Albums opening and closing with the same songs (sort of)

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What albums start and end with (semi-)identical songs that open and close the album? I can think of:

Blackalicious - Nia ("Searching" and "Finding")
Pink Floyd - Animals (two parts of "Pigs On the Wing")
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique ("To All the Girls")
DJ Shadow - The Private Press (two times a "(Letter From Home)")
Boom Bip & Doseone - Circle ("(" and ")", two ten-second tracks with the same lyrics)

And a little bit:

The Avalanches - Since I Left You ("Since I Left You" and "Extra Kings" share some of the vocals)
Cornelius - Point (not really, but it opens and closes with a long piano note)

― Orange, Sunday, 2 February 2003 13:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

T. Rex by (ditto) : "Children of Rarn"!

― duane (24 hour troubleshooter), Sunday, 2 February 2003 13:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Darkthrone "A Blaze In The Northern Sky"

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 2 February 2003 13:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Band On The Run" - Macca & Wings - opens and closes with the same theme: the title tune, that starts the album, re-emerges briefly at the very end of the last song, "1985"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 2 February 2003 14:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Iron Maiden "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son"

― mei (mei), Sunday, 2 February 2003 14:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sigur Ros ()

There is a slight clank sound before the first proper song and after the last. I think these sounds themselves count as songs and are an integral part of the whole album to me. They _are_ the opening and closing parenthesis of the title.

― mei (mei), Sunday, 2 February 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Harold Budd & Brian Eno - Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirrors
"First Light" and "Failing Light"

― Paul (scifisoul), Sunday, 2 February 2003 14:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

that jethro tull album with the newspaper cover

― forbidden or obsolete (24 hour troubleshooter), Sunday, 2 February 2003 14:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh: Deltron 3030 opens and closes with Damon Albarn saying "It's the year 3030..."

― Orange, Sunday, 2 February 2003 14:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

(" that jethro tull album with the newspaper cover "
-- forbidden or obsolete
right you are of course, f-or-o! that'd be 'thick as a brick' then)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 2 February 2003 15:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Blood Sweat and Tears - Child is Father to the Man
Philip Aaberg, Michael Hedges, and Will Ackerman - The Shape of the Land
Sting - Brand New Day
Bowie - Scary Monsters
King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon

― bahtology, Sunday, 2 February 2003 15:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness; a variation on the first track is repeated at the end of the last song

― Curtis Stephens, Sunday, 2 February 2003 16:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cornershop "Woman's gotta have it"

― cybele, Sunday, 2 February 2003 16:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hey, Blackalicious' Blazing Arrow does that too!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 2 February 2003 16:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh yeah, forgot about that one.

― Orange, Sunday, 2 February 2003 16:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

The first Buzzcocks album begins and ends with a brief rendition of "Boredom", doesn't it?

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Sunday, 2 February 2003 16:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Frank Black and the Catholics "Black Letter Days" bookends itself with two different covers of Tom Waits's "Black Rider" and that album is no good except for a few songs, one of which is "1826."

― Famous Athlete, Sunday, 2 February 2003 17:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

John Miles - Rebel (starts w/ Music, ends w/a reprise of Music)
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here (starts and ends w/ Shine on you crazy diamond)

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Sunday, 2 February 2003 19:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
Eddie Hazel - Games, Dames, and Guitar Thangs

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 2 February 2003 19:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

kraftwerk - te-e: europe endless and endless endless

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Sunday, 2 February 2003 19:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

'baader meinhof' by baader meinhof begins and ends with two slightly different renditions of 'baader meinhof'.

― calumny panoply, Sunday, 2 February 2003 20:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

there's a third blackalicious to be mentioned (a2g ep) as well as a third pink floyd (the wall). plus there's got to be a francisco lopez album that fits the bill.

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Sunday, 2 February 2003 20:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Are there any albums that begin and end with the same sound, so if you put them on repeat they'd seamlessly loop?

― hammy, Sunday, 2 February 2003 21:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Are there any albums that begin and end with the same sound, so if you put them on repeat they'd seamlessly loop?

Does Metal Machine Music Count? (ducks)

― J (Jay), Sunday, 2 February 2003 21:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pink Floyd's The Wall could loop; if you unite the end of disc 2 w/ the beginning of disc 1, it makes a continuous play.

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Sunday, 2 February 2003 21:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

''Does Metal Machine Music Count? (ducks)''

*throws rock*

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 2 February 2003 21:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Point by Cornelius.

Tommy I think but I don't own a copy.

― Dave Beckhouse (Dave Beckhouse), Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hummingbirds Va Va Voom opens and closes with a very very similar guitary bit..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mercury Rev - All Is Dream

― man, Sunday, 2 February 2003 23:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Neil Young's "Freedom" too.

Neil Young's "Sleeps With Angels" is possibly the only I've heard that has the same song (sort of) in the MIDDLE of each side. "Western Hero" and "Train Of Love" have the same melody and instrumentation, just different lyrics.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 2 February 2003 23:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

the harder they come is on the harder they come album like a billion times

― coelcanth, Monday, 3 February 2003 02:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's true, he's not exaggerating.

― bobby j, Monday, 3 February 2003 03:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

jez's album with mild euphoria opens and closes with 'one day in colour'.

― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 3 February 2003 03:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Rufus Wainwright's "Poses" opens and closes with slightly different versions of Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 3 February 2003 07:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Sound of MacAlmont & Butler ends with the first track "Yes" starting again

― bham, Monday, 3 February 2003 09:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh, forgot about A2G too! And that while I love them so much.

― Orange, Monday, 3 February 2003 10:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

One Love by Delakota had a different track at the end to the beginning, but they used the same bass loop.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 3 February 2003 11:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bob Dylan, "Planet Waves", but only if you play the two sides of the LP in reverse order.

― Andrew Norman, Monday, 3 February 2003 11:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

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