Artists of whom you own one album

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What are the biggest 'name' artists in your collection that you only own ONE ALBUM for?

Me:

AC/DC - Powerage
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Little Richard - Original British hit singles
Buffalo Springfield - Again
White Stripes - Elephant
Dexy's Midnight Runnners - very best of
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Vashti Bunyan- Just another diamond day
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers
Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs
Caravan - In the land of grey and pink
REM - Automatic for the people
Al Green - very best of
Television - Marquee Moon
Little Feat - Sailing Shoes
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
Elis Regina - Perfil
Jefferson Airplane - Crown of Creation
New York Dolls
Small faces - Ogden's nut gone flake
Teddy Pendergrass - best of
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

...and more.

You?

― Lil' Stinker, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

the rolling stones (exile)
pink floyd (piper)
david bowie (low)

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Richard and Linda Thompson: I Want to See the Bright Lights
Willie Nelson: Red Headed Stranger
Gastr Del Sol: Camofleur
Smog: Red Apple Falls
The Police: Regatta De Blanc
Gravitar: Now the Road of Knives

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)

err...Gravitar?

anyway...

i actually only own Revolver by the Beatles

and only London Calling by The Clash

and nothing by Led Zeppelin

but that's just because I know at any time, i can find any of those records, for cheap, probably within walking distance. I know them all by heart anyway. I don't keep cheap, accessible records anymore. No room.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops, misread the thread and didn't quite follow the "biggest name" part (Gravitar, for example, would not fall into this category)

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band -- his only album I ever intend to own.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Abba - Gold
Eagles
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Carole King - Tapestry
MC 5 - Back In The USA apparently. Hey, who the f**k snagged my Kick Out The Jams?

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

sloan's 'one chord to another'

― ai lien m. draheim (kold_krush), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

pretty things - sf sorrow
joni mitchell - blue
beach boys - pet sounds
byrds/kinks/small faces - their respective best-of's (do these count?)

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

clinic's 'internal wrangler'

― ai lien m. draheim (kold_krush), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Exciter - Violence and Force
Anvil - Forged in Fire
Venom - Welcome to Hell
The Knack - Get the Knack
Split Enz - greatest hits compilation
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Krokus - Headhunter
Burton Cummings - Woman Love
Kinks - One for the Road

― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Can I just say how badass it is that your one AC/DC album is Powerage, lil' stinker? It's their best and its totally underrated! now buy all the other Bon Scott ones.

I'm only going to count big name artists where I owned more than one and now only have a single non-comp full-length and a bunch of burnt or taped tracks.

Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Bjork - Homogenic
Frank Black - Teeanger Of The Year
Blue Oyster Cult - Tyranny And Mutation
Cars - The Cars
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Go-Betweens - Friends Of Rachel Worth
PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Ice-T - The Iceberg/Freedom Of Speech...Just Watch What You Say
R. Kelly - R.
Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
Radiohead - Kid A
Sebadoh - Bakesale
Tom Verlaine - Dreamtime
Ween - GodWeenSatan: The Oneness

I'm not saying which albums I got rid of by these artists, though.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Kinks - One for the Road

that's brass nads.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

notorious big- ready to die

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Bowie - Reality
REM - Up
the Replacements - Tim

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

beatles rubber soul 11/10
beach boys pet sounds 11/10
elton john peach tree rd ( but i'm returning this dud )

― dicktationboy, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Beatles - Abbey Road
Marvin Gaye - I Want You
um...
Missy Elliot - Under Construction
um...

I don't do the one artist thing very well. I don't even want to only own one album of each of the above peoples.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)

John Martyn? Nope. Two.

Excluding artists who only made one album anyway? OK.

Pretty Things? Nope two.

Oh god.

Ah! Edward Woodward.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Black Flag - Damaged

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

whitehouse - new britain

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Traffic -Low Spark of High Heeled Boys.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

marvin gaye- whats goin' on
curtis mayfield- superfly (does this count?)
bob dylan- highway 61 revisited (this is changing soon though)
labradford- e luxo so
my bloody valentine- loveless

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Percentage-wise (ie. only one LP of HUNDREDS available), the winner has gotta be Duke Ellington. As for the usual canonical subjects:

REM - Eponymous
Joy Division - Substance
Elvis' Golden Records
XTC - Drums And Wires
Kinks - Come Dancing/Hits
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim/Surfer Rosa
Flaming Lips - Transmissions From the Satellite Heart
Kraftwerk II
Stereolab - TransientRandom Noise-Bursts

I intend to double my Kinks and Elvis LPs in the near future. And unlike most ILXers, I've never owned anything by New Order/Smiths/Cure (and probably never will.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Beatles (Abbey Road), Joni (Hissing). I own no Stones or Kinks albums.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Do not interpret this list as artists for which I need to acquire additional material:
U2 - Achtung, youse.
Black Sabbath - Masters of Reality
George Harrison - All things Must Pass
Tom Petty - Damn The Torpedoes

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Meaty, Beaty, Big & Bouncy -- the Who
Greatest Hits -- Janis Joplin
2400 Fulton Street -- Jefferson Airplane
Red Octopus -- Jefferson Starship
Hard Again -- Muddy Waters (Great album title, that!)

Proud to own zero, zip, bupkis, nada ablums by the Doors and the Dead

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops. I forgot that I own Pearl, too.

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I forgot to mention that I own half of a Grateful Dead CD. I mean, a full CD, but only disc 1 of a 2-disc set. Some live thing - I don't know what it is. I found it on the sidewalk about 10 years ago, but I have never listened to it.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I found it on the sidewalk about 10 years ago, but I have never listened to it.

best excuse ever for owning a grateful dead album.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

ha, there are 478 such in my collection! Some of the big name ones...
Black Sabbath, Big Black, Eddie Cochran, Human League, Wilson Pickett, John Lennon, Madness, Run DMC, Small Faces, Two Unlimited, Stevie Wonder, Stan Getz, Gang of Four, Mos Def, Spice Girls, Daphne & Celeste, Dr Dre, Blackalicious, Lonnie Donegan.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Oasis "Definitely Maybe"

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Blue Oyster Cult - best of
Missy Elliott - Under Construction
Velvet Underground - Live 1969 (used to have almost all of them, but don't anymore)
Roy Orbison - best of
Tina Turner - Private Dancer (though I have two or three Ike & Tina albs)
Public Enemy - It Takes...
um, lots actually

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

from the top of my head:

beach boys - pet sounds
van morrison - astral weeks
scott walker - sings brel
magnetic fields - 69 love songs
do sex pistols count?
arrested development - 3 years...
sebadoh - bubble and scrape (excellent)

and many more. usually i don't especially like these lonely albums.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Pretenders - Pretenders
Elton John - Greatest Hits ('74)
Traffic - Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
A-Ha - Hunting High and Low
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Human League - Dare/Love and Dancing
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
Alice Cooper - Greatest Hits
Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky
Air - Moon Safari
Skinny Puppy - Last Rites
Cream - The Very Best of
Fear - The Record
Sheila E. - The Glamorous Life

(and, as everyone says, too many more to list....)

― The Groom Wore Black (The Groom Wore Black), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Off the top of my head...

Aerosmith: Rocks (and one of my all time faves)
John Lennon Band: Plastic Ono

wow...this list really pales in comparison to those big names artists I don't own at all (Led Zep, REM, U2, Eagles, the Police, Carter USM)

― Coolfer Glenn, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a couple of REM albums, but can add many to your unowned list, including the Beatles.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Who, Sell Out
Nick Drake, Bryter Layter
Yes, Yessongs (ancient album)
Fall, I Am Curious Oranj
Elvis, Clambake/Speedway
Aretha, Spirit in the Dark
Tom Verlaine, Dreamtime
Television, Adventure

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I have Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys too, and I also forgot:
Elvis Costello w/ Burt Bacharach - Painted from Memory
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Afghan Whigs - 1969
Beck - Sea Change
Blake Babies - God Bless the Blake Babies
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen...
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Primal Scream - Exterminator
Howe Gelb/Giant Sand - The Listener

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Lil' Stinker- FYI: Vashti B only recorded one album to my knowledge...

― CL, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 06:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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