Artists where you only like 1 of their albums

BigMonka

So following on from the thread about music you "get" but don't like...

Has anyone else found a corking album and then found that they don't like any of the artist's other ones?

I'll start with a couple:

- Muse. I like Showbiz but can't be doing with any of their other albums

- Nirvana. I only really like the MTV Unplugged album, I'm not at all fussed by the studio albums

And a couple of country/americana ones:

- John Hiatt - Crossing Muddy Waters is one of my favourite albums, but haven't found anything else of his that I like

- Guy Clark - The Dark is a great album, but again I haven't found anything else of his I like

DiscoStu

Pearl Jam - Ten.

IanSavage

Galactic - absolutely love 'From The Corner To The Block', struggle to get into any of their other stuff.

Brand New Heavies - 'Shelter' gets at least a bi-annual residency on my metaphorical turntable, nothing else I've heard has grabbed me.

richardhomer

Wish You Were Here for me.

One of my favourite records of all time - but there isn't really another Floyd album I like in its entirety.

Does this make me a bad person?

Fazer

Bjork - the Selmasongs soundtrack from Dancer In The Dark is amazing, but I find everything else she's done to be pretty much unlistenable

Fazer

also:
Doves - Some Cities
Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow
P J Harvey - Dry
Portishead - Dummy
Pat Martino - Conciousness
Prong - Cleansing
The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
The Killers - Hot Fuss

ICBM

A lot, actually… I went through my iTunes library and checked and was quite surprised how many I found.

Adele - 21

Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance

The Cult - Love

Don McLean - American Pie

Green Day - American Idiot

Icehouse - Love In Motion

Jewel - 0304

QOTSA - Songs For The Deaf

Spandau Ballet - Journeys To Glory

Whitesnake - Ready And Willing

underdog

DiscoStu;634108" said:

Pearl Jam - Ten.

Shit man have you listened to any more? Ten is my least favourite of theirs, which isn't a disservice to Ten just a sign of how much better they became.

Samgb

richardhomer said:

Wish You Were Here for me.

One of my favourite records of all time - but there isn't really another Floyd album I like in its entirety.

Does this make me a bad person?

Yes. Yes it does

ICBM

underdog said:

DiscoStu said:

Pearl Jam - Ten.

Shit man have you listened to any more? Ten is my least favourite of theirs, which isn't a disservice to Ten just a sign of how much better they became.

Or maybe Ten is the only one he likes… everyone's different. Hot Fuss is my least favourite Killers album, but a lot of people seem to rate it as the only one they like. (See Fazer's post.)

underdog

ICBM;634380" said:

underdog said:

DiscoStu said:Pearl Jam - Ten.

Shit man have you listened to any more? Ten is my least favourite of theirs, which isn't a disservice to Ten just a sign of how much better they became.










Or maybe Ten is the only one he likes… everyone's different. Hot Fuss is my least favourite Killers album, but a lot of people seem to rate it as the only one they like. (See Fazer's post.)

Maybe, which is why I asked

Ten is too anthemic for me these days, great songs but over played I guess, I could honestly not foresee a situation where I'd ever need to hear Jeremy or Alive ever again, even live I groan inside when that first note of Alive comes in.

Reverend

Qotsa -s/t
Journey -s/t

d8m

A few of mine that stand out:

GnR - Appetite For Destruction

U2 - Joshua Tree

Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

The Killers - Sams Town

The Darkness - Permission To Land

Franz Ferdinand - S/T

Deadman

Has to be Coldplay, Parachutes for me. I even surprise myself here as I can't stand them now. That first album has something though.

rlw

BigMonka said:

So following on from the thread about music you "get" but don't like...

Has anyone else found a corking album and then found that they don't like any of the artist's other ones?

I'll start with a couple:

- Muse. I like Showbiz but can't be doing with any of their other albums

- Nirvana. I only really like the MTV Unplugged album, I'm not at all fussed by the studio albums

And a couple of country/americana ones:

- John Hiatt - Crossing Muddy Waters is one of my favourite albums, but haven't found anything else of his that I like

- Guy Clark - The Dark is a great album, but again I haven't found anything else of his I like

You don't like John Hiatt's stand out albums "Bring the Family" and "Slow turning" - two absolutely brilliant works of the songwriting art.

And you don't like Guy Clark's "Old No 1" and "Texas Cooking" and "Old Friends" - as above, total gems.

Fucking hell.

In your favour, unlike most of the people on here, you have stepped out of the box a bit so good on you.

Moss

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy

Philly_Q

DiscoStu said:

Pearl Jam - Ten.

I agree.  I carried on buying their next few albums but liked them less and less (although Stone Gossard's Bayleaf solo album is one of my all-time favourites).

I'm afraid the only other things which spring to mind are obscure '80s hard rock:

Babylon AD - first album

Q5 - Steel the Light

Vinnie Vincent Invasion - first album

Maynehead

Alannis Morrisette?

*runs and hides*

RobDavies

The Wildhearts.

Earth vs The Wildhearts was probably my favourite album from the 90's.   It all went quickly downhill from there, IMHO.

axisus

Plus one for Pearl Jam - Ten. Can't believe the same band produced all those other albums

Nickelback - dunno the album name and I can't be assed to go looking

John Mayer - Continuum (I'm not including his blues band stuff which is superb)

Philly_Q

MD.45 - The Craving

OK, they actually only recorded one album, but then there was the remaster on which Dave Mustaine allegedly discovered that Lee Ving's vocal tracks had "gone missing" (because obviously you'd store them in a different place than the guitar, drum and bass tracks, wouldn't you?).  Fortunately, out of the goodness of his heart, good ol' Dave re-recorded the vocals himself.  The man's a saint.

(I believe Mustaine later admitted that he'd chosen to replace the vocals to appeal to Megadeth fans.  I wonder what Lee Ving thought?)

Anyway, original version - great album.  Remaster - not so great, but they are still very good songs.