Greatest album closers of all time.

[Jonse]

For me, it's a tie:

Band you guys totally don't know about - Corsair
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt


Not going to say something generic and obligatory like A Day In The Life.


Honorable mentions:

Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself
Happy Cycling/One Very Important Thought (regardless of your version)
Prick - Makebelieve
Puscifer - Tumbleweed
Radiohead - Life in A Glasshouse
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
Nine Inch Nails - Zero-Sum
Pink Floyd - Outside The Wall
BMSR - Smile Heavy (discounting the secret track)
Seven Fields of Aphelion - Starlight Aquatic
FSOL - First Death in the Family

[A_Northern_Soul]

Great topic - great albums need a great closer.

Off the top of my head:

The Stone Roses - I am the Resurrection (from s/t debut)

The Chemical Brothers - the Private Psychedelic Reel (from Dig Your Own Hole)

Spiritualized - Cop Shoot Cop (from Ladies & Gentlemen...)

[A_Northern_Soul]

How could I forget:

Death In Vegas - Help Yourself (from Scorpio Rising*) - guitars! Sitars! Bollywood strings! Hope Sandoval! All for +10 mins


(* - also a contender for best 1-2 album openers).

[Mexicola]

You & I - Jeff Buckley - Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk

December Hunting For Vegetarian Fuckface - Stars of the Lid - ...And Their Refinement of the Decline

Now! The Action is on Fire! - Biffy Clyro - The Vertigo of Bliss

and, in keeping with the feel of the thread, I've saved the best til last.
The Daddy.
The final track to end all final tracks...(also includes the greatest drum sound ever too courtesy of John Bonham)

When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin - IV

[Jonse]

You & I - Jeff Buckley - Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk

December Hunting For Vegetarian Fuckface - Stars of the Lid - ...And Their Refinement of the Decline

Now! The Action is on Fire! - Biffy Clyro - The Vertigo of Bliss

and, in keeping with the feel of the thread, I've saved the best til last.
The Daddy.
The final track to end all final tracks...(also includes the greatest drum sound ever too courtesy of John Bonham)

When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin - IV

I don't think a single human being could argue that's NOT the best live drumming sound of all time.

Although I am also quite partial to Phil Collins' gated reverb sound, it doesn't just stack up against that. I love that reverberation too much!

[jcnporter]

Soon from MBV's Loveless.
Belfast from the green album by Orbital is another good one.
I'd be surprised if there were any other fans of The Blue Nile on here, but Saturday Night from Hats is a fantastic tune.

[A_Northern_Soul]

^ Soon & Belfast are great shouts.

Love Belfast

*5am memories*

[Mexicola]

I don't think a single human being could argue that's NOT the best live drumming sound of all time.

Although I am also quite partial to Phil Collins' gated reverb sound, it doesn't just stack up against that. I love that reverberation too much!

There's a fantastic analysis of the intro to When The Levee Breaks in the incredible 'Perfecting Sound Forever' by Greg Milner. Truly a wonderful book that anyone with designs on music production should devour.

Talks about Bonham recording his drums at the bottom of a flight of stairs in Headley Grange to get that booming reverb sound. (incidentally, Headley Grange is only an hour away from me - I really should swing past some time.)

Seek it out.

[Torn n Frayed]

Tara-Roxy Music; Avalon
Film-The Church; Priest=Aura
Repise-The Verve; A Northern Soul


All instrumental closers to great lp's.

[lightsoutnepal]

Great topic. Can't second Soon and When the Levee Breaks any more...some of the best.

Maybe some less obvious ones off the top of my head:

Mogwai Fear Satan - Mogwai
I Didn't Understand - Elliott Smith
Antennas to Heaven - GY!BE
It's all nice/Styrofoam Boots - Modest Mouse
Street Spirit or Motion Picture Soundtrack - Radiohead
From the Morning - Nick Drake

Too many.

[fujee]

My favourites:

Soon - MBV
Street Spirit - Radiohead
Eyesore - Women
It Ain't Hard to Tell - Nas
Leif Erikson - Interpol
Last Chance for a Slow Dance - Fugazi
This is a Low - Blur
Essex Dogs - Blur
Tomorrow Never Knows - Beatles

All fairly generic, but they are all great, great album closers.

[jcnporter]

Mogwai Fear Satan - Mogwai

Good call.

Another few I've just thought of -

Shoot speed/Kill Light from Xtrmntr by Primal Scream
Ocean Rain from the album of the same name by Echo and the Bunnymen
Mr November from Alligator by The National

[jcnporter]

My favourites:
This is a Low - Blur

Great tune, still their best I think.

[Fireal420]

From the Morning - Nick Drake

oh man, awesome choice. that song is so meaningful and beautiful.

[IanRedpoint]

Mogwai Fear Satan - Mogwai

Hell, yeah. Love that tune. It feels like it could carry on playing forever.

I'll add... All Souls - Opal "Early Recordings"

[WeHadNormality]

Public Enemy - Fight The Power from Fear Of A Black Planet

[mc10101]

The Cinematic Orchestra - Diabolus (from 'Motion')
Caribou - Every Time She Turns Around It's Her Birthday (from'Up In Flames')
Radiohead - Videotape (from 'In Rainbows')
Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother (from 'Grace')
Elbow - Friend Of Ours (from 'The Seldom Seen Kid')
Goldfrapp - Horse Tears (from 'Felt Mountain')
Interpol - Leif Erikson (from 'Turn On The Bright Lights', already cited by Fujee but well worth another mention)

[Scotronica]

Pixies - Doolittle - Gouge Away

[Mexicola]

Pixies - Doolittle - Gouge Away

[A_Northern_Soul]

How on earth did I forget Gouge Away*, Mogwai Fear Satan or Shoot Speed/ Kill Light?!

I'd also add the Stones' Moonlight Mile from Sticky Fingers.

And 2 of Hendrix's album closers:

Bold as Love from Axis...

Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) from Electric Ladyland.

Love this thread.


* - Kim Deal's "la la la" in Gouge Away is the sexiest moment in rock n roll.