Greatest album closers

Band of Skulls - Cold Fame from their 2009 debut Baby Darling Doll Face Honey.

 

Just for the record: 'Unknown Soldier' is only the closing track of side one.
While 'Five To One' is the true closing track, originally the very last one of this album on side two.

And in my eyes, 'Five To One' is the real gem of this album. (Together with ' Alabama Song' & 'Light My Fire' my favorite Doors tune.)

'Unknown Soldier' by contrast is a bit overrated in my opinion.

Dietrich Diederichsen, cult autor & chief reviewer of the acclaimed German music journal Spex in the 80s, once called 'Unknown Soldier' the silliest anti-war-song of all-time.
I would not go so far, but I think that the Doors have at least recorded more than 20 clearly superior tracks between 1966 and 1971

 

Another great closing track:

Whipping Post from the debut album of the Allman Brothers Band, released 1969:







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Plus 'Lovely On The Water', the closing track on the classic British folk album 'Please To See The King' by Steeleye Span from 1971:









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Another fave: . It's All Over Now, Baby Blue by Bob Dylan. . From 'Bringing It All Back Home' (1965)









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"There's A Place In The World For A Gambler" is the perfect album closer on Dan Fogelberg's 1974 album Souvenirs.

 

The 'Grand Finale' movement in the 'In Held 'Twas I' medley, from the original
'Procol Harum Live: In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra' album.

This YouTube version doesn't do it justice as does the later re-releases do, and yet I think this is one song that that is begging for a 5.1 remix, especially @ the second time the choir comes in.

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Nena-Nachts Wenn Es Warm Ist, 2009 (Made In Germany)
Warner Germany has blocked the studio version, here's the live one

 

I think I meant to say it should've been the closer. It just sounds like a grand finale with "It's all over, the war is over..."

 

"Kandy Korn" ~ Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

 

"When The Levee Breaks" ~ Led Zeppelin

 

weaker than "Our House"?

 

Well, "The End" isn't really a closer (there is still "Her Majesty" after that). But I concur with Sgt. Pepper / ADITL

Also, I'd like to add:

The Beatles: Let It Be - Get Back

The Doors: The Doors - The End

 

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Mother of Earth, the closing track on Miami, the second studio album of the Gun Club (released 1982)

Down in the Gutter, But Free - from the third Canned Heat album Hallelujah (1969)




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A Day in the Life — The Beatles (I prefer “The End,” but that technically wasn’t the closing song on ‘Abbey Road.’)
You Can’t Always Get What You Want — the Stones
Moonlight Mile — the Stones
Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-X) — Pink Floyd
Indifference — Pearl Jam
Desolation Row — Bob Dylan
Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands — Bob Dylan
The End — The Doors
When the Music’s Over — The Doors
Won’t Get Fooled Again — The Who
Tomorrow Wendy — Concrete Blonde
Black Angel — The Cult
Fade Out (Street Spirit) — Radiohead
Long May You Run — Stills/Young (last song on ‘Decade’)
Tacoma Trailer — Leonard Cohen
Closing Time — Tom Waits
Redemption Song — Bob Marley and the Wailers

 

Beatles: Her Majesty!

 

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The Dominion of the Sword, last track on Right of Passage, an album from the legendary British Folk-Guitarist, Singer & Songwriter Martin Carthy, released 1988:


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Plus The Bonny Black Hare from 1967, last track on the album Byker Hill by Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick:

................ Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick - The Bonny Black Hare 1967.







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Caravan, the last song on the recommendable Post-Swing-Jazz-Album Ben Webster Meets Don Byas, recorded & released 1968:









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Pink Floyd’s “Bike” (1967)



The musique concrète bit at the end is my favorite ending to an album ever.

 

Well, the moon is broken... and the sky is cracked...

 

Jugband blues

 

Decades-Closer LP by Joy Division

 

Oh yes, great closer of a stunning second side