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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: valley_parade on 19 Apr 2009, 19:42
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What's your favorite?
I'm going with Dungen's "Sluta Folja Efter", off Ta Det Lugnt. To me, it just sounds like Gustav was absolutely exhausted and needed to squeeze out one last track. And it ended up being amazing. Winds down the album perfectly, and ends in this massive chunk of feedback.
GO GO.
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Ode We Will Bury Ourselves on the Pneuma Album. Moving Mountains left you with a relaxing yet satisfying conclusion after thirty minutes of post-rock/emo glory which I feel a lot of albums lack.
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"Man Ray" from the Futureheads' first album is the song that immediately springs to my mind. Building a song up to critical mass then just cutting it off like a car hitting a wall isn't really all that revolutionary but they execute it so well.
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post-rock glory
Oh hey, "Your Hand in Mine" was a closing track, wasn't it?
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"After Hours"
it's so end of the night-y. Also perfect.
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Oh hey, "Your Hand in Mine" was a closing track, wasn't it?
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Edit: Also, Dallas Green fucking killed it with As Much As I Ever Could on the Bring Me Your Love album.
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"Cutting Ice to Snow" from Efterklang's Parades ends that shit perfectly.
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"Staying Alive" by Cursive is probably my favorite album-closer of all-time.
EDIT - Also, "Pitter Patter Goes My Heart."
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'Untitled 8' from () certainly stands out in my mind.
'Okkervil River Song' is a pretty brilliant closers as well.
The closer off the new MONO album is terrific in a 'This Is The Last Song Of The Album!' kind of way.
'In the Backseat' off of Funeral is gorgeous and powerful.
There's lots. I'm a big fan of the well done closer.
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Cutting Ice to Snow and Untitled 8 fucking DESTROY as album closers.
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"One of Us Cannot be Wrong." As if the rest of the album weren't heartbreaking enough, Leonard Cohen manages to encapsulate the love and hate he feels for the unamed woman in the song with perfect language;
But you stand there so nice, in your blizzard of ice,
oh please let me come into the storm.
Beautiful.
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" Veritas, Aequitas" by Darkest Hour*
"The Riddle of Steel" from Beyond the Embrace's Against the Elements*
"When the Walls Go Down" on Evergrey's The Inner Circle. Crazy religious dude audio sample + beautiful violins + sudden onslaught of sound at end of song = awesome
"(((louds" from He Is Legend's Suck Out the Poison album. Super-epic down-home post-hardcore with jamtastic female guest vocals? Yes please!
"Homecoming" from Misery Signals' unarguably perfect Controller album. Part of the song actually starts in the previous song "Reset" and fades in. One of those slow down/speed up/slow down even slower/hit you in the face for the last thirty seconds songs. I think there are at least ten layers of guitars going on in some parts of the song.
*both also happen to be my most favorite instrumentals ever
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My guitar teacher put out an album recently that had a pretty awesome closing track. It's 8 tracks of really soulful, heartfelt jazz/blues, and the last track is 2 minutes of really upbeat bluegrass with lyrics basically saying "hey, come see us live!" and it's pretty hilarious.
Bruce Springsteen ending Born to Run with "Jungleland" is so perfect in my opinion. Dude loves singing about life in Jersey/New York, but this song to me really sounds like it was supposed to be an end-all/be-all of his work.
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Broken Chairs by Built to Spill is a fucking epic closer to an awesome album.
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The closer off the new MONO album is terrific in a 'This Is The Last Song Of The Album!' kind of way.
I absolutely agree with this. Halfway through the track, just as it was winding down, I thought to myself that it had to be the last track of the album. It picks off from the last song slowly and crescendos fast before winding down again, and just gives you that impression of closure. It's absolutely perfect in that way.
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Sunset Rubdown - "Shut Up I Am Dreaming Of Places Where Lovers Have Wings"! I just rediscovered that a couple weeks ago, so grood!
Tomorrow Never Knows
Beulah - "If We Can Land a Man on the Moon, Surely I Can Win Your Heart", best Beulah album ender, all the other ones leave me kind of eh
Maybe I should stop posting about Beulah so much
SLINT GOOD MORNING CAPTAIN
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I MISS YOUUUUUUUUUU
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"One of Us Cannot be Wrong."
Beaten to the punch!
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Sunset Rubdown - "Shut Up I Am Dreaming Of Places Where Lovers Have Wings"! I just rediscovered that a couple weeks ago, so grood!
Tomorrow Never Knows
Beulah - "If We Can Land a Man on the Moon, Surely I Can Win Your Heart", best Beulah album ender, all the other ones leave me kind of eh
Maybe I should stop posting about Beulah so much
SLINT GOOD MORNING CAPTAIN
All of these things are right and make me happy.
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o/
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"City Hall" by Tenacious D.
/pow
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Friday, talked to the wife on the phone,
Said I'm not allowed near the home
If I climb the fence like last time, she'll call the dame law.
Her whining is so annoying
when she can't be trusted with the children,
I remember the lawyer with his grinning skull
But Friday night is sacred,
It's not time to be wasted.
With doom on call, you know
Friday they can't use it
My half of the settlement will be invested to return a mint
Go toward hiring an agent who will be paid not to pry
And once I'm armed with this new hauteur
I'll still be just the agent's tool--
Sometimes you gotta sell out
If you plan to buy.
But Friday night is sacred,
It's not time to be wasted
With doom on call, you know
Friday they can't use it
FUCKING GUITAR SOLO
The settlement's all divided now,
Got myself an apartment downtown
Tell you not to make plans,
We'll go out this Friday night.
Don't think about that recidivist wife,
or that lawyer acting so contrite--
I try to relax every Friday,
Put it out of my mind.
But Friday night is sacred,
It's not time to be wasted
With doom on call, you know
Friday they can't use it
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Maybe an odd choice, but back in the early/mid 80s, Chris DeBurgh had a trio of albums after his early folkish work and before he got completely mushy with all-ballad albums, where he rocked enough to be interesting. Each of these 3 albums had awesome closers.
On The Getaway, 1982, the last song was a 3-movement piece that had 3 titles on the album, but blended seamlessly into a longer story that capped the overall album's semi-concept feel fairly well. Revolution/Light A Fire/Liberty carried over a kind of troubled tropical paradise theme from some of the other songs, and closed with a longing for simpler peaceful times.
Man On The Line, 1984, was a straight up "rock" album with no particular theme or story, but many of the songs did have his trademark storyteller feel to them. The closer, Transmission Ends, is one of my favorite songs ever, and really shows that DeBurgh has an awesome knack for romantic songs that were far better than Lady In Red that made him famous. The way it ends with the lonely beep of a satellite passing overhead...
With Into the Light, 1986, DeBurgh returned to the format of The Getaway, a loose concept that some of the songs fell into to give the impression of a larger story, but again, nothing overt or obvious. Again, he ended with a tripart song of The Leader/The Vision/What About Me? that acted as a perfect close to the feel of the rest of the album.
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The closer off the new MONO album is terrific in a 'This Is The Last Song Of The Album!' kind of way.
The final track off You Are There is probably my favourite song from the whole genre of post rock, and works brilliantly as a closer to that album.
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A Day in the Life.
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NIN's "Hurt." Ties up The Downward Spiral's theme nicely, and it's probably the best songwriting Reznor will ever do.
Incidentally, one of the things that really irks me about reissued albums is how bonus tracks are often put right after the main tracklisting. Nothing kills the effectiveness of a great album closer than making it a lead-in to a couple B-sides.
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Bruce Springsteen ending Born to Run with "Jungleland" is so perfect in my opinion. Dude loves singing about life in Jersey/New York, but this song to me really sounds like it was supposed to be an end-all/be-all of his work.
Not to mention one of the most beautiful Sax coda's ever written. And dammit, Paul, you beat me to the punch.
I'll think of more later.
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A Day in the Life.
This and Fade Away on 'Action Pact' by Sloan. It closes with a fucking great solo, and what a good song.
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I would agree with City Hall from Tenacious D but also Horrible Death at the end of Space Crackers by Clawjob, I thought that was the perfect ending. Anyone heard Space Crackers?
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Soldier Side ends both Mezmerize and Hypnotize really well.
It's probably the most epic that SOAD ever sounded.
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Oh man Motion Picture Soundtrack off of Kid A is excellent. It's a really warm and romantic song to end a sort of desperate, isolated album.
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Off the top of my head, I'm going to go with 'The Diamond Sea' by Sonic Youth, from the Washing Machine album.
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"Back & Forth" from Emergency & I. Hands down.
More recently I'd say "You Dissolve" from Now We Can See is a pretty awesome closer as well.
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c'mon,
Goodbye Sky Harbor off Clarity by Jimmy Eat World.
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o/
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You weren't left hanging, it was just a really long and epic high five. We ran from ten miles apart to a central point at which the actual high-five took place. We jumped and now my hand is bleeding from the impact.
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Jane Doe by Converge you guys.
The last song on Glassjaw's Worship and Tribute is also ties that album up very well, managing to go through most of the musical styles presented on the album in one coherent piece of writing. The closing track of Man Man's Rabbit Habits, Whalebones, is also brilliant.
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Sister Ray, obviously!
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"It's All Gonna Break," from Broken Social Scene's self-titled album. The last few minutes leading up to the big brass ending makes me jump up and head-bang every time I hear it.
And then "Blackwater Park," by Opeth.
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My top three epic album-enders:
Bruce Springsteen-Jungleland
Rush-Natural Science
Dream Theater-Learning to Live
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Joy Division - Decades
Fugazi - Promises
Mogwai - We're No Here
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The Wrens - This is Not What You Had Planned
Mogwai - Mogwai Fear Satan
Animal Collective - Turn Into Something
CYHSY - Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood
...I don't really feel like going through my mp3 player and finding more. I was going to, but then I got bored and realized that probably nobody really cares.
Lots of good ones have already been mentioned, but I'm going to mention the ones I like again: Cutting Ice to Snow; Untitled 8; A Day in the Life (if it weren't for Paul's crazy antics last track on Abbey Road...); Motion Picture Soundtrack; It's All Gonna Break;
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re: Blackwater Park," by Opeth.
Seconded
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wtf just happened?
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The Wrens - This is Not What You Had Planned
Could have swore that the Meadowlands CD ended on Nervous And Not Me.
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the last track on Black Moth Super Rainbow's Dandelion Gum is fucking excellent. it's called "255" and it's one of my favorite album-enders of the last 5 years or so.
another really good one is "Brother Sport" from the new Animal Collective. i'm not really into Animal Collective but MPP had about three really really good songs on it, the best of which happened to be the very last track "Brother Sport"
ooh also of note is "A Chosen Few, Dump Our Fists and Be Proud" from Mr. Bear's debut full-length These Machines. the whole album is a folky romp through the absurd, the joyous, and the endearingly depressing which all culminates in a subdued ballad about the pitfalls of the internet age and the loss of innocence that necessarily accompanies it. it's brilliant.
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The last song on Glassjaw's Worship and Tribute is also ties that album up very well, managing to go through most of the musical styles presented on the album in one coherent piece of writing.
You're thinking 'Two Tabs Of Mescaline' there, right? I always think of 'Convectuoso' as the last song on that record.
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Oh man Motion Picture Soundtrack off of Kid A is excellent. It's a really warm and romantic song to end a sort of desperate, isolated album.
Wait, uh...
Red wine and sleeping pills
Help me get back to your arms
Cheap sex and sad films
Help me get where I belong
I think you're crazy, maybe
I think you're crazy, maybe
Stop sending letters
Letters always get burned
It's not like the movies
They fed us on little white lies
I think you're crazy, maybe
I think you're crazy, maybe
I will see you in the next life
um....
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The music is romantic. Very pretty and elegant and sentimental. I didn't pay too much attention to the lyrics.
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The last song on Glassjaw's Worship and Tribute is also ties that album up very well, managing to go through most of the musical styles presented on the album in one coherent piece of writing.
You're thinking 'Two Tabs Of Mescaline' there, right? I always think of 'Convectuoso' as the last song on that record.
Yes, Two Tabs, I didn't hear Convectuoso until long after I was familiar with that album, so it feels more like a b-side to me.
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We're No Here & To Bid You Farewell.
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Really? No one has said Mogwai Fear Satan?
Mogwai Fear Satan. I just can't think of a more epic, cathartic album closer.
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Oh, whoops, I forgot:
"Your Hand in Mine"
Holy goddamn, that is such a beautiful song.
For some reason, both Margot & the Nuclear So & So's albums have awesome closers: "Bookworm" and "As Tall As Cliffs."
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Train in Vain (London Calling): I've raved about London Calling in the album nomination thread; this is an infectious, emotional closer.
I'm tempted to negate you here because it started life as a bonus track. But it definitely ends that album brilliantly, way better than Revolution Rock would have.
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Yes, Two Tabs, I didn't hear Convectuoso until long after I was familiar with that album, so it feels more like a b-side to me.
'Two Tabs' is definitely a magnificent piece of work. False ending is awesome.
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The End - The Beatles
FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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"Anthrax," at the end ofEntertainment!, is pretty good. It kind of takes the piss out of itself with the flat delivery of the vocals and repetitive bassline with no melody. The drums march insistently but don't really go anywhere and after some feedback noodling the song's just sort of over. You're almost left holding your breath for nothing and it fits the album's tone really well.
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Rock 'n' Roll Suicide (Ziggy Stardust): "Don't let the sun blast your shadow, don't let the milk float grab your mind..." I swoon every time I hear this song.
Yes! Anyway one of the best songs EVER !
Cop Shoot Cop..: (Ladies and Gentlemen...): I love the noise and the calming cool down. "The desert is anyplace without you / And oh my love, I'm pretty sure that you can feel
This too, yes!
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Really? No one has said Mogwai Fear Satan?
Mogwai - Mogwai Fear Satan
ahem
Could have swore that the Meadowlands CD ended on Nervous And Not Me.
http://wrens.com/records/the_meadowlands
Also: holy shit they're playing TWO shows at Schuba's in July.
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The End - The Doors. After a great but rather poppy album, this closes the band's first outing on a dark, brooding, haunting note that really exemplifies everything that Morrison was about.
Isolation Years - From the Opeth album Ghost Reveries. Quiet, fairly simple, and eerie. After the sonic onslaught that most of the rest of the album is, it's unexpected and is a perfect ending track.
My favorite of all time, though, is without a doubt
Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run. Absolutely amazing, moving, earth-shaking song. The howls at the end send shivers down my spine every time.
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The first track to spring to mind for me was Radiohead's "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" off of the Bends. Other tracks that are on the list for me would be:
Glassjaw - Motel of the White Locust off of Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
Mewithoutyou - In a Sweater Poorly Knit off of Brother, Sister
Sigur Ros - Track 8 off of ()
Dredg - The Canyon Behind Her off of El Cielo
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I was kinda hoping people would say ...
"I Was a Teenage Hand Model" (QOTSA) and "I Think I Lost My Headache" (Rated R) by Queens of the Stone Age
"Spaceship Landing" (...And the Circus Leaves Town) by Kyuss (or the hidden track that comes on 4 mintes after that song ends, "Day One," which is perfectly placed)
"The Warning" (Black Sabbath) by Black Sabbath
"Second Time Around" (Vincebus Eruptum) by Blue Cheer
"Revelation" (Da Capo) by Love
"Mountain" (Colour Haze) by Colour Haze
"Untitled" (Feathers) and "Raise the Sails" (Shivering King and Others) by Dead Meadow
"Beggar's Blues" (Whiskey for the Holy Ghost) by Mark Lanegan
"Tale Flight" (The Boy Who Floated Freely) by Ramona Cordova
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whoever mentioned he is legend's "(((louds" is right on the ball! although i have the UK version with "cape fear" as a bonus track. i wish that if they were gonna add bonus tracks on reissues/special editions, they'd either put them on a second disc, or integrate them into the album's tracklist in a way that flows (the haunted did that with "rEVOLVEr" - i can't even remember which three are bonus tracks, because they just fit and flow so well).
i'd have to put forward Rocket From the Crypt here, as they've got a shitload of awesome closing tracks:
"Too Many Balls" (from "Live from Camp X-Ray," which ISN'T a live album btw), has the extended "too many balls gonna kill us all!" bit building to a climax, and then they throw a curveball by ending it with the sound of a tape machine fucking up.
"Ghost Shark" (from "Group Sounds") ends what is possibly their heaviest and rawest album with a spooky ballad. hardly the sort of band you'd expect to come up with something like that, but boy do they pull it off well!
"Glazed" (from "Circa: Now!") is just 8 and a half minutes of awesome, with the last half the huge build up of "TAAAAKE THAAAAAAT!" (x1000000) seeming endless, but in a good way. and when they randomly start chanting "SMOKE POT SMOKE POT EVERYBODY SMOKE POT!" it never fails to raise a smirk!
"Burnt Alive" (from "Scream Dracula Scream") is a kinda slow-burning, eerie, and badass end to one of the best rock'n'roll albums of the last 20 years (if not EVER).
and their best closer, "Run Kid Run" (from "RFTC") is quite possibly their best song ever, although it may be because i'm a sucker for vocal harmonies that i like this one, because there's harmonies coming the proverbial wazoo here. it's not a long song, but it somehow manages to be as epic-sounding as songs several times it's length.
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Of recent vintage, the track 30Kft from Assemblage 23's album Storm is a particularly brilliant piece to end an album on. Considering the preceding nine tracks have been more or less club oriented EBM/Sythnpop, to end it with this strange, haunting, static filled dirge of a man sending a last message to his wife as his plane crashes, and that it does so (and the song ends--well, cuts out) abruptly before he gets a chance to finish it is really jarring, beautiful and...well, final. It's an ending.
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Glassjaw - Motel of the White Locust off of Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
Pack your shit and leave.
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Arrogant sons of bitches - last on my list (off of 3 cheers, duh)
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There's also whatever that is that ends "Tight" by Mindless Self Indulgence. Whatever it is, it seems appropriate.
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"Staying Alive" by Cursive is probably my favorite album-closer of all-time.
Also:
We were born..... at the end of Of Montreal's Hissing Fauna
California1/Youth + Beauty at the end of Decemberist's Castaways
Only in dreams at the end of Weezer's blue
2headedboy2 at the end of Aeroplane by NMH
Alas I cannot swim at end of Laura Marling's s/t (afer the big wait)
In Mind - DMST - History in Rust
Yeah.
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My Body Is A Cage was a pretty good closer for Neon Bible. Shite song, though.
A Lack Of Color is beautiful! It caps an extremely good album extremely well.
I thought Sons & Daughters from The Crane Wife was really uplifting and a nice way to end the entire album.
This Heart's On Fire is maybe my favorite song from Apologies To The Queen Mary, maybe. Either way it is a nice way to end it!
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Incidentally, one of the things that really irks me about reissued albums is how bonus tracks are often put right after the main tracklisting. Nothing kills the effectiveness of a great album closer than making it a lead-in to a couple B-sides.
Sir, truly. I generally get rid of bonus tracks, particularly for albums that have pretty definitive closers. One notable exception is the bonus tracks on Stay Positive by The Hold Steady. I think "Two Handed Handshake" is a better closer than "Slapped Actress."
The first thing that came into my head was "Just Abandoned Yourself" by Boris from their album Pink. Wonderful, wailing, swelling, urgent melodicism tripping into 10+ minutes of feedback and drone. Yes indeed.
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I always rip the bonus tracks but put them in the artist folder as extraneous tracks rather than ripping them WITH the album.
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My Body Is A Cage was a pretty good closer for Neon Bible. Shite song, though.
A Lack Of Color is beautiful! It caps an extremely good album extremely well.
I thought Sons & Daughters from The Crane Wife was really uplifting and a nice way to end the entire album.
This Heart's On Fire is maybe my favorite song from Apologies To The Queen Mary, maybe. Either way it is a nice way to end it!
This is nearly all true for me as well but I honestly can't make sense of the two components of the first one. Explain?
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Maybe Hym by Isis on their Oceanic album. Also, Dyers Eve and Call of the Ktulu. Hell yesssss
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I thought Sons & Daughters from The Crane Wife was really uplifting and a nice way to end the entire album.
I don't necessarily agree with this one.
California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade at the end of The Decemberists' Castaways and Cutouts.
However, i do agree with this one and in the same vein i would add The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned) from The Hazards of Love and Apology Song from 5 Songs EP.
EDIT: So that i'm not just posting Decemberists' albums i'll add
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun from I Love Your Glasses [Cyndi Lauper cover, obviously]
Flightless Bird, American Mouth from The Shepherd's Dog
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We were born..... at the end of Of Montreal's Hissing Fauna
yessssss
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This is nearly all true for me as well but I honestly can't make sense of the two components of the first one. Explain?
I think the song is intentionally inharmonious and has more body in lyrics than in the enjoyability of the music. I don't really like it as a song, but it wraps up Neon Bible in maybe the only way it could have been.
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Neon Bible spent 3/4 of an hour lamenting the paranoia and uncertainty post 9/11 North America. Closing with 'My Body is Cage' seems appropriate enough.
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Maybe Hym by Isis on their Oceanic album. Also, Dyers Eve and Call of the Ktulu. Hell yesssss
Dyers' Eve always felt a little...sloppy, to me. As in, if you removed the drums, the guitar alone wouldn't stand up very well.
I'm not going through my library, but the only ones I can think of off-hand would be Dylan's "Buckets of Rain" (Blood on the Tracks) and Iron & Wine's "Passing Afternoon" (Our Endless Numbered Days). I feel that they both bring the album to an actual close rather than the music just ended.
"Shine on You crazy Diamond", too.
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Oh hell that reminds me, motherfuckin Eclipse, people.
Also am I allowed to say the entire Side 2 Medley from Abbey Road?
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My Body Is A Cage was a pretty good closer for Neon Bible. Shite song, though.
This is nearly all true for me as well but I honestly can't make sense of the two components of the first one. Explain?
I think it makes good sense. A shite song for an equally awful album.
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It's a beautiful album. Definitely better than the first.
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Also am I allowed to say the entire Side 2 Medley from Abbey Road?
No, 'cause Paul's ridiculous antics is technically the last track on the album. IO's post towards the top of this page beautifully articulated it.
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It's a beautiful album. Definitely better than the first.
There is simply no truth to that. Sorry.
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The Bewlay Brothers from Bowie's Hunky Dory :-P
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Well, Death did end "The Sound Of Perseverance" with a cover of the most metal song ever, "Painkiller", which they just made EVEN MORE metal.
That kicks ass.
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The Bewlay Brothers from Bowie's Hunky Dory :-P
Correct. Also, "Subterraneans," from Low. And "Wild Is the Wind" off Station to Station.
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Sigur Ros - Takk - "Heysatan" - A sort of sad-but-uplifting, low-key song to close a sweet and vibrant album.
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas - "Common Reactor" - The song isn't itself spectacular, but I just think that torquing and modulating the hell out of the last note of the last song on the album was a good way to end everything.
Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island - "Pree Sisters Swallowing a Donkey's Eye" - Because COME ON.
And Neon Bible sucked like most analogies.
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Oh man, I can't believe I didn't think of 'Heysatan'! It's a gorgeous song and a wonderful way to end that album. Nice choice.
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Well, Death did end "The Sound Of Perseverance" with a cover of the most metal song ever, "Painkiller", which they just made EVEN MORE metal.
That kicks ass.
Trying to sound metal by name dropping Death is admirable, until you went with their shittiest album. Good work?
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i doubt he was namedropping, their cover of Painkiller is fucking SAVAGE. you could put that at the end of the shittiest album in history, and it'd regain it a shitload of credit.
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Well, Death did end "The Sound Of Perseverance" with a cover of the most metal song ever, "Painkiller", which they just made EVEN MORE metal.
That kicks ass.
Trying to sound metal by name dropping Death is admirable, until you went with their shittiest album. Good work?
TSoP may not be their best album, I know that full well, but it still shits all over pretty much all Metal that's ever come out since. Besides, I just really like the way they made Painkiller even more over the top and intense. As for album closers, Death never really put their strongest tracks on as closers, although "Perennial Quest" is a damn good track nonetheless.
The openers on the other hand...
EDIT: I would mention "The Philosopher", but that very album has "Trapped In A Corner" on it, so...
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I will actually concede that it's a pretty awesome cover. I really can't stand the rest of the album, though. Leprosy fuck yeah \m/
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Bivouac!
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Speaking of death metal, I REALLY love "Hatework" off of Morbid Angel's "Domination". Not many death metal bands can pull off a slow track to close a record, but MY GOD that track is just pure evil, and David Vincent's voice sounds like something you'd use to scare the shit out of Satan himself.
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Bivouac!
haha, totally this!
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"After Hours"
it's so end of the night-y. Also perfect.
Hell yes! Presuming you mean VU?
Incidentally, one of the things that really irks me about reissued albums is how bonus tracks are often put right after the main tracklisting. Nothing kills the effectiveness of a great album closer than making it a lead-in to a couple B-sides.
This.
I love Dagger off Slowdive's 'Souvlaki', definitely one of my fave closers. The re-issue has some EP stuff tacked on that is pretty shit, comparatively, and even if it were great it couldn't be as great as ending the album on Dagger. Dunno why I went through a phase of selling off stuff I bought as a teen... and then buying it back some 10 years later.
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"Pendulous Skin" from Mastodon's Blood Mountain was a nice, bluesy closer for an album of metal. I remember the first time I listened to it I said to myself "Mastodon needs to make more music like this."
And then they came out with Crack the Skye.
I'm not sure how I feel about that.
Wolves In the Throne Room albums, in general, also end well. "I Will Lay My Bones Down..." in particular was very big sounding.
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It's a beautiful album. Definitely better than the first.
Yes, totally. People are just being dicks because it wasn't as 'immediate' or Funeral II.
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I did mean VU, yes.
Did anyone else think that "Ian Curtis Wishlist" was a really good ending to A Promise?
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It's a beautiful album. Definitely better than the first.
There is simply no truth to that. Sorry.
:Shrug: To each their own. I personally can't stand Funeral for more than a few songs. I love the melodies and instrumentation, but he doesn't sing. He just whines. I can't take it. On Neon Bible he actually makes an attempt to sing, and it works perfectly.
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New York I Love You on LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver. The perfect ending to the album.
Say Yes on Elliott Smith - Either/Or. A beautiful insertion of hope.
Brick is Red on Pixies - Surfer Rosa
After Hours on The Velvet Underground - S/T
Seriously, all win.
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New York I Love You on LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver. The perfect ending to the album.
WORD!
also "Searching for a Former Clarity" by against me! is a great closer, one of my favorite songs by them
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^ Another classic example of bonus tracks getting in the way, as well. Got the Japanese version of 'Sound of Silver' and it goes into a fairly uninspiring remix of North American Scum from there.
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That person who said "Fools Gold" was so nearly right. It's actually "I Am The Resurrection" from the original UK issuing of "The Stone Roses", including that epic 4-minute instrumental outro.
Also, "Comforting Sounds" by Mew is pretty fucking awesome, both as an album closer and gig-ender. One of those proper building-and-building-into-a-wall-of-white-noise type tracks.
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Jane Doe by Converge you guys.
Yep. Unbelievably epic closer. Also, "Hair Raising Accounts Of Restless Ghosts Pt. 2" on Modern Life Is War's Witness album.
EDIT-Converge fans seem to be few and far between on this forum...nice to meet you!
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if people are gonna start mentioning converge, then i'ma bitchslap y'all with this:
Botch - "Man the Ramparts"
oh sweet fuckedy-yes.
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if people are gonna start mentioning converge, then i'ma bitchslap y'all with this:
Botch - "Man the Ramparts"
oh sweet fuckedy-yes.
Also, if you're dyslexic, that song can easily become "Ram The Man-Parts."
Grimbo, can we turn this into a "See indie kids, hardcore is AWESOME" thread now?
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to be honest mate, i'm no more a fan of hardcore than i am of anything else - anything passionate and usually (but not necessarily) guitar/rock based is fine by me. although i really don't get the hype around a lot of the electro-ey indie bands that seem to get wanked over furiously on this site.
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Oh, I'm not an excessive fan of hardcore myself, it's just the one style of music that seems to be largely ignored around here. I just started posting recently, after about a 2-year absence...I remember Sam was into some cool heavy shit, and there was one other dude a while ago whose name I can't remember...other than that, I've usually been alone when talking about bands like Botch or Converge (Tommy used to listen to them if I remember rightly, but they began to scare him)
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man, shit, i haven't listened to converge in ages. i should spin them again sometime.
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Oh, I'm not an excessive fan of hardcore myself, it's just the one style of music that seems to be largely ignored around here. I just started posting recently, after about a 2-year absence...I remember Sam was into some cool heavy shit, and there was one other dude a while ago whose name I can't remember...other than that, I've usually been alone when talking about bands like Botch or Converge (Tommy used to listen to them if I remember rightly, but they began to scare him)
dude, start a hardcore thread! i've got a few albums i could recommend/upload/discuss, and i could do with a few recommendations etc.
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dude, start a hardcore thread! i've got a few albums i could recommend/upload/discuss, and i could do with a few recommendations etc.
I heartily endorse this recommendation.
The only Converge album I have is No Heroes and it's quite jaw-dropping.
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Okay, give me a few minutes to upload some shit to Mediaf!re and we'll do this!
EDIT-Done! Hope you dig it, guys...I'll keep 'em coming.
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Oh, I'm not an excessive fan of hardcore myself, it's just the one style of music that seems to be largely ignored around here.
Pffft...
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"Besides 'Bushels', which someone else has probably said by now, I like Swan Lake's 'Warlock Psychologist'." Commented Waferman.
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Sculptured's Embodiment is the Purest Form of Horror (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta3kh93jUq8), off of Embodiment (tell me I'm not the only one that has heard that album?). It's the perfect end to the album, which was about the slow breakdown of the body leading to death, with mournful sampling from this short film (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQlQgzRyBfY), keyboards, and it all winding down to the end.
Overkill's Overkill saga (Overkill (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9C3rSU38ys), Overkill II (The Nightmare Continues) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgyzp7NkPqg), Overkill III (Under the Influence), E.vil N.ever D.ies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUfN6QkU4y0), Overkill V... The Brand (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjsk6RE6-KA)), from Feel the Fire, Taking Over, Under the Influence, The Years of Decay, and Immortalis, respectively. They all sort of lead into each other, but all stand alone well, and feel like they link together the albums.
In the Arms of God (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLE85mylk6Y), from the album of the same title by Corrosion of Conformity, which is just an epic rocking conclusion to the album, with an awesome pounding riff. It is better when heard after Crown of Thorns, the short track that serves as somewhat of an intro, but this is just the one song, not best albums endings.
I couldn't find a youtube video for Under The Influence, sadly.
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A recent addition to this thread... 'Crucifucks' by Gallows. The last four minutes of it is just a string coda, as if letting you mull over the album you just listened to. It's totally unexpected, yet oddly fitting.
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"Besides 'Bushels', which someone else has probably said by now [...]
The final track of Tears of the Valedictorian is 'My Boats They Go'.
I'm jus' sayin'.
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Shh
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Well as long as this thread has been bumped, why the fuck hasn't anybody said Expressway to Yr Skull, from EVOL? Cus seriously. Expressway to Yr Skull. It's important.
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^ That's cause EVOL ends with Bubblegum, doesn't it? Which is also a great closer, so much fun.
Good closer: Some Girls are bigger than others (The Smiths) - A weird choice, with its absurd lyrics and so forth, but something about it completely works, especially the lead guitar harmonies at the end. Maybe it's cause its an unusual song that I keep coming back to.
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I know I'm like the fourth person to say it, but "Pitter Patter Goes My Heart" off of You Forgot it in People.
Ohhhhh man
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Bubblegum
Bonus track obscuring original tracklisting. It does end it pretty okay, I suppose. But naw, man, it's "Expressway to Yr Skull."
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Silkworm, "A Cockfight of Feelings", from Italian Platinum
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Offhand, the answer is "Love is a Place." I'll have to think about others.
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They were mentioned earlier, but Okkervil River really know how to end an album. Their final songs are almost always perfect conclusions. The wall of trumpets at the end of Down the River of Golden Dreams, the "Over and over and over and over again. It's over!" of Black Sheep Boy Appendix, I could go on and on.
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It's got to be "The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack" by Liars, from Drum's Not Dead.
The song brings you down after such an insane album.
Oh, and also it's one of the most beautiful songs. Ever.
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probably Sankaritarina by Moonsorrow, at least that's the one that comes to mind just now.
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all four broken social scene album's have amazing ending tracks.
also, "this ain't a survin movie" from minus the bear's menos el oso. and another favorite closer of mine is natural anthem from the postal service's "give up". it was one of few tracks on the album that showcased jimmy tamborello's talents more than ben gibbards, but was still a great closing track to a great album IMO.
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My personal favorite is the Ending Track of the 1983 Concept Album from Pink Floyd "The Final Cut - Requiem for a post-war dream". The tracks name is "Two Suns in the sunset". I totally digg that saxophone in the last seconds...
Perfectly closes the whole album.
Same to the Soundtrack Album for the Comic Animation Film "When the Wind blows" done by David Bowie and Roger Waters. "Folded flags" is one perfect end.
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I know that this is totally a dick move to pull, but I love how you keep capitalizing things in the sentence and then don't capitalize the titles. It's amusing.
Two Suns in the Sunset is a great ending to a terrible album, though.
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Off the top of my head, I'm going to go with 'The Diamond Sea' by Sonic Youth, from the Washing Machine album.
Gaz, I think you'd like my girlfriend. 'Cept she doesn't do the sex.
My entry is "You Could Die Or This Might End" by Ted Leo. Pretty guitar work, short, sweet, and would make an excellent set closer for any one of my future gigs, regardless of genre.
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I know that this is totally a dick move to pull, but I love how you keep capitalizing things in the sentence and then don't capitalize the titles. It's amusing.
Two Suns in the Sunset is a great ending to a terrible album, though.
No problem about your move :-D - i'll don't know when i ever will learn to do THAT right... Seems like i always mix that up with the german language capitalizing rules :roll:. Oh, and you are totally right about the overall album quality of "The final cut".
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English is a fairly odd language. I usually jump down people's throats who have it as their first language and should know better - in your case it makes a bit more sense.
More on topic:
Melanie's "Freedom Knows My Name" album is one of those where the bonus track just sort of muddles the original ending in a way that sort of irks me. Previously it would have ended with "Life Will Not Go Away," which is a vibrant, strong song, and then, instead, it ends with this somewhat boring song instead. Oh well.
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ill second Sister Ray Good, Morning Captin, and especially A Day In The Life.
the hold steady ended their albums very awesomely. Killer Parties, How A Resurrection Really Feels, Southtown Girls, and Slapped Actress.
Lftr Pllr - Fiestas + Fiascos - The Flex and The Buff Result.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Salvation / Howl- The Line
Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited - Desolation Row
British Sea Power - Open Season - True Adventures
The Dresden Dolls ALWAYS ended strong. Truce, Sing, Boston
Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South - Goddamn Lonely Love
Eve6 always ended well, Small Town Trap, Girl Eyes, Arch Drive Goodbye
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals - Play Your Part pt 2
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless - Sooner
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps - Hey Hey, My My
Nirvana: Nevermind - Something In The Way / In Utero - All Apologies
Powerman 5000 - Tonight The Stars Revolt - Watch the Sky for Me
The Replacements: Tim - Here Comes a Regular / Let It Be - Answering Machine
Tool - Undertow - Disgustipated
kay im done.
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the hold steady ended their albums very awesomely. Killer Parties, How A Resurrection Really Feels, Southtown Girls, and Slapped Actress.
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Oh, and you are totally right about the overall album quality of "The final cut".
I'm going to say fuck you guys on that one. I LOVE The Final Cut. I think 'The Gunner's Dream' is simply beautiful and heartbreaking, and once you get into it as a whole piece, like The Wall's little brother, it's great. IF you listen to the lyrics, too, they are magnificent. The minute observations on Southampton Dock, for example - 'Her handkerchief and her summer frock clings to her wet body in the rain.'
I can see why people are pissed at the lack of David Gilmour, but his few appearances are pretty brilliant.
Besides, as much as I love 'Two Suns,' I hate it because it didn't have Nick on drums. Roger replaced him for that one song, seeing as this was the height of his assholery.
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The Dresden Dolls ALWAYS ended strong. Truce, Sing, Boston
The Replacements: Tim - Here Comes a Regular / Let It Be - Answering Machine
Tool - Undertow - Disgustipated
fucking YES! especially the replacements.
i was just listening to "yes virginia" actually, forgot how good the dolls were. what's her solo album like?
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I thought her solo album was very good, much better than Yes, Virginia, which I thought was a bit of a letdown after their awesome first album.
Also, Neil Gaiman wrote a fake newspaper article type thing on the back of the cd, and is writing some sort of short story to accompany the cd.
*longass copy-paste from Gaiman's blog*
Right. So last August I went out to Boston for a few days to meet musical phenomenon Amanda Palmer. I'd loved her Dresden Dolls work, had been introduced to her in email by Jason Webley, had met her for an hour in March 2008 at the New York Comic Con just before my CBLDF event, where I introduced her to Bill Hader and Stan Lee, because they were int he green room too.
She had sent me her then-forthcoming CD WHO KILLED AMANDA PALMER, which I'd loved, and I'd agreed to write the back cover "liner notes". And then Amanda sent me an email telling me that she had been taking photographs of herself dead for about 14 years, that the original idea had been to use some of those photos for the CD sleeve, but that would not happen, and she was making it into a book, and asking if I'd be interested in writing some words to go along with them.
She sent me many of the photos. I was intrigued. Nobody had ever asked me to do anything like that before, and the photos were small frozen stories, so I said yes. I went out to Boston in August and spent a few long-but-good days with Amanda and with photographer Kyle Cassidy, who is astonishing, with Amanda's then-boyfriend Michael and with Beth Hommel, her assistant. It was like a combination of mad improv theatre and instant film-making as we created scenarios and Kyle shot them. Mostly I was somewhere off to the side, scribbling in a notebook while everything happened around me, but occasionally I was dragooned into helping, or even being part of a shot. (There was one night where I staggered back and forth down an alley at 2.00am, with a dead Amanda over my shoulder, while nearby my friend Kira made imaginary cell-phone calls, and I waited for a squad car to pull up and find out what was going on. No squad cars turned up. People in Boston are very blase about dead people in alleys. The photo made it into the book, I think.)
I loved trying to turn the photos into stories. Some big stories, some very small stories, even a new-old fairy tale, each story odd, each story fun to write, and each story, invariably, fatal.
The most fun I think were the ones where the photo created more questions than it answered (a dead woman on some waste ground, her head crushed by a manual typewriter, apparently dropped from a very high place just left me going WHY? and produced one of my favourite stories as I got to explain...)
I've said it before on this blog: Writing is (like death) a lonely business, and it was enormously fun for me writing surrounded by creative people busy creating. I wrote several of the stories sitting in a corner of a room while Amanda practiced for her upcoming tour, tuning in and out of reality while songs were being played. It was fun.
There are about a dozen stories altogether, and a few shorter things by me in there. And there are lyrics by Amanda. And photographs. So many photographs.
Anyway, all the material was handed over to some designers, who it turned out hadn't designed books in a while and did a job so bad and so late that when they handed it back, Beth (Amanda's assistant) wound up taking the book and designing it and doing a terrific job, but having to start pretty much from scratch.
The book is being printed right now, in Hong Kong. This is a good thing. There will be 10,000 copies. People have asked if any of the stories will be reprinted in any short story collections in days to come -- possibly, but some of my favourites are dependent on the juxtapostion of the image and the words, and my short story collections tend to be almost a decade apart.
I should probably warn people about the nudity. There are lots of photos where Amanda is fully dressed, but she doesn't seem to have anything resembling a nudity taboo, and is fearless when it comes to getting the photo she wanted, so is fully or partly naked in some of the strangest places (my favourite nude Amanda shot, taken way before I got there, was her naked and apparently dead on a golf course, early one morning, as the golfers, unconcerned, played on and around her). It's definitely art, not porn, but there, such warnings are useful.
And there are many photographers in the book, but Kyle Cassidy is The Man.
So the book can now be ordered. It actually went live for orders a couple of days ago, and promptly was crashed by the number of people trying to order immediately. Seeing that this blog has the power to crush websites (what they've taken to calling a #NeilWebFail on Twitter) I wasn't going to link to it until the site was robust enough, but they've now beefed it up and added phone lines, so if you want to order a copy, you can.
It's a big, full colour, coffee table Who Killed Amanda Palmer Book. Copies arrive from the Hong Kong printer in July and will go straight out to people who have preordered them.
A few bookshops around the world that are friends of mine or friends of Amanda have enquired about selling the books. My understanding is that Amanda is waiting until the preorders are done, and everyone who has had a chance to preorder has ordered, before seeing a) if any are left and b) if any are left, how many of them will go to places like Chapters in Dublin or DreamHaven or Newbury Comics, or further afield than that.
I still wish I'd been able to come up with a story for the one of her dead among the wallabies, mind.
It was a fun project. I made some fine friends out of it, with Amanda foremost among them as we discovered that we agreed about pretty much everything to do with making art and the way you treat your fans and readers, and such (although not, oddly enough, about getting naked and pretending to be dead on golf courses, which is definitely Her Thing). I already knew she made good music, and I learned that she's really nice, and fearless, and very, very funny, and the sort of person who, at the end of an exhausting seven month world tour, would spend a month working for free with the kids at her old High School to help them put on a show.
And after all that preamble: you should pre-order the book from http://jsrdirect.com/bands/amandapalmer/wkap.html
(http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2009/pre-order-wkap2.jpg)
Picture of Kyle eating Amanda's brains while I, er, hold a pen not very menacingly, above borrowed from Kyle's excellent Livejournal, where I also discovered there's a win a copy of the Who Killed Amanda Palmer book or something cooler competition on the go, and a photo of Chip Delany Where He Works.
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Oh, and you are totally right about the overall album quality of "The final cut".
I'm going to say fuck you guys on that one. I LOVE The Final Cut. I think 'The Gunner's Dream' is simply beautiful and heartbreaking, and once you get into it as a whole piece, like The Wall's little brother, it's great. IF you listen to the lyrics, too, they are magnificent. The minute observations on Southampton Dock, for example - 'Her handkerchief and her summer frock clings to her wet body in the rain.'
I can see why people are pissed at the lack of David Gilmour, but his few appearances are pretty brilliant.
Besides, as much as I love 'Two Suns,' I hate it because it didn't have Nick on drums. Roger replaced him for that one song, seeing as this was the height of his assholery.
Half of the songs were written to be on The Wall and they just didn't have room.
I'd say that a few songs really stand out to me (One of the Few; The Gunner's Dream; Not Now John; Two Suns in the Sunset) and the rest are musically blah. I'm missing one on that list but can't be damned to go back and see which.
Lyrically, it's quite a bit stronger, especially with my favourite being The Final Cut itself, since I've been in that position myself.
Oh, and Roger also claimed that Nick shouldn't get any writer's credit because "all he does is drum".
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Like Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin said "De gustibus non est disputandum". Personal taste is undiscussable. Everybody has a totally valid point here.
If everyone would love complete albums, there would be no selling of singles.
My personal opinion is that there is not one Pink Floyd Album where i really love "ALL" songs. Sure, especially in such concept albums like the "Final cut" or "The Wall", every song has its place and is maybe "needed" for the whole concept, but.. well. Sometimes i feel that there would be no loss if you cut out one or two songs that really take the overall "quality" down. But - and that brings the loop back to this discussion thread: "Two suns in the sunset" is one perfect example for a good "Song that ends an album".
And while i am here - what do you think about Peter Gabriel? I do think that from his latest concept album "OvO" the Song "Make tomorrow" is too a wonderful example for songs that end an album perfectly. A little bit like good sex. Takes the tension from the whole album, builds it further up until Timecode Min 7.00 - BAM, that 3 Minute Drum-set kicks in like an Orgasm an then it goes into the Afterglow. Shivers.
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My personal opinion is that there is not one Pink Floyd Album where i really love "ALL" songs.
Dark Side of the Moon? Really? That's the one Floyd album where I never mind listening to all the songs, and not even in the complete album sense. For example, I love all of Wish You Were Here, but "Welcome to the Machine" really sucks, so I always skip it if I'm listening to the album. But there's nothing to skip on DSotM.
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I always skip all of DSOTM myself. Although I hate 'On The Run' anyway. It's cool and ahead of its time and all, but I never fucking bother listening to it. As for Pink Floyd albums where I love every song... WYWH and Animals both fill that criteria for me.
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Two Suns in the Sunset
Song made me cry.
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Two Suns in the Sunset
Song made me cry.
In a good or in a bad way?
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I hope in a good way, because it's awesome and Pat is pretty great too so if they disagree I MIGHT DIE A LITTLE.
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I have like 5 Floyd albums how could it be anything but 'in a good way'
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I have everything from Meddle onwards. Used to be Flink Poyd obsessed.
I always skip all of DSOTM myself. Although I hate 'On The Run' anyway. It's cool and ahead of its time and all, but I never fucking bother listening to it. As for Pink Floyd albums where I love every song... WYWH and Animals both fill that criteria for me.
This. I don't *hate* On the Run, I just don't care for it.