# One-off wonders? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 28, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-off-wonders/541098 "2010-05-28T18:34:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-off-wonders/541098/1 "2010-05-28T18:34:26Z")
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. . . . ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-off-wonders/541098/2 "2010-05-28T18:41:14Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-off-wonders/541098/3 "2010-05-28T19:42:20Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > 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? Canadian? Sister of Catherine O’Hara? There are probably lots of Mother O’Haras who named their daughters Mary Margaret. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-off-wonders/541098/4 "2010-05-28T19:45:35Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > \*\*\*Grace \*\*\*by Jeff Buckley I preferred _[Sketches From My Sweetheart, The Drunk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketches_for_My_Sweetheart_the_Drunk)_, at the time I was way more into lo-fi sounding stuff. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-off-wonders/541098/5 "2010-05-28T19:49:43Z")
> [@](#): > > Canadian? Sister of Catherine O’Hara? There are probably lots of Mother O’Haras who named their daughters Mary Margaret. > Reply With Quote 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. ---
**Author:** ![Busy\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@Busy\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Busy_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-off-wonders/541098/6 "2010-05-28T20:51:44Z")
Spiderland by _Slint_. Think they had an EP out beforehand, but that’s their one album. Still sounds awesome today. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-off-wonders/541098/7 "2010-05-28T21:04:11Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I preferred _[Sketches From My Sweetheart, The Drunk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketches_for_My_Sweetheart_the_Drunk)_, at the time I was way more into lo-fi sounding stuff. 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. ---
**Author:** ![justrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@justrob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justrob)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-off-wonders/541098/8 "2010-05-28T21:23:47Z")
I think I posted this in a previous thread like this. [Arc Angels - Arc Angels](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. 🙂