Top Album Closer

[Dryalex12]

I figured there is one for openers...might as well do one for closers. I have a much better list for closers then openers

Am i Inside, Would?, Over Now and Black Gives Way To Blue - aic
Hurt, The Great Below, Ripe (with decay), Leaving Hope, Right Where It Belongs, Zero-Sum, Burning Bright and The Background World-nin
Pink Maggit, Rivíere and Rubicon- Deftones.
Like Suicide and Boot Camp - soundgarden
Release- pearl jam
Daddy, Kill You, My Gift To You, Dirty, No ones there and Tearjerker- korn
Third Eye - Tool
Raining Blood, Seasons in the abyss and Payback- slayer
P.L.U.C.K, Aerials and Soldier side -soad
Numb, The Little Things Give You Away and powerless- linkin park

[thevoid99]

David Bowie
From the second self-titled/Space Oddity album-Memory of a Free Festival
The Man Who Sold the World-The Supermen
Hunky Dory-The Bewlay Brothers
The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spider of Mars-Rock N' Roll Suicide
Aladdin Sane-Lady Grinning Soul
Pin-Ups-Where Have All the Good Times Gone?
Diamond Dogs-Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family
Young Americans-Fame
Station to Station-Wild is the Wind
Low-Subterraneans
"Heroes"-The Secret Life of Arabia
Lodger-Red Money
Scary Monsters-It's No Game Pt. 2
Black Tie White Noise-The Wedding Song
Outside-Strangers When We Meet
Heathen-Heathen (The Rays)
Blackstar-I Can't Give Everything Away

[BRoswell]

Aphex Twin-Nanou2/aisatsana [102]
Arcade Fire-My Body Is A Cage/Supersymmetry
Big Black Delta-Love You This Summer (or Ghostrider)
Black Moth Super Rainbow & The Octopus Project-Foxy And The Weight Of The World
Blindoldfreak-Everything Ends Here
Boards Of Canada-Corsair/Semena Mertvykh
Bon Iver-Beth/Rest
Boris-Just Abandoned Myself/Untitled
Childish Gambino-The Last/III. Life: The Biggest Troll (Andrew Auernheimer)
Chromatics-The River
Cocteau Twins-Musette And Drums/The Thinner The Air
Com Truise-Closed
Daft Punk-Too Long/Contact
David Bowie-Memory Of A Free Festival/Rock 'n' Roll Suicide/Fame/Subterraneans/Strangers When We Meet/Bring Me the Disco King/I Can't Give Everything Away
David Lynch-She Rise Up/Are You Sure
DJ Shadow-What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1 – Blue Sky Revisit)
Drivemouth-The End Of The End
Godspeed You! Black Emperor-Providence/Blaise Bailey Finnegan III/Anthem For No State
Gotye-Bronte
Hot Chip-Always Been Your Love/Why Make Sense?
How To Destroy Angels-A Drowning
Iggy Pop-Paraguay
John Carpenter-Night
Jon Hopkins-Immunity
Justice-Audio, Video, Disco
LCD Soundsystem-New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down/Home/Black Screen
Led Zeppelin-When The Levee Breaks
Low-DJ
M83-The Highest Journey/Outro
Mogwai-Mogwai Fear Satan/We're No Here
My Bloody Valentine-I Can See It (But I Can't Feel It)/Soon/Wonder 2
Nine Inch Nails-Hurt/Ripe (With Decay)/Right Where It Belongs (or Home)/Zero-Sum/36 Ghosts IV/Burning Bright (Field On Fire)/The Background World
Nirvana-Something In The Way/All Apologies
Pink Floyd-Echoes
Puscifer-Rev 22:20 (Dry Martini Mix)/Tumbleweed
Queens Of The Stone Age-I Think I Lost My Headache/Like A Drug/...Like Clockwork/Villains Of Circumstance
Radiohead-Street Spirit (Fade Out)/Life In A Glasshouse/Videotape/True Love Waits
Run The Jewels-A Christmas Fucking Miracle/Angel Duster/A Report To The Shareholders/Kill Your Masters
Saul Williams-The Ritual/New Day
Sigur Ros-All Alright
Slowdive-Falling Ashes
Spiritualized-Lord Can You Hear Me?
Talking Heads-Drugs/The Overload/This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)/Road To Nowhere/City Of Dreams/Cool Water (or Sax And Violins)
The Beatles-A Day In The Life/The End/Get Back
The Black Queen-Apocalypse Morning
The Chemical Brothers-Dream On/Wonders Of The Deep (or Don't Think)/Wide Open
The Dead Weather-Impossible Winner
The White Stripes-Well It's True That We Love One Another/I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)
The Who-Won't Get Fooled Again/Who Are You
TV On The Radio-Mr. Grieves/Lover's Day

[bobbie solo]

Just a note: when you guys post a million of em at a time, it kinda loses the effectiveness. I'd say edit it down a bit.

[BRoswell]

I'd say edit it down a bit.

Eh, I'm not editing mine down. If people don't feel like reading it all, they're free to scroll past it. These are the tracks that came to my mind based on the question posed.

[bobbie solo]

i'll stick with some rap for now


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRNxBTNLL1Y

classic way to end a 90's rap album was with a posse cut...this one featuring a very rare actual verse from Duck Down honcho Dru-Ha:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyJYJZio3lI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBGEYJF8nJY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ara80eZvs

it ain't over mothafuckas...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70kck77KBOQ

[HWB]

Pink Floyd - The Wall - Outside The Wall.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz0BE-gl_UI" target="_blank">
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz0BE-gl_UI


Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon - Eclipse



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZtfsfoKSB0


Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - Shine On You Crazy Diamond


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54W8kktFE_o


Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Of Me - Handcuffs



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpGnWt5XX38

Brand New - Science Fiction - Batter Up


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoUO-9bHg7Y


Black Flag - Damaged - Damaged I


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf6W9TMol6U

[theimage13]

Eh, I'm not editing mine down. If people don't feel like reading it all, they're free to scroll past it. These are the tracks that came to my mind based on the question posed.

I don't think it's a matter of reading too much. I'm with bobbie here - if someone asks for your "top" something or other and you provide a list of like 50 different things, it loses its effectiveness. Top implies favorite, the best of the best, the select few that stand out above all the others. And yes, one could argue that out of the millions of albums in the world, several dozen is a "small" list. It's like someone asking what your favorite food is and you list everything you've eaten in the last year.

[theimage13]

Skipping repeats again

The Beatles: A Day in the Life
Failure: Daylight
Guster: Rainy Day
October Project: Be My Hero
Puscifer: Autumn

[acrid avid jam shred]

Deftones - Moana
Blur - Essex Dogs
Faith No More - Just a Man
Soundgarden - New Damage/Boot Camp
Interpol - The Undoing
My Bloody Valentine - Soon/Drive It All Over Me/Off Your Face
Nine Inch Nails - Right Where It Belongs/Ringfinger
QOTSA - Long Slow Goodbye
Radiohead - The Tourist/Separator
HEALTH - Drugs Exist
Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours
Foo Fighters - New Way Home
Death From Above - The Physical World

[Space Suicide]

Here we go...

Behemoth - O Father O Satan O Sun!
Converge - Wretched World
Ghost - Monstrance Clock
Marilyn Manson - Coma White
Mastodon - The Last Baron
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
Radiohead - A Wolf At The Door (It Girl. Ragdoll.)
Slayer - Raining Blood

There’s more but here’s what comes to mind quick

[r_z]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ara80eZvs
Great choice. Interestingly this song was seemingly treated as some kind of cd only bonus song, since the vinyl version of that album closes with "Pigeon" (which also makes for a great closer, imo).

I'll play along with the rap stuff:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J--rO7FP16U
Great gut wrenching closing song that destills the concept of the whole album (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVx4f9swtTQ).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uE5yH8crgg
...told from the view of four people in the moment a nuclear strike hits them. Dark stuff, but a great ending to this album (https://mrlifmmg.bandcamp.com/album/i-phantom), which from the first song to this tells a story about life, ambition, family, success, loss, war and Hip Hop. This song is produced by EL-P of RTJ.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og-v4e6vDW4
A funny album (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-AFxHUfBXk) that involves a lot of storytelling about heists, dark magic, rap, the national guard, Tina Turner, funky rednecks, secret agens from China and whatnot. This song ends that album on a similar funny note, but adds a romantic touch.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKVqHgrQtY8
Closer to a great album (https://nachopicasso.bandcamp.com/album/lord-of-the-fly) with songs about ancient gods from egypt or greece, depression, mafia gangsters, zombies, rap et al. The cover says it all, really. Pop culture references are strong in this one.

[Harry Seaward]

EDIT: Okay I formatted it.

Hoo boy.

Off the top of my head again. I didn't check anybody else's so if I stole from you it was a total accident and I'm sorry.

(Top 5 in bold)

A Perfect Circle - "Gravity" (Thirteenth Step)
Beatles - "Tomorrow Never Knows" (Revolver)
David Bowie - "I Can't Give Everything Away" (Blackstar)
David Bowie - "Subterreaneans" (Low)
Faith No More - "Easy" (Angel Dust)
Gorillaz - "Don't Get Lost In Heaven > Demon Days" (Demon Days)
Gorillaz - "Pirate Jet" (Plastic Beach)
King Crimson - "The Court of the Crimson King" (In the Court of the Crimson King)
Led Zeppelin - "When The Levee Breaks" (Led Zeppelin IV)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Free Bird" ((Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd))
Manson - "Coma White" (Mechanical Animals)
Manson - "Count to Six and Die (The Vacuum of Infinite Space Encompassing)" (Holy Wood)
Manson - "EAT ME DRINK ME" (EAT ME DRINK ME)
Manson - "Man That You Fear" (Antichrist Superstar)
The Mars Volta - "Cassandra Gemini" (Frances the Mute)
Nine Inch Nails - "Burning Bright (Field On Fire)" (Not The Actual Events)
Nine Inch Nails - "Hurt" (The Downward Spiral)
Nine Inch Nails - "In This Twilight > Zero-Sum" (Year Zero)
Nine Inch Nails - "Right Where It Belongs/Home" (With Teeth)
Nine Inch Nails - "The Background World" (Add Violence)
Nirvana - "Something In The Way" (Nevermind)
Pink Floyd - "Brain Damage > Eclipse" (The Dark Side of the Moon)
Pink Floyd - "The Show Must Go On > In the Flesh > Run Like Hell > Waiting For The Worms > Stop > The Trial > Outside the Wall" (The Wall)
Puscifer - "Autumn" (Money $hot)
Queens of the Stone Age - "...Like Clockwork" (...Like Clockwork)
Queens of the Stone Age - "I Think I Lost My Headache" (Rated R)
Queens of the Stone Age - "I Was A Teenage Hand Model" (Queens of the Stone Age)
Queens of the Stone Age - "Mosquito Song" (Songs for the Deaf)
Spiritualized - "Cop Shoot Cop..." (Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space)
St. Vincent - "Smoking Section" (MASSEDUCTION)
Telefon Tel Aviv - "Immolate Yourself" (Immolate Yourself)
Tool - "Third Eye" (Ænima)
Ween - "Fluffy" (12 Golden Country Greats)
Ween - "If You Could Save Yourself (You'd Save Us All)" (Quebec)
Ween - "She Wanted To Leave" (The Mollusk)
Ween - "Your Party" (La Cucaracha)

[Mantra]

Sleep - Dopesmoker

[theimage13]

Sleep - Dopesmoker

C'mon man, everyone knows the closer is a throwaway track because no one is listening to the album anymore by that point. What's the best third-to-last song for you?

;)

[Mantra]

What's the best third-to-last song for you?

Oh shit yeah. Now we're talking.

Mantra's Top Ten Third-to-Last Songs....

01... Prince - "I Would Die 4 U" (this song is UNREAL)
02... DJ Shadow - "Midnight in a Perfect World" (goes without saying tbh)
03... Neil Young - "On The Beach"(in fact, the last three tracks on this album are LEGEND)
04... Grouper - "Wind and Snow" (probably one of the most heartbreaking songs in existence)
05... Smashing Pumpkins - "Behold! The Nightmare" (17 doesn't count as a real track in my book)
06... Kanye West - "Everything I Am" from Graduation (so beautiful!)
07... Nine Inch Nails - "And All That Could Have Been" (why the FUCK won't he play this live?)
08... Grimes - "Nightmusic" (this song is a BANGER)
09... D'Angelo - "Greatdayndamornin'/Booty" (the last two minutes are legit transcendental)
10... The Beatles - "Cry Baby Cry" (a fucking underrated classic imo)

[BRoswell]

I don't think it's a matter of reading too much. I'm with bobbie here - if someone asks for your "top" something or other and you provide a list of like 50 different things, it loses its effectiveness. Top implies favorite, the best of the best, the select few that stand out above all the others. And yes, one could argue that out of the millions of albums in the world, several dozen is a "small" list. It's like someone asking what your favorite food is and you list everything you've eaten in the last year.

I listen to a lot of music and have a lot of favorites, so while it may seem excessive to you guys, that's pretty normal to me. Also, the question was "What are your top album closers?", not "What are your top five, or ten, or twenty album closers?". I simply answered the question. I'm not worried about the "effectiveness" of my list. Like I said, people can skim past it if it's too exhausting to read.

[bobbie solo]

still sticking with rap:


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


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWLqj5Ii-yw

EPIC:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvRc7pwnt0U


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ifsQOFiPw


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIKQJia67zw


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUw_E3VHyAs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh3_zWZ0ID4


These two go together as one final track imo:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofaRvNOV4SI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4dIXEzRvuY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dBill5V0r0

[Louie_Cypher]

always like this as a closer to the band as well I suppose Two Suns In The Sunset 5:16 Pink Floyd The Final Cut Rock 0 1

-Louie

[kel]

better days -- janet jackson (all for you)
take a bow -- madonna (bedtime stories)
why should i be sad? -- britney spears (blackout)
secret garden -- madonna (erotica)
everybody wants the same thing -- scissor sisters (ta-dah)

[astfgyl]

Ministry - Leper.


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

GODFLESH - Forgive Our Fathers


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AXNyaFlLHk

There's 2 beauties for starters. I don't have time right now but there are many more I have in mind.

[piggy]

Lloyd Cole, "For Crying Out Loud"
Jeff Buckley, "Dream Brother"
David Bowie, "Lady Grinning Soul"
The Church, "Invisible"
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, "Darker With The Day"
Echo And The Bunnymen, "Ocean Rain"
PJ Harvey, "Ecstasy"
Morrissey, "Speedway"
Soundgarden, "Like Suicide"
The The, "Lonely Planet"

[richardp]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzoaHwNG8xY

[allegro]

The Beatles: A Day in the Life

THIS. Totally this.

[raptors661]

Jimmy Eat World- 23 (Futures) Integrity Blues/Pol Roger (Integrity Blues) My Sundown (Bleed American)

Murder by Death- Ghost Fields (Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon), Devil Drives (In Bocca al Lupo) Spring Break 1899 (Red of Tooth and Claw) End of the Line (Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?)

Linkin Park- A Line in the Sand (Hunting Party) Little Things Give You Away (Minutes to Midnight)

Weezer- Only In Dreams (Blue) The Futurescope Trilogy (EWBAITT)

[Disassociative]

Garbage - So Like A Rose


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GTqvVwOkgA

Marilyn Manson - EAT ME DRINK ME


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

Smashing Pumpkins - Farewell and Goodnight


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEEeYdA7k4k

[PhoenixML]

Garbage - You Look So Fine
Best. Closer. Ever.

In alphabetical order:

Garbage - Milk
Korn - Dirty, No One's There
NIN - The Great Below (if it counts), Right Where It Belongs
Our Lady Peace - Car Crash, Stealing Babies
Puscifer - The Humbling River, Tumbleweed
Radiohead - Street Spirit, Videotape
RHCP - Road Trippin
Silverchair - Steam Will Rise
System of a Down - Streamline

[center27j]

Rocket Queen - GnR

***and i agree, the long lists really lessen the impact

[eversonpoe]

interpol - the lighthouse
telefon tel aviv - immolate yourself
dillinger escape plan - mouth of ghosts / dissociation
nin - ripe (with decay) / leaving hope
isis - threshold of transformation
the cinematic orchestra - every day

and maybe my #1 of all time, absolutely heartbreaking


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztdatfUEW94

coil - going up

[henryeatscereal]

The Doors - The End
The Rolling Stones - You can't always get what you want
The Beatles - A Day in the life
Pink Floyd - Echoes
King Crimson - In the Court of the crimson King
The Cure - Untitled
Metallica - The Call of Ktulu
Alice in Chains - Over Now
Faith No More - Edge of the World
Marilyn Manson - Man that you fear/Empty sounds of hate
The Horrors - Sea within a sea
Porcupine Tree - Dark Matter
Rage Against the Machine - Freedom

[roolfdriht]

Other than Zero-Sum...

Orbital - Out There Somewhere? (In Sides). Perhaps cheating a bit since it's a two-parter, but it somehow manages to justify every second of its 23 minute-plus running time.

Depeche Mode - Corrupt (Sounds of the Universe). One of my all-time favorite DM tracks in a fairly unexpected spot. I've soured on their setlists lately, but the inclusion of Corrupt was a major factor in motivating me to turn out for the Spirit tour.

Scissor Sisters - Invisible Light (Night Work). Ian McKellen spoken word for the win (oh, and the music...).

[ton]

Joy Divison - Decades [Closer]
Stevie Wonder - I Believe (When I Fall in Love) [Talking Book]
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain [Purple Rain]
Kanye West - Lost in the World (feat. Justin Vernon) [My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy]
U2 - Love is Blindness [Achtung Baby]
Gang of Four - Anthrax [Entertainment!]
D'Angelo - Africa [Voodoo]
Radiohead - Videotape [In Rainbowsl]
Depeche Mode - Higher Love [Songs of Faith and Devotion]
M.I.A. - Galang [Arular]
Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues [Make Me Wanna Holler]
Cocteau Twins - Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires [Heaven or Las Vegas]