xpost
― rice-a-roni eyes (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:27 (twelve years ago) link
Green River - Rehab Doll
― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:27 (twelve years ago) link
what about shaggs own thing? xpost― rice-a-roni eyes (electricsound), Wednesday, August 17, 2011 2:27 AM (26 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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a compilation iirc and i definitely rc
― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:28 (twelve years ago) link
oic
― rice-a-roni eyes (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:30 (twelve years ago) link
― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:27 PM (3 minutes ago)
I don't own them anymore but I seem to think Come On Down is longer than Rehab Doll... not sure why one would be considered an EP vs. an LP.
― it's a meme i made and i like (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:35 (twelve years ago) link
ok according to wiki:
Come On Down: 27:43Rehab Doll: 28:40
― it's a meme i made and i like (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:39 (twelve years ago) link
the other people place lifestyles of the laptop cafe
― colby, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:40 (twelve years ago) link
oar better walk with this
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:41 (twelve years ago) link
junkanoo band - key westpeaceful solutions - peaceful solutions
― colby, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:44 (twelve years ago) link
The Other People Place was James Stinson, who released several albums under other pseudonyms, so I don't think this counts. Otherwise there'd be plenty of electronic music albums to nominate, as those folks are fond of changing their artist names all the time.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:58 (twelve years ago) link
Shaggs Own Thing is a compilation but of stuff recorded after their debut and no previously released.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 08:11 (twelve years ago) link
How is it a compilation then? Isn't "stuff recorded after their debut and no previously released" = album. Or how do you define an album?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 08:17 (twelve years ago) link
Exactly my point.
Then again, upthread: Does "Grace" Jeff Buckley qualify? If so, so do The Shaggs.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 08:18 (twelve years ago) link
It's not a studio album. It's a collection of stuff put out long after they broke up. It doesn't take molecular science to figure this out. it's like the 8 billion sex pistols comps but they only made one album iirc tbh ffs
― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
Also until they record a new one... That Death album that Drag City reissued
― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, hey!!!
http://www.theindiemusicarchive.com/Images/cover-Indio1.jpg
― The Freewheelin' Rebecca Black (Eazy), Monday, 22 August 2011 06:59 (twelve years ago) link
So are the best selections here going to be folded into an actual poll?
― Lee547 (Lee626), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
Let's not and say we did.
― challopian rubes (sic), Monday, 12 September 2011 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby
(EPs & comps not applicable, right?)
― õ_Ò (Pillbox), Monday, 12 September 2011 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
Cree Summer - Street FaerieBrie Larson - Finally Out of P.E.― Super Villains With Drum Machines (MintIce), Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:22 AM
― Super Villains With Drum Machines (MintIce), Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:22 AM
this is the only mention i could find of the cree summer album on ilx. i loved it at the time, but listening now for the first time in ages and it's, uh, idk. it sounded great when i was nineteen and that seems about right. it's just the right amount of edgy cheese and cringe to still be listenable in a novelty sort of way (i mean c'mon, the guitar solo on 'mean sleep'? hilarious!). i also wonder what most of the songs are about because they don't really make sense. overall, i don't remember it sounding so overproduced. it sounds very thin and lightweight when i hear it now. seems like the exact kind of music that only gets listened to in "recommended if you like. . ." scenarios.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
I know this is a dead thread, but I'd have nominated:
Rosie Vela - ZazuBill Nelson's Red Noise - Sound-On-Sound (if it doesn't count as a Bill Nelson album)
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 01:28 (two years ago) link
Wow – Brie Larson released an album as a teenager(?)
― juristic person (morrisp), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 01:44 (two years ago) link
Ernie Graham's self-titled album from 1971, backed by Brinsley Schwarz, is a fave. One album and one single, seven years later (appropriately issued on 1 Off Records (a Stiff sub-label)).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueoUNT1RyE8
― bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 02:10 (two years ago) link