Tell Me Your 7 Favorite Album Closers NOW

[lazarus]

I'm not as polite as GAF.


1. Pavement/Fin (Brighten the Corners)
2. Rolling Stones/Moonlight Mile (Sticky Fingers)
3. The Replacements/Can't Hardly Wait (Pleased to Meet Me)
4. The Velvet Underground/Oh! Sweet Nuthin' (Loaded)
5. R.E.M./Find the River (Automatic for the People)
6. Shuttlecock/Wake Up, Line Judge (Poppycock)
7. The Who/Won't Get Fooled Again (Who's Next)

 

[nielsgov]

The Beatles - A Day In The Life
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts VI-IX
Joy Division - I Remember Nothing
U2 - Love Is Blindness
Interpol - Leif Erikson
Radiohead - Life In A Glass House
Sigur Rós - Untitled 8 (fjdsfhuvhuf)

 

[iron yuppie]

1. The Who: Love, Reign O'er Me

2. Led Zeppelin: When the Levee Breaks

3. The Beatles: A Day in the Life

4. U2: Love Is Blindness

5. David Bowie: Lady Grinning Soul

6. The Cure: Sinking

7. Depeche Mode: Clean

Honorable Mention. Radiohead: A Wolf at the Door; Arcade Fire: In the Backseat

 

[djerdap]

1. The Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection
2. Pink Floyd - Echoes
3. Pearl Jam - Indifference
4. U2 - Love is Blindness
5. Porcupine Tree - Fadeaway
6. Mudhoney - Check-Out Time
7. Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack

Honorable mentions go to:
The Doors - The End
Bruce Springsteen - New York City Serenade
Nine Inch Nails - Zero Sum
David Bowie - Subterraneans

 

[IWasBored]

favorites as in the way they close out the album, rather than favorite songs that happen to be the last tracks on their respective albums (because that list would require more thinking and i'm pretty much just going off the top of my head here). really, the only criteria i'm using to try and whittle down a short list of seven is songs that make me really hate the album is over:

sinners & saints - it's all coming down tonight

springsteen - jungleland

bouncing souls - gone

barenaked ladies - (this is where i'd put "tonight is the night i fell asleep at the wheel" if it wasn't for that godawful secret track marring what i consider to be a pretty awesome way to end an album. so instead i'm gonna go with "shoe box")

the first three clash albums end perfectly. yes, in that context even "train in vain" is still ok and not slightly overplayed.

ramallah - bye-bye

ducky boys - crumbling heart. moreso now since lind has left behind the nah nah nahs.


it should be noted that as some point the last song on live's distance to here album would have made a list like this for me, but 1) i'm already at 7 and did some kind of creative math to make it as seven anyway 2) if i think too much harder i'll probably come up with another 7 and 3) i can't even remember what the song is called, so it can't really be that wonderful.

 

[LemonMelon]

Much, much more difficult to make than my openers list. It's pretty obvious that lot of artists just don't care about closers to the same degree.

1. U2 - All I Want Is You
2. The Cure - Untitled
3. R.E.M. - Find The River
4. Prince - Purple Rain
5. Love - You Set The Scene
6. Big Star - I'm In Love With A Girl
7. Nick Drake - From The Morning
8. Neil Young - Ambulance Blues
9. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - American Girl
10. Nirvana - All Apologies
11. Beck - Debra
12. The Flaming Lips - Bad Days
13. The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin
14. Pink Floyd - Eclipse
15. The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
16. Bon Iver - Re: Stacks
17. Animal Collective - Brothersport
18. Elliott Smith - Say Yes
19. The Zombies - Time of the Season
20. Titus Andronicus - The Battle of Hampton Roads

 

[Salome]

Leonard Cohen - If it be your will (Various positions)
Sonic Youth - The diamond sea (Washing machine)
U2 - All I want is you (Rattle & Hum)
Frank Zappa - Sofa no. 2 (One size fits all)
Talk Talk - Time it's time (The colour of spring)
Captain Beefheart - Veteran's day poppy (Trout mask replica)
Bob Dylan - Sad eyed lady of the lowlands (Blonde on blonde)

 

[phanan]

Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
U2 - Mothers Of The Disappeared
R.E.M. - Find The River
Rolling Stones - Moonlight Mile
Pink Floyd - Echoes
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks

The Beatles - A Day In The Life
Paul McCartney & Wings - Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five
Mew - Comforting Sounds
Prince - Purple Rain
Porcupine Tree - Collapse The Light Into Earth
The Clash - Train In Vain

 

[bono_212]

Songs I think close albums wonderfully:

1.) The National - Mr. November
2.) Nick Drake - From the Morning
3.) Bon Iver - Re: Stacks
4.) U2 - Love Is Blindness
5.) Tears for Fears - Start of the Breakdown
6.) The Cure - The Top (Damn them for one time not making the title track the closer "Disintegration" )
7.) Bruce Springsteen - Devil's Arcade (That album's book-ended pretty damn well)

 

[lazarus]

Fuck, I just realized I forgot a great one:

Peter Gabriel/Secret World (Us)


So amazing.

 

[iron yuppie]

Bruce Springsteen - Devil's Arcade (That album's book-ended pretty damn well)

This is an excellent choice. I considered including it, but "Terry's Song" technically closes the album, even if it is a bonus track. I was not sure as to the eligibility of "Devil's Arcade."

 

[cobl04]

this is harder for some reason...

1) Pink Floyd - Brain Damage/Eclipse
2) U2 - Love is Blindness
3) Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
4) David Bowie - Lady Grinning Soul
5) The Who - Love Reign O'er Me
6) Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack
7) LCD Soundsystem - Home

i've missed millions.

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

1. U2 - Love is Blindness
2. Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
3. Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother
4. Weezer - Only In Dreams
5. Weezer - Butterfly
6. Guster - Parachute
7. Jet - Timothy

 

[greenlight7-11]

This follows almost the same artist ranking as my post in the other thread, but whatever...

1. Find The River (R.E.M.)
2. Hurt (Nine Inch Nails)
3. Around The Bend (Pearl Jam)
4. Love Is Blindness (U2)
5. Higher Love (Depeche Mode)
6. Speedway (Morrissey)
7. Ocean Rain (Echo & The Bunnymen)

Honorable Mentions: Faith (The Cure), My Body Is A Cage (Arcade Fire), Lady Grinning Soul (David Bowie), Dream Brother (Jeff Buckley), Darker With The Day (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds), For Crying Out Loud (Lloyd Cole), Lucky You (The National).

 

[BoMac]

I may or may not compile my list later, but I just wanted to add that my favourite album closer this year is These Days by The Black Keys. Such a great way to end that record.

 

[bono_212]

Fuck, I just realized I forgot a great one:

Peter Gabriel/Secret World (Us)

So amazing.

OH shit. I fucking love that song. Missed it as well.

This is an excellent choice. I considered including it, but "Terry's Song" technically closes the album, even if it is a bonus track. I was not sure as to the eligibility of "Devil's Arcade."

I have the version where it's a secret track at the end. Essentially I consider that last song ten minutes of brilliance, I love both tracks dearly.

 

[the tourist]

In no order:

The Beatles: Tomorrow Never Knows
Led Zeppelin: When The Levee Breaks
U2: All I Want Is You
Oasis: Champagne Supernova
Radiohead: Street Spirit
Starflyer 59: First Heart-Attack
The Zombies: Time Of The Season

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

1. duran duran: tel aviv
2. duran duran: the chauffeur
3. duran duran: the seventh stranger
4. duran duran: undergoing treatment
5. duran duran: still breathing
6. duran duran: before the rain
7. u2: the ground beneath her feet

 

[Nate Dogg]

Pearl Jam-Indifference
INXS-Don't Change
Oasis-Champagne Supernova
Queen-The Show Must Go On
R.E.M.-Find The River
U2-Love Is Blindness
U2-Mothers Of The Disappeared(or MLK)

 

[agentorange]

A great thread. Since many of the best have been mentioned, I'm throwing out some dark horses/sentimental favorites/fliers below the radar.

this must be the place (naive melody) - talking heads
drive-by truckers - a world of hurt
vito's ordination song - sufjan stevens
caught by the river - doves
a murder of one - counting crows
amsterdam - coldplay
voodoo child (slight return) - jimi hendrix
scientist studies - death cab for cutie

 

[lazarus]

So who's gonna create the "side one closer" or "side two opener" old school threads?

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

My Favorite U2 Closers (In Order):

1. Love is Blindness (Depressing and wonderful, perfect way to end AB.)
2. Wake Up Dead Man (Love the lyrics and the desperation.)
3. MLK (Perfect way to end UF.)
4. All I Want is You (A great song, I love the violin ending and the lyrics.)
5. "40" (A sentimental way to end War.)
6. Yahwew (One of my favorite spiritual songs from U2.)
7. Mothers of the Disappeared (Good way to end JT.)

 

[namkcuR]

1. The Beatles - The End(Abbey Road)
2. U2 - Love Is Blindness(Achtung Baby)
3. U2 - All I Want Is You(Rattle And Hum)
4. Muse - Exogensis(Parts I, II, and III)(The Resistance)
5. The Beatles - A Day In The Life(Sgt. Pepper)
6. Pink Floyd - Echoes(Meddle)
7. The Doors - The End(The Doors)/When The Music's Over(Strange Days)
8. Radiohead - Street Spirit(Fade Out)(The Bends)

 

[IWasBored]

So who's gonna create the "side one closer" or "side two opener" old school threads?

don't think the thought didn't cross my mind when i wanted to put "straight to hell" on my closer list and remembered it doesn't actually close out the entire album. i had forgotten. it's to the point where it's in my top 3 favorite clash songs, but also the only thing off combat rock i can stand.

 

[bono_212]

I have a nomination for worst side two opener, and that's "4th of July". Really awkward flipping the album over and that being the first thing you hear. To me at any rate.

 

[lazarus]

That whole side of the album doesn't do much for me, to be honest.

 

[namkcuR]

That whole side of the album doesn't do much for me, to be honest.

I would disagree. "Bad" is a classic. "Indian Summer Sky" is a beautiful melody, imo. "Elvis Presley And America" is a gorgeous atmosphere piece.

 

[lazarus]

Bad(minton) isn't a classic in that version. Has about 1/10 the power of any live perf of it I've heard.

The other songs are decent but it's a very top-heavy album for me.

 

[FitzChivalry]

In no particular order (sorry, I couldn't stick to 7):

The Beatles -- The End
The Beatles -- A Day In The Life
U2 -- 40
U2 -- The Wanderer
The Chemical Brothers -- Surface To Air
Bruce Springsteen -- Jungleland
Led Zeppelin -- When The Levee Breaks
Depeche Mode -- But Not Tonight
Bloc Party -- Ion Square



Underworld -- Moaner
The Chemical Brothers -- The Private Psychedelic Reel
The Cure -- Untitled
Genesis -- It
Genesis -- Los Endos
Bjork -- All Is Full Of Love
Franz Ferdinand -- Outsiders
Steely Dan -- Third World Man

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

1. Jungleland - Bruce
2. The End - Beatles
3. Desolation Row - Dylan
4. Street Spirit - Radiohead
5. Electrolite - R.E.M.
6. Change - Taylor
7. A Certain Romance - Arctic Monkeys