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The One Album Wonders were formed in January 2002 by Adam Scanlon, Rupert Handley and Alan Bryant, recording the groundbreaking "Experiments for the 22nd Century" album. A hectic tour around a music department proved too much for Bryant who had to move to Enfield to calm down. He was replaced in September 2002 by Gareth Cox and Patrick Martin who contributed to the inevitable follow up album "We Lied" in shifts that very month. The album surely goes down in history as one of the best second albums of all time, seeing as they are normally shit. Scanlon, Handley and Martin united to celebrate the "My First Birthday" EP in January 2003, the band utilising digital sound for the first time, instead of their traditional cassette player techniques. Martin left the band during the sessions for the heavier "Once Again" set in March 2003, dominated by Handley's guitar work through a really shit amp, Scanlon's mediocre drumming and Cox's inspired percussion. One final release, the "Orfal Acoustic Wecord" EP was an interesting spin on the usual retrospective and that was that, apart from an 18-track best of compilation which was sent to the NME in August 2003 and totally ignored. In October 2007 Scanlon and Handley reformed the band, who can tell what will happen next?
DISCOGRAPHY:
May 2002: Experiments For The 22nd Century (album):
Experimental Shit 1/ Latino Shit/ Experimental Shit 2/ Fuckadoodledoo/ The Cat's Having A Poo/ He Put It In The Pepperpot/ He's Eaten My Shoe/ Majestic Shit/ Monkeymon/ Folk You Jigolo/ Fantastic Monkey Fish/ Experimental Shit 3/ Brimful Of Asha.
Sept 2002: We Lied (album):
Alan Is Dead/ Experimental Shit 4/ The World's Gone Yellow/ Experimental Shit 5 (Same Old Shit)/ The Gospel According To The One Album Wonders/ Johnathan Prescott Says/ Procession Of Dogs/ Seventh Dimension/ There's A Bird On My Windowsill/ Conception Of Reality/ Incomprehensible Radon Raspberry/ Experimental Shit 6/ The Kids Aren't Alright.
Dec 2002: Experimental Shit 7 (promo) (featuring Yutaro Yamaguchi)
January 2003: My First Birthday EP:
The Gospel According To The One Album Wonders 2003/ Johnathan Prescott Says 2003/ Ken Is A Twat/ Experimental Shit 8
February 2003: Once Again (album)
Rhetoric Rule Of Three/ Experimental Shit 9/ Drums Of War/ Subject2Status/ Experimental Shit 10/ Strangled Soundwave/ Untitled (Gareth's Birthday Song)/ Patrick Will Be Killed/ Ambience Of T9/ Shit The Bed/ Uber Jibdab Shelving/ Experimental Shit 11/ Go Buddy Go
March 2003: Orfal Acoustic Wecord EP:
Folk You Jigolo/ Johnathan Prescott Says/ The Gospel According To The One Album Wonders/ Subject2Status/ Procession Of Dogs/ Ken Is A Twat/ Untitled (Gareth's Birthday Song)/ Fantastic Monkey Fish
March 2003: A Tape With No Meaning (promo)
Tune Of The Dance/ Revenge Of The Hastily Made Drums
August 2003:
Experitinodoodfolkfishalanmentalgospeldogwindowsillrealitysixprescottstatusuntitledbedjibdabken: The Best Of The One Album Wonders :
Experimental Shit 1/ Latino Shit/ Fuckadoodledoo/ Folk You Jigolo/ Fantastic Monkey Fish/ Alan Is Dead/ Experimental Shit 4/ The Gospel According To The One Album Wonders/ Procession Of Dogs/ There's A Bird On My Windowsill/ Conception Of Reality/ Experimental Shit 6/ Johnathan Prescott Says 2003/ Subject2Status/ Untitled (Gareth's Birthday Song)/ Shit The Bed/ Uber Jibdab Shelving/ Ken Is A Twat (acoustic).
Miscellanaeous:
Subject2Status (demo)/ Twelve Of Doom/ The Way Of The Cheesy Crumpet.
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