Your Best One Album Bands that Released Classics

NickC

Tompa laid the foundation for this idea - bands that released one classic album in your opinion and then that was it, never heard of again. No late posthumous album releases such as Airborne - The Dig, not sure about band name changes e.g. Russia/Force 10 or Valentine/Open Skyz - u decide - top ten again

Marcus - s/t
Noir - We Had to Let You Have It
MPG - s/t
Riggs - s/t
Fortress - Hands in the Till
Hunk - s/t
Island - Pictures
Max Havoc - s/t
Riff Raff - Vinyl Futures
Spy - s/t

jefflynnefan

Beau Coup, Red Dawn and The Koo are a few from my POV. I was going to say Fortune but I guess they recently released a another album like China Sky did.

gdazegod

Beau Coup released two albums, both reviewed here.

gdazegod

Orion The Hunter
Aviator
Blackhorse
Stun Leer
Metropolis (S Meisner)

Candyman

Manic Eden - s/t
Hughes/Thrall - s/t
Candy Harlots - 5 Wicked Ways
Alpha Centauri -s/t
HSAS - Through The Fire
Cobra - First Strike
Kharma - Wonderland
The Scream - Let It Scream
T-Ride -s/t
War Babies - s/t

DaveT

Funny thread, difficult task. I would include Airborne's 1979 ST. But without it, I would say in no particular order and not taking into account live albums like Signal's, Sheriff's and Van-Zant's :

Signal - 1989 Loud & Clear
Runner - 1979 Runner
iTen - 1983 Taking A Cold Look
Airplay - 1980 Airplay
GTR - 1986 GTR
Sheriff - 1982 Sheriff
Blind Faith - 1969 Blind Faith
Sex Pistols - 1977 Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols
Van-Zant - 1985 Van-Zant
Mark Free - 1993 Long Way From Love

gdazegod

GTR released a few CDs, including the King Biscuit Live and Nerotrend albums.

jeffrey343

Some good ones on here for sure. I'll add Shadowking, as I really like that one, and it gets a good amount of love.

bpdp3

Because it looks like it hasn’t been already mentioned, I’m going to add David & David “boomtown” to the canon.

petef17

Diving For Pearls

gdazegod

Diving For Pearls aren't applicable, as they released two studio albums, 1989 and 2005.

jeffrey343

One that is more recent that George loved is The Magnificent from 2011. There have been rumblings that they'll sometime put out a new one, but they haven't so far.

gdazegod

Yes, Jeff good point. I think I'll email either Mikael or Torsti to see if anything is planned.

tompa

Wiggy Bits
MPG
Vendetta
Dirk Steffens
Night Sun
Rufus Huff
King Karma

gdazegod

Witness - 1988 Witness.

How could I forget..

schlockmania

Just found this thread while looking up MPG and I'd like to add Maxus to the list. Their one-off gives Toto a run for the super-session player AOR money.

Chris

Not to forget:

Preview - Preview

Funny, only from this thread I realised that the vast majority of the bands featured here managed to release at least two albums in their career.

JohnWatson

Airborne did a 2nd album (The Dig) - and the greatest disappointing follow up album of all time it is too!

Emda

Laos (female fronted)

gdazegod

Graf - 1981 st
Buckeye - 1979 st
Gulliver - 1979 Ridin' The Wind

bpdp3

I think that s/t album by jato is their only release….and a pretty swell example of 80s hi-tech AOR!

Explorer

I would add Air Raid to this list, but a second album is coming very, very soon.

DaveT

A couple more:

Alexa - 1989 Alexa (Alexa Anastasia on vocals, produced by Paul Sabu)
Go For It - 1991 Go For It (obscure Swedish/Norwegian hi-tech project that I included in a podcast and will eventually review here)

tompa

Ozz
Russia
Speedway Blvd
G-Force
Larsen/Feiten Band
Ron Bolton Band

gdazegod

Ozz actually released two albums. 1983's 'Exploited' was the second though technically it was under the name of Ozz II, and included a couple of tracks from the 'No Prisoners' album.

Rkbluez

Airborne
Speedway Blvd.
Creed
Striker
Streek
MPG
Vendetta
St. Paradise
The Strand
Fortress

gdazegod

Airborne and Creed both released two albums.