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I think "Love Her Madly" was the first single off of L.A. Woman, but I can't guarantee it.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 00:55 (nineteen years ago) link

"get low" is 19 of 21.

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 00:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Isn't "Just a Little While" the last track on the new Janet Jackson?
Also, if you're dropping the qualifier, "Street Spirit (Fade Out)", Radiohead.

― Simon H., Tuesday, 1 June 2004 01:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Human League - "Don't You Want Me" (from Dare)

I can't believe no one posted that yet!

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 01:29 (nineteen years ago) link

"Mrs Robinson" off the Lemonheads "Its a Shame About Ray" though again, I think that was tacked on afterwards, wasnt it.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 02:38 (nineteen years ago) link

yep

― the surface noise made by people (electricsound), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link

"Hey Hey My My"? It wasn't any kind of hit, so I can't find info anywhere, but I think that "This Is Uncool" author picked it as one of his favorite singles.

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Fishbone's "Sunless Saturday" was either the first or second single off Reality of My Surroundings.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 12:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Depeche Mode - "Just can't get enough"
Madonna - "Vogue"

― Seb (Seb), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Nirvana - All Apologies?

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link

"Heart-Shaped Box" was the first single, but you're right.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought all apologies was last on the unplugged album, but after consulting allmusic, I am proven wrong..

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

George Harrison "Got My Mind Set On You"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 24 June 2004 00:24 (nineteen years ago) link

The Magnetic Fields: "100,000 Fireflies" (Distant Plastic Trees) - although, in its original version, DPT ended with "Plant White Roses"
Kate Bush: "Hammer Horror" (Lionheart)
Kate Bush: "Breathing" (Never For Ever)

If there were no singles, does "first video" count? If so, then:
The Sundays: "Joy" (Reading Writing and Arithmetic)
Pale Saints: "Time Thief" (The Comforts of Madness)

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Thursday, 24 June 2004 01:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Was "Get Back" the first single from "Let It Be"? It's the same take as the album track, albeit a different mix, and missing the intro/outro chatter. (Checks,) Yep -- it preceded the album by nearly a year, in fact.

― phil dennison, Thursday, 24 June 2004 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link

"Eighties" was the last track on NightTime by Killing Joke.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 24 June 2004 02:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Pulp "Coundown" album was the singles in reverse order. So, that one.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 24 June 2004 09:07 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

odd little thread to dig up sure but i've always been mildly fascinated by track sequencing and was excited to play hums of the lovin spoonful and hear that "summer in the city" is the last track. seemed strangely hip

― jared, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link

isn't "number one" (ie the lovely alpinestars rip-off that closes goldfrapp's "supernature") their next single?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Caribou - "Barnowl"

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Throwing Muses - Shark ('Limbo')
Ellen Allien - Magma ('Thrills')

only two I can think of off the top of my head.

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link

mclusky - whoyouknow

― mark h (mark h), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link

"Galang" of course.

― Sami (Sami), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 00:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Libertines - What became of the likely lads?

― feminazi (feminazi), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Built To Spill: Untrustable Pt 2--only single/video made from Perfect From Now On

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 02:28 (eighteen years ago) link

*gets thrill beyond reason that he thought of one that hasn't been said yet*

David Bowie, "Fame," Young Americans

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 02:33 (eighteen years ago) link

The Breeders - "Huffer" (from the "Title TK" album)

― Voodoo Child, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 02:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Incidentally, how does everybody FEEL about singles being the last track? Makes no difference at all, ruins the album, what? "Strangely hip" howso? I always kind of felt like "Electrolite" off REM's New Adventures in Hi-Fi was ruined or its finality dampened by hearing the thing on the radio so much. On the other hand, I might never have bought the CD without that and "Be Mine," so who knows....

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 11:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't really like it. I like a surprise at the end of an album.

Plus, nearly all artists try a *bit* harder to leave some kind of good impression with the closer.

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Pet Shop Boys' "Jealousy" closed Behaviour and was a single.

― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link

ABBA Gold- Waterloo is the last track AND first single from the album.

Heh.

― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Hmm, Lloyd Cole's 'Don't Get Weird On Me, Babe'- 'She's A Girl & I'm A Man' first single and last track.

― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link

wire - "12XU" (?)

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Zombies - "Time of The Season"

― mike a, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Stone Roses - "Fools Gold" (USA)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

portishead - glory box

― mrh (mark h), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

"Take a Bow" is the closer on Bedtime Stories and it always sounds out of place to me.

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link

but wasnt "secret" the first single from bedtime stories?

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link

The Clash - Train In Vain, unless i'm mistaken?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes but that qualifier was removed a while ago upthread.
(x-post)

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Young Americans would feel completely different to me if it closed with, say, "Somebody Up There Likes Me" instead of "Fame." With the latter closing, it felt like Bowie was saying, "here's a clue to where I'm going next," which he indeed pursued with the even stiffer funk of Station to Station. After David Sanborn and the backing vocalists dominated most of YA, he used the closing track to reclaim the album for himself. I dig.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Doubt this counts for accuracy, but "Would?" from Alice in Chains' Dirt (original release as single via Singles soundtrack duly acknowledged).

― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link

"Long As I Can See the Light" - CCR, Cosmo's Factory
"Josie" - Steely Dan, Aja

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 13 October 2005 00:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't really know why it felt hip but I guess because "Summer in the City" is the most mainstream way to talk about subversive New York culture ("but at night it's a different world") that it is like a day-glo forebearer released in '66 about how whacked out the rest of that decade was going to get. The other tracks on the album just don't match that song's I guess cultural awareness and by it coming at the end it works in the same way that Joseph described "Fame" at the end of Young Americans but on a broader level than just what the group was going to do next and more where even the jangliest pop was to some degree heading.

It reminds me of "Sunset People" thematically and effectually from the end of Bad Girls in that it just sort of wanders off into the night and there anything can happen.

― jared, Thursday, 13 October 2005 02:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Actually, "Don't You Want Me" came after "Sound of the Crowd" if I'm not mistaken (please tell me I'm not).
And "Just Can't Get Enough" was a second single.

All I can think of is "California Rhinoplasty" from Matmos' A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure.

― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 13 October 2005 04:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Oasis "Let there be love" off "Don't believe the truth"

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:18 (eighteen years ago) link

portishead - glory box
-- mrh (alternativere...), October 12th, 2005.

i think 'numb' came first, and 'lyla!' was the first single off the oasis lp.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:22 (eighteen years ago) link

'Sour Times' was before 'Glory Box' too iirc

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Blur's "This is a Low" (which is the last song if not the last track on Parklife) was a UK single
-- de (ke...), May 30th, 2004.

so neither the first single nor the last track then! woot!

― N_RQ, Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:25 (eighteen years ago) link

or, being accurate, a single at all.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:25 (eighteen years ago) link

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Al Stewart - "Year of the Cat"

― henry s, Monday, 31 August 2015 22:19 (eight years ago) link

"Better Be Home Soon" - Crowded House, Temple of Low Men

― Turkey, Monday, 31 August 2015 23:22 (eight years ago) link

Lady Gaga - "Applause" Artpop

― Sharia Law and Lambchop (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 00:52 (eight years ago) link

Saw this at the record store today, did the research, and it's a kinda-sorta:

Julie Brown - "The Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun" Trapped in the Body of A White Girl (It was the more popular b-side to "I Like 'Em Big And Stupid")

― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 01:37 (eight years ago) link

Barry White did it a few times. I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby, Let The Music Play and Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up were the lead singles and the last songs on their albums.

The Go-Betweens - Man O' Sand Girl O' Sea from Spring Hill Fair

Madonna - Everybody from her debut

Scritti Politti - The Sweetest Girl from Songs To Remember

The Flaming Lips - Bad Days from Clouds Taste Metallic

Todd Terje - Inspector Norse from It's Album Time

― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 02:33 (eight years ago) link

Commodores - Easy from Zoom/Commodores

― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 02:39 (eight years ago) link

eight months pass...

Lemonade

― soyrev, Friday, 6 May 2016 04:43 (seven years ago) link

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