Satisfying Endings (1 Viewer)

[Jim Daniels]

What makes one in a song (particularly final song on album)

Nice send off lyric / nice chord sequence/ harmonies/ major or minor key

Or all of the above

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySwY7Yi1GTQ

 

[washingcattle]

Obviously this is great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAXRKPGKXWs

It's done !

 

[Goodbye]

Purple Rain

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[David Kronenbourg]

one of my favourite final tracks. love the horns!

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[Thebeard]

Weird noises at the end of Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Pink Floyd. Spooky.

 

[coast to coast]

Weird noises at the end of Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Pink Floyd. Spooky.

Made spookier by our retrospective knowledge of Syd's demise.

 

[Lili Marlene]

"227 Lears.... and I can't remember the first line"

 

[Lili Marlene]

well either that or Train in Vain

 

[coast to coast]

I am trying to like both of your posts I Am John.

 

[SomethingManic]

"227 Lears.... and I can't remember the first line"

Thumps up.
Gorillaz - Demon Days ends with that choir thing that's quite nice. Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division is quite a stark ending too. Not the most light albums anyway, but the very sparse drums and that odd sound affect really drive it home.
Obviously New Adventures in Hi:Fi - REM gets a mention for the lovely "I'm not scared.... I'm outta here." On a another REM album, Up , they end an inconsistent album with the gorgeous Falls to Climb. Letting a song about a soldiers death end the album, with an emotional "I am free, I am free, I am free..."
The Antlers - Epilogue is another album that doesn't really have any smiley moments. Being a concept album, it had to end a perfect way. I think it does well with the sudden cut to a baby's toy. Bit freaky.
Weezer's Blue Album ends on a very nice bass line too.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Weird noises at the end of Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Pink Floyd. Spooky.

Jugband Blues on Saucerful of Secrets was another strange and unsettling album ending

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Purple Rain

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greatest ending ever

I also like the final chord twist in the single version of Stereolab's Cybele's Reverie.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Yeah, let's be honest, Purple Rain trumps all.

 

[egg_]

I love reprises at the end of albums, like Two-Headed Boy, or the way the final few notes is the same as the first few on MDR's Herring and the Brine and Groom's Marriage

 

[dudley]

final few seconds of macarthur park were the female choir finally swoop in to carry the note that richard harris can't hit. sublime.

the end of 'future home of stucco monstrosity' on the first drive like jehu record. pure showbiz.

 

[ann post]

I always loved the end of the wicker man OST album. its not one for bedtime - that eerie march and then

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its probably in my 'top records ever' actually.

 

[therealjohnny]

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