Favorite Bands/Artists w/ less than 5 albums?

Sixto Rodriguez only made 2 (and a live one).

 

Is there a more defined criteria??

Otherwise your gonna get a a load of "new-ish" artists listed now who have only done 2 or 3 albums to date....along with the usual "Blind Faith" & "Sex Pistols"

 

as a solo musician Freddie Mercury

 

Mr. Bungle [R.I.P.]


Blind Faith and Sex Pi- [just kidding]

 

Zwan

 

Janis Joplin

 

Madura released two albums, cleverly named "Madura" (double album) and "Madura II"... the album naming convention may have been influenced by their producer, James William Guercio, best known as Chicago's producer.

 

Ryo Fukui
Mendoza
Catapilla

 

The Velvet Underground released 4 studio albums during the lifetime of the band (even counting Squeeze, which I don't, it's just the 5) and they are one of my favourite bands, if not the favourite.

However there's unreleased studio material which can be made into an album or two and now something like 27 CDs in the expanded box sets for the original albums, a 4CD live set (Matrix), a 2CD live set (1969), a single CD live set (Max's) and a lot more bootlegged live. It's starting to feel like there's actually quite a lot now.

 

Til Tuesday (Not counting Aimee Mann's solo albums.)

Vance Joy

 

Cream

 

Blind Faith

 

S.O.D.

 

Jellyfish

 

The Move
Shadowland
Strangers on a Train
Arrakeen
A Group Called Smith
Gayle McCormick

 

Big Star

 

First one that came to mind for me, also.

 

Donnie and Joe Emerson

 

david and david

dane donohue

terence boylan

willis alan ramsey

pat simmons

tom johnston

walter becker

 

I was going to say "Cast" with four but it turns out they released two more albums since they got back together to make it six.

The La's (the band John Powers left to form Cast) traditionally only released one album, and that probably not within the lifetime of the band. But a bit like the Velvet Underground the amount of live and additional studio and session material to emerge over the years has grown like Topsy. I bet there's at least 10 albums of unique material now.

 

Janis Joplin - hands down for me.

 

The La's
The Stone Roses
The original Mahavishnu Orchestra
The original James Gang
Blind Faith

 

The Firm only produced 2 albums.

Extreme gave us 4 albums originally, but they did bring that up to 5 when they reformed, no doubt specifically to avoid being caught in this category

 

Buffalo Springfield

 

Mother Love Bone
Joy Division
Sisters Of Mercy

('Fewer')