THE BEST ALBUM-CLOSER OF ALL TIME IS...

I love that album.

i can't see anything:-(

It's Script of the Bridge by the Chameleons.

I have a serious answer, can I say it?

"Party For Your Right to Fight"

Yes. This is a serious thread.

xpost

(predictable me answer): Raining Blood

I was gonna say the obvious answer, "A Day In The Life," can't really be fucked with

"View From A Hill" is perfect. Those guitars, that synth, those DRUMS. I crank my vinyl copy up in my basement and it gives me goosebumps.

(and the bass and the tambourine obv.)

A Day In The Life seconded...
You Set The Scene
It's All Over Now Baby Blue
O! Sweet Nuthin
All Apologies

Curt1s is 100% OTM with this thread. "View From A Hill" is absolutely gorgeous.

"Wealth" is pretty great.

"Donimo" by the Cocteaus is a pretty awesomely ecstatic and HUGE album-closer for "Treasure".

Endless Nameless
Soon

the answer is Merry Go Bye Bye

"A Dream" on DeBarge: In A Special Way

"The Morning Fog" Hounds of Love

ummmm i don't know this is hard

Kate Bush The Dreaming Get Out Of My House is kindo f hard to beat

and this is kinda embarrassing but Yes Anastasia off Tori's Under The Pink is really magnificent.

My vote goes to "I am the Resurrection'

Dive for yer Memory is also a good one.

some of these are obvious, but:
- beatles, "tomorrow never knows" (revolver)
- who, "won't get fooled again" (who's next -- yeah, it's an overplayed fm staple, so instead listen to it like it's the miles davis quintet circa 1968 and it all makes a different kind of sense. it's what lifetime were always groping towards)
- funkadelic, "eulogy and light" (free your mind)
- marvin gaye, "inner city blues" (what's going on)
- mc5, "skunk" (high time)
- yo la tengo, "i heard you looking" (painful)
- sly & the family stone, "thank you for talkin' to me africa" (there's a riot goin' on)
- jay-z, "my first song" (the black album)

12 X U - Wire Pink Flag

Love that song.

of fuck hopw could i forget 12xu

best song eveer

last chance for a slow dance - fugazi

at the risk of sounding stuck in the past, "European Son" and "Desolation Row" are two that spring to mind

It's predictable, but I'll say The Tourist.

I second "Raining Blood", but some of my other favorites are "The Swimmer" and "Mass Transit Railway" (since we aren't naming albums or groups apparently).

and as i said on the other thread:

omfg i've been singing the singy bit of merry go bye-bye to myself SO MUCH recently. i kinda wish they made a whole song of it, but deep down i know it's better served by the noize-freak excursion

-- Just got offed, Thursday, 2 August 2007 00:05 (10 hours ago) Bookmark Link

my actual answer to this thread would be...erm...oh come on, there's about 35 i can't choose between! my current favourite is foetus' "kreibabe", however, so i will nominate that.

Life in a Glasshouse

Yeah that's a good one too.

That would be "Supper's Ready" though.

the diamond sea
heart of the sunrise
torn curtain
moonlight mile
the apollo programme was a hoax
jane doe
fillmore jive
the biggest lie
untitled
equus
decades
omerta
into the void

those are the best i can think of off the top of my head

Do It!

Best album closer is 'Yeah' by Kyuss

not 'lick doo'?

4 words

Here Comes A Regular

thas it and thas all

The answer is "Tomorrow Never Knows", at least for today.
Yesterday it was "Flash Light", and tomorrow "Afterbirth/Aftermath".

"Love Dance" and the fading 3-car jam on Double Nickels.

Beatles - "Her Majesty"

High Voltage and/or Into the Void

Maybe Blow on a Jug off Sabotage.

two Radiohead closers mentioned and no "Motion Picture Soundtrack"? "Here Comes a Regular" over "Answering Machine"? u mad ILM

other random ones that come to mind: "West of the Fields", "Fillmore Jive", "The Wild Kindness", "Colors" (dunno how much album-closer counts for on a two-track album but whatever), "Slim Slow Slider", "Runeii", "Vittorio E." (this album is magick)

Not too keen on Motion Picture Soundtrack. Think it's the worst song on Kid A.

Purple Rain

Roxy Music - "Just Another High" on Siren
Sparks - "Miss The Start, Miss The End" on Indiscreet
Talking Heads - The Overload on Remain in Light
Ian Dury - "Blackmail Man" on New Boots and Panties

Threatens to leap right off the turntable, that last one...

Oh, and "Information Overload" by Caveman Shoestore. The CD goes into a repeating locked groove at the end for about 5 minutes.

Let me focus on the 60s / early 70s. Best album closer (and life closer in some cases):

1. Day in the Life, Beatles.
2. You Can't Always, Stones.
3. In My Hour of Darkness, Parsons.
4. Riders on the Storm, Doors.

In that order.

that be some classic rock

A bunch of lowbrow choices so far overlooked:

The End, The Doors - The Doors
Train In Vain, The Clash - London Calling
Casey Jones, The Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
Truckin', The Grateful Dead - American Beauty
You Can't Always Get What You Want, The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
(not overlooked by the previous poster, but scandalously overlooked before that)
The Late Greats, Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
In The Pines, Nirvana - Unplugged
King Harvest Has Surely Come - The Band, The Band
Darkness At The Edge Of Town - Bruce Springsteen etc. - Darkness On The Edge Of Town (I don't like Jungleland that much, but others would add that, too)
Purple Rain, Prince - Purple Rain (also not completely overlooked)
Gold Dust Woman, Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Valentine, Old 97s - Fight Songs

Not to mention When The Levee Breaks, which as I think about it might be my #1 choice.

I Wish I Was Your Mother, Mott The Hoople

more classic rock on this thread than I expected

In the post-classic rock era, (1) with all the bonus tracks and crap, it's sometimes hard to tell what the end of an album is, and (2) there's a strong tendency to front-load all the good stuff.

Anyway, "best album closer of all time" is inherently a rockist question, so why not go whole hog?

You want a non-classic-rock answer? Fine. Here ya go.

Bill Dixon, "Octette #1" off Vade Mecum 2.

Greatest.

Ever.

Bernard is correct, the answer is "Slim Slow Slider".

I think a distinction has to be drawn between great songs that close an album and great album-closers. Hopefully, the ones I list will be mostly of the latter camp, although in almost every case the song is also the best on its parent album:

Bark Psychosis - Rose
The Beta Band - The Cow's Wrong
The Blood Brothers - The Shame
Blur - Essex Dogs
Blur - Resigned
Blur - Yuko & Hiro (all three Blur nominees are followed by a secret track and are therefore of dubious veracity)
Boards of Canada - Happy Cycling
The Chemical Brothers - The Private Psychedelic Reel
Comets On Fire - Blue Tomb
The Cooper Temple Clause - Written Apology
The Cooper Temple Clause - Murder Song
Crash Test Dummies - Swatting Flies (yes, this is, in context, a devastatingly good closer, not just a great song)
The Cure - Pornography
The Cure - The Top (ending with a show-stopping title-track is srsly the way to go)
The Cure - End (should have ended their career, one might well argue...it would certainly have seen them go out very much on top)
Dark Star - The Sound Of Awake
Duran Duran - The Chauffeur
Engineers - One In Seven
Explosions In The Sky - Your Hand In Mine (hate them for their popularity or their supposed dullness, but this song is unstoppable)
Foetus - Kreibabe
GY!BE - Motherfucker = Redeemer (Part 2)
Grandaddy - So You'll Aim Toward The Sky
Hood - Diesel Pioneers
M83 - Lower Your Eyelids To Die With The Sun
Mew - Louise Louisa
Mew - Comforting Sounds
Mogwai - lol can i has 16 minutes of yr precious time
NIN - Right Where It Belongs
Oceansize - Ornament/The Last Wrongs
ORBITAL - OUT THERE SOMEWHERE PT. 2 (WE HAVE A NEW WINNER, this song should close music)
Portishead - Glory Box
Porcupine Tree - Fadeaway
Primal Scream - Shoot Speed/Kill Light
Pulp - David's Last Summer (closes out a storyline from earlier on in the album as well as being Pulp's best song, and believe me that's stiff competition)
Pulp - Sunrise (probably their 2nd-best song)
Radiohead - er...er...errr.....Blow Out!
Slint - Good Morning Captain
Soundgarden - Like Suicide
Super Furry Animals - Mountain People (technooooo!!!!)
Super Furry Animals - Slow Life (er....technooooo!!!!)
Talk Talk - Runeii (my album favourite, no kidding, it finishes off their career on the surest and most contented of (piano) notes)
The Teardrop Explodes - ...And The Fighting Takes Over/The Great Dominions (I listen to them as one absolutely devastating 8-minute song)
The The - Lonely Planet
Ultrasound - Everything Picture (it's 21 minutes long ffs, how could I resist?)

XTC have their own section: Travels In Nihilon, Complicated Game, Books Are Burning, Snowman, Pale And Precious, Chalkhills And Children and The Wheel And The Maypole are all stunning.

"Miss Mabry" / Filles de Kilimanjaro
"Bandera" / Red Headed Stranger
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (parts 6-9)/ Wish You Were Here
"Weathercock"/ Heavy Horses
"Morse Moose and the Grey Goose"/ London Town
"Tabula Rasa"/ Tabula Rasa
"Like An Angel Passing Through My Room" / The Visitors

(nuff best closers for tonite, for me)

First one that popped to mind:

God- Plastic Ono Band

don't know about all time, but last night "this train" closing bunny wailer's blackheart man could not be topped.

t**t, I believe you're thinking of HEEEEADCLEEEANER, not 'Tabula Rasa'. I was going to nominate it myself, but actually I think it stands apart from the rest of the album as a piece of work entirely unto itself.

'When The Levee Breaks' or 'I Am The Resurrection', surely? Or 'Lot 105'.

'A Certain Romance' is a classic of the genre too. I'm also a fan of understated endings, like 'Road Trippin'' or 'Gold Dust Woman'.

expressway to yr skull

la blues

afterhours

This is the best album Closer of all time:
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YCDS2WGML._AA240_.jpg

afterhours otm

"treatment bound"

"davy the fat boy"

junkyard

"louis jagger has the worst taste in the world" by muse

screwing yer courage

"ban ghost rider" by the doves

"Child in the Tree" - Young Gods
"The Days Were Golden" - Sunny Day Real Estate
"Faaip de Oiad" - Tool
"Chonkyfire" - Outkast

"best album closer of all time" is inherently a rockist question

waht

'soon' on loveless

(the only track on that album i like, if truth be told)

popists only listen to singles and they hang out on the "best fadeout of all time" threads

xpost

is it the act of appreciating the last track on an album that is inherently rockist, or the act of comparing it against other ones?

it was when you bought the album dude

Round up the usual suspects...

Spiritualized "200 Bars" / Lazer Guided Melodies
My Bloody Valentine "Soon" / Loveless
Bailter Space "Begin" / Robot World
The Church "Hotel Womb" / Starfish

The Cure - The Top

My god yes why didn't I think of this one.

Don't know if it's the best ever, but "Knights of Cydonia" on Muse's Black Holes and Revelations smokes everything else on that album, and I really liked that album.

more classic rock on this thread than I expected

-- Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, August 2, 2007 7:14 PM

hi dere "regrets" jay-z

Sonic Youth - Trilogy

(all three songs were a single track on original pressings of the album!)

the answer is Merry Go Bye Bye

truth.

The North Will Rise Again.

Uh.

"Alright" (Alien Lanes)

well, maybe not best of all time, but I've always been fond of it as an album closer.

Belle & Sebastian, 'Act Of The Apostle II'.

aeroplane over the sea

spiderland

NO NO NO NO--

**!!!"Fillmore Jive"/Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain!!!**

Not sure if you specifically meant songs designed to close the album, Curt1s, or best song that happens to be the last one on a given album, so I went with the former and came up with:

Ultravox "Just for a Moment"
Love "You Set the Scene"
Pulp "Bar Italia"

spiderland

^^^ I forgot this one!!

I meant the former mostly naus, but you can go either way

Todd Rundgren - "S.L.U.T."
Alice Cooper - "Escape"
A Guy Called Gerald - "Sweet You"
Flying Burrito Brothers - "Hippy Boy"
Gene Clark - "Lady Of The North"
Primal Scream - "Shine Like Stars"

Obvious: "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" Jimi Hendrix Experience

Not so obvious: "Strange Loop" Liz Phair

ooohooh speaking of the Doors! When The Music's Over

does anyone else think that song is kind of transcendental?

The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset (off "Something Else")

t**t, I believe you're thinking of HEEEEADCLEEEANER, not 'Tabula Rasa'. I was going to nominate it myself, but actually I think it stands apart from the rest of the album as a piece of work entirely unto itself.

we must've two rather different Tabula Rasa's in mind, it appears.
i was thinking of Arvo Pärt's ECM alb.

I have to fight tears whenever New Order's "Dream Attack" starts.

good morning captain on spiderland

decades, the closer on Closer

since i named it on the most beautiful songs ever thread and it is the album closer on ask the ages it's naturally a contender here too:

sonny sharrock, "once upon a time"

4 words

Here Comes A Regular

thas it and thas all

-- ksg, Thursday, August 2, 2007 8:55 AM (Thursday, August 2, 2007 8:55 AM) Bookmark Link

I would've put "Answering Machine" first.

Jeez, how British is this thread? :-)

Anyway, a few that come to mind (some have previously been mentioned, but whatever).

"Get Back"
"Yahweh" off the last U2 album ... wonderful punctuation mark to an uneven record.
"Jesus is Waiting"
"The Call of Ktulu"
"Day in the Life"
"Hey Hey My My (Into the Black)"
"A Day in the Life"
"Won't Get Fooled Again"
"Scenario""
"Suicidal Thoughts"
"Stab" from BTS' "There's Nothing Wrong With Love"
"The Wall of Death" from Shoot Out the Lights
"Gone" off Kanye's last record.

since i named it on the most beautiful songs ever thread and it is the album closer on ask the ages it's naturally a contender here too:

sonny sharrock, "once upon a time"

holy shit, completely and ridiculously OTM.

steely dan - third world man

does anyone else think that song is kind of transcendental?

No, but it is a better closer than "The End".

aeroplane over the sea

-- Stevie D, Friday, August 3, 2007 9:14 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

also Nas - "It Ain't Hard to Tell"

rock n' roll suicide. fuck the haters.

also i can't wait to get off work to see my baby.

sonic youth - trilogy, a day in the life, and the end of double nickels seconded heavily.

yes, i can't wait to get off work. fantastic

The Cure - "The Top" is the correct answer.

The Chameleons one that starts the thread reminds me of music that would play when I was a little boy (two to five) and my father would rent horrible-to-mediocre 80s action movies with synth-heavy rock soundtracks. Songs like that ironically take a place in my brief 1980s childhood posthumously.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH WON'T FEED MY CHILDREN. . .

it won't.

"Echoes" !!!

echoes is fantastic, it's just that i don't want to listen to floyd again for, say, another year

I'd felt that way for a couple of years. Enough time passed, and I feel good about the Floyd once again.

I love last tracks. Sometimes I wonder if penultimates aren't better, though.

Denim - I'm Against The '80s
GZA - B.I.B.L.E.
Morrissey - Speedway

The Cure - Pornography
The Cure - The Top (ending with a show-stopping title-track is srsly the way to go)
The Cure - End (should have ended their career, one might well argue...it would certainly have seen them go out very much on top)

OTM, all of 'em.

also, rock'n'roll suicide seconded, and i'm adding suede's "still life" too.

I love last tracks. Sometimes I wonder if penultimates aren't better, though.

There was once a thread on penultimate tracks that kick the shit out of final tracks, but I can't find it.

Cocteau Twins/Harold Budd - "Ooze out and away onehow"

Love how it is so quiet then just BURSTS joyously from the speakers.

4 words

Here Comes A Regular

thas it and thas all

-- ksg, Thursday, August 2, 2007 8:55 AM (Thursday, August 2, 2007 8:55 AM) Bookmark Link

Funny, I immediately thought of that when I saw the thread title. Indeed there is a big difference between "closers" and just the last track on an album.

the more i think about it, the more i feel compelled to mention cocteau's 'pur' even if it is severely ass-kicked by the penultimate track.

that record needs more love/reconsideration

some girls are bigger than others

Chameleons, _Strange Times_ - "I'll Remember" wraps up the greatest album of all-time.

Earlier in my life I'dve suggested XTC, _The Big Express_ "This World Over" which really resonated during the Cold War but has probably lost some of it's punch now. Then again...

'Mystery Achievement', _Pretenders_

"once upon a time" is a good choice, but "here come the warm jets" is my favorite, i think.

some other good ones:
dylan - sad-eyed lady of the lowlands
flipper - sex bomb
ccr - effigy
alice coltrane - a love supreme
miles davis - jack johnson (narration - not really a track i know blah blah)

how about 'would?'

Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain

There's no way I could pick one. A great closer has to have a great album to close, and I can't pick a favorite album. I still think probably "Raining Blood" would have to take it if I could only name one. I've been thinking about it a lot, and here are some of the choices competing for my favorite closers evah:

Brad's "We" (the rest of the album doesn't hold up that well for me, but I still love this song)
Bola "Whoblo"
MF Doom "Kookies"
Mercyful Fate "Melissa"
Caribou "Barnowl"
God "Detox"
Monolake "Mass Transit Railway"
Shuttle358 "Chessa"
Six Organs of Admittance "River of Transfiguration"
Ulrich Schnauss "Goodbye"

Siouxsie & the Banshees "Land's End" comes to mind for some reason
Ride "Vapour Trail"
I guess Echo & Bunnymen's Ocean Rain would be a grand candidate but because I added that song to a mixtape years ago I no longer think of it in connection with the album.

I dunno, there's a lot of really good ones, but I'm glad someone mentioned Purple Rain cause I think that really is the best example outside of A Day In The Life.

i'd like to invite you to a taste of my chalice
it's a special one, it's made of gold

Iggy Pop-Mass Production

Earth, Wind & Fire, "Be Ever Wonderful"
Erykah Badu, "Green Eyes"
Donna Summer, "I Feel Love"
Björk, "All is Full of Love"
Beck, "Ramshackle"
Stevie Wonder, "Please Don't Go"

Mercyful Fate "Melissa"

the shaggs - "we have a saviour"

i summon mr. que

"NOM"

A thread this long, on this corner of the iWeb, and no mention of After Hours?? WTF ILX? Maybe it's too obvious or something, but then folks have been chiming upthread about A Day in the Life, which is really really brilliant and all, but After Hours is just as perfect, and The Velvets didn't have to try nearly as hard. So they win.

afterhours

-- Edward III, Thursday, August 2, 2007 4:18 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Link

afterhours otm

-- ghost rider, Thursday, August 2, 2007 4:23 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Link

Oops, I missed this. It's "After Hours" folks.

Anyway, OTM then?

"Rocket Queen" - Appetite

mookieproof also otm

the first title coming to mind:

"blue line swinger"

I can't believe all the complaints about "After Hours" and no one has mentioned "European Son" or "Sister Ray!!" I'll go with the latter, but my private chestnut has to be "Never Forget."

Best song that happens to be a closer: "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)."

"Nebel" at the end of the great RAMMS+EIN's great "Mutter"

at the risk of sounding stuck in the past, "European Son" and "Desolation Row" are two that spring to mind

-- outdoor_miner, Thursday, 2 August 2007 06:03 (10 months ago) Link

learn to read you poxy fules

I opened this thread, searched for the first three songs that came to mind, and I had posted every one of them almost a year ago.

my ilm's playing tricks on me

i agree with "The Tourist"

the avalanches - extra kings
the white stripes - I fought piranhas

I agree with "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others"

Here Comes A Regular

thas it and thas all

-- ksg, Thursday, August 2, 2007 8:55 AM (Thursday, August 2, 2007 8:55 AM) Bookmark Link

I would've put "Answering Machine" first.

-- Pleasant Plains, Friday, August 3, 2007

I think I'd actually choose "Treatment Bound" over eithor of those

The Bewlay Brothers.

Out There Somewhere Pt 2.

led zep - when the levee breaks (awesome)
harvey milk - mothers day (really epic)
biggie - suicidal thoughts (grim)
botch - we are the romans (this is pretty epic too)
faith no more - midnight cowboy (perfect wind-down)
steely dan - king of the world/third world man (both work really well in the context of the albums that they cap off)

faith no more - midnight cowboy (perfect wind-down)

King For a Day and Album of the Year have great closers as well.

Grand Funk-I'm Your Captain

That album (*Closer to Home) also has one of the alltime great openers in "Sin's a Good Man's Brother"

REM - Find the River

SFA - Gweirridasfetjajegjaegeuau Dwfn

the first title coming to mind:

"blue line swinger"

-- alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 26 June 2008 19:51 (Yesterday) Link

Thank the Lord you mentioned this, alex. I thought I was going to have to throw a tantrum.

(also I like "Soul Survivor," "All Apologies," the loud version of "Keep On Rockin in the Free World" and "I'm in Love With a Girl." And does "Leave the Capitol" count?)

also almost forgot about "22 Going on 23"

"Piledriver", Damn Yankees

The Verve had some nice ones: "See You in the Next One" & "Stormy Clouds (Reprise)"

xtc - complicated game

Let's See What Else:

I def. second "Eulogy and Light" (super-creepy) and "When the Levee Breaks," along with "A Day in the Life..." (but, really, who doesn't second that one?)

"L.A. Blues is great, tho apparently it lacks compared to the live version.

"You Set the Scene" is great. I also like "And More" from Love's first album, for personal reasons.

Surprised "Bike" hasn't gotten any love yet.

Ditto for "Ambulance Blues." Also, "Last Dance" (from Time Fades Away) is pretty damn cool: CSN has never sounded so raw & ragged, perhaps bcz Neil insists on pummelling them with the riff. Great freaky rock moment.

It hasn't been mentioned (I don't think) but no list fultimate classic-rock album closers is complete without "Ramble Tamble."

I believe the original Mirror Man album ends with "Kandy Korn," which is an awesome song. (For that matter, "Apes-Ma" wraps up Shiny Beast on an impossibly poignant note.)

"Brick is Red" "Havalina" "She Brings The Rain" "Adventures Close to Home": none of these would belong on a list of greatest album closers ever, but all are v. good, so shout-outs to them all.

"Sweet Shine" and "Bouncing Round the Room" are even better. Verging on transcendence, particularly "Bouncing" which is the greatest song that Paul Simon never wrote.

And nothing against "You're Not an Airplane"--it does the job--but "Peep-hole would've made a fantastic closer for Bee Thousand. it has to be one of the loveliest songs to ever clock in under a minute.

hey! did i kill another thread? dammit!

don't worry about it. some ilxors kill entire borads

and we have a word for them, too: heroes.

btw best album close is billy's got a gun

"Sunless Saturday"

Speaking of GbV, the one-two punch of "Mute Superstar" and "Bomb in the Beehive" that closes Mag Earwig! is one of my favorite endings to an album ever. If I have to pick a single song...maybe "Jimmy Tomorrow" from the Waitresses' debut? "Complicated Game" is a pretty strong contender too.

omg wau I'm listening to drums & wires RIGHT NOW and came here specifically to say complicated game.

"Take Care." Big Star, Sister Lovers.

Delia & Gavin's "Black Spring" from Days of Mars a strong contender.

The Go-Betweens' "Apology Accepted."

I've always felt that Pavement's "Fillmore Jive" was their greatest moment, particularly because it was the album closer.

"siberian khatru"

The morning of our lives-Modern Lovers live
Gouge away-Pixies-Doolittle
And this Day-The Fall-Hex Enduction Hour
Party for your right to fight-Public Enemy-It takes a nation of millions
You set the scene-Love-Forever changes

Beatles - "Her Majesty"

― o. nate,

New Order - "Dream Attack"

Brushed with Oil, Dusted with Powder - Scritti Politti - A&B

fillmore jive
alright - gbv

rock'n'roll suicide

Gotta go classic rock here: "When The Levee Breaks" and "Riders on the Storm". And maybe The Jam's "In The Midnight Hour".

It hasn't been mentioned (I don't think) but no list fultimate classic-rock album closers is complete without "Ramble Tamble."

Maybe in Bizarro World, where "Ramble Tamble" isn't in fact the album-OPENER!

DeBarge: "A Dream"

I am the Resurrection does it for me, but there's a lot of roses haters on ilm, so that could be a lonely view

Iggy Pop : "Mass Production"

Slick Rick - "Lick The Balls"

'dream attack' thirded (i think). also 'whoblo' by bola and 'home entertainment' by carl craig.

"pimpf" or "true to myself" from the au harem d'archimede

actually fuck that, the real answer is "the sun and the rainfall"

"President of Vice" on the cd version of Nation of Ulysses Plays Pretty for Baby. I think that "I Can See it But I can't Feel It" is a better album closer than "Soon." But I generally prefer Isn't Anything to Loveless. TV Personalities "Look Back in Anger," I don't know, lots.

"Dream Attack" again, but no mention of "Leave Me Alone"?

"The Hobo Song" on John Prine's "Bruised Orange".

lolz i cd add a few to my exhaustive list above, but nah Out There Somewhere Pt. 2 is still the answer

i also reinforce my point that XTC are the ultimate closing-tracks band

also wow @ TWO cooper temple clause songs in my initial list, altho in mitigation these songs are probably by a distance the best thing that band did

"The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet"

Portishead - Glory Box

Yes.

'Tower of Song' is one of the very best.