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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

There was a promo, if that helps.

xpost I thought we'd dropped the "first" single qualif?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:38 (eighteen years ago) link

There's life in the 'first' single qualifier yet:

The Sweetest Girl off Songs To Remember.

― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Galaxie 500's Today ("Tugboat")

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link

a quick search from http://pheadweb.com/singles.htm shows the portishead singles in the UK as :

glory box: Apr 04 94
numb: Jun 06 94
sour times: Jul 25 94

looks like they were possibly in a different order in other countries though.

― mrh (mark h), Thursday, 13 October 2005 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Neil Young--Rocking in the Free World (last song on Freedom)

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I kinda like it when an LP-closing single feels a little more self-consciously trivial, happy-go-luckier you might say, than the music that preceded it. "Train In Vain" is like that, and so are "Flash Light" and "Love Train". It's as tho they're saying "Here's one you probably know already, just a bit of silly nonsense really, but we enjoyed recording it. Hope you like it." Has a sort of humanizing effect, in a way...I don't know what I mean...

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

OTM. Didn't The Clash originally take that too far by not even listing "Train In Vain" on the sleeve?

I came THIS close to offering Dexys' Too-Rye-Ay, but "Come On Eileen" wasn't actually its first UK single, and more shockingly, I find that it wasn't even the last track on some copies!?! *brain melts*

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 14 October 2005 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link

glory box: Apr 04 94
numb: Jun 06 94
sour times: Jul 25 94

Interesting. Is "Sour Times" not the most popular Portishead song in the UK, though? In the US, if you know nothing else by Portishead, you know that song.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 October 2005 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Didn't The Clash originally take that too far by not even listing "Train In Vain" on the sleeve?

The sleeve was done before the song was written & recorded.

― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 15 October 2005 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link

prince batdance - batman soundtrack. this might be the best selling,most popular and highest charting lp.

paul mccartney - freedom - not listed in book.
the 16th song on a 15 track but it's not hidden - the sticker says "freedom".

inxs - shabooh shoobah
i think "don't change" was the first single ???

― retroboy, Saturday, 15 October 2005 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Oasis "Let there be love" off "Don't believe the truth"
-- mark grout (mark.grou...), October 13th, 2005.
"lyla " was the first single,dude

― retroboy, Saturday, 15 October 2005 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link

new order didn't include " blue monday " on early copies.
psuedo echo didn't include " funkytown " on early copies.

― retroboy, Saturday, 15 October 2005 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link

George Harrison "Got My Mind Set On You"
-- Elvis Telecom (quartzcit...), June 24th, 2004.
you beat me to it - i discovered disappointingly this song was about 30 years old.

today's my birthay.

― retroboy, Saturday, 15 October 2005 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Not the first single, but "Champagne Supernova" closing What's The Story...

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 15 October 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

2nd single-Cars:Dangerous Type

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Saturday, 15 October 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

"Long As I Can See the Light" - CCR, Cosmo's Factory

This album spawned no less than seven charters.

Travelin' Band
Who'll Stop The Rain
Up Around The Bend
Run Through The Jungle
Lookin' Out My Back Door
Long As I Can See The Light
I Heard It Through The Grapevine

But I always thought Lookin' Out My Back Door was the first to be released as a single, granted with Long As I Can See The Light as a b side, which later got it's own airplay. I could be totally wrong though, just going from memory on this one. Great album!

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link

six years pass...

Sonic Youth - "The Diamond Sea" / Washing Machine
Nas - "If I Ruled The World (Imagine That)" / It Was Written
Pulp - "Sunrise" / We Love Life

― Planned Perrintweet (some dude), Friday, 20 January 2012 12:43 (twelve years ago) link

Beyonce - "Run The World (Girls)" / 4

― @51TimesNo (some dude), Friday, 20 January 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link

eight months pass...

Green Day - "Oh Love" / ¡Uno!

― some dude, Thursday, 18 October 2012 01:53 (eleven years ago) link

Grateful Dead: "Truckin'" (American Beauty)

― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 18 October 2012 03:54 (eleven years ago) link

Farrah Abraham - "Finally Getting Up From Rock Bottom" (My Teenage Dream Ended)

― Oneohchex Point Charlie (Spectrist), Thursday, 18 October 2012 04:59 (eleven years ago) link

^ haha was just gonna mention that!

― teledyldonix, Thursday, 18 October 2012 05:24 (eleven years ago) link

^ clicked on this thread specificallly to post that

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 18 October 2012 11:12 (eleven years ago) link

Word Of Mouth by Mike & The Mechanics
Constant Craving by kd lang

― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Thursday, 18 October 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link

Lucky Man by ELP

― frogbs, Thursday, 18 October 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link

Destroyer - Bay of Pigs (Kaputt)

― MarkoP, Thursday, 18 October 2012 15:56 (eleven years ago) link

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