Closing instrumentals

Started mostly for Remember When We Were Very Young? by Tyro, which is completely incredible - if any instrumental closer could fulfil the all-too-rarely-accurate cliche of being manically uplifting and impossibly melancholy all at once, it's this. (The album, Audiocards, is possibly the most underrated album I know - it's been heard by maybe fifty people ever? at a guess? - the Toenut fans who stayed Toenut fans into the 00's - but it's completely amazing)

ANYWAY. List others - good, bad, bizarre, fitting, short, long. Only rule is that the album has to be otherwise vocal-heavy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8MiP0n68fI

lol, tt's first response to me announcing i was starting this thread was 'elliott smith did this'

Roxy Music - Tara (Avalon)
Silver Jews - The Silver Pageant (Starlite Walker)

B 52s - Follow Your Bliss

^^^ good call

The Allman Brothers - "Little Martha" (gotta be one of the most famous examples)
Mac Demarco - "Jonny's Odyseey"
DJ Quik - "Quik's Groove" (multiple albums)

ABC - The Look of Love, Part 4

Would be remiss of me to not mention the latest Sea Nymphs album as well, although it has two other instrumentals. Closer is joyous

Fitz of Depression, "Shimmy" (from Swing)
Teenage Fanclub, "Is This Music?" (from Bandwagonesque)
Smashing Pumpkins, "Farewell and Goodnight" (from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)

Braid, "Autobiography" (from Age of Octeen)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQr7wyq3UYw

brother woodrow -- lead us in the closing prayer

^^^grebt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTkDFt-dYoQ

stereolab, fiery yellow -- just kind of there

The inverse of this is "Darn That Dream" from Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool collection, one vocal track on an otherwise instrumental album.

police, the other way of stopping -- also just there

Oh, that Fitz of Depression album also starts with an instrumental. How many vocal albums are bookended with instrumentals like that?

New Order - Avalanche - Republic

Although this has one word repeated a few times, I consider it a closing instrumental. I would accept that my belief was wrong on a technicality, though.

Blur did this a lot: Commercial Break (Modern Life Is Rubbish), Lot 105 (Parklife), Optigan 1 (13), and if you count hidden tracks, there's the instrumental version of Ernold Same at the end of The Great Escape, and Interlude at the end of the self-titled. A few of these have an instrumental around the mid-point of the album too.

Others:
They Might Be Giants - Space Suit (Apollo 18)
Magnetic Fields - Dust Bowl (The Charm of the Highway Strip)
Momus - Forests (The Ultraconformist), Momutation 3 (Voyager)
Yo La Tengo - I Heard You Looking (Painful)

Love & Rockets' "Saudade" from Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL07_7wPZK0

Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo -- "Sunsquashed"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T26JfVsdbIk

Triumph -- Epilogue (Resolution) from Never Surrender
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8vBae5_7bY

don't know yet - husker du (flip your wig)
end of a holiday - airport convention (what we did on our holidays)

fairport obv
although a jefferson airplane/fairport mash up would be sweet

Japan - The Tenant

Sulk by the Associates begins and ends with different instrumentals.

Smashing Pumpkins, "Farewell and Goodnight" (from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)

― THAC0 Pastorius (Tom Violence), Saturday, February 18, 2017 9:45 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

? this isn't instrumental

oh sorry, my brain may be broken

Maxwell - Phoenix Rise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwOnmo3ozVs

fwiw Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo is a compilation

Alan Parsons Project - Total Eclipse/Genesis Ch. 1 V. 32 (I Robot)
The Bonzo Dog Band - Slush (Let's Make Up and Be Friendly)
Buzzcocks - Late for the Train (Love Bites)
The Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein (They Only Come Out at Night)

If wordless vocals are allowed...
Electric Light Orchestra - Untitled 2 minute instrumental after the song Shangri La (A New World Record)

Dandy Warhols: "Pete International Airport" & "The Creep Out" on ...Come Down

Nick Drake's Bryter Later begins and ends with instrumentals. "Introduction" is slight and overture-y, sweeping strings setting a dreamy mood that the relatively propulsive "Hazey Jane II" kicks off nicely against. "Sunday" is as lyrical and emo as the songs that precede it and does sterling work letting you down from "Northern Sky" plus it's got a flute lead so all is good. sad but good as per.

Always liked the way Side 1 of Bowie's Low does the same thing, sandwiching all the songs between "Speed of Life" and "A New Career in a New Town" which are absolutely the equals of everything else on there, especially the latter's beautiful reworking of the Midnight Cowboy theme.

there must be a shitload of prog-related or 70s UK folk-related records that use the beginning/end instrumental thing tbh

Sade - Siempre Hay Esperanza and Mermaid

'Trumpets from Montparnasse" - The Lilac Time

if any instrumental closer could fulfil the all-too-rarely-accurate cliche of being manically uplifting and impossibly melancholy all at once, it's this.

Kraftwerk - Ohm Sweet Ohm (Radioactivity)

Lô Borges - "Tôdo Essa Água" from the s/t (sneakers album)

Started mostly for Remember When We Were Very Young? by Tyro

Interestingly, "The Commercial Album" by the Residents ends with this:

https://www.you.tube.com/watch?v=Om0uOla3H_c

Oops, see what happens when you try not to embed youtube clips.

When We Were Young

Alice Cooper, 'Grand Finale' from 'School's Out'.

Blur - Lot 105 (little bit of singing right at the end but it's an instrumental really)
Madness - Return of the Los Palmas 7

One of my favourites is The End on Change's The Glow Of Love.

Chic - "Baby Doll" from Take It Off

Broken Social Scene - Pitter Patter Goes My Heart

love 'fiery yellow.' something about it is really humorous...

The Who, "The Ox" from My Generation.

Teenage Fanclub, "Is This Music?" from Bandwagonesque.

The first song that came to mind was "Here Come the Warm Jets", which isn't an instrumental but only seems like it is sometimes.

Past Houses (Reprise) - Meg Baird Don't Weigh Down the Light

Big Black - "Bombastic Intro" from Songs About Fucking

Coupla Genesis ones. "The Brazilian," "Los Endos" (more or less) ...

Husker Du, "Reoccurring Dreams" from "Zen Arcade."

Minutemen - "Love Dance" (Double Nickels)

"Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)" from the Flaming Lips "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" comes to mind.

also 'sleeping on the roof' from the soft bulletin -- i don't think those alternate mixes really count

this one isn't quite an instrumental but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mDde12_pi0

"A New Career in a New Town"...beautiful reworking of the Midnight Cowboy theme.

Speaking of which, the actual "Midnight Cowboy" theme on Faith No More - Angel Dust.

"All World Cowboy Romance" from Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls and Marches.

Suzanne Vega's Solitude Standing ends with an instrumental version of "Tom's Diner".

Gary Numan/Tubeway Army's Replicas ends with two - "When the Machines Rock" and "I Nearly Married a Human". The other 8 tracks have vocals.

Broadcast did this on The Noise Made By People (Dead The Long Year) and on Tender Buttons (I Found the End), and Helen did on The Original Faces (title track).

Radio 4 - PIL (Metal Box)

Tom Waits - Rainbirds

Metallica - Call of Ktulu

Benton Falls - 'Eudora' (off Fighting Starlight)

Bark Psychosis - Pendulum Man (off of Hex)

Cardiacs - All His Geese Are Swans (from Songs For Ships And Irons)

Queen's debut album and A Night at the Opera end with instrumentals, and Wings' Venus and Mars ends with 'Crossroads Theme'

Frogbs already named it but I have to post "I nearly married a human" anyway, as it's my total paragon of 'closing instrumental on a rock album'

Sometimes it's my favorite numan track. I also have a false memory that it was used in the soundtrack to Cosmos.

Unwound - "Who Cares" (Leaves Turn Inside You)

Air Miami - "Reprise" (Me Me Me) is a spaced-out instrumental version of "Bubble Shield" iirc

Frozen Energon on Chad VanGaalen's Soft Airplane. Last line on Rabid Bits of Time is 'No one knows where we go / when we're dead or when we're dreaming' and then there's a noise postludium as if to illustrate dying.

Also Be It on Azeda Booth's In Flesh Tones. Last line on Brown Sun is 'face down in the parking lot' and then there's a noise postludium as if to illustrate dying, and then Be It sounds like ascension.

Members of Azeda Booth used to play with Chad VanGaalen incidentally.

"Rhoda" off of Tweez.

Ghost's Opus Eponymous ends with an instrumental. I think all the other tracks have vocals.

Barbara Morgenstern, "Love is in the Air, But We Don't Care".

Alice Cooper, 'Grand Finale' from 'School's Out'.

But there's a "pow!" at the end!

Dust, "Loose Goose"
Attila, "Brain Invasion"
Human Beinz, "April 15th"

The Cure - Unlisted ["The Weedy Burton"] (Three Imaginary Boys)
The Lemonheads - "Jello Fund" (Come On Feel...)
The Lemonheads - "Secular Rockulidge (Car Button Cloth)
Duran Duran - "Lake Shore Driving" (Big Thing)
Public Enemy - "Terminator X Speaks With His Hands" (YBRTS) A couple of voice snippets admittedly...
Models - "Rate of Change" (Local And/Or General)

The Promise Ring - "We Don't Like Romance" - 30° Everywhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAfIpScR_xQ

Oh yeah..

'The Foz' - off The Second Coming, The Stone Roses

Jane's Addiction - "Thank You, Boys" off the vinyl version of Nothing's Shocking. Perry Farrell thanks the band, but I'd say it still counts.

Wanky

Sounds like a nice.

Doesn't sound like an instrumental.

Unrest - The Hill (from Malcolm X Park)

I already got Wanky covered upthread!

Let's, like, try to say a little about the songs?

Visage - The Steps

gastr del sol - bauchredner