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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)

Oasis "Let there be love" off "Don't believe the truth"

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

'Sour Times' was before 'Glory Box' too iirc

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

or, being accurate, a single at all.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:25 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

Galaxie 500's Today ("Tugboat")

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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