10 Worst Closing Songs On Great Albums

10. Lot 105 - Blur

Every fan of Blur knows that there's a certain amount of cynicism that goes into most of their Life trilogy of albums. When you look through a lot of these songs, they're a lot more dark than the music would suggest, as Damon Albarn tells stories of everyday people losing their minds in between sweet pop tunes. And as if the irony wasn't rammed into your head enough, here's Lot 105 to really seal the deal on Parklife.

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Granted, it's not like you can't see what a song like this is trying to do. Considering every single downer moment on this record, this is the kind of smarmy song that's trying to put a nice bow on the whole situation. If anything, this is the kind of attitude that we got on the title track of the album and on Tracy Jacks...it just needs to be further up in the track listing.

Being in the same vein as the instrumental Debt Collector, this feels more like a post script than anything else, almost signaling to you that the album is about to be over and not actually giving you any decent material to latch onto. What makes it even worse is that it follows up This is A Low, a track that would have made a bleak ending to the rest of the album. If you were to put this song near Trouble in Message Centre, we may be looking at the tightest Blur album ever.

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