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Post by Thorngrub on Feb 13, 2007 17:13:32 GMT -5
Honorable Mentions:
– “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding” –
“Desolation Row” –
– “Death Trip” – (!)
– “Indifference”
– “Suffer Little Children” –
“The Have Nots” (!)
Hell yeah man, in fact, DEATH TRIP shoulda been in my Top 20, and The Have Nots is my favorite X song, so hell yeah !
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Post by Thorngrub on Feb 13, 2007 17:16:08 GMT -5
1. “Hurt”- Nine Inch Nails “The Downward Spiral”
2. “The Call of Ktulu”-Metallica “Ride The Lightning”
4. “Something In The Way”-Nirvana “Nevermind”
5. “Sister Ray” –The Velvet Underground “White Light/White Heat”
7. “Antennas To Heaven” GSYBE! “Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven”
8. “Gouge Away”-The Pixies “Doolittle”
9. “Fight The Power” Public Enemy “Fear Of A Black Planet”
11. “Casey Jones” The Grateful Dead “Workingman’s Dead”
12. “Seasons In The Abyss” Slayer “Seasons In The Abyss”
13. “Daydream” Smashing Pumpkins “Gish”
15. “Switch” Siouxsie and the Banshees “Scream”
17. “Decades” Joy Division “Closer”
18. “Here Come The Warm Jets” Brian Eno “Here Come The Warm Jets”
19. “Colours” Sisters of Mercy “Floodland”
20. “Rocket Queen” Guns N Roses “Appetite for Destruction”
21. “Goodbye Sober Day” Mr. Bungle “California”
23. “The Man Machine” Kraftwerk “The Man Machine”
25. “I Shall Be Released” The Band “Music From Big Pink”
These, I can get behind. Nice work Skvorridge !
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Post by Mary on Feb 13, 2007 18:53:01 GMT -5
I wanna get in on this one before all my choices are totally redundant! Hell, it might even be too late already....
1) Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who (Who's Next)
2) The Dancer - PJ Harvey (To Bring You My Love)
3) Desolation Row - Bob Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited)
4) The World's a Mess It's in My Kiss - X (Los Angeles)
5) Rock n' Roll Suicide - David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust)
6) 2000 Miles - The Pretenders (Learning to Crawl)
7) Tomorrow, Wendy - Concrete Blonde (Bloodletting)
8) Decades - Joy Division (Closer)
9) Mutiny in Heaven - The Birthday Party (The Bad Seed)
10) Here Comes a Regular - The Replacements (Tim)
11) Some Kind of Stranger - Sisters of Mercy (First and Last and Always)
12) Down in the Tube Station at Midnight - The Jam (All Mod Cons)
13) Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks (Something Else by the Kinks)
14) Furnace Room Lullaby - Neko Case (Furnace Room Lullaby)
15) Torn Curtain - Television (Marquee Moon)
16) The Show Must Go On - Queen (Innuendo)
17) Would? - Alice in Chains (Dirt)
18) Fight the Power - Public Enemy (Fear of a Black Planet)
19) Classic Girl - Jane's Addiction (Ritual de lo Habitual)
20) I Knew It Would Come To This - The Dirty Three (Horse Stories)
21) The Last Time I Saw Richard - Joni Mitchell (Blue)
22) Dime Store Mystery - Lou Reed (New York)
23) Pay to Cum - Bad Brains (Bad Brains)
24) Sympathy - Sleater-Kinney (One Beat)
25) Midnight Cowboy - Faith No More (Angel Dust)
Cheers,
M
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Post by Mary on Feb 13, 2007 18:56:36 GMT -5
I just realized that I chose both the opening track and the closing track off Who's Next and Highway 61 Revisited for this list. That's quite an accomplishment for those albums!! Damn.
Also I can't believe I put anything by Queen on either one of my lists, but I really do think that The Show Must Go On is an incredibly powerful song, a perfect closer, and deeply poignant when you consider the circumstances under which Freddie Mercury was singing it.
Also I cannot disconnect this song from a particular moment in my life - way back in high school, when I was 15, we learned that one of my classmates committed suicide. There was a memorial service for him, at which they played this song, and it was just so powerful in that context. Whenever I hear it, I very vividly remember that moment, and trying to come to grips with something as scary and sad as suicide.
M
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Post by Mary on Feb 13, 2007 19:00:14 GMT -5
I would also just like to say that I hadn't seen Rocky's list before I wrote mine. Pleased to see a few repeat votes for Torn Curtain, Furance Room Lullaby, The World's a Mess It's in my Kiss, and Here Comes a Regular. However now I regret not voting for All Apologies; that song really is the epitome of a great closer. So appropriate as a final song on an album.
Cheers,
M
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Feb 13, 2007 19:29:33 GMT -5
20) Sonic Youth - "The Diamond Sea" - Washing Machine
Sweet. That will be on my list for sure. This is gonna be my favorite list eva, I do believe. A lot of my favorite songs are album closers.
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Post by frag on Feb 14, 2007 10:29:10 GMT -5
1. A Day in the Life - the Beatles (Sgt. Peppers)
2. Tomorrow Never Knows - the Beatles (Revolver)
3. Desolation Row - Bob Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited)
4. Wreck on the Highway - Bruce Springsteen (The River)
5. You Can't Always Get What You Want - the Rolling Stones (Let it Bleed)
6. Here Comes a Regular - the Replacements (Tim)
7. Radio Radio - Elvis Costello & the Attractions (This Year's Model)
8. All Apologies - Nirvana (In Utero)
9. I Believer (When I Fall in Love it Will Be Forever) - Stevie Wonder (Talking Book)
10. Oh! Sweet Nuthin' - the Velvet Underground (Loaded)
11. Biko - Peter Gabriel (III Melt)
12. Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen (Born to Run)
13. The Overload - Talking Heads (Remain in Light)
14. Fillmore Jive - Pavement (Crooked Rain Crooked Rain)
15. Hurt - Nine Inch Nails (The Downward Spiral)
16. Green Eyes - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (The Boatman's Call)
17. Reservations - Wilco (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)
18. Decades - Joy Division (Closer)
19. All Those Yesterdays - Pearl Jam (Yield)
20. I'll Take the Rain - REM (Reveal)
21. Watching the Detectives - Elvist Costello & the Attractions (My Aim is True)
22. Mary Jo - Belle and Sebastian (Tigermilk)
23. Can't Hardly Wait - The Replacements (Pleased to Meet Me)
24. Argument - Fugazi (The Argument)
25. Something in the Way - Nirvana (Nevermind)
Consensus seems to be...consensus.
somehow, in a snow emergency, I still have to go to work.
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Post by frag on Feb 14, 2007 10:30:00 GMT -5
Also, I wasn't sure what the actual closers were on EC's early albums because there are so many different versions.
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Post by Thorngrub on Feb 14, 2007 10:31:16 GMT -5
I was so going to include Biko. Then Here Comes The Flood just took over
LOTsa great closers from mary & frag
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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 14, 2007 11:06:18 GMT -5
I was so going to include Biko. Then Here Comes The Flood just took over LOTsa great closers from mary & frag Biko is definitely making my list. Here Comes the Flood is a great one, too, but Biko is just perfect. |
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Post by Dr. Drum on Feb 14, 2007 11:34:25 GMT -5
"Here Comes the Flood" is great but I actually prefer the version on Robert Fripp's Exposure album to the original on PG1. "Biko" though is a definite for me also.
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Post by Thorngrub on Feb 14, 2007 13:52:15 GMT -5
I used to have this rare 12" record of Here Comes The Flood sung in German by peter gabriel, accompanied only by him on piano. Man I wish I still had that record...
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Post by Weeping_Guitar on Feb 14, 2007 14:56:51 GMT -5
01. "A Day in the Life" - The Beatles [sgt. pepper's lonely heart's club band] 02. "Love is Blindness" - U2 [achtung baby] 03. "Desolation Row" - Bob Dylan [highway 61 revisited] 04. "Poor Places / Reservations" - Wilco [yankee hotel foxtrot] 05. "Tomorrow Never Knows" - The Beatles [revolver] 06. "Furnace Room Lullaby" - Neko Case & Her Boyfriends [furance room lullaby] 07. "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" - Bob Dylan [blonde on blonde] 08. "All is Full of Love" - Bjork [homogenic] 09. "Time of the Season" - The Zombies [odessey and oracle] 10. "Slim Slow Slider" - Van Morrison [astral weeks] 11. "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" - David Bowie [ziggy stardust] 12. "Here Comes a Regular" - The Replacements [tim] 13. "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding? - Elvis Costello [armed forces] 14. "Street Spirit (Fadeout)" - Radiohead [the bends] 15. "Brain Damage / Eclipse" - Pink Floyd [dark side of the moon] 16. "Waterloo Sunset" - The Kinks [something else by the kinks] 17. "Happening Ten Years Time Ago" - The Yardbirds [roger the engineer] 18. "All Apologies" - Nirvana [in utero] 19. "Won't Get Fooled Again" - The Who [who's next] 20. "Walking on the Water" - Creedence Clearwater Revival [creedence clearwater revival] 21. "Oh, Sweet Nuthin" - The Velvet Underground [loaded] 22. "End of the Line" - The Traveling Wilburys [the traveling wilburys, vol. 1] 23. "Train in Vain" - The Clash [london calling] 24. "Radio, Radio" - Elvis Costello [this year's model] 25. "I Fought Piranhas" - The White Stripes [the white stripes] ---------------------------------------------------------- "I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet") - The White Stripes [get behind me, satan] "Ain't Talkin" - Bob Dylan [modern times] "Me in Honey" - R.E.M. [out of time] "Find the River" - R.E.M. [automatic for the people] "In a Future Age" - Wilco [summerteeth] "Sister Ray" - The Velvet Underground [white light/white heat] "Champagne Supernova" - Oasis [(what's the story) morning glory?] "When the Levee Breaks" - Led Zeppelin [led zeppelin iv] "Echoes" - Pink Floyd [meddle] "Jugband Blues" - Pink Floyd
"Love, Reign O'er Me" - The Who [quadrophenia]
"You Can't Always Get What You Want" - The Rolling Stones [let it bleed]
"Waitin' for a Superman" - The Flaming Lips [the soft bulletin]
"My Little Corner" - Yo La Tengo
"All I Want is You" - U2 [rattle and hum] |
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Post by rockysigman on Feb 14, 2007 14:59:14 GMT -5
Ah shit, I gotta go back and make some changes.
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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 14, 2007 15:11:24 GMT -5
Great list, weeping. This is harder than I'd thought it would be ... it's actually harder for me to choose closers than it was for openers. Once I get my list done, I'll put up a few thoughts on other's entries ... in the mean time, feel free to go after each other without me.  |
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