Greatest album closers of all time.

[Waterbagel]

Heart of the Sunrise - Yes, off Fragile
Road Movie to Berlin - They Might Be Giants, off Flood

[Fireal420]

Still can't believe nobody has put Pink Floyd - Echoes.

haha, i just read through the thread and thought the exact same thing. so i clicked on this page and was going to post it, and you already beat me to it!!


pink floyd- echoes

dredg - the canyon behind her

deftones - pink maggit

weezer - only in dreams

radiohead - the tourist

clann zu - your listening to a dead man speak

depeche mode - higher love

depeche mode - insight

god is an astronaut - lost symphony


guess ill stop there, i can go on for a while

[GH]

The Cure - Untitled from Disintegration

Just listened again. Brings me right back to the day I bought that album.

[re-phaelam-ed]

genesis > a trick of the tail > los endos

propaganda > a secret wish > strength to dream

level 42 > running in the family > freedom someday [hits fucking hard at 2:20]

boards of canada > boc maxima > whitewater

[fujee]

Would? - Alice in Chains - Dirt.

I must be having a hung-over epiphany here because something with Alice in Chains has clicked with me tonight. I stuck on Dirt and my god, what a cracking album. Staley's voice was something else. I know I've given them shit before, but I completely retract that now. This album is awesome, it's about as close to a modern Black Sabbath as you can get.

[Mexicola]

His voice was legendary. Go track down the Mad Season record he did too. Wake Up stills sends shivers down my spine. Sorry, off topic..

[mc10101]

Everything Everything "Weights" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kefasiicciI the audaciously proggy closer from Man Alive. Would've also said "The Peaks" from _Arc_ if they hadn't stuck "Don't Try" after it

[Dandegyrecorder]

Panda Bear - Benfica , from Tomboy. it sounds so glorious

[2020k]

Bjork - Unite
Lorde - World Alone

[Aerial Boundaries]

The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows

Obvious one there right?

[Negamuse]

I mean its a fantastic iconic track but if I were to pick a Beatles closer itd be the medley off Abbey road (not counting them as separate tracks). Its the musical documentation of a band that was starting to hate each other disintegrating as these disperate musical ideas all collide, not able to form standalone songs, the wheels falling off the songwriting machine. Its like: this is what weve got left. Pauls vocal in Golden Slumbers trying to will the thing along one more lap. Trying to recapture the singalong thing in Carry That Weight which as a song is just an unfocussed idea set to music. And in the end...

[Berselius]

One of my fav is "Out of this world [Version 138]" by Art of Noise, it's just the perfect ending for their "Debussy" album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbbwOxcNYSc

[Aerial Boundaries]

I mean its a fantastic iconic track but if I were to pick a Beatles closer itd be the medley off Abbey road (not counting them as separate tracks). Its the musical documentation of a band that was starting to hate each other disintegrating as these disperate musical ideas all collide, not able to form standalone songs, the wheels falling off the songwriting machine. Its like: this is what weve got left. Pauls vocal in Golden Slumbers trying to will the thing along one more lap. Trying to recapture the singalong thing in Carry That Weight which as a song is just an unfocussed idea set to music. And in the end...

It depends what your focus is mate. I mean purely talking here about how technically advanced it was, how representative it was of the radical change in consciousness in that generation, and how well constructed and cohesive a track as well. Not to mention it ends my personal favourite release from them. As a side note, the first time my dad heard it back then it really messed him around, he'd never ever heard anything like it.

I do love the Abbey Road medley, but it is a closer to a half-baked album made up of a collection of mostly solo tracks from the different members. It is more attractive when the listener is more interested in the personal narrative of the band rather than both them and their effects on and reflections of the times. My favourite thing about that medley is Harrison's contribution in 'You Never Give Me Your Money', and 'The End'.

[North by North]

Sonic Youth- "Trilogy: A) The Wonder, B) Hyperstation, Z) Eliminator Jr." off of Daydream Nation- which also has one of the best album openers.

Bob Dylan- "Buckets of Rain" off of Blood on the Tracks. Comes so perfectly after "Shelter from the Storm".

Grizzly Bear- "Sun in Your Eyes" off of Shields.

Underworld- "Best Mamgu Ever" off of Oblivion With Bells.

[el Cerebro]

Just the first few that come to mind:
Slint - "Good Morning Captain"
Nine Inch Nails - "Hurt"
Sigur Ros - "Untitled 8"

[drillkicker]

I knew I would see a lot of Radiohead and MBV in this thread, but I didn't know it would be this much. Too much rock in general, actually.

In spite of the statement I just made, I'm going to point out that The Bees Made Honey In the Lion's Skull is a wonderful ending to an album (which progresses beautifully from the beginning to the end). Sundome and YJY UX are great ones as well.

Keeping more to my predictable post-industrial taste, though, I'm going to put "But, What Ends When the Symbols Shatter?" as my absolute favorite.

[el Cerebro]

I feel the need to add a couple more I've thought of:
Orbital - "Attached"
The Orb - "Slug Dub"
Slayer - "Raining Blood"

[Headphase]

Flying lotus - aunties lock / infinitum
Radiohead - videotape
St. Vincent - year of the tiger
BoC - corsair
Madonna - Mer girl (by far her most ambient and experimental to date. None of that rubbish pop stuff)
Muse - Exogenisis symphony part 3
MBV - soon
Aphex twin - nanou2
Autechre - drane2
Björk - all is full of love
Björk - unison
FKA twigs - kicks

All these songs finish the album off really nicely. I wouldn't say they are the best, but they are pretty good

[Aerial Boundaries]

BoC - corsair

I counter with From One Source personally. I consider it the better closer and wish it were on the normal release.

[2020k]

Madonna - Mer girl (by far her most ambient and experimental to date. None of that rubbish pop stuff)

I typed this, then backspaced it because sometimes I feel like I turn into way too much of a Pop Tart on Twoism. (I feel like I singlehandedly destroyed the "Twoism Classics" thread because I mentioned Lone's work on the Azealia Banks album, but, dammit Lone used to post here and Lone deserves praise for bubbling up like that).

But, while we're here Madonna has a knack for album closers. "Gone" from the Music album is also a great closer and so is "Easy Ride" from the dreadfully underrated American Life album. "Take a Bow" is obviously a great way to end the Bedtime Stories album

For whatever reason I really enjoy "Secret Garden" as the closer to Erotica (most likely because of its delicate, almost virgin nature).

I'd even argue to say "Like it or Not" from Confessions on a Dancefloor is a wonderful closer.

90's & early 00's Madonna is flawless. I really, really admire her craft up until about 2008. She lost me at "Hard Candy" because it's very obvious that she's borrowing from her contemporaries, forgetting that she made her contemporaries. However, I must mention that she only lost me on her studio albums...she still puts on one hell of a live show and I really enjoy listening to her interviews (& there's a few decent tracks on Hard Candy, MDNA, and Rebel Heart.......not many).

Thank you for mentioning Mer Girl. If there's one Pop album I would recommend all of Twoism to dive into, it's definitely "Ray of Light"