Entertainment For Lively Minds
Albums With Your Favourite Track At The End?
Posted by ChaosandMorphine on 13 March 2009 - 11:35am.
I came across 'Dare' by The Human League last night whilst browsing through iTunes. For the first time it registered with me that 'Don't You Want Me' is the final track on the album. Not only that, but 'Love Action' precedes it! It was surely remarkable in 1981 (wasn't it?) and is impossible to imagine happening now. Or is it?
So, question: Which albums have either (IYHO) the 'best' or most successful track(s) at the very end?
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'OK Computer' by Radiohead...
I absolutely love The Tourist which closes the album.
And Tomorrow Never Knows off 'Revolver' by those Beatles.
The Stone Roses
I Am The Resurrection...
The Clash - Garageland
Eels
Daisies of the Galaxy doesn't just have Mr E's Beautiful Blues at the end, it has it as a *shudder* hidden track.
Jeff Buckley
Dream Brother at the end of Grace. Great 'band' track that promised so much next time around
Agreed
Wonderful track
A Day in the Life
...innit
and Champagne Supernova...
and Waterloo Sunset on 'Something Else by the Kinks'
I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
'This Is A Low' on Parklife
There's loads actually isn't there?
Lot 105
ends Parklife
yeah
...but it's not really a *song* is it?
But
...it is the last "track"
;)
Verdi Cries
Virtually a solo performance by Natalie Merchant on the last track on "In my tribe" from the heyday period of 10k Maniacs. Made for a fantastic final encore live too.
It's such a good song I looked for it on youtube, and lo and behold...... Listen and weep, I always do.
Oh yes!
And what a fantastic group they were...
It's a Beautiful Thing
:-)
my few
Clash - Train in Vain - perhaps it was technically a hidden track as it wasn't originally listed on the sleeve
Pet Shop Boys - Jealousy - off Behaviour.
Stones - Salt of the Earth - Beggars Banquet - might go on a bit too long, but love it
REM - Find the River - Automatic
Crowded House - Together Alone - from Together Alone
Find The River
And god, what a great song that is.
Best song on one of the best albums, and it's at the end.
Rather obscure, the last song on Blur's 'Think Tank' is Battery In Your Leg.....and it's a beauty!
Wendell Gee
at the end of 'Fables...' is also an REM contender
good call
Mikhail - I used to love 'em when they did all the little mysterious songs about people and places from around Athens GA.
Led Zeppelin IV
When the Levee Breaks - an absolute belter and best track on the album - in my view
Roy Harper
When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease is the stupendous final track on HQ, an album chock full of goodies while Me And My Woman ends the wonderful Stormcock album.
Roy's late contemporary John Martyn ends One World with the magical Small Hours.
Pink Floyd
Echoes, obviously
ooooh
Shoot Speed Kill Light - Primal Scream (Xtrmntr)
Happy House - The Juan Maclean (The Future Will Come)
Fight The Power - Public Enemy (Fear Of A Black Planet)
Private Psychedelic Reel - Chemical Brothers (Dig Your Own Soul)
I'll chip in with
'Saturday Night' by The Blue Nile from 'Hats'
Riders On The Storm
is at the end of LA Woman. If you have the patience or tolerance to wait that long.
'Come On Eileen'
Is the final track on 'Too-Rye-Ay' by Dexy's. Didn't sell as many as 'Don't You Want Me' though. Can anyone beat that?
All Mod Cons
Down in The Tube Station At Midnight
The Smiths
'Suffer Little Children' from 'The Smiths'
'I Won't Share You' from 'Strangeways Here We Come'
The Dan
West of Hollywood from Two Against Nature.
Didn't much like Dylan's Modern Times, but...
Ain't Talkin' is a pretty great last track.
Agree with When The Levee Breaks. Re. Radiohead, Videotape on In Rainbows is as good as anything on the album.
And then there's A Day In The Life, of course...
ah.
I didn't realise I'd been pipped to the post by Chimney Singing Crow with Day in the Life.
This thread calls to mind a pet gripe of mine about bonus tracks on re-releases of albums. When you've got a corking final track and you want to hear it ringing in your ears against a backdrop of crystalline silence, surely the last thing you want to hear is some demo played on an out-of-tune acoustic guitar. Can't think of too many examples offhand, but my copy of Solid Air is guilty of this - I'd like the album to finish on Gentle Blues, thank you very much, not a live version of I'd Rather Be The Devil. I suppose this is another advantage of being able to edit albums on iPods... Any fellow gripers?
Louie and Banana barking
Pet Sounds should end with Caroline No and the train and Brian’s barking dogs, Louie and Banana. Not “bonus tracks”. Good point.
The end... or is it?
Agreed, Ed - listening to Ziggy Stardust on CD the other night and just as you're savouring the last note of Rock 'n' roll suicide (end of side 2 vinyl edition since forever!), John, I'm only dancing kicks in!
Phil
The Who
The mighty Won't Get Fooled Again is the last track on Who's Next.
Joni
Two Grey Rooms from Night Ride Home by Joni Mitchell is pretty special...the way she sings "You look so beautiful..." in the second verse still gives me goosebumps and the little vocal blip at the very end of the track....wonderful!
Yeah, nice shout.
Also, 'Clouds' has 'Both Sides, Now' at the end, which is a pretty strong way to end an album.
I love the Morning Fog
on Hounds of Love
In a similar vein
'This Woman's Work' at the end of 'The Sensual World' and 'You're The One' ending 'The Red Shoes' - both utterly sublime.
Sounds like
a fetish...
Quite a few
Torn Curtain (Marquee Moon/Television)
Autumn's Child (Safe as Milk/Capt Beefheart)
Hallelujah (I'm Your Fan/John Cale)
Like An Angel Passing Through My Room (The Visitors/Abba)
When The Levee Breaks (IV/Led Zep)
Motion Picture Soundtrack (Kid A/Radiohead)
All I Want is You (Rattle & Hum/U2)
Cool Water (Naked/Talking Heads)
Trumpets From Montparnasse (Lilac Time/Lilac Time)
New Order - Technique
Dream Attack has always been a particular fave..and caused much rewinding back in the day.
Some Of Mine
Morning Glory (Tim Buckley - Goodbye & Hello)
Dive For Your Memory (Go Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane)
Here Comes A Regular (Replacements - Tim)
Ocean Rain (Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain)
Dive For Your Memory
superb
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds...
...Squealer (on my version anyway). Classic.
A Zappa speciality
Muffin Man (Bongo Fury)
Yo Mama (Sheik Yerbouti)
Stinkfoot (Apostrophe)
Whipping Post (Them or Us)
Peaches III (Tinseltown Rebellion)
Punky's Whips (Baby Snakes)
Franz Ferdinand "Outsiders"
Outsiders from You Could Have It So Much Better. Possibly the best thing they've done.
Franz Ferdinand
Agreed - Outsiders is the best thing they've ever done, and should have been a single.
What was that Farmers daughter thing.....
Seriously, last track on Deep Purple in Rock, an LP not available, it appears, for download, hence this is the limit of my memeory of it, apart from the fact it was completely atypical of the rest of the record, and all the more lovely because of it.
(Not that I'm a fan, but why is this LP not available: there are only a couple of tracks I want, and they seem only to put live versions of, say, Child in Time, on the various compilations that are sourceable)
Fireball
Anyone's Daughter. Maybe on your old tape copy of In Rock? In Rock ends with Hard Lovin' Man - or used to - now it's Blackmore twanging his bollock hair while Jon Lord plays a sea shanty on the clavichord or some such.
Anyone's Daughter is a country song from Fireball - and a damn fine one it is too! Fireball is a wonderful and very varied album, and No One Came is equally 'out there'. It was partly in disgust that he'd played any part in such fripperies that inspired Blackmore to redefine the genre with Machine Head.
Springsteen - Matamoros Banks (Devils & Dust)
Neil Young - Cowgirl in the Sand (Everybody Knows...)
SFA - Mountain People (Radiator)
ZZ Top - Tush (Fandango!)
Thank you kind sir!
Its a long way back to the 4th form all those years ago, so forgive my muddling of the 2 Purple LPs I was most exposed to. Is it available as a single track download anywhere? (I have the title track ona greatest hits and I fear I wouldn't need the whole LP)
Anyones daughter is indeed
marvellous and I had recently thought of buying Fireball and In Rock but hesitated because the nostalgia genie sometimes plays evil tricks on me. I bough an Alice Cooper CD because of wonderful memories of the summer of 72 but was underwhelmed when I played it.
Anyway Elvis Costello - The Delivery man - Scarlet Tide - Best song he has written.
Oh please do!
Fireball is definitely worth the re-investment. I can remember being appalled when 2 mates and I divvied up the Purple albums - I had to buy Fireball and Come Taste the Band and somehow or other the others got Machine Head, Made in Japan, Burn and In Rock (home taping definnitely not killing music back in 1982). What the f was all this country and western/comedy stuff?! But it's now the album I find I put on most often - it's so multi-dimensional and the musicianship is superb.
I don't think you'd regret it. Whereas In Rock to me has always been just Child In Time, Speed King and (latterly) Black Night - the rest are largely sketches/run throughs imv, hence their total absence from live sets.
Stranglers 1st album and last album
1st album, Rattus Norvegicus, finishes with the prog/pub/punk masterpiece "Down In The Sewer".
Their last album, Suite 16 finishes with an astounding Muse/Shadows hybrid "Relentless", a track that proves that they still make fantastic music (let's just forget 1991-2002 though!)
Good songs on bad albums
My brother was a big fan of Genesis's Invisible Touch, and the only song I liked was the last one - The Brazillian.
Similarly, I never much cared for Teenage Fanclub's supposedly seminal Bandwagonesque, but the last song Is This Music is a corker.
Re: Stacks
Bon Iver 'For Emma...'
Although on my download version it's followed by 'Wisconsin', which is good, but not as good.
Anyhow, I'm having it.
Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
Moonlight Mile