Greatest song to close out an album?
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Personally, i believe the last song is THE most important song on a great album. I like a closer that leaves you sitting there for like 5 minutes after just thinking 'wow'.
Anyways, post your favourite closing songs for an album. If possible, just put one album/closer for each band you mention.
Me:
Metallica - Ride The Lighting: The Call Of Ktulu
Soundgarden - Superunknown: Like Suicide
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam: Inside Job
Led Zeppelin - IV: When The Levee Breaks
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon: Brain Damage/Eclipse
Audioslave - Audioslave: The Last Remaining Light
Anyways, post your favourite closing songs for an album. If possible, just put one album/closer for each band you mention.
Me:
Metallica - Ride The Lighting: The Call Of Ktulu
Soundgarden - Superunknown: Like Suicide
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam: Inside Job
Led Zeppelin - IV: When The Levee Breaks
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon: Brain Damage/Eclipse
Audioslave - Audioslave: The Last Remaining Light
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stone temple pilots- atlanta, from no.4
stone temple pilots- kitchenware i candybars, from purple
metallica- The Call Of Ktulu, from Ride The Lighting
nirvana- something in the way from nevermind
Find the River from R.E.M.'s "Automatic for the People"
This is a great topic that will actually make me think of more when I have more time.
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Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains: Frogs
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers: A Day In The Life
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
The Beatles - Revolver: Tomorrow Never Knows
Led Zeppelin - II: Bring It On Home. IV: When The Levee Breaks
Local H - Here Comes The Zoo: What Would You Have Me Do?
My Morning Jacket: Z: Dondante
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: Cowgirl In The Sand
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile: Hurt
Nirvana - In Utero: All Apologies
Pink Floyd - Meddle: Echoes
Radiohead - The Bends: Street Spirit
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine: Freedom
Talking Heads - Fear of Music: Drugs
Toadies - Rubberneck: I Burn
Tom Waits - Bone Machine: That Feel
Tortoise - TNT: Everglade
The Who - Who's Next: Won't Get Fooled Again
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Turn Into
Kings of Leon - Arizona
My favorite album closers,...pretty good list.
Anyway, other good ones:
A Day in the Life from Sgt Peppers
Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) from Rust Never Sleeps
Darkness on the Edge of Town
pearl jam - release- ten
pearl jam - indifference- vs.
matchbox twenty- hang- yourself or someone like you
weezer- butterfly- pinkerton
stevie ray vaughan & double trouble- life by the drop- the sky is crying
mother love bone- chloe dancer/crown of thorns - stardog champion
And, I have to agree with the person who said "Find The River".. That is a great beautiful song.
Others are; "Jungleland" on Springsteens masterpiece "born to run".
"Desolation Row" on Dylans "Highway 61 revisited"
and of course "won`t get fooled again" from The Whos "Who`s next"
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pearl jam - inside job
neko case - the needle has landed
my morning jacket - dondante
don't remember a lot of tracklistings from older classic rock albums, i'm too busy listening to new music, these are fresh in my mind
That is the first song that came to mind when I saw this thread. Perfect ending to a perfect album.
Boot Camp from Down on the Upside is also worth mentioning.
Electrolite - R.E.M. (New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
Would? - Alice in Chains (Dirt)
My hometown - Bruce Springsteen (Born in the USA)
Road to nowhere - Talking Heads (Little Creatures)
Blindspots - Mudhoney (Under a Billion Suns)
All or None - Pearl Jam (Riot Act)
Ambulance Blues - Neil Young (On the Beach)
Night Light - Sleater.Kinney (The Woods)
And I learned that I was a liar
Just like you
Last album they released while Freddy was alive, but they knew Freddy was dying and this was it ... the last song ...
The Show Must Go On
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
Led Zeppelin - How Many More Times
Pink Floyd - The Trial (though there is a coda after it)
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
The New Pornographers - Miss Teen Wordpower
The Dead Milkmen - Life is Shit
Notorious B.I.G. - Suicidal Thoughts
Ice Cube - No Vaseline
Manic Street Preachers - PCP
U2 - Love is Blindness
"I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions." - George Carlin
Fantastic call, as are a lot of other ones on here (Tomorrow Never Knows, Inside Job, Something In The Way, etc etc).
To add some new ones:
Rush - Natural Science (Permanent Waves) and La Villa Strangiato (Hemispheres)
Smashing Pumpkins - Daydream (Gish)
Primus - Harold Of The Rocks (Frizzle Fry)
Jane's Addiction - Classic Girl (Ritual de lo Habitual)
Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
personally, i think its an absolutely fantastic closing song.
GnR-Lies-One In A Million
Oasis-Morning Glory-Champagne Supernova
The Doors-The Doors-The End
The Doors-LA Woman-Riders On The Storm
The Doors-Strange Days-When The Music's Over
The Rolling Stones-Sticky Fingers-Moonlight Mile
Worst Song to end an album
GnR-Use Your Illusion 2-My World
Radiohead - The Bends - "Street Spirit (Fade Out)"
Also:
Radiohead - OK Computer - "The Tourist"
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy - "Immortality" (technically the closer)
Jimmy Eat World - Futures - "23"
Nirvana - Nevermind - "Something in the Way"
Soundgarden - Down on the Upside - "Bootcamp"
"This feeling is wonderful...don't you ever turn it off."
-JJ
dude you got it. boot camp closing out down on the up side may be the best album closer EVER. not meaning necassarily its the BEST closing song, but that it fits the best as a closer. so opportune, and just put the album and even sg career into place. leaves you with chills from head to toe.
Soundgarden - Down On The Upside - 'Boot Camp' [read above]
Soundgarden - Superunkown - 'Like Suicide' [best sg song ever?]
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger - 'New Damage' [intense doesn't even describe it.]
Pearl Jam - Yield - 'All Those Yesterdays' [closes out the BEST album of ALL TIME]
Pearl Jam - Ten - 'Release' [just fucking beautiful. made me realize pearl jam is my favorite band ever]
Pearl Jam - Binaural - 'Parting Ways' [unbelievable musicianship. airosmatic, and just amazing, amazing, amazing!]
Pearl Jam - Vs - 'Indifference' [just echoed the theme of vs so brilliantly i think]
Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning - 'Steel Rain' [one of THE BEST songs ever. period. i can't listen to this without getting goosebumps]
Temple Of The Dog - Temple Of The Dog - 'All Night Thing' [closed an amazing album with CLASSIC cornell genious]
Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains - 'Over Now' [summed up everything, so fitting.]
Alice In Chains - Dirt - 'Would?' [amazing song. ending the album with a question. "if i would, could you?" very artistic]
Audioslave - Revelations - 'Moth' [audioslaves best song?]
Audioslave - Audioslave - 'The Last Remaining Light' [cornell lyrics at their finest]
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction - 'Rocket Queen' [best song on the gnr debut]
Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion I - 'Coma' [gnr's best song ever?]
Guns N Roses - GNR Lies - 'One In A Million' [pushes the limits and crosses the line. i dig that.]
Candlebox - Candlebox - 'He Calls Home' [great lyrics that tell a great story. "he says brother can you spare, can you spare a dime? i'm down to my last dollar." closes up an amazing, underrated album perfectly.]
Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast - 'Hallowed Be Thy Name' [got me into maiden. brilliant]
Iron Maiden - Powerslave - 'Rime Of The Ancient Mariner' [absolutely EPIC]
Iron Maiden - Brave New World - 'The Thin Line Between Love And Hate' [a beautiful maiden song? yep]
Rush - Grace Under Pressure - 'Between The Wheels' [closes up an amazing album with a bang. hearing it live sold the deal for me]
Rush - Permanent Waves - 'Natural Science' [just epic, and once again hearing this tune live was AMAZING]
Nirvana - Incesticide - 'Aneurysm' [always been one of nirvana's best tunes ever.]
Nirvana - In Utero - 'All Apologies' [one of Kurt's greats]
Nirvana - Nevermind - Something In The Way [can't you just feel his pain?]
Savatage - Streets (A Rock Opera) - 'Believe' [so inspiring. gives chills]
Stone Temple Pilots - No.4 - 'Atlanta' [brilliant and emotional. great closer]
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple - 'Kitchenware & Candybars'
Velvet Revolver - Contraband - 'Loving The Alien' [when that song finished i knew this was more than a supergroup]
Screaming Trees - Dust - 'Gospel Plow' [ST do the tribal shit so damn well. awesome]
cool thread. i enjoyed reading everyone's thoughts. hope mine get some people to check some stuff out.
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2009: London (O2), Philly 1, 2, 3, & 4
2010: Hartford, Boston, MSG 1 & 2
2011: Ed Solo Hartford
2012: Philly (MIA Fest)
2013: Worcester 2, Brooklyn 1 & 2, Hartford
"85 on 31"-The Verve Pipe
"Lemonade"-Blind Melon
"Gospel Plow"-Screaming Trees
Brain Damage/Eclipse (Dark Side of The Moon)
Pigs On The Wing pt. 2 (Animals) - I love how parts 1 and 2 bookend the album
Champagne Supernova - Morning Glory
Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Nirvana Unplugged. The scream at the end is just chilling.
All Apologies - In Utero
Life By The Drop - The Sky Is Crying. Sad, beautiful, everything. How it was just him and a guitar, a live take. The silence at the end, knowing that was it for him.
Would - Dirt
I know I'm missing a TON of awesome closers.
thank you ...
lots of good classics on here ... glad Freedom got mentioned for Rage ... as did Release ...
One "classic" I didn't see ...
The Clash - London Calling - "Train in Vain"
I just zipped though my I-pod to find some of the more recent album enders I'm fond of ...
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism - "Lack of Color"
Decemberists - Crane Wife - "Sons & Daughters"
Futureheads - Futureheads - "Man Ray"
Placebo - Meds - "Song to Say Goodbye"
South - With The Tides - "Threadbare"
And my all time favorite ... from my all time fave band ... and all time fave album ...
Buffalo Tom - Let Me Come Over - "Crutch"
Just a beautiful song filled with so much pent up angst you just wait for it to burst ... it teases ... (mentions the two cities I've lived in - Boston and San Francisco) ... it comes in waves, builds ... then Bill let's loose at the end and all is right. They better play this in two weeks when they are here.
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." Herman Melville : Moby Dick
Pearl Jam - Indifference
Radiohead - Blowout
Tool - Third Eye
Doors - When The Music's Over
Weezer - Butterfly
Beastie Boys - B-Boy Bouillabaisse
Elliott Smith - Say Yes
Grateful Dead - Truckin'
I can't think of any unique ones off my head but
Dark Side of the Moon - Brain Damage /Eclipse
Sticky Fingers - Moonlight MIle
The Sky is Crying - Life by the Drop
all outstanding entries !!!!!!!!!!!!
add The Outlaw Torn - Load
I've been listening to too many live albums, I need to get some studio stuff back in the mix.
Immortality
AIC - Over Now
Soundgarden - Boot Camp
G n'R - Coma
Rocket Queen
Pantera - Planet Caravan
Radiohead - Street Spirit
King Prawn - Freedom Day
Rancid - Seven Years Down
technically, it isn't the closer
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
Over Now is.