Buzzcocks - "Parts 1-3" EP
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
Too $hort's Gettin' It was advertised as his last album and he even calls it "the last album" on the first track.
Jay-Z also pulled a similar move on Hard Knock Life. Remember that whole intro about how Memphis Bleek was going to take his spot.
Rappers seem to do this a lot.
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
Was Bloodflowers supposed to be the last Cure album? Or did Robert Smith have a habit for a while of declaring the most recent record probably the last one?
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
yes and yes iirc
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
Pollard was pretty adamant about Half Smiles of the Decomposed being the last GBV album
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
the Who, Quadrophenia. As recording sessions wound down, Pete Townshend drafted a letter to his lawyer, saying he'd decided to leave the band. He never sent the letter.
the Who, The Who By Numbers. Not hyped/publicly stated as such, but it was intended at the time to be their final album.
the Who, It's Hard. "I wanna get out of the Who!" said Townshend, who kept his word this time by not recording a Who studio album for 24 years.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
Wasn't Orbital's Blue Album supposed to be their swan song?
― octobeard, Thursday, 2 August 2018 01:20 (five years ago) link
Hmm, tbf King Crimson pretty much did call it quits, and when they came back they not only sounded totally different but they were not even going to be called King Crimson.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 August 2018 01:24 (five years ago) link
xp: op
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 2 August 2018 01:26 (five years ago) link
bob mould, the last dog and pony show
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 August 2018 01:26 (five years ago) link
Machina/The Machines of God
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 2 August 2018 04:23 (five years ago) link
idkm about Smashie Pumpies, but wasn't Machina 2 always meant to follow Machina 1?
LCD and Orbital didn't come back as if nothing had happened either, the latter especially had a big-deal reunion and a significant change in writing credits when they subsequently did a new album
the new albums totally sounded like them, though
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 2 August 2018 04:46 (five years ago) link
Maybe, tho I do remember one or the other (or maybe the whole concept) as being presented as the end of the road.Wikipedia sez:
On May 23, Corgan announced on KROQ-FM that the band would be breaking up at the end of the year.[4] The band reconvened in a studio to finish off the leftover Machina tracks, but Virgin remained uninterested, so the band released Machina II on their own in September, handing them off to fans to distribute free over the Internet.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 2 August 2018 04:48 (five years ago) link
(I admit I am no great Pumpkins scholar, while there are others here who are...)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 2 August 2018 04:51 (five years ago) link
Every cure album was meant to be the last one, apart from the last one. Funny, that.
― Mark G, Thursday, 2 August 2018 07:41 (five years ago) link
Machina II, yes.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 2 August 2018 07:44 (five years ago) link
"the final cut"
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Friday, 3 August 2018 02:20 (five years ago) link
i think he meant the last gbv album that week.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 3 August 2018 04:06 (five years ago) link
Half Smiles was definitely the last GBV album at the time. There was a 6 or 7 year break. I guess he needed the name to ride on to pay bills again, because, when it comes down to it, GBV is really just the most popular name for him to release 20 songs at a time under.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 3 August 2018 04:11 (five years ago) link
Yeah, they played a "last ever gig" and everything.
Robert Smith declared every Cure album from Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me the "last Cure album", but I think Bloodflowers really was supposed to be and Smith was considering winding down the band after reaching his 40th birthday. I was surprised when it was announced they were working with Ross Robinson - all the praise from nu-metallers and alt. rockers must have given him the energy to continue.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 3 August 2018 06:33 (five years ago) link