Good solo albums from artists more known for being part of a bigger band..

@NeilYoung are we allowing albums not in people’s own names? so basically like spin-off bands from more famous ones (if they’re still part of the bigger band too)

A recent one that absolutely belongs in this thread

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You csn add Wild Carnation (Brenda Sauter) and Yung Wu (Dave Weckerman) to that Feelies spin off list.

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Takaakira Goto out of Mono did a solo album a few years back that was more interesting than the last half dozen Mono records

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Yours To Keep by Albert Hammond Jr.

I was walking back from the shop listening to The Strokes and the album finished. Spotify then throws this at me and I was in love immediately.

^so that was the first track I heard, it’s the second track on the album, the third track on the album follows it brilliantly

both very very Strokes-y

I’m fascinated by the idea what if of the third Strokes album containing say the best 5 songs from Albert’s solo album. would’ve been an absolute belter.

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Would’ve been the second or third best Lemonheads album

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Jenny Lewis’ Acid Tongue

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it already was!

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I’m quite partial to ‘Year of Mondays’ by Mike Johnson from Dinosaur Jr.

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got into this before Deerhunter

love the second Tobin solo album (from GBV)

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Robert Forster’s ‘Danger in the Past’ is so great. Mick Harvey was the perfect enabler.

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Do twins count as one person?

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Have you listened to ‘I had a New York Girlfriend’? It’s basically Robert Forster and the Bad Seeds (Warren Ellis, Mick Harvey, Conway Savage).

Don’t think I have! Will rectify, thanks!

Side projects you mean? Sure.

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Frusciante definitely one where even if people don’t like RHCP I’d highly recommend.

Shadows Collide is so good.

Personal fave is The Empyrean, proggy odyssey.

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Agreed on Lotus Plaza. On a related note Logos by Atlas Sound.

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always loved this track - all the comments saying it’s very Cat Stevens which I didn’t realise when I was younger but is pretty clear now

also HD for a 480p vid :smiley:

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