Crowning the BEST Album of the 21st Century | LAST SONG STANDING [Finale]

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Cole Cuchna

Music, Arts, Society & Culture

4.9 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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It all comes down to this! Season 4 of Last Song Standing concludes with Cole and Charles finally crowning the Best Album of the 21st Century (so far). Each album that advanced to the finale now duke it out in a cut-throat bracket that includes Frank Ocean's 'Blonde', Kendrick Lamar's 'To Pimp a Butterfly', Daft Punk's 'Discovery', Beyonce's 'Lemonade', MF DOOM's 'Madvillainy', and more. What artist should be selected for next season of Last Song Standing? Hosts: Cole Cuchna & Charles Holmes Producer: Justin Sayles Video/Audio Engineer: CT Video/Audio Editing: Kevin Pooler Theme Music: Birocratic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome for everyone to Last Long Standing.
0:06.8	I'm Cole Kushna.
0:07.6	And I'm Charles Holmes.
0:08.9	And in this four season of Last Song Standing, Cole and I have been debating our way through
0:15.2	some of the best albums of the 21st century in order to crown the last album standing.
0:22.1	Last episode, Kendrick Lamar's Good Kid Mad City, went against Kendrick Lamar's
0:26.7	Tippa Butterfly. Ultimately, Tipinpa Butterfly came out on top.
0:30.7	But on today's episode, it has all come down to this.
0:34.4	It's all come down to this.
0:36.6	It is finally the royal fucking rumble.
0:41.8	We are pitting the greatest albums of the 21st century so far against each other.
0:47.9	Can I quickly go down the list of albums that have made it to the finale?
0:52.7	Yeah, let's do it.
0:53.7	Connie West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Beyonce's Lemonade, Eminem's, Marshall Mathers,
0:59.0	LP, Dap Punk's Discovery, Doom and Mad Libs, Mad Villany, Frank Ocean's Blonde, Kendrick's
1:05.4	to Pimp a Butterfly.
1:07.3	And we had cultural exchange this entire season.
1:11.9	So I brought in a seat at the table by Salange.
1:16.8	That was an album that you gave me.
1:18.7	So that's going to be my pick that I'm putting in here.
1:21.5	And I'm picking strokes as this it for my cultural exchange assignment.
1:26.5	So I'm feeling pretty balanced as a what nine album list
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