History OneBookAuthor / CreativesMusic

* Skip Spence, whose album ''Oar'' was released in 1969. He was a prominent member of the psychedelic band Music/MobyGrape who turned out to be the American equivalent of Music/SydBarrett. He weirded out his bandmates by indulging in LSD and attacking someone with a fire axe. He got institutionalized, recorded ''Oar,'' and dropped out of the public life until his death in 1999.

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* Pop-rap duo Puck & Natty released the song "Just Wanna Be Your Friend", which appeared on a ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'' tie-in album and was released as a promo single for same, and nothing else. One half of the duo, Stephan Jenkins, went on to form Music/ThirdEyeBlind - the other half, Herman Anthony Chunn, did some uncredited co-writing of "Semi-Charmed Life", [=3eb=]'s signature song, but otherwise stayed out of the music business since.

* Creator/BudSpencer is known as an actor but he actually did a lot of things in his life, from Olympic swimmer to airline pilot, patent holder and also dabbled a bit in music. However he only released an album called "[[https://www.discogs.com/it/master/986886-Bud-Spencer-Futtetenne Futtetenne]]" late in his life, sung mostly in the Neapolitan language.

* Mu Lilium was an extremely short-lived Japanese girl rock band that appears to only have released [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1txfiWJg38M one song]] in late 2019 and nothing else.

* Pop-rap duo Puck & Natty released the song "Just Wanna Be Your Friend", which appeared on a ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'' tie-in album and was released as a promo single for same, and nothing else. One half of the duo, Stephan Jenkins, went on to form Music/ThirdEyeBlind - the other half, Herman Anthony Chunn, did some uncredited co-writing of "Semi-Charmed Life", [=3eb=]'s signature song, but otherwise stayed out of the music buisness since.

* Forest for the Trees' self-titled album, which itself was a TroubledProduction that almost never saw the light of day due to [[IAmTheBand Carl Stephenson]] having a nervous breakdown. There is the somewhat hard to find EP ''Sounds of Wet Paint'', which combined remixes with a few outtakes from the debut, and a second album was reportedly [[MissingEpisode finished but never released.]]

* American SurfRock band The Avalanches (no relation to [[Music/TheAvalanches the Australian electronic group that released two albums]], but were named after the surf band) released only one album, ''Ski Surfin' with the Avalanches'', in 1963. That group was one of those "studio-only" bands made up of professional session musicians that were prolific in the 1960's.

* The Lover Speaks was an eclectic British PostPunk band (officially the duo of singer David Freeman and multi-instrumentalist Joseph Hughes, though keyboardist Barry Gilbert also worked with them extensively) who managed to get a deal with Creator/AAndMRecords in 1986, thanks to prominent boostership by Music/{{Eurythmics}} member Dave Stewart. They released a SelfTitledAlbum for a debut, toured with Eurythmics, and scored a minor UK hit with "No More 'I Love You's'", though the album as a whole was very much an AcclaimedFlop. They recorded a follow-up album called ''The Big Lie'' but A&M rejected it. They split up shortly after that (with Freeman sustaining a solo career for a while), and ''The Big Lie'' has never gotten an official release (it got a self-released limited edition promo pressing in 1997). Oddly, the Eurythmics connection gave them a bit of pop immortality when Annie Lennox recorded a version of "No More 'I Love You's'" on her CoverAlbum ''Medusa'' in 1995 and it became a big international hit (albeit CoveredUp immortality).

* The Lover Speaks was an eclectic British PostPunk band (officially the duo of singer David Freeman and multi-instrumentalist Joseph Hughes, though keyboardist Barry Gilbert also worked with them extensively) who managed to get a deal with Creator/AAndMRecords in 1986, thanks to prominent boostership by Music/{{Eurythmics}} member Dave Stewart. They released a SelfTitledAlbum for a debut, toured with Eurythmics, and scored a minor UK hit with "No More 'I Love You's'", though the album as a whole was very much an AcclaimedFlop. They recorded a follow-up album called ''The Big Lie'' but A&M rejected it. They split up shortly after that (with Freeman sustaining a solo career for a while), and ''The Big Lie'' has never gotten an official release (it got a self-released limited edition promo pressing in 1997). Oddly, the Eurythmics connection gave them an odd bit of pop immortality when Annie Lennox recorded a version of "No More 'I Love You's'" on her CoverAlbum ''Medusa'' in 1995 and it became a big international hit (albeit CoveredUp immortality).

* The 1998 [[TheBandMinusTheFace Band Minus the Face]] reformation of 2 Unlimited only did one album, ''II''.

* The Argonauts, a supergroup duo consisting of British trance DJ-producers Dave Ralph and Mike Koglin, not to be confused with other bands with the same name, released just two singles; "Sommertag" in 1998, and "Frühlingstag" in 1999.

* Bad Ronald, a band that mixed rap, rock and crude humor in a similar way to Music/BloodhoundGang (and obviously [[Film/BadRonald borrowed their name from an infamous]] MadeForTVMovie), had the misfortune of releasing their self-titled debut album on [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror September 11, 2001]]. Still, their memorable video for "Let's Begin (Shoot The Sh**)", done as a SubvertedKidsShow (doubly so since the song is an extensive OdeToIntoxication), got a bit of a Creator/{{MTV}} play, but neither the album or the single charted and it was their only release.