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PostPosted: Fri May 25, 2007 2:07 pm 
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Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Beatles - Abbey Road (recorded last, right?)


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PostPosted: Fri May 25, 2007 2:13 pm 
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 Post subject: Best last albums
PostPosted: Fri May 25, 2007 2:16 pm 
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What are the rules for this one?

Last albums that were the best by a given artist - leaving on a high note, so to speak?

Or last albums that rank among the top albums overall?

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PostPosted: Fri May 25, 2007 2:45 pm 
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Although it wasn't their best album (nor even their last album released) there was something slightly perfect about the way in which "Abbey Road" completed the Beatles' recording career. (There, I can say something nice about the Beatles every now and again)


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Continuing my one-track theme, The Smiths - Strangeways here we come.


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warren zevon - the wind (just for "keep me in your heart" and "knockin on heaven's door")

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PostPosted: Fri May 25, 2007 4:04 pm 
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Jimi & the Beatles have already been covered, so...

The doors - LA Woman
Skynyrd - Street Survivors (I don't count the post Ronnie stuff)


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PostPosted: Fri May 25, 2007 5:05 pm 
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Last albums always seem so interesting in that you can look at the group after they break up and see it coming in their last album. Mardi Gras by Creedence is a prime example or Last Exit by Traffic.


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Raspberries-Starting Over


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Kirsty MacColl - Tropical Brainstorm


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PostPosted: Fri May 25, 2007 5:17 pm 
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Renny wrote:
warren zevon - the wind (just for "keep me in your heart" and "knockin on heaven's door")


Oooohhh good one. I can't remember the name of the LP but the one that had "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding.

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All Shook Down - The Replacements (in name only, fans also consider this the first true Paul Westerberg solo album)

Innuendo - Queen (last one released before Freddie Mercury's death)

Use Your Illusion I and II - Guns and Roses (Should have been their last!)

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Blind Faith -- Self-titled (also see "Best Debut Album")

Simon & Garfunkel -- Bridge Over Troubled Water

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Holt! wrote:
Jimi & the Beatles have already been covered, so...

The doors - LA Woman
Skynyrd - Street Survivors (I don't count the post Ronnie stuff)


I'm not trying to be contrary, but LA Woman was not the Doors' final album - it was their last Jim Morrison-era album.Their final two proper studio albums were Other Voices (1971) and Full Circle (1972). The fact that these last two releases are now out-of-print still does not change this.


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PostPosted: Fri May 25, 2007 10:17 pm 
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I'm not trying to be contrary, but LA Woman was not the Doors' final album - it was their last Jim Morrison-era album.Their final two proper studio albums were Other Voices (1971) and Full Circle (1972). The fact that these last two releases are now out-of-print still does not change this.


See also Worst Last Album and Worst Second-to-Last Albums.

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 Post subject: Best last albums
PostPosted: Sat May 26, 2007 8:56 am 
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Jeff Leventhal wrote:
Holt! wrote:
Jimi & the Beatles have already been covered, so...

The doors - LA Woman
Skynyrd - Street Survivors (I don't count the post Ronnie stuff)


I'm not trying to be contrary, but LA Woman was not the Doors' final album - it was their last Jim Morrison-era album.Their final two proper studio albums were Other Voices (1971) and Full Circle (1972). The fact that these last two releases are now out-of-print still does not change this.


I'm aware of them, but how many door's fans actually count those? :wink:


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PostPosted: Sun May 27, 2007 8:49 am 
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Billy Swan's 2000 CD "Like Elvis Used To Do". Billy takes songs best known as having been recorded by Elvis and in some cases, totally rearranges the tune. There has been many compilations of his before and after this CD (all of which feature "I Can Help"), but nothing with newer music then this album. Since he's getting older now and there is very limited demand for his music, this is quite probably his final CD. Seek it out, I love it.


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 Post subject: Best last albums
PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2007 2:55 pm 
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Holt! wrote:
Jeff Leventhal wrote:
Holt! wrote:
Jimi & the Beatles have already been covered, so...

The doors - LA Woman
Skynyrd - Street Survivors (I don't count the post Ronnie stuff)


I'm not trying to be contrary, but LA Woman was not the Doors' final album - it was their last Jim Morrison-era album.Their final two proper studio albums were Other Voices (1971) and Full Circle (1972). The fact that these last two releases are now out-of-print still does not change this.


I'm aware of them, but how many door's fans actually count those? :wink:


I'm with David on this one. To me LA Woman IS The Doors' final album. The original line-up of The Doors that is.

Here's a reminder of why we ignore those albums:

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