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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's the one hit criteria that makes it tough. I didn't much listen to anything top forty after 1985, so I can name a bunch of great indie albums that didn't chart. But if it was a good album that charted, it likely had several hits on it. You've really posed a great challenge. It may take me a week to come up with something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

i thought of another but it depends on how much you like frank zappa, but it fits to a tee for me

Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch had Zappa's ONLY top 40 hit ever, and is also a great album. But I'm a huge Zappa fan so YMMV

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Found one that's close.

Oingo Boingo had Weird Science chart at 45 on Dead Man's Party.

They're admittedly an acquired taste, but if you were in southern California in the eighties, they were... How do I state this? Foundational.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

dead man's party is a great record

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Zappa has always been tough for me. His stuff is so out there and so complex, you gotta actively listen to it like a hundred times before you can even scratch the surface of understanding it.

The guy was definitely a generational musical genius.