Metamatics have like 29 albums
― lol is not enough (blank), Friday, 12 August 2011 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
Oh dc hardcore nm please sb me
The Nils - S/T
― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 12 August 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
I oughta reboot this thread with a "let's not nominate every album we can think of that fits the category" option so we can actually have the poll because 200+ option polls are like the dumbest thing ever
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 12 August 2011 04:53 (twelve years ago) link
Kubichek - not enough night
― socktake (electricsound), Friday, 12 August 2011 04:59 (twelve years ago) link
Brise-Glase- When In VanitasKaruna Khyal- Anemone 1985Brast Burn- DebonLove Live Life +1- Love Will Make A Better YouSkip Spence was the first to come to mind when I saw this thread and "Oar" would easily get my vote.
Skip Spence was the first to come to mind when I saw this thread and "Oar" would easily get my vote.
Great list. I totally forgot about that Brise-Glace album.
The first thing I thought of was Germs.
― the wheelie king (wk), Friday, 12 August 2011 05:43 (twelve years ago) link
How about The Millennium?
― the wheelie king (wk), Friday, 12 August 2011 05:44 (twelve years ago) link
Sand - GolemModulo 1000 - Não Fale Com ParedesDinosaur L - 24-24 MusicInternational Submarine Band - Safe at Home
― the wheelie king (wk), Friday, 12 August 2011 05:52 (twelve years ago) link
The Langley Schools Music Project - Innocence & Despair
― Zuleika, Friday, 12 August 2011 08:34 (twelve years ago) link
Hm, Wikipedia says they recorded two albums and Innocence & Despair was a compilation of the two. So scratch that one.
― Zuleika, Friday, 12 August 2011 08:43 (twelve years ago) link
re: the glove: blue sunshine - yeah, it's a side project, and hell siouxie even sings on half the tracks under a pseudonym
which is too bad cause otherwise i'd totally vote for it
― messiahwannabe, Friday, 12 August 2011 09:14 (twelve years ago) link
Tony, Caro & John - All On The First Day
Snatch - Snatch (but I think is more of a comp of bits and pieces, so probably not)
― Zuleika, Friday, 12 August 2011 09:35 (twelve years ago) link
used to work with the guy this band were named after. is it really truly a great album? really?
― ledge, Friday, 12 August 2011 09:37 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not sure Chris Bell qualifies - he released only a 45 during his lifetime, (a classic - I Am The Cosmos b/w You And Your Sister), but the album wasn't released until about 15 years after he died, and I'm not convinced this was ever intended to be released as an album any more so than, say, "My Sweetheart, the Drunk" and thus fails the posthumous odds-and-sods exception.
― Lee626, Friday, 12 August 2011 10:23 (twelve years ago) link
90% of those I thought of are already present and accounted for... here are some others that should be....
Armageddon s/t - ex-Yardbirds' vocalist's last record. Makes it kinda ironic that Keith Relf left the Yardies in large part because he wanted to persue softer, folkier music styles.
Roger Nichols & the Small Circle of Friends - s/t - In 1966, lyricist Tony Asher took a couple of breaks from his day job at an advertising agency to help write lyrics for two pop albums. One of those was Pet Sounds. This was the other.
One Dove - Morning Dove White - Has a cult following.
Five Thirty - Bed Doesn't have a cult following, but deserves one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhnQMB5K6bc
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue - only completed solo album from the Beach Boys' drummer. Doesn't sound like a Beach Boys album. Still sounds good.
Mark Eric - A Midsummer's Day Dream - It was 1969, and power trios, serious R&B, the first pangs of metal, and Jimi Hendrix's guitar pyrotechnics were changing the face of music, and 16-year-old Mark Eric was ignoring all of the above, instead preferring the softer, sunnier pop of a few years earlier. It evokes Spanky & Our Gang, the Mamas & Papas, anything produced by Curt Boettcher, and of course the Beach Boys, although more Dennis than Brian, not only because his soulful voice recalls the middle Wilson brother, but also because like Dennis, Mark Eric was also a real surfer, and his songs capture those emotions in a way that even Brian's accounts of the sport picked up secondhand from Dennis don't quite capture. Listen to the track below and you can just feel the loneliness of a guy in his wet suit looking for stray waves on a dreary September day, surveying a bleak scene where those vaunted California Girls have disappeared with the cool, drifty weather, and only a few diehard surfers stay to brave the bleak, empty beaches. I love the way the lyrics become more personal as the song goes on. Great, great stuff, but it was not for its time, and it didn't sell. Mark Eric never made another record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6tCYQw2V0Y
― Lee626, Friday, 12 August 2011 10:45 (twelve years ago) link
aah, "Air Conditioned Nightmare" was a non-album single not on Bed , but you get the idea.
― Lee626, Friday, 12 August 2011 10:48 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone mentioned "Quality Street" World of Twist yet?
I've not heard it myself but it seems to be a qualifier.
― Mark G, Friday, 12 August 2011 10:57 (twelve years ago) link
One more one-album wonder I'll rep for: Dios (s/t). I saw them opening for Beulah's last show in my area and was impressed, their music drew influence from both Pavement and the Beach Boys (who decades earlier attended the same high school). They already had an EP out, but before they could gain much traction with their new album, they were sued by Ronnie James Dio, who thought his band "Dio" sounded too much like "Dios". Ronnie James Dio also had alot more money and could afford better lawyers. Guess who won the case? Dios, both the band and the self-titled album, were renamed "Dios (Malos)" - yes, with parens. They also took the opportunity to change a few album tracks, so arguably they are disqualified since there are two versions of their only album. I fend for both versions being combined into one which is probably how it will eventually will be sold, much like UK and US albums with same title but slight track differences. In any case, they never followed up Dios/Dios (Malos) with further recordings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCuaVEEflxs
― Lee626, Friday, 12 August 2011 11:29 (twelve years ago) link
3 to add to the list.
flykkiller - experiments in violent lightjohnny boy - s/tsunsonic - melting down on motor angelmap of africa - s/tcolourbox - s/t
each of which are very special to me.
oh, and seeing as Doran has dropped the MC Tunes album, i'll add :
The Dust Junkys : Done and Dusted
― mark e, Friday, 12 August 2011 11:44 (twelve years ago) link
Okay, here's a few nominations:
The Lady of Rage - Unnecessary RoughnessDub Trees – Nature Never Did Betray the Heart That Loved Her Kébekélektrik – KébekélektrikApani - Story 2 TellPlanet Patrol - Planet PatrolSerkkupojat - Tulitus, tilitys, tiputusHal Willner - Whoops I'm an Indian
― Tuomas, Friday, 12 August 2011 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
wow that Mark Eric track is something & I'm not even a Beach Boys fan
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 12 August 2011 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
Whoops, sorry, that Lady of Rage album is called Necessary Roughness, not "unnecessary".
― Tuomas, Friday, 12 August 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
I'd probably vote for Main Source's "Breaking Atoms" if not for that shelved album the 2 DJs made after Large Professor bounced.
― President Keyes, Friday, 12 August 2011 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
I love that first Dios album, too - but didn't they have a follow up LP on Buddyhead Records (called "WEAREDIOS")?
― She Got the Shakes, Friday, 12 August 2011 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
Thought of another one (in addition to the Lowell Davidson Trio posted upthread): The Moves, western MA-based band, one s/t record on Mr. Lady in 2000 or 2001.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 12 August 2011 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
Hampton Grease Band - Music To EatDebris - Static Disposal
Would totally vote for either of these - they're in my alltime personal top 50.
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 12 August 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
American Football - American Football
Wolfgang Riechmann - Wunderbar
Fox Bat Strategy - whatever its title is
― the europan nikon is here (grauschleier), Friday, 12 August 2011 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone mentioned "Quality Street" World of Twist yet? - Mark G
Fkk yeah! Was about time somebody posted that:)
― t**t, Friday, 12 August 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
Is there a thread for people/bands who only released one SONG? Or one A-Side/B-Side single?
― She Got the Shakes, Friday, 12 August 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://images.45cat.com/fleetwood-mac-somebodys-gonna-get-their-head-kicked-in-tonight-immediate.jpg
― Mark G, Friday, 12 August 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
there was another Don Johnson album so he's disqualified
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31dIzdSVLoL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 August 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
I cannot believe Bruce Willis had two albums
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Friday, 12 August 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
I oughta reboot this thread with a "let's not nominate every album we can think of that fits the category" option so we can actually have the poll because 200+ option polls are like the dumbest thing ever.
Truly. Okay, as much as I love Young Marble Giants and United States of America (both worthy choices) I have played The Suicide Commandos "Make A Record" 20x more than either, and maybe 100x more than "Never Mind The Bollocks." So this is my vote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_b9kCJwEMc&feature=related
― Sugar-coated Satan Sandwich (Dan Peterson), Friday, 12 August 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
So what's going to happen?
Will the album list get compiled, and we get to choose 20 and put them in order?
― Mark G, Friday, 12 August 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
kind of annoyed by the reasoning for excluding The Glove
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Friday, 12 August 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
I'm going to look at the .txt file I compiled from the names, think "that's too many and makes for one of those dumb polls with a trillion options," and then probably have a beer
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 12 August 2011 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
j/k I'll put up a ridiculously long poll when I get a chance I got my hands full today
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 12 August 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
Confining it to only albums that got more than one mention would whittle it down considerably.
― Hey T-Paw, mow my lawn! (Dan Peterson), Friday, 12 August 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
Arc AngelsBlack Star
Neither were exactly side projects when they happened.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 12 August 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
oh shit suicide commandos!
that's my vote for sure
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 August 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
Elias Hulk - UnchainedAlamo - s/t
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
as a proud owner of "make a record" i was gonna nominate suicide commandos until wikipedia informed me of their 1979 live album
come to think of it, john sinclair put out a shitty bootleg-quality live album of mitch ryder's detroit (my nominee) so i guess single-album status is elusive at best
― chief content officer (m coleman), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
CRU - Da Dirty 30
― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 12 August 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
Original Concept - Straight From The Basement Of Kooley High
― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 12 August 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
RE Commandos, I thought live albums didn't count (wasn't it decided that Layla counts above?) but I'll sadly withdraw my vote if that's the verdict.
― Hey T-Paw, mow my lawn! (Dan Peterson), Friday, 12 August 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
ah guess you're right. suppose I'll stick w/Detroit. wish I would've seen Suicide Commandos live
fwiw there's a live derek/dominoes at fillmore east from the 90s that's basically the best clapton I've heard besides layla, those southern guys brought out some funk in him
― chief content officer (m coleman), Friday, 12 August 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
i hope whoever picked up my cd copy after i traded that one in is enjoying it as much as i am missing it
a lesson i learnt way too late : never trade stuff in.
― mark e, Friday, 12 August 2011 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
Commandos still reunite occasionally, and are still a helluva lotta fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3q1IKtkosY
I thought about The Rezillos too (one studio, one live) but then The Revillos was pretty much a continuation.
― Hey T-Paw, mow my lawn! (Dan Peterson), Friday, 12 August 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
Cromagnon - Orgasm (rereleased as Cave Music but its the same exact album so shut the hell up)
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Friday, 12 August 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
Cave ROCK. whatever