What's Your Top 3?: Album closers

No over-thinking, no spreadsheets, no calculations, just hit me with a top 3 for each topic on instinct alone.

Jungleland (Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run)
Judy And The Dream Of Horses (Belle & Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister)
New York I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down (LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver)

Post the artist and album as well please.

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Protomartyr - Half Sister (relatives in descent)
Sufjan - Impossible Soul (age of adz)
The Hotelier - Dendron (home, like noplace is there)

Two headed boy pt. 2 4th by a ballhair

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Saved your ass with that edit there.

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Unimpeachable selection :pinched_fingers:

Broken Chairs by Built to Spill (Keep it Like a Secret)
Fin by Pavement (Brighten the Corners)
Street Spirit by Radiohead (The Bends)

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Dendron (edited in - can’t believe I missed that) from Home Like No Place… by the Hotelier
Tsundoku from Hope Fading Nightly by Tellison
Leaving the Valley from Phoenix by Pedro the Lion

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Serves me right for thinking you numbskulls could follow a simple instruction.

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Ride – Vapour Trail (Nowhere)
Nas – It Ain’t Hard To Tell (Illmatic)
My Bloody Valentine – Soon (Loveless)

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A Certain Romance - Arctic Monkeys
Home - LCD Soundsystem (Still think they had left with that and never done anything again it would have been amazing)
A Few Word For The Firing Squad - Run The Jewels (they actually do quite a good line in final album tracks tbf)

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Whole New World/Pretend World (SOPHIE - Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides)
Good Morning Captain (Slint - Spiderland)
Does Not Suffice (Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me)

So many other answers I could give though…

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Mew - Comforting Sounds
Sigur Ros - Untitled 8
MBV - Soon

Would’ve been Do You Know How To Waltz if not for the 50 second song after it

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Very good shout ofc

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Nearly had this but couldn’t choose one of theirs between this, 505 and That’s Where You’re Wrong.

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Weezer - Only in Dreams (Weezer)
Slint - Good Morning, Captain (Spiderland)
Deafheaven - The Pecan Tree (Sunbather)

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A Certain Romance is the one but they are another lot that have amazing closing tracks. Jewellers Hand, don’t particularly have anything against I Wanna Be Yours, quite like the Ultracheese and Perfect Sense is probably the worst for being too short.

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I Wanna Be Yours is tainted now by JCC being a bad 'un.

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First three that came to mind after a quick scan through my top rated albums on RYM:

The The - Giant (Soul Mining)
Lloyd Cole and The Commotions - Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken? (Rattlesnakes)
The Wake - Here Comes Everybody (Here Comes Everybody)

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Oh man this is HARD

I Know The End - Phoebe Bridgers, Punisher
Formation - Beyoncé, Lemonade
Just Another Name - Modern Baseball, Holy Ghost

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Oooft yes! What a shout.

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‘Twilight At Carbon Lake’ from Microcastle by Deerhunter.
‘Ambulance Blues’ from On The Beach by Neil Young.
‘Half Sister’ from Relatives In Descent by Protomartyr.

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