love mysterious idm/ambient/electronica tracks by one-and-doners https://www.discogs.com/release/1697-Various-Aurorawho is melf?? who is Benjamin? gorgeous ambient nuggets
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Friday, 10 March 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link
there's a ton of german examples of this. here's one that springs to mind - cosmic greatness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTiFS81Hfb8
― stirmonster, Friday, 10 March 2023 17:50 (one year ago) link
This also doesn't quite count since the track was part of a 4 song EP (and that's all they ever released), but this was on a Clicks & Cuts comp and I was obsessed with it at the time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUXVXrdmuVM
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 10 March 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
band called Ellagaru had two tracks on a 1984 compilation A Secret Liverpool, no other releases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EAaLN_SG9A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt-ioDGTfms
― soref, Friday, 10 March 2023 18:10 (one year ago) link
do those ilm comps count?
― andrew m., Friday, 10 March 2023 19:58 (one year ago) link
The only one of these I can think of is "Talk Talk Talk Talk" by the Reaction (Mark Hollis's pre-Talk Talk band) that appeared on an indie compilation called Streets, but that still doesn't count because they also released a single called "I Can't Resist" before breaking up.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 10 March 2023 20:06 (one year ago) link
https://tomsmithksv.bandcamp.com/track/c01-silk-purse-nowhere-i-go
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 March 2023 20:14 (one year ago) link
(2/3 of Sightings)
I wonder if a lot of those one-off ambient artists are better known people working under a pseudonym?
― No Hackett Required (Matt #2), Friday, 10 March 2023 20:55 (one year ago) link
one of the album tracks on the first so so def bass all stars compilation (the one with "my boo" on it) is by an artist called t'baby (not to be confused with the legendary "it's so cold in the d" t-baby) who afaict never released anything else. all three of those compilations are uneven to a degree and yeah it's not exactly a "my boo"-tier classic but i always enjoyed it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1nfsl9BAzQ
the producer, danny d, and the guy doing the hype vocals, big ace, both have other releases, so idk if it totally fits but yeah
― dyl, Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:54 (one year ago) link
nah that totally fits, it's OK if the artists did other stuff (that Moet The Poet track I posted to start features members of Poison Girls and Ear Trumpet)
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Saturday, 11 March 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/artist/329586-The-Organs-Of-Site & https://www.discogs.com/artist/329584-Richard-Steele
― no lime tangier, Sunday, 12 March 2023 01:29 (one year ago) link
^^ love that record, excellent examples
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Sunday, 12 March 2023 02:22 (one year ago) link
Just guessing, but "Isgodaman" by Arthur Comics? (Streets)?
(The name of the band takes a question mark.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 12 March 2023 02:30 (one year ago) link
ooh that's a good example of a pseudonym band! it was The Sniveling Shots but they were forced to use another name:https://www.discogs.com/artist/536730-Arthur-Comixhttps://www.discogs.com/artist/684538-The-Snivelling-Shits
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Sunday, 12 March 2023 03:06 (one year ago) link
lol sorry typos
I’m sure they at least had a b-side but I always loved The Hatfields “Yes I Do” from the first Back from the Crypt Cd comp.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Sunday, 12 March 2023 06:54 (one year ago) link
here's one! probably multiple bands on this comp would qualify
https://www.discogs.com/artist/279363-The-Clones-2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0jl292aPJg
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Sunday, 12 March 2023 17:17 (one year ago) link
This cover of Green Day's When I Come Around was always a classic between me and my friends:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTsS1V0R6xQ
― MarkoP, Sunday, 12 March 2023 23:15 (one year ago) link
oh here's a good one
Bent Nails
Mike Luzader (drums), Byron Stamatatos (bass), Zach Georgopoulos (guitar) and Frank Portman (vocals)
Punk band from Millbrae, California that formed around 1979, while the band members were in High School. Frank and Byron would later go on to start The Mr. T Experience in Berkeley.
The only released Bent Nails track was "No More Riots" on the MRR "Not So Quiet On The Western Front" compilation.
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Monday, 20 March 2023 01:00 (one year ago) link