I chose as best end song "You know I couldn't last" cuz is a cool song and cuz i didn't want to pick the end song from the same record of the start song. i don't know why I forgot "Satan rejected my soul"!
so:
best start song - Now my heart is full
best end song - Satan rejected my soul
Why it's the opening and closing songs of "Vauxhall & I," of course.
Honorable mentions to the openers of "Maladjusted" and "Southpaw Grammar," and the closing of "You Are The Quarry." Especially for the squalor of the mind send off.
Benton, you're a respected poster -- maybe you can articulate what it is that you (and many people) don't seem to like about You Know I Couldn't...?
I don't think it's Morrissey's greatest album closer of all time, but it has some nice crooning "don't let the blue eyes fool you," some Ronson-esque guitars (similar to Pigsty's) and the piano (though not a real one, perhaps) gives the track a kind of resignation.
The change in vocal register at the end is great ("The squalor of the mind").
"The teenagers who love you / They will wake up, yawn, and kill you" is a great line, too.
I have to say though, listening to YATQ now, as much as I liked the production at the time, ROTT's is leaps and bounds ahead. Though the YATQ b-sides were almost uniformly exemplary for some reason -- can't say the same for the ROTT Bs, so far...
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