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.
A Fever you can’t Sweat Out by Panic! At the Disco. I don’t know what happened after that album but it wasn’t good.
I like some of the songs on the subsequent albums but you’re absolutely right. That first album is just banger after banger and each album after got 30-50% worse until we ended up with whatever the hell panic at the disco is today.
Disbanded. They’re disbanded today.
I actually think Pretty Odd is this best thing they ever did, but most people who love Fever objectively hate the non emo outing.