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Here's some:
Arcade Fire - In the Backseat (Funeral)
Band - I Shall Be Released (Music From Big Pink)
Bruce Sprigsteen - Jungleland (Born to Run)
Who - Love Reign O'er Me (Quadrophenia)
Beatles - A Day in the Life (Sgt. Pepper's)
Love - You Set the Scene (Forever Changes)
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The Doors - The End
Bob Dylan - Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
The Zombies - Time of the Season
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Kandy Korn----Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band (Strictly Personal)
European Son----The Velvet Underground (debut)
My Body Is A Cage----Arcade Fire (Neon Bible)
Cop Shoot Cop----Spiritualized (LAGWAFIS)
The Private Psychedelic Reel----The Chemical Brothers (Dig Your Own Hole)
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Quote from: john k on June 07, 2015, 06:54:59 AM
European Son----The Velvet Underground (debut)
Wow, really? I truly want to like this one cause the rest of the album is like my favourite music ever. But it bores me to death, I can't lie...
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Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
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Quote from: Ovi on June 07, 2015, 02:00:51 PM
Quote from: john k on June 07, 2015, 06:54:59 AM
European Son----The Velvet Underground (debut)
Wow, really? I truly want to like this one cause the rest of the album is like my favourite music ever. But it bores me to death, I can't lie...
Sorry to hear that! Well, one man's meat etc.
When The Levee Breaks----Led Zeppelin (IV). What a great decision to place this skull-cruncher at the end of side 2 and "STH" at the end of side 1...
As for great BB album closers, I'd suggest "Cool, Cool Water" and "Surf's Up"----epic tracks both.
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Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name (Number of the Beast)
Queensryche - Eyes of a Stranger (Operation Mindcrime)
The Beach Boys - Surf's Up (Surf's Up)
Queen - The Show Must Go On (Innuendo)
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again (Who's Next)
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman (Diary of a Madman)
Pink Floyd - High Hopes (The Division Bell)
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The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again (Who's Next)
Absolutely!
It's All Too Much----Steve Hillage (L)
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Men At Work - Down By The Sea (Business As Usual)
Pink Floyd - Two Suns in the Sunset (The Final Cut)
Neil Young Crazy Horse - A Dream That Can Last (Sleeps With Angels)
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Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want (Let It Bleed)
Rolling Stones - Moonlight Mile (Sticky Fingers)
A great band with albums that often ended with duds? Try The Byrds.
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Just going through my iTunes library, here are some really great ones that haven't been mentioned.
Buffalo Springfield - Broken Arrow (Buffalo Springfield Again)
Paul McCartney - Nineteen Hundred Eighty Five (Band on the Run)
Paul McCartney - The Back Seat of My Car (Ram)
The Who - Love Reign O'er Me (Quadrophenia)
Lou Reed - Sad Song (Berlin)
Billy Joel - Captain Jack (Piano Man)
Billy Joel - Miami 2017 (Turnstiles)
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland (Born to Run)
Bruce Springsteen - My City of Ruins (The Rising)
Radiohead - Blow Out (Pablo Honey)
Radiohead - A Wolf At the Door (Hail to the Thief)
Carole King - You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman (Tapestry)
Paul Simon - The Late Great Johnny Ace (Hearts and Bones)
Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere (Little Creatures)
John Cale - Antarctica Starts Here (Paris 1919)
The Rolling Stones - Soul Survivor (Exile on Main Street)
The Shins - The Past and Pending (Oh, Inverted World)
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes (So)
Elvis Costello/Burt Bacharach - God Give Me Strength (Painted from Memory)
Bob Dylan - Sara (Desire)
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The one-two punch of Brain Damage/Eclipse closing out Dark Side of the Moon will never be "eclipsed."
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Get Out Of My House, (The Dreaming), Kate Bush
Supper's Ready (Foxtrot), Genesis
Los Endos, (A Trick Of The Tail), Genesis
The Confession, (Eli & The Thirteenth Confession), Laura Nyro
Run For Your Life, (Rubber Soul), Beatles
A Day In The Life, (Sgt Pepper), Beatles
The Morning Fog, (Hounds of Love), Kate Bush
Shadow of the Hierophant, (Voyage of the Acolyte), Steve Hackett
Secret World, (Us), Peter Gabriel
Burn Down The Mission, (Tumbleweed Connection), Elton John
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Ummm.....Caroline No?
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Traveling Wilburys - ST - End of the Line
The Who - Tommy - We're Not Gonna Take It / Listening to You
Rainbow - Rising - A Light in the Black
Black Sabbath - Vol 4 - Under the Sun
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Another tack might be to consider pairings of LP side closers (such as the aforementioned "Stairway" and "Levee"), how they relate (if at all) and what their purpose is.
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For sure. One of the greatest closers of all time. But its closing status is elevated further by the train whizzing by. It's genius. Theatrical -- but not overly theatrical, because you don't really expect it in the context of the song (or album). The train functions as the both the song's end of youth and innocence I suppose -- passing us by, but encapsulates the departure of everything covered in the album. It blows my mind every time -- left there by the side of the tracks, in silence -- with all that music echoing faintly in my memory.
Was it a dream? Is life all a dream? Where we ever really young? Where's "the train going?" Why are we not on it anymore? Do we get off the train when we stop and look back? Life's the train. Or is life here? Am I off my train? Is it a dream, when you're on the train -- and once you're off and looking back -- is that when you really understand life?
You know... those types of things.
I've always wondered how listeners perceived that at the time. Very psychedelic -- before all the fluffy, extraneous, meaninglessness pap that psychedelic music actually became (see Sgt Peeper -- sorry... cheap shot, yet so true
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Another tack might be to consider pairings of LP side closers (such as the aforementioned "Stairway" and "Levee"), how they relate (if at all) and what their purpose is.
When the CD format became truly realized as the new artistic format for programming albums (which I've always seen as happening with the Red Hot Chili Peppers',
Blood Sugar Sex Magic
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End of the Show - Dennis Wilson Pacific Ocean Blue!
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Quote from: Bean Bag on June 11, 2015, 07:13:12 AM
Quote from: john k on June 11, 2015, 07:00:30 AM
Another tack might be to consider pairings of LP side closers (such as the aforementioned "Stairway" and "Levee"), how they relate (if at all) and what their purpose is.
When the CD format became truly realized as the new artistic format for programming albums (which I've always seen as happening with the Red Hot Chili Peppers',
Blood Sugar Sex Magic
) -- I have occasionally lamented the loss of the LP format's "two movements" -- with the flipping of the album functioning as the intermission, similar to the great epic films.
Agreed. When listening to CDs that were originally recorded in the pre-CD era, you have to somehow build in that break in your mind.
An astute move by the reissuers (maybe some have done it?) would be to make the gap between "sides" at least a minute long, just to give the feeling of the LP's original two arcs. Surely then, for example, "Sloop John B" would make sense even to its detractors as the last track on side one, rather than the song just before "God Only Knows" (which itself suffers by following "SJB" far too quickly).
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A few that really work for me. OK, more than a few. I make no apologies. One of the below may be tongue in cheek. Some of you might think more than one is tongue in cheek.
"Her Majesty," the Beatles,
Abbey Road
"Two-Headed Boy, pt II," Neutral Milk Hotel,
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
"Purple Rain," Prince,
Purple Rain
"Night is the Day Turned Inside Out," Beulah,
The Coast is Never Clear
"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," Bob Dylan,
Bringing It All Back Home
"The Repudiated Immortals," Of Montreal,
The Sunlandic Twins
"A Day in the Life." the Beatles,
Sgt Pepper
"Reservations," Wilco,
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
"Lullabye," Ben Folds Five,
...Reinhold Messner
"Flightless Bird, American Mouth," Iron & Wine,
The Shepherd's Dog
"Wool," Earl Sweatshirt (feat. Vince Staples),
I Don't Like sh*t, I Don't Go Outside
"Ghost Dance 1492," Beachwood Sparks,
Make the Cowboy Robots Cry
"Judy and the Dream of Horses," Belle & Sebastian,
If You're Feeling Sinister
"Messed Around," Squeeze,
East Side Story
"Pale Green Things," The Mountain Goats,
The Sunset Tree
"Get It Wrong, Get It Right," Feist,
Metals
"Race For the Prize," The Flaming Lips,
The Soft Bulletin
"King Kong," Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention,
Uncle Meat
"Rocket Queen," Guns n Roses,
Appetite for Destruction
"Perfect Friend," Randy "Macho Man" Savage,
Be a Man
"Smile," Janelle Monae,
Metropolis: the Chase Suite
"Necessary," KRS-One,
By All Means Necessary
"Big Sky," Lou Reed,
Ecstasy
"Government Center," The Modern Lovers,
The Modern Lovers
"Someday, Someone," Jeremy Messersmith,
Heart Murmurs
"Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)," Jimi Hendrix Experience,
Electric Ladyland
"Oh Yoko!" John Lennon,
Imagine
"I'm Gonna Crawl," Led Zeppelin,
In Through the Out Door
"Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace," the Mountain Goats,
The Life of the World to Come
"Finale: The Magic Store," the Muppets,
The Muppet Movie
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"Eclipse" - Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
"The Good Times Are Killing Me" - Good News For People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse
"All Apologies" - In Utero - Nirvana
"Samointe" - Shepherd Moons - Enya
"Plenty More" - The Inevitable - Squirrel Nut Zippers
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"Oh Yoko!" John Lennon,
Imagine
Ugh, one of my least favourite Lennon songs. It's sort of like that Seinfeld episode where Jerry and his girlfriend call each other silly nicknames - "You're a schmoopy!"
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"Oh Yoko!" John Lennon,
Imagine
Ugh, one of my least favourite Lennon songs. It's sort of like that Seinfeld episode where Jerry and his girlfriend call each other silly nicknames - "You're a schmoopy!"
Oh well, such is life. I've got similar feelings (well, not the schmoopy part, but a negative reaction) about quite a few of the tunes I've seen listed as well. I think it's great. Not insightful, but bouncy and joyful. In fact, your schmoopy comment might be perfect--especially when one considers that being in the "schmoopy trading" relationship is bliss whether it nauseates everyone else or not. It's an "i'm in love and don't give a f***" kind of thing.
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Quote from: the captain on June 13, 2015, 08:37:54 AM
Oh well, such is life. I've got similar feelings (well, not the schmoopy part, but a negative reaction) about quite a few of the tunes I've seen listed as well.
Sure, and I love most of your list as well.
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In fact, your schmoopy comment might be perfect--especially when one considers that being in the "schmoopy trading" relationship is bliss whether it nauseates everyone else or not. It's an "i'm in love and don't give a f***" kind of thing.
I associate it more with a need to remind everyone around that "we're in love, look at us!". I like to think love is a bond much deeper than that and, as long as both persons feel it, there's no need for constant manifestation of it. But maybe it's got to do with the type of persons who behave that way that I've come in contact with.
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