Hard to top this one:
Hard to top this one:
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
Someday We Will Be Together - Supremes and Temptations
Unfortunately, most artists/bands refuse to go out when they should, otherwise there would be more examples.
Led Zeppelin's label put out lots of good records.The label's numbering scheme was pretty much incomprehensible though.Originally Posted by Wikipedia
I was waiting for that. So predictable.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
The end of “Abbey Road” is indeed about as good as it gets.
I would also possibly nominate Queen’s “The Show Must Go On”. It is basically Freddie Mercury’s final statement as a dying man. Powerful stuff.
Steve Sly
When I saw this thread, I thought of this. The closing track on the last Genesis album to feature Phil Collins. This song brought me to tears when I heard in a montage on The Genesis Songbook DVD when the band is discussing their breakup after Calling Stations.
Queen's "The Show Must Go On" from Innuendo.
My first thought was that I have never listened to a swan sing. They are probably pretty good!
A great closing song from a great album by a criminally underrated guitarist. Not the end of the band, but the last song on the recording, so close enough.
"The woods would be very silent if the only birds that sang were those who sang best..." - Henry David Thoreau
Warren Zevon - Keep Me In Your Heart
REM - We All Go Back to Where We Belong
Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake started out as a swan song...it had a disastrous premier.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
Roxy Music - Tara. Very humorous, Mr Ferry.
Pink Floyd - High Hopes
There's a few Queen songs that seem to be about Freddie acknowledging his impending doom. I suppose whatever one was the most recently written would qualify as the "swan song," but I'm not sure which that would be, as a couple of them are on "Made in Heaven," the album that was completed after Freddie passed on (and of course was released after Innuendo). But whatever the actual swan song is, I always think of it is being this one, which came out before either of those albums:
Wolfgang Riechmann - Wunderbar
The whole album sounds like a swansong, but the albums closer 'Traumzeit', really closes the coffin
Led Zeppelin - "I'm Gonna Crawl"
Not that I know of. And having seen a video his live performance with them, I agree; should've been him!
Back on topic: I think Dave Stewart's "Land's End" which was the final track on Bruford's final album made a good swan song for them, despite the fact that he lifted a section of it from one of his earlier compositions for National Health.
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