Saving the best for last

RMJ

Albums that save their best track to their last track.

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stimpsonslostson

Gallows- Orchestra of Wolves

stimpsonslostson

G'n'R- Appetite for Destruction 
Rocket Queen is my favourite track by them. 

TonyR

The Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection 

mart

Tubular bells

ICBM

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
The Doors - LA Woman
Neil Young - Harvest
The Who - Who's Next
Barclay James Harvest - Everyone Is Everybody Else
Boomtown Rats - A Tonic For The Troops
Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance
Calexico - Feast Of Wire
Chris Rea - Auberge
Crowded House - Together Alone
Del Amitri - Waking Hours
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Duran Duran - Seven And The Ragged Tiger
Lloyd Cole - Love Story
Queen - Innuendo
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Status Quo - Blue For You
U2 - Rattle & Hum
The Waterboys - Modern Blues

(Some of these have unnecessary bonus tracks on CD releases which spoil the 'best for last'... although on Feast Of Wire it *is* the bonus track, so you can't win!)

digitalscream

Extreme - Waiting for the Punchline (which is actually the bonus track)
Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
Satch - Surfing with the Alien

Alnico

Iron Maiden - Brave New World

blobb

Not saying it's the 'best' track on the album (how do you pick only one?) but Meat is Murder.

fields5069

Talking Heads - Little Creatures (Road to Nowhere)
Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues (This Must Be The Place)

stickyfiddle

ICBM said:

(Some of these have unnecessary bonus tracks on CD releases which spoil the 'best for last'... although on Feast Of Wire it *is* the bonus track, so you can't win!)

True, though occasionally you get something like The Ground Beneath Her Feet, which is officially a bonus track, but so obviously the intended final track on ATYCLB and absolutely *perfect*

ICBM

stickyfiddle said:

True, though occasionally you get something like The Ground Beneath Her Feet, which is officially a bonus track, but so obviously the intended final track on ATYCLB and absolutely *perfect*

Also true, although doesn't count here because Stuck In A Moment and Kite are the best tracks on that (in my opinion).

ICBM said:

The Doors - LA Woman

I should also have said The Doors, Strange Days and The Soft Parade too, and possibly Waiting For The Sun... in fact probably the only Doors album that *doesn't* end on the best track is Morrison Hotel.

TheBigDipper

There's two ways to look at this, IMHO. 

The first is this. If an album is a collection of songs, is the last track on the album the best song on it in it's own right.

The second is this. If an album is a beginning-to-end listening experience, does the last track end the experience in a perfect, satisfying way. For me personally, sequencing is an important artistic decision.

Using no 2:

Radiohead - The Bends
Steven Wilson - Hand . Cannot . Erase .
Magma - Mekanik Destruktiv Kommandoh
Radiohead - OK Computer
Pink Floyd - DSOTM

stickyfiddle

A couple from me (using @TheBigDipper 's Option 1): 

Gaslight Anthem - The 59 Sound - The Backseat
Sigur Ros - Untitled - #8 ("Popplagið")
Led Zep - Houses of the Holy - The Ocean

joneve

Alnico said:

Iron Maiden - Brave New World

Good shout that. There's not a long on the album I don't love, but Thin Line is a masterpiece. 

Winny_Pooh

Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother

@icbm
Great calls:
La Woman
Brothers in Arms
Auberge

Feast Of Wire I disagree with though, Quattro and Stevie Nicks are better songs.
re Harvest, noooo!

Alnico

joneve said:

Alnico said:

Iron Maiden - Brave New World

Good shout that. There's not a long on the album I don't love, but Thin Line is a masterpiece. 

Brave New World on Spotify

It doesn't contain my favourite 'Maiden' song (Dance of Death) but for me, it's the best full album they ever did and that's not an easy choice to make.

It got me through the darkest part of my life about 18 months ago. I was aware of the album but in 2000 I was a trucker who had no time for new releases (and no money) so other than the radio play or overhearing, I didn't really "Get into" the album until @digitalscream commented to me one day on "That last 2 minutes of 'The thin line....' on Brave new world.
I listened to that and that ending solo made me fucking cry.
From that point on and through some really scary shit I had to face, it became 'The Album' that summed up that whole period of my life and literally became the soundtrack to it.

I got this poster to hang behind my Strat which thanks to one of my best friends, I got around the same time and the styling cues on my Strat are no accident...

https://i.imgur.com/Ns6WIox.jpg

There are only a few albums I couldn't live without but that is now one of them.

Philly_Q

Alnico said:

joneve said:

Alnico said:

Iron Maiden - Brave New World

Good shout that. There's not a long on the album I don't love, but Thin Line is a masterpiece. 

It doesn't contain my favourite 'Maiden' song (Dance of Death) but for me, it's the best full album they ever did and that's not an easy choice to make.

It's my favourite Maiden album too, and the one which made me finally "get" the band and become a fan.  Up until then I'd only bought some of the singles (from the early days when they were regularly in the Top 40) and a handful of the albums.  I think it was the return of Smith and Dickinson which drew me in, but it's a really great album.

Thin Line's not my favourite track though, that would be Blood Brothers.

Philly_Q

OK, someone's got to say it...

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd

Alnico

Philly_Q said:

Alnico said:

joneve said:

Alnico said:

Iron Maiden - Brave New World

Good shout that. There's not a long on the album I don't love, but Thin Line is a masterpiece. 

It doesn't contain my favourite 'Maiden' song (Dance of Death) but for me, it's the best full album they ever did and that's not an easy choice to make.

It's my favourite Maiden album too, and the one which made me finally "get" the band and become a fan.  Up until then I'd only bought some of the singles (from the early days when they were regularly in the Top 40) and a handful of the albums.  I think it was the return of Smith and Dickinson which drew me in, but it's a really great album.

Thin Line's not my favourite track though, that would be Blood Brothers.

I've got En Vivo on DVD and the Chileans singing that along with Bruce is something else.

I've promised myself that if (!) they write, release and tour a new album then I'll go and see them but I Really want to see them in South America because the crowd are just mental and I really want to be part of that just once.
Bucket list moment I suppose but I'll be saving up for those tickets the same day they even announce a new album.

I've never seen them live and it's been something I've wanted to do for a long time.

joneve

Alnico said:

joneve said:

Alnico said:

Iron Maiden - Brave New World

Good shout that. There's not a long on the album I don't love, but Thin Line is a masterpiece. 

Brave New World on Spotify

It doesn't contain my favourite 'Maiden' song (Dance of Death) but for me, it's the best full album they ever did and that's not an easy choice to make.

It got me through the darkest part of my life about 18 months ago. I was aware of the album but in 2000 I was a trucker who had no time for new releases (and no money) so other than the radio play or overhearing, I didn't really "Get into" the album until @digitalscream commented to me one day on "That last 2 minutes of 'The thin line....' on Brave new world.
I listened to that and that ending solo made me fucking cry.
From that point on and through some really scary shit I had to face, it became 'The Album' that summed up that whole period of my life and literally became the soundtrack to it.

I got this poster to hang behind my Strat which thanks to one of my best friends, I got around the same time and the styling cues on my Strat are no accident...

https://i.imgur.com/Ns6WIox.jpg

There are only a few albums I couldn't live without but that is now one of them.

What an awesome story. The whole last couple of minutes of Thin Line is spine tingling. 

Funny that your favourite Maiden song is Dance of Death. Musically I love it (as it show cases each of the playing styles of Ade, Dave and Janick so well) but I find the lyrics so cheesy that I can't take it too seriously. 

I must add, however, that I LOVE DoD as an album, despite everyone moaning about how bad it's produced.