Talk:The End Of The Tour

This song is incredibly sad. This is the only TMBG song that I have actually cried to.

I agree. One of the saddest songs out there. I've cried to it too. :(

Same. I love this song, but I always feel so mixed up when I listen to it. --Jaydn* (talk) 02:43, 15 June 2013 (EDT)

Truly a thought provoking song

My Ex-Girlfriend and I-(From around when this was a NEW song)-kind of thought of this as "Our Song". That's corny, but it fit our relationship well at the time.

That sounds like a very healthy relationship. --Self Called Nowhere 19:47, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

I want this one played at my funeral. Anna Ng 20:54, 31 Mar 2006 (CST)

It is kinda sad. But not as much as They'll Need A Crane or I've Got A Match. --Valerie 17:09, 19 May 2006 (CDT)

Maybe not as sad as I've Got A Match, but I've always had a more optimistic interpretation of They'll Need A Crane (that it's about a couple that fights all the time, but in the end their love is so strong that to take it apart they'd need a (metaphorical) crane and wrecting ball). TEOTT is just terribly sad (though there is some hope at the end, when he realizes he'll see her again when he dies). Though I do agree that I've Got A Match is sadder--it has such an obvious meaning, and that meaning is tragic (not to mention the fact that the song itself sounds incredibly sad).

End rant. ~Anna Ng (posting from school, yay)

Not quite seeing where this reading of Crane makes it any less sad to you. I don't necessarily think they're going to split up either, but I find that to make it more sad, actually, as it makes the "world apart from pain" part not an option. Just because people stay together (because they're in love in spite of it all or whatever reason) does not make their incredible misery something I would refer to as a situation encouraging "optimism." --Self Called Nowhere 19:58, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Creepy fact: Tony Maimone played on two tracks comparing relationships to fatal car crashs: That one and Flat from the Cloudland Pere Ubu album (which I'm enjoying this very minute. I hope The Else will at least be as good - I'm waiting for the CD to come out. Hmmm, bonus disk!) - Whirrrlwind (Woosh!) 20:34, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Specific Meaning ...

I think the protagonist in this song is Courtney Love. She is thinking about Kurt Cobain and the crazy time they had together.

Kurt died April 8 1994. I know John Henry was released in September of that year ... I would think that during the creation of the album Kurt's death was prominent in the rock zeitgeist. I recall that Courtney was very publicly going to pieces at that time.

WLSD

Does anybody know why exactly they mentioned WLSD, of all radio stations there are, in this song's lyric? I always thought it was a pun on LSD, like in "a girl... who's on LSD". It seems to be the most obvious reason why they chose that particular station, but it might not be correct. --Freakiosis (talk) 19:06, 19 June 2015 (EDT)

I think it's a nod to late 60s and early 70s songs casually being themed around LSD, the most famous examples being in the title with the letters of LSD spelling out something else; Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds and Lake Shore Drive. That's something I really like about this song.--You&Me!! (talk) 13:38, 15 November 2021 (EST)

Eh

This song is quite well-received (ranked #8 at time of writing this), but I don't see why. It's not bad (a little boring, maybe), but it wouldn't stick out to me as one of their best songs. I know it's a matter of taste, though- nobody's top ten is going to look exactly the same. AngleBlueprint (talk) 15:41, 22 May 2020 (EDT)