Micah P. Hinson and the Gospel of Progress. Loved this growing up but didn’t try anything else for fear of diminishing returns.
Also:

Antony & the johnsons - i am a bird now
Okkervil River - black sheep boy

Two of my favourite albums i dont want sullied by lesser albums. (Which happened with of Montreal after hissing fauna)

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The new Okkervil River record is superb

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All of the Okkervil River albums are superb (except I Am Very Far)

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No way is Geogaddi worse than Campfire Headphase or Tomorrow’s Harvest, especially the latter.

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Ah I misread your post & thought Sax Colossus was the only jazz album you liked. Doh. It is indeed the biggest, longest and most wonderful rabbit hole in music.

I have this with particularly good gigs. For instance Flaming Lips in Bristol in 2001 or whatever it was, was so absolutely perfect, that I have totally lost interest in ever seeing them again. Or listening to them. Won’t be as good.

Never listened to anything by The Feelies other than Crazy Rhythms and never intend to.

You’re missing out! The Good Earth is wonderful.

I’m in the ‘everything they did was amazing’ camp. Even the singles and b-sides comp is ace. Probably my all time favourite British band though so you know…I’m a fan.

You ditched Radiohead after Kid A? You missed Pyramid Song. Poor you.

Tomorrow’s Harvest is my favourite BofC record. Absolutely brilliant. True, Campfire Headphase has a good first half and then falls off a cliff

MICAH P HINSON & the Gospel of Progress is the correct answer.

Amazing record. I tried tentatively with his other albums. Nope. Withdrew. Decided to leave Gospel of Progress as it’s own spectacular island of amazing-ness.

nope, never done this deliberately. but sometimes love an album but for some reason just don’t feel like i need to go any further with them and it feels like a magical little one off. or don’t even necessarily think i don’t need to go any further, just naturally never really get round to it or it doesn’t feel like a priority.

with music so easily accessible now i think i’m far more likely to check out at least something else they’ve done at some point.

The Good Earth is not only brilliant but also fascinatingly different. I don’t think a band has ever released two such excellent but completely different sounding records as their first two albums.

This makes absolutely no sense at all.

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I just had a listen, it rings a bell actually. It is pretty good and I am sure there are other decent Radiohead songs but I’m not wading through all their new stuff just to find the odd reasonably good song.

Anyone who likes OK Computer would like In Rainbows

From opposite ends of the spectrum, I have only ever listened to Maroon by The Barenaked Ladies (which is one of my favourite records ever) and Read Music/Speak Spanish by Desaparecidos (one of my other favourites). Both pretty perfect, don’t want to spoil them.

Stunt’s very good - a lot of people here probably despise the band on the basis of one song - One Week - which happens to be the opening track. I love it, but it’s not really representative of the rest of the album. Give it a shot - or if you only want to try one song, try It’s All Been Done.

They also had quite a nice Christmas album in 2004. Well, “holiday” album. It had some Hanukkah songs on it.

See, I really like One Week, and I think that on the strength of what I know they’re really underrated, so maybe I will give Stunt a go. Never a bad thing to have more exquisitely crafted pop songs in your life.

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