One album is all they needed.

[Bored Of Education]

Those bands that may have produced only one album that is all you need, This maybe because everything was either crap, worthless "unreleased rarities" money-making exercises or there is nothing other than the one album.

Obviously no greatest hits or live albums count.

Never Mind The Bollocks - Sex Pistols.

[Andy C]

One album is all they needed.

The Postal Service
The La's

[Jah Womble]

One album is all they needed.

Germ Free Adolescence X-Ray Spex
The Only Fun in Town Josef K

[treibeis]

One album is all they needed.

First And Last And Always - The Sisters Of Mercy
Natural History - The March Violets

[Various Artist]

One album is all they needed.

^ Surely the Sisters' Floodland has to be worth a mention, treibeis?

[Stumpy Pepys]

One album is all they needed.

Jeff Buckley — Grace
The Monks — Black Monk Time

[hobbes]

One album is all they needed.

Andróide Veludo wrote: ^ Surely the Sisters' Floodland has to be worth a mention, treibeis?

Word.

[Come along, Min]

One album is all they needed.

Don Blackman - Don Blackman
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The Hastings Street Jazz Experience - Detroit Jazz Composers Ltd.
Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II Tha Pharcyde
Nu Yorican Soul - Nuyorican Soul
The New Radicals- The New Radicals
Main Source - Breakin' Atoms
Digital Underground - Sex Packets

[Jah Womble]

One album is all they needed.

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

So, has Second Coming been completely written out of history now?

[Come along, Min]

One album is all they needed.

It get's in my list because I think it's shit. I'd be happy to have someone try to convince me otherwise. I'd give it a second go.

[Errorist Sympathiser]

One album is all they needed.

"Forever Changes" - Love

I'd dispute Jeff Buckley - there are some great songs on "Sketches..."

[Amor de Cosmos]

One album is all they needed.

And I'd definitely dispute Love's Forever Changes. The first side of Da Capo, about half the tracks off their first album. And two or three off Four Sail. are all well up to that standard.

But that's OK, It's how these things go. cf: the 'Best of' thread.

[slackster]

One album is all they needed.

Colossal Youth - Young Marble Giants (1980)

Just how green was their minimalism, exactly?

[Land Waster]

One album is all they needed.

Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience

[Amor de Cosmos]

One album is all they needed.

Excellent choice.

[WOM]

One album is all they needed.

Anyone said Moby Grape yet?

[Amor de Cosmos]

One album is all they needed.

Not a bad shout, but about half of Wow! is essential. I've also known people who swear by Grape Jam but they're mostly in care homes now.

[adams house cat]

One album is all they needed.

Good call Amor. Boz Scaggs? He never did anything else as good as "Silk Degrees". That I heard anyway. I seem to remember G-Man and I disagreeing about this some time ago.

[Cal Alamein]

One album is all they needed.

This is a tough one.

*Little Steve and the Disciples of Soul - Men Without Women

*Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell

[treibeis]

One album is all they needed.

Andróide Veludo wrote: ^ Surely the Sisters' Floodland has to be worth a mention, treibeis?

This Corrosion and Lucretia My Reflection were good. But, for me, they were singles rather than album tracks. The rest of it was forgettable.

[Benjm]

One album is all they needed.

No takers for Oasis?

[Jah Womble]

One album is all they needed.

Maybe I'm mistaken, but I assumed (and the first few posts seem to corroborate) that this thread was about artists who'd only released one album - this being considered a bit of a classic. (Hence my comment about the Stone Roses upthread.)

Surely it's just a turkey-shoot otherwise and therefore a bit pointless?

[Benjm]

One album is all they needed.

Those bands that may have produced only one album that is all you need, This maybe because everything was either crap, worthless "unreleased rarities" money-making exercises or there is nothing other than the one album.

I took this to cover multi-album acts. Obviously there are loads of acts who are liked by their fans and not by everyone else. There are some bands though who manage one great statement and then carry on with what all but the hardcore would consider to be greatly diminished returns.

One album and the greatest hits is probably quite a well represented niche: SFA are certainly that for me.

[Come along, Min]

One album is all they needed.

BenJô wrote: No takers for Oasis?

I flirted with idea (based on OP's framing), but they have a fair smattering of decent tunes over a number of LP and singles beyond DM.

[Benjm]

One album is all they needed.

Fair enough - another for the one album and the hits list.