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

"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.