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

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?

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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

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.

NASA - Insha-Allah! (this one's for you, Ned and jjj)

teedra moses - complex simplicity
cassie - cassie

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

such bands have nothing to do with this poll

can I add Wavepool Abortion? their album is coming out soon

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

are all you guys being careful to only nominate albums you think totally fucking rule

Refrained from nominating Julian Schnabel's OK Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud.

Randy Holden, Population II

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

I nominate Hexendanz, which I think is awesome even though no one has heard of it out of Alburtis, PA.

NASA - Insha-Allah! (this one's for you, Ned and jjj)

Too kind. But I don't think I ever heard the damn thing all the way through!

I think Fotheringay should count as well. It should be one album released in the artist's lifetime. That second album is really just some kind of compilation/odds and ends thing.

xp: WAHT

okay that will not do at all

I just remember that "Shah Shah" single...and not fondly. xp

I also nominate

Draytons Two - Raw Spouge

So psyched wikipedia has a spouge article now. It is probably the most informative thing on the internet about spouge.

Cannibal Ox, don't think the live album counts

you have not lived until you have heard "Magic Jewlled Limousine"

Rebecca Black

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

Weakling - Dead as Dreams

Wild Tchoupitoulas - S/T

yeah I already made that point

Yes you did. My bad. I should save my posting until the evenings when I don't have to sneak ILX reading/posting in between other chunks of work. :\

Erratum:

Unicorns released TWO albums - Who Will Cut Our Hair is the second. I know because I own both of them.

Nominations:

Mark Hollis - s/t
Sister Suvi - Now I Am Champion

Hackamore Brick - One Kiss Leads To Another

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