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Just to cheer us up from nuclear war, the cost of living and Tory Britain.
I'll start with Street Spirit from The Bends by Radiohead...
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“Warning” by Black Sabbath from the album Black Sabbath.
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"Tomorrow Never Knows" on Revolver
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Riders on the storm - LA woman
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Street Spirit’s a great shout.
Release from Pearl Jam’s rather exceptional Ten is pretty fine. Bookends the album nicely.
Brothers In Arms definitely worth a mention too.
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Echoes, by Pink Floyd, on Meddle.
... You get yer moneys worth with that one.
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Echos. From Pink Floyd's Meddle album
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Oi!
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In reply to Clauso:
Great minds think alike. What are the chances of two, unconnected, persons coming up with the same suggestion, in a matter of seconds of each other?
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Great minds think alike. What are the chances of two, unconnected, persons coming up with the same suggestion, in a matter of minutes of each other?
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champagne supernova is the okayest and last track on a tolerable album that can loosely be called rock....
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Magic Bus, - Live at Leeds, The Who.
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Email More or Less, Radio 4, and ask them
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> Just to cheer us up from nuclear war, the cost of living and Tory Britain.
> I'll start with Street Spirit from The Bends by Radiohead...
To really cheer you up, I'm going to suggest 'God Save The Queen' from 'A Night at the Opera' by Queen.
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When I saw the thread title I immediately thought 'Street Spirit'!
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Yo Mama. Frank Zappa. Sheik Yerbouti.
Thorn Tree In The Garden. Derek and the Dominos. Layla ( and other assorted love songs )
A Day In The Life. The Beatles. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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Anything by AC/DC coz they're all the same and the last is as good as the 1st.
To go punk rock, Moving Away From The Pulsebeat from Buzzcocks 1st album is amazing. Incredible drumming from John Maher.
Julie Paradise from The Screaming Trees album Sweet Oblivion.
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The Death of Music from Devin Townsend's Ocean Machine: Biomech (if you don't count the bonus track).
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The End on The Doors. Or maybe When the Music's Over on Strange Days. Pompous Portentous Morrison in full flow.
'What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn and
Tied her with fences and dragged her down'
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> “Warning” by Black Sabbath from the album Black Sabbath.
A good call, but I give you ‘into the void’ last track on Sabbath’s Master of Reality. The cornerstone riff of western civilisation and the birthplace of Doom, Stoner, Sludge and pretty well all of metal. Epic.
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Last song on the album and you pick Black Sabbath but get the album completely wrong. The answer of course is Fairies wear boots from the Paranoid album. It is quite obvious at this juncture that smoking and tripping is all that you do
🤣🤣
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> Echoes, by Pink Floyd, on Meddle.
> ... You get yer moneys worth with that one.
Never did like them, but even less now
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We’re both wrong, it’s “Under The Sun” from Vol 4. Forgot how good it is.
Ed: ‘Fairies’ did resonate with my lifestyle back in the day, great song.
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Am I allowed the eponymous final track from Year of the cat by Al Stewart? No? In which case Nostradamus from Past, Present and Future
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> A good call, but I give you ‘into the void’ last track on Sabbath’s Master of Reality. The cornerstone riff of western civilisation and the birthplace of Doom, Stoner, Sludge and pretty well all of metal. Epic.
Cant disagree. This thread has made me realise that Sabbath has brilliant “last songs on the album”, and shows the importance of track order on albums (versus random selection).
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When the Levee Breaks closing out Led Zeppelin IV.
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Also slightly more towards the metal spectrum but 7empest as the final proper track on Tool's Fear Inoculum is incredible.
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Hey hey, my my (into the black) from Rust Never Sleeps
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Ride On from Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.
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"Lawyers, Guns and Money" from Warren Zevon's "Excitable Boy."
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Call of ktulu from Ride the Lightning
Damage Inc from Master of Puppets
Polaris from Rust in Peace
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> Call of ktulu from Ride the Lightning
> Damage Inc from Master of Puppets
> Polaris from Rust in Peace
Yes! Especially Call of Ktulu..was gonna say that myself!
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> Never did like them, but even less now
There's a reason that Pink Floyd split, and it starts with 'W'... They ain't one and the same, you know?
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> Never did like them, but even less now
This is unfair, since the rest of Pink Floyd (Dave Gilmour et al) have gone in the opposite direction, supporting Ukraine to the hilt.
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And from the number 1 band in the Big 4
Seasons in the Abyss off The eponymous album by Slayer
looks like thrash and metal are owning this thread😂
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Death Valley ‘69 from Sonic Youth’s Bad Moon Rising
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"Mogwai Fear Satan" from Young Team.
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In reply to JCurrie:
Good shout. But I think I’ve found the winner: Death Is Not The End, from Murder Ballards by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.
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> champagne supernova is the okayest and last track on a tolerable album that can loosely be called rock....
I was going to suggest Champagne Supernova much more enthusiastically than that. An epic finish that gives you goosebumps to listen to.
Another one for the thread then. New Way Home at the end of the Colour and the Shape by Foo Fighters. An upbeat tune then a change in tempo building up slowly but surely to an off the scale climax.
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How about
Stairway to Heaven Led Zep 4
Starless King Crimson Red
Wall of death Shoot out the lights Richard Thompson
As a few suggestions
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Yes, it’s Street Spirit.
but, if it wasn’t, I’d suggest:
Fool’s Gold from The Stone Roses
Still Life from Dog Man Star
The Wanderer from Zooropa
This Is A Low from Parklife
Road Trippin’ from Californication
or
Desolation Row from Highway 61 Revisited…
(it’s Street Spirit, though)
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I think this would be quite apt: Endless Boogie Full House Head Album, A Life Worth Leaving. A full twenty two minutes plus of rock.
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> This is unfair, since the rest of Pink Floyd (Dave Gilmour et al) have gone in the opposite direction, supporting Ukraine to the hilt.
Still don't like them. Growing up in Cornwall, embedded in Surf/Skate culture, every bloody surf movie had to have Pink Floyd or The Doors in it. You had to like them or you weren't in with the in crowd (stoner pseudo hippies).
Back to OP and more in line with the current situation "The unelected President" by Crass on the P*nis Envy Album.
Or "Freedom" by RATM
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Won't get fooled again, of course, from Who's Next.
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Meatloaf’s best of album has Bat Out of Hell as the last track.
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'Iron Maiden' on the album and band of same name.
Space Truckin' from Deep Purple's Fireball. And (IIRC) the remastered versions had 'When a blind man cries' then 'Lazy'.
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Wuthering Heights by China Drum? - youtube.com/watch?v=OBviQXfuu3c&
Admittedly you have to skip through about 30mins of dross on the final track of Goosefair to find it, but it's one of my favourite cover versions
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Return of the Jedi off of Racecar is Racecar Backwards by Reuben
A Wolf at the Door off of Hail to the Theif (Radiohead) - mostly as it's such a change up from the rest of the album, but personally the best track on the record
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Surely the "hidden" track, played on sitar at the end of Smash by The Offspring.
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Motorhead, the best and last track on No Sleep 'til Hammersmith, which is the best live rock album ever.
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> Yo Mama. Frank Zappa. Sheik Yerbouti.
Beat me to it!
Rawhide, on Plastic Surgery Disasters by the Dead Kennedys
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OK, not the best last track on an album ever (Echoes for me also) ; however, I’ll suggest April by Deep Purple: not just the last track on their third album but also the last track recorded by Mark 1 Deep Purple. Interesting mix of rock and prog rock but ending with Blackmore’s guitar heralding what was to come with Mark II Deep Purple (starting with In Rock).
Won’t be everyone’s cup of tea as it has the dreaded orchestral interlude favoured by Jon Lord at this time; an interesting track nonetheless.
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Maggie M'Gill - Morrison Hotel, The Doors.
Road to Nowhere - Little Creatures, Talking Heads
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Oh god, now I've had to go and queue up all Sabbath's last tracks on me Spotify.....
Have I done the right order though?
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I kind of want to put in a shout for Dopesmoker by Sleep, off the album of the same name, mostly because I can then try to claim that it's also the best first track on a rock album.
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Trial of Tears on Dream Theater's Falling into infinity album
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The Watcher from Hawkwind's Doremi Fasol Latido. Lemmy on good form.
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'You can't always get what you want', on 'Let it bleed'
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If we are allowing live albums, mistreated on 'live in the heart of the city'.
Whitesnake, back in time when they were good.
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"National Shite Day", on CSI Ambleside by Half Man Half Biscuit.
A first line to resonate, surely, with frequenters of this site: "Pulling the ice axe from my leg, I staggered on, spindrift stinging my remaining eye..."
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> champagne supernova is the okayest and last track on a tolerable album that can loosely be called rock....
I largely can't stand Oasis but Champagne Supernova is a cracking track, it's best use probably being the closing scene of Our Friends in the North.
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Some candidates not already listed -
The Ultracheese - Arctic Monkeys/Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
I Can't Give Everything Away - Bowie/★
Skeleton Tree - Nick Cave/Skeleton Tree
Caught by the River - Doves/The Last Broadcast
PCP - Manic Street Preachers/The Holy Bible
Knights of Cydonia - Muse/Black Holes and Revelations
Something in the Way - Nirvana/Nevermind
Gouge Away - Pixies/Doolittle
...and probably blowing every other candidate away by a country mile...
Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution/Purple Rain
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> To go punk rock, Moving Away From The Pulsebeat from Buzzcocks 1st album is amazing. Incredible drumming from John Maher.
Thanks! You've just reminded to re-listen to this album: so many great songs
Was always interesting back then when people said punk rock bands can't play their instruments (ok, some of them barely could)
Have a look at this youtube.com/watch?v=HbQSFWAEc8k&
That's addressed to all, not just aln
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> To really cheer you up, I'm going to suggest 'God Save The Queen' from 'A Night at the Opera' by Queen.
A better Queen candidate is The Show Must Go On from Innuendo.
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Mother's Lament from Disraeli Gears. That's more cheery than nuclear war ... just.
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> Stairway to Heaven Led Zep 4
That's the last track on side one. However, as Connor Nunns suggested, When The Levee Breaks at the end of side two is a contender.
But maybe that raises another debate: an album that originally came out on vinyl has two sides, whereas one that was originally a CD release only has one (not counting double albums, double CDs etc). Unless the you're talking about a "concept album" (pretty much a vinyl era thing to my mind anyway) then one might argue about whether the last track on a vinyl release actually is the one at the end of side two, since generally speaking an album of largely unrelated songs is equally enjoyable if you play side two first.
And then, just to confuse things, there were the vinyl double albums which had side four on the flip of side one, and sides two and three on the other disc (designed for old-style "record players" with a stacking autochanger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_changer#Automatic_sequencing). Which in turn reminds me of: youtube.com/watch?v=DvswW6M7bMo&
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Throw Down the Sword from Argus by Wishbone Ash.
I've always thought Street Spirit was like putting the kettle on to make tea and then discovering that the milk's off.
T.
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> A better Queen candidate is The Show Must Go On from Innuendo.
Damn, thought you might have taken the bait... 🙄
On a more serious note, how about: 'Exogenesis: Symphony Part 3 (Redemption)' from 'The Resistance' by Muse.
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A couple I don't think I've seen mentioned yet:
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - 'American Girl'
The Stone Roses — 'I Am the Resurrection'
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In reply to Longsufferingropeholder:
Good tunes, but I don't think "I am the resurrection" was the last track?
While we're on Tom Petty, Louisiana Rain is a stonking last track to a great album.
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> Good tunes, but I don't think "I am the resurrection" was the last track?
Yeah, it is. Judge me if you want but I normally skip everything between waterfall and Resurrection.
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Oh yes, just checked. I could have sworn it wasn't. It's obviously been a while, I'll have to listen to it again.
I bet it's because I've been listening on Spotify, which has a really annoying habit of playing albums in the wrong order.
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Some very good contenders in that list.
I was surprised it took this long for PCP to get mentioned. If people are allowing greatest hits to be nominated, I'd like to nominate Motown Junk too.
Or to stretch the category even further, we saw them do an encore around 15 years ago that consisted of Faster, PCP then Motown Junk. For me, that's a finish to a concert that will never be beaten. It was about the only time ever that they haven't finished on A Design For Life.
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Waterloo Sunset from Something Else by The Kinks
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Timperley Sunset by Frank Sidebottom tops the Kinks version for me. Lyrics so evocative of my childhood haunts, 'Dirty old canal....'
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Sorry everyone but there's only one candidate I'm afraid. Sister Ray from white light white heat: velvet underground
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"Throw down the Sword" on Argus by Wishbone Ash. Immortal rock guitar duet.
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I am the Resurrection - Stone Roses
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... Jungleland from Springsteen's Born to Run... simply sublime...
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Red House, from Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix.
You have to listen until the last word.
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> There's a reason that Pink Floyd split, and it starts with 'W'... They ain't one and the same, you know?
When asked if he'd ever work with Roger Waters again Dave Gilmour replied emphatically "no", when asked why he said "because he's a prick".
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A Light in the Black - Rainbow's "Rising" album
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Been puzzling me for a while and finally Googled it. In very early 90s I had the album but on cassette format and it had Wicked World as the last track. That seems to have been a bonus due to being cassette not vinyl.
I absolutely love The Warning part 1 (and part 2!) I also really like the original. For me anyway the Sabbath cover and original are both great, just in different ways. Sabath taking it to part 2 is also genius. But have you heard the original?
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I hadn’t until now, and it is totally bloody superb! Wow. Thanks.
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The Tourist - OK Computer - Radiohead
Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) - Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix Experience
Framed - Live - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
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I think this thread could do with some southern rock. First off, what about Lynyrd Skynyrd's mega anthem Free Bird, not a bad way to close out your debut album.
Second, undeservedly less well-known, Drive-By Truckers' excellent Decoration Day finishes with the superb title track followed by Loaded Gun in the Closet - ok, that's two songs, but you want them both for the full effect.
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All Apologies: Nirvana’s In Utero album
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> A Light in the Black - Rainbow's "Rising" album
A superb final track indeed and it's not even the best track on the album!
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The Garden by Rush. (album Clockwork Angels) And a great conclusion to their career.
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Especially if listened to in a dark room tripped off your tits, as is so much Pink Floyd. Too old for all that now, but lots of Frank Zappa is rather fine!
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> Second, undeservedly less well-known, Drive-By Truckers' excellent Decoration Day finishes with the superb title track followed by Loaded Gun in the Closet - ok, that's two songs, but you want them both for the full effect.
Great tracks from a great album by a great band although I'm not very keen on "Southern Rock Opera."
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We have the winner.
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> All Apologies: Nirvana’s In Utero album
Great in and of itself with a big dollop of poignancy on top knowing it's the last studio track.
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> Have a look at this youtube.com/watch?v=HbQSFWAEc8k&
Fantastic, thanks. There was a gig in Glasgow late 70's that ended with Pulsebeat, Maher battering out that beat with the strobes going off. Epic prog punk.
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Ah, my top two were anticipated by Hooo and Eam1 - Motorhead and Sister Ray. So, I'll put a vote in for the last movement of Beethoven's 9th.
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> So, I'll put a vote in for the last movement of Beethoven's 9th.
Tough call versus Mahler 2 and Mozart 41!
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Last Resort from Hotel California by the Eagles is a perfect end to an album.
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'Los Endos' from Seconds Out - Genesis
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Leif Erikson, Interpol, Turn On The Bright Lights
The Diamond Sea, Sonic Youth, Washing Machine
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Potato Junkie on Pleasure Death.
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That Interpol track is outstanding.
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> 'Los Endos' from Seconds Out - Genesis
Yes, it's excellent . . . . . . . . . but also, side two of Abbey Road. Not just the final track on an album but the final track of an era
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