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Post by fredzappelin on May 29, 2007 18:25:36 GMT -5
Rock N' Roll Suicide by David Bowie from Ziggy Stardust Memory of A Free Festival by David Bowie from Space Oddity The Saviour by the Cruciflapjackss from Wisconsin
The Arcade Fire have some pretty fine album closers too.
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on May 29, 2007 20:32:21 GMT -5
The one that comes to mind immediately is the haunting "Decades" from Joy Division's "Closer" album. I also really like "I Won't Share You" on the Smiths' final album, "Strangeways Here We Come." Seconded on the Joy Division. Man, I love that album. It's good to listen to in a completely dark room, with no other sensory stimuli. It's transcendent in its stark bleakness. I was actually going to name another Smiths song, "Asleep," from Louder Than Bombs, then I thought that maybe LTB didn't count because it was kind of a compilation, rather than an "album" per se, but then I thought, hell, what's the damn difference? So "Asleep" by the Smiths. I've also always been quite fond of "A Crack in the Clouds," the final song from Julian Cope's Saint Julian album, and "Ocean Rain," the title track of the 1984 Echo & the Bunnymen album. I like albums that have epic, slow, sad songs at the end.
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Post by Trumpy's Magic Snout on Jun 6, 2007 20:17:49 GMT -5
12:18 from Global Communication's 76:14 album. An awesome piece of ambient music that sounds a bit cliched now thanks to the amount of people who have ripped it off.
Also Quino-phec off of Surfing On Sine Waves by Polygon Window (AKA Aphex Twin), wonderously distant sounding piece of music that I use quite often to close compilation CDs (if I don't use Seefeel's Spangle although that neither closed its release or was on an album).
The Festival Of Death by The Residents from Eskimo, my favourite Residents song and another slow burning epic.
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Post by I Reject My Slave-name on Jun 14, 2007 11:45:14 GMT -5
Two great live albums, with both perfect openers & finales:
Van Morrison - It's Too Late To Stop Now, (There Ain't Nothing You Can Do and Cypress Avenue)
AC/DC - If You Want Blood (You Got It), (Riff Raff and Rocker)
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