There are worse tracks on it for other reasons, but nothing bores the shit out of me like 'Going Home' at the end of Aftermath
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 14:30 (six years ago) link
* Zen Arcade - Reoccurring Dreams
This is a highlight -- maybe the highlight -- of Zen Arcade for me. I always wished they released more stuff like this.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 14:31 (six years ago) link
Co-sign "And This Day".
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
Run For Your Life is a good enough rocker, tho obviously not up to the standard of the rest of the album. I think Dizzy Miss Lizzie is my Beatles pick for this category
Tempted to go for "Her Majesty" here but I'm not sure whether it counts as the closing track on the album, being more of a hidden track which isn't what this thread is about.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 14:45 (six years ago) link
* Zen Arcade - Reoccurring DreamsThis is a highlight -- maybe the highlight -- of Zen Arcade for me. I always wished they released more stuff like this.― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, April 10, 2018 10:31 AM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is a highlight -- maybe the highlight -- of Zen Arcade for me. I always wished they released more stuff like this.― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, April 10, 2018 10:31 AM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I would love Reoccurring Dreams as a 4 minute song, but as it stands, I'm pretty sick of it by the 23rd reprise of that riff, and would like the album better if it wasn't on there.
― enochroot, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link
'Reoccurring Dreams' is the only song I care about on Zen Arcade.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link
Closing tracks that overstay their welcome:* Zen Arcade - Reoccurring Dreams* The College Dropout - Last Call* They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top - This Dust Makes That Mud
― enochroot, Tuesday, April 10, 2018 7:24 AM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sure but they're all awesome? and one of them is a loop ffs
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
I always assumed the purpose of “And This Day” was to run out the album length to the (titular) hour...
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
Thriller, "The Lady in My Life."
― dinnerboat, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
I like And This Day. It's not, like, a great song, but as aimless jams go it's OK.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
There are worse tracks on it for other reasons, but nothing bores the shit out of me like 'Going Home' at the end of Aftermath― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, April 10, 2018 2:30 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, April 10, 2018 2:30 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
'Goin' Home' is in the middle of the LP.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
last track on the US version
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
And maybe the quintessential example, Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s excellent, overlooked album Broken Arrow ends with a pointless cover of Baby What You Want Me To Do that sounds like it was recorded on a Walkman from the back of a tiny club.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, April 10, 2018 6:06 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
good pick, it really is an underrated album but i think this cover version kind of makes it feel cheap and tossed off (the *album* cover, which looks like a Xerox of a nice piece of art, doesn't do any favors either.)
― omar little, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
I really can't think of many good examples of this. I mean, Mercury Rev's Boces probably didn't have to end with Girlfren, but equally why not - at least it's completely bonkers
― imago, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
I also think of “And This Day” along the same lines as the Gaffney song at the end of Sebadoh III – sort of a closing endurance test, to leave the listener bruised & battered. Punk rock, man...
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
yeah like Fodderstompf
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link
Somebody feel like convincing me "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party" on "Ummagumma" is not a load of old pony?
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link
"Ummagumma" not really a great album though tbf.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
kornrulez, The category is "Great albums with terrible last songs." You may not like "Oddfellows Local 151" but is it terrible?
I kinda like it. It's not my favorite song on that album, but in no way is it album-ruiningly terrible.
― like hell, but with more ketchup (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
Ummagumma ends with a mindblowing Saucerful Of Secrets and the studio album is a lie made up to scare children
― imago, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
― like hell, but with more ketchup (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, April 10, 2018 9:30 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
personally i love doomy r.e.m. a la "oddfellows" "old man kensey" and "i remember california"
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
oddfellows is one of my favourites on document, would definitely rather hear that than any of the hits these days
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:43 (six years ago) link
'Me In Honey' isn't terrible, but it's a very nothingy way to end a very good album.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:56 (six years ago) link
Welcome to Sky Valley
― Dinsdale, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link
Oddfellows is decent. Verses better than chorus.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 19:35 (six years ago) link
xp isn't that last track technically a hidden track?
― stormzy daniels (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 19:40 (six years ago) link
The Beach Boys 'Today'
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, April 10, 2018 5:40 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
xp yeah but still, I wish this had never existed
― Dinsdale, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, "Outro" is the moment when it finally hits the schlock it's been skirting for the whole album
― austinb, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
I also think "New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down" sucks
― austinb, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
lol I think I had mentally blocked "Twisted" out of Court and Spark
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
Maybe a bit of a challop, but I never really liked the way "Her Majesty" caps off Abbey Road. It's almost like they had too good an ending and they felt an urge to goof on it to show that they weren't taking themselves too seriously with those dramatic chords.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
terrible may be an overstatement, but I don't need to hear Torn Curtain by Television again
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
I have the opposite opinion about "Her Majesty"; I find it reasonably charming and wish it had been taken seriously, or at least included in its "entirety" (though not necessarily last).
The "cut off in mid-song" gimmick wasn't any more welcome when it appeared on Dark Side of the Moon (isn't this where we came in?). I mean I get that you are cheekily experimenting but songs are good, more songs please
― like hell, but with more ketchup (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
I love the fact that Mercury Rev put Girlfren out as a single, whatever in the name of fuck that was supposed to achieve
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
haha did they!! that's amazing. david baker was too good & pure for this earth
― imago, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
The "cut off in mid-song" gimmick wasn't any more welcome when it appeared on Dark Side of the Moon (isn't this where we came in?)
You mean The Wall.
xp
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
Yes, they retitled Girlfriend 'The Hum Is Coming From Her'. Apparently there was an argument over which title it would have, so they compromised by using a different one on the album and single. I wonder if that is the reason why it had to come out as one. Surely not. Fuck knows.
https://www.discogs.com/Mercury-Rev-The-Hum-Is-Coming-From-Her/release/7245371
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
There's a killer live take of And This Day, as a filler on one of the reissues. It pretty much smokes the standard version imho. And yes, it goes on forever but still, it makes it. Whats the last track on Notorious Byrd Brothers? I seem to remember that as a major dud (unless you were tripping, maybe).
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link
anagram: crap, sorry, mea culpa
― like hell, but with more ketchup (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
Also i never liked the medley at the end of Down by the Jetty. Those horns! Yeesh! Btw i just got the Wilko era Feelgoods box from Amazon, and while yes the Cds are nicely done, (remastered etc)and the booklet could've used a proofreader. The DVD is to die for. And is worth the purchase price by itself. My god they were a phenomenal live act in their day.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
In fact, think i'll watch it now!
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:30 (six years ago) link
The Byrds had an odd habit of ending their albums with less than stellar tracks.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
Massive Attack’s Protection.
Not only do I hate studio albums with live cuts tacked into the end but this cover isn’t good either.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
Space Odyssey, that's the one. From it's cornball title on down.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
Oh I just saw it was already mentioned.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 22:04 (six years ago) link
OK, here's an actual great album (ymmv) with an actual terrible last song - Get Your Goat by Shudder To Think. Funny, the song is called, and funny it is not. In fact it's embarrassing. Still, the good thing about last songs is they're easy to skip, which was what I always did back in my STT-worshipping days. Just played the song again and it hasn't improved with the years.
― We're comin' to your town, we'll party down, we're a Kobaian band (Matt #2), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 22:32 (six years ago) link
I bet ILM consensus says otherwise, but for me it's "Too Long" on Discovery. This is one of the few albums I actually will stop before the last track ends.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 22:53 (six years ago) link
Matt #2 – I have a pal who is a STT fanatic! You guys should share notes...
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
― kornrulez6969
i'm gonna listen to it again right now!
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 02:28 (six years ago) link