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

Big L - Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous

Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth

Modern Lovers - s/t. Everything after that was with a new band and called Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers.

Rites of Spring
Skip Spence
I think the Homosexuals count...?

Thunderclap Newman, Hollywood Dream

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

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

FM Knives - Useless and Modern

how long ago should their last album have been? like, how unlikely that they're going to release another album

i keep feeling like i should know a ton of these but am drawing a total blank atm

If Mary Margaret O'Hara hadn't done a soundtrack a few years ago, I'd definitely nominate Miss America.

The United States of America - S/T

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- Parallelograms
Mayo Thompson- Corky's Debt to His Father
Derek & the Dominoes- Layla
Blind Faith

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

Coulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint - Lo and Behold
(great album of Dylan covers from early 70s)

can they also have released singles/eps? or just ONE ALBUM? because i could be listing punk and hardcore bands here all day.

Willis Allen Ramsey: s/t

The Amps - Pacer (?)

Cree Summer - Street Faerie
Brie Larson - Finally Out of P.E.

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

Black Tambourine!!!

Dadamah- This Is Not a Dream

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.

Nuno Canavarro- Plux Quba

The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair etc

Brise-Glase- When In Vanitas
Karuna Khyal- Anemone 1985
Brast Burn- Debon
Love 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.

what about Fotheringay since the second is sort of a compilation?

http://rateyourmusic.com/board_message/message_id_is_2369950

I have not read this

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.

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

^^^ 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.

can i get a ruling on Fotheringay then?

Eivets Rednow - Eivets Rednow

Germs!

Propaganda actually did release another album, 1,2,3,4, so they don't qualify.

yeah I already made that point

Best Chris Bell Solo Album

ok so what we have so far is

Revolution 9, You Might As Well Live
baby huey & the babysitters, the baby huey story
The Exploding Hearts, Guitar Romantic
Propellerheads, Decksandrumsandrockandroll
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
Lowell Davidson Trio
the Slickers, Break Through
New Radicals, Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
The Nerves
Operation Ivy, Energy
Big L - Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Thunderclap Newman, Hollywood Dream
Rites of Spring
Skip Spence, Oar
the Homosexuals
Stockholm Monsters, Alma Mater
FM Knives - Useless and Modern
the United States of America, s/t
Linda Perhacs- Parallelograms
Mayo Thompson- Corky's Debt to His Father
Derek & the Dominoes- Layla
Blind Faith
Coulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint - Lo and Behold
Willis Allen Ramsey: s/t
Black Tambourine
Dadamah- This Is Not a Dream
Nuno Canavarro- Plux Quba
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair
Brise-Glase- When In Vanitas
Karuna Khyal- Anemone 1985
Brast Burn- Debon
Love Live Life +1- Love Will Make A Better You
Eivets Rednow
the Germs, (GI)

there's hardly any rap which seems weird to me so I'm gonna bump the B-side of Queen Mother Rage's Vainglorious Law right now to see if it qualifies as well as I'd remember it - it's like a great lost X-clan album, sonically - fuck I love this record

also I'm asking the mods to auto-ban anybody who votes for the New Radicals

can i get a ruling on Fotheringay then?

Amazon editorial review:

2008 release of the long lost sophomore album from one of the great might-have-beens of British music. They lasted less than a year, and released just one album, but their disappearance robbed the early-'70s scene of a group of musicians capable of taking Folk-Rock to new heights of subtlety and musicianship. Sadly they broke up during the recording sessions for their second album. Incredibly all the tapes survived in various record company archives. 38 years later the surviving members of the group have mixed all the material to finally complete this remarkable album.

d/q'd

are all you guys being careful to only nominate albums you think totally fucking rule instead of just albums that people might possibly vote for because they fit the criterion

man i would've voted the shit out of Fotheringay :(

Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog

whoops xxpost

Son of Bazerk

UMCs

The Afros

what about bands that released NO albums lol - the Weirdos, the Screamers, etc

are all you guys being careful to only nominate albums you think totally fucking rule instead of just albums that people might possibly vote for because they fit the criterion

Do YOU see postal svc or dfa1979 on here?

I will go to bat for Mother Love Bone - Apple, though.

everything I've mentioend so far I think is genuinely great - maybe not BEST EVER but whatever, this is a narrow criteria

Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers - The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon

Son of Bazerk

DQ'ed! http://www.amazon.com/Well-Thawed-Out-Explicit/dp/B0042GFHRO

Psi Com - Psi Com

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, Monday, August 15, 2011 9:10 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hoping when aero compiles these, he wont include oneoffs and sideprojects and supergroups tbh

what about shaggs own thing? xpost

Green River - Rehab Doll

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

a compilation iirc and i definitely rc

oic

Green River - Rehab Doll

― 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.

ok according to wiki:

Come On Down: 27:43
Rehab Doll: 28:40

the other people place lifestyles of the laptop cafe

oar better walk with this

junkanoo band - key west
peaceful solutions - peaceful solutions

the other people place lifestyles of the laptop cafe

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.

Shaggs Own Thing is a compilation but of stuff recorded after their debut and no previously released.

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?

Exactly my point.

Then again, upthread: Does "Grace" Jeff Buckley qualify? If so, so do The Shaggs.

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

Also until they record a new one... That Death album that Drag City reissued

Oh, hey!!!

http://www.theindiemusicarchive.com/Images/cover-Indio1.jpg

So are the best selections here going to be folded into an actual poll?

Let's not and say we did.

Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby

(EPs & comps not applicable, right?)

Cree Summer - Street Faerie
Brie Larson - Finally Out of P.E.

― 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.

I know this is a dead thread, but I'd have nominated:

Rosie Vela - Zazu
Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Sound-On-Sound (if it doesn't count as a Bill Nelson album)

Wow – Brie Larson released an album as a teenager(?)

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