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David Bowie - 'Subterraneans' (Low - 1977)
Jan 11
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The closing tracks on the best albums of 2025
Three years ago, we examined a selection of closing tracks from significant albums from 2022; two years ago, from 2023; and a year ago, from 2024.
Dec 28, 2025
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Two sugars would be great
Pulp - 'Bar Italia' (Different Class, 1995)
Dec 23, 2025
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What do you mean it’s not in the computer?
Madonna - 'Act of Contrition' (Like A Prayer, 1989)
Dec 19, 2025
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Mitchell Stirling
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Well, the world turns
Elvis Presley - 'In The Ghetto' (From Elvis in Memphis, 1969)
Dec 7, 2025
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About his neck the dead bird is hung
Oct 9, 2023
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Aboard a tidal wave
Mar 30, 2025
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Reader's Poll - Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1990-9
Sep 30, 2025
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It's okay to eat fish 'cause they don't have any feelings
Dec 13, 2022
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How Boards of Canada end an album.
Nov 30, 2025
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The glass is smashed
The La's - 'Looking Glass' (The La's, 1990)
Nov 24, 2025
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...in love in the beginning and with some doubts at the end
Neil Young - 'Words (Between The Lines of Age)' (Harvest, 1972)
Nov 16, 2025
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You don't ask why
Roxy Music - 'Tara' (Avalon, 1982)
Nov 9, 2025
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I'm always so unsure
Portishead - 'Threads' (Third, 2008)
Nov 3, 2025
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1990s Closing Track Readers’ Poll Round-Up
In Closing
Oct 26, 2025
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1990s Closing Track Readers’ Poll
Part 6: The final six
Oct 23, 2025
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1990s Closing Track Readers’ Poll
Part 5: 25-7
Oct 22, 2025
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1990s Closing Track Readers’ Poll
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Oct 21, 2025
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Sometimes, the last song says everything. Essays on the greatest (and not so great) album closers. How they’re made, what they mean, and why endings stick.
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