[Disclaimer: music thread. If you don't like music threads, go back now.] Kind of like the "favorite track ones" thread a while back, except with the last track. This might be more difficult as lots of throwaway tracks tend to go there. (If there's a hidden track on the end, it doesn't count.) a few of mine: Electrolite - REM, New Adventures in Hi-Fi St. Robinson and His Cadillac Dream - Counting Crows, This Desert Life (I know, there's a hidden track after it) The Wanderer - U2, Zooropa
"Prairie Rose" off "Country Life" - Roxy Music "All Mixed Up" off "The Cars" - The Cars "Untitled" off "Disintegration" - The Cure "Eclipse" off "Dark Side of the Moon" - Pink Floyd "Tea for One" off "Presence" - Led Zeppelin "Won't Get Fooled Again" off "Who's Next" (no bonus tracks version) - The Who "I Shall Be Released" off "Music From Big Pink" (no bonus tracks version) - The Band I'll probably think of more but that is what came to mind first.
"And in the end; the love you take is equal to the love you make." Not only the best closing of an album. But the best closing of a band. For you youngins, that's the last recorded vocal of the Beatles.
Difficult to dispute this one, except for maybe "A Day in the Life" that get's my vote. Although, I also like Manny's choice of The Who "Won't Get Fooled Again"
"Ramshackle" - from Beck's Odelay I picked this because I like to play it at places that have it on their jukebox. It's not the actual song I like but after it "ends" a secret song consisting of a bunch of really annoying noise plays. It usually makes everyone in the place jump when it first starts, and that pisses them off, it then goes on to really annoy them even more. It's great!
More: "Sara" off "Desire" - Bob Dylan "Purple Rain" off "Purple Rain" - Prince "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" off "The Queen Is Dead" - The Smiths "Save Me" off "The Game" (no bonus track version) - Queen "The Tourist" off "OK Computer" - Radiohead "It's True We Love One Another" off "Elephant" - The White Stripes "Avalon" off "Agaetis Byrjun" - Sigur Ros "Next Heap With" off "I Care Because You Do" - Aphex Twin "Reservations" off "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" - Wilco
Manny mentioned Prairie Rose... Truly the peak of an excellent LP. Lady of the North from Gene Clarks' 'No Other' is such a song (pleasesomeone get this cruely ignored lp). Caroline No from the Beach Boys' 'Pet Sounds' also comes to mind.
when the levee breaks - led zeppelin iv no better way to end an album than with the groove bohnam lays down on this track.
Hands down, "A Murder of One" - Counting Crows Some others.... "Freedom" - RATM "Year of Tha Boomerang" RATM- Evil Empire "Waking Up"- Graham Colton "All the World Tonight"- Graham Colton "Walkaways"- Counting Crows- RTS "When I'm Lonely"- Hootie and the Blowfish- CRV "Dance with You"- Live- TDTH "I Shall Believe" - Sheryl Crow- TNMS If hidden tracks don't count.... "White, Discussion"- Live- Throwing Copper I'm sure I can go on forever, but I'll stop there. Probably missed some great ones, but oh well. These are some of the ones that popped into my head first.
brring... Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl, but she doesn't have a lot to say. Bumbump Bum Bum Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl, but she changes from day to day. I want to tell her that I love her a lot, but I've got to get a belly full of wine. Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl, some day I'm gonna make her mine. Oh, yes. Someday I'm going to make her-
I can tell you my least favorite, and that's "Everything Must Go," by Steely Dan, off their last album. It's a tremendous song, it'll give you goosebumps for a couple of different reasons, but it's sort of a swinging epitaph in Bb. The band didn't officially break up after that, but they're probably done.
the beatles - a day in the life - sgt. pepper led zeppelin - when the levee breaks - IV guns n roses - coma - use you illusion 1 oasis - champagne supernova - what's the story morning glory
"World Filled With Love" Craig David: Slicker Than Your Average "Numb" Linkin Park: Meteora "A Wolf At the Door" Radiohead: Hail to the Thief
