After the popularity of my last post, I felt that doing the same exact post, except for closing tracks on an album, would also fair me well. I gotta' say that this one was a bit tougher to put together (that's why I had to make it 50 and not 40). Perhaps this is because of the fact that the closing track obviously comes after having context for the whole rest of the record that came previous to it. This meaning that a great closing track doesn't only need to be a great song, but also needs to best some up the rest of the record. A great closing track puts closure on your experience of listening to that particular album or maybe it doesn't...sometimes the best closing tracks leave you wanting more, making you want to hit repeat immediately.
Some extra notes: there are some fantastic songs that close albums that aren't nearly as great... most won't be making the cut for this list. This list is going to be chock full of albums that are great and therefore have great closing tracks.
Fun fact: There are 16 Albums to make both lists I have concocted: Nick Drake's Pink Moon, Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, The Clash's London Calling, Radiohead's OK Computer, XTC's Skylarking, Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks, Prince's Purple Rain, Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, The Who's Who's Next, Radiohead's Kid A, Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, Bruce Sprinsteen's Born To Run, The Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed
50.) OK Go -- "Bye Bye Baby" --- OK Go
49.) The Allman Brothers Band -- "Little Martha" --- Eat a Peach
48.) Green Day -- "Whatsername" --- American Idiot
47.) Joni Mitchell -- "The Last Time I Saw Richard" --- Blue
46.) My Bloody Valentine -- "Soon" --- Loveless
45.) GZA -- "B.I.B.L.E. (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)" --- Liquid Swords
44.) The Replacements -- "Here Comes A Regular" --- Tim
43.) LCD Soundsystem -- "New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down" --- Sound of Silver
42.) A Tribe Called Quest -- "Scenario" --- The Low End Theory
41.) The Grateful Dead -- "Truckin'" --- American Beauty
40.) Wilco -- "One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley's Boyfriend)" --- The Whole Love
39.) Joe Jackson -- "Got The Time" --- Look Sharp!
38.) Pixies -- "Gouge Away" --- Doolittle
37.) Bob Marley -- "One Love/People Get Ready" --- Exodus
36.) Radiohead -- "Motion Picture Soundtrack" --- Kid A
35.) Nirvana -- "All Apologies" --- In Utero
34.) The Jimi Hendrix Experience -- "Bold As Love" --- Axis: Bold As Love
33.) XTC -- "Sacrificial Bonfire" --- Skylarking
32.) Led Zeppelin -- "When The Levee Breaks" --- Led Zeppelin IV
31.) The Who -- "Love, Reign O'er me" --- Quadrophenia
30.) The Band -- "I Shall Be Released" --- Music From Big Pink
29.) The Beatles -- "All You Need Is Love" --- Magical Mystery Tour
28.) David Bowie -- "Rock 'N' Roll Suicide" --- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders
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27.) The Clash -- "Train In Vain (Standy By Me)" --- London Calling
26.) The Who -- "We're Not Gonna Take It" --- Tommy
25.) Public Enemy -- "Fight The Power" --- Fear of a Black Planet
24.) The Beach Boys -- "Caroline, No" --- Pet Sounds
23.) Elliott Smith -- "Say Yes" --- Either/Or
22.) Bob Marley -- "Redemption Song" --- Uprising
21.) The Beatles -- "Tomorrow Never Knows" --- Revolver
20.) Neutral Milk Hotel -- "Two-Headed Boy Part Two" --- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
19.) Radiohead -- "The Tourist" --- OK Computer
18.) Bon Iver -- "re: Stacks" --- For Emma, Forever Ago
17.) The Rolling Stones -- "You Can't Always Get What You Want" --- Let It Bleed
16.) Bob Dylan -- "Buckets of Rain" --- Blood On The Tracks
15.) Prince -- "Purple Rain" --- Purple Rain
14.) The Rolling Stones -- "Moonlight Mile" --- Sticky Fingers
13.) Notorious B.I.G. -- "Suicidal Thoughts" --- Ready To Die
12.) Bruce Springsteen -- "Jungleland" --- Born To Run
11.) Marvin Gaye -- "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" --- What's Going On
10.) Wilco -- "Reservations" --- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
9.) Nick Drake -- "From the Morning" --- Pink Moon
8.) Nirvana -- "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" (Lead Belly Cover) --- MTV Unplugged in New York
7.) Bob Dylan -- "Desolation Row" --- Highway 61 Revisted
6.) Bruce Springsteen -- "New York City Serenade" --- The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle
5.) The Kinks -- "Waterloo Sunset" --- Something Else by The Kinks
4.) The Who -- "Won't Get Fooled Again" --- Who's Next
3.) The Doors -- "The End" --- The Doors
2.) Pink Floyd -- "Eclipse" --- The Dark Side of the Moon
1.) The Beatles -- "A Day In The Life" --- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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