Some that jumped in my mind. American Girl - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers A Day in the Life - Sgt. Pepper Won't Get Fooled Again - Who's Next The Last Resort - Hotel California Moonlight Mile - Sticky Fingers Brain Damage/Eclipse - Dark Side of the Moon Train in Vain - London Calling Hey Hey My My (Into the Black) - Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young Are You Experienced - Are You Experienced Mistral Wind - Dog and Butterfly - Heart Caroline, No - Pet Sounds Better Things - Give the People What they Want - Kinks Heart of the Sunrise - Fragile - Yes Nineteen Hundred Eighty-Five - Band on the Run The Elephant Ride - Sweets from a Stranger -Squeeze You Set the Scene - Forever Changes - Love Gold Dust Woman - Rumors Nights in White Satin - Days of Future Passed
I love the way Tears for Fears closes out "Songs from The Big Chair" with the last three songs. "Broken" "Head Over Heals / Broken" "Listen" Those three just fit like a glove together.
You're singing of "Still Loving You" was beautiful. Edith Bunker lives! Axl Rose's singing always reminded me of Edith's singing at the beginning of All in the Family. How 'bout "Rocket Queen" from GNR's Appetite? That song definitely brought the album to an, ahem, climax.
Another awesome vid! I’d have to add Wings - Band on the Run to the list. Nineteen Hundred & Eighty Five is an amazing closer, and has that little Band on the Run coda/reprise to close the album. Perfect way to end that record.
Thanks!! Excellent closing track and my favorite song in the album full of great songs. I just didn't include any Beatles or solo to keep time down. I will probably do a video just with that material at some point.
Another good album finisher? "Back On The Road Again" from REO Speedwagon' "Nine Lives"!! Just mind blowing! And yes, of course, "Golden Country"!!!!! Also check out their very first album with a different lead singer...the song is "Dead At Last". It's a bit psychedelic and ends with a choir singing along with the lead singer at the time Terry Luttrell.
I did see the Beatle banner roll across, but, It’s the Beatles, you cannot talk about big finishes or closers without including Abbey Road. It closed out the Beatles, that was it, the end. McCartney still closes his concerts with that 3-song medley, Golden Slumbers, Carry that Weight, the End. That was that, it was over, there’s never been a bigger close than that, it represents the end of the penultimate decade of modern music. “The End” closing with the 3 on guitars trading licks in a way they never had before. And of course, Paul puts the finishing touch on a never to be paralleled body of work … and that’s it. The biggest finish of all-time, then, now, and the foreseeable future.
Brilliantly put. And yeah, everything they did was kind of the "biggest of all time," even when they might not have intended for it to be. Hell, McCartney in one early interview talks about them being forgotten in five years. Truly was a phenomenal way to end their phenomenal career. (Side note: one of my favorite Beatle things is the clip of Paul McCartney waking out of Howard Stern's studio having just done the show. Out waiting in hall is Ozzy. Paul sees him, says, "Hey, bro, how's it going?" And Ozzy just stands there awestruck and tells him he watched him on Sullivan and that The Beatles are why he got into music. Track it down, if you can. No joke, it's really beautiful. Also no joke, my eyes are welling up thinking about it.)
Speaking of Rush, I first heard their 'Moving Pictures' album on a cassette tape a friend had lent me, in '89, and I would realise only later and when buying the LP that he'd actually recorded its B-Side first! And somehow, this order had also always made more sense to me, with 'The Camera Eye' as the slowly-building opener, 'Tom Sawyer' in the middle as the album's energetic peak, and 'Limelight' works sooo well as a closing track! Also because it ends on a 'bang', while the _actual_ closing song 'Vital Signs' just fades out at the end.
Thank you, @@finnsterling6514! And yes, it was! 😀 Also quite cool that it was during a school trip to Vienna that I was given that tape, so now those memories return whenever I hear any of that album's songs! 😊
There are lots of great recommendations here, both from you and your listeners. Two brief takeaways: Closer To Home - spot on, and a very nostalgic song for me. Rush - no mention of Cygnus X-1? Very powerful ending. Thanks as always.
Just came across your videos....loving them. I'm going to throw in "Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holla)", which closes out Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" album...definitely ties it all together.
Great selection of songs, and how cool that The Damned got a mention, too; They're one of my all-time favourite bands, and also Rush 😊 And 'Still Loving You' is my favourite Scorpions song 😀 My cousin's band had opened for them during the 70's on several occasions, and also for Accept 🙂
Great great video Robert, it was fun and I learned a lot, now I've got something to listen tonight. Some great closers that come to mind right now would be: Moonlight Mile,Sticky Fingers. Where Do We Go From Here, Chicago II. Heart Of The Sunrise, Fragile. Let It Rain, Eric Clapton. Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part Two, Larks'Tongues in Aspic. Whipping Post, The Allman Brothers Band.
Dude. You missed one of the best closers ever. “Los Endos” is a huge climactic instrumental mashup of the themes explored throughout the rest of the “Trick of the Tail” album. No one does a grand finale like Genesis and ”Los Endos” this is the best of the best.
Great video. Great choice with Dangerous type. Awesome song that unfortunately gets overlooked in their catalog. A few misses though, Bring it on home or the ocean from zeppelin. Any closer off the first six Sabbath albums. Perpetual change or heart of the sunrise from Yes. Steal away the night is another great choice. I also agree with you about the US pressings of those albums. I have a UK press of Blizzard and a Japanese press of diary and they sound phenomenal. I also like how you mention Axis bold as love. It is unfortunately an overlooked track. My dad saw Hendrix right when the Axis album came out. He said that they played Axis live and jammed out the end part for a long time. Anyway, good stuff. Cheers.
Great list, Robert. I was pleasantly surprised you included Dangerous Type. I love The Cars first album, but like many.I prefer Candy-O. Just the way they add layer after layer of guitar and keyboards at the end is mesmerizing.
The Doors immediately came to mind when I saw the theme of the video and by gosh you included them! Waiting For the Sun ended with Five to One a very powerful closer as well.
Don’t forget Highway Song on Blackfoot Strikes and on the first pressing of Def Leppard High and Dry - the song ‘No’ - plays on for several seconds at the end - loved that! Cool video 👍
Fugazi - The Argument. The final song off their final album. Their evolution from hardcore and post-punk to some kind of next level Radiohead was complete and The Argument was the perfect ending.
Ambrosia- S/T "Drink of Water" Great closer and amazing debut album. Album openers are also something to mention on this topic. What albums have great "book ends?" Excellent channel!
Some of my favorite album closers: When the Levee Breaks from Led Zep IV. Inmates (We’re All Crazy) from Alice Cooper’s From The Inside. Knights of Cydonia from Black Holes and Revelations by Muse
Radiohead's first album PABLO HONEY ends with "Blowout." The song itself is really good but it ends with this guitar (I think?) solo that just builds and builds and builds, ending the song/album with disheveled chaos. It's very cool. The album starts with "You," which is very powerful and ends with "Blowout." Everything else on the album doesn't do much for me.
You could've doubled your video adding: Dehors Novembre - Les Colocs ... Only in Dreams- Weezer ... Damage Inc - Metallica ... Rhymes of the Ancient Mariner - Iron Maiden ... Hallowed be thy name - Iron Maiden (a 2nd classic closer) ... Nineteen Eighty Five - Wings ... Train in Vain - The Clash ... Indifference - Pearl Jam ... Histoire Sans Parole - Harmonium ... When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin ... Love is Blindness- U2 ... Montréal - Beau Dommage ... Freedom - Rage Against the Machine ... The Way I feel about you - Rancid ... and especially ... A day in the Life - The Beatles ;)
Closer To Home is definitely my most recent "oh shit" moments, because i haven't heard it since i was a kid, but remembered it. And just picking this album up at random and it was like i stepped into a time machine. 2 of my favorites of not even newer bands would be Truckers Atlas by Modest Mouse, off whatever album that is. Calvary Scars (?) off Microcastle Weird Era by Deerhunter. Each song feels like an eternity and will never end. Which now i think of When Will You Die For The Last Time In My Dreams by Polvo off Exploded Drawing. Good call on all of them. But now I'm picking Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast for the best one.
I would have included A Day in the Life as the closer for Sgt Peppers, or the whole 16 minute medley of songs on the B side of Abbey Road (I've always considered the medley as one song). As far as contemporary stuff, Third Eye as the closer for Tool's Aenima album, and Hurt as the closer for Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral. But I believe the greatest closing song in rock history is The End by the Doors, which you covered.
Thanks!! I was going to include Led Zeppelin and "When The Levee Breaks" is phenomenal, but I always wondered why "Stairway To Heaven" wasn't the album closer.
Great List! I think I own all of these except for "J.F. Murphy & Salt". I had not heard of them prior to today so I learned something as usual watching one of your videos. Seek out "One Eyed Mule" by a band called "The Way We Live (a.k.a Tractor)". I've only ever seen the abridged version on-line. The full 6 minute version is available as a bonus track on a CD reissue of the album. It's the last track on the reissue CD so I guess it really does not count. Still worth a listen tough. Thank you for another great video.
Great Selections here. I'd add Love Reign O'er Me from Quadrophenia & We're Not Gonna Take It from Tommy, Whipping Post from ABB. When The Levee Breaks from Zep as honorable mention
Queen's "The Show Must Go On" at the end of "innuendo" comes to mind, as well as Warren Zevon's "Desperados Under The Eaves" in his self titled album. Great closers I'm my opinion.
I like the weird stuff so... I'm gonna recommend Nillson closing with The Most Beautiful World in the World, and agree with Robert Volpi about the very showy mini medley on Alice Cooper's From the Inside.
Great topic. You had me digging through my collection looking for more but you covered most! I found some great Side One closers but that would be cheating. 😅
The single of We're On A Road To Nowhere was released on November 30, 1985. It was used at the end of Little Monsters released in 1989 if I'm not mistaken. The closing track of Rubber Soul The Beatles is Run For Your Life. 🎶"I'd rather see you dead, little girl than to be with another man.."🎶 Holy smoke, talk about ending the album on a sour note. Sheesh!
Awesome theme, nicely done sir! I'm not too sure, however, how "optimistic" We Won't get Fooled Again is..... Are not the last words in the song, "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"?
Actually, I had the 3’37” edit of Won’t Get Fooled Again before I had the album version. I can tell ya, while the edit trims out a lot of the song, it does not lose any of the power of the band’s performance. (And yeah, they left Roger’s iconic, blood curdling scream in!)
Yep, there are ton of great album closers. To give a shout-out to an underappreciated band (in the US at least) -- Roxy Music: closing track "Sunset" on their album Stranded.
Oh, Candy (Cheap Trick, s/t debut); Fairies Wear Boots (Black Sabbath, Paranoid); The Great Curve (Talking Heads, Remain in Light -- play Side Two FIRST!).
Meat Is Murder by The Smith as closing track on the same-titled album in 85. And Genetix on The Raven album from 79 by The Stranglers. Oh, sure, and Coney Island Baby on the same titled Lou Reed album from 76.
The closer to the Knack's first album, Frustrated is a pretty rockin' closer. I also love the 8 minute ending track to the Raspberries first album, I Can Remember. That album also came with a scratch and sniff sticker on the cover. I still got mine. Doesn't smell anything like Raspberries anymore unfortunately.
Mothers Of Invention-The Chrome Plated Megaphone O' Destiny (We're Only In It For The Money); Yes-Siberian Khatru (Close To The Edge); Bob Dylan-Sad Eyed Lady O' The Lowlands (Blonde On Blonde); Jethro Tull-For A Thousand Mothers (Stand Up); Moody Blues-Watching & Waiting (To Our Children's Children's Children); Nazz-A Beautiful Song (Nazz Nazz); Led Zeppelin-How Many More Times (1st); Porcupine Tree-Fadeaway (Up The Downstair); Al Stewart-End O' The Day (Time Passages); Carpenters-Another Song (Close To You)...to name a few.
@06:57 - EXACTLY!! For DECADES I thought I was alone. CBS/Epic/Columbia and most of the subsidiaries when issuing a foreign (Non-American) act, most of the time they will skimp on the artwork and/or quality of the record, including using shit copies of copies of the masters, off center pressings, warped, noisy vinyl, terrible or inferior mastering. warpage, and sometimes even removing or reworking the artwork, removing the inner sleeve, or modifying the number and/or count of songs. CRapitol records did the same thing with Beatles albums and who knows how many others! Spend the extra $$$ and buy UK vinyl.
My favorite album closer is Free Bird from One More From The Road. Easily one of the worlds greates live albums. It's the definitive version of Free Bird. It's what a three guitar front line is all about.
Neil Young was a good choice. My list ==> Violent Femmes first album - Good Feeling, REM - Automatic for the People "Find the River;" U2 Rattle and Hum - "All I Want Is You" Wilco - The Whole Love "One Sunday Morning." Blur (self titled from '97) - Essex Dogs; Ben Folds Five - Biography of Reinhold Messner -"Lullabye." Cranberries - No need to Argue - "no need to argue." Coldplay - Parachutes - "Everything's Not Lost." Beck - Mutations "Static." Paul McCartney - Band on the Run "19 hundred and 85" Pearl Jam - No Code "Around the Bend" The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow - "Those to Come" Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun - "Take Care"
The incredibly psychedelic "You Can Fly!" is a great end to the album by the San Francisco band "The Sons". And how about "Ball And Chain" on Big Brother and the Holding Company's "Cheap Thrills"
Off the top of my head, in no particular order: Eno. Taking Tiger Mountain - Taking Tiger Mountain Neil Young. Ambulance Blues - On The Beach Mles Davis. Lonely Fire - Big Fun Jethro Tull. Locomotive Breath/Dambusters March - Bursting Out Siouxsie and the Banshees. Eve Black/Eve White / Voodoo Dolly - Nocturne Husker Du. Reoccurring Dreams - Zen Arcade Captain Beefheart. Golden Birdies - Clear Spot Pink Floyd. Brain Damage/ Eclipse - Dark Side Of The Moon John Martyn. Easy Blues - Solid Air Dr John. I Walk On Gilded Splinters - Gris-Gris
Ok Robert, here goes don't go mad but "Temptation" by Prince and the revolution from "Around the world in a day" got to be the best album closer of all time!!!!!!!!!
Also great album closers: 'Time It's Time' - Talk Talk (on 'The Colour Of Spring') 'Blow Out' - Radiohead (on 'Pablo Honey') 'Porrohman' - Big Country (on 'The Crossing') 'No Time This Time' - The Police (on 'Reggatta De Blanc') 🙂
by the way, how did you feel about the record store owner who was furious about your "overpriced records" segment that he apparently felt targeted his store? That guy was MAD!
You pretty much mentioned most of the ones I thought of since you're not including the Beatles. A few from me is David Bowie's "Rock N Roll Suicide" from ''Ziggy Stardust'. Marvin Gaye's "Inner City Blues" from 'What's Going on'. Led Zep's 'Bring it on Home' From Led Zep II. Public Enemy with 'Fight the Power' from 'Fear of a Black Planet',. Nirvana's "All Apologies" from inUtero. 'By the way there are (bootleg) videos of prince singing the live full version with the extra verse of 'Purple Rain' back in '83, here on RU-vid from which they use for the edited studio version.
You''ll be fooled if you listen to it as the closing track on "Who's Better, Who's Best". It's referred to as "Extended Version", yet it's a four-minute edit.
The end of NIN The Downward Spiral with the song Hurt is amazing although I would argue Johnny Cash’s version is ultimately better … such despair and loss in his voice put to some of the most desperate lyrics written
I will limit myself to 2. Way different styles 1. "He's Misstra Know-It-All" on Stevie Wonder's Innervisions A real great album closer for a great album 2. "Summer Eyes" on The Young Gods' TV Sky. I bet you've never heard of them. I don't know how they did managed to put this 20 minutes (yes 20) after a 3 minutes song on the side 2 of the record. I only own the CD but it was released on vinyl as well in 1992. The Young Gods come from Switzerland, they are rock/industrial/ambient/experimental band. Don't let that put you off, "summer Eyes" is an amazing track with a real Doors influence to it (an homage as the band put it) and it will take you on a 20 minutes long journey to leave you on the seashore ;-) it's on YT: watch?v=-aM5K-RemZ8 ( I don't put the full link as YT has the tendency to remove comments that contain links nowadays)
You, cynical... Nah? 🤔😁 I just started getting some of these Scorpions 50th anniversary pressings since last week. Had to stop and ask myself how 1982 to 2022 was 50 years on Blackout (or was it Animal Magnetism?) I think it was? But then I realized the repressings came out in 2015 and the band had actually started in 1965. I don't think I've ever heard any of that music from the early era of the Scorpions. The hype sticker sure doesn't mention what the 50th anniversary is of but I guess that's what Google is for. I completely love the Gary Richrath era of REO Speedwagon! They really were great. Well, leaving out of course some of the last Richrath LPs like Good Trouble. I know why Gary left the band / got fired / got depressed with the music. Kevin Cronin must have finally realized it too years later. It's funny that the songs they play and have played since the 1990s have pretty much been that classic era of REO Speedwagon on tours through the decades. You have to check out REO Speedwagon Caught in A Dream, before they had Kevin Cronin, if you haven't ever checked out that LP. That was one badass, early REO LP! You crack me up with these videos and it is such an enjoyable and great change from so many of the others in the VC haha... Brian in Fort Worth 🎶 Oh yeah, and talk about a great album closer... Led Zeppelin II with Bring It On Home is a definite great one in my book.
The three-and-a-half minute version of Won’t Get Fooled Again sounds like someone bumped into the turntable, sending the tone arm skipping four times across the track.
Great video Robert. Here's a video of prince in 1983 where the full live versions that were taken from, for the Purple Rain album with the extended Purple Rain song ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-frbVVDAyJ1w.html
