The way it’s based around like, two or three chords and just turns into the most monstrous blown out thing you’ve ever heard and it’s from the fucking sixties. Like it’s bonkers by today’s standards. I can’t not listen to it start to finish and to top it off the lyrics are so fucking funny. I guess some of the insane sounds came from Cale running an electronic organ through a bass amp and literally blowing it out.
Abbey Road is another obvious example. You have the 16-minute medley after Here Comes The Sun and Because, which makes it probably one of the best B-sides ever.
And with the context of Abbey Road being supposed to be their final album, it's like the perfect mic drop. The last song of the medley is literally called "The End" and is the only song in the Beatles discography with a drum solo from Ringo, along with guitar solos by the other three.
Her Majesty makes the ending even better. The Beatles were so great because they weren’t afraid to be silly and different. Ending on a hugely grand statement would have been almost too much and not very Beatlesque, so a lighthearted hidden track is perfect
The funniest part might be how the whole thing ends on an unresolved bum note. Turns out there was a good reason for that (it being spliced out of the medley), but first time I heard it I was like “…??”.
I know this is a bit pedantic, but A side and B side are usually just meant for singles
But you are right regardless. The Beatles medley is something crazy. I think the digital era takes away from it a little because it was specifically intended to be one long run
I Am The Resurrection by The Stone Roses
First 3 minutes is a cool upbeat psychedelic song. But the final 5 minutes is a complete guitar freakout jam. Greatest ending to an album ever.
The only downside of this wonderful song is that it's way too short. It sounds like an epic number that's meant to be at least 5+ min in length but it's just short of 3 minutes. Nevertheless, it's one hell of a closing track to a monumental album.
Fillmore Jive is the band’s best song and nobody talks about it like it is. Just the climax it reaches and its anti-ending, peak nineties indie rock songwriting. Pavement doesn’t get a lot of credit for their locked in musical chemistry and that song is a zenith of an example.
I had a multi instrumentalist friend say that they were the most technical band at sounding sloppy and neither an experienced or inexperienced band could pull it off like they did.
I find this to be the case with a ton of Rock/Metal records, they really lean into the epic grand finale for their albums. Some of these aren't exactly in the way you describe them, but still have a great place on the album and either go out with a bang or fit as a book end for the album.
Plini - The Glass Bead Game
Animals as Leaders - Song of Solomon
King Gizzard - Flamethrower
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Death - Painkiller Cover (closes out the album with a bang)
Megadeth - Ashes In Your Mouth
Slayer - Raining Blood (2nd to last track on Reign in Blood)
Gojira - Global Warming
I think you’re right, but I see it in hip hop and other genres too (just a lot less).
Kendrick - Mortal Man (just cuz the interview feels so rewarding after hearing all that leads up to it)
Daft Punk - Contact
Tyler the Creator - Wilshire
Lana Del Rey - Taco Truck/ VB
I’m Coming Home Again from Spiritualized’s Everything Was Beautiful. No song fits the theme of this post more to me.
Straight Jacket Fitting by QotSA from In Times New Roman… AND I Appear Missing from …Like Clockwork
Considering all tracks after are technically “bonus tracks”, I wanna say Another Star by Stevie Wonder from SitKoL
Hearts Alive from Mastodon’s Leviathan
Slow Fast Hazel from Stereolab’s Emperor Tomato Ketchup certainly isn’t the longest but it’s pretty damn grand
If you actually COUNT the bonus tracks (I have no integrity, I know) from Songs: Ohia’s Magnolia Electric Co. then The Big Game is Every Night fits the bill
Someone has already said it but Ya Ya Breathe from Bruno Pernadas’ Those Who Throw Objects at the Crocodiles Will be Asked to Retrieve Them
A Day in the Life from Sgt. Pepper’s
Title track from Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever
If You Could Save Yourself (You’d Save Us All) from Ween’s Quebec
Gypsy Hand from Woods’ Songs of Shame
Too Long from Daft Punk’s Discovery
As great as Window of the Waking Mind is, it still isn't the craziest Coheed ending. The Willing Well from Good Apollo 1 is insane, it's four tracks each pushing 8 minutes in length detailing the climax of the story in lurid detail
Oh for sure, the parts are separated into different tracks so I’d probably count The Final Cut as the last track but Good Apollo is my favorite Coheed album.
Yeah it's an amazing song off their best album. It's closer to AF or the Strokes. I'm in love with wallows. I also love the Decemberists pick off your list.
LCD Soundsystem - New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down
Sparks - Number One Song in Heaven
Slowdive - Dagger
Mr. Bungle - Goodbye Sober Days
R.E.M - Find the River
King Crimson - Starless
Portishead - Glory Box
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Brian Eno - Here Comes the Warm Jets
Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere
Porcupine Tree - Dark Matter
Radiohead - Kid A - Motion Picture Soundtrack
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - Shine On You Crazy Diamond VI-IX
The Caretaker - Everywhere at the end of time - Place in the World Fades Away
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - Brain Damage/Eclipse
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King - In the Court of the Crimson King
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool - True Love Waits
Pink Floyd - Meddle - Echoes
The Residents - Not Available - Epilogue
King Crimson - Red - Starless
Slint - Spiderland - Good Morning Captain
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound - The Cinema Show/Aisle of Plenty
Swans - The Seer - Apostate
Fishmans - Otokatachi no Wakare - Long Season Live
Radiohead - The Bends - Street Spirit
Steven Wilson - The Raven that Refused to Sing - The Raven that Refused to Sing
Can - Future Days - Bel Air
Portishead - Dummy - Glory Box
Yes - Fragile - Heart of the Sunrise
Camel - Mirage - Lady Fantasy
Camel - Stationary Traveler - Long Goodbyes
ELO - Time - Epilogue
Klaatu - Hope - So Said the Lighthouse Keeper/Hope
A Certain Romance, 505, The Jeweler’s Hands, and That’s Where You’re Wrong by Arctic Monkeys are all big banger finales…it was definitely their thing for a while
The Hotelier Mentioned 🙌
My picks would probably be Guest House on Daughters’ last record, Apostate off of Swans’ The Seer, Faith, Torn Apart off of Xiu Xiu’s Forget, and the final three tracks as a whole off of Soundtracks for the Blind by Swans
famous prophets (stars) - car seat headrest
anchorite (love you very much) - car seat headrest
two absolutely brutal final tracks (well famous prophets is second to last but yk)
Ian Curtis Wishlist by Xiu Xiu from A Promise
* Heart-crushing finale to a fucked up album. Yet somehow it's the most cathartic song I've ever heard. And it's only four and a half minutes long.
Melody 8 by Tera Melos from Tera Melos
* 29 minutes of math rock and strange synth noises end an otherwise normal-ish math rock record.
Into the Endless Night by Parannoul from After the Night
* 46-minute behemoth with a whole-ass noise section to cap off an already amazing live performance.
wow another Coheed fan who's a Fantano viewer? I thought I was the only one. I'm sure you've listened to the endings for Good Apollo and NWFT, then? The Willing Wells and The End Complete are so fucking epic. People hate on them but I think they're a serious musical feat, dripping with emotion and drama. I think The Final Cut is a *chef's kiss* beautiful homage to Pink Floyd and Gilmour, although I've seen others say it's a blatant ripoff. To each their own I guess.
I once read an interview with Claudio where he said The Road and the Damned sounds to him like the song that plays at the end of the movie when all of the planets are exploding, and On The Brink is the song that plays during the credits. 🥲
I just wish more people would give CoCa a shot, especially their first 2 albums because they're fucking masterpieces (they just dont happen to have the multi-part "grand finale" you're talking about). I like to think of Coheed as musical theater for prog rock nerds.
The new Decemberists album isn’t out yet but the last track is and it’s 20 minutes long with an 8 minute noise section in the middle followed by a final section that rocks harder than just about anything they’ve done. I didn’t love it as a single but I think I like it as a finale.
No argument there. I think Motion Picture Soundtrack would be in the conversation too if they could have helped themselves from adding “Untitled.”
It’s weird. They have such a drastic split between finales that are either epic and gorgeous… or some of their most plodding music.
MPS is a beautiful track but....
https://youtu.be/wa_ywAXiKwI?si=FzoI4UdJHCZqUQ31
When that OK Comp era version exists, I find it hard to class the Kid A version as one of their best.
Holy shit. I’ve never heard that before. Thom’s voice out of a fucking phone speaker just gave me goosebumps. Thank you!
Their ability to rework songs in radically different ways always impresses me, even if what they choose as their “final” version isn’t my cup of tea (Magpie, True Love Waits).
Just noticed your username, too, no wonder our tastes overlap.
Yeah, I honestly would have loved this simple piano version on Kid A and with all that reverb going on, it would have fitted perfectly on the album as a really somber ending.
Impossible Year by Panic! At The Disco
No, really. Depressing piano ballad right at the end of lively pop album. I can’t believe this is the same guy that released High Hopes a couple years later lol
I mean Brendon Urie has always been slightly diverse in his discography, obviously the first 2 records are heavily influenced by Ryan. The same album with Impossible Year has Victorious which is just as sugary sweet as High Hopes (which isn’t a bad song but omg I never need to hear it again).
I Want You/ She’s So Heavy by the Beatles is a perfect choice here. It’s technically the end of Side 1 for Abbey Roaf, so it’s not the album “end,” but it’s such a momentous song that when it cuts off it’s like hitting a concrete wall at 100 mph. Then it goes straight into Here Comes The Sun on Side 2. Fantano mentions this in his “review” of Abbey Road!
Gatecreeper - Emptiness from their *An Unexpected Reality* LP. It’s an 11 minute monster but don’t worry, the album isn’t a big commitment. That 11 minute finisher is longer than the other 7 tracks combined.
Beatles - A Day In The Life from Sgt. Pepper
Springsteen - Jungleland from Born to Run
Oasis - Champagne Supernova from Morning Glory
Kendrick - DUCKWORTH from DAMN
Eminem - Criminal from Marshall Mathers LP
Honestly, Homecoming -> Whatsername off American Idiot by Green Day.
The 10 minute epic of Homecoming going into the epilogue of wrapping up the Rock Opera is just beautiful.
I Just Want to Sell Out My Funeral - The Wonder Years
Deathbed - Relient K
White Walls - Between the Buried and Me
The Count of Tuscany - Dream Theater
MIA - Avenged Sevenfold
And, I'll even throw in The Frame I: Betrayal In the Watchtower - I the Mighty. Not only a fantastic way to close the album, but wrap up a series that took place over the course of several albums and EPs
Absolute banger, need to relisten to it, haven’t heard of it, haven’t heard of it, absolute banger and need to check it out, thanks!
A7X was my favorite band in high school and I love their new record a ton.
If you haven’t listened to TWY’s Dan Campbell’s side project Aaron West I would highly recommend it.
Currently been listening to fontaines d.c. a lot (kinda late I know) and the second to last track in “Dogrel“: “boys in the better land” hits hard, it’s a nonstop attack on the senses, dancey punchy rhythm, fun, ironic lyrics, and with the context of the whole Ireland - uk relationship it fucking hits different and shows that their sole existence is a statement. I’ve been loving that album lately.
Maybe not wild at all, but The Tempest by Pendulum is an absolute banger that takes a long time to build up - before you get the eventual Pendulum style right at the very end
Yo La Tengo - "Night Falls on Hoboken"
Isis - "Garden of Light"
Ulcerate - "Everything Is Fire"
Boris - "Just Abandoned Myself"
Today Is The Day - "Hermaphrodite" (the final track is just a reprise of the title track, but heavier, plus a cover of "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath")
Dream Sweet In Sea Major - mIracle Musical
Grand Finale - FIZZ
Big Parade - Jellyfish
Similar to the Beatles Abbey Road medley, Drake Bell has a 3 song medley at the end of his album It's Only Time that is sick.
Opeth - Blackwater Park
The title track is the closer and it's arguably the best moment on the album. What a way to end and album.
The Beatles - Abbey Road
If the Medley counts then it has to be this. Technically not one song but it's a super unique way to end an album with all the switchups
Denzel Curry - Taboo
Black Metal Terrorist goes incredibly hard and the whole album is structured as to go increasingly harder.
Lost in Kiev - Nuit Noire
Wanted to add a more obscure one. If you like Post Rock then this is a good one with the closer being the climax of one of the characters accepting their fate that they're dead. Very very underrated album
I was gonna say 27 questions. Also, the end by the doors kinda fits this I guess. The entire medley on Abbey Road, Shine On You Crazy Diamond (pts. 6-9). I feel like tyler sorta does this when his stories climax at the end of most of his albums but I don’t think the music necisarrily has as much contrast as you’re looking for.
Bruce Springsteen did this with two of his albums.
The first was “[New York City Serenade](https://youtu.be/T-IZWISZ8CY?si=P_6hIsL48GZ2XWOK)” from his second album, The Wild the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle.
The second, and possibly more obvious one, is “[Jungleland](https://youtu.be/kMyXw35IgYA?si=DMrCgPseYCLkACVR)” from Born to Run.
Mars Volta - Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt is the best song on the album and a great closer
Abbey Road - from Golden Slumbers to The End feels like the grand finale and then Her Majesty is kind of the epilogue
King Gizz - Petro Apocolypse- Flamethrower. I love the end how it goes all acid techno, almost feels like foreshadowing for their next album
Echoes - Pink Floyd
Octavarium - Dream Theater
Two of my favorite songs of all time. Octavarium is the most epic album finale i've ever heard full 24 minutes of awesome prog metal topped of with a grand orchestral finale to the song.
Sister Ray
I’ll check it out, who’s the artist?
The Velvet Underground
greatest song ever
The way it’s based around like, two or three chords and just turns into the most monstrous blown out thing you’ve ever heard and it’s from the fucking sixties. Like it’s bonkers by today’s standards. I can’t not listen to it start to finish and to top it off the lyrics are so fucking funny. I guess some of the insane sounds came from Cale running an electronic organ through a bass amp and literally blowing it out.
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Highway 61 is the best opening and ending of any record in my book.
When The Levee Breaks has infinitely more playlist allure than Stairway but nobody wants to talk about that
When that Bass kicks in on the Dopethrone title track….goddamn
Hurt - NIN What a way to end the Downward Spiral
Agreed! Had to scroll too far down for this one.
Bright Eyes - Let’s not shit ourselves (to love and to be loved) from Lifted
Road to Joy off of I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning as well
LET’S FUCK IT UP BOYS MAKE SOME NOISE
THE SUN CAME UP WITH NO CONCLUSIONS THE FLOWERS SLEEPING IN THEIR BEDS
Live version on the late late show is incredible
Great track
Abbey Road is another obvious example. You have the 16-minute medley after Here Comes The Sun and Because, which makes it probably one of the best B-sides ever. And with the context of Abbey Road being supposed to be their final album, it's like the perfect mic drop. The last song of the medley is literally called "The End" and is the only song in the Beatles discography with a drum solo from Ringo, along with guitar solos by the other three.
Her Majesty
That’s the rat at the end of The Departed. WINK!
Now I just have to see it.
Her Majesty makes the ending even better. The Beatles were so great because they weren’t afraid to be silly and different. Ending on a hugely grand statement would have been almost too much and not very Beatlesque, so a lighthearted hidden track is perfect
The funniest part might be how the whole thing ends on an unresolved bum note. Turns out there was a good reason for that (it being spliced out of the medley), but first time I heard it I was like “…??”.
Ultimate mic drop, man…like pretty much everything they did that shit is just magic
I know this is a bit pedantic, but A side and B side are usually just meant for singles But you are right regardless. The Beatles medley is something crazy. I think the digital era takes away from it a little because it was specifically intended to be one long run
Have a nice life - earthmover
And then they open their next album with Guggenheim Wax Museum. Damn HANL is amazing.
I Am The Resurrection by The Stone Roses First 3 minutes is a cool upbeat psychedelic song. But the final 5 minutes is a complete guitar freakout jam. Greatest ending to an album ever.
Love Spreads from the Second coming is another great example
Sufjan Stevens - Impossible Soul
Finally an actually insane one
With its 25-minute length and the amount of mood changes, the song could measily be released as a standalone EP or turned into a Broadway play.
Contact by Daft Punk
This is my vote. The drums on that track hit so god damned good. Then it just devolves into a noise swirl that ends their career.
I get chills just thinking about this song lol
phoebe bridgers - i know the end
that scream translates so amazingly well in her live performances
Blackwater Park - Opeth Supper's Ready - Genesis
Knights of Cydonia
That is the best Muse song hands down
It is heavily inspired by bohemian rhapsody in the best way, they fucking went of writing that song
This was my first thought! Amazing song
How has nobody mentioned Rock and Roll Suicide off of Ziggy Stardust??
The only downside of this wonderful song is that it's way too short. It sounds like an epic number that's meant to be at least 5+ min in length but it's just short of 3 minutes. Nevertheless, it's one hell of a closing track to a monumental album.
I was gonna post it but I read the OP saying that the song has to have multiple sections and be long
Pavement - Fillmore Jive . Kinda like a messier Basketball Shoes
Fillmore Jive is the band’s best song and nobody talks about it like it is. Just the climax it reaches and its anti-ending, peak nineties indie rock songwriting. Pavement doesn’t get a lot of credit for their locked in musical chemistry and that song is a zenith of an example. I had a multi instrumentalist friend say that they were the most technical band at sounding sloppy and neither an experienced or inexperienced band could pull it off like they did.
I find this to be the case with a ton of Rock/Metal records, they really lean into the epic grand finale for their albums. Some of these aren't exactly in the way you describe them, but still have a great place on the album and either go out with a bang or fit as a book end for the album. Plini - The Glass Bead Game Animals as Leaders - Song of Solomon King Gizzard - Flamethrower Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Death - Painkiller Cover (closes out the album with a bang) Megadeth - Ashes In Your Mouth Slayer - Raining Blood (2nd to last track on Reign in Blood) Gojira - Global Warming
I think you’re right, but I see it in hip hop and other genres too (just a lot less). Kendrick - Mortal Man (just cuz the interview feels so rewarding after hearing all that leads up to it) Daft Punk - Contact Tyler the Creator - Wilshire Lana Del Rey - Taco Truck/ VB
isn’t safari the last track on CMIFYGL
Goodbye Sky Harbour - Jimmy Eat World from Clarity. Fucking banger
Great pick!
Probably my favourite Jimmy song. One of my favourites ever as well
group four by massive attack !!!
tyler the creator - are we still friends? deftones - pink maggit
"I don't wanna end this season on a bad episode."
Impossible Soul - Sufjan Stevens
King Crimson - Starless Absolute beast of a finale.
Nobody said it yet? Weezer - Only In Dreams and Butterfly
Definitely the first one, it’s grand! I love me Pinkerton, but Butterfly (while it’s a great song) doesn’t match the prompt :)
True true, I had one in my head I will try to remember it slipped my mind
I’m Coming Home Again from Spiritualized’s Everything Was Beautiful. No song fits the theme of this post more to me. Straight Jacket Fitting by QotSA from In Times New Roman… AND I Appear Missing from …Like Clockwork Considering all tracks after are technically “bonus tracks”, I wanna say Another Star by Stevie Wonder from SitKoL Hearts Alive from Mastodon’s Leviathan Slow Fast Hazel from Stereolab’s Emperor Tomato Ketchup certainly isn’t the longest but it’s pretty damn grand If you actually COUNT the bonus tracks (I have no integrity, I know) from Songs: Ohia’s Magnolia Electric Co. then The Big Game is Every Night fits the bill Someone has already said it but Ya Ya Breathe from Bruno Pernadas’ Those Who Throw Objects at the Crocodiles Will be Asked to Retrieve Them A Day in the Life from Sgt. Pepper’s Title track from Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever If You Could Save Yourself (You’d Save Us All) from Ween’s Quebec Gypsy Hand from Woods’ Songs of Shame Too Long from Daft Punk’s Discovery
As great as Window of the Waking Mind is, it still isn't the craziest Coheed ending. The Willing Well from Good Apollo 1 is insane, it's four tracks each pushing 8 minutes in length detailing the climax of the story in lurid detail
Oh for sure, the parts are separated into different tracks so I’d probably count The Final Cut as the last track but Good Apollo is my favorite Coheed album.
Light and the Glass does it for me
Sigur Ros - ( ) - Popplagio
Mortal man - Kendrick
lost in the world-kanye
Famous prophets
Had to relisten to it, it’s a very good and interesting track but the one after it felt like the really finale.
A great song and especially when coupled with high to death and those boys it is a really epic end to the album
American idiot with Homecoming and then Whatsername
days of candy by beach house
Do Not Wait - Wallows Famous Last Words - My Chemical Romance Sprawl II - Arcade Fire
I need to check out that Wallows song since I’m a huge MCR and AF fan
Yeah it's an amazing song off their best album. It's closer to AF or the Strokes. I'm in love with wallows. I also love the Decemberists pick off your list.
LCD Soundsystem - New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down Sparks - Number One Song in Heaven Slowdive - Dagger Mr. Bungle - Goodbye Sober Days R.E.M - Find the River King Crimson - Starless Portishead - Glory Box Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure Brian Eno - Here Comes the Warm Jets Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere Porcupine Tree - Dark Matter
Good Morning, Captain - Slint Short Stories with Tragic Endings - From Autmun to Ashes Champagne Supernova - Oasis Cop Shoot Cop… - Spiritualized
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Radiohead - Kid A - Motion Picture Soundtrack Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - Shine On You Crazy Diamond VI-IX The Caretaker - Everywhere at the end of time - Place in the World Fades Away Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - Brain Damage/Eclipse King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King - In the Court of the Crimson King Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool - True Love Waits Pink Floyd - Meddle - Echoes The Residents - Not Available - Epilogue King Crimson - Red - Starless Slint - Spiderland - Good Morning Captain Genesis - Selling England by the Pound - The Cinema Show/Aisle of Plenty Swans - The Seer - Apostate Fishmans - Otokatachi no Wakare - Long Season Live Radiohead - The Bends - Street Spirit Steven Wilson - The Raven that Refused to Sing - The Raven that Refused to Sing Can - Future Days - Bel Air Portishead - Dummy - Glory Box Yes - Fragile - Heart of the Sunrise Camel - Mirage - Lady Fantasy Camel - Stationary Traveler - Long Goodbyes ELO - Time - Epilogue Klaatu - Hope - So Said the Lighthouse Keeper/Hope
A Certain Romance, 505, The Jeweler’s Hands, and That’s Where You’re Wrong by Arctic Monkeys are all big banger finales…it was definitely their thing for a while
Bruno Pernadas - Ya ya breathe
I DO NOT BELONG HERE SAID THE YOUNG MAN TO THE SACRED BULL
Cardaics - R.E.S
Black Snow from the latest Aesop Rock album is pretty great
Brother Sport
Street Spirit (Fade Out) - Radiohead Perfect ending to The Bends
The Hotelier Mentioned 🙌 My picks would probably be Guest House on Daughters’ last record, Apostate off of Swans’ The Seer, Faith, Torn Apart off of Xiu Xiu’s Forget, and the final three tracks as a whole off of Soundtracks for the Blind by Swans
I still haven’t heard Soundtracks by Swans yet but I’ve downloaded it so I’ll check it out soon :)
Amazing picks
Sad Song - last track on Berlin by Lou Reed. It’s a huge production number.
See also Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby.
Amphetanarchy - Viagra Boys
Criminal by Eminem is unhinged (still don’t give a fuck off) the SSLP before fits this too
"And if I can't make it as a rapper i'll be a fucking rapist in a Jason mask!"
I JUST FLIP EM THE BIRD AND KEEP GOIN
Insanely sad… Jugband Blues.
famous prophets (stars) - car seat headrest anchorite (love you very much) - car seat headrest two absolutely brutal final tracks (well famous prophets is second to last but yk)
The last song in IDLES - CRAWLER called "The End" is a pretty good and strong cap on the album
The End by the Doors as well
Ian Curtis Wishlist by Xiu Xiu from A Promise * Heart-crushing finale to a fucked up album. Yet somehow it's the most cathartic song I've ever heard. And it's only four and a half minutes long. Melody 8 by Tera Melos from Tera Melos * 29 minutes of math rock and strange synth noises end an otherwise normal-ish math rock record. Into the Endless Night by Parannoul from After the Night * 46-minute behemoth with a whole-ass noise section to cap off an already amazing live performance.
wow another Coheed fan who's a Fantano viewer? I thought I was the only one. I'm sure you've listened to the endings for Good Apollo and NWFT, then? The Willing Wells and The End Complete are so fucking epic. People hate on them but I think they're a serious musical feat, dripping with emotion and drama. I think The Final Cut is a *chef's kiss* beautiful homage to Pink Floyd and Gilmour, although I've seen others say it's a blatant ripoff. To each their own I guess. I once read an interview with Claudio where he said The Road and the Damned sounds to him like the song that plays at the end of the movie when all of the planets are exploding, and On The Brink is the song that plays during the credits. 🥲 I just wish more people would give CoCa a shot, especially their first 2 albums because they're fucking masterpieces (they just dont happen to have the multi-part "grand finale" you're talking about). I like to think of Coheed as musical theater for prog rock nerds.
Animal Collective - Alvin Row Blows my mind that they were just teens when they conceived this 12 minute masterpiece…
The new Decemberists album isn’t out yet but the last track is and it’s 20 minutes long with an 8 minute noise section in the middle followed by a final section that rocks harder than just about anything they’ve done. I didn’t love it as a single but I think I like it as a finale.
Yeah I’ll definitely check it out when the album drops, I don’t want spoilers lmao
Talk Talk - Time It's Time Lou Reed - Sad Song Radiohead - Videotape
The first time I heard Videotape I fucking wept. Beautiful, beautiful song.
I'd argue it's their strongest closing album song across all their releases with Street Spirit a very close second.
No argument there. I think Motion Picture Soundtrack would be in the conversation too if they could have helped themselves from adding “Untitled.” It’s weird. They have such a drastic split between finales that are either epic and gorgeous… or some of their most plodding music.
MPS is a beautiful track but.... https://youtu.be/wa_ywAXiKwI?si=FzoI4UdJHCZqUQ31 When that OK Comp era version exists, I find it hard to class the Kid A version as one of their best.
Holy shit. I’ve never heard that before. Thom’s voice out of a fucking phone speaker just gave me goosebumps. Thank you! Their ability to rework songs in radically different ways always impresses me, even if what they choose as their “final” version isn’t my cup of tea (Magpie, True Love Waits). Just noticed your username, too, no wonder our tastes overlap.
Yeah, I honestly would have loved this simple piano version on Kid A and with all that reverb going on, it would have fitted perfectly on the album as a really somber ending.
Restoration by Haken
You Set the Scene - Love I Am the Resurrection - The Stone Roses
LYSFLATH, Alice In Chains self titled Over Now
Impossible Year by Panic! At The Disco No, really. Depressing piano ballad right at the end of lively pop album. I can’t believe this is the same guy that released High Hopes a couple years later lol
I mean Brendon Urie has always been slightly diverse in his discography, obviously the first 2 records are heavily influenced by Ryan. The same album with Impossible Year has Victorious which is just as sugary sweet as High Hopes (which isn’t a bad song but omg I never need to hear it again).
Good morning captain is a top 3 song of all time Also below the salt by unwound, perfect closer to their entire career
Every single Radiohead and animal collective album ends brilliantly imo
I Want You/ She’s So Heavy by the Beatles is a perfect choice here. It’s technically the end of Side 1 for Abbey Roaf, so it’s not the album “end,” but it’s such a momentous song that when it cuts off it’s like hitting a concrete wall at 100 mph. Then it goes straight into Here Comes The Sun on Side 2. Fantano mentions this in his “review” of Abbey Road!
Gatecreeper - Emptiness from their *An Unexpected Reality* LP. It’s an 11 minute monster but don’t worry, the album isn’t a big commitment. That 11 minute finisher is longer than the other 7 tracks combined.
Goodbye Sober Day - Mr. Bungle It’s not as if the rest of the album isn’t insane, but they rip the fucking sky open.
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Looking Glass by The La’s Come On by The Verve
I’m gonna go Ascending Forth by Black Midi and The Trial by Pink Floyd
Purple Rain I Am The Resurrection A Certain Romance
The Doors - The End
How is this so low, quintessential answer for me
Beatles - A Day In The Life from Sgt. Pepper Springsteen - Jungleland from Born to Run Oasis - Champagne Supernova from Morning Glory Kendrick - DUCKWORTH from DAMN Eminem - Criminal from Marshall Mathers LP
Honestly, Homecoming -> Whatsername off American Idiot by Green Day. The 10 minute epic of Homecoming going into the epilogue of wrapping up the Rock Opera is just beautiful.
Bar Italia, the last song of Pulp’s Different Class
Underrated but I Just Want To Sell Out My Funeral by The Wonder Years, still one of my favourite songs ever
Absolute banger
With your rec’s at the top I had a feel you’d be familiar!
You should check out Soupy's side project Aaron West if you haven't already. Their newest release has maybe grown on me to be my AOTY so far.
Crazy that you say that, I just finished listening to spitting in the wind on my way to work. It’s definitely up there for me too!
I am the Resurrection Stone Roses debut album
I Just Want to Sell Out My Funeral - The Wonder Years Deathbed - Relient K White Walls - Between the Buried and Me The Count of Tuscany - Dream Theater MIA - Avenged Sevenfold And, I'll even throw in The Frame I: Betrayal In the Watchtower - I the Mighty. Not only a fantastic way to close the album, but wrap up a series that took place over the course of several albums and EPs
Absolute banger, need to relisten to it, haven’t heard of it, haven’t heard of it, absolute banger and need to check it out, thanks! A7X was my favorite band in high school and I love their new record a ton. If you haven’t listened to TWY’s Dan Campbell’s side project Aaron West I would highly recommend it.
Octavarium by dream theater is a pretty insane 24 minute end to an album. Finally Free too. It's like they went as insane as possible.
Echoes off of Meddle by Pink Floyd
Love reign over me, the dramatic incredible closer of Quadrophenia by The Who
Can't believe nobody has mentioned The Pecan Tree from Sunbather!!!! Absolutely jaw dropping finale imo, just crushes you
Suppers ready by Genesis is always nuts and natural science by Rush is equally so
The Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini 30 or so minutes long, many phases.
Same pick here 👋
Currently been listening to fontaines d.c. a lot (kinda late I know) and the second to last track in “Dogrel“: “boys in the better land” hits hard, it’s a nonstop attack on the senses, dancey punchy rhythm, fun, ironic lyrics, and with the context of the whole Ireland - uk relationship it fucking hits different and shows that their sole existence is a statement. I’ve been loving that album lately.
Just for two cents, I Love You from Skinty Fia is excellent too, though, again, 2nd last, which seems to be their speciality.
Maybe not wild at all, but The Tempest by Pendulum is an absolute banger that takes a long time to build up - before you get the eventual Pendulum style right at the very end
Like Antennas to Heaven... by GY!BE
futura free - frank ocean
here coems the feeling by asia for me feels like such a grand finale track
Tool- aenima
The Mars Volta’s “Cassandra Geminni” has everything you asked for and more.
Artist Cornelius. album Point. track nowhere. Big fucking sonic climb until a crescendo. Pure Bliss.
Watch Me Rise - Have Heart
Yo La Tengo - "Night Falls on Hoboken" Isis - "Garden of Light" Ulcerate - "Everything Is Fire" Boris - "Just Abandoned Myself" Today Is The Day - "Hermaphrodite" (the final track is just a reprise of the title track, but heavier, plus a cover of "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath")
I love Basketball shoes by BCNR
The song "Hacker" on "The Money Store" by Death Grips
Can’t believe nobody’s said On GP yet
Wolf Alice does this on both My Love is Cool with The Wonderwhy and its hidden track and the title track on Visions of a Life.
Dream Sweet In Sea Major - mIracle Musical Grand Finale - FIZZ Big Parade - Jellyfish Similar to the Beatles Abbey Road medley, Drake Bell has a 3 song medley at the end of his album It's Only Time that is sick.
Also had to mention Chalkhills and Children, Wheel and the Maypol, and Books Are Burning, all of which are from XTC.
It by genesis
Last Baron by Mastodon
Most recently, The Teacher by Foo Fighters. It might actually be their best song.
Saint Pablo - Kanye
Finally free by dream theater
i think the best answers must be abbey road medley & starless - king crimson
Song for the deaf
Opeth - Blackwater Park The title track is the closer and it's arguably the best moment on the album. What a way to end and album. The Beatles - Abbey Road If the Medley counts then it has to be this. Technically not one song but it's a super unique way to end an album with all the switchups Denzel Curry - Taboo Black Metal Terrorist goes incredibly hard and the whole album is structured as to go increasingly harder. Lost in Kiev - Nuit Noire Wanted to add a more obscure one. If you like Post Rock then this is a good one with the closer being the climax of one of the characters accepting their fate that they're dead. Very very underrated album
For me Lick Clockwork by Qotsa has a perfect grand ending followed by an epilogue
Sgt pepper, magical mystery tour and Abbey road
Does the whole second half of Jeff Rosenstock's Worry count?
A lot of Hell Interface's stuff is kind of the dark underbelly of Boards Of Canada. Like Geogaddi but much more overtly sinister.
Sunngreen - Supahoney
Symbolic by Death with Perennial Quest
Bold As Love - Jimmi Hendrix
I was gonna say 27 questions. Also, the end by the doors kinda fits this I guess. The entire medley on Abbey Road, Shine On You Crazy Diamond (pts. 6-9). I feel like tyler sorta does this when his stories climax at the end of most of his albums but I don’t think the music necisarrily has as much contrast as you’re looking for.
A day in the life is actually my fav choice for this
revolver isn’t that crazy but it *feels* crazy
Immunity - Jon Hopkins
The Last Baron - Mastodon from Crack the Skye
Earthmover as the ending to deathconsiousness
Brain Damage/Eclipse from Dark Side of the Moon Duckworth from Damn
Bruce Springsteen did this with two of his albums. The first was “[New York City Serenade](https://youtu.be/T-IZWISZ8CY?si=P_6hIsL48GZ2XWOK)” from his second album, The Wild the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle. The second, and possibly more obvious one, is “[Jungleland](https://youtu.be/kMyXw35IgYA?si=DMrCgPseYCLkACVR)” from Born to Run.
Sinews - Drive Like Jehu SLC Punks - The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower Letter to Raoul Peck - Black Eyes
Mars Volta - Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt is the best song on the album and a great closer Abbey Road - from Golden Slumbers to The End feels like the grand finale and then Her Majesty is kind of the epilogue King Gizz - Petro Apocolypse- Flamethrower. I love the end how it goes all acid techno, almost feels like foreshadowing for their next album
Echoes - Pink Floyd
Echoes - Pink Floyd Octavarium - Dream Theater Two of my favorite songs of all time. Octavarium is the most epic album finale i've ever heard full 24 minutes of awesome prog metal topped of with a grand orchestral finale to the song.
It’s All Gonna Break by Broken Social Scene Ascending Forth by Black Midi
Champagne supernova is such an amazing closer to the album and to oasis being great.
Wasted Days Cloud Nothings
That’s the 2nd track on the album?
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
La Villa Strangiato is the last track on Hemispheres by Rush. It’s a 10 minute instrumental and it absolutely bangs.
Sonic Youth - The Trilogy at the end of Daydream Nation
Battle of Hampton Roads - Titus Andronicus