Albums with great finishing tracks

Patti Smith - "easter"

 

Television- Marquee Moon, "Torn Curtain"

 

INXS- Building Bridges off of the album Elegantly Wasted

 

I'm gonna cheat. Faith No More's 'Angel Dust' is a better listen with Midnight Cowboy as the opener, IMO. That leaves Jizzlobber at the end. There's nowhere to go after that. Nothing can follow that track. When the planet Melancholia collides with planet earth, and we all perish, I'll be playing that track.

 

Black Sabbath-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath-Spiral Architect
Iron Maiden-Number of the Best-Hallowed Be thy Name
Alice Cooper-Killer-Killer
Metallica-Ride The Lighting-The Call of Ktulu
Black Sabbath-Master Of Reality-Into The Void
AC/DC-Highway To Hell-Night Prowler
Slayer-Reign in Blood-Raining Blood.
Ozzy Osbourne-Diary Of a Madman-Diary of a Madman
Motorhead-Bomber-Bomber.

 

Mystery Achievement from The Pretenders first album.

 

Song For Guy - Elton John

 

Zeppelin
I
II
IV
ITTOD

 

Luckily, at the time the US didn’t have the track

 

REM - Automatic For The People - Find The River
Belle And Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister - Judy And The Dream Of Horses
ELO - Out Of The Blue - Wild West Hero

 

Cosmo's Factory by CCR - Long as I Can See the Light

 

Genesis had The Fountain of Salmacis and Supper's Ready early on, although in my opinion their later LPs tended to tail off a bit toward the end.

 

Kissing to be Clever

 

Every Joni album has a great closing track if ya ask me

Cactus Tree, Both Sides Now, Circle Game, Richard, Judgement of the Moon and Stars, Twisted, Shadows and Light, Refuge of the Roads, Silky Veils of Ardor, Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Love, Lucky Girl, Bird that Whistles, Two Grey Rooms, Sire of Sorrow, Tiger Bones, Both Sides Now (2000), Circle Game (2002), If.

With the possible exception of Tiger Bones and the remake of Circle Game, all essential Joni.

 

Marvin Gaye: Inner City Blues
Linkin Park: Numb
Michael Jackson: Leave Me Alone
Peter Gabriel: Here Comes the Flood
Pink Floyd: High Hopes
Renaissance: Mother Russia
Yes: Siberian Khatru
O'Jays: I Love Music & Love Train
King Crimson: Starless
Frank Zappa: Montana & Yo Mama

 

Beatles: Rubber Soul US

 

Rainbow - A Light In The Black
UFO - Love To Love

 

Nirvana incesticide finishes with the awesome aneurysm.

 

Radiohead OK Computer last song is The Tourist. Dylan's Blonde on Blonde "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands", and Highway 61 "Desolation Row!" All above avg. songs and not a throwaway track as it were.

 

Deus - Pocket Revolution

Track; Nothing Really Ends

 

Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ends with "Harmony". The best song on the album? That would be like saying the smile is the best part of a Mona Lisa... It's the whole that counts, and "Harmony" is a perfect stroke to finish the album.

 

Two great ones (IMO) that I didn't see mentioned - great songs that also are great as album closers on their respective albums:

"Radio Radio" from the Elvis Costello album This Year's Model, and "This Must Be The Place" from the Talking Heads' Speaking in Tongues.

 

Kate Bush - The Morning Fog (The Hounds of Love)
Kate Bush - Aerial (Aerial)
Floyd - Echoes (Meddle)
Zep - When the Levee Breaks (IV)
Yes - Awaken (Going for the One)
Genesis - Supper's Ready (Foxtrot)
Rush - Natural Science (Permanent Waves)
Radiohead - Street Spirit (fade out) (The Bends)
Joy Division - Decades (Closer)
The Stone Roses - I am the Resurrection (s/t)
Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (What's Going on)