Albums with great endings - Progressive Rock Music Forum

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

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.

Since you brought it up, "Hemispheres" doesn't close Hemispheres, the entirely instrumental "La Villa Strangiato" does.

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Dark Side of the Moon

"Eclipse" really sums up the album, and is just perfect.

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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.

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!!!

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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...

I am always relieved to hear the end of 2112.

The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed

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.

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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)
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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:)

Some really good ones listed above!

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

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