Top 100 Albums that Wrap-Around

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I don't know if there even ARE 100 albums that wrap-around, but...

100. Pink Floyd "The Wall" (probably the most obvious one: "...we came in?" on opening track, "Isn't this where..." on closing track)

99. Moody Blues "Days of Future Passed" (opens with a gong, closes with a gong, symbolizes cyclical nature of 1 day)

others?

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 24 June 2006 13:50 (twenty years ago)

98. Some Terrorvision album I used to have, can't remember what it was called (I think it was their second).

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Saturday, 24 June 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

97. Claudine Longet - Let's Spend the Night Together
The Album begins and ends with the same instrumental "While You're Sleeping" First time it's called Prologue, then it's called Epilogue - genius, of a sort.

― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 24 June 2006 14:28 (twenty years ago)

96. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon. I haven't listened to it in a while, mind you, but I'm pretty sure it returns to that heartbeat sound after the big show-stopper on "Eclipse."

95. Wings - Band on the Run. Not sure if it counts, but the coda to "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" is a somewhat awkwardly tacked-on snippet from the opening track.

94. The Smashing Pumpkins - Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Piano instrumental.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 24 June 2006 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Mars Volta and System of a Down released albums last year that pull this trick ...

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Saturday, 24 June 2006 15:32 (twenty years ago)

91. The beginning/end of the Melvins Maggot/Bootlicker/Crybaby trilogy moebius strip around each other.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Saturday, 24 June 2006 16:27 (twenty years ago)

90. Endtroducing...DJ Shadow ends with "It is happening again. " and starts with "Dj shadow!Back again."

― Ben Kharakh (Ben Kharakh), Saturday, 24 June 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

89. The new Cursive record, "Happy Hollow", begins with a brief horn motif that doesn't resurface until the final track, which itself summarizes the album's content.

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Saturday, 24 June 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

(A bunch here and here.)

― Orange (Orange), Saturday, 24 June 2006 17:36 (twenty years ago)

Gnarls Barkley's St. Elsewhere begins with the sound of a film projector starting up; it ends with the projector shutting down. It was strange to watch the movie with the picture turned off.

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Saturday, 24 June 2006 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Can't recall for sure, but doesn't Double Nickels on the Dime have car engine SFX throughout? I know it opens the record and I'm pretty sure it closes it too.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 24 June 2006 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Queensryche, OPERATION MINDCRIME. Superb!

― matt the queeg (veal), Saturday, 24 June 2006 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Not exactly the same, but doesn't 6 Feet Deep by Gravediggaz start with the outro and end with the intro?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 24 June 2006 20:47 (twenty years ago)

The Fall "This Nation's Saving Grace" originally did this, before they added all the bonus tracks. It started with "Mansion" and ended with "To Nkroachment."

― Maltodextrin (Maltodextrin), Saturday, 24 June 2006 22:45 (twenty years ago)

Pearls Before Swine "Balaklava" -- has the tape speedily rewinding at the close of the last track and starting over.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Sunday, 25 June 2006 00:58 (twenty years ago)

Sgt. Pepper

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 25 June 2006 02:30 (twenty years ago)

Can't recall for sure, but doesn't Double Nickels on the Dime have car engine SFX throughout? I know it opens the record and I'm pretty sure it closes it too.
-- kornrulez6969 (TCBein...), June 24th, 2006.

each side on the original double LP started and ended with one of the band members' cars being revved, and then the fourth side has all three cars. so each side wraps around, but the album as a whole only wraps around on a conceptual level (not that that actually matters to anyone at all).

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Sunday, 25 June 2006 02:45 (twenty years ago)

...OK, to preserve the Top 100 pretense, let's call that one #83.

#82. Sir Lord Baltimore's self-titled LP originally began with the exact same raveup that finishes up "Caesar LXXI", the last track. But Sides One and Two were reversed on the CD reissue (oddly claiming to represent the band's original intention) so maybe it's really #81 1/2...

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Sunday, 25 June 2006 03:25 (twenty years ago)

How does Sgt. Pepper count exactly?

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 25 June 2006 05:06 (twenty years ago)

81. Beastie Boys, Paul's Boutique. Opens and closes with "To All The Girls".

― LC (Damian), Sunday, 25 June 2006 10:29 (twenty years ago)

80. Peter Hammill - Fool's Mate. Begins and ends with the same weird atonal chord.

― Half loaf, half pompadour (noodle vague), Sunday, 25 June 2006 11:21 (twenty years ago)

79. Lee Hazelwood's Love And Other Crimes starts and ends with the same minute-long title track.

― eyesteel (eyesteel), Sunday, 25 June 2006 13:20 (twenty years ago)

How does Sgt. Pepper count exactly?

The reprise rounds things out, which gives me the feeling that A Day In The Life is encore material. Would it work better if the reprise was last, or am I just whistling in the wind here?

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 25 June 2006 15:38 (twenty years ago)

No, that's a dog whistle on the end there.

― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 25 June 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Papa M's Live From A Shark Cage begins and ends with 'Arundel'.

― Wax Cat (Wax Cat), Sunday, 25 June 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

77. Tosca - Suzuki opens and closes with same piano track cut in half, so it wraps around like Finnegan's Wake.

― Mark (MarkR), Sunday, 25 June 2006 19:22 (twenty years ago)

76. Patrick Wolf's Wind in the Wires opens and closes with the same sizzle/pop of cyling voltage.

Also, Micah P. Hinson's Baby & the Satellite EP ends with a reprise of its first track, "The Dreams You Left Behind" (but only if you disregard the bonus track, which contains the entire demo version of the EP). Not actually counting that one, as reprises seem to honor only the letter of the thread, not the actual spirit.

― Brian Howe (Brian H.), Sunday, 25 June 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

75. Little Brother's "The Listening" ends with "WJLR's" night-shift deejay signing off, and begins with the morning deejay signing on.

― glerb (glerb), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 01:45 (twenty years ago)

Finnegan's Wake - The Musical (cast recording)

― Ned Beauman (NedBeauman), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:15 (twenty years ago)

74. Electric Light Orchestra - Time. Begins with "Prologue" (vocoderized robot voice) and ends with "Epilogue."

― Fastnbulbous (Fastnbulbous), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

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