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
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.
― 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
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.
― Jiminy Krokus, Friday, 3 August 2007 22:56 (seventeen years ago) link
holy shit, completely and ridiculously OTM.
― Lawrence the Looter, Saturday, 4 August 2007 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link
steely dan - third world man
― ciderpress, Saturday, 4 August 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link
No, but it is a better closer than "The End".
― o. nate, Sunday, 5 August 2007 01:53 (seventeen years ago) link
aeroplane over the sea-- Stevie D, Friday, August 3, 2007 9:14 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link
-- Stevie D, Friday, August 3, 2007 9:14 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link
also Nas - "It Ain't Hard to Tell"
― bernard snowy, Sunday, 5 August 2007 01:56 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Sunday, 5 August 2007 06:15 (seventeen years ago) link
yes, i can't wait to get off work. fantastic
― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 5 August 2007 06:18 (seventeen years ago) link
The Cure - "The Top" is the correct answer.
― raven, Sunday, 5 August 2007 07:11 (seventeen years ago) link
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
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