Best last song on an album

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  1. strummer101

    strummer101 The insane on occasion aren't without their charms

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    Lou Reed
    Goodnight Ladies
    Sad Song
    Coney Island Baby
    Temporary Thing
    The Bells
    Dime Store Mystery
    Set the Twilight Reeling
     
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  2. Archtop

    Archtop Soft Dead Crimson Cow

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    I'd have to go with Desolation Row, Starless, and Tomorrow Never Knows. I think that all of them are at least as good as A Day in the Life, and that's a great track!
     
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  3. mindblanking

    mindblanking The Bourbon King Thread Starter

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  4. The Doors - "Riders On The Storm" from L.A. Woman.
     
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  5. Monosterio

    Monosterio Forum Resident

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    Prince--Purple Rain
    Springsteen--Jungleland (Born to Run)
    Pavement--Fillmore Jive (Crooked Rain)
     
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  6. mindblanking

    mindblanking The Bourbon King Thread Starter

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    That's up there for me too. I'm not necessarily talking about how great a song is but how well it fits as a closer and this one definitely qualifies.
     
  7. Sammy Waslow

    Sammy Waslow Just watching the show

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    The Court of the Crimson King from In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson.
     
  8. Ted Dinard

    Ted Dinard Forum Resident

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    Replacements Tim: "Here Comes a Regular"
     
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  9. Roger Thornhill

    Roger Thornhill Senior Member

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  10. Khamakhazee

    Khamakhazee Forum Resident

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    Led Zeppelin IV
     
  11. tmwlng

    tmwlng Forum Resident

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    One I forgot: Afterglow by Genesis. Also add the two instrumentals preceding it on the album.
     
  12. agentalbert

    agentalbert Senior Member

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    That's the one that came to mind for me.
     
  13. Folknik

    Folknik Forum Resident

    Plus "The End" and "When the Music's Over."
     
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  14. Folknik

    Folknik Forum Resident

    In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
     
  15. mindblanking

    mindblanking The Bourbon King Thread Starter

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  16. Purple Jim

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  17. Purple Jim

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    All you had to say was "Ooops, I didn't see that".
     
  18. bcaulf

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    Here's a few:

    Lonely Is The Word by Black Sabbath
    Wasted Time by Skid Row
    Wild Is The Wind by David Bowie
    Decades by Joy Division
    Larks' Tongues In Aspic Pt. 2 by King Crimson
    Diary Of A Madman by Ozzy Osbourne
    Here Comes The Flood and Biko by Peter Gabriel
    Mystery Achievement by The Pretenders
    Seven Seas Of Rhye by Queen
    Song For The Asking by Simon & Garfunkel
    The Sahara Of Snow by Bruford
    On Fire and House Of Pain by Van Halen
    Sister Ray by Velvet Underground
    Heart Of The Sunrise by Yes

    I don't think any of these were mentioned.
     
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  19. rwil

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    Decades, definitely.
     
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  20. BryanW

    BryanW Likes his pop sunny.

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    I have to agree with your assertion. I still remember the first time I listened to "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". It was a great experience, and I was enjoying the songs and the feel of the album. Then, the Sgt. Pepper Reprise signaled the end of the album. "A Day in the Life" drew me in from the first notes. John's dreamily detached verses painted a clear, but psychedelic picture, and Paul's break took me out of the dream and put me right back into it. The orchestral cacophony built up to it's peak, and the final piano chord brought it all back to earth. I was stunned.

    "A Day in the Life" is a truly great song and the perfect close to one of the Beatles' best albums. It's not the sort of song that you'll hear people singing to themselves. I think that it's fortunate that it wasn't issued as a contemporaneous single - you had to play the album.



    There are many great songs that close terrific albums; many have already been mentioned. If I had to offer another suggestion, I'd say that "Us and Them" did a similarly marvelous job for Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon".

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Yayz5o-l0

    I think that all of these are respectable contenders.
     
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  21. joelee

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    God-Lennon POB
     
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  22. mindblanking

    mindblanking The Bourbon King Thread Starter

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    Or... another option would be to not search through threads to prove this has been covered before. Seems like a waste of time and energy. This is why my postings have gone way down. Lots and lots of complainers on here and guys looking to prove points.
     
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  23. KN65

    KN65 Well-Known Member

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    Two from Moody Blues:
    1). Nights in White Satin off of Days of Future Passed
    2). Watching and Waiting off of To Our Children's Children's Children
     
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  24. tmwlng

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    Another one that sends me dimensions away and swiftly returns me as the album draws to a close: Gentle Giant - River (from Octopus).

    Agree 1.000.000 % on Watching and Waiting... Such a transcendent song... Probably the best they ever did.

    Also with the Moodies I must add Melancholy Man / The Balance. All the pain and suffering in the entire history of the world followed by down-to-earth rejoice and moving on. There is not one second of those two songs that is less than perfect. The yin and the yang... They were always good at composing big, moving works.
     
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  25. Purple Jim

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    Nothing needs to be proven. It's simply not healthy for the forum to have multiple threads of exactly the same subject.
     
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