Completely generic thread, but was listening to the wonderful Sao Paulo by Guillemots earlier and was wondering what peoples' favourite final tracks on albums were:
Jungleland (Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen)
Water (Dry - PJ Harvey)
PS You Rock My World (Electroshock Blues - Eels)
Street Spirit (The Bends - Radiohead)
Motion Picture Soundtrack (Kid A - Radiohead)
Empty Cans (A Grand Don't Come For Free - The Streets)
Only In Dreams (Weezer - Weezer)
Only in dreams
Spot on.
SFA are good at closing tracks.
Slow Life, Mountain People, Cabin Fever, Keep the Cosmic Trigger Happy, Fragile Happiness, For Now and Ever and Blerwiytirhwng. Reads like a better best of.
only in dreams
best ender ever? definitely up there in a top 3.
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Now The Action Is On Fire from The Vertigo Of Bliss by Biffy Clyro.
Wolf At The Door from Hail To Tne Thief by Radiohead
Sunrise from We Love Life by Pulp.
Looking Glass from The La's.
Knights Of Cydonia from Black Holes And Revelations by Muse.
I Am The Resurrection from The Stone Roses.
The Outsiders from You Could Have It So Much Better by Franz Ferdinand.
Life in a Glasshouse
and that, yes.
Only In Dreams is by far my favourite.
And loads of others.
The Veils - The Nowhere Man
David Thomas Broughton - Ever Rotating Sky
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Ys?
Cosmia*
................
Crazy Woman, Dirty Train (Easter - These Arms Are Snakes)
take the veil cerpin taxt - the mars volta: de loused
If you dont count that boring uk only track as the last one
YES!, yes_
that ending is so great. gets me every time.
trail of dead - source tags & codes
brand new - soco amaretto lime
bright eyes - let's not shit ourselves
dismemberment plan - back and forth
the national - mr november
I think
Autumn's here (lover/ fighter-Hawksley Workman) is rather good.
On Only in Dreams
Glad to see people agreeing, I think that's the song that really lifts Weezer's debut (as good as all the songs are) into the category of 'bloody fantastic'
Only in Dreams
great choice indeed. Two spring to mind for me;
Gouge Away on Doolittle
Street Spirit on The Bends
butterfly - weezer
a song to pass the time - bright eyes (my favourite ever song)
we were born mutants again with leafling - of Montreal
really?
that's probably my least favourite song on Fevers and Mirrors!
listen to it more
I didn't like it at first it took a while but now I love it, and the lyrics are close to perfect
Close To?
They are.
I still think I prefer all his other closers actually (except for Tereza and Thomas), despite Fevers being my favourite album.
i'm listening to it now
it's not as boring as I remember it being, in fact it's quite nice, but I still think if the album had ended before the radio interview it would have been better. An Attempt To Tip The Scales is just gorgeous and would be a perfect closer I think.
Converge - Jane Doe
Isis - Grinning Mouths
Cult Of Luna - Dark City Dead Man
PGMG - Bullet Charm
Oceansize - Ornament/The Last Wrongs
volcano! - Pulling my face in and out of distortion....
...
A Will Remains In The Ashes by Envy. Owns everything on this thread for closing an album. It's just so totally and completely final. And I am a conisseur of closing tracks.
Also good - Sum by Meshuggah. Brutal and menacingly relaxing at the same time. Good closer.
Wherever I Lay My Head by Tom Waits - good.
The last few tracks on Trail Of Dead's Source Tags and Codes. That's gotta count.
The Rutherford Experient by Candiria. Smooth as Jazz, violent as Metal.
Now The Action Is On Fire!!
Sigh Your Children.
Breath Again.
Ornament/The Last Wrongs.
Only In Dreams.
Find The River.
Soco Amaretto Lime.
Play Crack The Sky.
Blue In The Face.
23.
Beachball.
Loque wins so far.
:D
California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade
and 23 by Jimmy Eat World
Yes, Anaastasia
by Tori Amos. Fucking wonderful, so it is.
Oooooh,
and The Great Dominions by The Teardrop Explodes (off Wilder).
the last eight-or-so minutes of each of the first two mars volta albums
are amazing.
rock n roll suicide - Ziggy Stardust
Broken Starr
from Bluetones seminal album - Return to the Last Chance Saloon.
or Find the River
Yes!
Broken Starr!
leif erikson
by interpol. perfect ending to an amazing album.
bright eyes 'lets not shit ourselves' is up there too.
True dat Bright Eyes mention...
I'd say...
Leif Erikson (Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol)
Heysatan (Takk... - Sigur Rós)
Untitled 8 ( () - Sigur Rós)
The Land Between Solar Systems (Múm - Finally We Are No One)
Rocket Queen (Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses)
...But We Are Full of Merde (Form of... - Berg Sans Nipple)
Flamenco Sketches (Kind of Blue - Miles Davis)
New World (Slemasongs - Bjork)
Hard to Live in the City...
...Albert Hammond Jnr.
the rise and fall
(million dead)
lief erikson
interpol is an amazing ending to a great album
already been said, but hey.
Stormy Clouds (Reprise)
from the VErve's Northern Soul
Stormy Clouds (Reprise) -
good call. McCabe: genius.
Some personal faves......
off the top of my head.
Joy Division - Decades (Closer)
Mountain People - SFA (Radiator)
Motion Picture Soundtrack - Radiohead (Kid A)
Sweeet Lil Gal - Ryan Adams (Heartbreaker)
Let's Not Shit Ourselves - Bright Eyes (Lifted - good call whoever put that!)
A Distorted Reality.... - Elliott Smith (Basement)
With the Elliott Smith one, whilst it's probably bad to link the songs with what happened to him after the recording, it's hard to listen to him fading out singing "Shine on me baby, cos it's raining in my heart", knowing it's his last statement, without feeling an overwhelming sadness.....
A few...
Beck - Emergency Exit - from Guero
The Mules - Ham Shank - from Save Your Face
Dangerdoom - Bada Bing - from Mouse and the mask
Debra on Midnite Vultures
well appart from those mentioned...
i really enjoyed "Two Tabs of Mescaline" off Glassjaws worship and tribute this morning. also even though it was a cover, "Planet Caravan" ends Vulgar display of power fantasticly.
"Blow Out" from pablo honey is also a good outro song.
"Cassandra Gemini" while not as good as take the veil is still awesome.
i can't really think of more right now... "Cop Killer"?
These ones
The Boxer Rebellion - The Absentee
Mew - Comforting Sounds
Muse - Knights Of Cydonia
New Rhodes - A Different Time
Keane - The Frog Prince
Amplifier - UFO's
Kasabian - The Doberman
Longwave - Underneath You Know The Names
The Open - Elevation
The Shins - Those To Come
Hope Of The States - The Church Choir
*Far Beyond Driven* ^^^
i make myself feel ill sometimes
ooh
A Wooden Horse - The Decline of British Sea Power (British Sea Power)
Dream Attack - Technique (New Order)
Sinister Waltz - Fall (Shiftwork)
Motion Picture Soundtrack - Radiohead (Kid A)
Broken Chairs by Built To Spill
and Here Comes A Regular by The Replacements
a knife for the girls
is a pretty ace closer for the long blondes album, whilst I remember...
hmmm
all you need is love,
her majesty,
a day in the life!
Tomorrow never knows!!!
...
LA Blues from Fun House by the Stooges. Or Sister Ray from White Light/White Heat by the Velvet Underground.
No other last tracks come close
The Diamond Sea
anywhere i lay my head
from Raindogs (tom waits)
easy :
Faith ( Faith - the Cure ).
There can't be a better way to close an album.
Midnight Cowboy...
from the ORIGINAL version of Angel Dust (Faith No More)
The last song off the new Arab Strap album was pretty brutal
There is no Ending, or something
tomorrow never knows?
maybe?
zen arcade
reoccuring dreams, a quater hour of everything great about underground music.
some girls are bigger than others
obviously
i jest
obviously
I can't believe I forgot Those To Come
from Chutes Too Narrow.
Perfect.
Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll
off generation terroists by the manics
The Doors
always had great closing tracks
The End
When The Music's Over
Five To One
er, some others
What the...!
Almost 18 hours this thread's been up, and no one's mentioned Good Morning, Captain (Slint's Spiderland), Soon (My Bloody Valentine's Loveless) or any of the sweet Sufjan Stevens closers yet.
Bah! You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
Play Crack the Sky
by Brand New
We Are A Black Box Recorders - Copperpot Journals.
He Collects Dust - Seafood
Good call on Bright Eyes.
What people are made of
of The Moon and Antarctica .
What a way to close an album.
...
That's cause it's a boring, atmosphereless dirge, like the rest of the album.
You on about
what people are made of stealthy?
...
Slint, Spiderland and Good Morning Captain.
I've decided to stop pretending that I just don't get a 'classic' album and admit to myself that no, it's actually just shit.
ahhhh
fair enough then.
I've not heard em so I couldn't comment.
Philistines!
Ignore these people, Glen_Chap. They haven't a clue between them.
Come to the side of light, righteousness and unnecessary shouting about naval matters (despite living in landlocked Kentucky...)
I agree
can't get into it at all
and for the record
Sister Ray on White Light/White Heat or Say Yes on Either/Or
Someone above mentioned Yesterday Never Tomorrows
I am really kicking myself for forgeting that track. Logic Will Break Your Heart and so will that song, it's so sad. Best thing The Stills have every done.
hmmm
Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack
65dos - Arnt we all running
90 Day Men - Nightbirds
Mogwai - Stop Coming To My House
great call on
Arent we all running
pitter patter goes my heart
from you forgot it in people
Errr....
Faith No More - Just A Man (KFAD...FFAL)
The Blood Brothers - The Shame (BPIB)
MCR - Demolition Lovers (IBYMBYBMYL)
Converge - Jane Doe (Jane Doe)
Botch - Man The Ramparts (We Are The Romans)
From Autumn To Ashes - Short Stories With Tragic Endings (Too Bad You're Beautiful)
The Red Light Sting - Bald, Short & Have a Hat On
Stereophonics - Billy Daveys Daughter (Word Gets Around)
God I could go on for aaaages...
Ooops...
...Red Light Sting album is Hands Up Tiger.
And forgive the first three abbreviations - I was being lazy.
jane doe
some girls are bigger than others
play crack the sky
the rise and fall
euans true mental you
only in dreams
Mercury Rev's
'Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp' from 'Deserter's Songs'.
top ten top ten top ten
1 - Good Morning Captain (Spiderland)- Slint
2 - Dream Brother (Grace) - Jeff Buckley
3 - All Apologies (In Utero) - Nirvana
4 - Non-Absorbing (Vampire On Titus) - Guided By Voices
5 - Me In Honey (Out Of Time) - REM
6 - Mogwai Fear Satan (Young Team) - Mogwai
7 - Motion Picture Soundtrack (Kid A) - Radiohead
8 - Mr. November (Alligator) - The National
9 - I Am The Ressurection (The Stone Roses) - The Stone Roses
10 - Man From Milwaukee (Middle Of Nowhere) - Hanson
Mogwai Fear Satan
...great choice sir!
Hmmm
Mew - Comforting Sounds
Guillemots - Sao Paolo
Sikth - As The World Ends (best fade ever)
Queens Of The Stone Age - I Think I Lost My Headache
The Cooper Temple Clause - Murder Song
Howling Bells - I'm Not Afraid
System Of A Down - Aerials
would about do it for me, from albums I've heard.
Built to spill
have some great closing songs eg Stab or The Weather, but their best has to be Untrustable/Part 2 off of Perfect From Now On.
Favourites that spring to mind:
The Strokes - Take It Or Leave It
Explosions In The Sky - Your Hand In Mine
Zwan - Come With Me
Cypress Hill - Break 'Em Off Some
Deftones - MX
Radiohead - The Tourist
Tegan & Sara - Don't Confess
Muse - Knights Of Cydonia
Ooh!
65daysofstatic - Radio Protector
Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
ones other peoples replies reminded me of
Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp (Deserters Songs - Mercury Rev)
Dream Brother (Grace - Jeff Buckley)
Stop Coming to my House (Happy Songs for Happy People - Mogwai)
hmm..
ornament/the last wrongs- oceansize
widows- sennen
forget her- jeff buckley
DEFINITELY
My Morning Jacket - dondante
does
'when will the Forrest Speak' - Sikth count?
I can't spell forest today ^