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[The Hammered]

Basically what the title says. I'll list mine.

The Stooges - Fun House - L.A. Blues
I'm sure there are a lot of people who hate this one, but I think it's the perfect ending to Fun House.
Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising - Death Valley '69
It's a good song all by itself, but it's mostly impressive as such a contrast to everything before it.
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat - Sister Ray
Couldn't go without mentioning this. Damn.
The Velvet Underground - [self-titled] - After Hours
First, I adore Moe Tucker's voice. Second, this is a wonderful little song, and third, it works very well to wind the album down after "The Murder Mystery."
The Ramones - [self-titled] - I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You and Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World
Both kickass songs, and even though it's just a second of feedback, the transition between them seems very satisfying for some reason.
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow - Duel in the Deep
It's a weird track (not even a song, really), even compared with the rest of the album, but I like it, probably for that reason. Also, the gradually fading feedback that ends it just seems to work really well. I'm not sure why.
Pixies - Bossanova - Havalina
Very sweet song, and it works really well as a closer.

[Zaarin]

Had to be said: "Mother's Lament" on Cream's Disraeli Gears.

[Anson]

The Books - The Lemon of Pink - PS

[squawk]

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's - A Day in the Life
I guess the Beatle chatter isn't really THAT great but the crazy ascending orchestra and the powerful E chord is a good ender.

[Zaarin]

Not to mention the mind-scrambling "never could be any other way".

[Spartan Pho3nix]

Two Headed Boy Pt 2 (NMH - ITAOTS)

I also think that Judy and the Dream of Horses (B&S - Sinister) and It's all gonna break (BSS - s/t) are two great closers. Also, The Wild Kindness (Silver Jews - American Water) is a great closer.

[Thrillho]

Green Day - Nimrod - Prosthetic Head
Pink Floyd - The Divison Bell - High Hopes
Radiohead - The Bends - Street Spirit
Nick Cave - Let Love In - Do You Love Me? (Part Two)
Nick Cave - The Lyre Of Orpheus - O Children
The Beatles - Revolver - Tomorrow Never Knows
Queen - The Works - Is This The World We Created?

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

Pixies - Doolittle - Gouge Away
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium - Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command - Non-Zero Possibility
Björk - Homogenic - All is Full of Love
Bonnie 'prince' Billy - I See a Darkness - Raining In Darling
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire - In Metal
Kaizer's Orchestra - Maestro - På Ditt Skift
Under Byen - Det er Mig der Holder Træerne Sammen - Om Vinteren
Under Byen - Kyst - Kyst

and the closers on Her Majesty and Picaresque are lovely little songs that round up the albums perfectly.

[KharBevNor]

Immortal - Damned in Black - Damned in Black

That last riff is just...grim. Fucking grim. I always get this mental image of a lone figure, all cloaked in tattered black and fur, slowly trudging away from me through an aurora-lit blizzard. Indeed, throughout, this song creates some of the most powerful mental images I can think of from music.

Sabbat - History of a Time to Come - The Church Bizarre

"Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Skyclad - Jonah's Ark - It Wasn't Meant to End This Way

"When death is the helmsman who steers "Jonah's Ark"
Tomorrows an iceberg that lurks in the dark.
The band plays our song... it's the Funeral March."

Sol Invictus - Death of the West - In The West

Just a great, epic closer. "The sun is setting in the west..."

...and that's all I can think of for now. I'm off to the pub!

[JuniorBriano]

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Upon This Tidal Wave Of Young Blood is a good one.

Can't seem to think of any others right now.  Must be all the crack I'm doing.

[edscoble]

Trailer Trash boy Modest Mouse has a very er, modest ending

[SpacemanSpiff]

The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium - Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt

Fuck, yes. That's so seconded.

Shellac - At Action Park - Il Porno Star
Shellac - Terraform - Copper
Shellac - 1000 Hurts - Watch Song
All Shellac albums have, for some reason, great closing tracks, though I would think that Copper is the most exceptional because it's by far the poppiest song Shellac have ever written.
XBXRX - Sixth In Senses - In Memory Of Our Lives
Descent into total chaos. Horrible and fascinating.
Mínus - Jesus Christ Bobby - Bonus Track
All songs of the album mashed into one, played backwards and looped. Weird.
Botch - We Are The Romans - Man The Ramparts
I like to ignore the bonus track here, I don't like it much. Plus Man The Ramparts is just one killer end for that album.

[Johnny C]

"Leif Erikson" - Interpol
"Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt" - The Mars Volta (I SO agree with this one)
"Butterfly" - Weezer
"Night Light" - Sleater-Kinney
"All Apologies" - Nirvana
"Road To Joy" - Bright Eyes

There's my list.

[E. Spaceman]

Arcade Fire - Funeral - In the Bck Seat (seconded)
Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress - Stay Loose .
Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain - Ocean Rain
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless - Soon
Radiohead - OK Computer - The Tourist

[jcknbl]

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless - Soon

Instantly what I thought of when I read the topic.

[Houdinimachine]

Weirdly enough, the first album that comes to mind is, of all things, Barenaked Ladies - Maroon with both the surreal "Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel" and the hidden track "Hidden Sun" which runs even softer and a little bit more hopeful. Yeah I know, it's mainstream pop. It's still damn good mainstream pop. I'm saddened that their latest album sucked so much.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, "Back and Forth" from Dismemberment Plan's Emergency and I is just freaking genius and I love it to bits.

[Tinjessla]

Pixies - Doolittle - Gouge Away
Björk - Homogenic - All is Full of Love

A bajillion times, yes!

Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of the Bewilderbeast - Epitaph
Jeff Buckley - Grace - Dream Brother
Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me - Dreamy Days
Ladytron - Witching Hour - All The Way
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike - Everyone's A VIP To Someone

[Misereatur]

Sol Invictus - The Hill of Crosses

Has an fairly good ending, thats all I can think of right now.

[amok]

VNV Nation - Matter & Form - Perpetual

[nescience]

I think it's great that a thread about endings is thread number 9999.

[La Creme]

+ The hidden track after "Coattails Of A Dead Man" on Primus' "Antipop".

+ The Bad Plus - Give - "Iron Man"
DECONSTRUCTIONOWN'D.

+ Tin Hat Trio - Book Of Silk - "Empire Of Light"
Goddam can Carla Kihlstedt sing.

+ Mr. Bungle - California - "Goodbye Sober Day"

+ Emerson, Lake, And Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery - "Karn Evil 9: 3rd Impression"

+ Oingo Boingo - Only A Lad - "Nasty Habits"
The part around 1:55. OH MAN.

+ 801 - Live - "Third Uncle"
BAAASSSSSSSS.

+ Eels - Electro Shock Blues - "P.S. You Rock My World"

+ General Patton VS. The X-ecutioners - Joint Special Operations Task Force - "Battle Damage Assessment And Repair/White Flag Surrender/"Wake Me Up In Heaven""
Oh Mike Patton.

MORE!

[Cartilage Head]

"In The Backseat" from The Arcade Fire's Funeral..FLAWLESS. Tell me if any of you do this..if you get a new album,do you ever flip through the lyric booklet to the last song and read the last few lyrics..to see if they are good album-closing lyrics? I do that..yes I do.

[Cartilage Head]

Oh..Opeth-Damnation-Weakness

[Joseph]

Yeah, I know some of these have been said, but I'll say them again anyway.

This Heart's On Fire - Apologies to the Queen Mary - Wolf Parade
Soon - Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City - Greetings From Asbury Park, New Jersey - Bruce Springsteen
Darkness on the Edge of Town - Darkness on the Edge of Town - Bruce Springsteen
It's All Gonna Break - Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Desolation Row - Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
Judy and the Dream of Horses - If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle and Sebastian
I Shall Be Released - Music From Big Pink - The Band
Riders on the Storm - LA Woman - The Doors
The End - The Doors - The Doors (Of course...)
A Wolf at the Door - Hail to the Theif - Radiohead
Calender Girl - Set Yourself on Fire - Stars
Only in Dreams - Weezer - Weezer
Butterfly - Pinkerton - Weezer
All the Beatles ones that have been mentioned, plus Her Majesty - Abbey Road

  That about covers it.

And worst album closer ever: A Long Day - The Beginning Stages Of... - The Polyphonic Spree

[SpacemanSpiff]

I forgot a couple, so let me add:

~ Burmese - Men - Just Say Cunt
I mean, Burmese in general is just noise and not really music, but this ... the last 30 seconds of this album are worse than everything before. It feels like you got raped.

~ Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 - 2113
I like the track and it makes for a pretty good end.

~ mclusky - mclusky Do Dallas - Whoyouknow + hidden track
...And things end with a couple of great lines, a different production and pretty pissed off. Thanks.

~ Slint - Spiderland - Good Morning, Captain
uNf. Just uNf.

And a total classic:
~ Tenacious D - Tenacious D - City Hall
Oh my, yes.

[El Opium]

Slowdive-Souvlaki-Dagger
Skullflower-Obsidian Shaking Codex-Smoke Jaguar
Wire-Pink Flag-12XU
The Fire Show-Saint the Fire Show-You are my Sunshine
Can-Tago Mago-Bring Me Coffee or Tea
The Soft Boys-Underwater Moonlight-Underwater Moonlight
Flipper-Generic Flipper-Sex Bomb
Spiritualized-Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space-Cop Shoot Cop

[Thrillho]

Weezer - Weezer - Only In Dreams
Weezer - Pinkerton - Butterfly

[KharBevNor]

Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing  - Evil Dildo

I'd totally forgotten this. Fucking brilliance in bonus track form.

[thedevilissix]

First one that springs to mind has to be "Mogwai Fear Satan" from Young Team.

[Spartan Pho3nix]

Best album OPENER?

Yes! I am a long way from home.

God damn awesome song.

[E. Spaceman]

Mogwai Fear Satan is awesome but for Mogwai closers I'd take Stop Coming to My House. Or My Father My King.

[Bastardous Bassist]

+ The Bad Plus - Give - "Iron Man"
DECONSTRUCTIONOWN'D.

That major key section is badass.

[Narr]

This is easy.

AC/DC, Back in Black.  Song in quetion:  Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution, which is my favorite AC/DC song ever (and I like the band.)

*scans over playlist to see what else might qualify on a lesser level*

Remember, I cound these in alphabetical order, not in order I like most:

Aquabats - Fury of the Aquabats:  Theme Song! ([/i]And we sail across the ocean in a hollowed-out log[/i])

Creed - My Own Prison:  One.  (It's probably Creed's best song.)

Metallica - ...And Justice For All:  Dyer's Eve (Omfg, yes.  My favorite Metallica song.)

Stephen Lynch - The Craig Machine: D&D (Okay, I'm not sure if this technically counts because he's a stand up singing comedian, but man, this song is the funniest thing ever.)

[Hat]

Led Zeppelin - Bring It On Home.

I mean, seriously.

[onewheelwizzard]

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath - The Warning.  My favorite Sabbath track ever.
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality - Into The Void.  My second favorite Sabbath track ever.
Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum - Second Time Around.  The song plays, right?  Then ... drum solo!  Fade-in to guitar insanity!  Fade-in to more guitar insanity!  OK, now it's over.  Listen to it, you'll understand.
earthlings? - earthlings? - Triumphant March of the Buffoons.  It's like if you took the word "haunting" and made it into a song, which is of course the perfect way to end this album.
Kyuss - ...and the Circus Leaves Town - Spaceship Landing.  This song is the biggest fucking slab of awesome the 90's ever produced, and a fitting coda to Kyuss's last full album.
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley - Whitewater.  Possibly the best song they ever wrote.  Probably the one that explains them best.  A perfect ending to their best album.
QOTSA - Rated R - I Think I Lost My Headache.  One of the more gratingly cacophanous endings to an album I've ever heard, and somehow the best way this album could've ended.

[the tree]

Champagne Supernova at the end of Oasis's (What's The Story) Morning Glory album; it is fine memoir of the days when they were good.

[Der Golem]

The ending of Delerium Cordia clearly wins this. 20 minutes of near silence, then all of a sudden Patton yells "One, two, three four!" followed by an unpleasant scratching noise.

Other amazing endings would include Glassjaws' secret song on Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence, and Sigur Rós' Heysátan.

[Luke C]

Radiohead - The Bends - Street Spirit

Good call.

[Thrillho]

All the Beatles ones that have been mentioned, plus Her Majesty - Abbey Road

Her Majesty pissed me off. Felt like a pathetic end to an illustrious career to me.

[Kai]

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality - Into The Void.  My second favorite Sabbath track ever.

Oh, fuck yes. You're like the only other person ever who has a love for that song.



Also:
Tenacious D - City Hall. It's fucking epic, man.

[the tree]

It took me a while to get my head around Her Majesty, I eventually figured that it was possibly the least produced track released by the Beatles and they were making some kind of point about how they were still "just a bunch of guys y'know."

[onewheelwizzard]

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality - Into The Void.  My second favorite Sabbath track ever.

Oh, fuck yes. You're like the only other person ever who has a love for that song.

You can't be serious.  It's distilled Black Sabbath.  It's everythiing good about their best work put into a single song.  How can anyone calling themself a Black Sabbath song not love it?

My personal preference for The Warning isn't even a very strong one.  I just like the bluesiness and the lyrics slightly more (Also, Kyuss's cover of Into The Void is actually better than the original, which lessens the impact of it some).  I mean, Into The Void.  Jeez.

[Thrillho]

It took me a while to get my head around Her Majesty, I eventually figured that it was possibly the least produced track released by the Beatles and they were making some kind of point about how they were still "just a bunch of guys y'know."

Well, that may be, but unfortunately a track having a point doesn't redeem it. Just because the point We Are All On Drugs by Weezer is making is blackly funny doesn't make the song any less shit.

I'm afraid that I think it should've ended with - appropriately enough - The End; be a much more fitting close to their career, I reckon.

[Kai]

I have this feeling that I should probably know why Kyuss are. BUt I don't.



Also: I've met some people who have denounced the entire Masters of Reality album, which I find simply mind boggling. CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE, PEOPLE.

[Coolhanderik]

David Bowie - The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust - Rock 'N' Roll Suicide
The Decemberists - Picaresque - Of angels and angles
Dinosaur Jr. - You're living all over me - Just like Heaven
Eels - Daisies of the Galaxy - Mr. E's beautiful blues
M83 - Dead cities, red seas & lost ghosts - Beauties can die
Spoon - Kill the moonlight - Vittorio E
BSS - BSS - It's all gonna break
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas - Frou-Frou foxes in midsummer fires
Arcade Fire - Funeral - In the back seat

Mmm that's some good endings.

[KharBevNor]

Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops - Cassie Eats Cockroaches

This song almost rocks illegally hard. For me, most of the history of alternative metal in America since this point has been a vain attempt to emulate this and the miserable failure thereof.

Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics - Unnamed Track (aka Ode of the Paegan, The Beautiful Downgrade, Agents of Oblivion etc.)

"Fingered slowly, like the first time you came,
 the agents of oblivion descend upon the sane..."

[greenMonkey]

Stop Coming to My House is a great closing track.

I'm partial to Untitled #8 from Sigur Ros' ( ) album, even though I'm not overly fond of the rest of the album.

[Storm Rider]

I love Into the Void.

And Acid Bath.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

Modey Lemon, Self Titled- secret song after Jesus Christ (for dinner).
sweet harmonica cool bluesy guitar. weird ending to a weird album. perfect

[Kai]

Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops - Cassie Eats Cockroaches

" Cassie likes it in her hand, Cassie's dead inside
I came to fuck the open wound, so hold it open wide
Cassie loves to swallow, this bleeding will not stop
I left cassie hollow, cut you with my cock"


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