You're Wondering Now by The Specials on their first album
The other end of the album I posted in the "opening tracks" thread:
Oooo a recent classic:
Edlong closed the thread up there ^ with When the Levee Breaks
Trilogy / Daydream Nation
Peter Gabriel wanted Red Rain to be the last track on So, but couldn't get the track running order to work on vinyl
so he made it an opener, either way it's an awesome bit of music, and Manu Katche played the entire track in a first take !!
Edlong closed the thread up there ^ with When the Levee Breaks
No. He. Didn't. 😀
At the end of Nebraska you come to this
But that's not the best because this is
The Waterboys
The mightiest, crashing, crushing, despair-laden song to end all hope? The end of ends? The chord that cuts the cord? Easily:
'Another Boy Drowning'
From the LP 'Burning Blue Soul' by Matt Johnson/The The.
(So utterly 'final' that it should come with a warning sticker 😯 )
^ the problem with Something In The Way (great song) is the inclusion of the hidden "bonus" track after it. It was ok but SITW was better.
<pedant> If you weren't a johnny cum lately and bought it when it was released it doesn't have the 'secret' track... </pedant>
Good Morning Captain on Slint's Spiderland.
I MISS YOU!
Excellent call, sir.
It's actually a tough one, I can't think of many last tracks that make me go 'holy crap, that was awesome'. Openers that say 'this is going to be awesome' are much easier.
Pink Floyd - Eclipse - Dark Side of the Moon
You Set The Scene on Forever Changes. How Arthur was able to find that song to tie the album together I'll never know. And Alone Again Or is the perfect first track that still makes me tingle. So my favourite album has the perfect bookends.
Eddiebaby +1
<pedant> If you weren't a johnny cum lately and bought it when it was released it doesn't have the 'secret' track... </pedant>
Cheeky git! 😛 although it probably was 6 months before I bought it (pocket money only went so far you know and I had bike bits to buy too)!
Well A Day in the Life takes some beating but how about The Fountain Of Salmacis by Genesis?
I am enamoured of Blue by Cat Power (a Joni Mitchell cover on Jukebox) and Inner City Blues by Marvin Gaye (on the stellar What's Going On).
However I think I'd have to go with Flamenco Sketches on Kind of Blue.
After a bit of thought, small hours from John Martyns One World - zonked!
Some good music on this thread lots of new stuff to listen to.
I forgot Crazy Man Michael by Fairport Convention. No video since it has to be Sandy Denny singing.
Muse: The Second Law - The Isolated System
