Favorite Closing Song on an Album • Page 3

Thursday is the best in the scene for closers. Autumn Leaves revisited being the top choice.

In general there are way too many perfect closers to mention. Some classics I haven't seen yet include:
The Rolling Stones: You can't always get what you want
Bob Dylan: Desolation row
Prince: Purple Rain
Tom Waits: Anywhere I lay my head

 

Two Tabs of Mescaline - Glassjaw
Maniac (ROD) - FYS
Into The Airwaves - Jack's Mannequinn
Motion Picture Soundtrack / Untitled - Radiohead - after a whole album of minor key it's fucking amazing when the major key shift comes in during MPS.
The Final Cut - Coheed
Southtown Girls - The Hold Steady

That's all that hits me off the top of my head.

 

Obligatory *fin - Anberlin

Also Harbinger, for a career closing song - Anberlin too

A - Cartel
End of an Era (or any of the previous closers, but I like this one best) - Marianas Trench
Deathbed - Relient K
Hold Out - The Reign of Kindo

 

My Chemical Romance - I Never Told You What I Do for a Living

 

Motion City Soundtrack - The Weakends
Defeater - Cowardice
Turnover - Intrapersonal
The National - Mr. November

Also weird caveat, but Linkin Park's closing song on "Minutes to Midnight", "The little things give you away" could be the best song in their discography.

 

Ah that's a good one too! Haha it's insane how long he held that note. So good.

 

This is true. "Dizzy" is also really good!

 

cant believe I forgot "Colly Strings"


Also, despite my (for the most part) complete disinterest in Taking Back Sunday post Tell All Your Friends, I actually think "Everything Must Go" is the best song they've ever written.

 

I think that's my favorite JEW song ever!

 

Funny you mentioned this because this is how I feel about all Anberlin closers. They are all fantastic, even "Harbinger", which I was the least impressed with, is still pretty great.
Other non- Anberlin favorites:

Jimmy Eat World - 23
Jimmy Eat World - Dizzy
Funeral For A Friend - Novella
Periphery - Racecar
The Academy Is...- Almost Here
Blink-182 - I'm Lost Without You
Mae - The Sun And The Moon
Four Year Strong - Maniac (R.O.D)
Mastodon - The Last Baron
Mastodon - Diamond In The Witch House

 

I agree with you there, except for the closer on New Surrender. But yeah, I feel like "Harbinger" is the perfect last song for their career.

 

Really? You didn't like "Miserable Visu"? I'll be the first to admit New Surrender was generally their weakest release but I love that song and find it to be on par with their other closers in terms of awesomeness.

 

Nah, seemed like they were trying too hard to recreate the magic of "*Fin". I like the chorus well enough, but the rest I find it long and boring so I end up skipping it when I listen to the album. There's a lot more to love on that album than people let on, but that song is not it haha.

 

It's so good!!

 

A couple that come to mind other than the ones that have already been mentionned are:

Barcelona - Please don't go
Cursive - Staying Alive
Thursday - Stay True
Radiohead - Street Spirit
Strata - Daylight in the city

And EP closer Coasta - Sunzal.

 

Oh and Showbread - Age of Reptiles!

 

I think that's a bad song but "Depraved" is worse.

 

Beggars on Beggars (Thrice) is pretty good.

 

I don't even remember what the closer off New Surrender sounds like. "Depraved" is weak too, and I don't recall being that jazzed about the closer on Vital either. They really had a solid run for those first few albums though. "Naive Orleans" and "Fin" are both among my favorite closers.

 

The Patron Saint Of Liars And Fakes

 

How did I forget about Hold Me Down. That song is devastating

Edit: A few more actually just came to me

Green Day - F.O.D.
Julien Baker - Go Home
Tigers Jaw - Never Saw It Coming

 

Oh Never Saw It Coming is awesome. Good add.

 

That whole record is special

 

Big fat list:
Elliott Smith - Say Yes, I Didn't Understand, The Biggest Lie
Sufjan Stevens - Blue Bucket of Gold, The Transfiguration, Impossible Soul
Radiohead - Life In A Glass House, A Wolf At The Door, Videotape
Death Cab For Cutie - A Lack of Color, The Ice Is Getting Thinner
Doomtree - Jaded, Marathon, Fresh New Trash
Dessa - Sound The Bells
Bright Eyes - Road To Joy
Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance, I Wanna Be Yours, 505
Laura Stevenson - The Wheel
Lana Del Rey - Lucky Ones
Eisley - Shelter
Alt-J - Taro
Paper Tiger - Cigana
Rogue Wave - Cheaper Than Therapy
Sia - Where I Belong

There's like 238047012 more

 

These two for sure.

Also:
Chasing Hamburg (Polar Bear Club)
Like a Record Player (The Lawrence Arms)
A World That We Never Made (Dear Landlord)
New Years (The Flatliners)