[Closed] Best closing track on an album.

Night prowler - AC/DC highway to hell

Hurt - NIN - The Downward spiral

Champagne supernova - Oasis - What's the story morning glory?

Train in vain - The Clash - London calling.

I never glid before/Eat that phone book. (Angel's Egg).

Oh, sweet nuthin' (Loaded).

Almost Independence Day. (St Dominic's Preview)

Needles in their eyes (3 Ep's again).

Train in Vain. (London Calling)

Good Morning Captain on Slint's Spiderland.

National Shite Day on HMHB's CSI Ambleside

You know you're doing it right when the closing track to your first ever album, becomes the inevitable closing track to practically every gig you'll ever play

Alternatively, let's have a horrible noise, the most Million Dead of all Million Dead songs, a 14 minute hardcore anthem about the roman empire

Only posting these because someone else posted Hurt, obviously.

"Lullaby" by Loudon Wainwright 3rd from the album "Attempted Moustache"

I miss 'secret tracks' at the end of albums, where there'd be a long period of silence after the last track, and then something a bit random and weird would come on.

Can't really do that these days.

This sprang to mind...

Can't really do that these days.

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This may also be prime contender for "most sampled closing track on an album"

EDIT: Purple Rain - bloody good choice that.

Oh, also

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The Movie, Permenant Vacation

I'm a big fan of EL-P's double whammy closing tracks, on all three Run the Jewels records and his own C4C album.

Or

Roni Size - 'Play the Game' - which ends 'in The Mode'

Curtain Call - The Damned - The Black Album

riders on the storm L.A, Women the Doors

Pearl Jam - Midnight Cowboy.

Desolation Row Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan

EMI never mind the bollocks the sex pistols

Pearl Jam - Midnight Cowboy.

Which album's that on?

i am the resurrection the stone roses the stone roses

Captain Beefheart Unconditionally Guaranteed - Peaches

Faith No More Midnight Cowboy

If so it's on Angel Dust.

Incidentally a great album with a stonking opening track. I'm off to the other thread...

Obvs.

Decades Closer Joy Division

offthebrakes - Member

Good Morning Captain on Slint's Spiderland.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocZK5DHzkh4

National Shite Day on HMHB's CSI Ambleside

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FR842KUaOw

HMHB's closer on the album after that one is a belter - Rock n roll is full of bad wools.

Carter - falling on a bruise

Down in a tube station at midnight - All Mod Cons - the Jam

God Save The Queen

Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix Experience

Black Sabbath - Sabotage. Blow on a Jug.

Something In the Way - Nevermind - Nirvana

^ the problem with Something In The Way (great song) is the inclusion of the hidden "bonus" track after it. It was ok but SITW was better.

I think we should bend the rules but my inner pedant is fighting me!

it's last track on the listing even if it is 20 mins long 😉

it's last track on the listing even if it is 20 mins long

My inner pedant willingly gives up the fight. I think it secretly wanted an excuse.

A Day In The Life - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - the Beatles

'Empty cans' by the Streets st the end of 'a grand don't come for free' is a work of pure narrative genius imho.

You're Wondering Now by The Specials on their first album

The other end of the album I posted in the "opening tracks" thread:

Oooo a recent classic:

Edlong closed the thread up there ^ with When the Levee Breaks

Trilogy / Daydream Nation

Peter Gabriel wanted Red Rain to be the last track on So, but couldn't get the track running order to work on vinyl

so he made it an opener, either way it's an awesome bit of music, and Manu Katche played the entire track in a first take !!

Edlong closed the thread up there ^ with When the Levee Breaks

No. He. Didn't. 😀

At the end of Nebraska you come to this

But that's not the best because this is

The Waterboys

The mightiest, crashing, crushing, despair-laden song to end all hope? The end of ends? The chord that cuts the cord? Easily:

'Another Boy Drowning'

From the LP 'Burning Blue Soul' by Matt Johnson/The The.

(So utterly 'final' that it should come with a warning sticker 😯 )

^ the problem with Something In The Way (great song) is the inclusion of the hidden "bonus" track after it. It was ok but SITW was better.

<pedant> If you weren't a johnny cum lately and bought it when it was released it doesn't have the 'secret' track... </pedant>

Good Morning Captain on Slint's Spiderland.

I MISS YOU!

Excellent call, sir.

It's actually a tough one, I can't think of many last tracks that make me go 'holy crap, that was awesome'. Openers that say 'this is going to be awesome' are much easier.

Pink Floyd - Eclipse - Dark Side of the Moon

You Set The Scene on Forever Changes. How Arthur was able to find that song to tie the album together I'll never know. And Alone Again Or is the perfect first track that still makes me tingle. So my favourite album has the perfect bookends.

Eddiebaby +1

<pedant> If you weren't a johnny cum lately and bought it when it was released it doesn't have the 'secret' track... </pedant>

Cheeky git! 😛 although it probably was 6 months before I bought it (pocket money only went so far you know and I had bike bits to buy too)!

Well A Day in the Life takes some beating but how about The Fountain Of Salmacis by Genesis?

I am enamoured of Blue by Cat Power (a Joni Mitchell cover on Jukebox) and Inner City Blues by Marvin Gaye (on the stellar What's Going On).

However I think I'd have to go with Flamenco Sketches on Kind of Blue.

After a bit of thought, small hours from John Martyns One World - zonked!

Some good music on this thread lots of new stuff to listen to.
I forgot Crazy Man Michael by Fairport Convention. No video since it has to be Sandy Denny singing.

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