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.
― Cunga, Sunday, 5 August 2007 07:18 (seventeen years ago) link
FREEDOM OF SPEECH WON'T FEED MY CHILDREN. . .
it won't.
― mayhaps, Sunday, 5 August 2007 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link
"Echoes" !!!
― Davey D, Sunday, 5 August 2007 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link
echoes is fantastic, it's just that i don't want to listen to floyd again for, say, another year
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 6 August 2007 04:37 (seventeen years ago) link
I'd felt that way for a couple of years. Enough time passed, and I feel good about the Floyd once again.
― Davey D, Monday, 6 August 2007 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link
I love last tracks. Sometimes I wonder if penultimates aren't better, though.
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 6 August 2007 09:16 (seventeen years ago) link
Denim - I'm Against The '80s GZA - B.I.B.L.E. Morrissey - Speedway
― acrobat, Monday, 6 August 2007 09:19 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― CharlieNo4, Monday, 6 August 2007 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link
There was once a thread on penultimate tracks that kick the shit out of final tracks, but I can't find it.
― Just got offed, Monday, 6 August 2007 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Cocteau Twins/Harold Budd - "Ooze out and away onehow"
― Trayce, Monday, 6 August 2007 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Love how it is so quiet then just BURSTS joyously from the speakers.
― Trayce, Monday, 6 August 2007 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 6 August 2007 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 6 August 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link
some girls are bigger than others
― shanissey, Monday, 6 August 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link
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...
― Mr. Odd, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link
'Mystery Achievement', _Pretenders_
― Jeff Wright, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 03:14 (seventeen years ago) link
"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)
― 69, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 03:54 (seventeen years ago) link
how about 'would?'
― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 04:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
― stephen, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 04:17 (seventeen years ago) link
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"
― rockapads, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 05:07 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 06:00 (seventeen years ago) link
i'd like to invite you to a taste of my chalice it's a special one, it's made of gold
― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 June 2008 04:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Iggy Pop-Mass Production
― dan selzer, Thursday, 26 June 2008 04:10 (sixteen years ago) link
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"
― Eric H., Thursday, 26 June 2008 04:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Mercyful Fate "Melissa"
― rockapads, Thursday, 26 June 2008 04:18 (sixteen years ago) link
the shaggs - "we have a saviour"
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 26 June 2008 04:25 (sixteen years ago) link
i summon mr. que
― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 June 2008 04:33 (sixteen years ago) link
"NOM"
― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 June 2008 04:41 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Pillbox, Thursday, 26 June 2008 08:37 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― Pillbox, Thursday, 26 June 2008 08:43 (sixteen years ago) link
"Rocket Queen" - Appetite
mookieproof also otm
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 26 June 2008 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
the first title coming to mind:
"blue line swinger"
― alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 26 June 2008 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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)."
― talrose, Thursday, 26 June 2008 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
"Nebel" at the end of the great RAMMS+EIN's great "Mutter"
― i, grey, Friday, 27 June 2008 02:41 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Edward III, Friday, 27 June 2008 03:11 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Edward III, Friday, 27 June 2008 03:16 (sixteen years ago) link
i agree with "The Tourist"
― billstevejim, Friday, 27 June 2008 03:28 (sixteen years ago) link
the avalanches - extra kings the white stripes - I fought piranhas
― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 27 June 2008 04:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I agree with "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others"
― wanko ergo sum, Friday, 27 June 2008 13:45 (sixteen years ago) 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
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 27 June 2008 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
The Bewlay Brothers.
― chap, Friday, 27 June 2008 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Out There Somewhere Pt 2.
― chap, Friday, 27 June 2008 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
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)
― original bgm, Friday, 27 June 2008 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
faith no more - midnight cowboy (perfect wind-down)
King For a Day and Album of the Year have great closers as well.
― chap, Friday, 27 June 2008 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
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"
― Bill Magill, Friday, 27 June 2008 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
REM - Find the River
― pgwp, Friday, 27 June 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
SFA - Gweirridasfetjajegjaegeuau Dwfn
― teflon monkey, Friday, 27 June 2008 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
-- 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?)
― Drugs A. Money, Friday, 27 June 2008 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link
also almost forgot about "22 Going on 23"
― Drugs A. Money, Friday, 27 June 2008 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
"Piledriver", Damn Yankees
― Euler, Friday, 27 June 2008 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link