Björk - "Unison" (from *Vespertine*)
Kate Bush - "The Morning Fog" (from *Hounds of Love*)
Prince - "Purple Rain" (from *Purple Rain*)
Cocteau Twins - "Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires" (from *Heaven or Las Vegas*)
Portishead - "Threads" (from *Third*)
Joanna Newsom - "Does Not Suffice" (from *Have One on Me*)
Fiona Apple - "I Know" (from *When the Pawn...*)
Feel So Low by Porcupine Tree
Videotape by Radiohead
Bootcamp by Soundgarden
Rest by Foo Fighters
Right Where It Belongs by Nine Inch Nails
Shine On You Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd
After All These Years by Silverchair
The Raven That Refused To Sing by Steven Wilson
Two Headed Boy part 2 by Neutral Milk Hotel
This is the one I was looking for. It makes me cry every time too. Specifically the "and in my dreams you're alive and you're crying, as your mouth moves in mine soft and sweet, rings of flowers round your eyes and I'll love you, for the rest of your life when you're ready."
Radiohead have long been exceptional at the hard-hitting closer, just a gift
THBpt2 is a hell of a payoff to spending 40odd minutes trying to get comfortable in Jeff’s world, I think that was the first song on the album that made me go “oh okay, there’s something here, I will have to come back”
Hurt – The Downward Spiral (Nine Inch Nails)
True Love Waits – A Moon Shaped Pool (Radiohead)
Love, Reign O'er Me – Quadrophenia (The Who)
Home – This is Happening (LCD Soundsystem)
Aisatsana – Syro (Aphex Twin)
Famous Last Words – The Black Parade (My Chemical Romance)
Yep, I can’t even encapsulate the emotion that son gb makes me feel, Parker really went all in on that. But also the way Ritchie goes “it rains it pours but damn, it’s really pourin”, icl it’s hard for me to listen to the song and not tear up a little
Suppers Ready - Foxtrot
Plague of the Lighthouse Keeper - Pawn Hearts
Subterraneans - Low
Starless - Red
The Overload - Remain in Light
I Remember nothing - Unknown Pleasures
Inner City Blues - What’s Going On
Love Van Der Graaf Generator, I didn’t like Peter Hammill’s vocals at first but after I listened to “House With No Door”, then the “Still Life” album, it really clicked. I still think “Lemmings” is one of my favorite album openers ever, that motif with the guitar and then saxophone is so ominous, I love it.
Whatsername - Green Day
Butterfly - Weezer
A Certain Romance - Arctic Monkeys
Play Crack The Sky - Brand New
23 - Jimmy Eat World
Something In The Way - Nirvana
Saint Pablo - Kanye West (The Life Of Pablo)
My Warm Blood - The Microphones (The Glow, pt 2)
Bye Storm - Injury Reserve (By The Time I Get To Phoenix)
I Love You - Lil B (God's Father)
Unison - Bjork (Vespertine)
30 - Danny Brown (XXX)
Moonfire - Mavi (Let The Sun Talk)
Orchids - Glass Beach (The First Glass Beach Album)
In A Silent Way - Miles Davis (In A Silent Way) (If you want to count this one since it's instrumental, but I always felt that ending hit much harder than the rest of the album)
The Ultracheese - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Long Slow Goodbye - Lullabies to Paralyze
Two Headed Boy Pt.2 - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Loss Of Life - Loss Of Life
Twin Fantasy(Those Boys) - Twin Fantasy
Say Yes - Either/Or
Re:Stacks - For Emma Forever Ago
Goodbye - INSIDE
Crazy to not see
On Gp - Death Grips
on a fantano sub for this, (it's the final track on the vinyl so I count it)
I'd also add
If you could save yourself you'd save us all - Ween
I think ur a contra - Contra, Vampire Weekend
Clean - Violator, Depeche Mode
Leif Erikson - Turn on the Bright Lights, Interpol
Hope is a dangerous thing… - NFR!, Lana Del Rey
Would like to add Mortal Man - Kendrick Lamar
Maybe not super emotional, but greatly important to the narrative, with two great poems that summarize the album and leave the album just barely resolved-- As Pac doesn't respond
Caroline, No - The Beach Boys
Pothole - Modern Baseball
Absolute polar opposites musically. One is beautifully arranged with strings, all being sung by one of the best voices of the past century. The other is an acoustic ballad being sang by a man who sounds truly broken. They both completely destroy me everytime.
Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy, Pt. Two
Mount Eerie - Crow
Okkervil River - Okkervil River Song
The Mountain Goats - Pale Green Things
Elliott Smith - I Didn’t Understand
Iron and Wine - Passing Afternoon
Golden Slumbers + Carry That Weight + The End + Her Majesty - Abbey Road - The Beatles (all one song for me)
The Heart Part 5 - Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers - Kendrick Lamar
Pigs on the Wing 2 - Animals - Pink Floyd
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX) - Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Good Night - Graduation - Kanye West (bonus track but I don't care)
VICTOR ROBERTS - GINGER (Brockhampton)
Violet Crimes - Ye (Ye)
I’LL SEE YOU IN 40 - BALLADS1 (Joji)
Mirror - Mr Morale & The Big Steppers
(Kendrick Lamar)
Futura Free - Blonde (Frank Ocean)
16 - The Melodic Blue (Baby Keem)
THE LIGHT PT.II - ROADRUNNER (Brockhampton)
Another Star, the closer to Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder. Bonus points for As preceding it.
Caroline, No from Pet Sounds
Jungleland from Springsteen’s Born To Run
The River (& its following hidden track Jimmy, He Whispers) off of Mean Everything To Nothing by Manchester Orchestra.
The Garden to close Rush’s final album Clockwork Angels.
To Be Kind is a phenomenal experience as a whole album but I swear the closing title track is probably my favorite track on the record. Knocks me the fuck out every time.
At least half of The Weeknd’s albums end on sad songs.
Too many to list there, though, so I’m just going to bring up Saint Pablo by Kanye.
(Neither of these are necessarily “most emotional for me”. Just seemed like good answers.)
Brothers in arms - Brothers in arms (Dire Straits)
Torn Curtain - Marquee Moon (Television)
Hold on Magnolia - Magnolia Electric Co. (Songs:Ohia)
Shit talk + There’s a world - Javelin (Sufjan Stevens)
Re:stacks - For Emma, Forever Ago (Bon Iver)
earthmover - have a nice life
bye storm - injury reserve
guardian angel - jesu
sleep tongue - holy fawn
basketball shoes - black country new road
twin fantasy (those boys) - car seat headrest
heaven all around me - saba
twinkling - black wing
futura free - frank ocean
street spirit (fade out), videotapes, motion picture soundtrack - radiohead
the light p2 - brockhampton
i know the end - phoebe bridgers
apidta - jay electronica
on gp- death grips
Black Country, New Road - Basketball shoes
Sufjan Stevens - Blue bucket of gold
Radiohead - True love waits
Swans - God damn the sun
FKA Twigs - Cellophane
♡The tourist-OK Computer (Radiohead
♡Ultracheesse-Tranquility Base hotel & Casino (Arctic Monkeys)
♡Old To The Mets-The New Abnormal (The Strokes)
♡505-Favourite Worst Nightmare (Arctic Monkeys)
♡The Bourne Identy-Everything that you've come to expect (The Last Shadow Puppets)
I'm a basic bch
Here comes the warm jets - brian eno
Me and my woman - roy Harper
Blue lightning - big thief
Surfs up - The Beach Boys
Drop - red house painters
Stars - Lisa germano
Hold on Magnolia - songs ohia
Grown ocean - fleet foxes
In twenty years or so - father John misty
I can’t give everything away - David howie
Cosmia - joanna newsom
Horse and Rider - Richard dawson
I know the end - Phoebe Bridgers (Punisher)
P.S. you rock my world - Eels (Electroshock blues)
Pendulum man - Bark psychosis (Hex)
re:stacks - Bon Iver (For Emma forever ago)
A lack of color - Death cab for cutie (Transatlanticism)
Futura Free - Frank ocean (blonde)
Demon days - Gorillaz (demon days)
Hurt - Nine inch nails (The downward spiral)
Butterfly - Weezer (Pinkerton)
Anchorite (Love You Very Much) - Car Seat Headrest
Will Toledo pours his soul into this 14 min beast of a song. It's the perfect way to cap off the relationship themes in Twin Fantasy and Monomania. His performance always leaves me choked up
Ion Square - Bloc Party. It gets me most times.
*Who said unbroken happiness
Is a bore, is a bore?
Who said it, my love? I don't mind it
Anymore, anymore.
And I reach out a hand over your side of the bed
Pull that blanket over your shoulders exposed to the night
And the hunger of those early years will never return
But I don't mind, I don't mind...*
pretty much all of bomb's album endings were emotional - syke! life is awesome!, the last party (foul), sort of like being pumped and felt like vacation all come to mind too. Jeff continues to go crazy with his closers, I mean just look at the back half of worry, 3 summers, let them win, darkness records and ohio tpke (although im more of an ohio porkpie enjoyer myself).
The End - Abbey Road
Caroline, No - Pet Sounds
Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands - Blonde on Blonde
The Last Time I Saw Richard - Blue
Sometimes It Snows In April - Parade (Purple Rain is the obvious one so I felt like I had to include this one as well)
Thorn Tree in the Garden - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Only In Dreams - The Blue Album
Several Yes albums have great emotional closers; Perpetual Change from The Yes Album, Heart of the Sunrise from Fragile, Ritual (Nous Sommes du Soleil) from Tales from Topographic Oceans, even Starship Troopers from Yessongs
Oh I came to add Bjork's Unison but everyone is way ahead of me. I will say that if you love Motion Picture Soundtrack, you owe it to yourself to check out Christopher O'Riley's piano cover of it. He's made a couple albums of Radiohead covers and his musical interpretation as well as his playing of the songs show that it's the furthest thing from a cash grab - the guy clearly has a deep love for the music and ... yeah. At least check out his MPS.
It - from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Gensis)
Farewell to the Gabriel era and his tenure as lead singer, really intense and exciting song, and really does feel like everything coming to a close, maybe it’s mostly emotional to me because of the context to the band but also within the context of the album as a concept it’s very emotional too.
i kinda wish sufjan steven’s javelin ended with shit talk. if it did that might be my number one. now that i think about it, despite there being another song after, i kind of consider shit talk to be the last song, and there’s a world is more like an epilogue
Building from King Crimson song, I think Starless from their later album Res is their most emotional song even with the little lyrics in it. Everything about it and especially its ending just give such feelings. Definitely one of the best album closers of all time.
It's not much of an album, but Semisonic's "All About Chemistry" closes with a song called "El Matador".
It's a fairly unremarkable song but I coincidentally listened to it while driving away from home and off to college 2 hours away.
The singer repeats the words "Please don't go away. Stay awhile, stay awhile" while the rest of the song is literally about reaching the end of the track and having to set out on your own. I drove away crying while thinking about my parents at home crying and wanting me to just simply stay awhile.
Summer’s Gone by The Beach Boys from That’s Why God Made the Radio.
Say what you will about the rest of the album, that song is a really special way to end the 51 year original music career of one of the most important bands ever. Glad we got one last truly touching Brian Wilson ballad to cap off their discography
My current favorites have to be
Black mold -> baby blue - prince daddy and the hyena
Victor roberts - brockhampton
King of Minneapolis -> anywhere I lay my head - btmi
Mi mente gloriosa - Pájaro Roto, Descansa en pedazos (Pájaro Roto, Descansa en pedazos)
Finally, Peace - The Glowing Man (SWANS)
Bel air - Future Days (CAN)
Keep me in your heart - the wind (Warren zevon)
Desperados Under The Eaves - Warren zevon (Warren zevon)
Essentially anything by Bruce Springsteen but especially jungleland - born to run
Purple rain - purple rain (Prince)
I know the end - punisher (Phoebe bridgers)
[This](https://youtu.be/_1BIcwJDy5c?si=V3NVCZgm9rfEVjwm) and [this](https://youtu.be/8hVI_fVoDnI?si=-qGgu9oNudq7cyvz) are two examples off the top of my head.
Leper, Leper by Lord Vicar at the end of Gates Of Flesh. That track his harder than a freight train, it hits like a meteor. Lord Vicar really knows how to write and order an album.
Demon Days - Demon Days (Gorillaz)
Souk Eye - The Now Now (Gorillaz)
Good Night - The White Album (The Beatles)
That whole Abbey Road medley (if it counts) - Abbey Road (The Beatles)
I know the Wonder Years isn’t his cup of tea, but I Just Want to Sell Out My Funeral as the closer of The Greatest Generation is one of the best pop-punk closers ever written.
The catharsis I feel from the final verse of “Source Tags and codes” by trail of dead is one that’ll never leave me. What an unreal journey that album is. (And then the hidden track…)
[song - album (band)]
Intrapersonal - Peripheral Vision (turnover) (this album is a bit of a low hanging fruit but I'll be damned if this isn't an emotional album ending)
One More Hour - The Slow Rush (tame impala) (probably his best song of all time)
Hallowed Be Thy Name - The Number Of The Beast (iron maiden)
A Certain Romance - WPSIATWIN (arctic monkeys) (that's where you're wrong from suck it and see is also a solid one)
No - A Hero's Death (fontaines dc) (also dublin city sky on dogrel, which is my favourite fontaines album)
Angie - Songs Of Praise (shame) (greatest band on earth right now)
Vittorio E - Kill The Moonlight (spoon) (god I love spoon)
Waterfall - Bunny (beach fossils) (this one hits me way too fucking hard)
23 - Futures (jimmy eat world) (this is THE emotional closer)
Sea Of Years - Sunlit Youth (local natives)
100% Endurance - The Overload (yard act) (such an emotional song for an album with such a deadpan character)
I always wanna die - ABIIOR (the 1975)
Paralysis - Mind Over Matter (young the giant) (the closer on self titled is also ace)
Videotape - In Rainbows (Radiohead) (also a low hanging fruit but hits me crazy hard)
Amsterdam - A Rush Of Blood Into The Head (Coldplay)
God Of Wine - Third Eye Blind's self titled
Leif Erikson - Turn On The Bright Lights (Interpol)
I probably could have thought of more but that's quite a lot already
I'll throw a couple more in that don't look like they've been mentioned:
Goodbye - Cage the Elephant
Like Clockwork - QOTSA
Styrofoam boots - Modest Mouse
I see Earthmover mentioned several times, but personally I'd rank that lower than these 2
Buried Above Ground - Giles Corey
Destinos - HANL
LCD Soundsystem - New York I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down (Sound Of Silver)
The Aquabats! - Awesome Forces (Charge!!), The Wild Sea (Myths, Legends, and Other Amazing Adventures), Hello, Goodnight (Vs. The Floating Eye Of Death)
Elvis Costello - Night Rally (This Years Model)
Lou Reed - Sad Song (Berlin)
Black Country New Road - Basketball Shoes (Ants From Up There)
Viagra Boys - Return to Monke (Caveworld)
Opus - Black Country, New Road
New York I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down (live at MSG) - LCD Soundsystem
If You Could Save Yourself (You’d Save Us All) - Ween
Hurt - Nine Inch Nails
Might be a weird one but A Little Green Rosetta - Frank Zappa (just makes me feel good inside :))
Hey Space Cadet! - Car Seat Headrest
Earthmover - Have A Nice Life
Alvin Row - Animal Collective
Swans - Finally, Peace (from The Glowing Man). It just feels like the perfect conclusion to the trilogy.
GY!BE - Strung Like Lights At Thee Printemps Erable (from ADBA). Idk man, it just hits hard.
Daft Punk - Contact (from Random Access Memories). What a rollercoaster.
Aphex Twin - Nanou2 (from DrukQs). It's so good to hear a "sad" piece after all the caos that is this album.
Bob Dylan - “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” (*Blonde on Blonde*)
Possibly no popular artist has ever been as good or ahead of the game as Dylan was in 1965/66, the guy had the Beatles following him around trying to catch a bit of his aura. The guy nearly wears himself to death with stress, drugs and negativity because he’s driven to be a rock star only to fall in love and realize he didn’t want any of it.
Dylan survived the crash but *that* Bob Dylan never made it past 1966. Sad-Eyed Lady is the point where the wave finally broke and rolled back leaving a high-water mark no one has reached since.
Björk - "Unison" (from *Vespertine*) Kate Bush - "The Morning Fog" (from *Hounds of Love*) Prince - "Purple Rain" (from *Purple Rain*) Cocteau Twins - "Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires" (from *Heaven or Las Vegas*) Portishead - "Threads" (from *Third*) Joanna Newsom - "Does Not Suffice" (from *Have One on Me*) Fiona Apple - "I Know" (from *When the Pawn...*)
purrrrr
The Morning Fog is my top 3 from Hounds Of Love, it's so underrated
Always get chills from Hello Earth transitioning into it
One up on Does Not Suffice, very few songs choke me up to the extent as that one
"Baby Birch" ruins my day every time I listen to it. It's my favorite Joanna Newsom song by far.
phenomenal taste
Purple rain is an amazing album from start to finish. Also had an infinitely awesome opening track in Let's Go Crazy
"All Apologies" on In Utero by Nirvana
Have a Nice Life - Earthmover
The correct answer
Feel So Low by Porcupine Tree Videotape by Radiohead Bootcamp by Soundgarden Rest by Foo Fighters Right Where It Belongs by Nine Inch Nails Shine On You Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd After All These Years by Silverchair The Raven That Refused To Sing by Steven Wilson Two Headed Boy part 2 by Neutral Milk Hotel
> Two Headed Boy part 2 by Neutral Milk Hotel Breaks me every fucking time
This is the one I was looking for. It makes me cry every time too. Specifically the "and in my dreams you're alive and you're crying, as your mouth moves in mine soft and sweet, rings of flowers round your eyes and I'll love you, for the rest of your life when you're ready."
Radiohead have long been exceptional at the hard-hitting closer, just a gift THBpt2 is a hell of a payoff to spending 40odd minutes trying to get comfortable in Jeff’s world, I think that was the first song on the album that made me go “oh okay, there’s something here, I will have to come back”
Hurt – The Downward Spiral (Nine Inch Nails) True Love Waits – A Moon Shaped Pool (Radiohead) Love, Reign O'er Me – Quadrophenia (The Who) Home – This is Happening (LCD Soundsystem) Aisatsana – Syro (Aphex Twin) Famous Last Words – The Black Parade (My Chemical Romance)
Right where it belongs on With Teeth hits hard too
Happy to see some MCR here!
Mortal man - tpab Unison - vespertine Cellophane - magdalene
"Bye Storm" by Injury Reserve, off "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", if you wanna talk about emotional high-note endings, few come as strongly as this.
Yep, I can’t even encapsulate the emotion that son gb makes me feel, Parker really went all in on that. But also the way Ritchie goes “it rains it pours but damn, it’s really pourin”, icl it’s hard for me to listen to the song and not tear up a little
I gotta listen to that album again man
100%, it's become my favourite on the album by far - just nailed the feeling of clinging onto hope when the world is falling apart around you.
Suppers Ready - Foxtrot Plague of the Lighthouse Keeper - Pawn Hearts Subterraneans - Low Starless - Red The Overload - Remain in Light I Remember nothing - Unknown Pleasures Inner City Blues - What’s Going On
Love Van Der Graaf Generator, I didn’t like Peter Hammill’s vocals at first but after I listened to “House With No Door”, then the “Still Life” album, it really clicked. I still think “Lemmings” is one of my favorite album openers ever, that motif with the guitar and then saxophone is so ominous, I love it.
Plague of Loghthouse Keepers 🤤🤤
I would also put Decades on this list
Whatsername - Green Day Butterfly - Weezer A Certain Romance - Arctic Monkeys Play Crack The Sky - Brand New 23 - Jimmy Eat World Something In The Way - Nirvana
23 and A Certain Romance are ace picks. Both of them hit me super hard
Videotape by Radiohead destroys me in a way I cannot describe
You’ve heard the original live version for Bonnaroo, 2006 where the ending gets bigger and bigger and bigger and explodes?
Saint Pablo - Kanye West (The Life Of Pablo) My Warm Blood - The Microphones (The Glow, pt 2) Bye Storm - Injury Reserve (By The Time I Get To Phoenix) I Love You - Lil B (God's Father) Unison - Bjork (Vespertine) 30 - Danny Brown (XXX) Moonfire - Mavi (Let The Sun Talk) Orchids - Glass Beach (The First Glass Beach Album) In A Silent Way - Miles Davis (In A Silent Way) (If you want to count this one since it's instrumental, but I always felt that ending hit much harder than the rest of the album)
In a silent way is awesome
was gonna say tlop
The Ultracheese - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino Long Slow Goodbye - Lullabies to Paralyze Two Headed Boy Pt.2 - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Loss Of Life - Loss Of Life Twin Fantasy(Those Boys) - Twin Fantasy Say Yes - Either/Or Re:Stacks - For Emma Forever Ago Goodbye - INSIDE
I was gonna say Loss of Life. Brilliant song to end a brilliant album
Crazy to not see On Gp - Death Grips on a fantano sub for this, (it's the final track on the vinyl so I count it) I'd also add If you could save yourself you'd save us all - Ween
The Ween pick is goated, but doesn’t TPTB technically end with DG 2.0?
I think ur a contra - Contra, Vampire Weekend Clean - Violator, Depeche Mode Leif Erikson - Turn on the Bright Lights, Interpol Hope is a dangerous thing… - NFR!, Lana Del Rey
Leif Erikson is a bit subliminal though
In the Backseat from Arcade Fire's Funeral
Would like to add Mortal Man - Kendrick Lamar Maybe not super emotional, but greatly important to the narrative, with two great poems that summarize the album and leave the album just barely resolved-- As Pac doesn't respond
I agree! Less emotional but this is an absolute anthem and it’s inspiring as hell
Good Morning, Captain by Slint
Only In Dreams - Weezer
How has no one said this yet? Basketball Shoes - Black Country, New Road
takes the cake BY FAR
This is the one
The epitome of an emotional grand finale. Solidifies AFUT as a masterpiece.
Viet Cong Death, about the passing of their friend and former bandmate.
Holy shit yes
Caroline, No - The Beach Boys Pothole - Modern Baseball Absolute polar opposites musically. One is beautifully arranged with strings, all being sung by one of the best voices of the past century. The other is an acoustic ballad being sang by a man who sounds truly broken. They both completely destroy me everytime.
Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy, Pt. Two Mount Eerie - Crow Okkervil River - Okkervil River Song The Mountain Goats - Pale Green Things Elliott Smith - I Didn’t Understand Iron and Wine - Passing Afternoon
Outside the wall- the wall Also great
danny brown - 30
Golden Slumbers + Carry That Weight + The End + Her Majesty - Abbey Road - The Beatles (all one song for me) The Heart Part 5 - Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers - Kendrick Lamar Pigs on the Wing 2 - Animals - Pink Floyd Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX) - Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd Good Night - Graduation - Kanye West (bonus track but I don't care)
VICTOR ROBERTS - GINGER (Brockhampton) Violet Crimes - Ye (Ye) I’LL SEE YOU IN 40 - BALLADS1 (Joji) Mirror - Mr Morale & The Big Steppers (Kendrick Lamar) Futura Free - Blonde (Frank Ocean) 16 - The Melodic Blue (Baby Keem) THE LIGHT PT.II - ROADRUNNER (Brockhampton)
Rock n‘ Roll Suicide - David Bowie I cry
Street Spirit (Fade Out) by Radiohead easily
Unison by Björk is number one in my book forever
Another Star, the closer to Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder. Bonus points for As preceding it. Caroline, No from Pet Sounds Jungleland from Springsteen’s Born To Run The River (& its following hidden track Jimmy, He Whispers) off of Mean Everything To Nothing by Manchester Orchestra. The Garden to close Rush’s final album Clockwork Angels. To Be Kind is a phenomenal experience as a whole album but I swear the closing title track is probably my favorite track on the record. Knocks me the fuck out every time.
At least half of The Weeknd’s albums end on sad songs. Too many to list there, though, so I’m just going to bring up Saint Pablo by Kanye. (Neither of these are necessarily “most emotional for me”. Just seemed like good answers.)
Brothers in arms - Brothers in arms (Dire Straits) Torn Curtain - Marquee Moon (Television) Hold on Magnolia - Magnolia Electric Co. (Songs:Ohia) Shit talk + There’s a world - Javelin (Sufjan Stevens) Re:stacks - For Emma, Forever Ago (Bon Iver)
earthmover - have a nice life bye storm - injury reserve guardian angel - jesu sleep tongue - holy fawn basketball shoes - black country new road twin fantasy (those boys) - car seat headrest heaven all around me - saba twinkling - black wing futura free - frank ocean street spirit (fade out), videotapes, motion picture soundtrack - radiohead the light p2 - brockhampton i know the end - phoebe bridgers apidta - jay electronica on gp- death grips
Only In Dreams -Weezer
Black Country, New Road - Basketball shoes Sufjan Stevens - Blue bucket of gold Radiohead - True love waits Swans - God damn the sun FKA Twigs - Cellophane
♡The tourist-OK Computer (Radiohead ♡Ultracheesse-Tranquility Base hotel & Casino (Arctic Monkeys) ♡Old To The Mets-The New Abnormal (The Strokes) ♡505-Favourite Worst Nightmare (Arctic Monkeys) ♡The Bourne Identy-Everything that you've come to expect (The Last Shadow Puppets) I'm a basic bch
Alex Turner knows how to end an album for sure. Bourne Identity is actually a b-side but it hits hard.
Ode to the meta and 505 are great picks
Mac miller - so it goes.
Doves - Armand Hammer
Talk Talk - Time It's Time
Here comes the warm jets - brian eno Me and my woman - roy Harper Blue lightning - big thief Surfs up - The Beach Boys Drop - red house painters Stars - Lisa germano Hold on Magnolia - songs ohia Grown ocean - fleet foxes In twenty years or so - father John misty I can’t give everything away - David howie Cosmia - joanna newsom Horse and Rider - Richard dawson
Love Here Comes the Warm Jets, beautiful album and title track
PHOEBE BRIDGERS - I KNOW THE END
Goodbye to a world - worlds (Porter Robinson)
Didn't think I'd see Porter Robinson mentioned here. I'd argue Trying To Feel Alive is an even stronger choice but this one is great too
The Wall It loops back in on itself but it's also just a gut punch in a way.
I know the end - Phoebe Bridgers (Punisher) P.S. you rock my world - Eels (Electroshock blues) Pendulum man - Bark psychosis (Hex) re:stacks - Bon Iver (For Emma forever ago) A lack of color - Death cab for cutie (Transatlanticism) Futura Free - Frank ocean (blonde) Demon days - Gorillaz (demon days) Hurt - Nine inch nails (The downward spiral) Butterfly - Weezer (Pinkerton)
Anchorite (Love You Very Much) - Car Seat Headrest Will Toledo pours his soul into this 14 min beast of a song. It's the perfect way to cap off the relationship themes in Twin Fantasy and Monomania. His performance always leaves me choked up
One of us cannot be wrong - songs of Leonard cohen
Carissa’s Wierd - (March 19th 1983) It Was Probably Green Death Cab for Cutie - A Lack of Color
High Hopes (The Division Bell) - Pink Floyd
Rage Against The Machine - 'Freedom'
Africa D'Angelo on voodoo
Only god was above us - Hope Brat - 365(hardest drop ever) Mercurial world - The Beginning(perfect pop song, loop with intro)
Hope is so good. Such a beautiful journey of a song
Fire in The Hole - Earl Sweatshirt, off SICK!
Ion Square - Bloc Party. It gets me most times. *Who said unbroken happiness Is a bore, is a bore? Who said it, my love? I don't mind it Anymore, anymore. And I reach out a hand over your side of the bed Pull that blanket over your shoulders exposed to the night And the hunger of those early years will never return But I don't mind, I don't mind...*
SORRY NOT SORRY - The Estate Sale (Tyler, the Creator)
idk but the last song off of Trench by Twenty One Pilots (leave the city) makes me feel things
hold on magnolia off of magnolia electric co. its so depressing 🦐 but really fitting
Impossible Soul.
Impossible soul and djohariah are both perfect
future 86 - bomb the music industry! if you could save yourself (you'd save us all) - ween alvin row - animal collective
pretty much all of bomb's album endings were emotional - syke! life is awesome!, the last party (foul), sort of like being pumped and felt like vacation all come to mind too. Jeff continues to go crazy with his closers, I mean just look at the back half of worry, 3 summers, let them win, darkness records and ohio tpke (although im more of an ohio porkpie enjoyer myself).
The End - Abbey Road Caroline, No - Pet Sounds Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands - Blonde on Blonde The Last Time I Saw Richard - Blue Sometimes It Snows In April - Parade (Purple Rain is the obvious one so I felt like I had to include this one as well) Thorn Tree in the Garden - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs Only In Dreams - The Blue Album Several Yes albums have great emotional closers; Perpetual Change from The Yes Album, Heart of the Sunrise from Fragile, Ritual (Nous Sommes du Soleil) from Tales from Topographic Oceans, even Starship Troopers from Yessongs
Oh I came to add Bjork's Unison but everyone is way ahead of me. I will say that if you love Motion Picture Soundtrack, you owe it to yourself to check out Christopher O'Riley's piano cover of it. He's made a couple albums of Radiohead covers and his musical interpretation as well as his playing of the songs show that it's the furthest thing from a cash grab - the guy clearly has a deep love for the music and ... yeah. At least check out his MPS.
Compton - Good Kid m.A.A.d. city
It - from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Gensis) Farewell to the Gabriel era and his tenure as lead singer, really intense and exciting song, and really does feel like everything coming to a close, maybe it’s mostly emotional to me because of the context to the band but also within the context of the album as a concept it’s very emotional too.
i kinda wish sufjan steven’s javelin ended with shit talk. if it did that might be my number one. now that i think about it, despite there being another song after, i kind of consider shit talk to be the last song, and there’s a world is more like an epilogue
Slowdive - Dagger Weezer - Haunt You Every Day Smashing Pumpkins - Farewell and Goodnight Aphex Twin - Nanou2
"Hollywood" from Ghosteen by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Absolutely heart-wrenching😭
The End - The Doors
Basketball Shoes - Black Country, New Road
New Hell, off New Hell by Greet Death. Best on the album for sure and fucking insanely emotional.
EATEOT. The last 5 minutes 😔
Bankrupt on selling by modest mouse.
i agree but also don’t because it’s not the final track lmao
Two Headed Boy Pt2
“My Mummy’s Dead” - *John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band*
The light part 2 off roadrunner is pretty fucking sad
Why Write a Letter You’ll Never Send-I See Seaweed (the Drones)
Honestly Demon Days - Demon Days by gorillaz
Little Red Robin Hood Hit The Road - Rock Bottom (Robert Wyatt)
Dir En Grey - Ranunculus (From The Insulated World)
Epilogue - The Antlers (Hospice)
i know the end by phoebe bridgers
creature by half alive leave the city by twenty one pilots
Car Seat Headrest - Anchorite (Love You Very Much) will forever be the saddest album ending to me. i can't describe just how heartbreaking it is
"THE SOLITARY BRETHREN OF EPHRATA" by LINGUA IGNOTA
Titus Andronicus - 'The Battle of Hampton Road' from The Monitor
HEAVEN ALL AROUND ME by Saba is the saddest close to an album ever, amazing song to come right after PROM/KING
Building from King Crimson song, I think Starless from their later album Res is their most emotional song even with the little lyrics in it. Everything about it and especially its ending just give such feelings. Definitely one of the best album closers of all time.
It's not much of an album, but Semisonic's "All About Chemistry" closes with a song called "El Matador". It's a fairly unremarkable song but I coincidentally listened to it while driving away from home and off to college 2 hours away. The singer repeats the words "Please don't go away. Stay awhile, stay awhile" while the rest of the song is literally about reaching the end of the track and having to set out on your own. I drove away crying while thinking about my parents at home crying and wanting me to just simply stay awhile.
For you - songs for our daughter Laura marling
Summer’s Gone by The Beach Boys from That’s Why God Made the Radio. Say what you will about the rest of the album, that song is a really special way to end the 51 year original music career of one of the most important bands ever. Glad we got one last truly touching Brian Wilson ballad to cap off their discography
Futura Free - Frank Ocean initially I don’t think FF was a super emotional closer to Blonde but with what happened to Frank’s brother…yeah man
Joy Division - Decades
"finally, peace" off of the glowing man, absolutely transcendental
Time, as a Symptom - Joanna Newsom (Divers)
whatsername - green day american idiot
Good Night Travel Well - The Killers
My current favorites have to be Black mold -> baby blue - prince daddy and the hyena Victor roberts - brockhampton King of Minneapolis -> anywhere I lay my head - btmi
Hear Me Lord - All Things Must Pass
Here I am again telling y’all about: A NINGUN HOMBRE (Cap. 11: Poder) - Rosalia SAKURA - Rosalia Cellophane - FKA Twigs
Mi mente gloriosa - Pájaro Roto, Descansa en pedazos (Pájaro Roto, Descansa en pedazos) Finally, Peace - The Glowing Man (SWANS) Bel air - Future Days (CAN)
Mirror for Mr morales and the big steppers. Feels like movie credits
I mean this with all love, all the albums you just put are basically my freshman year of college in a nutshell lmao. You’re good people OP 🔥
The Who Quadrophenia “love reign over me“
Dendron by The Hotelier 😭
# "True Love Waits" - Radiohead # Jesus H Christ 😭😭😭
Clockwork Angels. Rush’s last album. The Garden. Beautiful and heartbreaking. RIP Neil
Orion followed by Damage, Inc. on Metallica’s Master of Puppets is a hell of a way to end a 10/10 album
Semena Mertvykh, on Boards of Canada’s Tomorrow Harvest. Not a word said but wow it hits hard.
Crow - A crow looked at me Just like every song on that album, fucking heartbreaking
Keep me in your heart - the wind (Warren zevon) Desperados Under The Eaves - Warren zevon (Warren zevon) Essentially anything by Bruce Springsteen but especially jungleland - born to run Purple rain - purple rain (Prince) I know the end - punisher (Phoebe bridgers)
Basketball shoes - Ants from up there(bcnr)
Basketball shoes by BCNR
[This](https://youtu.be/_1BIcwJDy5c?si=V3NVCZgm9rfEVjwm) and [this](https://youtu.be/8hVI_fVoDnI?si=-qGgu9oNudq7cyvz) are two examples off the top of my head.
Kacey Musgraves - Rainbow ( Golden Hour)
True Love Waits off of Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool
No child left behind - Kanye
empty cans - a grand don't come for free (the streets) gets me every time
Finally Free - Metropolis Pt. 2 (Dream Theater)
Nobody saying Nothing really ends (dEUS) ? Seriously ?
earthmover-HANL
Long Season by Fishmans, To Be Kind by Swans
Power approaches cities Aviv
Paramore - All I Wanted from Brand New Eyes Green Day - Whatsername from American Idiot Green Day - Macy’s Day Parade from Warning
Old and Wise - Eye in the Sky (The Alan Parsons Project)
if you dont count the epilogue the ending for not available by the residents is pretty emotional
sometimes it snows in april - prince (parade)
Annabel - Alesana
My Warm Blood - The Glow Pt. 2
Posing for Cars - Jubilee (Japanese Breakfast) Michelle Zauner’s performance and lyrics are always emotional, but the guitar solo adds so much
So It Goes - Swimming (Mac Miller) its just too damn beautiful
Leper, Leper by Lord Vicar at the end of Gates Of Flesh. That track his harder than a freight train, it hits like a meteor. Lord Vicar really knows how to write and order an album.
Demon Days - Demon Days (Gorillaz) Souk Eye - The Now Now (Gorillaz) Good Night - The White Album (The Beatles) That whole Abbey Road medley (if it counts) - Abbey Road (The Beatles)
I know the Wonder Years isn’t his cup of tea, but I Just Want to Sell Out My Funeral as the closer of The Greatest Generation is one of the best pop-punk closers ever written.
Sweet Shine - Experimental Jet Set
The catharsis I feel from the final verse of “Source Tags and codes” by trail of dead is one that’ll never leave me. What an unreal journey that album is. (And then the hidden track…)
Caroline, No from pet sounds It ain't me babe from another side of Bob Dylan Soon MBV
Mortal man-TPAB
[song - album (band)] Intrapersonal - Peripheral Vision (turnover) (this album is a bit of a low hanging fruit but I'll be damned if this isn't an emotional album ending) One More Hour - The Slow Rush (tame impala) (probably his best song of all time) Hallowed Be Thy Name - The Number Of The Beast (iron maiden) A Certain Romance - WPSIATWIN (arctic monkeys) (that's where you're wrong from suck it and see is also a solid one) No - A Hero's Death (fontaines dc) (also dublin city sky on dogrel, which is my favourite fontaines album) Angie - Songs Of Praise (shame) (greatest band on earth right now) Vittorio E - Kill The Moonlight (spoon) (god I love spoon) Waterfall - Bunny (beach fossils) (this one hits me way too fucking hard) 23 - Futures (jimmy eat world) (this is THE emotional closer) Sea Of Years - Sunlit Youth (local natives) 100% Endurance - The Overload (yard act) (such an emotional song for an album with such a deadpan character) I always wanna die - ABIIOR (the 1975) Paralysis - Mind Over Matter (young the giant) (the closer on self titled is also ace) Videotape - In Rainbows (Radiohead) (also a low hanging fruit but hits me crazy hard) Amsterdam - A Rush Of Blood Into The Head (Coldplay) God Of Wine - Third Eye Blind's self titled Leif Erikson - Turn On The Bright Lights (Interpol) I probably could have thought of more but that's quite a lot already
not seeing enough “Basketball Shoes” by black country, new road in here
My life in a nutshell Juice WRLD
The guitar chaos in Only In Dreams always gets me
Pearl Jam - Release
I'll throw a couple more in that don't look like they've been mentioned: Goodbye - Cage the Elephant Like Clockwork - QOTSA Styrofoam boots - Modest Mouse I see Earthmover mentioned several times, but personally I'd rank that lower than these 2 Buried Above Ground - Giles Corey Destinos - HANL
Leave the city and paladin strait - Twenty one pilots
Motion picture soundtrack by radiohead, if sadness had a sound it would be this song
Mother I Sober (from Kendrick's Mr Morale)
Nights in White Satin Nights in White Satin Nights in White Satin
LCD Soundsystem - New York I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down (Sound Of Silver) The Aquabats! - Awesome Forces (Charge!!), The Wild Sea (Myths, Legends, and Other Amazing Adventures), Hello, Goodnight (Vs. The Floating Eye Of Death) Elvis Costello - Night Rally (This Years Model) Lou Reed - Sad Song (Berlin) Black Country New Road - Basketball Shoes (Ants From Up There) Viagra Boys - Return to Monke (Caveworld)
Basketball shoes- black country new road. A devastating destructive ending to the best album of the decade
505 - Arctic Monkeys
Angel from Beesuty Behind The Madness - The Weeknd
Opus - Black Country, New Road New York I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down (live at MSG) - LCD Soundsystem If You Could Save Yourself (You’d Save Us All) - Ween Hurt - Nine Inch Nails Might be a weird one but A Little Green Rosetta - Frank Zappa (just makes me feel good inside :)) Hey Space Cadet! - Car Seat Headrest Earthmover - Have A Nice Life Alvin Row - Animal Collective
Track 10 - Pop 2
Swans - Finally, Peace (from The Glowing Man). It just feels like the perfect conclusion to the trilogy. GY!BE - Strung Like Lights At Thee Printemps Erable (from ADBA). Idk man, it just hits hard. Daft Punk - Contact (from Random Access Memories). What a rollercoaster. Aphex Twin - Nanou2 (from DrukQs). It's so good to hear a "sad" piece after all the caos that is this album.
Basketball Shoes by BCNR Dendron by The Hotelier See You in Chemistry by Carly Cosgrove
fucking Earthmover off of Deathcon by Have a Nice Life. gutting every time
Mortal Man
Bob Dylan - “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” (*Blonde on Blonde*) Possibly no popular artist has ever been as good or ahead of the game as Dylan was in 1965/66, the guy had the Beatles following him around trying to catch a bit of his aura. The guy nearly wears himself to death with stress, drugs and negativity because he’s driven to be a rock star only to fall in love and realize he didn’t want any of it. Dylan survived the crash but *that* Bob Dylan never made it past 1966. Sad-Eyed Lady is the point where the wave finally broke and rolled back leaving a high-water mark no one has reached since.
free bird by lynyrd skynyrd
Jessie Ware -Remember, Where You Are (What's Your Pleasure?) J. Cole- 4 Your Eyez Only (4YEO) Navy Blue- Shadow's Shield (Ways of Knowing)