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"Closing Time" is a song by American rock band Semisonic. It was released on March 10, 1998, as the lead single from their second studio album, Feeling Strangely Fine , and began to receive mainstream radio airplay on April 27, 1998.
The music video for "The Last Song" was directed by Charles Jensen and shot in April 2003 in Pasadena, California and was released the following month on May 13. It involves the band first driving around an abandoned city, then performing the song in the middle of the Rose Bowl Stadium without an audience.
The song's theme is reputedly based on a bitter relationship and the term "closing time" is often seen as referring to the end of the relationship itself. A more structured and lyrically-coherent version of the song was performed by Hole on various occasions throughout 1994 and 1995, [5] during their tours promoting Live Through This.
[19] The music video for Cohen's song "Closing Time" also won the Juno Award for Best Music Video in 1993. [18] In the original Rolling Stone review, Christian Wright called the album "epic", enthusing " The Future might as easily have been a book: A more troubling, more vexing image of human failure has not been written."
Two of the three B-sides, "I Was Like That" and "Friends of Billy Bear", continue the style of "Fourteen Years" and "Faifley" on the "Your Swaying Arms" single, utilising raw music and low, gruff, and rambling spoken and sung vocals from Ricky Ross. The third B-side, "Into the Good Night", is a more traditional Deacon Blue song.
YouTube Music is a music streaming service developed by the American video platform YouTube, a subsidiary of Alphabet's Google.The service is designed with an interface that allows users to simultaneously explore music audios and music videos from YouTube-based genres, playlists and recommendations.
The song received mixed reviews from music critics. MTV compared the track to the band's previous singles "Swing, Swing" and "The Last Song", saying it "focused more on the good times, before the bad ones arose". Sputnikmusic commented saying "[The acoustic guitar] disrupts the mood of the chorus and ultimately, the entire song.
The final session for Closing Time began the following Sunday, with guest musicians Arni Egilsson replacing Plummer and Jesse Erlich performing cello. [22] The title track, "Closing Time", was the only song recorded in full, and Yester later described the session as "the most magical session I've ever been involved with.