The Only Ones (album)

The Only Ones
Studio album by The Only Ones
Released April 1978 (UK)
Genre Power pop, new wave, punk rock
Length 33:49
Label Columbia
Producer The Only Ones, Robert Ash
The Only Ones chronology

The Only Ones
(1978)		 Even Serpents Shine
(1979)
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Allmusic [1]

The Only Ones is the eponymous 1978 first album produced by The Only Ones themselves, with the assistance of Robert Ash. It was mixed at Basing St., Escape and CBS.

Trouser Press called it "the best of the three original albums" in which "Perrett's languid vocals and songs provide the character and focus, while the band's skills carry it off handsomely".[2] Nevertheless, it is still widely admired by British critics. In 1994, The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music named The Only Ones one of the 50 best punk albums of all-time. The compilers claimed that the Only Ones were "the closest thing the UK had to Johnny Thunder's Heartbreakers, a laconic, shamble of a band who were, at moments, touched by a creative greatness that made you get out of the glare".[3]

Since the end of the 1990s, the album has also appeared on several all-time greatest albums lists.[4][5][6]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Peter Perrett. 

No. Title Length
1. "The Whole of the Law"   2:38
2. "Another Girl, Another Planet"   3:02
3. "Breaking Down"   4:52
4. "City of Fun"   3:32
5. "The Beast"   5:47
6. "Creature of Doom"   2:35
7. "It's the Truth"   2:07
8. "Language Problem"   2:28
9. "No Peace for the Wicked"   2:51
10. "The Immortal Story"   3:57

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Deming, Mark. "The Only Ones > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  2. ↑ Robbins, Ira; Schinder, Scott. "Only Ones". TrouserPress.com. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin (1994). All Time Top 1000 Albums. Enfield: Guinness Publishing. p. 246. ISBN 0-85112-786-X.
  4. ↑ Du Noyer, Paul (1998). Encyclopedia of Albums: 1,000 Best-Ever Albums. Bristol: Dempsey Parr. p. 163. ISBN 1-84084-031-5. This is their most satisfying, most focused collection, unsullied by the drugs and disillusionment that characterised their demise
  5. ↑ Dimery, Robert (2005). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. London: Cassell. p. 401. Preferring flawed romance to fiery nihilism, Perrett peppered this 1978 debut with offerings of paranoid beauty
  6. ↑ The Guardian (November 2007). 1,000 Albums To Hear Before You Die. London. Frontman Peter Perrett was living the Pete Doherty lifestyle long before the Libertine, but found time to add his trademark narcotic drawl to John Perry's skyscraping fretwork in songs as stratospheric as Another Girl, Another Planet. If Babyshambles sounded like this, they'd fill stadiums.