S/D artists whose entire known output is a single track on a compilation album

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

do those ilm comps count?

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.

https://tomsmithksv.bandcamp.com/track/c01-silk-purse-nowhere-i-go

(2/3 of Sightings)

I wonder if a lot of those one-off ambient artists are better known people working under a pseudonym?

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

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)

https://www.discogs.com/artist/329586-The-Organs-Of-Site & https://www.discogs.com/artist/329584-Richard-Steele

^^ love that record, excellent examples

Just guessing, but "Isgodaman" by Arthur Comics? (Streets)?

(The name of the band takes a question mark.)

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-Comix
https://www.discogs.com/artist/684538-The-Snivelling-Shits

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.

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

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

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.