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

Kubichek - not enough night

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.

Great list. I totally forgot about that Brise-Glace album.

The first thing I thought of was Germs.

How about The Millennium?

Sand - Golem
Modulo 1000 - Não Fale Com Paredes
Dinosaur L - 24-24 Music
International Submarine Band - Safe at Home

The Langley Schools Music Project - Innocence & Despair

Hm, Wikipedia says they recorded two albums and Innocence & Despair was a compilation of the two. So scratch that one.

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

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)

Kubichek - not enough night

used to work with the guy this band were named after. is it really truly a great album? really?

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.

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

aah, "Air Conditioned Nightmare" was a non-album single not on Bed , but you get the idea.

Anyone mentioned "Quality Street" World of Twist yet?

I've not heard it myself but it seems to be a qualifier.

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

3 to add to the list.

flykkiller - experiments in violent light
johnny boy - s/t
sunsonic - melting down on motor angel
map of africa - s/t
colourbox - 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

Okay, here's a few nominations:

The Lady of Rage - Unnecessary Roughness
Dub Trees – Nature Never Did Betray the Heart That Loved Her
Kébekélektrik – Kébekélektrik
Apani - Story 2 Tell
Planet Patrol - Planet Patrol
Serkkupojat - Tulitus, tilitys, tiputus
Hal Willner - Whoops I'm an Indian

wow that Mark Eric track is something & I'm not even a Beach Boys fan

Whoops, sorry, that Lady of Rage album is called Necessary Roughness, not "unnecessary".

I'd probably vote for Main Source's "Breaking Atoms" if not for that shelved album the 2 DJs made after Large Professor bounced.

I love that first Dios album, too - but didn't they have a follow up LP on Buddyhead Records (called "WEAREDIOS")?

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.

Hampton Grease Band - Music To Eat
Debris - Static Disposal

Would totally vote for either of these - they're in my alltime personal top 50.

American Football - American Football

Wolfgang Riechmann - Wunderbar

Fox Bat Strategy - whatever its title is

Anyone mentioned "Quality Street" World of Twist yet? - Mark G

Fkk yeah! Was about time somebody posted that:)

Is there a thread for people/bands who only released one SONG? Or one A-Side/B-Side single?

http://images.45cat.com/fleetwood-mac-somebodys-gonna-get-their-head-kicked-in-tonight-immediate.jpg

there was another Don Johnson album so he's disqualified

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31dIzdSVLoL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

I cannot believe Bruce Willis had two albums

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

So what's going to happen?

Will the album list get compiled, and we get to choose 20 and put them in order?

kind of annoyed by the reasoning for excluding The Glove

So what's going to happen?

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

j/k I'll put up a ridiculously long poll when I get a chance I got my hands full today

Confining it to only albums that got more than one mention would whittle it down considerably.

Arc Angels
Black Star

Neither were exactly side projects when they happened.

oh shit suicide commandos!

that's my vote for sure

Elias Hulk - Unchained
Alamo - s/t

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

CRU - Da Dirty 30

Original Concept - Straight From The Basement Of Kooley High

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.

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

Original Concept - Straight From The Basement Of Kooley High

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.

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.

Cromagnon - Orgasm (rereleased as Cave Music but its the same exact album so shut the hell up)

Cave ROCK. whatever

Wiseblood - Dirtdish

The Ann Steel Album is one of many albums by Roberto Cacciapaglia, not Ann Steel herself.
I think The Glove should be included

And though "Colossal Youth" LP is my favourite of all time, YMG issued a Peel Sessions, a compilation of demos+EPs, and a live album... I dunno....

I reluctantly accept disqualification of Kendra Smith & The Glove, but the Sleepers record is great and I will also stand by A Primary Industry (who turned into Ultramarine) and The Count Five.

The Underneath is kind of a Karl Blake side project so go ahead and cut it.