best one album and outs of all time?

Was this discussed recently? Or am I confusing it with the recent one hit wonders discussion? Anyway, I'll start off with these:

The La's 'The La's' and Jeff Buckley 'Grace'.

 

Goldenboy,

The "One Hit Wonders" was a Singles thread, so you have got a whole new thought here...should be interesting!

Bob

 

Jeff Buckley's untimely demise was a loss.

Often mentioned in this context - "Blind Faith".

Regards,
Metralla

 

Yes, the Jeff buckley thing sure was a sad tragedy, the music world willnever know what they have lost. How could I have forgotten Blind Faith? One of the greates albums of all time I think, and what a line up!

 

Well, overlooking live albums, reunions, hits collections, and other ephemera, two of my favorites from the punk era:

Never Mind the Bullocks--Sex Pistols
Germ Free Adolescents--X-Ray Spex

 

Did the La La's do that fun song "There She Goooooos..."?

Sixpence None the Richer did a lovely cover of it. Great tune!
Dan C

 

Re: Re: best one album and outs of all time?

Yeah, that's theirs alright. The cover of it was OK, but they really made it sound like The Sundays. It is one of the prettiest songs ever written about, of all things, Heroin.

The GAP also uses one of The La's' songs in one of their new commercials now, you know the B&W ones that have two different versions with different music? Well, one of the versions with the folks on the Bicycles riding down, what looks like to me, 5th Ave. in Manhattan uses The La's' song 'Feelin'

 

david & david (ricketts & baerwald) - welcome to the boomtown

baerwald has done some solo work, but whatever happened to rickretts?

this, by the way, is one of my top 10 underrated (overlooked) albums of all time.


renny

 

I was listening last night to a forgotten band from the 80's - The Kings, Switching to Glide. From the same decade, a blues-rock band from the UK called The Inmates. Both may have had more than one lp, but I've never seen them....

 

Germs: "G.I."

 

Absolutly agree! One of the best albums of the late 80's.
Baerwald's solo album "Bedtime Stories" was fantastic as well, got only a bit of airplay and went away. Out of print

Ricketts did some producing, didn't he?
Dan C

 

Re: Re: Re: best one album and outs of all time?

Heroin?! Gasp! I didn't know. It was used in the remake of "The Parent Trap". What kind of message is Disney trying to send my children!

I like that song in the Gap ad too. Guess I should get that album then. Thanks for the heads up!
Dan C

 

I miss the Toadies

I miss the Toadies.
As far as I know they only had one album and it was great. It still gets air play around here. But, I never heard from them again. Did they have another album?

 

WHould this qualify?

Derek and the Dominoes: Layla and other Assorted Love songs
I know they had a live albuem, but they only really had this one studio.
Still's-Young Band
As far as I know they only did the one.
What about Dom Maclean's did he ever have any other besides American Pie?
Paper Lace, as far as I know The Night Chicago Died was there only one.


I could be wrong on all these, but at least I am trying to think.

 

Re: WHould this qualify?

He also had a fairly big hit with Roy Orbison's Crying

 

Thunderclap Newman/Hollywood Dream
Blue Jays/Justin Hayward, John Lodge
Buckingham/Nicks
Many Moods of Murry Wilson ;-)

I have several folk-rock LP's from the early-mid 70's by one-shot groups, and I think they're fantastic records. Anyone heard of these:

Sand (2-LP'S BUT ONLY ONE SIDE OF EACH HAD SONGS!)
Hamlet
Jim Rafferty (Gerry's brother...no kidding!)
Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends
Prairie Madness
Ricci Martin/Beached (Dean's son, with Beach Boys help...may not be his only LP)
Joe Egan/Out of Nowhere (half of Stealer's Wheel with Rafferty; gorgeous stuff)
Beans
Bamboo
Appaloosa (Al Kooper, Robin Batteau)

 

Did we not just do this recently? All these albums are very familiar (i.e. Blind Faith, Sex Pistols etc)

Don McLean had at least 8 albums.

 

How about Ritchie Valens and Eddie Cochran? Was there more than one of each?

Lest we forget Jeff Beck's greatest band with Rod Stewart. Truth.

How many did the Small Faces do?

 

The Jeff Beck Group (as fronted by Rod Stewart) had a follow up to Truth called Beck-Ola. That was a great lp as well.

 

Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills-Super Session.

 

Along the same vein Al Kooper/ Shuggie Otis - Kooper Session

 

The Flying Burrito Brothers have made several, but "Gilded Palace of Sin" is usually THE one that people refer to.

The original Modern Lovers album, with the John Cale produced demos.

 

Little Village. I loved the Hiatt/Lowe/Cooder/Keltner supergroup. They all played together on Hiatt's Bring the Family, but only made one album as Little Village; it is one fine, underrated, and overlooked album, that is for sure.

 

Re: Re: WHould this qualify?

He also had many more than that! More "biggies" include:

Vincent (Starry Starry Night)
Castles In The Air

Don McLean is FAR from a one hit wonder!

 

Rockpile - Seconds Of Pleasure
Sinead Lohan - No Mermaid from 1998 and nothing since. Technically I believe she put out an album a few years before this one, but it was never released here in the U.S.

Could have put The Flatlanders on this list but just last week they released their second album in thirty years. Sounds pretty good.