The Art of a Great Closing Track
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
- How much does the end of a record influence your lasting impression of it? What are some of your most/least favourites? Let me know in the comments below!
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"WHEN SHE GETS UP TO LEEAAVVEEE"
*Jeff Mangum gets up to leave*
That song alone is why I clicked on the video.
That song makes me cry
so simple yet so complicated
this is deep
Coincidentally She Wanted to Leave is another amazing one by Ween
Tomorrow Never Knows from Revolver is probably the best example of a 'foreshadowing' closing track I can think of.
It’s not just foreshadowing the beatles’ own sound, but basically the rest of pop music
The Beatles had a few amazing closers - A Day in the Life, The End and Tomorrow Never Knows. (We'll leave Run for Your Life off this list).
It foreshadowed the chemical brothers thats for damn sure
literaly the first one that I was thinking when I saw the title, glad someone commented
What does it foreshadow? Just curious
Hacker from Death Grips The Money Store is such a “We’re here, fuck you” ending that always pumps me up. The Self titled track from Bottomless Pit is also quite good as it’s such an onslaught of loud blistering energy.
Blood Creepin too. The instrumental outro is so catchy that I want to listen to it again.
Fuck Who's Watching from Government Plates is my personal favourite
Death Grips has so many good closing tracks. Artificial Death in the West is so good, and so is Whatever I Want.
Is endless energy nothing else like it
Lucas Ponce Blood Creepin is excellent
Some of my favorite endings:
Daughters - You won't get what you want - Guest House
King Crimson - Red - Starless
David Bowie - Blackstar - I Can't give everything away
Julia Holter - Have you in my wilderness - Have you in my wilderness
Tame Impala - Currents - New person, Same old mistakes
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss - Abyss
Bjork - Homogenic - All is full of love
Radiohead - In Rainbows - Videotape
New person same old mistakes is amazing. Makes ya high even better
Mortal Man - Kendrick Lamar
Vale - Black Veil Brides
28 Organ - Aphex Twin
Prostitute - Guns N Roses
Larks Tongues In Aspic great list
Daughters - The Unattractive, Portable Head is Daughter’s best song
Really? The currents closer is probably my least fave of the album!
Good Morning, Captain by Slint is one the immediately comes to mind for me. Such an eerie crescendo to end off the album
I MISS YOU
Incredible ending to one of the most amazing albums
@@deepcuts *vomits*
"I MISS YOU!" no matter how many times I heard that it always give me the chills. Great album agreed
Do you know the story of his recording that song? If not, it's worth doing some reading about it. iirc, As soon as he was done recording, he had a mental and physical breakdown and got checked into a hospital, and the band (for the most part) never recorded anything again. it wasn't just the end of the album; it was the end of the band.
My favourite closer of this year is probably Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End
Absolutely wonderful closer
I immediately thought of this closer when I saw the title of this vid. You beat me to it!
Yeah same it feels so sufjan stevens illinois era
Yes, the most recent closer to impact me in some form. It's a fantastic track.
Especially because the rest of the album is peaceful and calm and that track comes out of nowhere destroying everything around it
A great recent example is Phoebe Bridgers' I Know the End, the closer to her 2020 sophomore effort 'Punisher.' An apocalyptic catharsis which deserves to be the finale of that fantastic record.
That album is incredible, as is that song... however, I always thought the last two minutes were a tad underwhelming. The first four minutes or so are golden... but there's something about when it's supposed to get really big that always felt like a little bit of a let down to me. Either way, to each there own, and still an amazing record... truly one of the greats.
True Love Waits from Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool
Boxing from Ben Folds Five's self titled album
I Can't Give Everything Away from David Bowie's Blackstar
Re: Stacks from Bon Iver's For Emma Forever Ago
Just to name a few (Great video, btw.)
Ben Folds Five!! Super underrated
Radiohead always had great closings tracks.
Gavin Lambert yesss I wish people knew more about him
Hey Marshal! Good to see you here
yes!! havent heard the Ben Folds but the other three are iconic and monumental
In the court of the Crimson King, when the drums surprise you at the end for the final break after the "fake" end.
Sublime.
thats the first song i thought of when i saw the title such a damn good song
Yeah the LAST moment is something else...
I forgot that! Incredible
The first time you hear it, Especially at full volume is an other worldly moment.
I love how the flute mellotron comes in so goofy sounding, and into that Earth-shattering drum fill.
Unison at the end of Vespertine comes to mind when thinking of hug-like endings
Was just about to comment unison when I saw your comment
Everytime Unison comes to that epic final it's like reaching an orgasm. You're touching the heavens... then you realize it has ended and you wanna cry.
Björk always had a special touch for album closers. Everyone keeps mentioning 'All is Full of Love' but agree Unison is one of her (if not the) best. "The Anchor Song" from 'Debut' aswell because its such an unexpected ending, even though the album is more than just a dance album. Even "Triumph Of a Heart" from 'Medúlla' is one of her most outstanding album closers, not only because its a great song on its own, but because it manages to keep that experimental and unique factor the album has but in a much more pop-oriented and friendly way. "Headphones" is also a banger even though I don't think its that great of an album closer.
And don't get me started on "Quicksand".
Was thinking about my favourites a lot whilst at work here’s my top 30:
Album Closers
1. This Must Be The Place - Talking Heads
2. Street Spirit (Fade Out) - Radiohead
3. A Day In The Life - The Beatles
4. Hurt - Nine Inch Nails
5. Tenderness - Parquet Courts
6. Grown Ocean - Fleet Foxes
7. Empty Cans - The Streets
8. Soon - My Bloody Valentine
9. When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
10. Purple Rain - Prince
11. Hacker - Death Grips
12. The Tourist - Radiohead
13. New York I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down - LCD Soundsystem
14. Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles
15. A Certain Romance - Arctic Monkeys
16. Motion Picture Soundtrack - Radiohead
17. Redemption Song - Bob Marley
18. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
19. The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson
20. ...Like Clockwork - Queens Of The Stone Age
21. All You Need Is Love - The Beatles
22. 505 - Arctic Monkeys
23. In Reverse - The War On Drugs
24. Free Bird - Lyrnyrd Skynryd
25. Bound 2 - Kanye West
26. All Apologies - Nirvana
27. National Anthem - Gaslight Anthem
28. Glory Box - Portishead
29. Rhinestone Cowboy - Madvillain
30. Stay Positive - The Streets
You have Arctic Monkeys but no Ultracheese? I swear thats one of the greatest songs written bu anyone
For $1 name a woman
T F Bilinda Butcher and Beth Gibbons
grown ocean is soo good
@@giggityguns123 Its good but the first 2 album closers work better for their albums imo
I wrote that while watching:
Pink Floyd "Eclipse"
Drive Like Jehu "Sinews"
Led Zeppelin "When The Levee Breaks"
King Crimson "Starless"
Radiohead "A Motion Picture Soundtrack"
Coldplay "Death And All His Friends"
Slint "Good Morning, Captain"
Taco Hemingway "900729"
David Gilmour "Where We Start"
Roger Waters "Amused To Death"
Coldplay "Amsterdam"
latter edit:
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Myslovitz "Szklany człowiek"
The Doors "Riders on The Storm"
GoGo Penguin "Hopopono"
Slowdive "Dagger"
Radiohead "Videotape"
Radiohead "True Love Waits"
Steven Wilson "Raven That Refused to Sing"
I was waiting for someone to mention Pink Floyd lol
There should be no 'A' in "Motion Picture Soundtrack" by Radiohead.
Ummmm so how do I say this... yes absolutely yes
Eclipse is a great closer. It wraps it up so completely.
pleasantly surprised to see death and all of his friends here. also eclipse feels like such a no-brainer, its whole purpose is to encompass everything! great list.
From the top of my head..
Soon - Loveless - mbv
Motion Picture Soundtrack - KID A - Radiohead
Rhinestone Cowboy - Madvillainy - Madvillain
A Day in the Life - Sgt. Peppers - The Beatles
Some other mentions..
Decades - Closer - Joy Division
40 - War - U2
Rock N’ Roll Suicide - Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
New York, I Love You - Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
Something in the Way - Nevermind - Nirvana
The End - The Doors - The Doors
When the Levee Breaks - IV - Led Zeppelin
Purple Rain - Purple Rain - Prince
Technically Motion Picture Soundtrack isn’t the last track
Videotape is a better closer than motion picture soundtrack imo
Gavin F....yes, actually almost all Radiohead’s closers are epic...Wolf at the Door and Tourist are amazing as well..
I love Wolf at the Door as one of Radiohead’s best closers. And Rhinestone Cowboy is incredible - great pick
EARTHMOVER GANG!
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am i the only person who just does not like deathconciousness? like i’m confused because i feel like i almost have to like it given its legendary status, but it just doesn’t sound good to me past the first 2 tracks
@@seancascone You don't have to like anything, man.
@@seancascone I was in the same boat as you but one day it clicked and now it is one of my favs.
This is the correct answer
Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy pt 2
PUP - City
The Strokes - Ode to the Mets
Japanese Breakfast - Triple 7
Coma Cinema - Posthumous Release
Arctic Monkeys - 505
Kero Kero Bonito - Rest Stop
Daughters - Guest House
Asobi Seksu - Exotic Animal Parade
Brand New - closing track to any of their albums
Highly Suspect - Wolf
Modern Baseball - Just Another Face
Nothing But Thieves - Afterlife
Swans - To Be Kind
Weezer - Only In Dreams
Mount Eerie - Crow
Dogleg - Ender
Love to see people appreciating city as a great closer!
pup has the touch for ending albums
@Thenerdynerd 201 dude so true
PUP - Pine point
Pavement - Fillmore Jive
The Doors have some of the best closing tracks on any album. They have The End, When the Musics Over, and Riders on The Storm. They are all genius and poetic songs that have become classic staples in music history and end each album in such a powerful album way
I always love how haunting The End by The Doors is, it’s really a perfect closer.
And Riders on the Storm
And “When the Music’s Over”!
Yes! That song puts me in another head space completely
For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver. That Re: Stacks ending is sublime.
Bon iver's closing tracks are always killer 000000 million and RaBi are amazing too
the not abrupt ending to that song as well, a+
YES!
I feel like IGOR has one of the most underrated finales. Tyler caps off the dramatic story about unrequited love in such a fitting way.
def one of my favorite closers and tyler songs
exactly what i’ve been thinking
Came here to say this. Tyler’s screams are an amazing cap a great album
Nothing about IGOR is underrated.
I'd say it's too early to judge, if it's underrated, for me more time should pass to make such a statement, to see how it goes down in the history of music
My favs have to be:
Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack
Frank Ocean - Futura Free
The Hotelier - Dendron
Sufjan Stevens - Impossible Soul
David Bowie - Rock N Roll Suicide
The Velvet Underground - After Hours
Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy Pt. 2
Kanye West - Who Will Survive in America
Sigur Ros - Untitled 8
I LOVE AFTER HOURS!! perfectly encapsulates the feeling of closure, roll credits, it's the end of the movie, leave the movie theatre and go home. Mo Tucker's vocals (the drummer) were so perfect for it, too
I will always upvote the velvet underground
King Crimson - Starless
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part II
Steven Wilson - The Raven that Refused to Sing
Swans - Surrogate Drone
Swans - Apostate
Joy Division - I Remember Nothing
Joy Division -Decades
David Bowie - I Can't Give Everything Away
Candlemass - A Sorcerer's Pledge
Burzum - Tomhet
Black Sabbath - Into the Void
The Beatles - A Day in the Life
Genesis - Supper's Ready
And many, many more...
Amazing taste
@@wspann1967 Thank you
*cough* The Tourist by OK Computer
I’d say To Be Kind should be there as well. But great taste.
Ah, King Crimson first comes to mind, a man of culture
“After Hours” on Velvet Underground’s 3rd album might be my favorite closing track since it concludes the album so nicely. It’s also a breath of fresh air after the experimental “The Murder Mystery”. Maureen Tucker’s vocals are so sweet I can’t help but sing along.
Good pick, love that song
Perfect closer, perfect description
It’s a great closer for sure but I like sister ray more for a final track
"How do you end an album?"
King Gizzard: You don't
My personal favourites:
- "Big Bird" by AJJ
- "The Tourist" by Radiohead
- "Motion Picture Soundtrack" by Radiohead
- "Guest House" by Daughters
- "Jungleland" by Bruce Springsteen
- "Why write a letter that you'll never send away" by The Drones
- "Half Sister" by Protomartyr
- "Exogenesis 3" by Muse
- "Mortal Man" by Kendrick Lamar
- "Hot Knife" by Fionna Apple
- "Essex Dogs" by Blur
- "Champagne Supernova" by Oasis
I was gonna mention only 5, but I realized this was very entertaining
Essex dogs is perfect
Love the AJJ appreciation
Triangle go "ding"
I wasn't expecting to see any AJJ in here, but good God I appreciate seeing them. Big Bird and Small Red Boy (even though it's not technically a closer) are some of the best closers to an album I've ever heard.
Now that you mentioned OKC, I have to say it basically gets better as it goes. Might be controversial, but everything up to Karma Police is just eh, while everything after is great and the last two tracks are the best ones.
Some that come to mind for me are:
Tom Waits: Come on up to the House
Gorillaz: Demon Days
Behemoth: O Father O Satan O Sun
Andrew WK: You're Not Alone
Pink Floyd: Eclipse
Kero Kero Bonito: Dear Parents
Nine Inch Nails: Hurt
I'll probably think of others later
Tom is a master of the album closer. I’ve always liked Anywhere I lay my head and Fawn from Alice. Others that come to mind are every grain of sand by Dylan and more recently Hollywood by Nick Cave
tom waits has some amazing closers
@@christophermccracken4296 Just reminded me of the closers on Small Change and Nighthawks at the Diner.👍 (hell, all the Asylum albums!)
But best of all - “Take Me Home” closing out One From The Heart
The ending to “You won’t get what you want” by daughters. The song is called “guest house” and is the most tortured/beautiful album ending I’ve ever heard. The album is full of terrifying industrial guitars and chilling spoken word verses. It’s a great listen all the way through.
Totally agree! Especially after Ocean Song ends and you go "Well, there's no way they can top that."
Came here to post this. The song really exemplifies everything the record is trying to do emotionally.
The strings on the end of that track are such a beautiful contrast to the chaos that comes before it on the rest of the album. A perfect closer to a perfect album
oh my god yeahhhhh... guest house is amazing
Oooh this
-When the Leeve Breaks
-Starless
-Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part II
-It
-Old and Wise
-Song to the Pharoah Kings
-Siberian Khatru
EDIT: I recently discovered Duke and holy shit, "Duke's Travels/Duke's End" is a perfect closer
Starless and Larks feel like a gigantic train going all out to hit the brakes and come to an intense, screeching stop. In a good way, of course. Those songs are so powerful that any ending would have a huge amount of weight to them, and that makes it all the better. My favorite closers.
fellow king crimson fan
Song to the pharoah kings top 10 recordings ever
in the rapids/it probably my favorite it is truly a fitting ending to such an amazing album
Ah a fellow yes fan i see
Radiohead to me are masters of album closers. The heartbreaking tragedy of True Love Waits, the melancholic bliss of Motion Picture Soundtrack and Untitled, and the simple hypnosis of Videotape. They really know how to end a record.
My favourite example of the "uplifting coda" is definitely Say Yes from Either/Or by Elliott Smith. Pretty much every other song on the album is fairly depressing, but Say Yes has such a powerful feeling of "things are going to be alright." It's especially uplifting considering the amount of shit Elliott went through in his life - if even he can be "in love with the world," so can all the rest of us. (this feeling is of course somewhat diminished by the tragedy of his early death, but still)
Thought the same exact thing while watching the video.
Stating the bleeding obvious , The Tourist.
YES!!
every radiohead album closer tbh,it's like an anime where the intros are energetic and groovy (15 steps,2+2=5,burn the witch,airbag...) and the endings are mellow (videotape,true love waits,street spirit...)
Street Spirit tops this imo
th3giv3r Slow down there idiot
Motion Picture Soundtrack absolutely burns me down
The Doors - The End
Portishead - Threads
Bjork - All is full of love
Lana del rey - Hope is a dangerous thing (...)
Those were the first songs that came to my mind.
I'd say Björk nails closing tracks pretty consistently. All is Full of Love, Unison, Future Forever, Quicksand, Triumph of the Heart, Headphones (controversial, I know, since some really don't like the song but I think her delivery of it just...works), then Anchor Song? I mean, she makes great records so it's no surprise the finales tend to stick, but I think they often even stand on their own as songs really really well which isn't always easy.
@@timoreilly6169 I completely agree and you know what? Headphones is a cool f* song! It just smooths my soul every time.
damn i had forgotten about hope... its really a great song
My personal favorites...
"Only In Dreams" - Weezer. This one reflects on the lyrical themes of the Blue album, but strips away all the goofiness that makes the beginning of the record seem innocent and fun. It hints at the trajectory they would take with the next record: more introspective, serious, and somber.
"Message For the Angels Pt. II" - Direct Hit. Brainless God is a punk masterpiece, a concept record following the adventures of a serial killer and his victim turned love interest during the end of the world. The ending track utilizes melodic and lyrical motives from the first track, creating a definitive bookend to the story.
"Mt. Hope" - Mixtapes. You just gotta fucking listen to this song. It encapsulates everything that Mixtapes does well on their album 'Even On The Worst Nights,' lyrics reflecting on loss, trauma, simpler times, keeping your friends close, and maintaining optimism, catchy, single note guitar melodies, and singalong choruses you'll lose your voice too.
kind of an old comment but man brainless god really is such a masterpiece glad to see it get some love
Off the top of my head Danny Brown’s 30, Radiohead’s Life in a Glasshouse, and Future’s Codeine Crazy
Some of my favorite closing tracks:
When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
Into the Void - Black Sabbath
Hollow - Pantera
Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Nile
Vacant Planets - Death
God of Emptiness - Morbid Angel
Actium - Aphex Twin
The Bees made Honey in the Lions Skull - Earth
444 - Autechre
Hacker - Death Grips
I love how Slowdive's Souvlaki ends with Dagger, a very dry and simple solo acoustic song, very different from the rest of the album (and their discography in general)
My top 12 favorite closing tracks (in no particular order):
"War Within A Breath", Battle Of Los Angeles, RATM.
"Separator", King Of Limbs, Radiohead.
"Tea For One", Presence, Led Zeppelin.
"Bottomless Pit", Bottomless Pit, Death Grips.
"Farewell Fire", Campfire Headphase, BOC.
"Starless" Red, King Crimson.
"The Stabbing Hand", Let Me Be A Woman, Oxbow.
"Third Eye", Ænima, Tool.
"Are We Still Friends", Igor, Tyler The Creator.
"Quicksand", Vulnicura, Bjork.
"Sleeping On The Roof", Soft Bulletin, The Flaming Lips.
"Garden Of Light", In The Absence Of Truth, Isis.
Separator is an amazing closing track, same with are we still friends.
Third Eye is one of the best songs ever!
Separator is absolutely gorgeous. A more optimistic note to end on for Radiohead. One of my favorites from them.
@Ashlee* Dawn I don't know how anyone could say TKOL is their worst album honestly, I love that album! Separator may be my favorite of their closers, close tie with Motion Picture Soundtrack
War within a breath is so agressive. They saved the best for last
I think my favourite closer track would have to be Guest House by Daughters. The album was already ruthless but to not only close with the most brutal track but naturally fade it out with a gorgeous ambiance, it’s feels like sin and dried blood being scraped off flesh, I love it.
God that song is so haunting. I loooove it.
It's amazing, but (in terms of Daughters), I slightly prefer "The Unattractive, Portable Head". It odd yet amazing how it brings such a sense of haunted euphoria (and I love the Bladerunner references).
OOO I forgot about this one! Definitely one of my personal favorites as well!
Guest house might actually be the most horrifying song I’ve ever heard
That's an amazing way of describing how that song ends
Ben's My Friend alone makes me want to listen to Benji, perfectly rounds out all the melancholy of that album
Favourite closer: Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight/The End
Greatest of all time
Technically everything from You Never Give Me Your Money onwards was one track, but with that many bangers it's almost unfair to pick that as the best
Her Majesty
I think a day in the life is the obvious one
Random Access Memories by Daft Punk with the song "Contact". Absolutely incredible ending.
Absolutely. Phenomenal ending to the best album ever
R.A.M. Ending sucked
@@supersal3391 thanks for sharing your well structured and helpful opinion
RAM has a very good ending. But i think Too Long from Discovery is better, I think it's because I always think of the last escene of Interstella and how emotionally ties the story together. But I like it best
too long is also amazing
Great closing tracks from the top of my head:
New York, I love You - LCD Soundsystem
Filmore Jive - Pavement
Reoccurring Dreams - Husker DU
I Know the End - Phoebe Bridgers
Track 10 - Charli XCX
Good Feeling - Violent Femmes
The World Spins - Julee Cruise
My Body Is a Cage - Arcade Fire
My Little corner of the World - Yo La Tengo
'New York I Love You' makes me feel weary and old like little else. Great come down for that record.
LCD's closers are all great - I think Home from This Is Happening is just as good
This Is Happening has my all time favorite opener, and one of my favorite closers
One of my favourite closers would have to be the ending to the Caretaker's Everywhere at the End of Time, such a satisfying ending to a long and emotional journey, would lack the impact if it weren't for the six hours of music before it
Probably the greatest final track of any album. Incredibly powerful closer.
Such a heart stopping finale. Still waiting on that Caretake vid.
it's leaves me breathless
One thing i noticed with the final track was that the record crackles had come back after slowly disappearing in the later stages. I think it was intended to subconsciously take the listener back and reminisce about the beginning of the story while bringing them back to the reality of the situation. I could be totally wrong but I thought it was a fantastic touch.
The Caretaker always ♥️
King Crimson - In the court of the crimson king
Avenged Sevenfold - Save Me
Muse - Knights Of Cydonia
RATM - Freedom
Slipknot - Iowa
QoTsa - ...Like Clockwork/A Long Slow Goodbye/Song For The Dead Gorillaz - Demon Days
Christian Prado FREEEEEDOOOOOM!
demon days the song is so underrated
Hard to argue with knights of cydonia. I love glorious but it annoys me when it comes after koc
Radiohead's Amnesiac has its best track as the last one, Life in a Glass House
been scanning the comments section for this one - finally! You are totally right.
Yasss. Love that track so much. It is a good closer😍
Same with kid a, ok computer, the bends, hail to the thief, moon-shaped pool, their closers are so good
Their closers are consistently excellent but honestly… Wolf at the Door might be my personal favorite
Grown Ocean from Helplessness Blues. Such a satisfying and upbeat ending that is earned throughout this emotional roller coaster of an album. Really ties up all the themes in a hopeful ending.
Madvillain - Rhinestone Cowboy, especially with all the claps in it, literally perfect ending
It really is tho.
Real talk. Its cool cause DOOM is killing it, just flowing and the crowd is going wild. Then he makes you think its gonna end at one point and DOOM is like, "Enough!" Like we ain't done yet and then continues to kill it.
He’s a rhinestone....... cowboy.
The ending to Porcupine Tree's "Signify", Dark Matter is just incredible.
Dark Matter has got to be my favorite song from that record.
"You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy and you're more relaxed than you have been in weeks. All those childhood traumas magically wiped away ... along with most of your personality! " - al ways stop the album before this last section plays though...
Freedom at the end of Rage Against the Machine’s self title is perfect to me. It sums up everything Rage; rapid style changes, huge riffs, etc. Zack’s screams at the end are as aggressive as they come on the record, and the lyric “Freedom, yeah right” is like the band’s entire philosophy
Eclipse - Dark Side of the Moon
I can't believe how no one else had mentioned this, it's one of those perfectly sized and calculated album closers.
Arguably the greatest album closer ever
Fishmans ending 98.12.28 with the best piece of music ever made comes to mind
Agreed.
OK, but like... It's not fair!!!
And everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon ... 'There's no dark side of the moon really, matter of fact it's all dark'
Dogs82 The album is The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd
Some for me would be:
- Get Out Of My House- Kate Bush
- Two Slow Dancers- Mitski
- I Know The End- Phoebe Bridgers
- Rest Stop- Kero Kero Bonito
Two Slow Dancers, even thought is a slow ballad, really fits the album and ends it beautifully
Some of my favorite closing tracks are:
Only in Dreams - Weezer
Styrofoam Boots/It’s All Nice on Ice, Alright - Modest Mouse
Judy and the Dream of Horses - Belle and Sebastian
Two-Headed Boy, Pt. 2 - Neutral Milk Hotel
Morning Fog, as well as This Woman’s Work - Kate Bush
Don’t Shit Where You Eat - Ween
Reservations - Wilco
Scenario - A Tribe Called Quest
None But the Rain - Townes van Zandt
Crazy Rhythms - The Feelies
Glad Tidings - Van Morrison
Brother Sport - Animal Collective
Say Yes - Elliott Smith
All the Young Punks (New Boots and Contracts) - The Clash
Havalina - Pixies
Desolation Row - Bob Dylan
That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate - Mission of Burma
The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance - Vampire Weekend
Find the River - R.E.M.
One of Us Cannot Be Wrong - Leonard Cohen
Hey Parents - Kero Kero Bonito
Road to Joy - Bright Eyes
AnCo - Brother Sport is a great closer
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Colossal win for that Belle and Sebastian track. Id throw Mary Jo and Rollercoaster Ride in there too
Brothersport always stuck with me as a great closing track
bro the feelies are like the best
My favorite closet has to be Tyler, the creators “are we still friends” off of IGOR. It is such a satisfying end to a great breakup album
Yesss thank you 👏
AND HOW IT'S THE MOST "N0N-RAP" SONG TYLER HAS EVER DONE. HE WAS REALLY ASKING NOT TO BE SEEN AS JUST A 'RAPPER' THERE. AN INCREDIBLY BOLD STATEMENT.
Speaking of breakup albums, Re: Stacks by Bon Iver from For Emma, Forever Ago is still one of the most beautiful finales to a record I’ve ever heard.
Bilderbuch - Europa 22
Angel Olsen - Pops
The Beatles - A day in the life
Beach house - take care
Alex cameron - Take care of Business / too far
David Bowie - Rock’n’Roll Suicide
Prince - Purple Rain
Can't think about any other than Motion Picture Soundtrack by Radiohead. After that fever dream, after that hell of a ride named Kid A this feels like the removal of a bandage on a fresh wound, leaving you empty, hurt, and begging for silence.
Oliver...is it not time to do a review of the Caretaker's "Everywhere at the end of time' . This is to my mind not only an important piece of art, but a socially important and meaningful statement on one of the most challenging health and welfare issues of the 21st century.
i was waiting for someone to comment on that just because of the ending, easily the most effective finally not even mentioned here. i know it's his video but imean :/
I didn't like that album. It did not leave me sad. All it left me with was disappointment and a feeling of wasted time. I will never get those 6 hours back, which makes me mad.
@@gwen_gets_got why did you listen to the whole six hours if you're not into that kind of music?
I mean, the concept overall is explored fairly well in the first two parts (stage 1/2)
@@tite93 - cause I was expecting to cry at the end. And I didn't.
@@gwen_gets_got don't think you should come to an album with expectations like that.
Have you listened to A Crow Looked At Me by Mount Eerie? That work never fails to make me cry, it's definitely got something catarthic to it
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake
“Tenderness” is such a great closer. It’s optimistic, catchy, thematically in-tune with the other songs, and is just an infectious ending to a well-crafted, dense (yet fun) album. Also, it has a very 70’s pub rock sound, which fits perfectly in an album that uses a ton of different musical styles from the 60s/70s.
Other ones that immediately come to mind:
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Tyler the Creator - Igor
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Kanye West - College Dropout (one of the few times where a fun monologue really works, it’s also the embodiment of who Kanye is and what he would become)
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers
If you haven't heard it yet, from Deerhunter, the ending to weird era cont is a 12min version of Cavalry Scars...
Also nocturne is glorious, even if it's album isn't.
Parquet Courts is one of my favorite bands, and tenderness is a great track. Personally, I love the way Sunbathing Animal builds toward “Into the Garden.” What a spectacular finish to the album
If we're talking Parquet Courts closers, Uncast Shadow of A Southern Myth has to be the greatest
Tenderness is fantastic! He Would Have Laughed is also fantastic!
Some of my favorite closing tracks are
Xiu Xiu - Faith, Torn Apart
Deafheaven - The Pecan Tree and Gifts for the Earth
Daughters - Guest House
Death Grips - Hacker
HEALTH - In Violet and DRUGS EXIST
Starless off Red stands out for me. An absolute belter of a track.
The final video is about last tracks
Sigur Rós - Untitled #8 (Popplagið)
The Chameleons - View From a Hill
Isis - Garden of Light
Absolutely Garden of Light. Such an incredibly beautiful closer.
I really like View From A Hill, but Nostalgia is wayyyyy better IMO.
Every album should close with DoYaThing by Gorillaz.... I am convinced of this
And every album should have an Andre 3000 feature
Walk of Life would also make for a great ending on every record! ... ... ... No? Well, okay, it's just me then. ;-)
@@crimsonfab Dire Straits Walk of Life??? I'm with you bro!
Ben’s My Friend by Sun Kil Moon and From the Morning by Nick Drake are the two best folk closers of all time, change my mind.
My favourite final songs on albums:
"Too Far" - Alex Cameron (the song ends on a spoken word poem that sums up the album)
"Politics in love" - Alex Cameron
"I just want to sell out my funeral" - the wonder years (I'm pretty sure Jeff Rosenstock borrowed from this song in Worry, because this song is another pop punk musical that includes the choruses from previous songs on the album)
A day in the life - the Beatles
Road train - king gizzard and the lizard wizard (when you think the album is going to slow down and stop, it doesn't and keeps repeating for eternity)
"Hallowed Be Thy Name" - iron maiden
Shout out from a fellow AC fan
Torn curtain-televison
Jane doe-converge
Surfs up-the beach boys
Alvin row-animal collective
Shut the door-fugazi
Desolation row-bob Dylan
Starless-king crimson
Street spirit-radiohead
Hacker-death grips
Sad song-lou reed
Riot!-earl sweatshirt
Congratulations-mgmt
Shot you down-Isaiah rashad
Decades-joy division
Mosquito song-queens of the Stone Age
Train in vain-the clash
Saint Pablo-Kanye west
New York I love you-lcd soundsystem
And of course,
Echoes-pink Floyd
Big W for Alvin Row
However much I love mosquito song, does it technically count as it’s a hidden song?
M83 - Outro (Hurry Up, We're Dreaming)
My Bloody Valentine - Soon (Loveless)
Beach House - Take Care (Teen Dream)
Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station Medley (Terrapin Station)
Low - In Metal (Things We Lost In The Fire)
Talk Talk - Wealth (Spirit of Eden)
Take Care yesyesyes
Outro is great
Ode To The Mets by The Strokes is one of the best closing tracks I've ever heard is very sad and has a sense of nostalgia for the past but at the same time so triumphant and beautiful that I think it wraps up The New Abnormal beautifully
Absolutely it’s super new but I love that album and that is one of my favourite ending tracks and strokes songs in general
This is no real order but some of my favorites closers are
The Tourist-Radiohead
To Be Kind-Swans
Guest House-Daughters
Mortal Man-Kendrick Lamar
Eclipse-Pink Floyd
Two Headed Boy p2😭😭-Neutral Milk Hotel
Like Antennas to heaven-GYBE
Good morning captain-Slint
Street Spirit (fade out)-Radiohead
to pimp a butterfly's last track! put Kendrick as a genius in my mind
What a storytelling masterpiece Mortal Man is
Remember I was on the train heading to work hearing that for the first time and my jaw dropped when the interview starts.
Mortal Man into Wesley's Theory is one of the best musical ideas I've ever heard. I get chills every time.
New Person, Same Old Mistake is a perfect look back to a “different” and “transformative” album.
The strokes - take it or leave it, ends is this it with an energetic closer that reflects the record well
The Cure - Untitled, listening to this song while listening to disintegration makes you feel like you just went on a journey
The Avalanches, Wildflower: “Saturday Night Inside Out”, such a beautiful song to end the album on, with David Berman’s poetry a wonderful eulogy.
For me the best closing tracks are:
Two Headed Boy Pt. 2 - Neutral Milk Hotel
Brother Sport - Animal Collective
The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson
Alwin Row - Animal Collective
Apostate - Swans
Videotape - Radiohead
I’d add Turn Into Something to your AnCo list. Such a perfect closer for Feels.
Earthmover
Brother Sport hold this W
Brother Sport is such a goddamn incredible song like holy shit
Videotape is the single track that has actually made me tear up once.
Echoes, A Day In A Life and In The Court Of The Crimson King first come to mind
ohhhh great picks, Eclipse to me is the top of the hill
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others. That's the one that stands out to me
@New New Milo but the outro of 'Send me the pillow, the one that you dream on, and I'll send you mine' is the perfect lyrical end to the album imo. A shameless magpie from Shelagh Delaney, but still beautiful
KongoBongo Its nicked off Hank Williams
Some of my favourites:
For an emotional finale:
Red House Painters - Michael
Sun Kil Moon - Pancho Villa
The Drones - Why Write a Letter That You'll Never Send?
Songs Ohia - Hold On Magnolia
For a scorched earth energetic ending:
Alice in Chains - Would?
Wire - Too Late
Mr Bungle - Goodbye Sober Day
IS IT TOO LATE TO CHANGE MY MIIIIIND
I love how LCD Soundystem’s “Home” takes on lyrical and musical elements that were presented through the album in a whole new track that feels like coming back home after the amazing trip that the album takes us on. FJM’s In Twenty Years or So also achieves this feeling of home and hope after quite a seemingly pessimistic journey, and ties the whole thing conceptually pretty nicely.
agreed, but the crescendos at the tail end of growing old on magic mountain REALLY make me wish it was the last track. i know it'd break the general journey of the album, though
Alvin Row from Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished is one of the most epic and emotional closers I’ve ever heard. It’s a culmination of the entire sonic palette of the album, and the lyrical themes about childhood and how we grow out of it reach a phenomenal climax and closure that really pays off. It’s also probably Animal Collective’s most progressive song, as it has so many different passages throughout its 12 minute runtime.
Totally agreed, that song feels like a space odyssey lullaby of some sort. Absolute masterpiece
THIS COMMENT!!
I wish I could listen to this album but it literally hurts my ears lol
@@o.steinman3855 yeah 😫 i love animal collective and the general vibe and themes of Spirit you've gone is one I really like but dammit it hurts
That is THE track that actually won me over to Spirit. Now it's my second favorite anco after Strawberry Jam.
I Haven't Died from Pix & Bit somehow feels like the most closing track-y closing track ever to me and I adore it with all my heart
MBV’s Soon is arguably one of the greatest
The first that comes to mind is Ode to the Mets, great closure
There’s only one king when it comes to album closers:
I Am the Resurrection
The Stone Roses
A thousand times this
Came here to say this.
Right!
i fucking love the stone roses
Fool's Gold >>
Radiohead, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Yes, and The Beatles all have great closers
Get out of my house from The Dreaming by Kate Bush is a great one, she really just lets go
‘Let the lioness in your flow freely’ - Yves Tumor
‘The Transfiguration’ - Sufjan Stevens
‘Threads’ - Portishead
‘Soon’ - MBV
‘Crow pt2’ - Mount Eerie
‘Duckworth’ - Kendrick Lamar
‘Hot Knife’ - Fiona Apple
Chris Westoby lioness ❤️
Most of my favourite closers are just by Radiohead. They seriously never miss when making a closer, even on their first album
This is a good take. Wolf at the Door is probably my favorite Radiohead closer but they really don’t ever miss.
Wolf at the Door and The Tourist are both two of the best closers I’ve ever heard.
Motion picture soundtrack and life in a glasshouse are two of my favourites of their closers
videotape and true love waits
I'm very happy to be suscribed to your channel because I'm not really listening to what you're listening to ( I mostly listen to metal) so I can discover so much interesting artists. ( I discovered your channel with your guide on King Crimson that was a great video)
“Gouge Away” Pixies, Doolittle
“Echoes” Pink Floyd, Meddle
“Last Time I Saw Richard” Joni Mitchell, Blue
“Does Not Suffice” Joanna Newsom, Have One on Me
“Darker with the Day” Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, No More Shall We Part
“Judy and the Dream of Horses” Belle and Sebastian, If You’re Feeling Sinister
“Bold as Love” Jimi Hendrix Experience, Axis: Bold as Love
“Slim Slow Slider” Van Morrison, Astral Weeks
“I Dream a Highway “ Gillian Welch, Time the Revelator
And so on
My all time favorite closer is probably Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands from Blonde on Blonde
Nine Inch Nails - "The Background World" from Add Violence is one of the most perfect final tracks I've ever heard, super cool and damn haunting.
Yeessss
I think NIN is actually one of the masters of closing songs. I can't think of a NIN album on which the final track wouldn't be one of the best on the album - and working brilliantly in the whole sequence.
Over & Out off Bad Witch nails this as well
Going to complete the trilogy in this thread by saying, Burning bright (field on fire) is exceptional, the groaning horrible way it drags you over glass and stone whilst giving you some form of power is fantastic, as we close, the "I can't tell if I am dreaming anymore" is something I understood and related to then personally, but with the world we live in today it truly rings clear for all of us.
Hell yeah! I had no idea that an angry version of basinski's distegration loops could be made, let alone in a track that wasn't an hour long. Trent truly is a genius when he wants to be.
Riot! by Earl Sweatshirt immediately came to mind as the ultimate uplifter. A nice little minute-long instrumental on its own, but my GOD is it so much more after you've just listened to the whole album before it. I'm pretty sure it's the only instrumental track to have genuinely brought me to tears.
The Mars Volta, De-Loused In The Comatorium: Take The Veil, Cerpin Taxt
Swans, The Seer: Apostate
Nothing has blown me away like those two. Now to watch this video!
Favorite closing tracks I can think of off my favorite albums:
Re: Stacks - For Emma Forever Ago (Bon Iver)
Leave the city - Trench (twenty one pilots)
Cudi Montage - Kids See Ghosts
Future Reflections - oracular spectacular (MGMT)
Truce - Vessel (twenty one pilots)
Leave the city is a perfect ending. It's also like a three way story. 1. Leaving trench(the city) 2. Leaving the album 3. Leaving your demons( depression, anxiety,etc.). I absolutely love the song.
Stacks is the perfect possible ending for that album, a kind of 'taking stock and looking forward' feel to it
I love Leave the city, but god I find it so depressing
Sonic Youth - "The Diamond Sea"
Talking Heads - "This Must Be The Place"
Oneohtrix Point Never - "Chrome Country"
Tim Hecker - "Stab Variation"
Aphex Twin - "#24 (Matchsticks)"
Carl Stone - "Mae Yao"
Arthur Russell - "In Love With You For The Last Time"
Arthur Russell - "Love Comes Back"
John Maus - "Believer"
Mogwai - "Mogwai Fear Satan"
Return To Forever - "Song To The Pharaoh Kings"
William Basinski - "4(E+D)4(ER=EPR)"
Mogwai Fear Satan is a shout and a half 🖤
Mogwai have gone for a few big endings. We're No Here, You're Lionel Richie. Another one from Tim Hecker - although not the closing track, Balkanize-You is a wonderfully evocative almost-closer.
DIAMOND SEA IS PERFECT
chrome country is god tier
Both of those Arthur Russel tracks are incredible closers
Cassandra Gemini by The Mars Volta is my favorite colser and favorite song. It's just 30 minutes of constant amazing melodies and solos. I love it.
The cathartic distortion of Earthmover from Deathconsciousness by Have A Nice Life. One of the most legendary closers to any album ever.
I feel like Videotape's gonna be in here
Motion Picture Soundtrack!
Unfortunately it was not...
Cocteau Twins - Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires
"Untitled 8" by Sigur Rós does not only sound like the end of an album, it sounds like the end of the world. A truly earthshattering closer.
The mini-suíte at the end of "Demon Days" is beautfiul, kind of in the uplifting way you talked about.
The obvious choice is probably "A Day in the Life". That chord is a chord to finish all chords. On that note, I just love how Abbey Road ends perfectly with the aptly named "The End", but then throws in the very sweet "Her Majesty" which is so quirky and leftfield.
In a similar manner but more in the emotional way work the very, very last notes of "Kid A" . "Motion Picture Soundtrack" is already hauntingly beautfiul on its own and a great finish, but then after a minute or so of silence they end it with a sound that makes you feel like you're standing in front of heaven's gate
Someone already mentioned it, but it'll be hard to top Phoebe Bridgers' closer this year. The song progresses in such unexpected ways.
sigur ros was the last thing i expected to see here (they were just sitting in the back of my mind really) but your explanation is so very correct and deserving. i love ( ), extremely underrated album.
I always felt like “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” was an absolutely beautiful subversion of all the self-centred feelings that come before it on the album, it sort of pulls the rug out from under you by showing the other-directed love that the self-obsession you and Dylan have been indulging in obscures