One album is all they needed.

[WOM]

One album is all they needed.

Luke R 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.

Really? Why doesn't one ever hear them?

[The Bean Counter]

One album is all they needed.

[quote=BenJô post=918272]

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

Really? Which album?

Obviously, I completely disagree with you.

[The Bean Counter]

One album is all they needed.

Just thinking, you could probably put pink Floyd on that list for me...

[evilC]

One album is all they needed.

Birdland*
Sheep On Drugs
Consolidated

(* - Except that Birdland's most essential track, 'Hollow Heart', wasn't on that album.)

[Benjm]

One album is all they needed.

[quote]zbiginho wrote:

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

Really? Which album?

Obviously, I completely disagree with you

It's always been Fuzzy Logic for me. Others are more musically accomplished but somehow feel like a stretch to listen through, particularly as Songbook is one of the best singles comps ever. I love Gruff's solo albums though.

[Come along, Min]

One album is all they needed.

WOM 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.

Really? Why doesn't one ever hear them?

Many of the songs on What's the Story are a tad overplayed but it's chock full of pretty good songs and hits and perhaps even more representative of the times (if nowhere near as good) as DM.
I'm not going to sing the praise of Be Here Now's or any of the other LP's after that but they too have an odd decent-though-admittedly formulaic recording on them (Go Let It Out, Roll It Over, Hindu Times, Lyla). Looking at their Wiki page I just realised I've never listened to Dig Out Your Soul.

Also, not to forget there were a fair amount of early decent to excellent B-Sides demos as well, Headshrinker, Acquiesce, Fade Away (demo), maybe even Half the World Away.

There's an argument they could be considered a two album band if anyone fancies starting that thread but I'm not sure even that's much of a strong claim.

[Come along, Min]

One album is all they needed.

SFA being a one LP band is way off I reckon as well. Guerrilla was good and they have probably have more than enough non-single LP tracks on the others to be considered more than a one LP and a Greatest Hits band.

Need to rip all their stuff to my collection to be sure though. When they were good, they were very very good. Favourite of that era.

[Patrick Thistle]

One album is all they needed.

I think Green Day have done this twice - with Dookie in the early 90s and American Idiot 15 years later. Pick one of those albums and that's your definitive Green Day.

My nomination would be Terrorvision: How to make friends and influence people. None of their other albums came close.

[Andy C]

One album is all they needed.

Terry Reid's River.

It's a little gem.

[Tony C]

One album is all they needed.

Andy C wrote: Terry Reid's River.

It's a little gem.

Indeed it is.

Reid was the man who turned down Jimmy Page when offered the job as Led Zeppelin vocalist and recommended Robert Plant.

[Geoffrey de Ste. Croix]

One album is all they needed.

Stina Nordenstam- And She Closed Her Eyes

[Tramp The Dirt Down]

One album is all they needed.

ABC - The Lexicon Of Love (Beauty Stab et al were rubbish)

Avalanches - Since I Left You

[WOM]

One album is all they needed.

Beauty Stab was fucking fabulous if you just forgot about the fact that it was ABC.

[Various Artist]

One album is all they needed.

There's another Avalanches album? I had no idea — literally heard nothing about future releases post-Since I Left You. Which is a great little album, and one I would've nominated for this thread had I thought about it.

[Toby Gymshorts]

One album is all they needed.

Hang on, SFA a one-album band? Tish and indeed, pish.

[linus]

One album is all they needed.

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

Not just that, but Alice, arguably their best song, not in the one album... disqualified!

[Max Payne]

One album is all they needed.

Tramp The Dirt Down wrote: ABC - The Lexicon Of Love (Beauty Stab et al were rubbish)

+1

I remember getting the vinyl of Beauty stab when it first came out. Listening to That Was Then but This is Now and thinking "Nice" and then getting more and more disappointed as the album went on.

These days I have TWTBTIN as a bonus track at the end of The Lexicon of Love.

I nominate Operation Mindcrime by Queensrÿche.