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I'm Hardcore
07-08-2008, 06:17 AM
radiohead - 'life in a glasshouse'

kingy
07-08-2008, 06:20 AM
Placebo - Song to Say Goodbye

Sonic Johnny
07-08-2008, 06:28 AM
Sigur Ros - #8

and the obvious one:

SP - Farewell and Goodnight

Nothing/everything
07-08-2008, 06:38 AM
Fireside - take a down

celluloid_love
07-08-2008, 07:25 AM
radiohead - the tourist

mojo
07-08-2008, 07:39 AM
rock n roll suicide - ziggy s

then, after a significant gap in general last track greatness attributes:

day in the life sgnt pepper
decades - closer
I won't share you - strangeways here we come
street spirit - bends
age of innocence - machina
riders - la woman
night prowler - highway to hell
still life - dog man star
dream attack - technique
pigs in zen - nothings shocking
fight - kiss me kiss me kiss me
lief ericson - turn on der bright lights

Eulogy
07-08-2008, 09:54 AM
Sigur Ros - #8



this.

Age of Innocence.
Tool - Third Eye
Fiona Apple - I Know
Muse - Hate This and I'll Love You
Radiohead - Street Spirit

celluloid_love
07-08-2008, 10:20 AM
radopjead - a walif ofat the door

celluloid_love
07-08-2008, 10:20 AM
radiohead - motio npcituer sojucndtack

celluloid_love
07-08-2008, 10:21 AM
radiohed - lurergee

celluloid_love
07-08-2008, 10:21 AM
o mean blow out

Shapan
07-08-2008, 10:27 AM
radiohead - motio npcituer sojucndtack

this is the correct answer

Caine Walker
07-08-2008, 10:55 AM
i got one for you shapan:

goodnight, bad morning - midnight boom

Eulogy
07-08-2008, 11:09 AM
Garbage - Happy Home :rockon:

Rickpat12
07-08-2008, 11:27 AM
Sigur Ros - #8

and the obvious one:

SP - Farewell and Goodnight

end discussion. The Tourist is pretty good though.

Deadeyes
07-08-2008, 11:48 AM
The Fall - Music Scene

D.
07-08-2008, 01:37 PM
The Gifted Children - Best of the Surface Tourists

aztec litany service
07-08-2008, 02:29 PM
the diamond sea [sonic youth - washing machine]
run wild [new order - get ready]
open arms [journey - escape]
looking glass [the la's]
street spirit [uhh]
the chauffeur [duran duran - rio]
when the angels fall [sting - the soul cages]
white, discussion [live - throwing copper]
musette and drums [cocteau twins - head over heels]
violet [seal 1]
milk [garbage]
radio silence [harvey danger]

noyen
07-08-2008, 02:33 PM
sail into the heart of the lonely storm
and tell her that you'll love her eternally...

celluloid_love
07-08-2008, 02:57 PM
jim o'rourke - life goes off

Zorgon
07-08-2008, 04:08 PM
bowery electric - drift away
mbv - soon

ChaosEffect
07-08-2008, 04:24 PM
Luna - SD
Age of Innocence - Machina

Street Spirit- The Bends Radiohead

Indifference - Vs. Pearl Jam

Zero Sum - Year Zero NIN
Hurt - The Downward Spiral NIN

Boseph
07-08-2008, 04:52 PM
What People Are Made Of - Modest Mouse, The Moon + Antarctica
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home
Buckets Of Rain - Bob Dylan, Blood On The Tracks
The Bewlay Brothers - David Bowie, Hunky Dory
Russian Berries But You're Quiet Tonight - Frog Eyes, The Folded Palm
Modest Mouse - Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice On Ice, Alright, TLCW
Ponytail - Panda Bear, Person Pitch
A Day In The Life - The Beatles, Sgt Peppers
Gouge Away - Pixies, Doolittle
Havalina - Pixies, Bossanova
Mama & Papa - Supergrass, [st]
Motion Picture Soundtrack - Radiohead, Kid A
Sympathy For The Strawberry - Sonic Youth, Murray Street
Anywhere I Lay My Head - Tom Waits, Rain Dogs
After Hours - The Velvet Underground, [st]
Ramshackle - Beck, Odelay

edit: Though on further inspection I can safely say that Buckets Of Rain is the best album closer ever. There may be better songs, but Buckets Of Rain is everything a final track should be.

dudehitscar
07-08-2008, 05:13 PM
desolation row by bob dylan.

Best closing track ever.

BumbleBeeMouth
07-08-2008, 05:36 PM
the end/her majesty - abbey road.
Bjork - Headphones - Post (i always fall asleep at the end of this song)
Axis Bold As love- Hendrix
Too High- the music
jesus i - zwan.

I'm Hardcore
07-08-2008, 05:37 PM
celluloid_love being a faggot in this thread

bja1288
07-08-2008, 05:47 PM
jesus i - zwan.

^secretly likes come with me

Zerospaced
07-08-2008, 05:51 PM
Weezer - Only In Dreams

noyen
07-08-2008, 06:10 PM
Sympathy For The Strawberry - Sonic Youth, Murray Street


man, i love this song. even though when i heard it live the first time it was awful because i just think kim sounds better on record. but yeah, awesome closing track.

dudehitscar
07-08-2008, 06:22 PM
some others

Freedom - RATM
Take the veil - mars volta
waves of grain - two gallants
fixxxer - metallica
outlaw torn - metallica
dyers eve - metallica
call of ktulu - metallica
all apologies - nirvana
bring it on home - led zeppelin
the end/majesty - beatles
all you need is love - beatles
day in the life - beatles
providence - godspeed you black emporer
hurt - NIN
pretty much every closing Radiohead track
all is full of love - bjork
non-zero possibility - at the drive in
transatlantic foe - at the drive in

neopryn
07-08-2008, 06:22 PM
street spirit is gay

new order - leave me alone
arcade fire - in the backseat, my body is a cage
bob dylan - desolation row
neutral milk hotel - two-headed boy pt 2

Eulogy
07-08-2008, 06:24 PM
street spirit is gay

new order - leave me alone
arcade fire - in the backseat, my body is a cage
bob dylan - desolation row
neutral milk hotel - two-headed boy pt 2

you're gay, and in the backseat is probably the weakest point of funeral.

Marqués
07-08-2008, 06:37 PM
Look on down from the bridge - Mazzy Star
Heysátan - Sigur Rós
Luna - Sp
Not What You Want - Cat Power
Bulbs Of Passion - Dinosaur Jr.
Life in a Glasshouse - Radiohead
Gouge Away - The Pixies

ChaosEffect
07-08-2008, 06:42 PM
street spirit is gay

Lets see your penis!

Shapan
07-08-2008, 07:14 PM
Muse - Hate This and I'll Love You


and im getting stronger in every way

YEEEEAHEEEEEEEEEH

probably my favorite muse closer

noyen
07-08-2008, 07:14 PM
the last track of every good album is pretty good i think.

Esty
07-08-2008, 10:51 PM
Find the River ---- REM
Untitled ---- The Cure
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands ---- Bob Dylan

Sylvia Woods
07-08-2008, 10:59 PM
cop shoot cop
the good times are killing me
the dreaming moon
and
let's not shit ourselves :embarass:

there is a light that never goes out should have been a closing track.

neopryn
07-08-2008, 11:31 PM
let's not shit ourselves :embarass:

fuck yeah brto!

fluxequalsrad
07-09-2008, 12:13 AM
Neil Young - Ambulance Blues
Sonic Youth - Sympathy for the Strawberry
Dave Matthews Band - #34 (AH NAH)
Pavement - Carrot Rope
Royal Trux - Stevie
Every Radiohead closer ever.

AndySlash
07-09-2008, 12:20 AM
Of ones I don't recall being listed already...

Indifference- Vs. (Pearl Jam)
Letters From a Porcupine- Nico (Blind Melon)
Dante's Prayer- Book Of Secrets (Loreena McKennitt)
Wake Up Time- Wildflowers (Tom Petty)

redbull
07-09-2008, 01:08 AM
Arcade Fire - My Body is a Cage
The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
The Beauty Shop - Science Lights/Gouge Away
Bjork - All is Full of Love
Can - Little Star of Bethlehem/Spoon/Bel Air/Yoo Doo Right
The Cure - Faith/Pornography
The Dresden Dolls - Truce
Elliott Smith - The Biggest Lie/I Didn't Understand
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Hendrix - Are You Experienced?/Bold as Love/Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
LCD Soundsystem - Yr Citys a Sucker
Led Zeppelin - The Ocean/How Many More Times/When the Levee Breaks/Tea For One
Les Rallizes Denudes - The Last One
M83 - Lower Your Eyelids to Die With the Sun
Metallica - Call of Ktulu
The Microphones - My Warm Blood
Mogwai - Mogwai Fear Satan
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
My Morning Jacket - Dondante
Nine Inch Nails - Right Where it Belongs/Zero-Sum
Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night
The Orb - A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld (Live Mix Mk 10)
Outkast - Stankonia (Stanklove)
Pink Floyd - Eclipse
Pixies - Gouge Away
Prince - Purple Rain
Radiohead - Life in a Glass House/Street Spirit/A Wolf at the Door/Videotape/Motion Picture Soundtrack/The Tourist
The Roots - Something in the Way of Things (In Town)
Sigur Ros - Untitled #8
Slint - Good Morning, Captain
Smashing Pumpkins - Here's to the Atom Bomb/Farewell and Goodnight
Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea
Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place
Weezer - Only in Dreams
The Who - Love, Reign O'er Me/See Me, Feel Me/Won't Get Fooled Again/Who Are You
Yeni Raki - Weight of the Horizon

redbull
07-09-2008, 02:01 AM
silversun pickups - all the go inbetweens

Deadeyes
07-09-2008, 02:29 AM
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TuralyonW3
07-09-2008, 03:15 AM
the diamond sea

Fattening Ass
07-09-2008, 03:17 AM
some track - some band

I'm Hardcore
07-09-2008, 03:26 AM
the diamond sea, yes

mojo
07-09-2008, 04:06 AM
some kind of stranger - sisters of mercy

kiwi
07-09-2008, 05:04 AM
yo la tango

Rockin' Cherub
07-09-2008, 12:20 PM
sister ray anyone

spring
07-09-2008, 12:47 PM
arcade fire - in the backseat, my body is a cage
neutral milk hotel - two-headed boy pt 2

yes to all of these.

i will probably have my body is a cage playing in my head for the rest of the day now.

Eulogy
07-09-2008, 02:33 PM
yeah i kind of want to take back my comment about in the backseat. i was just mad at neopryn for his bashing of street spirit :-/

Rickpat12
07-09-2008, 02:51 PM
Yeah I forgot Pixies-Gouge Away. I like Bjork-All is full of love and Headphones. Both those are great too.

hnibos
07-09-2008, 03:30 PM
now and then..... just kidding.


seriously though, soon(loveless) is one of my favorite closing tracks that i havent seen mentioned yet.

Sylvia Woods
07-09-2008, 04:15 PM
now and then..... just kidding.


seriously though, soon(loveless) is one of my favorite closing tracks that i havent seen mentioned yet.

been menitoned a few times i think, but i agree with that one.
and if you count Tilt as the last song on that album, that's a pretty good closing track.

hnibos
07-09-2008, 04:17 PM
oh fuck.

Fathoms (unadored)
07-09-2008, 09:49 PM
Strangulation. I don't want to feel a thing.
Nobody knows where you are. How near or how far.
A thousand dreams within. Within me softly burn.
Well it's true that we love one another. I love Jack White like a little brother.

SirenWren
07-09-2008, 09:57 PM
Thom Yorke - Cymbal Rush
Tim Buckley - Sing A Song For You
The Beatles - A Day In The Life
Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack

Tonrey
07-10-2008, 02:17 PM
the story of yo la tengo

Zorgon
07-10-2008, 08:25 PM
oh oh!

pearl jam - parting ways, all those yesterdays

AndySlash
07-11-2008, 10:41 AM
pretty much all of pearl jam's closing tracks are money.

aztec litany service
07-13-2008, 07:41 PM
oh yeah, talking heads the overload and naive melody of course..i guess i didn't think of it cause they're just perfect albums altogether. i've listened to those 2 records sooo much it's crazy