All Time Greatest Album Closers

I've been brainstorming about a few of the greatest album closers. Here are a few obvious that stood out for me. I'm curious to what others can add to this...


1). Love Reign O'er Me - The Who - Quadrophenia

2). A Day In The Life - The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

3). You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed

4). Desolation Row - Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

5). Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

6). Train In Vain - The Clash - London Calling

7). Hummingbird - B.B. King - Indianola Mississippi Seeds

8). Ambulance Blues - Neil Young - On The Beach

9). Darkness On The Edge Of Town - Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town

10). I Walk On Guilded Splinters - Dr. John - Gris-Gris

 

Won't Get Fooled Again
Jungleland
Year 1 by X from the album Wild Gift

 

1. Won't Get Fooled Again - Who's Next
2. The Last Trip to Tulsa - Neil Young
3. Champagne Supernova - What's the Story Morning Glory
4. Liberation - Chicago Transit Authority
5. The End- The Doors

 

Some of my favorites:

Inner City Blues - Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
You Set the Scene - Love - Forever Changes
I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever) - Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
Moonlight Mile - Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Perpetual Change - Yes - The Yes Album
Where Are You Tonight - Bob Dylan - Street Legal

 

Babe I'm On Fire - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Nocturama
Biko - Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel III
Alright - Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
Ease - Public Image Limited - Album
Struggle - Killing Joke - Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions

 

Grateful Dead - American Beauty - Truckin'
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead - Casey Jones

Probably the best example, IMO.

 

Starless (Red) - King Crimson
Spectral Mornings - Steve Hackett
Supper's Ready (Foxtrot) - Genesis

 

Dire Straits -Les Boys from Making Movies

 

Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Powerslave

 

Desolation Row wins it hands down but here's a few I particularly like:

Child Of Vision - Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Toussaint L'Overture - Santana - Third Album
Every Step Of The Way - Santana - Caravansarai
Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles - Revolver
Supper's Ready - Genesis - Foxtrot
Roadhouse Blues - Status Quo - Piledriver

 

Wings: Nineteen Hundred Eighty Five (Band on the Run)
Lou Reed: Sad Song (Berlin)
Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure (For Your Pleasure)
Brian Eno: Spirits Drifting (Another Green World)
Tones on Tail: Rain (Pop)
David Bowie: The Bewlay Brothers (Hunky Dory)
The Fall: To NK Roachment:Yarbles (This Nation's Saving Grace)

 

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And for me I would add Awaken - Yes - Going for the One

 

"Fracture" - Starless and Bible Black - King Crimson
"Complicated Game" - Drums and Wires - XTC
"Travels in Nihilon" - Black Sea - XTC
"Riot Act" - Get Happy!! - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
"My Sex" - Ultravox! - Ultravox
"Pilgrim's Progress" - A Salty Dog - Procol Harum
"The October Man" - The Love That Whirls - Bill Nelson
"The Big Country" - More Songs About Buildings and Food - Talking Heads
"Drugs" - Fear of Music - Talking Heads

 

"Decades" - Closer - Joy Division

 

Greatest

"Tomorrow Never Knows" - The Beatles - Revolver
"Caroline, No" - The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
"Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)" - Queen - A Day at the Races
"Time of the Season" - The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
"Torn Curtain" - Television - Marquee Moon

Some personal favorites

"Paper Boats" - Nada Surf - Let Go
"Only in Dreams" - Weezer - Self-titled
"The Tourist" - Radiohead - OK Computer
"Paint America Love" - Lou Christie - Paint America Love
"Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo" - Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
"Chicago at Night" - Spoon - Girls Can Tell
"Rise" - Josh Rouse - 1972
"I Can Feel It" - Sloan - Twice Removed

 

That should be in a 'how to spoil a great album' thread along with Cream's Mother's Lament.

King Crimson - The Court of the Crimson King
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Caravan - Nine Feet Underground
The Pretty Things - Loneliest Person
Deep Purple - Hard Loving Man
Bob Marley - One Love & Redemption Song
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
Fleetwood Mac - Before The Beginning
The Zombies - Time Of The Season

 

"When the Levee Breaks" Led Zeppelin IV

 

Spiral Architect-Black Sabbath-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Josie-Steely Dan-Aja
Lucky Man-ELP-Self titled
Betrayal-Tangerine Dream-Sorcerer soundtrack

 

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  You Keep On Moving - Deep Purple - Come Taste The Band
  I'm Just A Singer In A Rock and Roll Band - Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn
  The Back Seat Of My Car - Paul McCartney - Ram
  Effigy - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy And The Poor Boys
  Open Your Eyes - Asia - Alpha
  Everyday Glory - Rush - Counterparts
  Irvine / Chivas - Kelly Clarkson - My December

 

The first one that came to my mind!

 

Desperados Under The Eaves - Warren Zevon

 

Surprised no one mentioned the true greatest album closer

Ride's OX4 from Going Blank Again


Then again guess it was only recorded a decade or two ago.

 

"Repent Walpurgis" - Procol Harum - (s/t)
"Here Comes the Flood" -Peter Gabriel - (car)
"Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part II" - King Crimson - LTIA

 

Bold As Love - Hendrix

 

Some of my picks:

"You Can't Always Get What You Want" - Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
"I Am The Resurrection" - Stone Roses - S/T
"In The Backseat" - Arcade Fire - Funeral
"Brain Damage/Eclipse" - Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
"The Man Machine/Die Mensch Maschine" - Kraftwerk - The Man Machine/Die Mensch Maschine
"Rocket Queen" - Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
"Jealousy" - Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
"Street Spirit (Fade Out)" - Radiohead - The Bends
"Rock n Roll Suicide" - David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
"Dream Attack" - New Order - Technique