Your favorite songs that are buried at the end of very long albums

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Robyn Hitchcock's "Aquarium" is one of the most beautiful songs ever written, fr'instance, and I think it's like track 16 or 17 on Eye.

roger, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

"Foreign Accents" on Robert Wyatt's Cuckooland.

The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Boards Of Canada, "Happy Cycling"
Todd Rundgren, "Don't You Ever Learn?" (track 16 of 17 on Todd)

Deluxe (Damian), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link

"The Clown Song" at the end of The One That Got Away, Thin White Rope's great live album, is my favourite moment on there.

StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Blue Line Swinger on Yo La Tengo's Electro Pura

kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 00:15 (eighteen years ago) link

goddamned right.

D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Archers of Loaf - Distance Comes In Droves off All the Nations Airports

Robert8563748, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link

"Love Cliche" at the end of Bran Van 3000's Discosis.

"As" and "Another Star," especially the latter, on Songs in the Key of Life.

Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 02:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Hmm. How are we defining "very long?" Anyway, some answers.

"Favourite Hour" by Elvis Costello (Brutal Youth)

Continuing the Yo La Tengo thread, "Night Falls On Hoboken" (And then nothing...)

"Will You Find Me?" by American Music Club (Mercury)

"Lighting Out for the Territories" by Laurie Anderson (United States Live)

"Come On Darkness" by Camper Van Beethoven (Key Lime Pie)

"Dime Store Mystery" by Lou Reed (New York)

"Halcyon & On & On" by Orbital (Orbital 2)

The live version of "Violaine" on Cocteau Twins' BBC Sessions

"Sunless Saturday" by Fishbone (The Reality of My Surroundings)

"Motorway to Roswell" by Pixies (Trompe le Monde) is a bit of a cheat - not quite the last track, but it should have been.

By contrast, my list of favorite closing tracks on shorter albums is huge, but I'll wait for someone else to veer off-topic before I bother.

Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:34 (eighteen years ago) link

"Cry Baby Cry," of course.

John Hunter, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 05:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I was just thinking about "A Day in the Life" last night, actually. Does "Sgt. Pepper" count as a "long" album?

"Go Spread Your Wings" from the CD version of Godflesh's "Selfless", however, is pretty much the standard by which I measure "totally awesome songs that are on the very end of albums."

vartman (novaheat), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 06:09 (eighteen years ago) link

newest industry

on zen arcade.

nein Socken (nein Socken), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 06:15 (eighteen years ago) link

"Nobody's City" from The Gun Club's Mother Juno

jsoulja (jsoulja), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 06:16 (eighteen years ago) link

oops- not really a long album....

jsoulja (jsoulja), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 06:17 (eighteen years ago) link

oops also- nothing on zen arcade is "buried" tho it is a very long album...

nein Socken (nein Socken), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 06:21 (eighteen years ago) link

"Yuko & Hiro" - Blur's Great Escape

MaxwellHOUSE, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

-- "Scattered" - the Kinks. concludes the interminable Phobia album. and miraculously, almost makes it worth it.

-- technically not a "song" as such, but the heartbreaking duo between Ramsey Ameen and Cecil Taylor at the end of One Too Many Salty Swift And Not Goodbye.

Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link

"Beautiful Girl" is another buried gem on Robyn Hitchcock's -Eye- (track 11, so not quite as buried as "Aquarium," but not a "side one" cut, either).

"The Verb 'To Love'" by Todd Rundgren is a killer (next to last song on -Faithful- -- this is the LP where the Runt filled up side one with note-for-note recreations of 60's pop classics. Neat trick, but it obscured some good Todd originals on the other side).

James, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Olivia Tremor Control - "NYC-25"
The Fall - "Cruiser's Creek"

sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link


'electrolite' - rem 'new adventures in hi-fi'

still a cracking handful of trax on it,
but boy oh boy is it a slog getting there.

piscesboy, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link

"Slow life" by SFA - I know its not a really long album but that song is hot

joe schmoe (joeschmoe), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Genesis: Afterglow

Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 22:05 (eighteen years ago) link

DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like Part 1/Blue Sky Revisit.
Although it's probably the most rewarding and enjoyable "waits" for a last track.

Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Thursday, 22 December 2005 02:09 (eighteen years ago) link

eighteen years pass...

"Cry Baby Cry," of course.

Yessssss.

Also Tusk/Never Forget to end the album. Not that Tusk FEELS long.

TheNuNuNu, Saturday, 26 October 2024 06:19 (one week ago) link

Hüsker Dü's "you can live at home" offa "warehouse"

massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 26 October 2024 09:30 (one week ago) link

"Break" hidden away at the end of Aphrodite's Child's 666 after a 19-minute psych jam

joe meek's cutoff (Matt #2), Saturday, 26 October 2024 10:07 (one week ago) link

"Attached" from Orbital's Snivilisation.

beard papa, Saturday, 26 October 2024 18:15 (one week ago) link

The unlisted song on Travis's The Man Who has more bite than anything else they ever did. About an abusive alcoholic father and a house on fire.

master of the pan (abanana), Saturday, 26 October 2024 23:12 (one week ago) link

Riding the Scree, which on some days has been my favourite Genesis track of the 70s

N.W.A's Approach to Danger

Robbie Williams' The 80s

Paul Weller's Night Lights

The Divine Comedy's Opportunity Knox

XTC's Wrapped in Grey/The Ugly Underneath/Bungalow

Julian Cope's The Tower

you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 27 October 2024 13:14 (six days ago) link


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