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

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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.

kraudive, Sunday, 14 August 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link

other than that the participants are notoriously unprolific of course

ledge, Sunday, 14 August 2011 22:18 (twelve years ago) link

mark hollis IIRC

by another name (amateurist), Sunday, 14 August 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link

Jackson C. Frank- Blues Run the Game

International Waters, Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:05 (twelve years ago) link

Stalk Forrest Group

Midnight Maniac (J3ff T.), Monday, 15 August 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link

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

one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 15 August 2011 01:07 (twelve years ago) link

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.

one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 15 August 2011 01:07 (twelve years ago) link

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

one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 15 August 2011 01:17 (twelve years ago) link

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

piscesx, Monday, 15 August 2011 01:32 (twelve years ago) link

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

by another name (amateurist), Monday, 15 August 2011 01:51 (twelve years ago) link

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

one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 15 August 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link

Billy Nicholls- Would You Believe?

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

the wheelie king (wk), Monday, 15 August 2011 03:32 (twelve years ago) link

Jim Sullivan - U.F.O.
Great LP, but just the first of two. This is the other, s/t from 3 years later:

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

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

Lee626, Monday, 15 August 2011 04:47 (twelve years ago) link

Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth.

TetrisAttack, Monday, 15 August 2011 05:33 (twelve years ago) link

tear da club up thugs - crazyndalazdayz

missingNO, Monday, 15 August 2011 06:03 (twelve years ago) link

Silicon Teens - Music For Parties

Zuleika, Monday, 15 August 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link

Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea

Bastards of Young Dro, Monday, 15 August 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link

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

shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 15 August 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link

Izzat rilly the same Jim Sullivan? awesome

one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 15 August 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link

Grodeck Whipperjenny s/t

Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 August 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link

Bobby Beausoleil and the Freedom Orchestra - Lucifer Rising

Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 August 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link

This made me dust off God Macabre's _The Winterlong_ as this thread needs some more metal. But, uh, yeah, it's just a really good album, so no nom, son.

The Ec Nudes - Vanishing Point
Disembowelment - Transcendence Into the Peripheral

Øystein, Monday, 15 August 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link

Cody Chesnutt - The Headphone Masterpiece

bamcquern, Monday, 15 August 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link

this is a funny thread... any band that records one album that's even remotely remarkable or successful inevitably makes a second, unless some sort of tragedy intervenes. so this thread's pool is fairly narrow, consisting of bands who either never had a hit or found an audience EVER (ie, no reunions or comeback albums a la Gary Wilson or whoever), or bands who willfully disbanded (ie Young Marble Giants) following their initial foray.

Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 August 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link

remarkable and successful are two v v different things, and i'd argue that there are plenty of artists who made just a single remarkable album.

one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 15 August 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link

well not a lot of people found their first album's too remarkable at the time, otherwise they would have made another one

Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 August 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link

I say this after realizing that a bunch of the acts I was going to list here actually made little known follow-up albums several years later that bombed

Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 August 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link

Izzat rilly the same Jim Sullivan? awesome
Yep, definitely the same guy.

I can't find much online info about him. Really obscure even by cult-figure standards, and much of what I can find doesn't agree with other sources, and not many people who knew him seem to be speaking up. Here's what seems certain: He made his first album in 1969 backed by the Wrecking Crew; here's the best information I found from the guy involved in the recent reissue (a good quality needle-drop, since a search didn't turn up any master tapes). Made a second self-titled album in 1972, on a different label, that's likeable but doesn't seem to draw the sort of raves its predecessor did. Also released a single on RCA around that time. The 2nd album was also recently reissued on CD by this Korean company whose legitimacy or quality I know nothing about. The song track listings are in the wrong order, although they play in the correct order on the CD itself (the two songs they made available on their site for streaming are also misidentified). He drove out to Nashville in 1975, stopping at a motel in Santa Rosa on the way. That's the last he is ever seen.

Accounts of those last days vary maddeningly. He was driving either a VW Beetle or a truck. His guitar and wallet were found in the motel room, or maybe he never even checked into his room and there was no sign he ever occupied it. He told friends he was depressed and just wanted to disappear, or he told friends how excited he was about the impending third album he was going to record in Nashville where he thought his music would be better received. A search of the area turned up a body that didn't match Sullivan at all. Both cases remain unsolved.

Lee626, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 00:33 (twelve years ago) link

Col. Poo has it right about Black Tambourine. Singles compiled twice, no studio album

Nominating Postal Service - Give Up (fuck the hater) and Madvillain - Madvillainy

of course, both of these feature artists who have a ton of other albums, so maybe they're not in the real spirit of this

Fellini.Kuti, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 01:10 (twelve years ago) link

the extra glenns album was pretty good i guess

mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 02:25 (twelve years ago) link

Not nominating, but...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ztdodDHvAU8/SdSjSXgNY2I/AAAAAAAAAuk/X56nrT-iB-4/s320/Oasis_Front.jpg

Mark G, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 08:27 (twelve years ago) link

I'm pretty sure Oasis had more than one album...

Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 12:57 (twelve years ago) link

ah, but.

Mark G, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 12:58 (twelve years ago) link

Looks like they had a complete chage of lineup after that album though, so maybe it counts?

Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 13:07 (twelve years ago) link

Tony McCarroll became their drummer, the rest is history.

Mark G, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 13:25 (twelve years ago) link

Uncarved Block is another fav, hadn't really considered it in the terms of being a one-off record. Fans of Flux should check out the Von Spar S/T from a few years ago.

bendy, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link

Nominating Postal Service - Give Up (fuck the hater)

Yeah, thought about nominating this as well, but figured it might be ixnayed.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 13:52 (twelve years ago) link

can I get a call on The Crickets?

it is a nine-dimensional exposure-based ** "fairy" faction (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link

The Loved Ones - Magic Box

Vernon Locke, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:18 (twelve years ago) link

*SMFH*

cntrl+F not found:

SHAGGS - PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD

*SMFH*

Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:23 (twelve years ago) link

Col. Poo has it right about Black Tambourine. Singles compiled twice, no studio album

Nominating Postal Service - Give Up (fuck the hater) and Madvillain - Madvillainy

of course, both of these feature artists who have a ton of other albums, so maybe they're not in the real spirit of this

― Fellini.Kuti, Monday, August 15, 2011 9:10 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hoping when aero compiles these, he wont include oneoffs and sideprojects and supergroups tbh

Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:26 (twelve years ago) link

what about shaggs own thing? xpost

rice-a-roni eyes (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:27 (twelve years ago) link

Green River - Rehab Doll

Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:27 (twelve years ago) link

what about shaggs own thing? xpost

― rice-a-roni eyes (electricsound), Wednesday, August 17, 2011 2:27 AM (26 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

a compilation iirc and i definitely rc

Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:28 (twelve years ago) link

oic

rice-a-roni eyes (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:30 (twelve years ago) link

Green River - Rehab Doll

― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:27 PM (3 minutes ago)

I don't own them anymore but I seem to think Come On Down is longer than Rehab Doll... not sure why one would be considered an EP vs. an LP.

it's a meme i made and i like (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:35 (twelve years ago) link

ok according to wiki:

Come On Down: 27:43
Rehab 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 west
peaceful solutions - peaceful solutions

colby, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:44 (twelve years ago) link


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