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
Germs!
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
Propaganda actually did release another album, 1,2,3,4, so they don't qualify.
yeah I already made that point
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
Best Chris Bell Solo Album
― buzza, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
ok so what we have so far is
Revolution 9, You Might As Well Livebaby huey & the babysitters, the baby huey storyThe Exploding Hearts, Guitar Romantic Propellerheads, DecksandrumsandrockandrollLife Without Buildings - Any Other CityLowell Davidson Triothe Slickers, Break ThroughNew Radicals, Maybe You've Been Brainwashed TooThe NervesOperation Ivy, EnergyBig L - Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & DangerousYoung Marble Giants - Colossal YouthThunderclap Newman, Hollywood DreamRites of SpringSkip Spence, Oarthe HomosexualsStockholm Monsters, Alma MaterFM Knives - Useless and Modernthe United States of America, s/tLinda Perhacs- ParallelogramsMayo Thompson- Corky's Debt to His FatherDerek & the Dominoes- LaylaBlind FaithCoulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint - Lo and BeholdWillis Allen Ramsey: s/tBlack TambourineDadamah- This Is Not a DreamNuno Canavarro- Plux QubaThe Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our HairBrise-Glase- When In VanitasKaruna Khyal- Anemone 1985Brast Burn- DebonLove Live Life +1- Love Will Make A Better YouEivets Rednowthe 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
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
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
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 :(
― MoMA said knock you out (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog
― kkvgz, Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
whoops xxpost
Son of Bazerk
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
UMCs
The Afros
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
what about bands that released NO albums lol - the Weirdos, the Screamers, etc
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
Do YOU see postal svc or dfa1979 on here?
― my life as liz cho (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
I will go to bat for Mother Love Bone - Apple, though.
― kkvgz, Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
everything I've mentioend so far I think is genuinely great - maybe not BEST EVER but whatever, this is a narrow criteria
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers - The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon
― Melle Mel and the Coconuts (thewufs), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
DQ'ed! http://www.amazon.com/Well-Thawed-Out-Explicit/dp/B0042GFHRO
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
Psi Com - Psi Com
― kkvgz, Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
Some info on Lowell Davidson.
Not only was it his only record as a leader, he never even appeared on other records as a sideman.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
NASA - Insha-Allah! (this one's for you, Ned and jjj)
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
teedra moses - complex simplicitycassie - cassie
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
such bands have nothing to do with this poll
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
can I add Wavepool Abortion? their album is coming out soon
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
I also nominated Never Mind The Bollocks, which if allowed (and I can't see why it wouldn't be, Swindle not being a proper album) will own this poll
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:23 (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