Best final album

[Sancho Panza]

I'm sure we've probably covered best debut albums before, but which bands went out with a bang rather than a whimper? My starters for 10...

The Beatles - Abbey Road
Joy Division - Closer
The Doors - L.A. Woman
Japan - Tin Drum
David Bowie - Blackstar

 

[Greenmachine]

Abbey Road- The Beatles....one of their best albums.
What a way to end an incredible eight year recording career.

I thought Synchronicity was a great album as well for the Police to finish up.
Great band, and a great album to put a full stop on things.

 

[Two Headed Boy]

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee part Two
Nirvana - In Utero
Fugazi - The Argument
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

 

[EH17 Jimmy]

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee part Two
Nirvana - In Utero
Fugazi - The Argument
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Strangeways Here We Come was very decent.

 

[Two Headed Boy]

Strangeways Here We Come was very decent.

Great shout. That's an absolutely obvious one. Can't believe I missed it actually. Their second best after TQID for me.

 

[EH17 Jimmy]

Great shout. That's an absolutely obvious one. Can't believe I missed it actually. Their second best after TQID for me.

It's ok. I'll be ashamed for you THB

 

[EH17 Jimmy]

Great shout. That's an absolutely obvious one. Can't believe I missed it actually. Their second best after TQID for me.

TQID is my favourite but Strangeways has some drop dead genius tunes and lyrics.

 

[Stu]

Goodbye Cream - Cream.

With great tracks like, Badge, Sitting on Top of the World, Politician and I’m So Glad, that album was a winner.

 

[Alex Edwards Shin pad]

Never mind the Bollocks Sex Pistols

Best first and last

 

[Two Headed Boy]

Never mind the Bollocks Sex Pistols

Best first and last

The Great Rock and Roll Swindle?


If shambolic reimaginings of bands don't count I'll add Misfits - Earth AD.

 

[Purple & Green]

I'm sure we've probably covered best debut albums before, but which bands went out with a bang rather than a whimper? My starters for 10...

The Beatles - Abbey Road
Joy Division - Closer
The Doors - L.A. Woman
Japan - Tin Drum
David Bowie - Blackstar

Tin Drum is an outstanding album.

I think even now the arrangement and the choons are pretty incredible, and the journey that Japan went on from some pretty mediocre stuff was a staggeringly sharp improvement.

I think to this day if they could have stuck together and got their head around lyrics that were accessible, they’d have been much bigger.

 

[Sancho Panza]

Tin Drum is an outstanding album.

I think even now the arrangement and the choons are pretty incredible, and the journey that Japan went on from some pretty mediocre stuff was a staggeringly sharp improvement.

I think to this day if they could have stuck together and got their head around lyrics that were accessible, they’d have been much bigger.

Mick Karn was an incredible bass player. Such a distinctive sound.

 

[greencol]

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.
Not the final album, but the final one with Peter Gabriel in tow.
A mention to Electric Ladyland.

 

[EH17 Jimmy]

Right just put Tin Drum on. Now any of yous bass players can help.

What is fretless bass? Is it different from ordinary bass?

 

[EH17 Jimmy]

What about Bowie's Blackstar? Thats a bit tasty as well.

 

[Sancho Panza]

Right just put Tin Drum on. Now any of yous bass players can help.

What is fretless bass? Is it different from ordinary bass?

Yeah. As the name suggests, it doesn't have frets, so the player can slide their fingers between notes on a string rather than pressing the string down behind a fret. Bit like a violin or double bass. The technical term is glissando.

 

[EH17 Jimmy]

Yeah. As the name suggests, it doesn't have frets, so the player can slide their fingers between notes on a string rather than pressing the string down behind a fret. Bit like a violin or double bass. The technical term is glissando.

Oooo glissando is it?

 

[EH17 Jimmy]

Right smart bollocks is it easier to play?

 

[Sancho Panza]

Oooo glissando is it?

 

[Sancho Panza]

Right smart bollocks is it easier to play?

I suspect it’s more difficult as you don't have frets to show where the notes are.

 

[EH17 Jimmy]

Just listening to Girl Loves Me malchick

 

[EH17 Jimmy]

I suspect it’s more difficult as you don't have frets to show where the notes are.

Well I wouldn't know. Anyway who remembers the bassists and drummers?

 

[Sancho Panza]

Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker is up there with Bowie's Blackstar as a valedictory album.

 

[Forzahibs]

Yeah. As the name suggests, it doesn't have frets, so the player can slide their fingers between notes on a string rather than pressing the string down behind a fret. Bit like a violin or double bass. The technical term is glissando.

A fretted one is hard enough but they sound great and look cool as fuck . I still can't work out how they actually work to be honest

 

[EH17 Jimmy]

And that was what I wanted to know. I take it that it is well harder to play

 

[aggie]

Elliott Smith, From a Basement on the Hill.

 

[hibbybilly]

I had, once upon a time, Free's Heartbreaker, I think it was their last album.

 

[Forzahibs]

And that was what I wanted to know. I take it that it is well harder to play

You dont have frets , normal one have frets 1-3-5-7-9-12 and others are marked so you can tell easier where you need to be . Fretless dont have frets (not sure if they have dots) so putting your fingers in the right place must be harder

 

[Sancho Panza]

Elliott Smith, From a Basement on the Hill.

Good shout. Would add Sparklehorse, Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain. I mentally connect Elliott Smith and Mark Linkous as troubled souls.

 

[Findlayhibby]

Isn't; Cut the Crap by the Clash.

 

[Two Headed Boy]

Isn't; Cut the Crap by the Clash.

You never even see hot take "it isn't that bad" or "a misunderstood classic" type articles about that one. A bafflingly shite full stop on a great band's career.

 

[Bangkokhibby]

I'm assuming a band's 'only' album would count as last album?
Green Dollar Colour's self titled album was pretty damn good.

 

[blue toon hibby]

A fretted one is hard enough but they sound great and look cool as fuck . I still can't work out how they actually work to be honest

I used to have an Ibanez Musician fretless bass along with her fretted sister which I still own. I stupidly traded in the fretless one for a Fender Jazz Active. If I had kept them as a pair they’d be worth a few bob now. 1983 models, both with active electronics.

 

[blue toon hibby]

You dont have frets , normal one have frets 1-3-5-7-9-12 and others are marked so you can tell easier where you need to be . Fretless dont have frets (not sure if they have dots) so putting your fingers in the right place must be harder

I had, once upon a time, Free's Heartbreaker, I think it was their last album.

Still a go-to album for me. Free have always been my favourite band though Fire and Water was IMHO their best album.

 

[blue toon hibby]

You dont have frets , normal one have frets 1-3-5-7-9-12 and others are marked so you can tell easier where you need to be . Fretless dont have frets (not sure if they have dots) so putting your fingers in the right place must be harder

Mine had “cheat” dots on the side of the neck too.

 

[hibbybilly]

Still a go-to album for me. Free have always been my favourite band though Fire and Water was IMHO their best album.

Heard my older brother playing Wishing Well on his car's 8 track and that was me hooked.

 

[Hibee Kev]

Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around