Rubbish last tracks.... - Progressive Rock Music Forum

TiddK wrote:

Rubbish last track? I think you'd have to go a long way to beat The Grand Vizier's Garden Party off Floyd's 'Ummagumma' album. Sorry, Nick - we love you dearly but that wasn't one of your greatest moments.

I might have nominated Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast from 'Atom heart Mother', but I played it recently and thought the 3rd and final piece of music in it (before the dripping tap fade) was gorgeous, and a fitting end to the album.

I did originally dismiss Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast too, but listening to it again, it's music is actually very beautiful... all of it... but it's the sounds of breakfast cooking and eating, or whatever, that really drag the song out and cut out it's continuity.

If it wasn't for the sounds of the cooking, how would you know it's Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast Wink

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verslibre wrote:

One of my favorite bands, Rush, wins this contest rather easily with the album closer from Roll The Bones, titled "You Bet Your Life." All these years later, I still can't believe they recorded such crap.

Nope.

I love that one. Always will. Rush has had some rubbish tracks, but I can't think of any that were closers.

Alan's Brekkie is saved by the sublime piano music. The FX are ... well a waste of time.

Poor old BOC. Classic album with the near Beth / Death experience of Debbie Denise.

Poor Nick Mason.. 10 minutes of an LP to fill up and he has to rope his missus in to play some flute. Result - a studio album of demos.

Weirdest funniest... The Yardbirds - Dazed and Confused on Cumular Limit. They cover the Led Zeppelin original - 27 minutes ? Actually 7 minutes of paying tribute to Jake Holmes, then 15 minutes of silence and the song repeats the same but different. It's all backwards. I assume full of Satanic messages.

Don't understand what is wrong with It. The whole album is a surreal comedy and the track a jaunty closer.

Follow You Follow Me bears no relation to the rest of the album but I thought it was superb. Works as a coda to the album. Most things Genesis are superb. Re-do Invisible Touch to include the unedited singles and the 3 B sides and it is not so bad at all. Tried that with Three but it didn't work as well.

The song on Endless Dream starts horrifically (lyrically). What on earth was DG and his missus thinking with these opening lines. Still, quoting from Sorrow was a nice touch but it was touch and go fr a while.

dr wu23 wrote:

Uh..the last 4 tracks on TFTO.

;)

That made me laugh five years ago... LOL

... and it still does nowadays

Edited by Sean Trane - August 08 2023 at 02:28

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

Octavarium by Dream Theater.

An overblown balloon filled with empty uninspiration.

bike - piper at the gates of dawn

another record - abacab

GEN_I wrote:

bike - piper at the gates of dawn

another record - abacab

I really love "Bike". It's very quirky. Like many of Syd's best songs, kind of a children's song on acid, and there's a lot of humour in it too.

The Anders wrote:

Not strictly rubbish, but anticlimactic:

The Police - Darkness (Ghost In the Machine)

Anticlimactic? "Darkness" is the perfect ending to this band's best album!

Let me put it this way: can you think of a better way to close that album?