# The last is the best (music) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [January 2, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-is-the-best-music/957082 "2022-01-02T14:46:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-is-the-best-music/957082/41 "2022-01-04T18:22:07Z")
How about Sublime? I’m not a huge fan, but I heard a Sublime song on the radio and thought of this thread. Their third eponymously titled album was a huge hit, with several singles that got played on the radio ad nauseum, so it could be considered their best. And the lead singer went and killed himself from a heroin overdose a couple months before its release, ensuring it would be their last. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-is-the-best-music/957082/42 "2022-01-04T19:02:56Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > If we’re avoiding artists who died around their creative peak, Nah; that’s a valid reason for a last album happen. > [@JKellyMap](#): > > I’d suggest maybe The Pogues. Their last album with Shane MacGowan (as integral as Morrison was to the Doors) was “Hell’s Ditch.” It’s my favorite album of theirs (though many would disagree). I’m confused: did all the Pogues die? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-is-the-best-music/957082/43 "2022-01-05T14:47:10Z")
How about Dire Straits? Their last album, “Brothers in Arms,” was by far their most popular, and spawned several hit singles. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-is-the-best-music/957082/44 "2022-01-05T14:54:33Z")
There was _On Every Street_ which came out six years later, in 1991. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-is-the-best-music/957082/45 "2022-01-05T19:05:20Z")
If we’re going by what I think is their best: Judas Priest’s Firepower has to be up there. When that came out I could not stop listening to it, and I’ve been into Priest for almost 30 years. Dee Snider’s Leave a Scar came out this year, and it’s his best solo stuff. Golden Earring’s Tits ‘n’ Ass is a solid album. I don’t really have a ‘best’ album by them, but this one is solid. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-is-the-best-music/957082/46 "2022-01-05T19:59:30Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I had to think about it a bit, but then I thought of another band of the Grunge era: The Screaming Trees’ “Dust”. Excellent submission. I was a huge Screaming Trees fan and Dust is still their highlight: Beautiful and haunting. Relatedly, way back before there was the internet, I used to make music purchasing decisions based on the college radio station. Back then, I could afford a couple tapes a month (yes, I was still buying tapes because I couldn’t afford a CD player - late 80s/early 90s) and looked forward to the little catalog included with the tape which then led me to more music. I bought so many SST Records tapes because of that little insert. Still some of my favorite music. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-is-the-best-music/957082/47 "2022-01-06T05:38:56Z")
> [@solost](#): > > How about Sublime? Ah, yes. A very… sublime… answer. Fuck. ---
**Author:** ![omenran](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omenran/32/3318_2.png) [@omenran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omenran)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-is-the-best-music/957082/48 "2022-01-06T06:27:30Z")
Not even a mention of David Bowie and Blackstar? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-is-the-best-music/957082/49 "2022-01-06T12:28:14Z")
Oh, didn’t now that. A lot of bands regrouped five to ten years after breaking up, for a reunion album (usually lame), then disbanded again for good. The next band that does this should name that album “Jordan and the Wizards.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-is-the-best-music/957082.md?page=2)