One-album wonders

Speaking of ..

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/04/19/men-at-work-musician-greg-ham-found-dead-in-melbourne-home/?intcmp=features

 

This album is still astonishing to listen to- a band coming together with fully formed chops.

After that? Crapola.

 

Are those guys?

 

Hootie and the Blowfish would have to get some consideration here, I think by the time their second album came out everybody was sick of being beaten over the head with the songs from their debut.

This is a damn good album too:

 

This thread begins and ends with one album:

 

Marquee Moon was the first to cross my mind. A classic listen and I've never heard anything of theirs aside from that album.

 

From the same time period, I think Oasis could get some consideration here.

Their debut album, "Definitely, Maybe" was solid, but didn't achieve huge success. "What's the Story, Morning Glory?" was fantastic and a huge popular success that they've never come close to achieving with any of their follow-ups.

 

I don't think Black 47 has ever come close to "Fire of Freedom," although others might disagree. But that album's great from beginning to end.

 

I like A Weekend in the City. Intimacy was terrible, though.

 

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I never heard of these guys until we started listening to The Spectrum (Ch 28) on Sirius/XM. Larry Kirwan hosts a show every Saturday morning called "Celtic Crush" which I really enjoy. He occasionally plays some Black 47 stuff and I have to say I've never heard another singer whose singing and speaking voice are so nearly identical.

 

I still remember opening this in 8th grade in 1976:

 

That's a really good call. I'd have to go back to it, but I seem to remember being a kid and thinking that the second Boston album was better than its reputation seems to be.

On a more modern tilt:



Few bands perfected the art of having a massive debut album and then blowing it all by taking years and years to record a follow-up thanks to in-fighting, drugs and general stupidity. For most of the 1990s, the phrase "the new Stone Roses album should be out later this year" was that decade's alternative version of "Chinese Democracy is coming out any day now!"