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Post by ganews on Feb 14, 2024 14:12:42 GMT -5
Last month we did new music, so this month we'll try something older by definition: an album that represents the end of an era. That could be because someone quit or died, or something more fundamental about the genre changed - open to interpretation.
Two nominations each. The poll will go up somewhere around the 24th.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Feb 15, 2024 8:11:00 GMT -5
Outkast - Speakerboxx/The Love Below (2003)
I was just listening to it yesterday for obvious reasons. The sound of a legendary partnership cleaving for good.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Feb 15, 2024 10:41:21 GMT -5
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
The band’s final album before the departure of Peter Gabriel
Metallica - Master of Puppets
The seminal thrash act’s last album before the passing of bassist Cliff Burton.
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Post by LazBro on Feb 15, 2024 11:12:42 GMT -5
Gonna go for some super normie picks this month.
Nirvana - Nevermind
Whether true or not, the rise of Nirvana and in particular the success of this album is seen as the death knell of Hair Metal and the 80's rock sound.
Lipps Inc. - Mouth to Mouth Featuring "Funkytown." Not the last disco song, but the last major hit of the disco era. By the way, there's only four songs on this thing.
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Post by ganews on Feb 16, 2024 11:00:05 GMT -5
I recently finished the second season of Cocaine and Rhinestones.
George Jones, "Friends in High Places". This was the final major-label release by George Jones (the greatest country music singer ever, as the podcast constantly reminds), and it was made to go out with a bang because the radio wouldn't play his music anymore. It was also the last one produced by Billy Sherrill after a 20-year partnership. It's a collection of duets with other great artists - Emmylou Harris, Buck Owens, Randy Travis, more.
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Post by ganews on Feb 19, 2024 23:38:39 GMT -5
I had a few ideas for this theme and kept coming up with albums that didn't interest me. After recent conversations, I've landed on Sleater-Kinney, "The Woods" (2005). This was the last album before they disbanded, and even though they reunited a decade later with Janet Weiss before firing her, I say it was the end of an era.
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Post by monodrone on Feb 20, 2024 10:15:25 GMT -5
Let's listen to The Dismemberment Plan - Change (2001) the last album of theirs prior to breaking up in 2003. It's not my favourite of theirs but it's bound to be someone else's.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Feb 22, 2024 0:02:38 GMT -5
I'd like to make the case for They Might Be Giants' Apollo 18 (1992), which seems apt on multiple levels: 1. It marks the end of TMBG's existence as a duo, before they brought on three more guys and became a full-fledged rock band. 2. It's named after the aborted eighteenth Apollo mission, whose cancellation arguably marked the end of the Space Age. 3. It has an obvious preoccupation with death and mortality that feels very "final" and thus on-theme.
Also, full disclosure - while it sits in the TMBG discography between Flood (their most famous album) and John Henry (a fan-favorite), I think Apollo 18 is much better than either of these records and, honestly, maybe the best album they've ever made in their 40+ years of existence? This is an unpopular opinion, mind you.
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