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The compiling of any studio album is essential to any music genre’s success.
This applies to every genre, especially rock.
In some cases, rock bands would save the best for last.
The ’80s mega-hit became the definitive talking point of TOTO’s fourth album.
Believe it or not, “Africa” wasn’t even the lead single of the album.
That honor belonged to “Rosanna,” which is ironically the first song on this album.
But “Africa” was the hit single.
“Africa” topped the charts as TOTO’s first and only number-one charting song.
However, “New Person, Same Mistakes” left more of a cultural impact.
Most notably, the song inspired a cover fromthe hit “Umbrella” songstress Rihannaon her 2016Antialbum.
It is something entirely different for that last song to be the best song of the artist’s discography.
“When the Levee Breaks” is one such song.
That isn’t to shortchange the album either.
Hendrix is a rare musician where each of his albums improves upon the last.
The same can be said about the final song on Hendrix’s last album.
The result is something that truly feels like an epilogue in the cinematic sense.
It brings the high-paced intensity of the album to a screeching halt in favor of slowing things down.
The Doors marked the band’s debut album in 1967.
Even in a movie,“The End” can’t be used any better.
and ends the track on almost a more upbeat, even triumphant note.
It’s a sharp contrast to what came before, but that’s almost what works best about it.
One can say that this was the case for Linkin Park.
But it was “Numb” that helped take them over the moon.
It still stands asone of Linkin Park’s best.
The actual song’s lyrics, however, are not meant to be taken in such meta territory.
Sleater-Kinney has always showcased unrelenting female rage at its finestthrough the band’s energy and lyrics.
Wailing, frantic strumming, emotional drumming it’s all here, and it only gets better.
