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.
Train. Drops of Jupiter was, in my opinion, just perfect. Others after that were meh at best, trying to recapture the spark that DOJ was. I always figured it was when a band loses one of its member, things like this happen…
When i realised that song was by trai many years after it was released it blew my mind. I dont think i knew the band by name until around 2009 or maybe later than that but i really didnt like them, they just felt generic and a bit forced. Then one day i heard the song drops of jupiter again and though, oh this a good song! Who’s it by? Looked it up and was gobsmacked. Never would have imagined the band that wrote drive by as capable of writing DOJ.