Welcome to 2020 sound and vision.
To get you in the mood for the weekend, we’re offering a precious Golden Discs voucher worth exactly €25.
To be in with a chance of winning, simply tell me below what your favourite closing song is on an album.
Here’s mine (off this long player).
The winner will be chosen by my pet zebra.
Lines MUST close at 6am!
Please include video links if possible.
Nick says: Good luck.
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has anyone ever gotten their voucher? still waiting on my ‘Blue Moon’ voucher from before Christmas…..
I have gotten vouchers x 2, took a while but got there in the end :D
Has to be Return to Oz from Scissor Sisters ‘Ta Dah from 2004. Song deals with drugs within LGBT Community and herokm trip especially. Getting calls your friends have died
“It’s three o’clock in the morning,
You get a phone call
From the queen with a hundred heads
She says that they’re all dead
She tried the last one on
It couldn’t speak, fell off
And now she just wanders the halls
Thinking nothing
Thinking nothing at all”
The perfect end to a perfect album. 1965’s Bringing It All Back Home
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4HW33SgZlM
Nice. Loved Them’s version too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdb_3H-28dE
Great choice, Desolation Row and Sad eyed lady of the Lowlands are another pair of great closers from the man
Desolation row is one of my favourite Dylan songs for sure.
I inherited my father’s early vinyl press of Bringing It All Back Home. I like that the physical record I now have was listened to by him long before I was born. It gets a regular spin and is without doubt my favourite album of all time :-)
Desolation row is the closer on the 1970 isle of wight festival movie.
Poignant stuff, only a few brief months before woodstock was on, by the time IOW happened, it were all over for tge peace love and understanding brigade :(
Arctic Monkeys: ‘A Certain Romance’, last track on ‘whatever they say i am that what i not ‘
Depending on which version of Elbow’s Seldom Seen Kid you have, Friend of Ours is the Closing track. It’s an absolutely beautiful song and tribute to a much missed friend and one to listen to when cutting some onions or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To2QUZlSRi8
They have a knack for brilliant collosing tracks as Puncture Repair on Leader’s of the Free World is no less wonderful. Less than 2 minutes, but a wonderfully beautiful song about heartbreak and sadness and those moments when you need to open up but just can’t.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To2QUZlSRi8
Scatter Black and Whites on their debut is wonderful too.
When The Levee Breaks Led Zeppelin on Zeppelin IV brilliant
Nine Inch Nails – Hurt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty-bLdf8Bsw
Has to be stone roses i am the resurrection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY9g-PgSiGA
An unbelievable ending to an unbelievable album
The Beatles – A Day In The Life on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNsCeOV4GM
First track to come to mind for me. An absolute gem. Was going to try and come up with another closing album track. There’s no point, I’m just going to listen to this instead.
The Clash- Train in Vain on London Calling
The End – The Doors both deserver mentions I’d suppose
Americans from Dirty Computer By Janelle Monae
The Beatles A Day in the Life from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Auto Biographical, Orchestral perfection
And a nod to a Guinness heir.
https://www.beatlesbible.com/1966/12/18/tara-browne-dies/
it’s over now by Paddy Casey
https://youtu.be/JS5z756qyeg
From Amen (So Be It): http://www.paddycasey.ie/audio/amen-so-be-it
Paddy Casey is a mole on the backside of humanity and should be wedgied to within an inch of his pathetic, talentless life for crimes against decent music.
don’t like him ?
I’d get that lanced if I were you.
I Can’t Give Everything Away from Blackstar by David Bowie.
A fitting end to what he knew would be his final album.
If you got through the first listen of the album the week he died without welling up you’re a bigger man or woman than me.
https://youtu.be/OZscv36UUHo
Boogs, a popular tune, came second in Nick’s best of decade voucher comp last week: https://www.broadsheet.ie/2020/01/16/a-decade-under-the-influence/
Ah! Great minds and all that.
‘Only In Dreams’ by Weezer, from their self-titled debut album. The way the song begins and ends with each instrument being brought in/out separately…masterpiece.
https://youtu.be/4spkVX8z-vs
Two Suns in the Sunset
from The Final Cut, Pink Floyd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GknwOu8C_B0
Words (between the lines of age) closing Neil Young’s Harvest.
Definitely the best song to end a superb album. My fave from the loner too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMRcFpIn49o&list=PLliPCDRfP6LJFgyuE6O7AMU2es1zJZ2Jb&index=10
That’d be Epilogue the final song on Hospice, the third album from The Antlers.
A concept album about loss, death and broken relationships, Hospice’s bleak but soaring narrative is interwoven with dreams and imagined conversations. At turns harrowing and exhilarating, its coda, Epilogue, offers little in the way of respite or resolution.
Not easy listening.
https://youtu.be/1M03PITFUO0
+1 Love this
Jeff Buckley – Satisfied Mind
https://youtu.be/iCU3HXNGaAw
On a patchy collection the closing cover solidifies what a loss he was. Beautiful guitar work and a great example of his vocal ability.
Lambchop – The Hustle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf9wz5esgAo
While it’s not quite my favourite Pogues song (Rainy Night in SoHo), it’s still magnificent -and perhaps the best cover of Eric Bogle’s classic. It’s even better when closing out Rum, Sodomy and the Lash.
I am of course referring to ‘The Band Played Waltzing Matilda’.
It’s an emotional and emotive story and its meaning remains more relevant today than ever.
https://youtu.be/cZqN1glz4JY
I’d have to say ‘You’re Wondering Now’ from the 1979 eponymous Specials album.
It’s the perfect way to end a perfect album. A lovely wind down after 40 minutes of madness and the perfect reminder that you need to get up, pick another record of the shelf and switch it on turntable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEPfSWk0Lsw&feature=emb_title
When the night comes by the Boomtown Rats.
https://youtu.be/qi2J4CA5anQ
How do you finish an album full of diverse styles and themes? with one of the most diverse and interesting tunes you’ll ever hear. Particularly the guitar breaks as Spanish blends into electric.
if the end of Abbey Road can be counted as one song, that medley is one of the most amazing pieces of music in history. Including the jaunty “Her Majesty”.
Shout out to the reply above for Day in the Life. Originally the grove on the record was cut to repeat that terror inducing aural studio babble, over and over – while the pitch just before it would make your dog start barking. Try drift off into a stoned haze with all that going on…. yikes.
Was actually thinking of the very song when I read the brief. And not the only album with weird babble, nuclear bombs etc. (Which would always be playing the moment a senior family member would be in earshot, giving them even more reason to mistrust you).
Mr E’s Beautiful Blues on Daisies of the Galaxy by Eels
Didn’t want it on the album, and isn’t listed on the albums track listing instead there as bonus track.
He also hated shooting the video as it was tied into Road Trip movie so here’s a live version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ–3vVdzOI
What’s an album?
Hurt on The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails.
Is it just me or has the BS Prev and Next link navigation going backwards gone mad? Seems Nick’s post previous is possible issue?
Oh seems to be OK now. Sorry.
Someone at Google Viewed Your Profile, sorry for this. How is it now?
Seems OK on Safari, but loops on Firefox. Probably my machine, cache or summat. Thanks Bodger.
Pleasure, I’ll pass that on about Firefox to Stuart (‘sheet IT).
Porrohman on The Crossing by Big Country
Really good suggestions above, makings of a good mixtape.
Though my choice would have to be Street Spirit as the closer to Radiohead’s The Bends. A classic amongst the other classics on that album.
If you have 25 minutes to spare Billy the Mountain which takes up the entire B side of Just Another Band from LA by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention is worth a listen
https://youtu.be/ywL3ZkpAhwc
Chemical Brothers – ‘The Private Psychedelic Reel’
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tdT7GEhpM9A
Black Screen from LCD Soundsystem’s “American Dream”, in memory of Bowie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlltwhBlfv4
No video, just the song
Great call.
Murphy declined production duties on Blackstar but did play percussion on some tracks.
https://www.factmag.com/2017/09/02/lcd-soundsystem-american-dream-review/
There can be only one for me!
The Day before You Came by ABBA. My favourite song of theirs, and second favourite song of all time. I may not quite have been a last song on an album, but it was very much ABBA’s swan song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPCMPI_Xeic&ab_channel=NoMadU55555
The other version, with the guy on the rail station, is too upsetting for me today!
Either David Grays cover of Say hello, wave goodbye off White Ladder
Or Coldplay’s
*Death and and all his Friends*
which uses a remix/sample of John Hopkins Light through a Veins for last 2.5 minutes. beautiful and mellow way to finish the Viva la Vida album
The Beatles: A Day in the Life
Desolation row is the best
‘The Harp that once through Tara’s halls’ by Eleanor McEvoy, a raucous finale to her album ‘The Thomas Moore Project’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_RTBRUGUhk
I Won’t Share You- The Smiths
If Strangeways, Here We Come weren’t already so heartbreaking sad and romantic.. then what a beautiful conclusion
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uAytConbtcA
If oasis, pulp, baby bird, elbow, james, blur etc had never happened, no wait, even though they did happen.
The single most timeless album of the 90’s has to be lost souls by doves.
Every, single, track, is pure, spun, solid gold and each one leaves you acheing for more, none less than the closer “a house”
Well its that or “eclipse” by yer floyd.
Eclipse from Pink Floyd’s- Dark Side Of The Moon.
The album starts with a heartbeat, brings you on an epic journey of the human soul and ends with a heartbeat.
Perfection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmCA4Y8fUZo
Lankum, ‘Hunting the Wren’, the final track on their album ‘The Livelong Day’
A song based on the true story of ‘The Wrens of the Curragh’, a small colony of some of Ireland’s homeless in the middle of the 19th century. The Wrens were an assortment of pregnant young women, alcoholic women, mentally frail women and ‘fallen women’ who lived in holes scooped out of the ground on the Curragh of Kildare with gorse as their covering. At that time around one third of the British army was made up of Irishmen and some of the pregnant young women had probably made their way to the burgeoning military camp on the Curragh in search of the young men who were in part responsible for their condition but who had legged it from the small towns and villages that they came from. Over a period of around five decades many of the women became ‘professionals’, camp followers. Denounced and castigated by local clergy the Wrens were often attacked by ‘pious’ Irishmen who burned their nests and assaulted the women. Of course, in those days militant clerics yearned for a theocratic state and were content to whip up mobs that saw it as righteous punishment to attack the unfortunate Wrens.
So, not a happy song but a piece relating to a morsel of our history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqgYbPlZNsM
The Chieftains’ finale to Another Country in which various artists including Emmylou Harris, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and others go on a guided tour from Did you Ever Go Courting through Goodnight Irene, Let the Circle Be Unbroken and Yonder Stands My Own True Love and ends in an anarchic knock-down-the-barn dance. That or Morgenspaziergang from Kraftwerk’s Autobahn
Hard to argue against A Day in the Life, but I’d also throw in “Hymn of the Big Wheel” from Massive Attack’s brilliant Blue Lines
https://youtu.be/_M9muYyYxhI
PS What, no Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide from Z. Stardust?