Top 5 Album closers...

[ThatGuy]

1. A Day in the Life - Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles

2. Desolation Row - Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

3. I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

4. Looking Glass - The La's -The La's

5. When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin IV -Led Zeppelin

[Kingdom]

A few off the top of my head....

I am the Resurrection - The Stone Roses

The Private Psychedelic Reel - The Chemical Brothers

The Test - The Chemical brothers

[gustavo]

gotta agree with a day in teh life and i am the resurrection ill add a couple of my own

- Tommorow Never Knows

- Rocket Queen

-Take it or Leave It . (strokes)

-Tourettes ( if you dont count gallons of rubbing alcohol , and i dont)

-Married with Children.

-Find the River

[Anto McC]

The End - The Doors - The Doors

When the musics over - Strange Days - The Doors

Riders on the storm - L.A. Woman - The Doors

[Lim till i die]

Gouge Away by The Pixies at the end of Doolittle, a song which summed up perfectly what the band were about

[gustavo]

gouge away is a classic alright :)

[noby]

I am the Ressurrestion - The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
You're wondering now - The Specials - The Specials
Gouge away - Pixies - Doolittle
O Children - Nick Cave & the bad seeds - Lyre of Orpheus
Octopussy - Wedding Present - Seamonsters



I'm sure there are loads others that I can't think of right now, but it's my first day back at work, and I'm a bit brain-dead.

[Dublin12]

All I can think of now,but I'm sure loads more will come too me,anyway..

Bob Marley-Redemption Song
Voodoo Clile(Slight Return)
Asleep-The Smiths.

[Lionel Ritchie]

Asleep-The Smiths.

Was going to chuck that in ...classic.

Damage Incorporated -Metallica (Master Of Puppets)

Crutch -Buffalo Tom (Let Me Come Over)

Build -The Housemartins (The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death)

Everything's A.O.R. -Half Man Half Biscuit (McIntyre, Treadmore & Davitt)

The Big Rain -Andy White (Rave On)

[Neish]

I am the resurection-The Stone Rosses
Dream Brother- Grace-Jeff Buckley
The End- Ths Doors

[Gerrit]

In this sort of topics it's time to brag about my favourites Placebo :cool:

For three albums long they had the concept of a last song, then 10 minutes of silence, then followed by a "hidden track". Very clever as it leaves you with temptation and excitement for another 10 minutes while the CD should be over really, and two songs on one-track-of-22-minutes scares of mp3 rippers and copyers :D

My favourite song of all time, "Burger queen" is the closing track of Without You I'm Nothing, the regular closing one that is. Brilliant song, very melancholic and sad, then 10 minutes of silence, and then the hidden track "Evil dildo" which is basically a stalker's message from Brian Molko's answering machine that they put music on... Brilliant :D




My other favourite band Echo & The Bunnymen had the magical epic "Ocean rain" as last song on the Ocean Rain album, they still have "Ocean Rain" as final encore at concerts nowadays.
Then at Evergreen album they had "Forgiven" as last track, a very nice ballad...




Other nice "last songs":



Heather Nova - Just been born / South
Marilyn Manson - Coma White (+ hidden track) / Mechanical Animals
Marilyn Manson - man that you fear (+ hidden track) / Antichrist Superstar
U2 - All I want is you / Best Of 1980-90
Dido - Take my hand / No Angel




By the way, what do you lads think of "saving the best for last" ? Is it a good idea to close the album with a cracker song, or -what some artists do- keep a very good song for the last spot but one, then to close the album with a sort of "outro" song ?

[Speranza]

Street Spirit (Fade Out) - Radiohead / The Bends

The Bronze Medal - Idlewild / 100 broken windows

[Pauro 76]

Nirvana 'All Apologies' - In Utero
Primal Scream 'Shoot Speed Kill Light' - Xtrmntr
Doves 'Caught by the River' - Last Broadcast
Nine Inch Nails 'Hurt' - Downward Spiral
QOTSA 'Long Slow Goodbye' - Lullabies to Paralyze

[fosterdollar]

I agree with a lot of the above - no point repeating them. Others i like are:

Just cos they're recent probably...
Mylo - Emotion 98.6/Detroy Rock & Roll
The Chemical Brothers - Surface to Air/Push The Button (agree on the others also)
Just comes to mind...
The Verve - Come On/Urban Hymns

[Pauro 76]

a few more...

Oasis 'Champagne Supernova' - Morning Glory
Portishead 'Glory Box' - Dummy
System of a Down 'Aerials' - Toxicity
New Order 'Run Wild' - Get Ready
Blur 'No Distance Left to Run' - 13 (although a dodgy album, great closer)
REM 'Electrolite' - New Adventure in Hi-Fi
or 'Find the River' off Automatic for the People

[Pauro 76]

and a few more off top of me head..

'Fall Fall Fall' - Razorlight, Up All Night
'Mountain People' - Super Furries, Radiator
'Slow Life' - Super Furries, Phantom Power

[superfrank]

Chonkyfire-Aquemini by Outkast
May We Bang You-Gloryhallastoopid by Parliament
It Aint Hard To Tell-Illmatic by Nas
Inner City Blues-What's Going On by Marvin Gaye
One Love-Exodus by Bob Marley

[holidaysong]

-Tourettes ( if you dont count gallons of rubbing alcohol , and i dont)



Surely you have to count "All Apologies" though... ;)

Anyway my top 5:

5. The Breeders - Huffer (Title TK)
4. Foo Fighters - Exhausted (Foo Fighters)
3. Mogwai - Stop Coming to My House (Happy Songs For Happy People)
2. Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack (Kid A)
1. Pixies - Gouge Away (Doolittle)

P.S. - Going to see Pixies Tuesday, going to be fun fun! :D

[CollegeTillIDie]

Part VI Oxygene(1-6) Jean Michel Jarre
Riders On The Storm LA WOMAN The Doors
I Nearly Married A Human Repicas Tubeway Army
Tara Avalon Roxy Music
Child Of Vision Breakfast In America Supertramp

The best 5 I can remember so far

[CollegeTillIDie]

P.S. - Going to see Pixies Tuesday, going to be fun fun! :D
..... till your Daddy takes the T-Bird Away :D

[noby]

Ones that nearly slipped through:

Tonight we fly - Divine Comedy - Promenade

The perfect ending to an excellent album

Being A Girl - Mansun - Six

Also, taking Gerrit's 'second last song' on board, after the brilliant 'Drivin' on 9' on the Breeders Last Splash, there is a little reprise, but I'm going to count it anyway

[Wolfie]

1. A Day in the Life - Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles

2. Desolation Row - Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

3. I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

4. Looking Glass - The La's -The La's

5. When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin IV -Led Zeppelin

A few more great album closers (in no particular order):

Jungleland - Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
Are You Experienced? - Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix
Take it or Leave it - Is This It? - The Strokes
Tomorrow Never Knows - Revolver - The Beatles
No Surface, All Feeling - Everything Must Go - Manics
You Can't Always Get What You Want - Let it Bleed - Rolling Stones
Its all over now, Baby Blue - Bringing it all back home - Bob Dylan

[monzo]

Pixies - Doolittle - Gouge Away
The Replacements - Tim - Here Comes A Regular
Husker Du - Zen Arcade - Turn On The News
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust - Rock And Roll Suicide
The Stooges - Raw Power - Death Trip

Honourable mentions:
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man - Tower of Song
Black Francis - Svn Fngrs - When They Come To Murder Me
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Lyre of Orpheus - O Children (as someone else mentioned above, inspired choice)
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs - Anywhere I Lay My Head

[Pauro 76]

My Body Is A Cage - Arcade Fire / Neon Bible
All Hope Is Gone - Slipknot / All Hope Is Gone
PCP - Manics / The Holy Bible
505 - Arctic Monkeys / Favourite Worst Nightmare
See the Light - Green Day / 21st Century Breakdown
Happiness - Kasabian / West Rider Pauper..