#41

It’s a nice enough album but always bothers me how Tails by Lisa Loeb finishes with Stay. Just acknowledge its super-hit status and get it nearer the front!

#42

Came here to say Death Cab. Specifically I have always loved A Lack Of Color after We Looked Like Giants

Quiet acoustic closers (preferably preceded by sprawling penultimates) for me.

Also: Weezer - Butterfly

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#43

Contrary to my Loeb comment, Alice in Chains closing Dirt with Would? is a fantastic power move.

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#44

big fan of loud and cathartic closing tracks, something like ‘Jane Doe’ is perfect.

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#45

Of course the very finest way to end an album is the final bell ‘ting’ of OK Computer.

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#47

This thread has got me listening to the Cribs’ In The Belly of the Brazen Bull, there’s a completely out-of-character but great four-song suite at the end

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#48

Oh my god, yes! Comforting Sounds is just immense. I remember seeing that live and just having a totally natural high, it was phenomenal. I felt like I was floating out the venue at the end…

#49

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I have never doubted your intelligence mate, don’t worry.

#50

This has given my confidence just the boost it needed on this muggy Wednesday morning.

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#51

Slow build and ends up epic.

(Before the edit I had pasted in an advert for Dettol, oh the calamity)

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#52

Can’t believe you didn’t mention Siamese Dream there m9

#53

I can get on board with the big epic followed by a final 3-minute comedown track (like Luna on Siamese Dream), but overall I think the last song should be so immense that you can’t follow it with anything, such as Like Suicide (Superunknown), Only In Dreams or Mogwai Fear Satan.

The upbeat ending is a genius move if it can be pulled off though, like Show Me Mary from Catherine Wheel’s Chrome is one of my favourite last songs, just three minutes of pop optimism that make you want to whack the whole album on again.

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#54

Good call.

#55

I find it much harder to like a band that hasn’t got that kind of track in them somewhere, tbh

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#56

The one on Music for 18 Musicians is boss

#57

Totally agree. Particularly love this one from last year

#58

Also really enjoying whatever it is that’s going on at the end of Lykke Li’s Utopia off so sad, so sexy. It’s a classic uplifting anthem for the first three quarters but then spirals into some maudlin dirge that gradually falls more and more out of time with itself. It’s great

Edit: add a link, dickhead

#59

These are all ridiculously perfect closing tracks.

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#60

Don’t know if this counts but Glory Box by Portishead is a perfect closer.

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#61

Got 11 minutes to spare? Then get a load of this. Love the kind of emotionally draining final song that you couldn’t possibly follow with anything.

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