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The Beginning Of The End

The Beginning Of The End
April 16, 2008 10:09PM
Favorite opening and closing track contained on one album.

For me, it's between Love's Alone Again Or/You Set The Scene off Forever Changes and the NY Doll's' Personality Crisis/Jetboy off their debut.

There are far, far too many to list all the great runner-ups.

Re: The Beginning Of The End
April 16, 2008 10:49PM
Off the top of my head:

The Clash - LONDON CALLING - London Calling/Train in Vain
Kate Bush - THE DREAMING - Sat in your Lap/Get Out of My House
Ultravox - VIENNA - Sleepwalk/All Stood Still
Velvet Underground - VU AND NICO - Sunday Morning/European Son
Velvet Underground - WHITE LIGHT WHITE HEAT - WLWH/Sister Ray
Peter Gabriel - PG III - Intruder/Biko
Genesis - FOXTROT - Watcher of the Skies/Supper's Ready
U2 - WAR - Sunday Bloody Sunday/40
Television - ADVENTURE - Glory/The Dream's Dream
Sparks - A WOOFER IN TWEETER'S CLOTHING - Girl from Germany/Whippings and Apologies
Re: The Beginning Of The End
April 16, 2008 11:45PM
Highway 61 Revisited - Like a Rolling Stone/Desolation Row

Let it Be - I Will Dare/Answering Machine

Radio City - O My Soul/I'm in Love With A Girl

Squeezing Out Sparks - Discovering Japan/Don't Get Excited

The La's - Son of A Gun/Looking Glass

Re: The Beginning Of The End
April 17, 2008 02:28AM
Richmond Fontaine - Lost Son - Savior of Time/Hope & Repair

Blaggers I.T.A - Bad Karma - The Hits/Oxygen
Re: The Beginning Of The End
April 17, 2008 02:49AM
Here Come The Warm Jets - The best songs are frist and last.
Same with Streetcore, The Hoople, and Let it Bleed
Re: The Beginning Of The End
April 17, 2008 12:23PM
HERE COME THE WARM JETS is a great call.

Other beginning/ends I'm fond of -

OMD - JUNK CULTURE - Tesla Girls/Talking Loud and Clear
Radiohead - KID A - Everything in Its Right Place/Motion Picture Soundtrack
Blondie - BLONDIE - X-Offender/Attack of the Giant Ants
Ian Hunter - IAN HUNTER - Once Bitten, Twice Shy/I Get So Excited
Re: The Beginning Of The End
April 17, 2008 02:17PM
Actually My two favorites on The Stooges are 69 and Little Doll.
Hows about Suicide s/t Ghost Rider - Keep your Dreams
Not necessarily the best two on Let it be, Two of Us and Get Back is a hell of a way to start and finish an album.
Rise Above/Damaged I - Wow.
Thunder Road/Jungleland - not too shabby.
Lust for Life/Fall in Love With Me - pretty good.

The Bookends on Lola vs Powerman is pretty cool.
Re: The Beginning Of The End
April 17, 2008 04:32PM
David Watts/Waterloo Sunset-Something Else By The Kinks
Re: The Beginning Of The End
April 17, 2008 01:35PM
Crossing the Red Sea with The Adverts: One Chord Wonders & The Great British Mistake

All Mod Cons: All Mod Cons & Down in the Tube Station at Midnight

This Year's Model: No Action & Radio Radio (a little bit of a cheat, perhaps)
Re: The Beginning Of The End
April 17, 2008 03:24PM
Next Big Thing/I Live For Cars and Girls - Dictators Go Girl Crazy!
Who Will Save Rock and Roll?/Burn, Baby, Burn! - D.F.F.D
Re: The Beginning Of The End
April 17, 2008 06:52PM
i always like the Groovies Shake Some Action: Shake......./I Can't Hide
Stones Between the Buttons Lets Spend the Night Together/Something Happened to Me Yesterday
Ramones leave home Glad to See You Go/ You Should Never Have Opened That Door (actually the first 4 ramones discs)
Re: The Beginning Of The End
April 18, 2008 12:40AM
Who's Next wins, I think. Lots of runner ups. Here are some of my fave bookends:

The Queen Is Dead / Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
Purple Haze / Are You Experienced?
Call The Doctor / Heart Attack (Sleater Kinney)
Rocks Off / Soul Survivor
The Act We Act / Man On The Moon (Sugar)
Rock and Roll / When The Levee Breaks
Teenage Riot / Trilogy
Re: The Beginning Of The End
April 17, 2008 08:19PM
Matthew Sweet "Girlfriend" - Divine Intervention / Nothing Lasts
Blur "Parklife" - Girls and Boys / This is a Low
Jam "Snap!" - In the City / Beat Surrender
Who's Next - Baba O'Reily / Won't get fooled again
Parallel Lines - Hanging on the Telephone / Just go away
Rust Never Sleeps - My My Hey Hey / Hey Hey My My
Re: The Beginning Of The End
April 17, 2008 08:27PM
Go-Betweens - 16 LOVERS LANE - Love Goes On/Dive for your Memory
Re: The Beginning Of The End
April 19, 2008 02:29PM
speaking of which........................
has anyone heard Robert Forster's new disc?
It has 3 songs co-written by Grant including the last they wrote before he died...................since I'll be at the record store I might pick this up.
Re: The Beginning Of The End
April 21, 2008 11:43PM
I've heard it...it's excellent. Very much in the vein of 16 Lovers Lane and Oceans Apart.
Re: The Beginning Of The End
April 17, 2008 11:02PM
Heff wrote:

"Who Will Save Rock and Roll?/Burn, Baby, Burn! - D.F.F.D"

I saw The Stooges, covered in bruises!


Some others I originally contemplated:

One Track Mind/Born To Lose - Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers
Honalu/Samurai And Courtesan - Holly Beth Vincent
Suzanne/One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong - Leonard Cohen
Five Years/Rock N' Roll Suicide - David Bowie
Hold My Life/Here Comes A Regular - Replacements

Re: The Beginning Of The End
April 18, 2008 06:00PM
Holidays in the Sun/EMI (Never Mind the Bollocks)
I Zimbra/Drugs (Fear of Music)
Born Under Punches/The Overload (Remain in Light)
Precious/Mystery Achievement (Pretenders)
Party Out of Bounds/53 Miles West of Venus (Wild Planet)
One More Time/Got the Time (Look Sharp!)
On Your Radio/Friday (I'm the Man)
Radio Free Europe/West of the Fields (Murmur)
Begin the Beguine/Superman (Lifes Rich Pageant)
Let's Go Crazy/Purple Rain (Purple Rain)

Jeez, too many to mention ...
Re: The Beginning Of The End
April 18, 2008 09:30PM
I might be thinking of this differently. I'm thinking "perfect opener/closer," not necessarily the first and last being the best 2 songs on the album. Am I doing this wrong? I'm thinking: "The perfect opening and closing statement on an album."


The Band ("...Big Pink") "Tears of Rage/"I Shall Be Released"

Pavement (Crooked Rain...) "Silence Kit/Fillmore Jive" (one of the great album closers of all time, meandering and powerful)

Elvis Presley (1st RCA album): Blue Suede Shoes/Money Honey

Marvin Gaye (What's Goin..): "What's Goin' On"/Inner City Blues

Television (Marquee Moon) "See No Evil"/"Torn Curtain"

Van Morrison (Saint Dominic's...) "Jackie Wilson Said"/"Almost Independence Day"

Zombies (Odessey...) "Care of Cell 44"/"Time of the Season"

Queers (Love Songs for the...) You're Tripping/Daydreaming

Beatles (Meet the...) "It Won't Be Long"/"Money"

Moby Grape (Moby Grape) "Hey Grandma/Indifference"

The Who (Quadrophenia) "I am the Sea"/"Love Reign O'er Me" (teaser opener/bombastic outro--I love it)

Bruce Springsteen & E Street (Darkness on...) "Badlands"/"Darkness on the Edge..."

Los Straitjackets (the Utterly Fantastic) "Fury"/"Lynxtail"

Rolling Stones (Let it Bleed) "Gimme Shelter"/"You Can't Always..."

Pet Sounds of course as well....("Wouldn't it Be Nice"/"Hang on to your...")



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Re: The Beginning Of The End
April 18, 2008 11:17PM
First We Take Manhattan / Tower of Song

Cherry-Coloured Funk / Frou-Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires

Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) / The Morning Fog

Call Me (Come Back Home) / Jesus Is Wating



Post Edited (04-18-08 23:52)
Re: The Beginning Of The End
April 19, 2008 05:30AM
I think 'goodbye yellow brick road had @ least one or two sides that match this particular criteria.

U2

raw power

sell out who

modern lovers

cockney rejects (the power & the glory)

green elaine mackenzie

my bloody valentine

pogeus

give em enough rope

elvis c- this years model

avengers-s/t '83

the teenagers- the teenagers

gorilla- bonzo dog doo dah

r stevie moore- (cunieform1), you know, the Lp with 'song for vini (reilly)'

bob dylan

glands

couch flambeau mammal insect '83
Re: The Beginning Of The End
April 23, 2008 01:45PM
I'll cop to being an old-timer and suggest Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with the title track opening and "A Day in the Life" closing.

Re: The Beginning Of The End
May 18, 2008 12:56AM
I'll cop to that too. Embracing the horror that is being over 50~~~~

But I'll go you one better:

Revolver (my #1 favorite album of all time.)

Taxman - Tomorrow Never Knows

If you're like me, you've made a list of favorite albums many times during your music listening lifetime. I'm sure there's a thread around here like that.

here's one of my recent lists;
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