One-off wonders?

Cafe Society
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What do you get when you cross Cibo Matto with the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion? You get a mashed up masterpiece for the ages: Butter 08 by Butter 08. But you only get it once.

Other masterpieces whose value might’ve been diluted by followups:

***Grace ***by Jeff Buckley
Miss America by Mary Margaret O’Hara
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill

And not really a masterpiece (except for “Queenie”), but still a one-off:
Happy Days, Sweetheart by Ethyl Meatplow

Obviously I’ve left a lot out. . . .

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I don’t have the slightest idea who any of those people are, but I just wanted to say that I liked your post.

ETA: I went to grade school with a girl named Mary Margaret O’Hara. How old is the one you’re talking about?

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Canadian? Sister of Catherine O’Hara? There are probably lots of Mother O’Haras who named their daughters Mary Margaret.

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I preferred Sketches From My Sweetheart, The Drunk, at the time I was way more into lo-fi sounding stuff.

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Not Canadian, but lived in Niagara Falls, New York, but close. Don’t know if she had a sister, but as a good Catholic girl, she probably did. Her father was a city councilman in Niagara Falls, NY in the 60’s.

I know there are probably a lot of MMO’H’s out there, buttcha never know. It’s a danged small world.

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Spiderland by Slint.

Think they had an EP out beforehand, but that’s their one album. Still sounds awesome today.

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Yeah but not “canon.” Those were demos, sketches, never intended for release. And though it’s listenable, it’s not epoch making, like ***Grace ***was.

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I think I posted this in a previous thread like this.

Arc Angels - Arc Angels

They were Doyle Bramhall II, Charlie Sexton, Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon (the last two from SRV’s band Double Trouble.) Most of my friends and I thought it was a great album. Unfortunately drugs got in the way. I heard something about them trying to get back together last year and maybe a tour but nothing around here.

In fact I think I’ll put it on when I get home. :slight_smile: