Greatest album closers

Roger Waters - Amused to death
Daniel Norgren - Your Love
My Morning Jacket - Movin' Away

This thread deserves a Spotify playlist. If I ever get around to it, will post it.

 

"Run For Your Life" - Rubber Soul
"Tomorrow Never Knows" - Revolver
"A Day in the Life" - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
"Have You Heard Part 1/The Voyage/Have You Heard Part 2" - On The Threshold of a Dream
"The Inner Struggle of a Man/Prelude (little One)/Little One" - Chicago XI

 

Wouldn't that defeat the purpose?

 

Fingerprint File - Rolling Stones (It's Only Rock'n'Roll)
Exhausted - Foo Fighters (s/t)
After Hours - Velvet Underground (s/t)
Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Nirvana (Unplugged in NY)

 

These and the above already listed are some of my favorites that seem to work well with the albums
Xymox-Clementina, A nice instrumental to close out the album
Blue October-The Follow Through, Sums up the albums 'theme'
Ian Mcculloch-Start Again, Well, 'start again'
Journey-Why Can't This Night Go on Forever
Killing Joke-On All Hollow's Eve, In remembrance/respect of the one's we've lost
Lush-When I Die, ^ ^
Front Line Assembly-Heartquake, Fitting closer to one hellaofaride

 

Highway 61 revisited- Desolation Row (Bob Dylan)

 

Simple Minds - Come A Long Way, King Is White And In The Crowd
A-ha - Here I Stand And Face The Rain
Peter Gabriel - Secret World, Biko
Pink Floyd - Two Suns In The Sunset, High Hopes
Vangelis - Pina Nina Santa Maria (into Eternity)
U2 - Love Is Blindness, Mothers Of The Disappeared
Tears For Fears - Listen, Famous Last Words

 

Roxy Music's "Just Another High".

 

Loudness - "Never Change Your Mind"

 

A Day in the Life
The End
God
Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
Jungleland
Purple Rain

 

ELP's Pirates off of Works and Lucky Man off of ELP I.
Love, Reign o'er Me off of The Who's Quadrophenia...

Just to name a few..

 

The Waxwings, "It Comes In Waves":

 

Holst - Neptune

 

Def Leppard - "No, No No" from High N' Dry

 

Ooh ooh please sir
The Damned - Smash it Up Parts 1&2

 

Reflections of a Sun Freakout from Blue's Men's only lp 'Prohibido Prohibir.'

 

Bang-Shang-A-Lang from the Archies debut album. A real butt shaker.

 

Jizzlobber from Faith No More's Angel Dust. My Redux/Custom iTunes copy has Midnight Cowboy as the opener and then straight into Land Of Sunshine.
There's nowhere to go after Jizzlobber. It's so breathtakingly final, it almost feels like the end of the world, not just the end of a thrilling album!

 

Apologies probably already mentioned but a standout:



Just One Victory

 

The Cars - All Mixed Up for The Cars,
Dangerous Type for Candy-O, Heartbeat City for Heartbeat City

Journey - Open Arms for Escape

Toto - Angela for Toto, Africa for Toto IV

Alan Parsons Project - Old and Wise for Eye In the Sky

Queen - The Show Must Go On for Innuendo

 

The greatest examples I could think of have already been mentioned so here are some possibly eccentric choices;
John Lennon - Just Because (Rock 'n' Roll)
Yoko Ono - Hard Times Are Over (Double Fantasy)
The Rolling Stones - Something Happened To Me Yesterday (Between The Buttons)
The Kinks - You Can't Stop The Music (Soap Opera)

And of course the good ol' Grateful Dead had this consecutive run of studio album closers;
Cosmic Charlie (Aoxomoxoa)
Casey Jones (Workingman's Dead)
Truckin' (American Beauty)
Weather Report Suite (Wake Of The Flood)
Ship Of Fools (From The Mars Hotel)

 

Since a lot of people are talking about The Beatles' "Run For Your Life" over on the "Last song, worst song" thread, I think I'll give it some love over here.
I really think that it's the perfect way to close out Rubber Soul. The song is not only great, but lyrically the entire album seems to have a theme of "realistic" love songs, and I think that as such a song like "Run For Your Life" works very well at the end.

 

Stiv Bators - I Wanna Forget You (Just The Way You Are)

 

"Don't Bring Me Down" - ELO (Album: Discovery)
"Feelin' Stronger Every Day" - Chicago (Album: Chicago VI)