Best last song on an album

Lots of great tunes noted in this thread, but I didn't see these:

Santana - "Soul Sacrifice"
Grand Funk Railroad - "I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home"

 

I was gonna say Round by Jethro Tull.............but I have to go with Brothers in Arms.

 

My girlfriend's all-time favorite song
(for some mysterious indiscernible reason) is "Taken In",
the closing track from Mike + The Mechanics' debut. Odd.

 

Apologies if any of these tracks have already been listed, but I didn't see them as I combed through the thread:

"A Quick One," The Who, Happy Jack/A Quick One
"We're Not Gonna Take It/Listening To You," The Who, Tommy
"Who Are You," The Who, Who Are You
"Down in a Tube Station at Midnight," The Jam, All Mod Cons
"True," Spandau Ballet, True
"Knife," Aztec Camera, Knife
"Song for a Friend," Aztec Camera, Stray
"Moon on Your Pajamas," Paul Weller, Wildwood
"Roman," The Church, Hey Day
"Lady Waters and the Hooded One," Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians, Element of Light
"Here Comes a Regular," The Replacements, Tim
"Walls Come Tumblin' Down," The Style Council, Internationalists/Our Favourite Shop
"Blazing Apostles," Be Bop Deluxe, Sunburst Finish
"Pirates," Emerson Lake and Palmer, Works
"Town Cryer," Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Imperial Bedroom
"Don't Ask Me Question," Graham Parker and the Rumour, Howlin' Wind
"Fool's Gold, Graham Parker and the Rumour, Heat Treatment
"Prairie Rose," Roxy Music, Country Life
"La Villa Strangiato," Rush, Hemispheres
"Lady Grinning Soul," David Bowie, Aladdin Sane
"Rock and Roll Suicide," David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust
"40," U2, War
"Electrolite," R.E.M., New Adventures in Hi Fi

Oh man, I need to stop!

 

Too many to list, but my personal favorite is "Look At You Look At Me" on Dave Mason's Alone Together.

 

Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, "Gold Dust Woman".
Epic ending to an epic album.

 

The Beatles: Sgt Pepper's - A Day in the Life

The Zombies: Odessey & Oracle - Time Of The Season

 

"B ain't S" - The Chronic

"I Believe I Can Fly" - R.

"The Lady In My Life" - Thriller

"Just As Long As We Have Love" - Pick Of The Litter

"I Want To Hold Your Hand" - A Collection Of Beatles Oldies

"On Our Own" - Ghostbusters II

"Nineteen Hundred Eighty Five" but without the Band On The Run outro tacked on.

 

"All About You"-Rolling Stones Emotional Rescue

 

Green Grass and High Tides - The Outlaws self titled
Tush - ZZ Top- Fandango

 

Salt of the Earth-stones

 

The Great Nothing - Spock's Beard - V

 

I don't think anything can top Moonlight Mile.
bu Waterloo Sunset comes close

 

The Ocean - (Houses Of The Holy)

 

A Day in the Life (Sgt. Pepper)
The End/Her Majesty (Abbey Road)
Rock 'n' Roll Suicide (Ziggy Stardust)
I Can't Give Everything Away (Blackstar)
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands (Blonde on Blonde)
Jungleland (Born to Run)
One of These Days (McCartney II)
Through Our Love (Pipes of Peace)
God/My Mummy's Dead (John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band)
Little Red Robin Hood Hit the Road (Rock Bottom)
I Am the Resurrection (The Stone Roses)
The End (The Doors)
Riders on the Storm (L.A. Woman)
Purple Rain (Purple Rain)
Sometimes it Snows in April (Parade)

 

Jungleland - Born To Run
or
Riders On The Storm - L.A. Woman
(or I Remember Nothing - Unknown Pleasures
or Purple Rain - Purple Rain)

 

Flash Light (Funkentelechy vs. The Placebo Syndrome)

Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples (Mothership Connection)

 

Hymn To Freedom ...Night Train Oscar Peterson Trio.

 

I love reading the responses to threads like this. It both flags albums I haven't listened to in a while for immediate consideration and reminds me how much craft went in to some of my favorites.

One I haven't seen mentioned is "Like Suicide" from Soundgarden's Superunknown album. If that's not a great closer, I don't know what is. Nothing torqued me off more than when they started tacking on "She Likes Surprises" on more recent editions of the record. One of the few times I can say that tacking on extra music actively diminished the flow of an album.

 

The original European edition of the album always ended with Surprises, but you are right; it doesn't really fit.

 

Pigeon Song by America!

 

I had no idea there was an alternate track order. It makes it less infuriating that the newer versions end like that, but man that song really doesn't work in that placement!

It might even be a fine song on its own, but it feels like a clunker coming after such a great piece of writing and performance. A change in the running order may be the only merciful thing to do!

 

I have a playlist of great closing songs, and this thread is definitely going to embiggen it!

"I Suppose" - the Connells, Boylan Heights
"First Steps" - Bash & Pop (Tommy Stinson), Friday Night Is Killing Me
"Soul Survivor" - the Stones, Exile on Main Street
"Moonlight Mile" - the Stones, Sticky Fingers
"Can't Hardly Wait" - the Replacements, Pleased to Meet Me
"Private Archipelago" - Sordid Humor, Light Music for Dying People
"Not Beautiful" - the Popes, Hi We're The Popes
"In Reverse" - The War On Drugs, Lost in the Dream
"Gospel" - the National, Boxer
"Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks" - the National, High Violet
"Mr. November" - the National, Alligator
"Slim Slow Slider" - Van Morrison, Astral Weeks
"The History of Where Someone Has Been Killed" - Marah, Kids in Philly

 

Let me add Gold Dust Woman - Rumours
Funky Pretty - Holland
Fame - YA
European Son - VU & Nico
I Ain't Superstitious - Truth

 

"If I Can Dream"