'Goodbye' Songs At the End of Albums

I Won't Share You, by The Smiths (in its own way).

Cheap Trick - "Goodnight Now" (OK, it's last on At Budokan, but it still works)
Low - "Will The Night" (strangely misses out on being last song on Secret Name, but is last on Anthony, Are You Still Around)

can we clarify that the song has to have a "goodbye" vibe rather than (or as well as) a "goodbye" title?

A goodbye title is preferred but don't wanna get all ILX Nu-Mod on youse

Saint Etienne - Good Night (Tales From Turnpike House)
Mercury Rev - Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp (Deserters Songs)

Smashing Pumpkins,"Farewell and Goodnight" off "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"

Well OK then. Chameleons' What Does Anything Mean, Basically ended with "P.S. Goodbye", Ulrich Schnauss' Goodbye ends with "Goodbye" and then "For Good". :D

(For clarification, the last line of "Will The Night" is "So long, good night, goodbye" which is why I suggested it.)

mr bungle - merry go bye-bye
mr bungle - goodbye sober day

Idle Race - "End of the Road" ("The Birthday Party")

So I suppose that 'The Ned' at the end of The Doors doesn't count?

Fairport bid us adieu at the end of side one of Liege & Lief, but then changed their mind and came back for side two.

I know, that Fairport one is annoying me!

Lou Reed - "Goodnight Ladies" ("Transformer")

Sparks - "Bon Voyage" ("Propaganda")

roxy music - 'bitters end' (end)

Grateful Dead - 'And We Bid You Goodnight', Live/Dead

Velvet Underground's Afterhours, about as perfect a 'goodbye' album closer as there i think.

'Hello' is the last track on Can't Slow Down. Oh the irony.

lol "Hello" songs at the start of albums I WONDER HMMM

Experimental Pop Band: "When the Music Ends", from The Tracksuit Trilogy.

Soft Cell - 'Say Hello, Wave Goodbye' (Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret)

The Doors - "When the Music's Over" ("Strange Days")

Scott Walker, "Rhymes of Goodbye", Scott 4.
Bob Dylan, "Restless Farewell," The Times They Are A-Changin'.
Micky Dolenz, "The Porpoise Song" ("Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye"), Micky Dolenz Puts You To Sleep.
Supergrass, "Fin" ("pulling your heart then the ravens say goodbye"), Road to Rouen.

Fairport bid us adieu at the end of side one of Liege & Lief, but then changed their mind and came back for side two.

Soul Asylum did the same on Hang Time. Are we not supposed to listen to rest?

How could I have missed Scott 4?

The Byrds - "We'll Meet Again" ("Mr Tambourine Man")

The Who, "In A Hand Or A Face" from The Who By Numbers: "Ain't it funny how they all fire the pistol at the wrong end of the race?"

(was originally intended by Townshend to be their last album)

Big Star: Take Care

Another "Goodbye...until Side Two" track: Pere Ubu's "Say Goodbye".

Jane's Addiction - the 'goodnight' at the end of "Classic Girl"
Zappa & Mothers - "America Drinks and Goes Home"
Firesign Theatre - "RadioNow Says Good-by and Hello"

Oingo Boingo, "Goodbye Goodbye," Best O' Boingo

Roxy Music, title track of For Your Pleasure ("tara, ta-ra")

Notorious BIG, "Suicidal Thoughts"

Scott Walker, "The War Is Over" which ends side one of 'Til The Band Comes In and I think that counts since he needn't have bothered with side two.

"A Day In The Life" of course.

The seemingly unending and progressively drunker version of "Always" at the end of Leonard Cohen's The Future.

UB40 - 'Signing Off' signs off Signing Off (signing off)!

Phil Ochs, "No More Songs," Greatest Hits.

"My Love Is Waiting", the last track on "Midnight Love" by Marvin Gaye, has a spoken intro that makes it fit into this category.

The Divine Comedy - The Dogs and the Horses ('Hidden' Track)

Side 2 of the 1980 album "Fiskepudding Lakrisbåter" by the Norwegian duo Knutsen & Ludvigsen starts with "Hei ny dag" ("Hello New Day") and ends with "Sov Godt" ("Sleep Well")

Again, "Please Don't Go," Stevie Wonder.

http://www.pitschmidt.de/eric_clapton/covers/cream_goodbye.jpg

The reprise of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" may not have been the last song on the album, but it was presented as a goodbye song nevertheless.

Morrissey "Speedway" ("This is the last song I shall ever sing" --crowd roars -- "...but I'll change my mind again/good night and thank you")

love this song

XTC "Funk Pop'a Roll"

The song ends Mummer. Andy thought this was going to be the band's final album at the time, so the song is all about how fucked the music industry is, and then says "bye bye" near the end of the song.

pavement - fin
r.e.m. - electrolite

clinic - goodnight georgie

georgie is my name... :)

The Cure - End (last song on Wish)

The End, Beatles, obv.

Cheap Trick at Budokan actually ended with "Clock Strikes Ten."

Camper Van Beethoven's "Shut Us Down," "Come On Darkness" and even "Life Is Grand" all have that sum-up-and-say-goodnight feel.

Superconductor's Bastardsong ends with a recitation of the credits. (Labradford's Prazision LP has a vocodered credits track called "Gratitude," but it's not the final track.)

Catherine Wheel - "Goodbye" into "For Dreaming," from Adam and Eve

Depeche Mode - "Goodnight Lovers," from Exciter

PJ Harvey - "Goodnight," from 4-Track Demos

Hum - "Songs of Farewell and Departure," from You'd Prefer an Astronaut

OMD - "The Beginning and the End," from Architecture and Morality

Six Organs of Admittance - "Goodnight," from Shelter from the Ash

Night Ranger, Seven Wishes, "Goodbye"

CVB is a cool call; those are all great songs. "Life is Grand" is a fine anti-snark (not the word I'm looking for at all, but it's late) number.

"My Little Corner of the World" - Yo La Tengo

David Gray - Say Hello Wave Goodbye (White Ladder)

(well the NickB already mentioned the Soft Cell original)

"the Nick B" :P

I never understood why Pavement didn't make "Here" the last track on Slanted and Enchanted. What better way to end an album than "everything's ending here."

denim's 'denim on ice' comprises a handy recap of the album's themes.

Joy Division's "I Remember Nothing" winds things up with a big envoi.

i like to put fairport convention 'si tu dois partir' at the end of mixes but i think it's the second track on the actual album

I never understood why Pavement didn't make "Here" the last track on Slanted and Enchanted. What better way to end an album than "everything's ending here."

because Our Singer is a better last song?

Fairport's "Who knows where the time goes" is a very "time to go" song, but it's the third from the end on Unhalfbricking.

Of course, "Time to go" on Supergrass' "I should coco"...

Low - "Will The Night" (strangely misses out on being last song on Secret Name, but is last on Anthony, Are You Still Around)

always fools me that one. I *always* think it's the last song on that album and am then surprised. gah