"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)
― t**t, Thursday, 2 August 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link
First one that popped to mind:
God- Plastic Ono Band
― Jon Lewis, Thursday, 2 August 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link
don't know about all time, but last night "this train" closing bunny wailer's blackheart man could not be topped.
― andrew m., Thursday, 2 August 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Just got offed, Thursday, 2 August 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link
'When The Levee Breaks' or 'I Am The Resurrection', surely? Or 'Lot 105'.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link
'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'.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
expressway to yr skull
― Edward III, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link
la blues
― Edward III, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link
afterhours
― Edward III, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link
This is the best album Closer of all time: http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YCDS2WGML._AA240_.jpg
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link
afterhours otm
― ghost rider, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link
"treatment bound"
― ghost rider, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link
"davy the fat boy"
― ghost rider, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link
junkyard
― Edward III, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link
"louis jagger has the worst taste in the world" by muse
― ghost rider, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link
screwing yer courage
― Edward III, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link
"ban ghost rider" by the doves
― ghost rider, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link
"Child in the Tree" - Young Gods "The Days Were Golden" - Sunny Day Real Estate "Faaip de Oiad" - Tool "Chonkyfire" - Outkast
― mayhaps, Friday, 3 August 2007 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link
"best album closer of all time" is inherently a rockist question
waht
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 3 August 2007 01:53 (seventeen years ago) link
'soon' on loveless
(the only track on that album i like, if truth be told)
― sam500, Friday, 3 August 2007 02:07 (seventeen years ago) link
popists only listen to singles and they hang out on the "best fadeout of all time" threads
xpost
― Edward III, Friday, 3 August 2007 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link
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?
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 3 August 2007 02:12 (seventeen years ago) link
it was when you bought the album dude
― Edward III, Friday, 3 August 2007 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 3 August 2007 02:20 (seventeen years ago) link
The Cure - The Top
My god yes why didn't I think of this one.
― Trayce, Friday, 3 August 2007 02:37 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 3 August 2007 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link
more classic rock on this thread than I expected
-- Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, August 2, 2007 7:14 PM
hi dere "regrets" jay-z
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 3 August 2007 03:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Sonic Youth - Trilogy
(all three songs were a single track on original pressings of the album!)
― stephen, Friday, 3 August 2007 04:03 (seventeen years ago) link
the answer is Merry Go Bye Bye
truth.
― m the g, Friday, 3 August 2007 08:05 (seventeen years ago) link
The North Will Rise Again.
Uh.
― Venga, Friday, 3 August 2007 08:10 (seventeen years ago) link
"Alright" (Alien Lanes)
― Nick Minichino, Friday, 3 August 2007 08:13 (seventeen years ago) link
well, maybe not best of all time, but I've always been fond of it as an album closer.
― Nick Minichino, Friday, 3 August 2007 08:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Belle & Sebastian, 'Act Of The Apostle II'.
― Matthew H, Friday, 3 August 2007 09:11 (seventeen years ago) link
aeroplane over the sea
― Stevie D, Friday, 3 August 2007 09:14 (seventeen years ago) link
spiderland
NO NO NO NO--
**!!!"Fillmore Jive"/Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain!!!**
― Stevie D, Friday, 3 August 2007 09:18 (seventeen years ago) link
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"
― naus, Friday, 3 August 2007 09:43 (seventeen years ago) link
^^^ I forgot this one!!
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 3 August 2007 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link
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"
― henry s, Friday, 3 August 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Obvious: "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" Jimi Hendrix Experience
Not so obvious: "Strange Loop" Liz Phair
― 2for25, Friday, 3 August 2007 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
ooohooh speaking of the Doors! When The Music's Over
― Surmounter, Friday, 3 August 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
does anyone else think that song is kind of transcendental?
― Surmounter, Friday, 3 August 2007 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset (off "Something Else")
― Erock Zombie, Friday, 3 August 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link
we must've two rather different Tabula Rasa's in mind, it appears. i was thinking of Arvo Pärt's ECM alb.
― t**t, Friday, 3 August 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link
I have to fight tears whenever New Order's "Dream Attack" starts.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 3 August 2007 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link
good morning captain on spiderland
― latebloomer, Friday, 3 August 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link
decades, the closer on Closer
― akm, Friday, 3 August 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link
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"
― andrew m., Friday, 3 August 2007 20:27 (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
I would've put "Answering Machine" first.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 3 August 2007 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link