Nymb - So, This Is How It Is

Multiple people have added The Woods and The Argument, but I just want to add:

How the fuck can you make such a good last album?

Both of those are classics in my eyes. That just doesn't happen that often. Good lawd.

My favorite send-off album is Songs About Fucking.

Terror Twilight is a great record too.

I'm sure I could come up with a much longer list of albums that SHOULD HAVE been send-offs.

cesb wrote:Joy Division - Closer

You know, until you mentioned it, I never picked up on the dual meaning of that album title.

Tripping Daisy - s/t

It's for sale on Amazon for FIFTY BUCKS for a reason (besides it being OOP).

This album is awesome. It has tiny bits and pieces of what would later show up on Polyphonic Spree records, but none of that annoying shit I can't stand about the Spree is on here. Wesley Berggen's old man arrived and helped finished the songs that weren't complete yet, and also created the great intro at the beginning of "Soothing Jubilee."

The Jam's final album The Gift.

Since when do you listen to the fucking Jam?

adios amigos. it's certainly better than the last 20 or so ramones records previous.

Marsupialized wrote:Since when do you listen to the fucking Jam?

Everytime we have ever gone drinking at the Lincoln Tap Room I've put a few tracks by The Jam on the Jukebox. Jeez, maybe if you weren't too busy making your usual racist and sexist comments you would have heard them.

The Mayor said:

My own entry here has to be 'Crash' by GI. It isn't quite as good as 'You', the preceding album, but that's part of why it's a great sendoff album. It's the sound of a band stepping down after having reached their pinnacle.

I agree and feel, similarly, that Swansong was "well inferior" to Heartwork. Had Carcass continued any longer they would have been sucked towards suckdom.

Bastro's Sing the Troubled Beast is another one, Antlers notwithstanding.
Thin White Rope's final studio album The Ruby Sea and The One That Got Away live album occupy a similar place in my mind.

I second Big Black, Tar and Death as having released good final albums.

In Utero was a good one to go out on.

The Byrds are another case entirely, they should have quit after they released Sweetheart of the Rodeo.