Best OLP album ending song?

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Best Song To End an Album

Neon Crossing
5
8%
Car Crash
14
21%
Stealing Babies
17
26%
The Wonderful Future
25
38%
A Story About A Girl
5
8%
 
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Best OLP album ending song?

Post by Flea21212 »

Out of 5 cd's which song which song ended its cd the best, or is the best of of the 5?

I know I originally put "A story about a girl" in there not sure why it didn't show up.... sorry it's there now
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This is really tough. You forgot story about a girl, but i don't mind.

Anyways, I chose Car Crash because it really closes the cd well. It is an excellent song that really just sets you in a trance and makes the cd hard to forget.

wonderful future is a close second, then comes stealing babies, and the only reason i did not choose stealing babies is because i didn't think it closed the cd as well as the other two. neon crossing in fourth. I like it, but it just isn't as good as the others. And last is story about a girl... just because you can't even compare it to the other four.
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Yeah fix the poll.
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Car Crash. :nod:
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Wonderful Future, no competition
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Stealing Babies hands down! It's one of my favorite OLP songs (up there with Starseed and Middle of Yesterday). Oh, also...2 words: Elvin...Jones :drool:

In fact, I would say that's the best closer not only on an OLP album, but any album!

Oh yeah, and fix the poll :roll: :lol:

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Bah, The Wonderful Future.

I mean, come on, SM was a masterpiece of these musically mind expanding songs, then you have the most amazing song ever written to close the cd. It ends SM perfectly, and my God, the music just makes me feel all warm inside.

That's it, I need to end my OLP hiatus (been going on it since March) and listen to The Wonderful Future. Ahhh.
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Car Crash with Stealing Babies in a close second.

I think. :freak:
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I never listen to cds in order, i put all my olp songs on a playlist and go random. i guess i'm weird like that :freak:

i really like neon crossing, but i dont think i've ever heard it at the end of the cd, because i started doing that ^ after i got naveed. dont really think its a cd ending song.

the wonderful future always annoys the hell outta me, because EVERY SINGLE FREAKING time i forget about the hidden track and think i broke my computer :mad: *shakes fist angrily*

stealing babies is an awesome song, though i havent really been able to force myself to appreciate the end of it.

car crash i guess is the best cd ending song. it really puts together any loose ending of a brilliant album. its not my fav of the above songs, but it really works.
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although i really think all the songs are great ending songs... i'm gonna choose twf...

i mean c'mon, it's just so beautiful.

2nd would be stealing babies
3rd is car crash
4th is a story about a girl- honestly, one of my fav olp songs...
5th is neon crossing... i think they should have ended with under zenith on naveed, what a song...
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Stealing babies.

bovine wrote: 2 words: Elvin...Jones


Okay, I don't know much about Elvin Jones, but damn, I love the ending to Stealing Babies... it just sorta ends the entire album with a "what the fuck was that...?... hmm, well, okay..." type of feeling that I love. The "weighed down again" part just kills me... :drool:

In case you didn't pick up the hint, I chose Stealing Babies.
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i'm gonna have to go with stealing babies, just because that son friggin' rocks.
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The Wonderful Future. One of my favourites.
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I would say, for me it's either Stealing Babies or Car Crash.. TWF coming next. with Car Crash and Stealing Babies it just seems like the end of the cd more, like some sorta finale or something.. with TWF (unless you wait/forward to the hidden track) Neon Crossing and Story About a Girl they end and you're like "Why'd it stop?".. more so with the latter two.. anyway.. That's just how it feels for me, I might be crazy
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Post by Neil »

why isn't the poll fixed?


Story about a Girl......then TWF, but I cannot vote :lol:
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Car Crash

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Especially when listening to it on headphones driving on the highway at 1 in the morning

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i Like a story about a girl :)
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Damn, they end their albums really well.
I think I am going with Neon Crossing
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Neon Crossing is a good song, but not very 'ending-song-ish'. It could have worked well anywhere in the album.
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I have to say the wonderful future, then stealing babies very close behind, then neon crossing. They're all just incredible songs.
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