Great album closing tracks

Champagne Supernova
How Many More Times
When the Levee Breaks
I'm Gonna Crawl
Twist and Shout
Tomorrow Never Knows
A Day in the Life
The End
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Moonlight Mile
Soul Survivor
Fingerprint File
Make Sense Of It (Split Enz - Time and Tide)
Lot 105
Brain Damage/Eclipse
Echoes

 

"Love Reign O'er Me" - The Who - Quadrophenia
"Waterloo Sunset" - The Kinks - Something Else By The Kinks
"Bring It On Home" - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
"Riders On The Storm" - The Doors - LA Woman
"That's All You Need" - The Faces - A Nod's As Good As A Wink...To A Blind Horse

And because "Moonlight Mile" has been mentioned already, I probably didn't need to bother...but it's so great I had to. The ultimate album closer.

 

I always loved this song, especially how he refrains the Allentown melody at the end. Sort of ties the record together.

 

Jungleland

 

The Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection

 

Jugband Blues

 

Elton John knew how to close out an album. Harmony and High Flying Bird are both great closers.

I also like Pale and Precious by The Dukes Of Stratosphear (XTC) and Matthew Sweet's Smog Moon.

 

Saga are one of the best bands when it comes to closing tracks. They usually put their most "epic" song at the end...

Tired World (Chapter Six) - Saga
Mouse in a Maze - Images at Twilight
Careful Where You Step - Silent Knight
No Stranger (Chapter Eight) - Worlds Apart
The Pitchman - Heads or Tales
(Goodbye) Once Upon a Time - Behaviour
Giant - The Beginner's Guide to Throwing Shapes
etc.

 

West of Hollywood from Steely Dan's Two Against Nature. Also the last track from every Talking Heads album.

 

Faded, The Afghan Whigs' - Black Love. In fact the 3-song suite at the end of that album is possibly my favourite run of songs ever.
Bury Me In Smoke, Down - NOLA. It just encapsulates everything about the record...and it's got a fake ending. I usually hate fade-out/fade back in at the end of an album, but as the silence only lasts for around 5 seconds I think it works brilliantly.

 

My two favorites in this category are:

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

 

The Kinks:
Better Things (Give the People What They Want)
Celluloid Heroes (Everybody's In Showbiz)
Muswell Hillbilly (Muswell Hillbillies)

 

Highway 61 Revisited - Desolation Row
Did I really get this in first?

 

Aside from the obvious ones already posted here:

Siamese Dream - Luna
The Downward Spiral - Hurt
The Raven That Refused To Sing - The Raven That Refused To Sing
Hand.Cannot.Erase - Happy Returns/Ascendant Here On...
Purple Rain - Purple Rain
The Gold Experience - Gold
Marbles - Neverland
Sounds That Can't Be Made - The Sky Above The Rain
Foxtrot - Supper's Ready

 

Back To The Earth from Rusted Root's When I Woke.

 

While the song "The End" from The Beatles' "Abbey Road" album is technically not the closing one, I regard it so. I think the inclusion of "Her Majesty" as the last song marred an otherwise excellent album and speaks volumes for Paul McCartney's arrogance.

 

I see and respect your point of view, but I always press the stop button befor "Her Majesty" starts. I deleted the last track before moving a FLAC version to my DAP. The song makes me cringe!

 

"Riders on the Storm" from The Doors' LA Woman
"Won't Get Fooled Again" from Who's Next
"Descending" from The Black Crowes' Amorica

 

A few from They Might Be Giants:

Rhythm Section Want Ad - They Might Be Giants
Road Movie To Berlin - Flood
The End Of The Tour - John Henry
The Mesopotamians - The Else

 

No. Someone mentioned it a couple of pages back.

 

'Billy's Got a Gun' - Def Leppard - Pyromania
'Before My Eyes' - Tesla - Mechanical Resonance

 

The Overload (from Remain In Light) - Talking Heads

 

I read the pages. It must've been buried one of those long lists.

edit: Hah, it's in the OP's list

 

Yeah, I think so. First or second page. It's an awesome closer. My favourite Dylan song...or near enough, anyway.

 

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