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The Last Record Album
Cover artwork, with giant orange jelly,
by Neon Park
Studio album by
Little Feat
ReleasedOctober 17, 1975
Recorded1975 at The Sound Factory, Los Angeles
GenreSouthern rock, swamp rock, boogie rock, blues rock
Length38:17
LabelWarner Bros.
ProducerLowell George
Little Feat chronology
Feats Don't Fail Me Now
(1974) 		The Last Record Album
(1975) 		Time Loves a Hero
(1977)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideB–[2]
Rolling Stone(not rated)[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]

The Last Record Album is the fifth studio album by the American rock band Little Feat, released in 1975.

Reviewing the album for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote, "For a very short album -- only eight songs -- too many of the cuts fall flat. Those that succeed, however, are quite good, particularly Paul Barrère and Bill Payne's gently propulsive 'All That You Dream,' Lowell George's beautiful 'Long Distance Love,' and the sublime 'Mercenary Territory' .... There are enough signs of Little Feat's true character on The Last Record Album -- the three previously mentioned songs are essential for any Feat fan -- to make it fairly enjoyable, but it's clear that the band is beginning to run out of steam."[5]

The album title and cover illustration by Neon Park[6] both allude to the 1971 film The Last Picture Show as well as the title typography on the film's poster, with Hollywood Boulevard turned into a desert leading to the apparent visual pun of the Hollywood sign Jell-O mold "dessert" (at left, Frederick's of Hollywood has long since closed, but the famous Grauman's Chinese Theatre at right is still a landmark).

The album's back cover includes the record's lyrics. One song, "Hi Roller," was marked out in black ink with the annotation "Maybe Next Time". The song was indeed included on their next album Time Loves a Hero.

The track "Long Distance Love" was placed at number 26 in John Peel's 1976 "Festive Fifty".[7]

It was voted number 555 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).[8]

Writing for The Guardian in 2010, after the death of Richie Hayward, Adam Sweeting commented:

The Last Record Album (1975) was a less cohesive effort, but continued the group's upward commercial progress. In hindsight, there is bleak irony in the way George chose to decorate the album's sleeve with the medical bills racked up by Hayward following a serious motorcycle accident ... During his final illness, when he had moved to Canada, Hayward's lack of medical insurance left him facing huge bills for treatment.[9]

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Romance Dance" (Barrère, Ken Gradney, Payne) – 3:49 (lead singers: Bill Payne, Paul Barrère)
  2. "All That You Dream" (Barrère, Payne) – 3:52 (lead singer: Lowell George, featuring Linda Ronstadt)
  3. "Long Distance Love" (George) – 2:43 (lead singer: Lowell George)
  4. "Day or Night" (Payne, Fran Tate) – 6:24 (lead singers: Bill Payne, Paul Barrère)

Side Two

  1. "One Love Stand" (Barrère, Gradney, Payne) – 4:26 (lead singer: Lowell George)
  2. "Down Below the Borderline" (George) – 3:41 (lead singer: Lowell George)
  3. "Somebody's Leavin'" (Payne) – 5:07 (lead singer: Bill Payne)
  4. "Mercenary Territory" (George, Hayward, Elisabeth George) – 4:27 (lead singer: Lowell George)

Additional tracks on CD (the omitted tracks from the single CD version of Waiting For Columbus)

  • "Don't Bogart That Joint" (live) (Ingber, Wagner) – 1:03
  • "A Apolitical Blues" (live) (George) – 3:41

Charts

Chart (1975/76) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[10] 51
USA (Billboard 200) 36

Personnel

Musicians

Production

References

  1. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. The Last Record Album at AllMusic
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: L". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 1, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ^ Rolling Stone review
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0857125958.
  5. ^ Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "Little Feat: The Last Record Album". allmusic.com/. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  6. ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/park_neon.htm
  7. ^ "Little Feat: Festive 50 tracks". bbc.co.uk. November 2006. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  8. ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (2006). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 189. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.
  9. ^ Adam Sweeting. "Richie Hayward obituary | Music". The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
  10. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 178. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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