Great One Album Wonders
 

Those bands that produced one killer album only to have everything else they did slide into the "who cares?" bin.

Well, this is easy since they only made one proper album but...

The Sex Pistols- Never Mind the Bollocks

Comus - First utterance

Mad River - s/t
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Satanas

Suicidal Tendencies

Which album?

If you'd heard any of them, you'd know:) .

The first (eponymous).

When I worked in a record shop, it was in the days when we just displayed the covers and kept the actual records behind the counter in card sleeves. You would write the band and the name of the album on the sleeve, and if a record was self-titled, you'd write 'eponymous' in place of the title. This was so that it was clear that somebody hadn't just forgotten to write the title.

One girl who worked there never grasped the idea and didn't know why we wrote eponymous on some sleeves. And then REM released an album called Eponymous. She was completely screwed then!

That's great ha ha aha ha.

I worked in a record shop with this guy who took great effort telling everyone that Cap't Beefheart went in the C section, and that Alice Cooper went in A. He was a total alphabet nazi.

I think Fra Lippo Lippi had one good album and that was about it. The Primitives.

The first Sugarcubes album was (and still is) great. After that. forget-about-it.

What's wrong with that.

Our manager was a Genesis fan, and we used to wind him up by putting Phil Collins solo albums in the Genesis section. May not seem like a big deal, but he used to go a nice lobster colour.

Television.

I'm surprised that no-one's mentioned the first Stone Roses LP. Lots of people still seem to have love for that. Little ole me thinks it's one of the most over-rated rock LPs of all time. Sure, it's not bad (not like Sisters of Mercy bad), but it's not that bleedin' good either, John Squire or no John Squire.

how will i laugh???

NIN - The Downward Spiral
GoF - Entertainment
Wolf Eyes - Dead Hills

Downward Spiral taught me how to hate.

Living In America-The Sounds
Fever To Tell-YYYs (Show your Bones did NOT impress me. It was too different, without any of their charm. Their EPs before Fever To Tell were good, but those don't count as albums)

Bitch Magnet - Ben Hur

Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville

Happy Go Licky- Will Play

The Queers- A Day Late, A Dollar Short (When they were a hardcore band.)

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

limp bizkit - 3 dolla bill y'all$

Umm theres a few:

Spice Girls - Spice
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (Dont even talk to me about The Black Fucking Parade)
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (not that the music before or after wasn't brilliant, but as for cohesive albums...)
Dvorak - 'From the new world' (not techically an album I know but I love this piece but cant stand the rest of his stuff)
Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra (same as above really, this is a thread that goes through a lot of my taste in classical music, I only tend to like one or two pieces of any composer - Unless its Branca, Shoenberg, Cage or Shostakovich at which point I can only worship)

Suicidal Tendencies are awful overall.

Lots of bands did grow progressively worse. Descendents' Bonus Fat ain't too bad at all. Suicide's first album, obviously, the coolest thing recorded, the second is still great but definitely a let down, A Way of Life was just crude. I'll also drop Entertainment! by Gang of Four while I'm on a roll.

the first system of a down album

i agree wholeheartedly

I don't mind SOAD. As far as metal goes they're quite an intresting band

Please, no-one bring up nu-metal again. It's just not funny.

static-x - wisconsin death trip

yep, definitely wisconsin death trip!!! "trance is the motion"!!!!!!!!!!!

oh, and to the guy who said soad...

system of a down self-titled IS a classic, but toxicity and steal this album had a few gems too... hypnotize mezmerize was just SHIT though..

I think I'm going to scream!

the first soulfly album

System of a Down are not a Nu-Metal band they are too good to be classed with that rubbish

Fudge Tunnel - Hate Songs In E Minor

whaat? creep diets was great too!

all that talk about fudge tunnel reminded me of:

nailbomb - proud to commit commercial suicide


another, argueable:

the locust - plague soundscapes (haven't heard the new one)

more:

mindless self indulgence - frankenstein girls...
the mars volta - deloused in the comatorium (not counting the tremulant ep)
poison the well - you come before you
the used s/t

I don't agree. I think it was a pretty average album, and The Complicated Futility of Ignorance was just bad.