Best last song on an album

Kind Woman- Buffalo Springfield

 

Rocket Queen - Guns n' Roses

 

That "yeah, yeah, yeaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh" is probably one of the most influential sounds the world over.

 

If new threads are prefaced with "This weeks" - {fill in repeated topic}, then all is good.

It happens all the time across the internet.

Heck - aren't we about due for another cable thread in the hardware forum?

 

"Beyond The Moon" - MAX WEBSTER
- from Mutiny Up My Sleeve

 

Eclipse - Dark Side of the Moon

 

My Last Words - Megadeth - Peace Sells But Who's Buying?

Lonely Is The Word - Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

Diary Of A Madman - Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman

Astronomy - Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties

 

I agree with numerous prior mentions. Here are a few, top-of-my-mind, some from from albums aren't super popular:

Which Will-Lucinda Williams' loving live acoustic 2 AM performance of Nick Drakes finest concludes Sweet Old World.

Come on, Come on-Mary-Chapin Carpenter concludes the cd of the same name.

Toad-Fresh Cream

If This is Goodbye-All the Roadrunning (Mark Knopfler/Emmylou Harris)

Verdi Cries-In My Tribe (10,000 Maniacs)

Peaches & Diesel-Slowhand (Eric Clapton)

We're All Alone-Silk Degrees (Boz Scaggs)

Plus many more...
GT

 

Xtc have some good ones.

"Snowman"


"Train Running Low on Soul Coal"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6sStMKSTAo


Some of their other albums have songs that songs that I might not consider their very best, but are perfect for ending the album: "Travels in Nihilon," "Complicated Game," and especially "Sacrificial Bonfire."

And their pals the Dukes have "Pale and Precious."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRcXWGLummo

 

Badfinger - Timeless from their final Apple album Ass. The song musically sounds like a storm, really unlike anything Pete Ham had done before. I may be reading too much into it but the song really feels dark and kind of gives you a hint to where Pete's mind was going. Great song to close an underrated album though.

 

Forgot about this one. Great pick!

 

Also, Violent Femmes, "Good Feeling."



And Velvet Underground, "Afterhours"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRrZD6HZAto

 

When the Musics Over! I always feel spent after listening to that one wrap up Strange Days

 

Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Love Reign O'er Me
New York City Serenade
She Loves You

 

Maybe a liiiiiitle more contemporary?

Just Radiohead alone:
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
The Tourist
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Videotape

Plus..
Pearl Jam - Release
Red House Painters - Drop
Nirvana - Something In The Way
Whiskeytown - Not Home Anymore
Oasis - Champagne Supernova
Wilco - Reservations
Weezer - Only In Dreams
UNKLE - Rabbit In Your Headlights
Third Eye Blind - God Of Wine
Smashing Pumpkins - Luna

To name one or fourteen...

 

Doors - ' The End '.

It was the last song on the album... right?

 

Also Duke's Travels / Duke's End by Genesis deserves a mention.

 

I grew up with only the vinyl, and since it was labelled "Inside" and "Outside" instead of "Side 1" and "Side 2," I always thought the album began with She's Lost Control and ended with New Dawn Fades, and still can't help but think of it that way. New Dawn Fades, in my world, is a great last song.

 

Lots of great choices, I like my Forum members, will make the obvious choice with A Day in The Life, but I also really love Town Cryer on Imperial Bedroom by Elvis Costello, perfect closer on a just about perfect album

 

Drive by Truckers -
Southern Rock Opera - Angels and Fuselage
The Dirty South - Goddamn Lonely Love
English Oceans - Grand Canyon

 

you have to love the one two punch of "The Load-Out" into "Stay" on Jackson Browne's Running On Empty. Perfect ending.

 

All Mixed Up- The Cars
The Royal Scam- Steely Dan
Cherio-Jethro Tull (not a great song perse but a cool ending to an album)

 

Led Zeppelin- The Ocean (Houses of the Holy)

 

Black Sabbath-Fairies Wear Boots ( Paranoid)

 

Five pages in and neither of these have been mentioned ?