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

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

Would Death count? (one studio album, ...For The Whole World To See during their existence, one posthumous odds & sods compilation)

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

― classic albums live! (Ówen P.)

I'm pretty sure it was put out under her own name and self titled in 1979. The 2003 reissue is credited to Roberto Cacciapaglia and the album title changed to The Ann Steel Album. I was hoping it would count but realise this may be a long shot.

Would Death count? (one studio album, ...For The Whole World To See during their existence, one posthumous odds & sods compilation)

Someone nominated Big L upthread, and he too got one of those posthumous compilation albums after he died, besides the one album he released while living.

@ KP Really? That is interesting! I haven't read anything about that record, all of my knowledge about it was gathered from extemporaneous commentary from the friend who introduced it to me, including "Sears catalog model" "from middle America" "contacted by Italian dance producer" "she wrote all the lyrics herself, and cheekily calls punk 'boring' in 1979"

Yeah those were the things I knew about her too before I started looking for the album late last year. I quickly discovered you could either pay an absolute fortune for the orginal vinyl with her name on it or the Roberto Cacciapaglia CD version which was slightly less and the one I ended up settling for. It's probably the last album I heard that really blew me away.

Tranquility Bass "Let The Freak Flag Fly"

Tranquility Bass "Let The Freak Flag Fly"

yeah that guy completely disappeared, didn't he??

wait no he didn't!

http://tranquilitybass.bandcamp.com/

astoveboat - new bedford

Sarah Winton - You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down.

If compilations don't count, Black Tambourine never released an album btw.

Also The Nerves, unless it is a different The Nerves.

Handsome - Handsome

Simon Warner - Waiting Rooms
Strawberry Switchblade - Strawberry Switchblade
A Girl Called Eddy - A Girl Called Eddy
Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll

I'd like to nominate these but think that their involvement elsewhere will nix it.

Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man - Out of Season.
Von Sudenfed - Tromatic Reflexions

Billy Nicholls- Would You Believe?

Sibylle Baier - Colour Green is my solitary nomination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyy8bEDi1Eg

that's lovely.

was feeling v good about only having nominated one thing, a thing i'd vote for, here, & this is never gonna win, but is so great, but feels worth including because there do not seem to be an abundance of private press gospel/w/e records here:

the spiritual singers: ntsamina

Fille Qui Mousse- Trixie Stapleton 291

Sorry to have nominated so much stuff in this thread. Not trying to contribute to an unwieldy poll, but I've just been enjoying the process of figuring out albums that fit this criteria.

Fibonaccis: Civilization And Its Discotheques

Their only LP. Otherwise there was an EP and a posthumous collection of odds n sods.

2 more :

hardwater - s/t : david axelrod tries his hand @ producing 60s psych-byrds type grooves.

the holy mackerel - s/t : quality paul williams tunes via 60s psych

both are major players on my playlist these days.

Billy Nicholls- Would You Believe?

The original LP of Would You Believe is one of the rarest rock albums you're likely to (not) find - only about 25 were made, intended to be sent to promoters and radio, but financial problems at Immediate prevented it ever going into full production, despite excellent reviews and the support of several of rock's aristocracy.

simon warner, simon pretentious, simon awful.

simon warner, simon pretentious, simon awful.

haha.
a few years ago someone on ILM told me that lp was a good'un.
i bought it cheap. got 3 tracks in. gave up.
never listened all way through.
could be time to go a diggin' in the archive and see if it clicks now that i am older and more openminded ?

It's available on spotify for those who are curious http://open.spotify.com/album/3EZEosVwVwad7Two87a1Kg if you don't like Bowie at his most rococo or the Divine Comedy then best to move on. Needless to say I partly disagree with keythhhtyek in that it's awful. Pretentious, absolutely but that stuff is catnip to me.

love bowie, hate divine comedy.
where does that leave me i wonder.
found it in archive : now if smallkid leaves me alone for a few minutes ..

My cursory glance at Billy Nicholls on discogs didn't show a second album, so we can pull that one. Sorry guys. I thought of another good one to take its place that is 100% legit for this: Amanaz- Africa. It's awesome, too.

can't believe fucking BABYLON ZOO managed two albums

― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Friday, 12 August 2011 21:15 (2 days ago) Bookmark

cant believe i have them both.

[second album = glam via 90s alt.rock production]

Motorbass - Pansoul

UMCs

― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, August 11, 2011 3:07 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

UMCs had 2 albums

I can't find much online about Philamore Lincoln, except that his sole album (on Epic) was released in 1970, and features half of Led Zeppelin backing him up (Jimmy Page on guitar, John Paul Jones on cello), but was likely recorded a few years earlier given that Pagey and JPJ were otherwise occupied by this time. But in 1968, Page had recently joined the Yardbirds after years of studio session work, and Jones continued backing recording sessions for one more year, including the late-period Yardbirds. Yet another Yardbird, Chris Dreja, took the front and back cover photos. There seems to have been no promotion for the album; but Mary Hopkin had a UK hit with a cover of his "Temma Harbour" which appears in original form on this album.

Anyway, the music itself probably already sounded dated when it was first released, but strong hooks never go out of style, and songs like "You're the One" and "When You Were Looking My Way" remain tasty morsels of wistful '60s British pop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kDwPiFR1bs

A couple Metal ones:
Winter - Into Darkness
Mysticum - In The Streams Of Inferno
Sort Vokter - Folkloric Necro Metal

xp I was going to nom Von Sudenfed but thought better of it. The record only came out 4 years ago and y'know, there may be another one.

other than that the participants are notoriously unprolific of course

mark hollis IIRC

Jackson C. Frank- Blues Run the Game

Stalk Forrest Group

Circuit Rider s/t
Jim Sullivan - U.F.O.
Moolah - Woe Ye Demons Possessed
Relatively Clean Rivers s/t
Peter Grudzien - The Unicorn
Virgin Insanity - Illusions of the Maintenance Man (later recordings surfaced on CD; up to aero whether or not to include.)

^^ private press category

International Submarine Band - Safe At Home
Erica Pomerance - You Used To Think
Gentle Soul s/t
The Wildweeds s/t

also my most srs nom i hope was not overlooked--the hackamore brick album is incredible and everyone should listen to it all the time like i do.

Willis Allen Ramsey: s/t

― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, August 11, 2011 5:57 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

^^^^ one of the first rekkerds i moved into my new apartment

no surprise that this lot haven't had the nod so far, but it sprang to mind

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1392360-1274231411.jpeg

what's up with willis allan ramsey? why no 2nd record?

not really sure of the whole story, but there's some footage on youtube of him performing recently in texas (austin iirc)

Billy Nicholls- Would You Believe?

I thought of that one too. The other album is so forgettable I think.

Jim Sullivan - U.F.O.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MjasIDaFL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

It's high up on my must-hear-in-2011 list.

Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth.

tear da club up thugs - crazyndalazdayz

Silicon Teens - Music For Parties

Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea

Isn't one of the recent Smashing Pumpkins incarnations actually Zwan?

Izzat rilly the same Jim Sullivan? awesome