Your favorite album endings.
 

I don't think this thread has been done before so I'm doing it, the question is simple: what's your favorite album endings ?

Mine are:

"Decades" on Closer by Joy Division

"In the Backseat" on Funeral by Arcade Fire

"Some of Them Are Old/Here Come the Warm Jets" on Here Come the Warm Jets by Brian Eno (actually, pretty much every pop album by Eno ends perfectly)

"Spirits Drifting" on Another Green World by Brian Eno

"Forever" on Circulatory System by Circulatory System

"Providence" on F♯A♯∞ by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

"Alright" on Alien Lanes by Guided by Voices (to only mention one)

"Life Goes Off" on Insignificance by Jim O'Rourke

"Bubble/Frida" on Hooray for Tuesday by The Minders

"Brother Sport" on Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective

"Tomorrow Never Knows" on Revolver by The Beatles

and of course, "Two-Headed Boy (Part II)" on In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel

Expressway to Yr. Skull

a day in the life - beatles - sgt peppers
it's all too much - beatles - yellow submarine
for tammy rae - bikini kill - pussywhipped
clouds - hole - pretty on the inside
(you're all going to hate me for this) train in vain - clash - london calling
soon - my bloody valentine - loveless
death trip - stooges - raw power
raining blood - slayer - reign in blood
shine like stars - primal scream - screamadelica

I've always really enjoyed Radiohead's ending tracks.

from the morning - nick drake
are you experienced? - hendrix
her majesty at the end of abbey road
trilogy from daydream
treatment bound - the replacements

i agree so hard on here come the warm jets. i think i'll have to go listen to that album now.

david bowie, ziggy stardust, "rock 'n' roll suicide"
sonic youth, evol, "expressway to yr skull"
ramones, s/t, "today your love, tomorrow the world"
beck, midnite vultures, "debra"
the kills, keep on your mean side, "gypsy death & you"
the velvet underground, third album, "after hours"
nico, desertshore, "all that is my own"
patti smith, horses, "my generation" (the version i was familiar with first had that at the end. "elegie" is perfect too though. but c'mon, there are few things better in life than patti smith and john cale obliterating the who's balls.)
sonic youth, washing machine, "the diamond sea"
the velvet underground, white light/white heat, "sister ray" (the biggest fucking duh on this list)
bowie, aladdin sane, "lady grinning soul"
the modern lovers, s/t, "government center"
the white stripes, elephant, "it's true that we love one another"
prince, purple rain, "purple motherfucking rain"

Bauhaus "Hope"
Japan "Television"
Echo and the Bunnymen "In Bluer Skies" (quite possibly my favorite Bunnymen song of all time)
The Cure "Pornography"

beatles, a day in the life
beatles, her majesty
nirvana, endless nameless,
slayer, raining blood
the cure, desintegration

^this.

I love how the feedback cuts out at the end of the song. Best album ending ever.

That Slint tune is pretty devastating. Had quite the impact on me at the time.

this

Alvin Row on Animal Collective's Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished

Probably my favorite of all time in the universe ever is the last string strains on Moonlight Mile on Sticky Fingers. So perfect. 180 degrees from the album's opening riffs.

going for the obvious:

every SY album (not including bonus tracks)
Pixies - The Navajo Know (Trompe Le Monde)
M83 - Midnight Souls Still Remain (Saturdays = Youth)
Mogwai - Mogwai Fear Station (Young Team)
VU - Sister Ray (White Light/White Heat)
Nico - All That Is My Own (Desertshore)
Radiohead - Videotape (In Rainbows, (bad album, great song)), Motion Picture Soundtrack (Kid A)

The last track on Disintegration wasn't the title track, it was Untitled--but it does make for a rather poignant (sp?) ending.

How could no one have mentioned The Doors' "The End" or "When The Music's Over"?!

WE WANT THE WORLD AND WE WANT IT NOW!

iggy - lust for life - fall in love with me

It's actually called Mogwai Fear Satan, but yeah I agree, this track is incredible.
We're No Here (Mr. Beast) also counts

Sigur Rós - Untitled 8 ( ( ) )
Can - Bel Air (Future Days)
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet (Freak Out!)
GZA - B.I.B.L.E. (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth) (Liquid Swords)
Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack (Kid A)
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset (Something Else...)
Jandek - European Jewel (Incomplete) (Ready for the House)
Nico - Evening of Light (The Marble Index)
Neil Young - Ambulance Blues (On the Beach)
King Crimson - The Court of the Crimson King (In the Court of the Crimson King) (Starless and Larks' Tongues in Aspic Pt. II also)
The Cure - Faith (Faith)
Hüsker Dü - Reoccuring Dreams (Zen Arcade)
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Pt. 4: Psalm (A Love Supreme)
The Smiths - Suffer Little Children (The Smiths)

I have way too many. I'm a sucker for a good closer. It can change my whole opinion of an album in most cases.

SY - Diamond Sea
Stone Roses - Standing Here
Rolling Stones - You Can't Always.....

off the top of my head
eliminator jr.-ddn-sy
fillmore jive-crcr-pavement
desolation row-highway 61- bob dylan
noble experiment-strangers from the universe-tful282

Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others-The Smiths
Il Porno Star-Shellac
Daydream-Smashing Pumpkins
Only in Dreams-Weezer
I Felt You(on don't wake me up)-The Microphones
Shake Hips-Slo Burn
So Tonight That I Might See-Mazzy Star

Metal Man- Breeders

Television's Torn Curtain is the perfect ending to the CD.

Tears, tears. Rolling back the years.
Years, years. Holding back the tears.
Tears, tears. Rolling back the years.
Years, years. The years I've seen before.

And that final solo, damn. Just perfect.

Kékéland - Brigitte Fontaine. There's a ghost track with violins, a sort of coda for "kékéland" (the track she recorded with SY), and right after the end of this ghost track, Brigitte F. asks : "ça vous plaît?" ("do you like it?") with her rather nonchalant voice emerging from silence... GREAT!
Amelia - Long Fin Killie "Yawning at comets" just voice and electric guitars...
Black One - Sunn O))) "Bathory Erzsebet" 16 minutes of pure tension

"1983" - from Microwaves' album System 2. Just shy of 16 minutes of insanity which starts with a repetitive drum pattern and then ends up with layers and layers of crazy laughter and some kid squealing "I took a picture of blood" ... Please tell me someone else has heard this - it's awesome in all the wrong ways.

Ambulance Blues (Neil Young - On the Beach)
Bring it on Home (Led Zeppelin -II)
Keep on Chooglin (CCR Live at the Royal Albert Hall)
Modern World (The Modern Lovers- The Modern Lovers)
New York City Ghosts & Flowers (Obvious - But a Favorite)
Nights in Venice (The Saints - I'm Stranded)
Soul Survivor (Rolling Stones -Exile on Main Street)
That's How I Escaped my Certain Fate (Mission of Burma Vs )
Tonight’s the Night (Neil Young Live Rust)

Oh, good one, I can't believe I forgot this one

Oh I really messed that up haha

Repped for those ones.

blow out on pablo honey

Tim Buckley - Morning glory / Sing a song for you / Down by the borderline / Make it right
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Switch / Voodoo dolly
Jeff Buckley - Dream brother
Neil Young - Ambulance blues
Nick Drake - From the morning
The Cure - Faith
Alain Bashung - Angora
Joy Division - Decades
U2 - 40 / Mothers of the disappeared / Love is blindness
Björk - Unison
Sigur Rós - Popplagið
Blonde Redhead - Untitled last track of Melody of damaged lemons
Bob Dylan - Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands / Desolation row / Sara
Beatles - A day in the life
Beach Boys - Caroline no / Til I die
Patti Smith - Elegy
Television - Torn curtain
SY - Expressway to yr. skull / Trilogy / Sympathy for the strawberry
Cocteau Twins - Donimo
David Bowie - The Bewlay brothers / Lady grinning soul
Dominique A - Tutti va bene
Jean-Louis Murat - Réversibilité
Noir Désir - The wound / Lolita nie en bloc
Interpol - Leif Erikson
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo chile (slight return)
Joni Mitchell - Both sides now
Laura Veirs - Lake swimming
Lift to Experience - Into the storm
Lou Reed - Sad song
The Smiths - Suffer little children
R.E.M. - Find the river
Radiohead - Street spirit (fade out) / Life in a glasshouse / A wolf at the door
Scott Walker - Rhymes of goodbye
Can - Bel air
The Notwist - 12 / Consequence
The Doors - Riders on the strom
Rolling Stones - Moonlight mile
The Stooges - Little doll
VU - After hours

Boris - ... (Smile)
Malice Mizer - Seraph / Baroque (Memoire; the former was the final track on the original version, but the standard version has Baroque at the end)
Sonic Youth - Lee is Free (CiS), Trilogy (DDN)
Einstuerzende Neubauten - Der Kuss (Haus der Luege)

The Whistling Song - Meat Puppets II

Hum: Winder, Songs of Farewell and Departure, The Scientists.

freaking epic endings.


good morning, captain wins though.

All or None - Pearl Jam
Mountain Battles - The Breeders
Hurt - NIN

basically


and Leif Erikson on Interpol's first album


edit: sorry Torn Curtain. hahaha didn't read it until now.

Indifference on PJ's VS.

fleetwood mac - gold dust woman