Favorite Closing Song on an Album • Page 5

He Is Legend - I Am Hollywood
mewithoutYou - In A Sweater Poorly Knit
Copeland - When You Thought You'd Never Stand Out

 

honestly not too big on southern air as a record, the title track/closer is rly good but the other three trump it for me personally

 

"Self Starter" is probably the only song on Vital I love.

 

Probably "Waterloo Sunset" by the Kinks.

 

well if you're going to love one that's the best choice, haha. I have cooled off on that album a fair amount honestly although it's still my third favourite of theirs. I do love the closer though although I think the closer from the Anchor & Braille record he put out that year "Before I Start Dreaming" was by far the best song from either album and honestly I'd be fine putting it in here and it's probably about on par with *Fin for me now as my favourite song he's written, ha.

 

Man, I forgot Anchor & Braille was a thing.

 

haha, they're not the most memorable project to be fair. That song though. Apparently it was originally written as the closer to Vital before they wrote "God, Drugs & Sex".

 

Oh snap! Why post my list when you've already done it for me??

Actually in all seriousness I can't really even pick. A bunch of mine have already been named. But, in addition:

Burden - Mutemath
Hurt - NIN
Bon Iver - Re: Stacks
Phoenix I. Rising II. Falling - Night Verses
Together We Will Live Forever - The Fountain OST (Clint Mansell / Kronos Quartet)
White Walls - BTBAM
You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones
In The End - Vanessa Carlton
About A Burning Fire - Blindside
No Better - Sherwood
If It Means A Lot To You - ADTR
Everything - Lifehouse
Great White Whale - Secret & Whisper

 

How did I forget this one?!

 

I have some songs that immediately come to mind.

The Wonder Years - I Just Want To Sell Out My Funeral.
This track is just so infectious and anthemic, and the way the songs are the record are interweaved both lyrically and Instrumentally really tie together the ideas and emotions expressed during the course of the album so perfectly.

Green Day - Whatsername
This track is the only way I could ever imagine American idiot ending. The sort of retrospective and accepting lyrics really contrast some of the other ideas on the album well, and sonically it was a nice step away from the grandiose, huge tracks that are on the record and instead closed the album with a song that was simple and sweet.

The Front Bottoms - Plastic Flowers
Easily the best closer in The Front Bottoms discography, it combines almost everything I love about them with all the growth and changes that Back On Top brought. And besides, how great is that spoken word monologue? I genuinely laughed the first time I heard it, and I still get at least a smile from it every time.

 

Dendron is a great closer.
Besides, I always found Heaven as the perfect closer to I-Empire.

 

All Thursday closers are obvious choices

Some that I don't think have been mentioned:

From autumn to ashes - Short stories with tragic endings
La dispute - You and I in unison
Appleseed cast - Dream for us
The good life - A golden exit
Neutral Milk Hotel - two headed boy part 2
Pianos become the teeth - Say nothing

Also great picks on cursive stayin alive and mwy in a sweater

 

Sufjan Stevens - Impossible Soul.

This one song explores more ideas than most albums do .

Los Campesinos - Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks

This will forever be my favourite closing track. It also happens to be the best closing song to a live set ever.

 

Death Cab for Cutie / "Scientist Studies"
Coldplay / "Up With the Birds"
The National / "Hard to Find"
Bon Iver / "re:stacks"

 

Iron & Wine - "Passing Afternoon"

 

Some of what I'm about to post has probably been mentioned but here we go


Motion City Soundtrack - Hold Me Down
Yellowcard - Back Home
Hotelier - Dendron
Gaslight Anthem - The Backseat
Firework- The Hotbed of Life
The Academy Is...- Almost Here

 

Taking Back Sunday - Slowdance on the Inside

I always thought it'd be cool for them to end a show with this and walk off while the crowd sang the end.

 

"I'm Sorry" on Dude Ranch, "Anthem" on EotS, or "Echoes" on Mutiny!

 

Trying to think of song I haven't seen mentioned, even though I agree with many of them...

The Hold Steady- How A Resurrection Really Feels
Kanye West- Gone
Kendrick Lamar- Mortal Man

 

The National - Mr. November
The National - Hard to Find
Bon Iver - Beth/Rest
Passion Pit - Where We Belong
Pianos Become the Teeth - I'll Get By
Pianos Become the Teeth - Say Nothing
Barcelona - Please Don't Go
Sky Ferreria - Night Time, My Time
Postiljonen - Atlantis
Tame Impala - New Person, Same Old Mistakes
Cloud Nothings - I'm Not Part of Me

Just some of the ones that instantly come to mind.

 

Bay Of Pigs (Detail) - Destroyer
Lose My Head - Damien Jurado
Killing Time - Bayside
Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice - Modest Mouse
Pale Green Things - The Mountain Goats

That's just offhand, there's just so many.

 

I'm not sure if Fireworks meant Oh, Common life to be an opener or a closer to the record. I have it as the closer, and think it works perfectly. But I could totally see it going either way.

 

Oh man, this is hard. Let's see...

Brand New - Soco Amaretto Lime
Motion City Soundtrack - Hold Me Down
Alkaline Trio - Radio/Blue in the Face
Circa Survive - Dyed in the Wool
Copeland - When Finally Set Free
The Early November - Everything's Too Cold... But You're So Hot
The Fall of Troy - Macaulay McCulkin
Fireworks - The Wild Bunch
Joyce Manor - Constant Headache
Moneen - The Song I Swore To Never Sing
My Chemical Romance - Demolition Lovers
Pierce The Veil - Wonderless
Say Anything - Admit It!!!
Silverstein - Call It Karma
Taking Back Sunday - ...Slowdance On The Inside
Thrice - Red Sky
Underoath - To Whom It May Concern

 

1. "Everything Disappearing..." by Trophy Scars
2. "Pale Blue Dot" - The Receiving End of Sirens
3. "The Final Cut" - Coheed and Cambria
4. "Boulders" - New Found Glory
5. "Beggars" - Thrice
6. "Sleeping" - Firescape
7. "Play Crack the Sky" - Brand New
8. "There Went the World" - Number One Fan
9. "Your Friends are Gone" - Circa Survive
10. "Janie" - Further Seems Forever

 

In no particular order...

The Cure - Untitled
Elliott Smith - The Biggest Lie
Pavement - Fillmore Jive
Bright Eyes - Lets Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and To Be Loved)
Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack