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

^ I am a proponent of the extension of tracks in hindsight....as I often fantasize about an alternate universe where SEBTP was released as a double gatefold and each side contained 22-25 min versions of dowamn, fof, boef and cs....

I think 'A Passion Play' spoils the rest of the album.

-Don't Let It End (reprise) - Kilroy Was Here by Styx... An overall subpar album with one heck of a trashy ending.

-Cathedral Of The Mary Ruin - Babylon... an overall atmospheric album, ruined by a "holiday in Deutschland" nonsense.

-Absolutely Curtains - Obscured by Clouds by Pink Floyd........ is it cheating to use the last track of a lazy, rubbish, trash album like this?... Clouds I consider the absolute worst and most unappealing, affront to Pink Floyd's career.

-What's Done - Visitors by Automatic Man... don't know why it just ruins things for me.

But the sun is eclipsed by the moon. -- Pink Floyd

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.

Yeah, that's a good choice. Actually, my opinion of that whole album is not very good. Other than Dreamline, it's just so much whatever.

Manuel wrote:

The end of "Heart of the Sunrise" when it stops, and after a few seconds, you hear "We Have Heaven" again. Not that I don't like it, but it ends the album and the song in a weird way, at lest to my ears. What is the purpose of doing that remains a mystery to me.

I love it! Also it sounds a little bit like it had put backwards to it, but I believe it not. I love weird ends, one that come into my mind not so good is Airplane Blues in John Parish How Animals Move-album. Although it´s sung by P J Harvey, it´s very ordinary song in the end of very extraordinary album.

I don't think I have ever heard anything after tarkus...what could better that track....they should have just extended it to be both sides....hell yeah...

Sean Trane wrote:

It is indeed a prime contender, but FYFM is way more audible, because it doesn't sound at all like it's on the album.

Last tracks of a vinyl side (obviously the A-side) would be More Fool Me and Do You Close Your Eyes from Rainbow Rising >> what a crud that track is.

Hercules wrote:

Thank You on Bursting at the Seams by Strawbs. An excellent album, but that track stinks.

definitely the stinkiest Strawbs album of the 60's & 70's if you ask me. I can think of the two hits being cruddier than the track you mention.

Part of the Union is just a mickey take: you probably wouldn't get it unless you were in the UK in the late 60s/early 70s. It should never have been on the album.

Lay Down is a great single and fits the album fine.

As for Flying, Lady Fuschia, The Winter and the Summer, The River and Stormy Down: very good tracks. Then there are the two absolute masterpieces: Tears and Pavan and Down by the Sea, the riff from the latter having been plagiarised by numerous bands since.

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richardh wrote:

I'm not sure its 'rubbish' but Aphrodite's Child album 666 which is generally awesome ends on a strange little ditty 'Break' that has nothing to do with the rest of the album in any respect whatsoever.

I see what you mean but its such a nice little ditty that I don't mind it. But I quite like Seamus as well.

I guess there are too many to really remember them, but reading the comments, the one that comes to my mind is "Dancing with Eternal Glory" on "The Whirlwind", by Transatlantic. I really love that album, easily the best, for me, from the band, and from what little I have heard, from Neal Morse too. But that last song just sounds different from the magnificence of the rest of the album, and sort of drags it down a bit.

TCat wrote:

"Let's Pretend" on "Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman & Howe"

Not a great song, but not a rubbish song...

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