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    Posted: 17 hours 6 minutes ago at 18:22
I've thought about this one for a while and now have finally gotten around to posting it. I guess you could list songs with great final moments and I could list final songs with great endings but since I don't always pay close attention to song titles I'm just going to list a few albums that I think have great endings. A few off the top of my head to get things going.


Carmen - Fandangos in Space (it's really the second to last track that I find intense but it still qualifies anyway)

Yes - Fragile (the original lp version had the door opening and closing)

Le Orme - Felona E Sorona

Halloween - Merlin (the second half of the album isn't as good as the first but the last minute or so is very intense and maybe the best part of the whole thing)

Captain Beyond - Same (this one might take the cake- what an intense ending)

Rush - Hemispheres (the "we can walk this road together" part just moves me everytime)

Genesis - Selling England By The Pound (I like the way it kind of brings the whole thing full circle)

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

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





Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - 18 minutes ago at 11:10
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:


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


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I'll have to think a bit more about this topic, but the first one that springs to my mind is:

Santana - 'Every Step of the Way' - the mood of the 'Caravanserai' album just builds and builds from the opening of 'Eternal Caravan of Reincarnation' right through to that magnificent climactic ending.
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Gentle Giant - Freehand. The last note of "Mobile" ends, then there is 20 seconds of silence before the unexpected drum fill.
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