Apr 222010
I just hit PLAY on a favorite album that opens with a song that is reprised at the end of the same album. I immediately thought of two other albums that were originally sequenced (no bonus track loophole attempts at standing above the pack, please) to include reprise versions of a key song. Because there may only be so many rock ‘n roll albums* employing this device, I won’t launch this Last Man Standing with an opening salvo. Of course, it’s rare there are as few entries in these events as I initially think there will be, so show your stuff!
*NO CLASSICAL ALBUMS, OR WHICHEVER GENRE ORIGINATED THE USE OF THE REPRISE, PLEASE.
I’ll get it started with Sgt Pepper.
Indeed! shawnkilroy is currently Last Man Standing.
See if anyone can cite the album that’s currently playing in my office…
My favorite ever: Last: L.A. EXPLOSION (“The Rack”)
The reprise is faster and punkier than the first iteration of it.
Tommy must count, right? See Me, Feel Me pops up a few times.
Neil Young-“Hey Hey My My” on “Rust Never Sleeps”
Breathe is kind of reprised on Dark Side of the Moon.
Good, obvious one I didn’t have in mind, joeenglishband! You may be Last Man Standing. Judges, can we get a ruling on “Breathe”? There’s not a “Breathe (Reprise)” listed on the album credits, and I don’t know enough about Pink Floyd to make a ruling. I rarely know the song titles on their albums, and Dark Side and Animals seem like one long track in my mind.
I don’t think this would be one of Mod’s favorite albums, but my spidey sense is driving me to guess “Band on the Run.” That goes back into part of the title track after “1985.”
My response will get me no respect but… The Lilac Time’s album “& Love For All” ends with a reprise of the first song, “Fields.”
This ain’t about respect, cher, it’s about survival!
Good call, BTW, on the “Band on the Run” reprise (the one McCartney solo album I like A LOT), but that’s not what just completed playing.
I’m just thinking of fishy ones, like American Woman. That was reprised at the point where I stop listening to the album I think.
From the RTH Facebook page I’m throwing in Townsman Larry’s suggestions of Quadrophenia and The Wall. I know we don’t normally allow two entries at once, but this Townsman means business, and here’s to hoping he registers his future suggestions here in this thread! Thanks, and welcome aboard.
The Kinks’ Schoolboys in Disgrace ends with a reprise of track 3, “Education,” probably my least favorite song on the album, which is otherwise pretty good.
Does it count when two versions of a song are on an album but they aren’t exactly in the form of reprise?
i.e. Bob dylan PLANET WAVES (“Forever Young”)
Yardbirds – HAVING A RAVE UP (“I’m A Man”)
Bobb Trimble – IRON CURTAIN INNOCENCE (“One Mile From Heaven”)
Bobb Trimble (again!) – HARVEST OF DREAMS (“Premonitions”)
HARDER THEY COME soundtrack
(“You Can Get It If You Really Want” and title track)
Neil Young, Tonight’s the Night
Jethro Tull – Thick As A Brick
Voodoo Chile, Hendrix
Sorry, I guess you want the album: Electric Ladyland. Or does the reprised song need to be the album title? Now THAT would make for a short, tidy LMS.
HVB, the song in the context of album title is both, but no, they do not need to be one and the same title!
The Harder They Come soundtrack (and song) is one of the three albums that immediately sprung to mind, along with Sgt. Pepper’s and the one I was listening to, which has not yet been named.
Good question about the form of a reprise, pudman13. I’ll say we allow instances such as “Forever Young” on Planet Waves, provided that the album was originally sequenced with two versions of the same song.
Neil Young, The Who, and McCartney have already been multiple users of this device. Interesting.
Fugs: IT CRAWLED INTO MY HAND, HONEST (“Divine Toe”)
Mccartney yet again: RAM (“Ram On”)
Wilco – Out of sight out of mind
21st Century Breakdown. Well, it’s not the whole song, but the motif.
Innocent when you dream – Tom Waits from Franks Wild Years
Good one, cdm! (But not the album I was listening to earlier today.)
Cmon Citizens, Mr Mod is so predictable that we ought to be able to guess one of his favorite albums. This guess doesn’t match his description, but it’s in his wheelhouse: Summer’s Cauldren reprises after Grass on XTC’c Skylarking.
Nope, chick. This one is slightly out of my wheelhouse. I think Fingeroff was the only member of the Head to have owned it way back when.
That helps as a hint. Calling Mark W or other English Folk fans. Is there a Fairport Convention or Richard Thompson album that employs a reprise?
Black Flag: Damaged I and Damaged II (from Damaged of course).
Our Prayer reprises at the end of SMiLE
by the way, whatever happened to the demo thing that was being discussed last month?
I get to claim Electric Ladyland *twice*, since it also includes “Rainy Day, Dream Away” and “Still Raining, Still Dreaming.”
Strictly Personal by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band ends with a brief acapella reprise of the opening track, Ah Feel Like Ahcid.
The Specials – More Specials – Enjoy Yourself
I’m guessing this is the one Mod was playing. It is a favorite album of his and is slightly out of his “wheelhouse”. (Hate that term BTW).
hissing fauna, the demo thing is still going to happen. We’re waiting on delivery of a few choice demos that I’m pretty sure will make this a Very Special Rock Town Hall Event. Thanks for keeping your interest!
You are presently LMS, sammy, and you have guessed the album that inspired this contest.
I’m disappointed in your hating the term “wheelhouse.” Are you a Dodgers’ fan?
I just realized that chickenfrank was the first in the thread to use “wheelhouse”, not Mod. So I take back what I said. I like that term a lot.
The first time I heard Kraftwerk’s “Radioactivity” album, I thought there was a reprise. The album starts with “Geiger Counter,” a series of ticks that start off sparsely then become more rapid. At the end of the album I thought it was repeating and I was irritated at how lame that was. Turned out I had a manual turntable and was hearing the runout groove. D’oh!
I don’ like having to admit that I know this, but on Genesis’ “Duke” album, the opening song, “Behind the Lines” has a chord progression that is repeated throughout the closing song, which is an instrumental.
Digital Underground – Sex Packets
I’m embarrassed that you know this about the Duke album, jeangray. Should I book the RTH press room for you later today? 🙂
In The Aeroplane Over The sea by Neutral Milk Hotel reprises “Two-Headed Boy.”
TB
How about Cheap Trick live at Budokan? Starting with “Hello There” and coming back with “Goodnight now” towards the end.
Crimson & Cover (Reprise), track 10 on the LP Crimson & Clover by Tommy James and the Shondells.
“Golden Slumbers” reprises “You Never Give Me Your Money”
Wings’ Venus & Mars contains both “Venus & Mars” and the “Venus & Mars Reprise”.
Dory Previn’s MYTHICAL KINGS AND IGUANAS ends with “Going Home,” which is actually a combination/reprise of two songs from earlier in the album.
Wow, I’m surprised McCartney hasn’t released a single with a B-side that’s a reprise of the A-side! Or has he?
He could put out an entire collection of these reprise songs…which would also include “Junk” and “Singalong Junk” from McCartney.
I reprise my role as Last Man Standing.
My last album, Hessian Love Songs, has a three part instrumental called Two Lovers. It opens and closes the album.
It also kicks off side 2.
THAT is the album you were listening to in your office Mr. Moderator!!!
Eric Matthews’ album, “It’s Heavy In Here,” ends withe a reprise of the first track, “Fanfare.”
Touche Mr. Mod.
Yes, please book that RTH press room ASAP. 🙂
ShawnKilroy, It is not. He was listening to the album by my group, The Knife & Fork Band which has the faux string version of a song called “She was Sad” as a reprise and album closer.
I’ll put myself in the line of fire of anyone holding back another answer and complete the McCartney cycle:
Wings’ Wild Life opens with “Mumbo” and closes with “Mumbo Link”.
Son Volt’s albm “Okemah and the melody of riot” ends with a reprise of the song “World Waits For You.” However, that song precedes the reprise directly, so I don’t know if it counts. It is a separate track, though.
The judges will accpt this answer, cher, if only so Paul McCartney can quickly release a new album with a reprise track.
G. Harrison, All Things Must Pass, with “Isn’t It A Pity” and “Isn’t It A Pity (Version 2)”.
Here is your winner if this was a Battle Royale and not Last Man Standing. I was also really hoping this was the album outside the Mod’s comfort zone that he had been enjoying:
Bobby Brown’s masterpiece Don’t Be Cruel starts with the “Cruel Prelude”, which leads directly into the title track, and the album closes with the “Cruel Reprise”.
oKay — well, after the Bobby Brown mention, I don’ feel so bad about bringing up Genesis. 🙂
Everyone’s favorite at RTH: The Eagles on Hotel California. The track Wasted Time is immediatly followed by Wasted Time (Reprise).
Does the reprise actually count if it comes DIRECTLY after the song to which the reprise refers? Was that last question properly worded? Does anybody really know what time it is?