One and done--favorite albums from artists with only one album

[GulDukat]

Not really in any order:

1. Temple of the Dog (1991)
2. Mother Love Bone (1990)
3. The Nymphs (1991)
4. Band of Gypsies (I'll include) (1970)
5. Blind Faith (1969)
6. Derek and the Dominos (1970)
7. Mad Season (1995)
8. The Last Hard Men (1997/2001)
9. The Sex Pistols- Never Mind the Bullocks (1977)
10. The Neurotic Outsiders (1996)

[Erneuert]

I’ll be boring and say ASHES dIVIDE.

[[parasite]]

Crosses (†††)
How To Destroy Angels
Nearly God


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[cdm]

LaGrecia - On Parallels...broke up before it was released

[ziltoid]

Peeping Tom, even though it's on a technicality since it's the only album released by Mike Patton for that side project.
Error EP by Error.

[botley]

The Supreme Jubilees — It'll All Be Over
https://youtu.be/mRU24cmGUwA

[Maximilian]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNC8kn5unWw

[acrid avid jam shred]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZGCRCenk6E

Them Crooked Vultures - Self-Titled

The whole band is amazing on this. Josh's guitar playing and lyrics are on another level too.

[elevenism]

Funland- The Funland Band. They were ahead of their time, finally made one record, and disappeared into the strange world of Deep Ellum legend, never to emerge again. They were fucking AMAZING.
They were like, Blink 182 BEFORE that godawful style took over, except they were sincere, and didn't suck.
SERIOUSLY, check this track out. I miss these guys SO much.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aqzZHyoq0fs

Flipmode Squad-The Imperial: Good god. If you like Busta Rhymes, and you like raw hip hop, you'll like this.
Busta had the usual suspects: Spliff Star, Rampage the Last Boy Scout, and Lord Have Mercy, but we ALSO got a lot more Rah Digga (from Outsidaz and Fugees ) and a younger cat called Baby Sham.
This record was fucking AMAZING to me at the time, and I still love it now.
I think this track shows the talent of the whole group, in an old school "pass the mic" type of way.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8L3PAYKhZfE
What REALLY sort of SUPER fucking bums me out is that there are APPARENTLY TWO more flipmode albums recorded and done: both one that was meant to release in '03, AND, one that was recorded and supposed to be released in 2020.

Ghosthustler- Someone Else's Ride
Another band I used to go see in the 214, these guys did a damn fine job of "bringing back the eighties."
When I described the band and the frontman to good ole kleiner/ @implanted_microchip (https://www.echoingthesound.org/community/member.php?u=4417) a couple years ago, she said "WAIT! Are you talking about A. Polomo from Neon Indian?"
And, sure enough...fuck me. I WAS.
I didn't keep up with the post Ghosthustler stuff. I know Neon Indian is supposed to be badass, but I could walk to the Ghosthustler shows, so that was A Lot More Cooler, as they say in Texas.
I just found out this is NOW a Neon Indian song, so, whatever. It was Ghosthustler. They were badass.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XvaH6s8LckU

Calways- This band gave way to Todd Deathrage's solo work, but I far prefer his work as Calways.
In FACT, I had to bother this dude on social media to get him to make this shit AVAILABLE.
Anyway, this record captures some of the beginnings of the No Depression sound that started in Deep Ellum and Lower Greenville, (and Chicago, for some fucking reason).


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fL6NVKE0iUE

Ms. Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.

I'm a Fugees fanatic. And I'm a Wyclef man, myself: yes, Lauryn was the moat lyrical, but Clef had the concepts and I think he and Jerry Wonder did most of the production. I prefer Wyclef's The Carnival, AND, The Carnival 2, over Lauryn's record.
BUT, her record WAS pretty fucking good, and she did something that was sort of unprecedented: she crossed into.the mainstream, received a physical arm load of Grammy awards, and then decided to sort of Take The Money And Run. I have a huge amount of respect for that.

And my favorite track on THAT record is probably this one:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i3_dOWYHS7I

Oh Fuck, I forgot: Temple of The Dog by Temple of the Dog aka Chris Cornell and Friends- fucking GREAT record. If you're fortyish, you likely had this one on cassette. Also, fuck Txxxx R*"**" of Nine Inch Nails for making a cassette joke, but that's beside the point.

Best track? I love Hunger Strike, but there's also this one:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DmdVT1wjaFQ

Edit: I'm getting tired.


So, well, we must mention the Sex Pistols FFS. I mean...it's, you know...The Sex Pistols.
Never Mind the Bollocks



Then I'd have to go with, and this is sort of cheating, but
Watch the Throne, by Watch the Throne. I mean, Holy Christ. Hov and Ye (pre public insanity). We got No Church in the Wild (with Frank Ocean). We got Ni**as In Paris.
We got Otis.
And there wasn't really one imperfect song ON that record. Even if you "hate rap except for Eminem" because your casually... one of those casual people, check this out

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FJt7gNi3Nr4

Madvillain- Madvilliany.
Madlib and MF DOOM aren't exactly a "band."
I could do the same with other DOOM projects.
But if you know, you know.

If not, HEY! Like hip hop, AT ALL? Don't know MF DOOM?
Try this! I guarantee he'll make you question your top five.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a5g8J9Ivjm8

Edit: I spent like an HOUR on this. :p

[virushopper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbemvMYHTV8

Lusk consisted of Greg Edwards of Failure, Paul D'Amour of Tool and then future Guns N Roses keyboardist Chris Pittman.

A bit of Beatles/Pink Floyd mix

[elevenism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZGCRCenk6E

Them Crooked Vultures - Self-Titled

The whole band is amazing on this. Josh's guitar playing and lyrics are on another level too.
Those guys are a big ripoff. I mean, come on! The bass player tries to sound like the guy from Led Zeppelin! :p

[snichols]

Cyberaktif "Tenebrae Vision"
Zygote "A Wind of Knives"
Kegcharge "Sadistic War Glory"
Thorns s/t (2001 Moonfog)
Carnage "Dark Recollections"

[fillow]

Them Crooked Vultures
Bosnian Rainbows
Antemasque

[decadent]

SNOT


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nFCl-5PqUc&list=PLkWYbnUT7cdd62l9SwppJCX3e_eQZBAZu&inde x=1

[cdm]

Them Crooked Vultures - Self-Titled

The whole band is amazing on this. Josh's guitar playing and lyrics are on another level too.

This album is great but I don't consider it a one / done just yet. They claim to have loose plans to record again. Typically I'd think "yeah right" but Grohl is prolific and I think the stars will eventually align. I'm holding out hope.

[elevenism]

This album is great but I don't consider it a one / done just yet. They claim to have loose plans to record again. Typically I'd think "yeah right" but Grohl is prolific and I think the stars will eventually align. I'm holding out hope.

I know one thing for sure: those cats have a HELL of an interesting line-up.
I actually with there were more people doing things like.this.

[SM Rollinger]

Nailbomb's Point Blank

[henryeatscereal]

Jeff Buckley - Grace


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJGFXTbCI8I

[r_z]

Them Crooked Vultures - s/t

Diverse - One A. M.
[listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPq0KipAJy0]

Doppelkopf - Von Abseits
[listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhx382_NAYw]

The Unspoken Heard - Soon Come...
[listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HtcJzw8od8]

Koushik - Be With
[listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScILtWyLNmk]

Masters Of Illusion - Masters Of Illusion
[listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeTfRrofGb4]

[GulDukat]

The Coverdale/Page album is awesome.

[elevenism]

The Coverdale/Page album is awesome.

Oh shit! Good call! You're about my age, right? At that point, I thought "well, hell. Coverdale ripped off like 3 or 4 Led Zep songs at ONCE with In The Still of The Night (The ocean, Immigrant Song, Whole Lotta Love, Black Dog) and he SOUNDS like golden era Plant. So I figured, he knows what he's doing.
So why not!? I thought it was the closest thing we'd get to a led zep thing, ever again.

My mom.and I loved that record.

I still play Shake my Tree with my amp turned up real loud, pretty damn regularly, on days that my hands are working.

[versusreality]

One Dove- Morning White Dove

Produced by Andrew Weatherall shortly after Primal Scream's "Scremadelica" album, this is a masterpiece of an album from 1993. It features blissed out electronics, dub, psychadelica..it's incredible and easily one of my favorite albums of the 90's. Pure euphoria at points. I strongly recommend this album as a hidden gem.

Here is one of the darker tunes on the album, some trippy electro dub.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NZnL4UBKIE

This was a single from the album, some blissed out euphoric electronica goodness, guitar by Primal Scream's Andrew Innes, with some of my favorite lyrics about love...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WMJSv2__sA

[GulDukat]

Oh shit! Good call! You're about my age, right? At that point, I thought "well, hell. Coverdale ripped off like 3 or 4 Led Zep songs at ONCE with In The Still of The Night (The ocean, Immigrant Song, Whole Lotta Love, Black Dog) and he SOUNDS like golden era Plant. So I figured, he knows what he's doing.
So why not!? I thought it was the closest thing we'd get to a led zep thing, ever again.

My mom.and I loved that record.

I still play Shake my Tree with my amp turned up real loud, pretty damn regularly, on days that my hands are working.

I'm 42.

People can say what they want about Coverdale (his Plant impression on Deep Purple's Live in Europe is probably his biggest offense), but he is a great rock singer, is very charismatic and had a good chemistry with Page.

Coverdale/Page was one of the few non-grunge/alt.rock albums from the early 90s that had some success. I love the grunge-scene, but Coverdale/Page was a fun anomaly that was refreshing for old-school rockers at the dawn of the Clinton-era. Poison, Warrant, Motley Crue, etc. could barely reach Gold (500,000) in the early 90s, while Coverdale/Page went platinum.

Coverdale has re-issued several Whitesnake albums with really nice boxsets, with bonus songs, live material, etc. David Coverdale has stated that Coverdale/Page will be given a boxset treatment at some point. I read that there are some unreleased songs in the vault that will hopefully be released.

[elevenism]

I'm 42.

People can say what they want about Coverdale (his Plant impression on Deep Purple's Live in Europe is probably his biggest offense), but he is a great rock singer, is very charismatic and had a good chemistry with Page.

Coverdale/Page was one of the few non-grunge/alt.rock albums from the early 90s that had some success. I love the grunge-scene, but Coverdale/Page was a fun anomaly that was refreshing ...went platinum
.
That's what I thought. I'm ALSO 42.

And Coverdale/Page:
Well fuck yeah!
I wasn't being sarcastic, AT ALL.
I mean, yes, he ripped off Plant, but people were hungry for such a thing, and he did it WELL...to the point that that one guy...Johnny? Jonesy? Jack? Whatever his name was, he did a record with Mr Coverdale Page. I always forget who played guitar on that one. :p

Coverdale/Page was a GREAT record, and it's a good call.
I didn't think of it.

[henryeatscereal]

"Deconstruction" by Deconstruction


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=961Cv9KsJUE

Just heard it the other day, it's great i like it better than Porno for Pyros first album...

[elevenism]

"Deconstruction" by Deconstruction


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=961Cv9KsJUE

Just heard it the other day, it's great i like it better than Porno for Pyros first album...

YOU LIKE IT BETTER THAN PFP?! And who is the singer?
Okay. With all due respect, this is...como se dice en ingles...oh yeah! HERESY!

For me, whatever band Perry is in is PRETTY much Jane's Addiction..

I'M a better guitarist than Dave, ffs.

While we're on this topic, I'll mention Satellite Party's Ultra Payloaded.
I saw them at a club show in like '07.
They played SP songs, and JA songs, and PFP songs,.and it was fucking great.

You know why? Because any decent musician can play all that shit.

Edit: no offense @henryeatscereal (https://www.echoingthesound.org/community/member.php?u=1572) , but I just do NOT see it.
PFP WAS 50% of JA, for one thing.
Secondly, this other band didn't feature any Perry Farrel
And finally, better than Meija? Cursed Female? Sadness? Packing 25? Cursed Male? Black Girlfriend? Bad Shit? Pets?
Ouch! OUCH!
I was 12 and had the T shirt and everything: I got in trouble for wearing it in 7th grade.

I LOVE that record.

[henryeatscereal]

YOU LIKE IT BETTER THAN PFP?! And who is the singer?
Okay. With all due respect, this is...como se dice en ingles...oh yeah! HERESY!

For me, whatever band Perry is in is PRETTY much Jane's Addiction..

I'M a better guitarist than Dave, ffs.

While we're on this topic, I'll mention Satellite Party's Ultra Payloaded.
I saw them at a club show in like '07.
They played SP songs, and JA songs, and PFP songs,.and it was fucking great.

You know why? Because any decent musician can play all that shit.

Edit: no offense @henryeatscereal (https://www.echoingthesound.org/community/member.php?u=1572) , but I just do NOT see it.
PFP WAS 50% of JA, for one thing.
Secondly, this other band didn't feature any Perry Farrel
And finally, better than Meija? Cursed Female? Sadness? Packing 25? Cursed Male? Black Girlfriend? Bad Shit? Pets?
Ouch! OUCH!
I was 12 and had the T shirt and everything: I got in trouble for wearing it in 7th grade.

I LOVE that record.
I get that you disagree man, no offense.

To me, Deconstruction's first album it's an experimental trip that sounds nothing like Jane's Addiction and that's why i like it more.
I don't dislike Porno For Pyros first album; i love songs like "Pets", "Cursed Female" and "Black Girlfriend", but to me the album was the "safe" "Logical" band to do after JA, a continuation of the music of the original band.

"Deconstruction" it's in my opinion a more challenging interesting album that doesn't try to sound like JA and a new band in it's own right (sadly that didn't last...)
Of course, Navarro it's not a "virtuoso" guitarist or anything; but the guy is very creative and i'm glad he found a record to show that part of him, also Avery who i think is a very underrated musician.

So i don't think there's a "right" answer; liking one album over the other is just a matter or personal tase, not putting down Pyros first album, because it's a classic; i just find myslef listening more to "Deconstruction" lately.

Respeto tu opinión y no me ofendo que pienses deferente!

[imail724]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/The_Modern_Lovers_%28album%29.jpg

[MrLobster]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/The_Modern_Lovers_%28album%29.jpg

I still need to pick up a copy of that...

[imail724]

I still need to pick up a copy of that...I do too. Ive been holding out hope for a 2LP repress with the bonus tracks from the CD, but that doesn't seem too likely at this point.

[frankie teardrop]

seconding:
modern lovers
the nymphs (this album slays)

others:
lulabox- lulabox (curve clones)
the la's- the la's
young marble giants- colossal youth
mellow candle swaddling songs
jeff buckley- grace (though i prefer 'sketches,' even though it doesn't count here)
opal- happy nightmare baby
the united states of america- the united states of america
amesoeurs- amesoeurs
exploding hearts- guitar romantic
josef k- the only fun in town
texas is the reason- do you know who you are?
life without buildings- any other city


i'll come back with more if they come to mind!

[Self.Destructive.Pattern]

The Good, The Bad and The Queen
Postal service
Mad at Gravity
Atoms for Peace
Palms
Private Lives
Box Car Racer
Big Grams

[frankie teardrop]

The Good, The Bad and The Queen

they have a second LP!

[Self.Destructive.Pattern]

they have a second LP!

Oh damn! Talk about a silent release; I had no idea it came out back in 2018, thanks for the update!

[fillow]

Zwan

[GulDukat]

ZwanI thought I read that some of their best material never made it to their album.

[Arcspiral]

Surprised that no one has mentioned this yet -
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1670343587_10.jpg
I've always seen this record as an extension of Still, but with some Claudia Sarne goodness thrown in. Hell, a lot of this record I like more than Still. Technically, there have been a smattering of singles and a few soundtracks put out over the years, but this remains the only proper album from Nearly. If you don't know this album, do yourself a favor and check it out. https://nearly.bandcamp.com/album/reminder

[cahernandez]

Palms

hopefully Palms is not a one and done effort! Selftitled was superb :)

[Self.Destructive.Pattern]

hopefully Palms is not a one and done effort! Selftitled was superb :)

Agreed! I listened to the album the other night after a jam sesh me and a few friends had, it had been awhile since I heard it; I forgot how engrossing the soundscape is on it. I'm glad to have at least seen Isis when they opened for Tool way back in 2006 I believe? We'll see!

[Kingforaday]

Dream Widow
Probot

[Toadflax]

Agent Orange - Living In Darkness
Casxio - Friends vs. Lovers
Ioanna Gika - Thalassa
Jeff Buckley - Grace (though the amount of additional JB content out there makes this one feel like cheating)
Milla Jovovich - The Divine Comedy
NearLY - Reminder
Tim Armstrong - A Poet's Life

[Toadflax]

Also, how about great artists with ZERO albums?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfUo2mPYQ2E


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


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

[thelastdisciple]

Alright so this is one of my favourite albums by a Canadian band called Hail the Villain, some of the personnel have done other projects and technically this band was renamed from Farenheit of which there was another album that predates this.

Still one and done as Hail the Villain with an album called Population: Declining.

https://open.spotify.com/album/3nf7h31Gz3Um0KHDEyO91V?si=4d1u13jlSOKlgVx-BcqQUA

https://i.postimg.cc/8cxCxGyn/image.png


https://youtu.be/0lFBbDzHIwQ

[SchwarzerAbt]

Dream Widow
Probot

So, do you also like Dain Bramage?

[frankie teardrop]

Agent Orange - Living In Darkness

not their only album, i'm afraid!

[Toadflax]

not their only album, i'm afraid!

I've got some catching up to do!

(I also need to disabuse myself of the notion that if it isn't on Spotify, it doesn't exist. I've become on of those​ people.)

[Kingforaday]

Definitely, I scream not coming down. It seems to fit nicely with the 90s punk scene too.