5 Perfect Album Closers

[@mickleyden9240]

Great picks John. Here’s a funny one for you. Last track on Queen 1 is Seven Seas of Rhye. I thought I’d been short changed (it’s only one minute long) and was on my way back to the record shop to complain about the “technical error” until a mate pointed out it was just a teaser for the full track on Queen II. Oops!

[@EvertHoman]

"The Last Straw/Happy Ending" on "Clutching at Straws" by Marillion.

[@derekclacton]

All great choices, John - I’d certainly include the first two. Status Quo had some belters - “Forty Five Hundred Times” and “Mystery Song” two of my favourites. UFO - “This Kids (including Between the Walls)” and “Love to Love” are brilliant closers too, along with a couple of Clapton classics - “Further On Up The Road” (live) and “Mainline Florida” - so hard to choose 5! 👍

[@michaelcole3018]

“Slaughter On Tenth Avenue” Micky Ronson’s first album after leaving Bowie, for me.

[@TheLambLive]

Tell you what I think is a massively underrated 'album closer'... It Never Rains by Dire Straits, from the Love Over Gold album. Something really special about that song and yet, maybe because it got quickly dropped from the live setlist, it's almost unknown amongst people... Well worth a listen !.

[@JRobsonGuitar]

Definitely! I don't know why but the line "it's a sad reminder when your organ grinder has to come to you for rent" ALWAYS gets me. I don't even know what it bloody means 🤣

[@TheLambLive]

@@JRobsonGuitar - Exactly !,, when the Hammond organ hits its just so good. That always stuck with me right from my first listen as a teen. Also the whole album has this wonderful dark atomsphere and tonality to it,,, thats the fingerprint of the Power Plant studio in NYC,,, in particular the EMT 140 Stereo Plate Reverb that was in there... the back LP track listing is a photo of the computerscreen for the SSL mixing desk they had in there, which was the first ever computerised fader automation system.... all this made teen me very excited hahah.

[@calbrockocat8728]

Styx's Equinox comes to mind, ending with Prelude 12 and finishing with Suite Madama Blue. Supertramp: Crime of the Century. Here's an oddball one for you: Alan Parson's Tales of Mystery and Imagination ending with To One in Paradise.

[@petewindsor4096]

Saw the title, immediately thought Eclipse so in sync with you on that one. 2nd on my list is Welcome to the Future - closer of Hawkwind's Space Ritual

[@derelictconfusion9498]

Shazbat Nanonano,Bon saying bye!Still missed!

[@jemahl123]

Good picks, mind, Brain Damage/Eclipse would definitely be one of mine. A Day in The Life is a pretty good tune to end an album with though...

[@paulandhisguitars]

Rocket Queen from Appetite for destruction by GNR, Life beyond the sky from Hell to pay by Jeff Healey, Gold, from the gold experience by Prince. Whose loving who from the hard-line according to terrence trent Darby (smokey robinson cover) My melancholy blues from News of the World by Queen.

[@latheofheaven1017]

Just off the top of my head - but I suspect there are many more album closers that I love... F.U.B.B. closes Wishbone Ash's There's The Rub album. Poisoned Youth closes England's Garden Shed album. Wake up Time closes Tom Petty's Wildflowers album. Los Endos closes Genesis' Trick of the Tail album. Space Trucking closes Deep Purple's Made in Japan album. (The studio version doesn't cut it, I don't think, but the live version wipes the floor with everything else).

[@55billmarshall]

Wow, never thought I'd hear England mentioned here. There was a follow-up band called Romance who did some of the same songs including Victoriana. They had some of the old England tapes. I was sound engineer for them for 6 months.

[@paulwells6131]

Rock n Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution AC/DC Back in Black Hallowed be thy name Iron Maiden Number of the Beast 4500 Time Status Quo Hello! Rocket Queen GNR Appetite for Destruction Muse Knights of Cydonia Black Holes & Revelations.

[@peterhall4852]

Buzzcocks album -Another Music in a Different Kitchen closes with Moving Away from the Pulsebeat. Fanstastic track.

[@azog23]

Dubh is pronounced like "dove". "bh" is like a "v" in irish.

[@JRobsonGuitar]

I did not know that. Thanks for the info. Duly noted 👍

[@goldiefish72]

@@JRobsonGuitar Also, Phillo often corrected the pronunciation of his surname "I'm no liar" i.e, Lie Not.