Albums Synonymous With Just One Track...

I have the cassette of that album. I agree, every track is rather infectious.

This Spin Doctors was purchased because of "2 Princes" and promptly given away as it was a Turkey!!

Human League Dare because of "Don't You Want Me", I think it is a modern classic.

This could be a fun thread.

The OP's position depends on the strength of the single originally released from the album, ergo more singles than the less likely to be a "shot in the dark". Taking the meaning of the thread literally, I'd suggest "In a gadda da vida" (album and song) as a starting point!

regards,

Giles

There were couple of top ten tracks on this brilliant debut, but if bought only for "My Sharona" I doubt you'd be disappointed with the remainder.

Boston - Boston

Bought a Half-speed Mastered version of it on a trip the the U.S. On the back of THAT track. The rest is a complete clunker.

Interesting. I like the whole Spin Doctors album, especially Jimmy Olsen's Blues and Little Miss Can't Be Wrong.

I got the Lenny Kravitz album "Are you goin' to go my way" for the title track. It is the only track I want to listen to, but  I don't plan on giving the LP away.

Bat Out of Hell, bought for the title track, but found the rest of the album to be supeb too. Great lyrics/word paintings.

Lynyrd Skynyrd for Freebird, rest of album is none too shabby, started my interest in the Allman Bros etc

Roy Buchanan - Sweet Dreams

A mixture of blues tracks and country tracks. Very glad I bought it, even the country tracks are very good.

Got this album. Jarvis . Jarvis cocker. On the strength of the really lovely      " Baby's coming back to me ". The rest of it stinks.

Gary Shaw posted:

Boston - Boston

Bought a Half-speed Mastered version of it on a trip the the U.S. On the back of THAT track. The rest is a complete clunker.

I was going to choose that as my turkey too!

G

Surely the epitome of a one track album.

Bought because at the time I liked China In Your Hand. 

sjbabbey posted:

Surely the epitome of a one track album.

And maybe the epitome of a one-hit career as well. Even today the title track is embedded in posterity; it's on Rockband and was recently featured in an ESPN college football commercial. There's a level of irony in Greenbaum's lyrics who grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home, but there's no denying the appeal of a well-distorted electric guitar riff accompanied by hand claps.

Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune.  

I seem to recall that my older sister bought this album just for one track - Don't Fear The Reaper.  

And I later "borrowed" it from her, for just one track...

Richard Dane posted:

Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune.  

I seem to recall that my older sister bought this album just for one track - Don't Fear The Reaper.  

And I later "borrowed" it from her, for just one track...

I also bought the LP for "Don't Fear The Reaper", and many years later on bought the CD for the same track. I still have both (th eCD now 'ripped' of course), although neither gets played very often these days

The rest of the album isn't bad though. In fact, I'm going to have a listen the rest of the album right now.  

I posted: "The rest of the album isn't bad though"

mmm!

Don't think I'll be playing the whole album again anytime soon.

Barry McGuire - Eve of DEstruction. A great song, and on the strength of it I bought the album of that name - but I think I only played the rest of it once.

And the theme from a completely different angle: Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick. That particular track is a perennial favourite...

Tubular Bells? ;-)

After watching the two on the Live Aid extravaganza and being utterly blown away from their working of that Bad tune.

Was the start for me for the big love of this band.

Cameo = Word Up*

Great song cr*p album

steve

*Actually, most of the covers are better, especially the version by Gun 

Not quite in the same vein, but I played it last night and it sort of fits...

Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - As Falls Wichita, So Wichita Falls

I first heard this in a record shop (the title track) and it just hit me on every level. I'd never heard of Pat Metheny before and assumed everything he did would have this connection with me. Sadly, even though I like quite a few Metheny albums, nothing comes close to the wonder of that track - and I've trawled the airwaves looking for something like it from him. What I've come to realise is that there's probably more Lyle Mays in that wonderful track than Pat Metheny.

Still, anyone who can point me in the direction of something that's akin to As Falls... 

Oh, and does anyone know what 36, 42, 55, 3 signify?

fatcat posted:

Roy Buchanan - Sweet Dreams

A mixture of blues tracks and country tracks. Very glad I bought it, even the country tracks are very good.

Sweet Dreams - oh what a track ... and what a guitar player !!!

Used very cleverly as the ending of the (brilliant imo) film "The Departed" ...

The Beautiful South - "Blue is the colour" 1997 - bought only for the first track - "Don't marry her" ... you've gotta love those chorus lyrics lol