Similar to the "Best 3 Song Stretches" thread, what albums have the best duo of opening and closing tracks? (For the sake of discussion: don't do re-issues, re-releases, or bonus tracks. Also, if there is an intro, the second first real song does not count (ie. Godspeed from Cities).)
He Is Legend -- I Am Hollywood Open: The Seduction Close: I Am Hollywood Will probably be my first thought for this conversation every single time. A few others: Copeland - Eat, Sleep, Repeat Open: Where's My Head? Close: When You Thought You'd Never Stand Out mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister Open: Messes of Men Close: In A Sweater Poorly Knit
The Hotelier - Home, Like NoPlace Is There "Introduction To the Album" and "Dendron" The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About "Holiday" and "I'll Catch You" The Junior Varsity - Wide Eyed "Get Comfortable" and "Saltwater Fountain"
Like A Rolling Stone / Desolation Row London Calling / Train in Vain Thunder Road / Jungleland Human Behaviour / Play Dead Mountainhead / Tiger Girl
The Pull / Magnet (Threads - Now, Now) Futures / 23 (Futures - Jimmy Eat World) Attractive Today / Hold Me Down (Commit This To Memory - Motion City Soundtrack) Born to Die / This Is What Makes Us Girls (Born to Die - Lana Del Rey) I Don't Want Love / Putting the Dog to Sleep (Burst Apart - The Antlers) The Sound / The Same (New Love - Allison Weiss) Attention / Almost Here (Almost Here - The Academy Is...) Texas Reznikoff / Last Words of a Shooting Star (Bury Me At Makeout Creek - Mitski) Plainsong / Untitled (Disintegration - The Cure) Tennis Court / A World Alone (Pure Heroine - Lorde)
I always thought Anberlin did a killer job of starting and ending their albums even if I didn't like a bunch of stuff in the middle. Kill Me Quickly > The Beltsville Crucible (Thrice- The Illusion of Safety) Yellow Theme/Take My Bones Away > Eula (Baroness- Yellow) Winter > Shallows (Daughter- If You Leave)
Already said but it really is the best: The Hotelier - Home Like Noplace Is There An Introduction To The Album / Dendron Jimmy Eat World - Futures Futures / 23 The National - Boxer Fake Empire / Gospel Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica 3rd Planet / What People Are Made of Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing Only One / the River The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes Set Fire To The Face On Fire / Giant Swan Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago Flume / Re:Stacks Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place First Breath After Coma / Your Hand In Mine Brand New - The Devil & God Are Raging Inside Me Sowing Season / Handcuffs O'Brother - Garden Window Malum / Last Breath
Snowing - I Could Do Whatever... I Think We're In Minsk / Could Be Better Forever The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About Holiday / I'll Catch You Gioca Morra - just married y'all boots hats (die angry) / me + geneine Grown Ups - More Songs Weed Science / Are You Shitten Me?
Ever So Sweet / Everything's Too Cold... But You're So Hot (The Room's Too Cold) Alex English / People You Know (Dance Gavin Dance) There, There / I Just Want to Sell Out My Funeral (The Greatest Generation) and if you don't count the actual intro / closing tracks... Understanding in a Car Crash / How Long Is the Night? (Full Collapse)
Thursday - A City by the Light Divided: The Other Side of the Crash/Over and Out (Of Control) / Autumn Leaves Revisited
an intro / dendron cynicism / sands you or your memory / pale green things and the hazy sea / like blood does rifle eyesight / gary condit our lives / title track
Such Small Hands / Nobody, Not Even The Rain [La Dispute] Arrows / The Wild Bunch [Fireworks] Geography, Vonnegut, and Me / When We Stand on Each Other We Block Out The Sun [Fireworks] Embracing Facts / The Frames That Used To Greet Me [Into It. Over It.] Re-do / Coals [Modern Baseball] My Last Semester / All My Friends Are In Bar Bands [TWY] Selfhood / My Wild One [Sharks] Our Lives Would Make A Sad, Boring Movie / Title Track [The Hotelier]
Round Here / A Murder of One Theatre / The Loosing of the Shadow Crown of the Valley / Sweet Avenue Five, Eight, and Ten / Parking Lot LoveLetterTypewriter / TheLastWordIsRejoice Swing Set / Apsides Death with Dignity / Blue Bucket of Gold A More Perfect Union / The Battle of Hampton Roads Civil Twilight / Utilities
"Thunder Road" and "Jungleland" is my top opening/closing duo by such a wide margin that I almost feel like I don't have to list any others.
tim hecker - an imaginary country "100 years ago" and "200 years ago" thursday - a city by the light divided "the other side of the crash" and "autumn leaves revisited" bon iver - bon iver bon iver "perth" and "beth/rest" isis - oceanic "the beginning and the end" and "hym" mewithoutyou - brother sister "messes of men" and "in a sweater poorly knit" pianos become the teeth - keep you "ripple water shine" and "say nothing" fucked up - glass boys "echo boomer" and "glass boys" tame impala - currents "let it happen" and "new person same old mistakes" foxing - dealer "weave" and "three on a match" just some off the top of my head. i didnt read through the thread before doing this so im sure i repeated many
The Gaslight Anthem- The '59 Sound Great Expectations/The Backseat Slayer- Reign In Blood Angel of Death/Raining Blood
PBTT and Hotelier but they've been mentioned Kanye West - Dark Fantasy / Who Will Survive in America Mansions - Dig up The Dead / Yer Voice Thursday - Fast to the End / Stay True Weatherbox - That Mann / No Hands Alexisonfire - Accidents / Happiness by the Kilowatt Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me / When I Needed You