Friday Discussion: The Best Album Closers

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We posted a PropertyOfZack Friday Discussion on The Best Album Openers last week, so we’re following it up this week with The Best Album Closers. Album closers have the ability to leave a truly emotional mark on the listener, and we’ve experienced quite a few memorable ones over the years in our scene. We put the closers together in an Rdio Playlist to listen to as you read the Discussion as well. Check out our list below and feel free to reblog with some of your favorite album closers!

 

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I love topics like these, here are some of my favorite album closers (in no particular order):

  • Jimmy Eat World - 23
  • Alkaline Trio - Blue In the Face
  • Thrice - Beggars
  • Anberlin - *fin
  • Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
  • Taking Back Sunday - Everything Must Go
  • blink-182 - Anthem
  • Against Me! - Cavalier Eternal
  • My Chemical Romance - Famous Last Words
  • Finch - Ender
  • Third Eye Blind - God of Wine
  • Atmosphere - In Her Music Box
  • Emarosa - We Are Life
  • Murder By Death - The Devil Drives

This list seems way too small though, I’m sure I’ve forgotten quite a few.

Top Artists for the week ending Sunday 8 April 2012

  1. Good Old War (16)
  2. Thrice (8)
  3. Hot Rod Circuit (7)
  4. blink-182 (7)
  5. Nine Inch Nails (6)

Good Old War has a new album! And it’s pretty great. I loved their first one, but wasn’t really a fan of the second so I didn’t really pay attention when the new one came out… until I saw them on Conan and they played the song, “Better Weather”, which was awesome. And now that I think about it, I don’t really remember why their second album didn’t do it for me. So I guess I need to give it a re-listen. I still would rather have their old band back though, Days Away was amazing.

Not sure how this happened, but I missed the three song EP that Hot Rod Circuit put out at the end of last year. I had the single, “Forgive Me” but missed out on the rest somehow. I was in the process of learning how to play that one on the guitar when I stumbled across the other two songs. While not quite as good as the first, they are still decent tracks and make me miss Hot Rod.

I would highly recommend picking up both of those, which collectively cost under $10 on Amazon.

Unique Artists: 64
Total Tracks: 146
Total Plays: 160 

Source: last.fm

Top Artists for the week ending Sunday 1 April 2012

  1. Murs and Slug (6)
  2. Nine Inch Nails (4)
  3. No Use For A Name (3)
  4. AC/DC (3)
  5. Jimmy Eat World (3)

Last week was a shuffle week with a little Felt 3 session thrown in. As a side note, I don’t think Slug or Murs has put out anything as good as the last Felt collaboration since then… of course that could change with the new Living Legends album on the way.

Unique Artists: 61
Total Tracks: 82
Total Plays: 89

Source: last.fm

Top Artists for the week ending Sunday 19 February 2012

  1. Dance Gavin Dance (17)
  2. The Weeknd (15)
  3. Nine Inch Nails (15)
  4. Taking Back Sunday (14)
  5. blink-182 (12)

I went and saw Dance Gavin Dance last week for the opening show of their tour at the Glass House in Pomona. It had been announced a couple days before that Jonny Craig would not be available due to usual Jonny Craig Drama. Since A Lot Like Birds was already on tour Kurt Travis would be doing some of his old songs and Matt Geise (ex-Lower Definition) would be handling Jonny’s songs.

I was actually looking forward to it; I never got a chance to see them play with Kurt and my old band had played a few shows with Lower Definition so it would be cool to see Matt Geise sing again. The Kurt-era songs were amazing. He was spot on and you could tell that he was really enjoying himself singing his old songs. Unfortunately Matt, on the other hand, was a pretty solid disappointment. I can imagine it would be hard to fill Jonny’s shoes but it was hard to listen to. He hit most of the notes but the vocal strength was severely lacking.

Anyways, after the concert I felt the need to listen to the songs how they should have sounded; hence DGD being at the top of the list this week. As a side note, I don’t really even remember listening to Taking Back Sunday this week. Weird.

Top Artists for the week ending Sunday 12 February 2012

  1. The Darkness (21)
  2. blink-182 (20)
  3. Say Anything (17)
  4. Nine Inch Nails (12)
  5. The Beatles (11)

Looks like it was a week of old music for the most part, probably due to the long drive to Mammoth and back. I usually just put my phone on shuffle on trips. This is why Beatles and NIN showed up; I have an ungodly amount of tracks from both groups on my phone so they show up more often. The Beatles are also fitting, after the realization that some people still have no clue who Paul McCartney is. Blasphemy.

I listened to The Darkness’ first album a couple times after seeing that Super Bowl commercial, it is still phenomenal. I can’t wait to see them on Sunday. Dude Ranch was also on rotation this week, as well as the new Say Anything album, which may be my favorite one yet.

Source: last.fm

Dave Grohl's Drum Discography

I am an unapologetic Dave Grohl super-fan. He is still my favorite drummer even though it’s not his main gig. Most people don’t know the extent of his drumming catalogue besides Nirvana (there’s over 10 hours worth), so I made a Spotify playlist with every song (that they had, they were missing a few) that he plays drums on.

Besides his main bands (Foo Fighters, Nirvana, and Them Crooked Vultures), the playlist contains tracks from:

  • Cat Power
  • Garbage
  • Jackson United (Chris Shifflet’s side project)
  • Juliette and the Licks
  • Killing Joke
  • Lemmy Kilmister
  • Mike Watt
  • Mondo Generator
  • Nine Inch Nails
  • Pete Yorn
  • Queens of the Stone Age
  • Slash
  • Tenacious D

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Josh Freese drumming ‘Letting You’ (NIN 2008)

“For a guy that doesn’t warm up before shows this kicked my ass every night 2nd in the set. Also, it’s a miracle I never had a seizure from the light show while trying to concentrate on this stuff. No added effects when I edited it together. You’re basically seeing what I was seeing every night behind the kit.” - Josh

Jesus wow at the intensity of his 32nds…

Again, why are most Paramore fans bitching about him adding much needed flourishes to the bands current repertoire of songs? If anything, they’re lucky/grateful as fuck to have him on-board touring. Just saying…

JF is the man. 

I would be seriously stoked if he records the drums for the new Paramore album since they still don’t seem to have a drummer.

Source: sandikoben