Last Tracks

As a bit of a post script to the earlier entry about the best track ones, I thought I'd consider some of the best closing tracks to particular albums. This list, I should warn you, has not been compiled with a great degree of thought so this isn't definitive by any means. It isn't even a top ten. However, it will just have to do for now and I'll come back to the topic at a later stage.

The Tourist and Street Spirit, Radiohead
Both strong tracks from OK Computer and The Bends respectively. Radiohead are good at constructing albums, or at least (I'd argue anyway) were before they got into the electronica a little too much.

On and On and The Late Greats, Wilco
After hearing the songs On and On by itself I thought it wasn't bad, but at the end of the album it becomes particularly fitting and beautiful. Also The Late Greats is a lot of fun, a song which reminds me of...

Band On Every Corner, The Whitlams
Has great lyrics and a fun Irish drinking song aspect to it. I think I've already discussed this under band songs in an earlier entry though.

Thinking About Tomorrow and Galaxy of Emptiness, Beth Orton
If I didn't put this song on the list I think Mark would have something to say about it! It is a good one though, as is the other from Trailer Park, ten minutes of amazing electronicky rhythms and slow, entrancing music.

Inside Out, Beck
One of the strongest points to The Information. Follows the less interesting songs at the end of the album and is a suitable reward for listening through them, especially the self indulgent Horrible Fanfare thing.

Prison Food, Ben Folds
One that took me awhile to discover after first purchasing the album, but it's a great one. Has a particularly strong bridge and shows off Ben's piano talents too.

The Same As Being In Love, Harvey Danger
Another one of the songs with interesting lyrics which for this band are many... 'I was the time bomb, you were the liquid paper'???

Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into the Water, Triumph Of, The Mountain Goats
A long title that doesn't seem to say much about the contents of the song, but it's a great ending to the album We Shall All Be Healed.

Return to Oz, The Scissor Sisters
A great ending to their first album. Too bad they didn't play it live, seeing as they actually were in 'Oz' at the time.