The best career closer (final track on final album) ever?

hahaha hilltop procession came on my ipod shuffle just earlier and it was great and it never occurred to me that it was a farewell track

Yeah 'Try Again' was the first thing that occurred to me. Also 'Where Did You Sleep Last Night' from Nirvana Unplugged.

archers of loaf, white trash heroes. bit of a departure but i'm still v fond of it.

Jellyfish--"Brighter Day" pretty much sums up the band, and their kitchen sink.

Galaxie 500's "King of Spain, Part Two" always seemed a pretty fitting end point to me.

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"Build", The Housemartins.

(tho they had a final, non-album single "There Is Always Something There To Remind Me")

The actual career closer by The Specials (not counting Special AKA, which was something else) was "Ghost Town", which is probably the best swansong ever.

sex pistols "emi"

"Powerless" by Attacco Decente.

The actual career closer by The Specials (not counting Special AKA, which was something else) was "Ghost Town", which is probably the best swansong ever.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Friday, 4 September 2009 18:01 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Except it would be "Friday night, saturday morning", which is alright but..

Her Majesty

riders on the storm

xpost Yes "Tea In The Sahara" closes Synchronicity. a good choice..

and yes "Where Did You Sleep Last Night"

kind of cheating but i like the 5 song sequence starting with U-Love and ending with Donuts (Intro) that Dilla left us with on Donuts

Radiohead - Videotape

Chavez - "You Must Be Stopped"

"It's No Game (Part 2)" from 'Scary Monsters & Supercreeps. Yes it was his last album. It was too. It was. I'm sure of it.

The Beatles closed with "You know my name (look up the number)" : Discuss...

If you don't count skeleton versions of bands, the Velvets' "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" and the Dolls' "Human Being." They would have made for as perfect an exit as Jordan's shot against Utah in '98; of course, the story technically continued in all three cases.

Band of Susans terminated with a cover of Ahead that is simultaneously the best thing they ever did, the best Wire cover ever, and one of the greatest songs in the history of music.

Who cares if it wasn't on one of their albums...

refused - the apollo programme was a hoax
nick drake - from the morning

Manic Street Preachers (version I) - 'PCP'

Eleanor Rigby - up the junction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4A_p43aFFc

another for The Doors - Riders On The Storm

The Doors might be unique in that, depending on mood, you can make a good case for first-song-on-first-album and last-song-on-last-album being the best thing they ever did.

earl brutus : male wife

a 3 minute blast of noise and typical off the cuff mad lyrics with the final words, 'don't get testy with me guy'

a perfect end to their double bill of lager fuelled chaos.

T. Rex - Teen Riot Structure

The Beach Boys - "Summer's Gone". A perfect career-closer.

The Who, "Tea and Theatre"

Very obvious choice for me, but Drive Like Jehu's "Sinews" is a song that still kills me about 20 years after hearing it for the first time. It encapsulates most of what was great about them, but has an spookiness and emotional weight to it that just ends that album (and their career it turns out) on a seriously heavy note. For many years the righteousness of the outro got me so worked up that I had to put the record on again.

LCD Soundsystem - Home : Maybe not their best or most explosive but it's really a distillation of what made them so great. They've already had their "big moment" songs so this is a great way to wind things down.

Neu! - After Eight

Orbital - Where is it Going? (if indeed it comes to that)

Queen - "The Show Must Go On". (And didn't it just.)

REM - "Electrolite"

One Two, Very Good (digital single). Ending a 10-year career on an endless-summer, everything is all right note after a great, but tortured, final EP.

Actually maybe it was only a 7-year career. But still.

REM - "Electrolite"

― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, October 31, 2012 10:33 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Riders On The Storm" is an acceptable bending of the rules but c'mon man

So is "All Apologies", btw

Simon & Garfunkel - "Song For The Asking"

from the morning

Pavement - Carrot Rope

Also I'm not a huge fan of Talking Heads' Naked but 'Cool Water' is a great closing track.

I've always loved the way "The Royal Scam" closes the album of the same name.

Does "Golden slumbers" / "Carry that weight" / "The end" count or does "Her majesty" get in the way of that argument?

Bugger, just seen it mentioned already.

How about "You can live at home"? Or has that been done as well?

It's not the album closer, but if we count it as the last of his tracks on an album he recorded, John Lennon's "Dear Yoko" on Double Fantasy kinda sums him up.

Metallica "Dyers Eve"

GBV had a perfect one until they went and made more records

^^^Yes x1000