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

I love that album.

i can't see anything:-(

It's Script of the Bridge by the Chameleons.

I have a serious answer, can I say it?

"Party For Your Right to Fight"

Yes. This is a serious thread.

xpost

(predictable me answer): Raining Blood

I was gonna say the obvious answer, "A Day In The Life," can't really be fucked with

"View From A Hill" is perfect. Those guitars, that synth, those DRUMS. I crank my vinyl copy up in my basement and it gives me goosebumps.

(and the bass and the tambourine obv.)

A Day In The Life seconded...
You Set The Scene
It's All Over Now Baby Blue
O! Sweet Nuthin
All Apologies

Curt1s is 100% OTM with this thread. "View From A Hill" is absolutely gorgeous.

"Wealth" is pretty great.

"Donimo" by the Cocteaus is a pretty awesomely ecstatic and HUGE album-closer for "Treasure".

Endless Nameless
Soon

the answer is Merry Go Bye Bye

"A Dream" on DeBarge: In A Special Way

"The Morning Fog" Hounds of Love

ummmm i don't know this is hard

Kate Bush The Dreaming Get Out Of My House is kindo f hard to beat

and this is kinda embarrassing but Yes Anastasia off Tori's Under The Pink is really magnificent.

My vote goes to "I am the Resurrection'

Dive for yer Memory is also a good one.

some of these are obvious, but:
- beatles, "tomorrow never knows" (revolver)
- who, "won't get fooled again" (who's next -- yeah, it's an overplayed fm staple, so instead listen to it like it's the miles davis quintet circa 1968 and it all makes a different kind of sense. it's what lifetime were always groping towards)
- funkadelic, "eulogy and light" (free your mind)
- marvin gaye, "inner city blues" (what's going on)
- mc5, "skunk" (high time)
- yo la tengo, "i heard you looking" (painful)
- sly & the family stone, "thank you for talkin' to me africa" (there's a riot goin' on)
- jay-z, "my first song" (the black album)

12 X U - Wire Pink Flag

Love that song.

of fuck hopw could i forget 12xu

best song eveer

last chance for a slow dance - fugazi

at the risk of sounding stuck in the past, "European Son" and "Desolation Row" are two that spring to mind

It's predictable, but I'll say The Tourist.

I second "Raining Blood", but some of my other favorites are "The Swimmer" and "Mass Transit Railway" (since we aren't naming albums or groups apparently).

and as i said on the other thread:

omfg i've been singing the singy bit of merry go bye-bye to myself SO MUCH recently. i kinda wish they made a whole song of it, but deep down i know it's better served by the noize-freak excursion

-- Just got offed, Thursday, 2 August 2007 00:05 (10 hours ago) Bookmark Link

my actual answer to this thread would be...erm...oh come on, there's about 35 i can't choose between! my current favourite is foetus' "kreibabe", however, so i will nominate that.

Life in a Glasshouse

Yeah that's a good one too.

That would be "Supper's Ready" though.

the diamond sea
heart of the sunrise
torn curtain
moonlight mile
the apollo programme was a hoax
jane doe
fillmore jive
the biggest lie
untitled
equus
decades
omerta
into the void

those are the best i can think of off the top of my head

Do It!

Best album closer is 'Yeah' by Kyuss

not 'lick doo'?

4 words

Here Comes A Regular

thas it and thas all

The answer is "Tomorrow Never Knows", at least for today.
Yesterday it was "Flash Light", and tomorrow "Afterbirth/Aftermath".

"Love Dance" and the fading 3-car jam on Double Nickels.

Beatles - "Her Majesty"

High Voltage and/or Into the Void

Maybe Blow on a Jug off Sabotage.

two Radiohead closers mentioned and no "Motion Picture Soundtrack"? "Here Comes a Regular" over "Answering Machine"? u mad ILM

other random ones that come to mind: "West of the Fields", "Fillmore Jive", "The Wild Kindness", "Colors" (dunno how much album-closer counts for on a two-track album but whatever), "Slim Slow Slider", "Runeii", "Vittorio E." (this album is magick)

Not too keen on Motion Picture Soundtrack. Think it's the worst song on Kid A.

Purple Rain

Roxy Music - "Just Another High" on Siren
Sparks - "Miss The Start, Miss The End" on Indiscreet
Talking Heads - The Overload on Remain in Light
Ian Dury - "Blackmail Man" on New Boots and Panties

Threatens to leap right off the turntable, that last one...

Oh, and "Information Overload" by Caveman Shoestore. The CD goes into a repeating locked groove at the end for about 5 minutes.

Let me focus on the 60s / early 70s. Best album closer (and life closer in some cases):

1. Day in the Life, Beatles.
2. You Can't Always, Stones.
3. In My Hour of Darkness, Parsons.
4. Riders on the Storm, Doors.

In that order.

the avalanches - extra kings
the white stripes - I fought piranhas

I agree with "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others"

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, August 3, 2007

I think I'd actually choose "Treatment Bound" over eithor of those

The Bewlay Brothers.

Out There Somewhere Pt 2.

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)

faith no more - midnight cowboy (perfect wind-down)

King For a Day and Album of the Year have great closers as well.

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"

REM - Find the River

SFA - Gweirridasfetjajegjaegeuau Dwfn

the first title coming to mind:

"blue line swinger"

-- 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?)

also almost forgot about "22 Going on 23"

"Piledriver", Damn Yankees

The Verve had some nice ones: "See You in the Next One" & "Stormy Clouds (Reprise)"

xtc - complicated game

Let's See What Else:

I def. second "Eulogy and Light" (super-creepy) and "When the Levee Breaks," along with "A Day in the Life..." (but, really, who doesn't second that one?)

"L.A. Blues is great, tho apparently it lacks compared to the live version.

"You Set the Scene" is great. I also like "And More" from Love's first album, for personal reasons.

Surprised "Bike" hasn't gotten any love yet.

Ditto for "Ambulance Blues." Also, "Last Dance" (from Time Fades Away) is pretty damn cool: CSN has never sounded so raw & ragged, perhaps bcz Neil insists on pummelling them with the riff. Great freaky rock moment.

It hasn't been mentioned (I don't think) but no list fultimate classic-rock album closers is complete without "Ramble Tamble."

I believe the original Mirror Man album ends with "Kandy Korn," which is an awesome song. (For that matter, "Apes-Ma" wraps up Shiny Beast on an impossibly poignant note.)

"Brick is Red" "Havalina" "She Brings The Rain" "Adventures Close to Home": none of these would belong on a list of greatest album closers ever, but all are v. good, so shout-outs to them all.

"Sweet Shine" and "Bouncing Round the Room" are even better. Verging on transcendence, particularly "Bouncing" which is the greatest song that Paul Simon never wrote.

And nothing against "You're Not an Airplane"--it does the job--but "Peep-hole would've made a fantastic closer for Bee Thousand. it has to be one of the loveliest songs to ever clock in under a minute.

hey! did i kill another thread? dammit!

don't worry about it. some ilxors kill entire borads

and we have a word for them, too: heroes.

btw best album close is billy's got a gun

"Sunless Saturday"

Speaking of GbV, the one-two punch of "Mute Superstar" and "Bomb in the Beehive" that closes Mag Earwig! is one of my favorite endings to an album ever. If I have to pick a single song...maybe "Jimmy Tomorrow" from the Waitresses' debut? "Complicated Game" is a pretty strong contender too.

omg wau I'm listening to drums & wires RIGHT NOW and came here specifically to say complicated game.

"Take Care." Big Star, Sister Lovers.

Delia & Gavin's "Black Spring" from Days of Mars a strong contender.

The Go-Betweens' "Apology Accepted."

I've always felt that Pavement's "Fillmore Jive" was their greatest moment, particularly because it was the album closer.

"siberian khatru"

The morning of our lives-Modern Lovers live
Gouge away-Pixies-Doolittle
And this Day-The Fall-Hex Enduction Hour
Party for your right to fight-Public Enemy-It takes a nation of millions
You set the scene-Love-Forever changes

Beatles - "Her Majesty"

― o. nate,

New Order - "Dream Attack"

Brushed with Oil, Dusted with Powder - Scritti Politti - A&B

fillmore jive
alright - gbv

rock'n'roll suicide

Gotta go classic rock here: "When The Levee Breaks" and "Riders on the Storm". And maybe The Jam's "In The Midnight Hour".

It hasn't been mentioned (I don't think) but no list fultimate classic-rock album closers is complete without "Ramble Tamble."

Maybe in Bizarro World, where "Ramble Tamble" isn't in fact the album-OPENER!

DeBarge: "A Dream"

I am the Resurrection does it for me, but there's a lot of roses haters on ilm, so that could be a lonely view

Iggy Pop : "Mass Production"

Slick Rick - "Lick The Balls"

'dream attack' thirded (i think). also 'whoblo' by bola and 'home entertainment' by carl craig.

"pimpf" or "true to myself" from the au harem d'archimede

actually fuck that, the real answer is "the sun and the rainfall"

"President of Vice" on the cd version of Nation of Ulysses Plays Pretty for Baby. I think that "I Can See it But I can't Feel It" is a better album closer than "Soon." But I generally prefer Isn't Anything to Loveless. TV Personalities "Look Back in Anger," I don't know, lots.

"Dream Attack" again, but no mention of "Leave Me Alone"?

"The Hobo Song" on John Prine's "Bruised Orange".

lolz i cd add a few to my exhaustive list above, but nah Out There Somewhere Pt. 2 is still the answer

i also reinforce my point that XTC are the ultimate closing-tracks band

also wow @ TWO cooper temple clause songs in my initial list, altho in mitigation these songs are probably by a distance the best thing that band did

"The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet"

Portishead - Glory Box

Yes.

'Tower of Song' is one of the very best.