# That one album you love from a certain artist ...the rest, eh, not so much **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [June 29, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-one-album-you-love-from-a-certain-artist-the-rest-eh-not-so-much/967118 "2022-06-29T15:14:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-one-album-you-love-from-a-certain-artist-the-rest-eh-not-so-much/967118/61 "2022-07-02T22:40:12Z")
Depeche Mode-Violator. I like some other Depeche Mode songs but this is the only album I really like. I’ve surely listened to it 1000 times. Nine Inch Nails-Pretty Hate Machine was the right album at the right time for me, but nothing else has ever clicked. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2022, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-one-album-you-love-from-a-certain-artist-the-rest-eh-not-so-much/967118/62 "2022-07-03T17:39:43Z")
Sometimes artists just change. Leo Sayers first album is great, his next good, and then its Adult Contemporary hell. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/O6gEkfwozhE/hqdefault.jpg "Leo Sayer - The Show Must Go On") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6gEkfwozhE) Ok i have to include the muppet version [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9xWXX539JHI/hqdefault.jpg "Leo Sayer & the muppets - The Show Must Go On") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xWXX539JHI) ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2022, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-one-album-you-love-from-a-certain-artist-the-rest-eh-not-so-much/967118/63 "2022-07-03T18:29:32Z")
The first Def Leppard album, ‘On Through the Night’ was just good straight ahead [NWOBHM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_wave_of_British_heavy_metal) to my ears. The rest of them, while not bad as such, came off as more watered-down, more commercial sounding to me. When those I knew, people who disliked hard rock, started liking them, that was the final nail in the coffin. ---
**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 3, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-one-album-you-love-from-a-certain-artist-the-rest-eh-not-so-much/967118/64 "2022-07-03T18:39:02Z")
Phish - “Rift”. One day back in the 90s, I was driving home from work and this song came on the radio that immediately grabbed me. When I got home I sat in the garage listening to the rest of the song, then the next two the station played so I could hear them announce what the song was, which was “Rift”. I didn’t run right out and buy it - in fact it was probably another year or more before I bought the CD. I played the hell out of that thing for months. I’ve bought a couple other Phish albums but they were all just “meh” to me. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2022, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-one-album-you-love-from-a-certain-artist-the-rest-eh-not-so-much/967118/65 "2022-07-03T19:44:26Z")
I have a number of albums that I thoroughly enjoy, but was satisfied with only one album by the group, including: _Breakfast In America_ – Supertramp _Boston_ – Boston _All Things Must Pass_ – George Harrison _Are You Experienced_ – Jimi Hendrix Experience _Over-Nite Sensation_– Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention _Ashes Are Burning_ – Renaissance I needed two albums by Cream before I was satisfied: _Wheels of Fire_ – Cream _Disraeli Gears_– Cream ---
**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 3, 2022, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-one-album-you-love-from-a-certain-artist-the-rest-eh-not-so-much/967118/66 "2022-07-03T20:14:36Z")
Led Zeppelin: first album. The Who: Live At Leeds (and two tracks from Who’s Next). ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-one-album-you-love-from-a-certain-artist-the-rest-eh-not-so-much/967118/67 "2022-07-03T21:10:36Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Thanks guys, I like ‘behind the music’ info like this. Here’s more interesting info. > **[How Boston's Tom Scholz made their entire debut album in his basement](https://rockandrollgarage.com/how-boston-tom-scholz-made-their-entire-debut-album-in-his-basement/)** > > Boston is one of the bands with the most successful debut album of all time. Their self-titled record was released back in 1976 and sold more than 25 million copies worldwide. However, the interesting part is that the entire album was recorded at Tom... The record company heard the demos and wanted him to re-record it with a professional producer. > There was another producer named John Boylan. I have to give John enormous credit. Because I told him that the only way I was going to do this was if I could do it in my basement. I told him I was not going to LA and do it in some studio because I knew it wouldn’t work. > He was the chosen producer and he didn’t want to lose the deal, he told me to record it in my basement and then bring it to LA and we will mix it. So he said, “You do that and we will split the producer’s royalty.” I was ready to say ‘yes’ before he said he would split the producers royalty. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2022, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-one-album-you-love-from-a-certain-artist-the-rest-eh-not-so-much/967118/68 "2022-07-04T21:20:44Z")
> [@Tibby](#): > > _Breakfast In America_ – Supertramp > _Boston_ – Boston > _All Things Must Pass_ – George Harrison > _Are You Experienced_ – Jimi Hendrix Experience > _Over-Nite Sensation_– Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention > _Ashes Are Burning_ – Renaissance > > I needed two albums by Cream before I was satisfied: > _Wheels of Fire_ – Cream > _Disraeli Gears_– Cream Whoa… this is THE soundtrack to my “coming of age”! Hippie “AOR” stations (and hippie friends playing me these albums) were the beginning of my teenage radicalization. I’d add the first Doors album. _In The Court of the Crimson King_… Steve Miller Band’s _Children of the Future_ (local psychedelic band with Boz Scaggs and Leo Sidran, before they went stadium rock). And Jefferson Airplane’s _Volunteers_ (I pretend they never sold out later…). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-one-album-you-love-from-a-certain-artist-the-rest-eh-not-so-much/967118.md?page=3)