"Retirement Bands" needs to be an episode.

Bands Where We Only Like One of Their Albums (w/Martin Popoff)

- Martin Popoff -
The Beatles - White Album (1968)
Talking Heads - Little Creatures (1985)
City Boy - The Day the Earth Caught Fire  (1979)
The Chameleons - Strange Times (1986)
The Cure - The Head on the Door (1985)

Honorable Mentions
Howard Jones - Dream into Action (1985) ?!?
Pretenders (1980)
Pretenders II (1981)
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff (EP)
Prince - Purple Rain (1984)
Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby (1987)
Terence Trent D'Arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh (1989)
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (1985)


- Pete Pardo -
Lynch Mob - Wicked Sensation (1990)
Blue Murder - Blue Murder  (1989)
FM - Black Noise (1978)
Riverdogs - Riverdogs (1990)
MC5 - Kick Out the Jams (1969)

Honorable Mentions
Prince - Purple Rain (1984)
The Cars - The Cars (1978)
The Cars - Candy-O (1979)
Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell (1977)
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (1973)

I only like "Appetite For Destruction" from GNR. The rest of their catalogue I don't particularly care for. I argue that they only got so big because of "Appetite." There are a few other stand out tracks from their catalogue I like, but no other album they made was as amazing as "Appetite."

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Cro-mags - Age of Quarrel comes to mind. I liked Best Wishes, but the first album is the only one that's truly legendary and essential.

Third choice is Montrose' first self titled release. I have Ronnie's whole catalog but again 90% of the time this is the one I grab for. Hot Sweet & Sticky ....

Pete - Are you ever going to do an episode/show on Kate Bush? Recall you mentioning her once, regarding the difficulty in classifying her work. Would love to hear a ranking the albums (panel?!?!) or analysis of career. A little outside of your norms, but you often address unique artists. Keep up the good work, enjoy your channel and opinions even though we have different interests (maybe because of that).

The Dead Daisies: Holy Ground. They're not a band that I normally care much for but when you got a true badass legend like Glenn Hughes playing and singing on your whole album, you know it's going to sound amazing

Not gonna lie, I was surprised when Martin chose The Beatles as one of his picks for this show

I absolutely love these videos.  Thanks Pete & Martin.  You guys constantly surprise and delight.

Thank you Martin for including bands like the cure and the chameleons on the show. I grew up listening to these bands and still love them even though now I’m almost exclusively hard rock and metal.

Some really nice picks, guys! I love the Chameleons, I have that album on vinyl, Blue Murder, again, on vinyl, I'm a big Cure fan, but not of any particular album in particular, although I really liked "Disintegration." With them it's more individual songs that I love, "Just Like Heaven," "Friday I'm In Love," "Love Song," "Fascination Street." Black Noise by FM is a prog masterpiece. Just as a note, Nash The Slash's real name was Jeff Plewman, and he was a classically trained violinist. He was older than the other guys in the band, and didn't look anything like a rock musician, and so he adopted that Invisible Man sort of persona, and that worked well for him. I went to college with his brother-in-law, who told me all of this, and that Jeff was also gay. That had nothing to do with his music, but it did come out after his death. He left FM to pursue a solo career, and he was replaced by Ben Mink, who would later go on to work quite a bit with kd Lang. Yeah, the Cars debut is pretty hard to beat. One album that I really love, above all their others, is the debut album from Killing Joke, which is just an incredible record. Later they made some really good ones, like "Brighter Than A Thousand Suns" and "Pandemonium," but that debut was just so heavy and raw, and sounded nothing like anything else. I would also put Dire Straits debut in there too. They did some great stuff later, but that first one is still my favourite.

My way into The Cure was "Desintegration", AMAZING dark album! I like their earlier stuff too, but this one is always the one I come back to! Cheers!

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I would add Billy Idol ‘s 1983 album “Rebel Yell” to my list of “only like one” albums.
The “Rebel Yell” album has the hits “Eyes without a Face”, “Flesh for Fantasy”, “Catch My Fall” and the title track. In my opinion, except for “White Wedding”, Billy Idol hit his peak with this album.

The Kinks: "Live The Road". Great album. I have a greatest hits CD which is also pretty cool. I have tried and tried and tried but I just can't seem to get into any other Kinks' album. I have the Uncut Kinks magazine that goes through each album. I always wish I could really understand this band more..

Not to forget the first Asia album