Best 'Last' Albums (w/Martin Popoff)

Rush - Clockwork Angels. I miss Rush and looking forward to new Rush material but at least the band went out on a high note.

In Through The Out Door-Led Zeppelin. It always gets overlooked. After the remaster that Jimmy did, some of those songs sound really good and fresh. Carouselambra is mostly keyboards, but around 4:05 the section changes. Jimmy comes in with such a growling guitar with a perfect dark tone that it shakes my house when cranked up. This album deserves more respect. Note: I know CODA was their last release, but they were older songs from previous years, not new studio material.

Pantera - Reinventing The Steel Soundgarden - King Animal Black Sabbath - 13 Van Halen - A Different Kind Of Truth

"Clockwork Angels" and "Blackstar" are the most fitting finales. Electric Ladyland and Grace are my cheats.

If none of them release another, Deep Purple, Kansas, and BOC all released terrific albums in 2020!

I was waiting for Clockwork Angels. So glad Pete picked it. It's such an incredible album. I've been obsessed with it now for almost 9 years. Crazy.

David Bowie's Black Star is the ultimate last album by any artist in music in my modest opinion. An artistic and creative farewell as huge as the artist. An album far, far ahead of its time in originality and creativity. So far ahead, that it seeks to overcome the death of its creator as if cheating fate. Great show as always with the P dream team of Pardo and Popoff. Honourable mention: Clockwork Angels by Rush.

"Innuendo" from Queen. I know they released "Made In Heaven" after Freddie passed, but "Innuendo" to me is still THE final Queen album.

Fugazi - The Argument Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne Screaming Trees - Dust Joy Division - Closer David Bowie - Blackstar Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning Nick Drake - Pink Moon Kyuss - And the Circus Leaves Town Slint - Spiderland Husker Du - Warehouse Songs and Stories Talk Talk - Laughing Stock Nirvana - In Utero Cathedral - The Last Spire Celtic Frost - Monotheist Death - The Sound of Perseverance Johnny Cash - American IV (last one before he died) The Doors - LA Woman (yeah, not interested in any quibbles about this one)

Death - The Sound of Perseverance

Led Zeppelin-In Through the Out Door is my glaring omission. It was the first Zeppelin album I bought, at 14, and I still love it to this day.

Good stuff as always.... Would nominate Roxy Music's "Avalon" as a very strong last album statement.

1. Cinderella - Still Climbing 2. Free - Heartbreaker 3.Gillan - Magic 4. Jon Oliva's Pain - Festival 5. Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning

Thin Lizzy - Thunder & Lightning

Dust: Hard Attack White Witch: A Spiritual Greeting Joy Division: Closer This Mortal Coil: Blood Morphine: The Night Nothingface: Skeletons

Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul White Lion - Mane Attraction My Bloody Valentine - m b v The Smiths - Strangeways The Doors - L.A. Woman Rush - Clockwork Angels

Rush Clockwork Angels, love it!!

The Police - Synchronicity....

Syd Barrett - Barrett The Police - Synchronicity The JAM - The Gift Raspberries - Starting Over Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

Good to see some love for Van Halen - "A Different Kind of Truth". I waited 28 years for this album (1984-2012) and they didn't disappoint. BTW... there's no such thing as "too much" David Lee Roth.