HeyJaredThe Run Out Grooves
Sometimes, the last song says everything. Essays on the greatest (and not so great) album closers. How they’re made, what they mean, and why endings stick.
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The 2000s poll: My Ballot (opens the original)
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<img alt="Biggest Kent news stories 2000-2009: The Noughties decade which brought us the end of Woolworths, the Tour de France in Kent and Madonna in Maidstone" class="sizing-normal" height="971" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jbf-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_
The 2000s poll: A few days in (opens the original)
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<img alt="Fireworks light up the sky as paramilitary policemen stand guard outside the National Stadium during the Opening Ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games" class="sizing-normal" height="549" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yeus!,w_1456,c_limit,f_aut
Reader's Poll: Let’s all meet up in the year 2000 (opens the original)
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Lost in the moment of abandon (opens the original)
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<img alt="Screamadelica CD" class="sizing-normal" height="660" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!u2VW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2c4afc15-568b-4bad-8eff-8f087881d6
The end of an era. Our future no clearer (opens the original)
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<img alt="Stars – Simply Red" class="sizing-normal" height="1000" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!H0ns!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2c039681-8d52-47d7-b28c
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