Your favourite prog one-album wonder? (pick one!)

[Garden Dreamer]

Under the Sun (although they also released a live album)

[JKL2000]

Recordando o Vale das Maçãs - As Crianças da Nova Floresta

They recorded a second album in the 90s (confusingly using the same album art as the first)

I think that's an expanded reissue.

[frinspar]

Under the Sun (although they also released a live album)

This is what I came here for.
And to add Dali's Dilemma. But they lose points for me on each song as the singer comes in. Not that he's bad, he is good. He's just such an emo whiner about it all.

Magna Carta gave us a lot of strong one-hit wonders.

[mnprogger]

Apes and Androids
The River Empires
The Stiletto Formal
Gospel
Vuvuzela
The Book of Right On
Grammatics

[Progbear]

I think that's an expanded reissue.

It’s not, it’s a re-recorded instrumental version of the title song plus a bunch of recordings of music written in the 70s but not recorded until the 90s.

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/al...a_floresta_ii/

Compare with 1977-1982, the original album with two bonus tracks from a 1982 single:

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/co...__1977___1982/

[regenerativemusic]

Paternoster - Paternoster (1972)

[Trane]

There was a second, archival release (1989) by Opus-5, Sérieux ou pas. It has a different flavour from Contre-courant but I like both recordings.

Did I hear something about a second, unreleased Island album or was I thinking of a different band?

You're right , both bands had an second archives disc , but never released in legit form.

[JKL2000]

It’s not, it’s a re-recorded instrumental version of the title song plus a bunch of recordings of music written in the 70s but not recorded until the 90s.

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/al...a_floresta_ii/

Compare with 1977-1982, the original album with two bonus tracks from a 1982 single:

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/co...__1977___1982/

Thanks, I must have had it confused with that.

[mogrooves]

Ptarmigan - s/t

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

Is Random Hold a single-album wonder?

[Trane]

Ptarmigan - s/t

How could I have forgotten this absolute gem???

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[grego]

Mirror

[Progbear]

Is Random Hold a single-album wonder?

They had at least two: The View From Here and Avalanche, plus a pre-album EP which I believe was self-titled. Etceteraville doesn’t count, it’s a comp of that aforementioned EP and TVFH.

[mogrooves]

Samurai - s/t

[nosebone]

Samurai - s/t

That's the one I was about to post.

[Galactic Bulldozer]

Quatermass

[regenerativemusic]

Roger Rodier - Upon Velveatur (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Urqd9iMG4s

[Rarebird]

Ego On The Rocks

[Trane]

Samurai - s/t

This is The Web chap 5, really ( and a carbon copy of the previous I Spider)

[TheH]

This is The Web chap 5, really ( and a carbon copy of the previous I Spider)

(The) web had four Albums (I only know three)?

I totally love both I Spider and the Samurai Album. I always wondered what happend to Lawson's singing style
in Greenslade later, he was so much better before.

[Trane]

(The) web had four Albums (I only know three)?
.

oooopssie, I think you're right... Samurai is The Web Chap 4

[Chain]

[Rick Robson]

Quatermass

My brand newest 70's prog rock acquisition, enjoyed it but still by the first spin only, unique stuff that surely grow on the listener.

[Rick Robson]

Also:
Atmosphera - Fogo e Ar
Grandbell - The Sun and The Embryo

Along with the Kaizen album and the first Trem do Futuro, that Grandbell album is one of the 90s hidden/forgotten gems.

I still don't know Trem do Futuro, but sure you're right - their debut has historically received nuch more praise than their 2008 release. Just as a trivia: Quaterna Requiem's violinist and guitarist founded Kaizen, and I couldn't find out yet why they abandoned their great project before the violinist return to Quaterna Requiem, go figure...

[nosebone]

oooopssie, I think you're right... Samurai is The Web Chap 4

I prefer Samurai over all the Webs.