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progaardvark 
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A couple off the top of my head...
Pink Floyd - Wish Your Were Here Alan Parsons Project - I Robot Solaris - Marsbéli Krónikák Present - This Is Not the End Spock's Beard - The Kindness of Strangers Henry Cow - Western Culture |
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MortSahlFan
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Dark Side of the Moon
"Eclipse" really sums up the album, and is just perfect. |
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kenethlevine
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Posted: June 18 2025 at 10:15 |
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Off the top of my head it would be the end of "A Song for all Seasons" by Renaissance. EPIC
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verslibre
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Since you brought it up, "Hemispheres" doesn't close Hemispheres, the entirely instrumental "La Villa Strangiato" does. 
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Grumpyprogfan
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Posted: June 18 2025 at 10:31 |
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^And 2112 doesn't close 2112.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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I just finished listening to Marillion's Misplaced Childhood and realized that it belongs on the list also. The last three tracks or so that go into each other are all very intense. There's a few slow parts on the album but it it definitely ends on a high note and I like the way White Feather fades out. Wow.
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Frets N Worries
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The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, the whole sequence of songs leading up to 'It' always blows me away.
Since they're on the sight, I'll throw in 'As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again' by The Decemberists, Joan in the Garden might be the best closer I've ever heard. |
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richardh
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Yep that's an album that climaxes perfectly 
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Side One of "Close to the Edge," full stop!
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But that's a great beginning, isn't it? 
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Floydoid
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For me a few Floydian albums have truly great endings in that they have a tendency to sum up the whole spirit of the album:
Bike - 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn' (also the closer on both collections it has appeared on, i.e 'Relics' and 'Echoes - The Best of Pink Floyd') Brain Damage / Eclipse - 'Dark Side of the Moon' Outside the Wall - 'The Wall' Sorrow - 'A Momentary Lapse of Reason' High Hopes - 'The Division Bell' Louder than Words - 'The Endless River' |
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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It doesn't end the album though. |
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Cristi
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That's exactly what i meant with my silly remark. 
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High Hopes on The Division Bell from Pink Floyd. Also, a great ending to their discography... until it was no longer so.
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Agreed. IMO only 'Louder than Words' the closer on Endless River is decent enough, but mostly the album has a 'work in progress feel about' it. |
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The Moody Blues - Long Distance Voyager ends with "Veteran cosmic rocker".
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proggy123
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and Veteran Cosmic rocker
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Probably my pick out of those already named. |
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Came Down and Closer by IQ, while not prog masterpieces on their own, work really well as album endings.
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