when the last track on the album is the first single

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Suede "Saturday Night" from "Coming Up"
and The Chemical Bros. "Private Psychedelic Reel" from "Dig Your Own Hole"

― Neil FC (Neil FC), Monday, 31 May 2004 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Renée And Renato: 'Save Your Love', can't remember the name of the album.
... and 'Trash', not 'Saturday Night' was the first single off 'Coming Up'. And surely 'Block Rockin' Beats' was the first single off 'Dig Your Own Hole'?

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 31 May 2004 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"Bohemian Rhapsody," Queen, A Night at the Opera (I know they played "God Save the Queen" at the end of the record for a minute.)

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 31 May 2004 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Capone N Noreaga - Closer
ARE Weapons - Hey World (i *think*)

― jake in portland (cerybut), Monday, 31 May 2004 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

NIN -- Hurt

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Monday, 31 May 2004 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Xpost to Jonathan Z.

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 (twenty-two years ago)

"get low" is 19 of 21.

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

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

"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 (twenty-two years ago)

yep

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

"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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― Seb (Seb), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Nirvana - All Apologies?

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

George Harrison "Got My Mind Set On You"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 24 June 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 24 June 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 24 June 2004 09:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

Caribou - "Barnowl"

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

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 (twenty years ago)

mclusky - whoyouknow

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

"Galang" of course.

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

Libertines - What became of the likely lads?

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

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

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

*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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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

Heh.

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

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 (twenty years ago)

wire - "12XU" (?)

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

Zombies - "Time of The Season"

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

Stone Roses - "Fools Gold" (USA)

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

portishead - glory box

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

"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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

"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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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Lucky Man by ELP

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

Destroyer - Bay of Pigs (Kaputt)

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

two years pass...

ariel pink's "baby" cover (mature themes)

― soyrev, Monday, 31 August 2015 05:48 (ten years ago)

Mr E's Beautiful Blues was the first single off "Daisies of the Galaxy" and was actually so the last track, it was the 'unlisted extra track'

The Eels, obv.

― Mark G, Monday, 31 August 2015 20:10 (ten years ago)

was gonna say C-Murder's "Down for My Ns" but damn it, "Street Thugs" appears after it.

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 31 August 2015 21:37 (ten years ago)

Al Stewart - "Year of the Cat"

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

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

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

Lady Gaga - "Applause" Artpop

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

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

Commodores - Easy from Zoom/Commodores

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

eight months pass...

Lemonade

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

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