Best closing tracks

[EStreetJoe]

In light of last week's Best Opening Tracks thread, I'm going to take the flip side and start a best closing tracks thread.

What are your picks for best album (CD) closing tracks?

Some of my top picks:

Jungleland - Bruce (Born to Run)
Desolation Row - Bob Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited)
Better Things - The Kinks (Give the People What They Want)
New York City Serenade - Bruce (Wild, Innocent & E Street Shuffle)
Reason to Believe - Bruce (Nebraska)
Darkness on the Edge of Town - Bruce (Darkness on the Edge of Town)
A Day in the Life - The Beatles (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
Twist & Shout - The Beatles (Please, Please Me)

 

[Huggy]

"Won't Get Fooled Again" - Who's Next

 

[YGBFKM]

God Damn Lonely Love, DBT's Dirty South

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

"Happy 'Cause I'm Going Home" - Chicago (Chicago III)
"Throw Back the Little Ones" - Steely Dan (Katy Lied)
"Mother Russia" - Renaissance (Turn of the Cards)
"Ashes are Burning" - Renaissance (Ashes are Burning)
"Heart of the Sunrise" - Yes (Fragile)
"Inner City Blues" - Marvin Gaye (What's Going On)
"Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five" - Paul McCartney (Band on the Run)
"Jimi Hendrix Medley" - Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More

From the jazz department:
"Bird Feathers" - Gil Evans (New Bottle, Old Wine)
"Flamenco Sketches" - Miles Davis (Kind of Blue)
"There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York" - Miles Davis/Gil Evans (Porgy and Bess)
"I Don't Want to be Kissed by Anyone but You" - Miles Davis/Gil Evans (Miles Ahead)
"A Night in Tunisia" - Dizzy Gillespie (At Newport)

 

[Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell]

"Caroline, No" - Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
"Surf's Up" - Beach Boys, Surf's Up
"B-Boy Bouillabaise" - Beastie Boys, Paul's Boutique
"A Day in the Life" - Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's
"Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End" - Beatles, Abbey Road (I'm not counting "Her Majesty".)
"Train in Vain" - The Clash, London Calling
"Rock and Roll Suicide" - David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" - Elvis Costello, Armed Forces
"Waterloo Sunset" - The Kinks, Something Else
"Muswell Hillbilly" - The Kinks, Muswell Hillbillies
"You Set the Scene" - Love, Forever Changes
"Cowgirl in the Sand" - Neil Young, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
"Gouge Away" - Pixies, Doolittle
"Wall of Death" - Richard and Linda Thompson, Shoot Out the Lights
"Salt of the Earth" - Rolling Stones, Beggar's Banquet
"Cargo Culte" - Serge Gainsbourg, Histoire de Melody Nelson
"Trilogy" - Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation
"Fun House" - The Stooges, Fun House

 

[Double Down]

God Damn Lonely Love, DBT's Dirty South

This. Yes, yes, yes.

 

[The No. 7]

"Purple Rain" - Prince and the Revolution

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Hmmm ....

Genesis Division:
"The Knife"
"The Fountain of Salmacis"
"Supper's Ready"
"The Cinema Show"
"Los Endos"
"Afterglow"
"Duke's Travels/Duke's End"

Genesis spinoffs:
"Spectral Mornings" - Steve Hackett
"Shadow of the Hierophant" - Steve Hackett
"Icarus Ascending" - Steve Hackett
"An Island in the Darkness" - Tony Banks
"Take Me Home" - Phil Collins (except on CD where it's "We Said Hello Goodbye," which is even better)
"Taken In" - Mike + The Mechanics

"Natural Science" - Rush
"Between The Wheels" - Rush
"Everyday Glory" - Rush
"Be Ever Wonderful" - Earth Wind and Fire
"Captain Jack" - Billy Joel
"Miami 2017 (Seen The Light Go Out On Broadway)" - Billy Joel
"And So It Goes" - Billy Joel
"Harmony" - Elton John
"High-Flying Bird" - Elton John
"Curtains" - Elton John
"The XIth Commandment" - Chuck Mangione
"The Water Is Wide" - James Taylor
"If I Keep My Heart Out of Sight" - James Taylor

"Inner City Blues" - Marvin Gaye (What's Going On)

Oh yeah ... very, very nice ...

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Rocket Queen - GNR

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Call of Ktulu - Metallica
When the Levee Breaks - LZ

 

[sporting_guista]

Rocket Queen -- Appetite. Game Over.

 

[doubledown68]

Is it too cliche to offer up "The End", from Abbey Road? (And no, I don't count Her Majesty as the last track.)

 

[93Devil]

Jungleland because it finishes the story that Bruce was telling the entire album.

Plus, it might be the best Rock song ever written when you consider the lyrics, craftmanship and how it comes across live.

 

[Trey Beamon]

"Tomorrow Never Knows" - The Beatles
""Down In The Tube Station at Midnight" - The Jam
"Train In Vain" - The Clash
"Politicians In My Eyes" - Death
"Foreground" - Grizzly Bear
"All Apologies" - Nirvana
"Champagne Supernova" - Oasis
"Lap Of The Gods (Revisited) - Queen
"Teo Torriatte" - Queen
"The Tourist" - Radiohead
"Waiting On A Friend" - Rolling Stones
"Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" - The Smiths
"The Big Country" - Talking Heads
"Only In Dreams" - Weezer
"Time Of The Season" - The Zombies

 

[Gutter]

"White, Discussion" - Live

 

[forever_town]

I almost wish this thread were simply about songs that seemingly didn't fit in with the rest of the album, at least musically.

The song that comes to my mind immediately is actually the penultimate song on the record. The rest of the record meanders between slow ballads and mid-tempo rock. However, the song "Fall From Grace" off Stevie Nicks's Trouble in Shangri-la is like a double espresso shot of caffeine that jolts a listener awake with blistering guitars, searing vocals and crashing percussion.

I wish that song were the closing number on that CD. It would likely have left a memory on a lot of listeners.

 

[Buck]

'The Soft Parade'

 

[Captain_Kirk]

"Moonlight Mile", Stones, 'Sticky Fingers'

 

[HejiraHenry]

Is it too cliche to offer up "The End", from Abbey Road? (And no, I don't count Her Majesty as the last track.)

As mad as I have ever been at a raqdio station was the time WSM-FM in Nashville played the entire Abbey Road album and didn't play "Her Majesty."

 

[I Should Coco]

I almost wish this thread were simply about songs that seemingly didn't fit in with the rest of the album, at least musically.

The song that comes to my mind immediately is actually the penultimate song on the record. The rest of the record meanders between slow ballads and mid-tempo rock. However, the song "Fall From Grace" off Stevie Nicks's Trouble in Shangri-la is like a double espresso shot of caffeine that jolts a listener awake with blistering guitars, searing vocals and crashing percussion.

I wish that song were the closing number on that CD. It would likely have left a memory on a lot of listeners.

Funny you brought that up, F-T, I was thinking the same thing.

Except the song that stands out to me is "Whatsername" by Green Day. Great tune, and totally different from most of the other "American Idiot" songs.

Another recent one that comes to mind: "On and On and On" by Wilco.