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There is a few albums that were the final that stick out in my head but i'mma just have to go with Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door(Coda doesn't count)..thats my favorite goodbye album :D
yours?

ITTOD was FARRRR from a goodbye record, it was a revelation for the band.

Now Abbey Road... That's a goodbye!

Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
The Byrds - Farther Along
Spanky and Our Gang - Anything You Choose/Without Rhyme Or Reason

you didn't like in through the out door? i'm gonna crawl? :/

For me, it was real hard when McGuinn decided to disband the Clarence White era of the Byrds.  They made a bunch of really great records, some of them not very well known.  Farther Along has Clarence singing the title tune as well as a beautiful weeper, Bugler.

"Dry your eyes and stand up straight, Bugler's got a place at the Pearly Gates, say goodbye, oh say goodbye....."

That was a gosh darn fine band McGuinn/White/Gene Parsons and John York or Skip Battin.

Electric Ladyland is great too :)

Abbey Road  ;D ,Queens "made in heaven", the Monkees "Justus"

Laughing Stock by Talk Talk
Strangeways, Here We Come by The Smiths
Nite Flights by The Walker Brothers

I disagree with none of this

Who Are You? by the Who (the final album with the original lineup)
The Division Bell - Pink Floyd
"Let it Be" (single) - Beatles
The Argument - Fugazi
Avalon - Roxy Music
Think Tank - blur
Sublime - Sublime

L.A. Woman, if you don't count Other Voices and Full Circle.

2nd for "LA Woman."  Also "The 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus", which was essentially the last album by the original lineup of Spirit, though many other LPs came out under that moniker through the years.  And this doesn't quite count, but the half-LP for Otis Redding (other side Jimi Hendrix) "Live at Monterrey".  And does "Fresh" count for Sly and the Family Stone?

Oh, and shoot, the first AND last album by the Sex Pistols -- "Never Mind the Bollocks"!

division bell is fuckin amazing :)

that album is overrated f***! -______- (wasp?been down so long?crawling king snake?)

LA Woman is my 2nd favorite Doors LP, after Morrison Hotel.  I really dug where they were going in the end; kinda paralleled the Stones with their blusier, more "American" LPs of that period.  Would have loved to see where they would have gone.  And I actually like "Other Voices" and "Full Circle"!  What can I say....

You can argue "Cry of Love" was Hendrix's last album proper, and its a goodun.

Syd Barrett - Barrett

Apart from a BBC radio session in February 1971, and an aborted attempt at recording new material in August 1974, this is Syd Barrett's last statement as recording artist, and a fine one it is too.

Elvis Presley-Moody Blue. A rag tag collection that shouldn't work but it does.
First Edition-I'm Not Making My Music For Money
Charlie Rich-Pictures And Paintings
Buddy Holly-Buddy Holly
Ritchie Valens-Ritchie Valens.
Ronettes-Presenting
Outsiders-CQ
Solomon Burke-Don't Give Up On Me (I guess it was his last)
Rutles- Archeology
Creation-We Are The Paintermem.
Syd Barrett-Barrett

morrison hotel is my favorite doors album :) every single song was solid plus it has my favorite song "indian summer"

The Clash-Cut the Crap
Velvet Underground-Squeeze
Infant Sorrow-African Child  :lol
And prior to TWGMTR being released...Beach Boys-Summer in Paradise!


 :lol :lol :lol

Blink 182 - Self-titled !

They've come out with an album after that one.

Ice Cream For Crow-Captain Beefheart

"That's Why God Made The Radio" could own this category for me if indeed it is the last new record by The Beach Boys.

It was supposed to be the final album.

Stars and stripes vol 2 (their next release)  :o :o

Adios Amigos by The Ramones.

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Mardi Gras

Oh no I loved it, it just wasn't meant to be their last album.

Highway To Hell (final album for Bon Scott)

Oh, and Black Ice IF it is to be AC/DC's last.

Talking Heads: Naked

Love it!!!!!

i thought it was :p well i'm still kind of happy it is..if they would've kept on going it would've either been more great music or their decline at least they have a safe legacy and quit at the right time like the who/ccr did..
some groups just don't quit and keep releasing shitty music smh

 KING BEE - Muddy Waters
 L.A. WOMAN - The Doors
 LOADED - The Velvet Underground
 PINK MOON - Nick Drake
 (can't recall title) - R.E.M.

George Harrison's Brain Washed is about as fine a final album as one could wish for.

"Loaded"...of course....

Brainwashed was great!

Oh, Stuck Inside A Cloud needs to be on my list of songs that make me cry.....

CLOSER - Joy Division
MYSTERY GIRL - Roy Orbison
TO HEAVEN AND BACK - The Call
TELECOMMANDO AMERICANO - Material Issue
BAMBU - Dennis Wilson  :(

Wow! I havent thought about Material Issue in ages. International Pop Overthrow was in heavy rotation in high school. I need to dig that disc out of the vault. Tragic story about their lead singer....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcRtlj8KXT4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjnNERIy0HI&feature=relmfu

The last album released by Material Issue before Jim Ellison's death was FREAK CITY SOUNDTRACK which, for me, is their best album - about as good as power pop/rock gets. TELECOMMANDO AMERICANO is a collection of fairly polished demos recorded  several months before Ellison's suicide. Not as good as FREAK CITY (nor IPO), but a collection strong enough to confirm the band was still viable if unable to get a decent record deal.

Only the 2nd of 2, but "Spilt Milk" by Jellyfish, the band that would be king....

No, it doesn't.

Damn straight! Nick's Smiley Smile, minus the joy and goofiness.

"The Division Bell" by Pink Floyd is a good one, so is "Mystery Girl" by Roy Orbison. And there's "Abbey Road" of course.

But my very favorite? "Innuendo" by Queen (last album with Freddie alive). Solid album with great songs, the title track being possibly one of the best pieces of music ever made.

Abbey Road - The Beatles
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
Collapse Into Now - REM
Ghost on the Canvas -Glen Campbell

i always loved the album cover for innuendo :)

Agreed with innuendo, that song is amazing

More love for Pink Moon here. I've shed the odd tear here and there whilst listening to it. I like the Smiley Smile comparison since the album doesn't feel like a natural progression from the first two; very minimalist and unadorned. Love it.

The only other ones I can really name are:
Synchronicity - The Police
Foot of the Mountain - a-ha
American IV - Johnny Cash (in his lifetime)

Back To Black - Amy Winehouse

good choice :)..(Me & Mr. Jones & Love is a Losing Game are two of my all time favorites)

I second the Amy Winehouse, Smiths, VU Loaded, and Johnny Cash suggestions. Beatles is a good, if obvious choice. One of my all time favorites is the Zombies Odessey and Oracle. Talk about going out with a bang--a huge hit with "Time of the Season" plus an album full of AMAZING songs. I think it's admirable that they moved on despite having the biggest hit of their career.

Especially like the Lonely Sea feel of Wake Up Alone. Only got into Amy recently, never realised her talent...

This is a tough category since most acts don't know when to quit when they're ahead, but I came  up a few good ones:

The Beatles- Abbey Road (obvious)
The Style Council- Confessions Of A Pop Group
Pizzicato Five- Ca et la du Japon (Here and There In Japan)
Combustible Edison- The Impossible World

You mean "Squeeze"???  ???

loaded is their last album with lour reed :)

The Raspberries - Starting Over
Blue Cheer - Oh Pleasant Hope
Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
The Cowsills - On My Side
The Zombies - Oddessy & Oracle

The Cowsills and The Zombies have made albums after the ones you've listed (two examples - Global and Breathe Out, Breathe In)

Yeah...but 'Oddessy' was released in 1967 and 'Breath In' was released in 2012 (w/o Paul--R.I.P.) so I think it's kinda goofy to include recent albums by 'revived' 60s bands in this thread. 'Global' is a great record too...but it is also something of a "latter-day" revival album that's missing some crucial Cowsill input. Blue Cheer additionally hit the revival circuit in the 80s & 90s with either Paul, Dickie or both recording and touring with various hack guitarists, but I don't believe that such enterprises square up with the original intent of this thread.

Traveling Wilburys -- Volume 3

 :hat

I was just reminded of Spilt Milk by Jellyfish. Great band that only made two  (studio) albums. Can a reunion album be far away?

Good lord, I hope so. Have you heard Roger Manning's solo album? It's pretty good!

Warren Zevon - The Wind