The other week I was thinking about albums which have their best tracks at the beginning and end of the album, ie-the opener and closer. Usually an artist will put a good track right at the start, and the thoughtful artists will make sure they finish the album well, but it is quite unusual for them to save their best tracks until last. Anyway, here's five albums where the best tracks are the opening and closing songs.
Meat Puppets II- The Meat Puppets (Split Myself In Two & The Whistling Song)
The Whistling Song (Live)
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars- David Bowie (Five Years & Rock and Roll Suicide)
Five Years (TV Performance)
Nashville Skyline- Bob Dylan (Girl From North Country & Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You)
Girl From North Country (TV Performance with Johnny Cash)
Door, Door- The Boys Next Door (The Nightwatchmen & Shivers)
Shivers (Video-clip)
Wait Long By The River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By- The Drones (Sharkfin Blues & This Time)
This Time- The Drones (PBS FM Live Recording)
Happy listening.
7 comments:
Have you considered Portishead's "Dummy"(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_%28album%29)
Some may say "Sour times" or "Roads" far outweighs Mysterons in quality but i think its an amazing opener to a phenomenal album.
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