here are some of my favourites:
elliott smith - i didn't understand (XO)
pulp - bar italia (different class)
arcade fire - in the backseat (funeral)
camera obscura - razzle dazzle rose (let's get out of this country)
what are yours, people of DiS?
ok so i posted this on the wrong board
but please still reply!
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http://www.drownedinsound.com/section/view/19
yes i know
schoolboy error.
'I Think I Lost My Headache'
on Rated R
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Take Care of Business on I Put a Spell on You, by Nina Simone. I'm in love with this song at the moment.
Broken Chairs
by Built To Spill.
Mountain People
Super Furry Animals. Thanks.
'Scene One'
Eden Maine. It's an e.p but it has to be included.
oh yeah, good choice
ta
Razzle Dazzle Rose was a good one too and I've been singing it around the building since you posted that.
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These Arms Are Snakes - 'Crazy Woman Dirty Train' (Easter)
the answer to this is obvious
well?
If it's 'obvious'...
..then you probably mean A Day in the Life?
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CHOOOOOON
The Diamond Sea.
^
this, so much
Can't think of many
and its probably not the best but Comforting Sounds by Mew is a great ender
no
that probably is the best. Although Louise Louisa on and the glass handed kites is also a belter in a different way.
Good god I love Mew.
Meat is Murder
(not really)
Mogwai Fear Satan!
..........................@<
i like this one
though the last five minutes or so of flute playing usually gets skipped.
That's, like, part of the song man!
It mellows you out and ends the album in a really excellent way.
Brother to Brother
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cliff-Richard-Album/dp/B000026GLZ
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Parisian Skies - Maximo Park
In the back seat - Arcade Fire
Parisian Skies
probably isn't the best ever, but it is very very good, particularly the last few seconds of it. If this thread was best last closing seconds of an album, you would win.
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
the tourist
radiohead - ok comp
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Kid A
Let's not Shit Ourselves (To Love and To Be Loved)
Off Lifted. And I was actually thinking of I Didn't Understand off XO when I clicked this link. And Cursive's Staying Alive off The Ugly Organ. And recently On And On off Sky Blue Sky.
There are so many.
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British Sea Power - A Wooden Horse
the one at the end of They Were Wrong, So We Drowned by Liars which i can't think of the name of
Just Abondoned Myself- Boris
Wash The Day- TV on the Radio
v
TCTC - Murder Song (See This Through and Leave)
QOTSA - Song for the Deaf (Songs for the Deaf - yeah I know theres a shitload of bonuses but this is the official close)
Death Trip - The Stooges
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Elastica - Stutter
Half Man Half Biscuit - Paintball's Coming Home
Joanna Newsom - Cosmia
Kraftwerk - Ohm Sweet Ohm
The Research - The Hard Times
Twinkie - TK1
the instrumental
on the fude 'secrets' cd...anyone heard of it?? its hunreel
PRML SCRM's
SHOOT KILL SPEED LIGHT
on the album XTRMNTR
TS FCKNG BRLLNT !!!
It is indeed
as is 'Cop Shoot Cop' from 'Ladies and Gentlemen...'
elliott smith
cant make a sound...or maybe "half right" off mic city sons by heatmiser.
nick drake
saturday sun - five leaves left
its everything you once had that has slipped away
i nearly said this
but there's an instrumental after this track which is technically the last track on the album.
good song though.
PEDANT!
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Pavement
Fillmore Jive
well it has to be
In The Back Seat
or
Only In Dreams (Weezer)
Though Leif Erikson works tremendously well on TOTBL.
i second
fillmore jive
Only in Dreams
off Weezer/The Blue Album
I have a sneaking liking for Life in A Glasshouse (on Amnesiac) and Water (by PJ Harvey off Dry) too.
If we are talking about best
song to finish an album with, rather than best song that happens to be at the end of an album, i.e. a song that somehow punctuates the end of an entire piece of work, I'd suggest 'the End' from the Beatles' Abbey Road. Rather obvious but no one's mentioned it.
Not only does it end a rather lengthy ingeniously connected section of songs, it closes with the line "the love you take is equal to the love you make" which is rather nice!
It doesn't even really end the album, as "Her Majesty" is the cheeky track that follows after. But I think it's the best full stop on any album, even if that full stop isn't actually the end.
For the record I'm not even that big a Beatles fan, I just love the second half of that album!
I am a fair bit of a Beatles fan
but the Abbey Road medley bit is the best thing that has ever ever been recorded. Amazing.
Only in dreams
Fucking rules.
The Repudiated Immortals
on The Sunlandic Twins.
Wins my vote for every "best <whatever> track" everytime.
Kyuss ftw
Yeah (Blues for the Red Sun)
Yeah.
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There can only be one winner
And it is:
Liars- This Dust Makes That Mud, from 'They Threw Us all In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top'- because it ends with a 25-minute loop, which is just the most awesome, fuckoffingest thing any band has ever done to close an album ever. As Pitchfork once described it, its "the first time a record has challenged you to blink first." Also I think on the vinyl it was on a locked groove, so it would loop literally forever.
see - i don't know this song
but i'm generally not a fan of the 20-minute last-song blow-out. i find myself switching the song off before the end...
Neither am I, normally
I usually go for the 'transcendent/heartfelt closing moment' a la 'After the Curtain' by Beirut from Gulag Orkestar or 'Do It' by Dizze Rascal from Boy In Da Corner, but with this Liars song its just so, so awesome, and despite being obviously repetitive also somehow manages to be ridiculously compelling. Its a moment thats set up to a great extent by the general bad attitude throughout the rest of the album- early Liars frequently sounded just spiteful, 'They Threw Us...' is brilliant for that.
i've never got into Liars
can you describe them in one sentence?
OK, here goes:
"They're different every album and they rule."
If I was allowed a second sentence then it would be: '"You need 'They Were Wrong So We Drowned' in your life."
^ this
That really is a tremendous album.
My off-the-top-of-my-head answer: Soon by MBV off Loveless.
Last Wrongs
by Oceansize.
New York I Love You
just works REALLY, REALLY WELL as a closing track. That's not to say it's the best song that closes an album overall, but... I'm hungry :(
Jane Doe on Jane Doe
by Converge.
^the most correct answer.
^I rarely get this far
But hell yes.
And Crazy Woman Dirty Train by TAAS, as mentioned above.
But also The Rise And Fall by Million Dead.
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True Adventures - BSP
Yuko & Hiro - Blur
The Reputation of Ross Francis - My Latest Novel
Life In A Glasshouse - Radiohead
Sympathy for the Strawberry - Sonic Youth
one other nomination:
gruff rhys - skylon! (from candylion). I'm not normally a fan of 15 minute songs but i love this. an epic tale of bomb disposals and mediocre actresses.
Modest Mouse - What People Are Made Of
After such a sedated album, what better way to end it then by having a spontanious blast of noise?
That or Styrofoam Boots
ONLY IN DDDDDREEEEEEAAAAAMS
^ yes!
a close second.
Staying Alive by Cursive
Such an amazing close to an album.
Oh and Let's Not Shit Ourselves is probably way up there as well.
From the Morning on Pink Moon
takes my breath away every time
This^^^^^^
Times 1000.
+ The Next Life from Suede, Something In The Way from Nevermind, Sing from Leisure etc...
Shit.
Meant Cursive...
pcp
off 'the holy bible' is rather spiffing.
The correct answer is
In Remote Part/Scottish Fiction by Idlewild. Those three piano chords....whoa.
Props also to Radiohead - The Tourist, 65daysofstatic - Radio Protector and Muse - Knights of Cydonia.
Forgot the Remote Part/Scottish Fiction
That is a seriously amazing song, I love the poem reading at the end. Such an epic end to an album.
This Must Be The Place
by Talking Heads, last track on Speaking In Tongues, first thing which came into my head
Aw
yeah.
Also The Big Country off More Songs... and The Overload off Remain In Light.
There's been a lot of great suggestions.
But for pure, heartbreaking beauty I'm going to say 'Antennas to Heaven' by Godspeed You Black Emperor. The last 5 minutes are what make Godspeed so special - you know that it will never be bettered by their countless imitators.
Which reminds me of
Motherfucker=Redeemer Part 2 on Yanqui UXO. What a final 10 minutes. What a final 10 seconds!
I enjoy
Eels- What Is This Note?
Liars...
...Other side of Mt. Heart Attack
My Body Is A Cage (Arcade Fire)
Unison (Bjork)
Electrical Unity (Keyboard Choir)
Sister Ray (Velvet Underground)
One Song Before Bed (Napoleon IIIrd)
Natural Anthem
Postal Service - Give Up
Gouge Away
good call
great track to finish on
Silver is a better closer
heh
In that it is one.
Fuck
Ignore me, I've had a 'mare
"Goodbye Sky Harbor"
on Jimmy Eat World's "Clarity".
Beautiful.
yeah that
or 23 off Futures.
Also:
Yo La Tengo - I Heard You Looking
The National - Mr November
Okkervil River - John Allyn Smyth Sails
By The Well of Living and Seeing
by ASVA.
HOLY YES!!!
A Day in the Life
How can it be anything other than that?
All Is Full of Love / Unison - Bjork
Mr November - The National
neutral milk hotel
two headed boy pt. 2
Pavement
Fillmore Jive. This board is full of punks.
erm...
answering machine- the replacements
tomorrow never knows-the beatles
seasons in the abyss- slayer
its all gonna break- broken social scene
clam, cockle, cowrie- joanna newsom
Eels - P.S. You Rock My World
The Blood Brothers - The Shame
The Blood Brothers - American Vultures
Converge - Jane Doe
Botch - Man The Ramparts
Faith No More - Just A Man
From Autumn To Ashes - Short Stories With Tragic Endings
Bright Eyes - Road To Joy
Therapy? - 30 Seconds