Records That Conclude In A Manner So Satisfactory That If The Group Making It Decided To Call It A Day, That’d Have Been Totally Fine And Understandable (regardless of whether or not this actually ha

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So far, this is what I've come up with:

Pavement, Brighten The Corners
Stereolab, Margerine Eclipse
Tortoise, Standards

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Huey Lewis & the News, Sports

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Love, Forever Changes to thread.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi

― frankE (frankE), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

vu and nico
scott 4
EVOL (concludes wonderfully, has some weak spots)
is this it
room on fire
kid a
undertones s/t
pink flag
slates ep
you made me realise ep
pet sounds

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Propellerheads Decksanddrumsandrocknroll

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

some girls
ragged glory
the marshall mathers lp
ill communication

new adventures seconded x1000

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Pet Sounds clang clang arf

― duh, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

FZ/MOI, "We're Only In It For the Money." The closing piano chord is a cup of acid thrown in the face of the Beatles, and ends a genuinely creepy piece of music.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Every R.E.M. album released after the terribly overrated "New Adventures" is miles and miles better.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

PAULZ BOOTEEK.

― DEEBZ (ddb), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess Orbital's "In Sides" fits in here. At least they've never even come close to anything as brilliant later on.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

R.E.M. - New Adventures ... and Lifes Rich Pageant
Cranes - Loved
Clinic - Internal Wrangler
Joy Division - Closer (ooh, morbid)

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Thrush Hermit -- Clayton Park
Local Rabbits -- This is it here we go

Both career-ending albums, as well.

― Eoin Quigley (Eoin), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you'll find if R.E.M. had stopped at "Wendell Gee" they'd be just about perfect.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

These couldn't be more obviously appropriate:

The Doors - Their first & greatest. Closing track: "The End"

Beatles, Abbey Road - The last LP they recorded, and the closing track SHOULD'VE been "In The End", and is actually listed as the last track on the back cover. (The ACTUAL last track, "Her Majesty," was originally meant to be before "Polythene Pam" but was resequenced. In any event, "In The End" is followed by 20-odd seconds of silence, so you can pretend that it IS the last track.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

hummingbirds "va va voom"

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Every Tindersticks album
Brian Eno -- Music For Airports (perfect final track, could've gone on for another ten lonely minutes, and then gently receeded away into nothing, it would have been the perfect ending)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a Dutch vinyl copy of 'Abbey Road' that *does* stop with "The End"! A mastering error, I figure.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

And 'Forever Changes' and that first Undertones album are purrrrfect.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 05:40 (twenty-one years ago)

That abbey road's prob worth a 4tune.

Anyway, Champagne Supernova to thread?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

wha-what ?? pet sounds ?? so many great beach boys albums after that (not to mention the at last released smile)...

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)

the beta band - hot shots II

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 07:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you'll find if R.E.M. had stopped at "Wendell Gee" they'd be just about perfect.

Only if they stopped at the single and didn't release the album. "Fables Of Reconstruction" was a huge disappointment when compared to their first two brilliant powerpop albums.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Earl Brutus, "Tonight You're The Special One".

― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Murmur is a powerpop album?

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Sklyarking, unfortunately. In this alternate universe we would have been spared "The Smartest Monkey" and interminable waits for "OK" albums while covering our eyes as Colin and Andy turn into The Kinks' Arthur.

― caspar (caspar), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Grandaddy should've read this thread before releasing Sumday

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

ritual de lo habitual
juanas addicion

― p.j. (Henry), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

These both kinda hurt me to say, what with their having released a lot of music I love since then, but I'm trying to be objective here:

They Might Be Giants Flood
Fishbone The Reality Of My Surroundings

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Joy Division - Closer (ooh, morbid)
Yeah... I've always wondered if that was supposed to be CLOW-ser (as in two people getting closer) or Clo-ZER (and in something that closes.)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The Flaming Lips, Clouds Taste Metallic

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

gary numan, telekon (in its original version, where it closed w/ "please push no more")
echo and the bunnymen, ocean rain (again in its original version, closing w/ its title song)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 7 October 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Saint Etienne - Finisterre; literally, the end of the world. Happily, though, they've got a new record in the wings

Steely Dan - Everything Must Go

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 7 October 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Smartest Monkeys" is one of the best XTC tracks ever...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 7 October 2004 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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