PJ Album Closers Ranked: Giving Love to the Last Songs

bicyclejoe
bicyclejoe USA Posts: 1,203
edited April 2024 in The Porch
What are the best closers from the studio albums? I would argue that the highlights of the latter catalogue come on the last song.


  1. Release
  2. Indifference
  3. River Cross
  4. Immortality
  5. Inside Job
  6. Around the Bend
  7. Setting Sun
  8. The End
  9. All Those Yesterdays
  10. All or None
  11. Parting Ways
  12. Future Days
My Pearl Jam Road: 10/22/90 Seattle | 12/22/90 Seattle, Moore Theater | 9/29/92 Seattle, Magnusson Park, Drop in the Park | 9/5/93 The Gorge, with Neil Young and Blind Melon | 7/20/06 Portland, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall with Sleater-Kinney | 7/22/06 The Gorge, 10/21/06 Mountain View, Shoreline Ampitheatre, Bridge School Benefit | 9/21/09 Seattle | 9/22/09 Seattle | 9/26/09 Portland, OR | 7/14/2011 Eddie Vedder, Portland, OR | 11/29/13 Portland, OR
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  • Planet of Sound
    Planet of Sound UK Posts: 636
    Did you forget Setting Sun already?
  • bicyclejoe
    bicyclejoe USA Posts: 1,203
    edited April 2024
    Hah! No it’s there. 
    Post edited by bicyclejoe on
    My Pearl Jam Road: 10/22/90 Seattle | 12/22/90 Seattle, Moore Theater | 9/29/92 Seattle, Magnusson Park, Drop in the Park | 9/5/93 The Gorge, with Neil Young and Blind Melon | 7/20/06 Portland, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall with Sleater-Kinney | 7/22/06 The Gorge, 10/21/06 Mountain View, Shoreline Ampitheatre, Bridge School Benefit | 9/21/09 Seattle | 9/22/09 Seattle | 9/26/09 Portland, OR | 7/14/2011 Eddie Vedder, Portland, OR | 11/29/13 Portland, OR
  • BIGDaddyWil
    BIGDaddyWil Michigan Posts: 3,089
    Damn, all those songs could make a helluva album!
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  • MikeDigs
    MikeDigs Santa Monica, CA Posts: 1,680
    BIGDaddyWil said:
    Damn, all those songs could make a helluva album!
    Fact
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  • mpedone
    mpedone 540xxx - Manchester, NH Posts: 1,961
    Shouldn't there be an asterisk on Immortality? Sure, it is the last song we all listen to on Vitalogy, but it is not technically the album closer.
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  • opsopcopolis
    opsopcopolis Posts: 1,214
    I love their album closers. They’re consistently some of my favorite PJ songs
    2006: Hartford
    2008: Camden 2, Hartford
    2010: Hartford
    2013: Wrigley, Worcester x2, Hartford
    2015: NYC
    2016: Philly 2, MSG x2, Boston 2, (TOTD Philly 2, MSG)
    2018: Prague, Krakow, Berlin, Boston x2
    2022: San Diego, Sacramento, Las Vegas
  • tdawe
    tdawe Posts: 2,091
    Release is 1, Inside Job is 2, Immortality is not on the list, heyfoxymophandlemama, that’s me is last. No strong feelings about ranking the others, all great songs. 
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  • Abe Froman
    Abe Froman Posts: 5,397
    Man they have some great closers!

    Release
    Indifference
    All Those Yesterdays
    Around The Bend
    Parting Ways
    River Cross
    Setting Sun
    All or None
    Inside Job
    The End
    Stupid Mop
    Future Days
  • Gibson
    Gibson Chicago Posts: 2,671
    I feel blasphemous for even ranking them...

    1. Immortality (I am not counting Stupid Mop)
    2. All or None
    3. Release
    4. Indifference
    5. Setting Sun
    6. Inside Job
    7. Parting Ways
    8. Around the Bend
    9. All Those Yesterdays
    10. The End
    11. River Cross
    12. Future Days
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  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,894
    mpedone said:
    Shouldn't there be an asterisk on Immortality? Sure, it is the last song we all listen to on Vitalogy, but it is not technically the album closer.
    yeah...shouldn't be here

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    2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
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    2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
    2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2
  • Niko80
    Niko80 Posts: 1,613
    I count immortality. In this context it is the last song, even if it doesn't close the album. The first post says last song. Release also doesn’t close the album. 

    Indifference is my favourite. Closely followed by Release and Immortality. Setting Sun is up there. 
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  • Abe Froman
    Abe Froman Posts: 5,397
    I mean if we’re not counting stupidmop…

    Release
    Indifference
    Immortality
    All Those Yesterdays
    Around The Bend
    Parting Ways
    River Cross
    Setting Sun
    All or None
    Inside Job
    The End
    Future Days
  • opsopcopolis
    opsopcopolis Posts: 1,214
    edited April 2024
    Probably go something like this for me. I don't consider Immortality the closer

    Release
    Indifference
    Inside Job
    All or None
    Around The Bend
    All Those Yesterdays
    River Cross
    Parting Ways
    The End
    Setting Sun
    Future Days
    Stupid Mop
    Post edited by opsopcopolis on
    2006: Hartford
    2008: Camden 2, Hartford
    2010: Hartford
    2013: Wrigley, Worcester x2, Hartford
    2015: NYC
    2016: Philly 2, MSG x2, Boston 2, (TOTD Philly 2, MSG)
    2018: Prague, Krakow, Berlin, Boston x2
    2022: San Diego, Sacramento, Las Vegas
  • PJNB
    PJNB Posts: 13,890
    Release
    Immortality 
    Indifference

    Parting Ways
    Inside Job
    All or None
    Around The Bend
    All Those Yesterdays

    Setting Sun (not sure where to put this yet but def better than the below)

    The End
    River Cross



    Future Days
  • bicyclejoe
    bicyclejoe USA Posts: 1,203
    mpedone said:
    Shouldn't there be an asterisk on Immortality? Sure, it is the last song we all listen to on Vitalogy, but it is not technically the album closer.
    Probably. I refuse to recognize heyfoxymophandlemama as the closer, since I never listen to it. LOL. 
    My Pearl Jam Road: 10/22/90 Seattle | 12/22/90 Seattle, Moore Theater | 9/29/92 Seattle, Magnusson Park, Drop in the Park | 9/5/93 The Gorge, with Neil Young and Blind Melon | 7/20/06 Portland, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall with Sleater-Kinney | 7/22/06 The Gorge, 10/21/06 Mountain View, Shoreline Ampitheatre, Bridge School Benefit | 9/21/09 Seattle | 9/22/09 Seattle | 9/26/09 Portland, OR | 7/14/2011 Eddie Vedder, Portland, OR | 11/29/13 Portland, OR
  • jimjam1982
    jimjam1982 AZ Posts: 1,471
    edited April 2024
    Release - not only the best closer but it is, was and always will be the best song ever record by human beings. 
    Inside Job
    All Those Yesterdays
    Setting Sun
    Parting Ways
    River Cross
    Indifference
    Around the Bend
    All or None
    Future Days
    The End
    Stupid Mop

    *If you are going to count Immortality as a closer it goes right above Setting Sun.*

    Post edited by jimjam1982 on
  • DM282158
    DM282158 Beverly, MA Posts: 668
    1. Parting Ways
    2. Immortality (that last line to end the record essentially - akin to the end of Abbey Road in my opinion)
    3. Inside Job
    4. Indifference 
    5. Setting Sun 
    6. All Those Yesterdays 
    7. Release (similar to JimJam’s point. Amazing song, however could be placed elsewhere on album)
    8. The End 
    9. Around the Bend
    10. River Cross 
    11. All or None
    12. Future Days
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  • HK103094
    HK103094 Posts: 34
    1 All or none
    2 Indifference
    3 Inside job
    4 Setting sun
    5 Immortality
    6 Parting ways
    7 Release
    8 All those yesterdays
    9 Around the bend
    10 River cross
    11 Future days
    12 The end 
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  • DeLukin
    DeLukin Posts: 2,757
    Maybe it's the "newness" of it all, but Setting Sun is SO GOOD as a closer. "Let us not fade..." gives me goosebumps. Might be #2 after Indifference for me.
    I smile, but who am I kidding...
  • MM188016
    MM188016 Posts: 49
    1. Release
    2. Indifference
    3. Immortality 
    4. All or None
    5. Setting Sun
    6. Parting Ways
    7. The End
    8. Around the Bend
    9. All Those Yesterdays
    10. Inside Job
    11. Future Days
    12. River Cross

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