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.
*Lots of mentions of hit debut albums that subsequently petered out, which follows with the dreaded sophomore slump that hits many artists. Anyone with mid or even later career albums that stand alone? Those always intrigue me.
Boy’s Night Out made the album Trainwreck, a concept album about a man having a night terror and strangling his wife to death and coping with her loss. It’s fucking great.
Everything else they’ve ever done is aggressively mid
You left off the best part that he “copes” by cutting off his hands afterwards. I love that album.