Rubbish last tracks....

Yep, I'm with you, Sam, `Obscured by Clouds' is lovely. Perhaps not a particularly important Floyd album, and that final track is the least interesting part of the album, but the LP is lovely and melodic with pleasing tunes and cool instrumental bursts. Always loved it, always will.

And I'd take it a million times over something like the overworked overproduced AOR blandness of `A Momentary Lapse of Reason' and the way every track pretty much ends on a fade-out...the least honest and genuine Floyd album by far. And that's coming from someone who doesn't actually hate it!

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - August 23 2018 at 04:10

I would absolutely take all of `Obscured by Clouds' over the first side of `Meddle' too. A mix of pleasant if forgettable tracks and a fairly uninteresting studio version of a track where every single live recording of it EVER wiped the floor with it!

Yeah, `AMLoR' is probably better than `Invisible Touch' I suppose! But I'm surprised, I actually wondered with your new-found poppier 80's appreciation you might have been a little more forgiving of it now!

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: And I'd take it a million times over something like the overworked overproduced AOR blandness of `A Momentary Lapse of Reason' and the way every track pretty much ends on a fade-out...the least honest and genuine Floyd album by far. And that's coming from someone who doesn't actually hate it!

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: The last part of ritual on tales. I like tales as a whole but that part just seems a bit sleepy and too romantic for the rest of the album.

ForestFriend wrote: I think you guys are crazy! The drum solo on its own is a little annoying, but I think it creates some lovely tension and release once they go into the soft part of the song. And then it builds up and Steve Howe plays a great solo which very neatly wraps up the entire album.

I always thought that Les Boys on Making Movies by Dire Straits was quite a weak song to end on - not rubbish exactly but not as good as the rest of the album.

Not prog - but Bruce Springsteen does have a tendency to end many albums on a slower, downbeat track. On many albums (such as The River, with Wreck on the Highway) it works well and has a melancholic counterpoint to much that came before. However, at times the choice is twee, over-sentimental or too much of a downer. Pony Boy on Human Touch or Valentine's Day on Tunnel of Love are examples. Sometimes, like Froggie come a Courtin' on the Seeger Seesions, it is skip track time. Surprise, Surprise on Working on a Dream, is just misjudged.

Of course, he has got it right a lot of times too! Jungleland from Born to Run is the way to end an album!

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.

Edited by TiddK - August 25 2018 at 11:42

Uh..the last 4 tracks on TFTO.