Albums that are unlike any other album in a band's discography

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Their Satanic Majesties Request comes to mind.

[Star Ocean 3]

Red Hot Chili Peppers always said One Hot Minute is different from their rest...and it's the only one I own.

[Ravenbomb]

"Picnic of Love" by Anal Cunt

[Gary Floyd]

Cabaret Voltaire-Groovy, Laidback, and Nasty

DJ Shadow-The Outsider

[PLAGIARISM!]

Sparks' Lil' Beethoven was unlike anything by any artist before it really, but Hello Young Lovers, their next effort, does kind of expand the same formula.

[godthedog]

r.e.m.'s 'monster' is the biggest one i can think of.

[Guest MRK]

sorry, made a mistake

[Guest MRK]

Samhain 'Initium'

 

from beginning to end, there has never been anything else like it.

 

[Epic Reine]

Load/Reload by Metallica - Obvious reasons

[Richard]

"Adore"

"Pinkerton"

"Metal Machine Music"

[Carnival]

Twiztid - "Freek Show"

[Giuseppe Zangara]

r.e.m.'s 'monster' is the biggest one i can think of.

I disagree. It isn't too different from what they were doing on Document and Green, though with 90s-alt rock production (and shittier songs).

 

Goodbye Cruel World, by Elvis Costello & the Attractions, was the band's sole concession to contemporary pop radio (this was 1984): overproduced, drum machines and big (and now) horribly dated synths. These guys also did a pretty straight collection of country covers, Almost Blue, a few years prior, a feat they thankfully never tried to replicate, given how horrible the end result was. I suppose I could also place the maudlin balladry of All This Useless Beauty here, but I won't. Even though it's billed to the band proper AND all of them play on it, it's more or less an Elvis Costello solo album in sound and execution. No wonder they broke up again after recording it.

 

Destroyer's Dan Bejar, on Your Blues, dropped his Bowie-fixationâ€â€and use of a live backing bandâ€â€from his earlier records, and embraces theatrical and Very Gay MIDI synths. The Destroyer album that followed brought back the live band.

[NoCalMike]

Remanufacture by Fear Factory.

[Spaceman Spiff]

As the resident Pearl Jam fanboy, I'll mention No Code.

[tominator89]

Megadeth - Risk

[Red Baron]

Megadeth - Risk

 

And a shitty album as well.

[Coffin Surfer]

"Damnation"-Opeth

 

And I actually think it's their best.

[Corey_Lazarus]

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

Every album after it is more simple, straightforward riff-heavy shit, whereas this was mostly guitar wankery. Every album before it was glam cheese, but this has a lot of the power-groove stuff that the band would perfect with Far Beyond Driven. CFH really stands out from the rest of the Pantera albums.

[Lt. Al Giardello]

Hootie and the Blowfish.

[Richard]

I guess every Faith No More album was unlike the others, and this goes for Mr. Bungle too.

 

Also "Panorama" by the Cars

[Giuseppe Zangara]

There was a common enough thread in the Faith No More albums, I'd say. The Real Thing and Angel Dust weren't that stylistically different, outside the latter being a little darker and "weirder" and Mike Patton singing mostly in a lower register than he had previously.

 

As for Mr. Bungle, California wasn't that far removed from Disco Volante; the self-titled, however, outside Patton's distinctive vocal style, seemed to have been the work of a different band.

[Black Lushus]

yeah, outside of the occassional song here and there, King for a Day and Album of the Year aren't too far off from Angel Dust.

[The Man in Blak]

Jewel's 0304 immediately jumps to mind and Bjork's Medulla seems worthy of a mention as well, though for entirely different reasons.

[Coffin Surfer]

Speaking of Patton, you could throw in "Director's Cut" from Fantomas as a unique outing, since their other releases are more Zorn inspired cut up music, even "Delirium.." to some degree. Speaking of Zorn, perhaps "Absinthe" from Naked City.

[King Kamala]

I know I'll probably get slammed for this but I'd hate for this thread to end without a mention of KISS' concept album ( a soundtrack to a movie that was never made), Music From The Elder

 

 

Here's the infamous video for the album's single, "A World Without Heroes", which was co-written by none other than Lou Reed.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCFhDBNkJs0

[pochorenella]

I know I'll probably get slammed for this but I'd hate for this thread to end without a mention of KISS' concept album ( a soundtrack to a movie that was never made), Music From The Elder

 

 

Here's the infamous video for the album's single, "A World Without Heroes", which was co-written by none other than Lou Reed.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCFhDBNkJs0

I was gonna mention that. Why would you get slammed?

[luke-o]

yeah, outside of the occassional song here and there, King for a Day and Album of the Year aren't too far off from Angel Dust.

 

So in that respect, you could say that "real thing" is the album that is different from the discography. It's just a straight forward rock album (with the exception of "suprise, your dead".

 

Off the top of my head:

 

Primus - Antipop (and its shit)

Cave In - Antenna (and for the better)

White Zombie - Super Sexy Swinging Sounds (for obvious reasons)

[Toshiaki Koala]

Cave In - Antenna (and for the better)

 

I've heard little Cave In, but I can't imagine any of it sounding much like Jupiter. Or being as brilliant.

[Coffin Surfer]

Yeah, "Antenna" struck me as a dumbed down version of "Jupiter." "Jupiter" on the otherhand is a modern classic, and "Until Your Heart Stops" is a decent hardcore album.

[Ravenbomb]

Do the Chuck Mosely-era FNM albums count? Cause those were different than the Patton-era albums.