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What's a band that has one album that is just about perfect in your opinion, but rest of their discography misses the mark with you? (lemm.ee)

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One of mine is Commit This to Memory by Motion City Soundtrack. I basically took the title verbatim and know the album word for word. And while I would love if it did, the rest of MCS's stuff just doesn't hit the same way.

And if you're not an album person, maybe a period of time in the artist's work? Whatever works for you.

*Lots of mentions of hit debut albums that subsequently petered out, which follows with the dreaded sophomore slump that hits many artists. Anyone with mid or even later career albums that stand alone? Those always intrigue me.

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[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In the realm of 90s Canadian quirky-core folk rock, Crash Test Dummies... Well, I'm cheating a bit. Their debut album is indeed right up my alley, and even today there's not a miss on it. Alternately funny and maudlin and nerdy, it was jauntily, unabashedly country-adjacent folk. One track even helped with the early chipping away at the walls of prejudice I was raised with as a southern-fried Mormon. I remain very fond of the album, though I only listen to it once or twice a year.

The reason I say I'm cheating is because I really did like God Shuffled His Feet as well, even Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm, but "quirky" was broadening into self-parody and even teenage me could hear it on several tracks. A Worm's Life was... okay, I guess, sort of, but forgettable even for a fan, and nothing the band or Brad Roberts or any of he other members did afterwards really recaptured anything like that magic for me.

Probably not a ton of people representing for a meme-voiced 1.5-hit wonder from the early 90s, but I'll stand and be counted, LOL.

[-] mPony@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

There are so many great Canadian 80's/90's bands that many folks will never discover. CTD would definitely have been among them if not for Weird Al.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In the realm of 90s Canadian quirky-core folk rock,

Three words for you, then. Moxy Früvous, Bargainville.

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