# Bands you don't really care for ... except that one album **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [July 9, 2024, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957 "2024-07-09T18:48:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/41 "2024-07-11T02:01:42Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Of course, one should always keep a copy of _Metal Machine Music_ on hand in case your houseguests have overstayed their welcome. You haven’t lived until you’ve heard the _a cappella_ cover version. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/42 "2024-07-11T02:22:58Z")
I looked over my CD collection and I only have one Traffic CD - _The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys_. The only other act with just one is Toad the Wet Sprocket with _Dulcinae_ but I’m not as familiar with their other work like I am with Traffic so that may not count. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/43 "2024-07-11T02:59:25Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > I only have one Traffic CD - _The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys_. Never listened to _John Barleycorn Must Die_, I take it? Every bit as good as Low Spark, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/44 "2024-07-11T03:08:57Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Never listened to _John Barleycorn Must Die_, I take it? Every bit as good as Low Spark, IMO. Oh, I heard plenty of Traffic in my youth but only cared enough to buy the TLSoHHB album and later CD. Hence the title of this thread. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/45 "2024-07-11T11:39:08Z")
Not a huge fan of They Might Be Giants, but I do like “Flood”. ---
**Author:** ![Happytree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happytree/32/3555_2.png) [@Happytree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happytree)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2024, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/46 "2024-07-12T20:31:36Z")
Flaming Lips are performing the whole Yoshimi album on their tour now. I’m thinking of seeing them in Pittsburgh next week. They were so good last time i saw them a few years ago.I teared up a little. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/47 "2024-07-12T20:43:06Z")
> [@Happytree](#): > > Flaming Lips are performing the whole Yoshimi album on their tour now. You know what’s crazy? I accidentally saw them in 2002, when I went to a Beck show and those “She Don’t Use Jelly” dudes from Oklahoma were there and blew my mind with Yoshimi! I think they played the whole album, if not most of it. I never really listened to Beck again after Sea Change, but I had the Lips on constant replay! ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/48 "2024-07-22T13:02:45Z")
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. I’ve tried to like Wilco’s other albums. Really, I have. I just don’t. But I consider YHF an absolute classic. Violent Femmes - I consider their eponymous album to be another classic. Soundtrack to my time in college. But nothing else they’ve recorded has really done anything for me. Spirit - The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus. Absolutely perfect album. Holds up well to this day. But their other stuff, meh. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/49 "2024-07-29T23:16:40Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > I’ve always liked _Boston_ by Boston At the time I loved that album, and saw them live shortly after its release and it was a great concert. Cheap Trick, who never really did it for me, was the backup band. IMHO Boston’s subsequent albums were rather bland and pointless (again, to me). For me, I loved the second album by Texas (the first one wasn’t bad either) but, again IMHO, their subsequent albums were just non-standard dance/pop things, which just don’t do it for me. ---
**Author:** ![We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/We_re_wolves_not_werewolves)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/50 "2024-07-29T23:32:19Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > U2. War, and nothing else. For me, I would add Boy and (to a lesser extent) October, but agree that everything else is really wretched ---
**Author:** ![We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/We_re_wolves_not_werewolves)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/51 "2024-07-29T23:37:07Z")
The Decemberists The King is Dead album is really really good! The rest of their albums are too pretentious and convoluted for my tastes ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/52 "2024-07-30T02:18:11Z")
Cyndi Lauper Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Good album. I bought a couple others that I didn’t like. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/53 "2024-07-30T11:02:57Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > But… I _love_ their first album [The Piper at the Gates of Dawn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Piper_at_the_Gates_of_Dawn). It’s awesome. (In all fairness, I really ought to check out _A Saucerful of Secrets_. I haven’t heard it yet.) I think you would like A Saucerful of Secrets. I was a die-hard Pink Floyd fan of their studio albums in the 1980s, listening mostly to stuff like The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon, and Meddle, and I started expanding my CD collection. One day at a record store I found The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets and was in for a surprise: they were completely different from the later works. If I had to classify “Saucerful” it would be more closely aligned with “Piper” than the latter works. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/54 "2024-07-30T17:20:24Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Their take on “A Taste of Honey” and “Anna” were sheer genius, For me, “Anna” is John’s greatest vocal performance. With a cold/flu no less. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/55 "2024-07-31T13:09:14Z")
> [@We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves](#): > > The Decemberists The King is Dead album is really really good! The rest of their albums are too pretentious and convoluted for my tastes A lot of the work of the Decemberists is hit-and-miss for me, but my favorite album of theirs is _The Crane Wife_. I find it to be just pretentious and convoluted enough. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957.md?page=2)