5 Outstanding Closing Songs On Albums
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I've always consider the two songs that closes REM album Automatic for the People called Night Swimming and Find the River as excellent album closers that meets the mood of that album.
A few to consider: Do You Fell Like We Do from Frampton Comes Alive. A Day in the Life from Sgt. Pepper. Riders on the Storm from the Doors LA. Woman. When the Levee Breaks from Led Zep 4 and You Can’t Always Get What You Want from the Stones Let it Bleed album.
My personal favorite is Jungleland, but The Last Resort really sums up Hotel California.
Shine on You Crazy Diamond parts 6-9
3 memorable ones from Elton - High Flying Bird, Harmony and Curtains.
Peter Gabriel - Here Comes The Flood. ELO - Wild West Hero.
Loved all of your selections 👍
I agree with you 100 percent on the Elton closing tracks. Also for the Caribou album, it is a fun album that gets deadly serious on the last two songs.
"Curtains" on Elton's "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" (1975).
The Doors - L.A. Woman (Riders on the Storm)
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (Jungleland)
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers ( A Day in the Life)
King Crimson - Red (Starless)
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust (Rock'n'Roll Suicide)
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland (Voodoo Child)
The Who - Who's Next (Won't Get Fooled Again)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd (Free Bird)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - S/T (American Girl)
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (Sister Ray)
The Byrds - Younger than Yesterday (Why)
UFO - Lights Out (Love to Love)
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak (Emerald)
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection (Burn Down the Mission)
Deep Purple - Machine Head (Space Truckin')
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam (The Royal Scam)
Seeing Dylan perform Every Grain of Sand live in a small concert hall last fall was truly special.
I always look forward to your videos.
Cheers, Tim!
That was informative and I do remember the XTC from a past review. Definitely need to spin some up. Beautiful scenery Thank You!
Spellbinder on Foreigner's Double Vision album popped into my mind for closing tunes.
Tim excellent picks. My pick is Van Morrison's 'You Know What They are Writing About' from 'Into the Music (1979). Van is breaking the fourth wall by directly addressing the album listener and vamping the title. It makes no sense as an individual track and or if you are not "into the music'. My other one "Rose Above the Sky' from Bruce Cockburn's 'Humans' (1980). It sums up the hope of the record after being through wringer with the previous tracks on the album.
Great pics for closers Tim. Thank you for another fun video. I can try and come up with a few. The Beatles - The end. A fun one. ,Mark Knoplfer - Going Home , from the Local Hero soundtrack . , Emmylou Harris - Sweet Chariot. From the Ballad of Sally Rose. , Genesis - Dukes End. From Duke. , And finally, the album closer that continues to blow me away after all these years, first bought the album on release, if I recall, late '78 ,early '79, Heart - Mistral Wind . From Dog and Butterfly. Roger Fisher's guitar and Michael Derosier's Drums ! OMG!!
Cheers Tim!
Cool topic...well done Tim.
Nice video, as always, and nice road in between albums, just perfect to be driven "al fresco" with my vintage Alfa.
Cool idea for a vid Tim. Gonna have to pull a few albums to see what I’m forgetting ha.
Great video Tim - try The Garden on Rush’s final album Clockwork Angels. So poignant especially since this turned out to be their last album and with Neil’s death in 2020, even more so when you check out the lyrics
Last song on the Supertramp album crime of the century
Iron Maiden 1986 "Somewhere in Time" album, slot track "Alexander The Great". To me, their best work ever, mean as a whole, and to get the feeling of it you need to listen from start to the end. As always, great fun, thx Tim!
Nice vid as usual. I am with you on several of the tracks you picked. In my case I would also pick for example the last track from Joe Jackson's Album "Body & Soul" called Heart of Ice.
Good call!
RUSH ×2... "La Villa Stangiato"
" Countdown"
Jethro Tull... " Fire at Midnight"
Steely Dan... "The Royal Scam"
AC/DC... "Rock n' Roll Ain't Noise
Pollution "
Led Zeppelin... "When the Levee
Breaks"
AC/DC on the Back In Black Album. Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Polution. Supertramp Crime of the Century from Crime of the Century, Or Fools Overture from Even In The Quitest Moment. STYX From Equinox Suite Madame Blue, ELO from Discovery - Don't bring me down, The Doors from LA woman - Riders on the Storm , Blue Oyster Cult from Secret Treaties - Astronomy. Ok Just to name a few.
Interesting topic. I think my vote would be for Level 42's debut album with the song "Starchild".
Nearly every Bob Dylan album has an excellent closer. It's All Over Now Baby Blue, Desolation Row, Sad Eyed Lady, It Ain't Me Babe, I'll Be Your Baby Tonight, Sara, Murder Most Foul, etc
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five on Band on the Run. Caroline No on Pet Sounds. Jungle land on Born to Run. Of course A Day in the Life on Sgt. Pepper is the ultimate closer.
The last song on the Allmans "at Fillmore East" is the 23 minute version of "Whipping Post". That's my pick.
Walk Beneath The Raindrops, Nightly, Donald Fagen
Twisted, Court and Spark/Joni Mitchell
The Trilogy/The End, Abbey Road
Great choices
They came to my mind immediately.
Recently bought Lou Reed's the blue mask and my vote goes to heavenly arms for now!
In a simple rhyme is my fav VH song
This topic is closely related to how I have found myself feeling about listening to albums. Most albums (good ones) were designed to tell a story or take you on a musical journey by the songs and their order. While the audiophile in me appreciates the intention of better sound quality by remastering albums into double albums, I find myself enjoying my older LP's with the whole album on just two sides much more. I'm sure part of it is remembering the way I first heard them, but getting into the music then having to get up before my mind is expecting to and flip the album takes away from the experience of the album. Just my personal feelings lately. As far as a great last album song, 40 by U2 on war comes to the front of my mind.
Despite there being many excellent nominations in these comments, I am surprised that nobody has put forward 'You Set The Scene', the wonderfully atmospheric closing track on (arguably) the greatest album ever made - 'Forever Changes' by Love.
Won't get fooled again !!!
Its hard to beat Heart Of The Sunrise on Yes Fragile.
Stop the Presses!!!
“In a Simple Rhyme” from Van Halen’s Woman and Children First
Is simply the best song they ever released!!!!🎸🤘🏻👏
You might have a point….love that song.
One of the best ever closing tracks on an album has got to be the epic down in the sewer - the stranglers from the album rattus norvegicus
My favorite closing track has got to be Dream Theater's Octavarium, from the album of the same name. The best 24 minutes you'll ever hear in your life.
Darkness on the Edge of Town is my favorite Springsteen album. I don’t like anything after The River.
I’m sorry but Love Reign O’er Me stomps on all those
The ultimate closing song on any album of any era is the end by the Doors.
Afterglow Genesis Wind and Wuthering
When he began taking about Genesis, I totally thought he was going to choose that one.
Giant Hogweed should've been a closer - It closed a lot of their shows !