teruterubozu
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Yup, great album.
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Bands/Artists that had Great Final Albums
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Yup, great album.
whatsinaname
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Cream's Goodbye.
Just Badge alone puts it in the 'great album' category for me.
Just Badge alone puts it in the 'great album' category for me.
Ignatz Mouse
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I just thought of Key Lime Pie by Camper Van Beethoven, but I see that they've had reunion albums since.
teruterubozu
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The Police - Synchronicity
Talk about a band calling it quits on a high note.
Talk about a band calling it quits on a high note.
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Pan Sonic's final studio album, Gravitoni, from 2010:
Gravitoni covers the various styles of techno/electronic/ambient/minimalist/atmospheric/beat-driven music Pan Sonic created over their career, while still offering great new, original content. It ends with their all-time best track, Pan Finale.
Gravitoni covers the various styles of techno/electronic/ambient/minimalist/atmospheric/beat-driven music Pan Sonic created over their career, while still offering great new, original content. It ends with their all-time best track, Pan Finale.
Once the second half of that album kicks in, it's fucking amazing (first half is OK).
The Handsome Llama
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Grover Cleveland
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I know, I know
They'd probably have to change their name nowadays if they had stuck around, but what a goddamn album to leave your lasting note on. I need to own the LP at some point in my life.
I love the bejesus out of Oceanic and Panopticon and this has been sitting in my iTunes library for months without a peep and I have no idea why. Need to give it a spin.
There was a forced last album, not a real one. I thought the thread was about a consicious good farewell albums from a band, or does the other kind also count?
I figured it was the last chronological album a band released before ceasing to be a band.
teruterubozu
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Thin Lizzy - Thunder & Lightning
I used to love this album. I should listen to it again.
I used to love this album. I should listen to it again.
It might be their best album, it's definitely their most unique though. Sounds unlike any (art-)pop album I've ever heard.
Japan is one of my favorites.
And one of their major influences had a pretty good last album also....
teruterubozu
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It might be their best album, it's definitely their most unique though. Sounds unlike any (art-)pop album I've ever heard.
Great album, but they did reunite for one more album under the name Rain Tree Crow, which is probably the best one they ever made, imo.
Forgot about RTC. Much prefer Tin Drum, and early Japan.
teruterubozu
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I'm more of a solo Sylvian fan so...
mariachi507
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I sincerely hope not, but if this really is their final album then they have gone out with a bang.
Whitman's Ghost
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I know we'll probably get more from Portishead
Pink Moon for sure. Portishead I hope is not dead yet.
L.A. Woman original Doors.
I was gonna post Third earlier myself, but some Google searches suggested they are at least in the planning stages for Fourth. Crazy to think that even though it was 11 years between their self-titled and Third, it's already been 7 years since that one was released.
Yup. You just don't know, though... But hey, if their next album is half the album Third is, we're in for a treat.
TheRedSnifit
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Their last studio album before breaking up, and their masterpiece. Though I guess they reformed 25 years later, so maybe it doesn't count.
No doubt. You're not gonna get any flack from me about posting Third, I think it's their best album so it definitely suits the thread. Some of the quotes I read date back to 2012 so they're definitely dragging their feet a little. Anything can happen.
TheCowboyPoet
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Good calls with Abbey Road and Pink Moon!
Uncle Tupelo's Anodyne is one of the best country-rock albums since the 70s.
Magnolia Electric Co's Josephine isn't the best MECo record but it's pretty solid, and O! Grace, Josephine, Arrow in the Gail, Whip-poor-will, Shiloh, etc are great rock songs.
George Harrison's Brainwashed is beautiful. Jeff Lynne and George's son Dhani finished it after George died, and it's a great send off (plus probably George's best record since 1970!)
Bonus shoutout to Elliott Smith's From A Basement On The Hill, great songs but I don't think it's really what Elliott had in mind for the record.
Uncle Tupelo's Anodyne is one of the best country-rock albums since the 70s.
Magnolia Electric Co's Josephine isn't the best MECo record but it's pretty solid, and O! Grace, Josephine, Arrow in the Gail, Whip-poor-will, Shiloh, etc are great rock songs.
George Harrison's Brainwashed is beautiful. Jeff Lynne and George's son Dhani finished it after George died, and it's a great send off (plus probably George's best record since 1970!)
Bonus shoutout to Elliott Smith's From A Basement On The Hill, great songs but I don't think it's really what Elliott had in mind for the record.
SamuelSupreme
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The Notorious BIG- Life after Death
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Tupac- 7 Day Theory
Ignatz Mouse
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The Police - Synchronicity
Talk about a band calling it quits on a high note.
Thought of this on the way home.
PROh1bited
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Came in here to say this. Let it Be doesn't count.
Hey, that sounds like In Utero!
Octavianus
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Joy Division and Syd Barrett
Gurgelhals
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I know, but I consider that a David Sylvian solo album in all but name. I also like the proper Japan albums a lot more; not that much into Sylvian's ambient-y stuff. And Tin Drum is really extraordinary, it just sounds so different from everything else.
It might be their best album, it's definitely their most unique though. Sounds unlike any (art-)pop album I've ever heard.
Amen.
Both Jellyfish albums are incredible, sad they only made 2, fucking grunge craze
Amen.
Thin Lizzy - Thunder & Lightning
I used to love this album. I should listen to it again.
Amen.
And my contributions:
PANTERA - Reinventing Steel
PRAXIS - PROFANATION (Preparation for a Coming Darkness)
beato_angelico
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Cream's Goodbye.
Just Badge alone puts it in the 'great album' category for me.
Good call, the album is a bit lightweight but badge is great, the other studio tracks are pretty good and the live selection is probably their strongest one.
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