#47

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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#48

The new Okkervil River record is superb

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#49

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

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#50

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

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#51

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.

#52

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.

#53

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

#54

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

#55

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.

#56

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

#57

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

#58

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.

#59

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.

#60

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.

#61

This makes absolutely no sense at all.

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#62

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.

#63

Anyone who likes OK Computer would like In Rainbows

#64

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.

#65

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.

#66

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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