Albums with great endings

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: ... Caravan - In The Land of Grey and Pink (it starts to slow down then bam we're done) ...

Hi, (I have to look at my collection to find more ... )

Actually the side 2 of the LP in FOR GIRLS THAT GROW PLUMP IN THE NIGHT is the better one with the orchestrated parts to the end, with an explosive out. And the orchestration side of it is magnificent.

Alan Stivell - Symphonie Celtique ... there are two sides of the double LP that are outstanding and both have an orchestral part with it that has a crescendo until it is over the top. It becomes crazy, but it is far out to play loud and enjoy.

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - It's side 1 complete, and ending with Two Tribes and Fury. The whole thing had been building from the start, and it ends hard and fast and very crazy.

Hawkwind - Electric Tepee. The ending piece is like saying that Hawkwind just does pow wows in concert. And the album is an acid rock non stop thing, that most Hawkwind fans can't handle and instead go for the cheap material by ______. No piece of music, no matter how weird or strange, better explains a band than this one regardless of what kind of music. It's a seance, or in different terms, a pow wow native American style ... or African style, or Aborigene style.

Nektar - Recycled. The last piece in it, pretty much ended Nektar and I think it specified that Roye was not well, or probably read to call it. The rest of the material released was stuff they had already done in concert for some time. He gave his heart to the music, and it was special and then some. But it was a sad ending to a magnificent trip.

The Doors - Riders on the Storm. Need we say more?

Vangelis - Blade Runner Sdtk - Tears In The Rain. One of the most poetic and beautiful things ever done visually and with music. It really puts out an impossible ending otherwise. Just hearing it, is enough to make you feel it!


Edited by moshkito - Yesterday at 05:37

Gentle Giant - Freehand. The last note of "Mobile" ends, then there is 20 seconds of silence before the unexpected drum fill.

Some really good ones listed above!

I also like how Styx's Paradise Theater ends ... essentially how it begins

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic (it sounds like the whole world is exploding at the end of LTIA pt. 2)

I think King Crimson got some additional decent ones: In The Court Of The Crimson King, Lizard, Fracture, Starless...

Btw: I only include albums with at least four songs:

& Peter Hammill:
-(In the) Black Room / The Tower (Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night )
-A Louse Is Not a Home (The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage)
-Flight (A Black Box)

Radiohead:
Street Spirit (Fade Out) - (The Bends)
Motion Picture Soundtrack (Kid A)
Life in a Glasshouse (Amnesiac)
True Love Waits (A Moon Shaped Pool)
+
Blue Öyster Cult - Astronomy (Secret Treaties)
Van der Graaf Generator - Sleepwalkers (Godbluff)
Pentangle - Jack Orion (Cruel Sister)
Magma - De Futura (Üdü Ẁüdü)
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine (The Man Machine)
Art Zoyd - Génération Sans Futur (Génération Sans Futur)
David Bowie - Lady Grinning Soul (Aladdin Sane)
Camel - Lady Fantasy (Mirage)
Genesis - The Fountain of Salmacis (Nursery Cryme)
Curved Air - Piece of Mind (Second Album)
Guapo - King Lindorm (Elixirs)
Can - Bel Air (Future Days)
Roy Harper - Me and My Woman (Stormcock)
Le Orme - Maggio (Contrappunti)

& most Swans-albums I care about:)

Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick. The final five minutes, with John Evan and Barrie Barlow going off, the strings that come out of nowhere, and Ian's acoustic reprise.

Yes - Fragile. "Heart of the Sunrise". Enough said.

Genesis - Foxtrot. "Supper's Ready", the sections "Apocalypse in 9/8 (Co-Starring the Delicious Talents of Gabble Ratchet)" and "As Sure as Eggs Is Eggs (Aching Men's Feet)".

Genesis - Seconds Out. "Los Endos" with both Bill Bruford and Phil Collins on the drums.

King Crimson - Red. "Starless."

Deep Purple - Made in Japan. "Space Truckin", the explosive final four minutes.

The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed

I am always relieved to hear the end of 2112.

richardh wrote: It shows just how far ELP have fallen down the pecking order that no one has yet posted Lucky Man. This for me is the very best album ending, nothing else gets close. If you want nightmares then Tool - Lateralus. Vangelis - China ends perfectly with the piece Summit. You are now alone on one of the highest mountain peaks. Totally is that.

I would go with Lucky Man - absolutely. Still raises goosebumps.

I also love John Greaves 'don't disturb me' song rounding off Henry Cow's 'Unrest'

'Elephants' that ends National Health's first album floats off into the ether nicely as well...

Closer by IQ, to round off Frequency.
Same goes for The Narrow Margin on Subterranea!
And Guiding Light on The Seventh House!!
And Never Land on Dominion!!!

😂

Octopus II wrote: 'Soon' by Yes, at the end of Side 1 of Relayer.

That doesn't close the album though otherwise we could just as easily say the title track to Close To The Edge.