Favorite Closing Song on an Album • Page 6

End of reel

 

00000 Million - Bon Iver
Wrong - Microwave

 

The Format - If Work Permits
The Antlers - Putting The Dog To Sleep
Against Me! - Searching For A Former Clarity
Midtown - So Long As We Keep Our Bodies Numb We're Safe

 

Meshuggah - Sum
Isaiah Rashad - Shot You Down.
Chance The Rapper - Everything's Good
Oddisee - Outro Flow.

 

in b4 23

 

in after 23..

23.

 

"Walkaways" - Counting Crows

Such a short but sweet ending to a great, dynamic record. I feel like I can never listen to that song just once. So much feeling packed into 1:12..

 

It's already been mentioned, but Holly Wood Died is definitely my favorite album closer. Also, really love "Skyscraper" on Touche Amore's new album.

 

my man

 

Off the top of my head:

Anberlin - *fin
Andrew Peterson - Don't You Want to Thank Someone
Bon Iver - re: stacks
Copeland - In Her Arms You Will Never Starve
Julien Baker - Go Home
Mew - Louise Louisa
mewithoutYou - In a Sweater Poorly Knit
Relient K - When I Go Down
Sufjan Stevens - Impossible Soul
Thrice - Red Sky

It's funny. There are four Sufjan Stevens albums I prefer over The Age of Adz but "Impossible Soul" is still a freakishly good closer.

 

A Day in the Life

 

This year's best album closers so far:

Modern Baseball -- Just Another Face
The Hotelier -- End of Reel
Kanye West -- St Pablo
Chance the Rapper -- Blessings II
Saosin -- Control and the Urge to Pray
Radiohead -- True Love Waits
Beyonce -- Formation


Not yet including:
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Green Day
Jimmy Eat World
Butch Walker
Bon Iver
And others I haven't heard/heard enough

 

My favourite closer of this year remains O'Brother - Realm of the Physical

 

Ahh yes "True Love Waits" for sure.

 

That song is ruined for me by the outro.

 

I don't really think of that as a closer because Kanye refers to everything after "Frank's Track" as bonus songs. So technically "Wolves" is the closest thing to a closer on that album imo

 

To each their own. I love it.

 

I didn't know that, although if I could re-sequence the album I'd close with Wolves (if St Pablo wasn't an option).
That said, No More Friends in LA is one of the strongest tracks on the album and I can't relegate it to 'bonus track' status in my mind. The other tracks after Wolves/Frank's Track fit that criteria though.
Also if you consider Frank's Track to end the real album, damn that's a great run of songs to close out the record.

 

Just a random list of my favorites in no particular order:

La Dispute - Objects in Space (Rooms of the House 2014)
Jimmy Eat World - Goodbye Sky Harbor (Clarity 1999)
Death Cab For Cutie - A Lack Of Color (Transatlanticism 2003)
Thursday - Where the Circle Ends (Waiting 1999)
Green Day - Macy's Day Parade (Warning 2000)
mewithoutYou - The Cure For Pain ([A->B] Life 2002)
slint - Good Morning, Captain (spiderland 1991)
Drenge - Fuckabout (Drenge 2013)

 

I was listening to the Sparrow and Friends album stream, the closing song on it could easily be a lost Copeland song. Aaron Marsh sounds amazing. So that would be up there as one of my favourite closing songs of 2016 now.

 

First one that sprang into mind for me is The Wonderful Future by Our Lady Peace (although, I think any closer from Clumsy to Spiritual Machines could be considered as favourite closers imo)

Other closers for me are:
Take It or Leave it by The Strokes
Admit It!!! by Say Anythng
Trippin' the Life Fantastic and Love Me a Good Microcosm by Weatherbox
Forever Halloween by The Maine (2 spooky)
Into the Airwaves - Jack's Mannequin
Dendron - The Hotelier

 

"Dusk and Summer" is my favorite Dashboard album and I really wanted to say "Heaven Here," but then I remembered they tacked "Vindicated" onto the end of the album. Not nearly as good of a closing track IMO. To me the record ends after HH haha

 

23.....The chorus is tattooed on my chest

 

God of Wine

 

Forgot to mention Masterpiece Theater 3, No Place Like Home, and The End of an Era