Best last song on an album

Not healthy? Sounds a bit OCD to me. Can we stop this now? Go about your day.

 

From the Moody Blues' "On the Threshold of a Dream"

Have You Heard (Part 1) - The Voyage - Have You Heard (Part 2)

 

That's an interesting choice..not for the song itself but for the fact that it's really not the last song on the album; My Mummy's Dead is. Over the years, in my mind also, God was the albums last song. but in rethinking it and discussing it on another forum, MMD really IS the definitive final statement on the album. In it's extremely short, stark, totally underproduced form, it epitomizes the "bottom-line" frame of mind Lennon was all about at that very specific time in his life and almost served as a summary to the album's overall theme and mind set.

...just to add, had MMD not been on the album, God would, indeed, have been a superb closer.

 

From "Chicago XI" (1977)

The last Chicago album with Terry Kath.

The Inner Struggles of a Man - Prelude (Little One) - Little One

 

Here are some really reeeeally good ones:

Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler), on What's Going On
By the Time I Get to Phoenix, on Hot Buttered Soul
Cargo Culte, on Histoire de Melody Nelson (that album is book-ended so f-ing beautifully)
Ao Que Vai Nascer, on Clube da Esquina
Bel Air, on Future Days
Flash Gordon's Ape, on Lick My Decals Off, Baby
My Song, on Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Ave Ghengis Khan, on Os Mutantes
Purple Rain, on Purple Rain
Supper's Ready, on Foxtrot
Psalm, on A Love Supreme
Caroline No, on Pet Sounds
Thank You for Talkin' to Me Africa, on There's a Riot Goin' On

And in my opinion, one of the best at closing tracks is David Bowie. Some examples:

Rock & Roll Suicide, on The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
The Bewlay Brothers, on Hunky Dory
Lady Grinning Soul, on Aladdin Sane
Subterraneans, on Low
The Supermen, on The Man Who Sold the World
Wild is the Wind, on Station to Station

 

+1 "I Remember Nothing" from Unknown Pleasures is pretty great too!

 

I would have to agree that the top two songs that are the last great songs on a album for me anyway are "A Day In A Life" probably one of my all time favorite songs and "Won't Get Fooled Again" is my second but Soundgarden "Superunkown" "Like Suicide" is in my top 5.

 

Queen - In The Lap Of The Gods... Revisited - Sheer Heart Attack
The Cure - Faith - Faith
The Cure - Pornography - Pornography

 

I'd go along with "A Day in the Life" but another strong closer is "Surf's Up" on the Beach Boys Surf's Up album.

The one-two closeout punch of "Til I Die" followed by "Surf's Up" was like finding two diamonds at the bottom of a bag of charcoal when I first bought the album.

 

Flamenco Sketches.

 

Genesis had some pretty great ones:
The Knife
Supper's Ready
Los Endos
Afterglow

 

The Beach Boys - "Bull Session With The Big Daddy'"

 

Voodoo Child- Slight Return.
Almost as good is Bold as Love.

 

Echoes

nuff said.

 

Jeff Beck I Ain't Superstitious
Allman Brothers Whipping Post
Eric Clapton Let It Rain

 

I'm not sure anything could follow that final "yeah, yeah, yeaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

 

Listening to Off The Wall by Michael Jackson at the moment, and 'Burn This Disco Out' is a great end to the album.

 

From Sabotage

 

Shangri-La - ELO's A New World Record

 

Awesome song and it doesn't take anywhere near as long as "A Day In the Life" to sit through, what with our busy lives and all!

 

This year, for me, the grand finale "Time as a Symptom" from the amazing new Joanna Newsom record will be hard to surpass...

And it pains me to say, I was wrong.
Love is not a symptom of time.
Time is just a symptom of love

 

Better than "A Day in the Life"

 

Answering Machine -- from "Let It Be" by the Replacements.

 

I agree that "Surf's Up" And "'Til I Die" are great songs but I think most songs on the album are excellent.

 

Lou Reed "Metal Machine Music Pt 4". What a great way to end an album!!!!!