Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows, A Day in the Life
Pink Floyd - Eclipse, Echoes
Genesis - Supper's Ready, it
Stone Roses - I am the Resurrection (but it could have been This is the one as well, I love the white noise ending of the song)
Joy Division- Decades
The La's - Looking Glass
are my favorites but I couldn't pick just one song.
This song came to mind when clicking the thread title. Such a climactic ending. I haven't heard any Cult of Luna yet, I'll be sure to listen to them soon.
Some other songs that come to mind:
Pink Floyd - "Grand Vizier's Garden Party" (Ummagumma), but I don't consider it a highlight. I consider the whole album to be evenly good. The song is sort of like a song that wakes you out of the psychedelia.
Natural Snow Buildings - "Remains in the Ditch of the Dead" (The Dance of the Moon and the Sun). There is this mystical and medieval feel to the whole album, and there's something about the line "every time you fall asleep, she's lifting your hand and stealing your soul piece by piece" and then repeating the lines "she's stealing your soul piece by piece..." that seems to finish everything on the right note.
Brigitte Fontaine - "Le Noir C'est Mieux Choisi" (Comme a la Radio). Just a gorgeous song.
Boredoms - "Cory & The Mandara Suicide Pyramid Action or Gas Satori" (Pop Tatari). Such a climactic yet relatively quiet end to all the noise and sillyness of the album. I like how all the lyrics to this ten minute song are "one, two, three, four, fiiiiive", or rather japanese accented "won, too, sree, fow, faaave".
Pink Floyd - "Eclipse" (The Dark Side of the Moon). The album's overall meaning is simple, it's a deconstruction of human life. It's the massiveness of the album that makes it so epic, added with the overall flow and the way it all ends so lyrically climactic when you hear "all that you touch, and all that you see..." and finishing with "and everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon". Just wraps everything up in such a way that feels so classic.
Radiohead - "Motion Picture Soundtrack" (Kid A). It's not the whole song as much as that moment of silence near the end, then hearing this uplifting noise for a few seconds. It's subtle but effective.
Pere Ubu - "Humor Me" (The Modern Dance). I'm a bit new to this album. What strikes me is that the length of it all is short, short songs throughout only a 35 minute album. I wouldn't ask for it to be any longer or shorter. The last song feels like a simple note to end on, but so right. "It's a joke" repeated with the handclaps to a catchy beat, then the last words being "humor me". There may be a certain context to it that I haven't consciously understood.
When talking about Joy Division, Decades isn't even the best closer in their discography. Apart from Day of the Lords, I Remember Nothing is my favorite JD song
10: Love Reign O'er Me - The Who
9: Starless - King Crimson
8: The Tourist - Radiohead
7: Street Spirit (Fade Out) - Radiohead
6: When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
5: The End - The Beatles
4: Shine on you Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX) - Pink Floyd
3: Knights of Cydonia - Muse
2: A Day in the Life - The Beatles
1: Eclipse - Pink Floyd
Some that haven't been mentioned:
John Coltrane- Psalm and Mr. PC
Charles Mingus- Trio and Group Dancers and Jelly Roll
Pixies- Gouge Away
Nick Drake- From the Morning and Saturday Sun
Bob Dylan- It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Leonard Cohen- One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
Tom Waits- Anywhere I Lay My Head and Rainbirds
The Cure- Untitled
Wu-Tang Clan- 7th Chamber Pt 2
GYBE- Antennas to Heaven and Providence
Black Sabbath- Into the Void
Miles Davis- In a Silent Way/ It's About That Time
Nas- It Ain't Hard to Tell
The Zombies- Time of the Season
DJ Shadow- What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1 - Blue Sky Revisit)
Neil Young- Cowgirl in the Sand, Ambulance Blues, and Hey Hey My My (Into the Black)
GZA- I Gotcha Back (I don't consider BIBLE to be a part of the album)
Can- Bring Me Coffee or Tea and Spoon
Stevie Wonder- He's Misstra Know-It-All
Nirvana- Where Did You Sleep Last Night
CCR- Long as I Can See the Light
Elliott Smith- Say Yes
Talk Talk- Wealth
A Tribe Called Quest- Scenario
Megadeth- Rust in Peace... Polaris
Pavement- Fillmore Jive
Belle and Sebastian- Judy and the Dream of Horses
Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance
Arctic Monkeys - 505
The Doors - The End
The Doors - Riders Of The Storm
LCD Soundsystem - Home
Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
R.E.M - Find The River
Talking Heads - Pulled Up (doesn't sound like a closer but still really good)
Thin Lizzy - Emerald
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