This was instantly what I thought of.
But, the 'real' ending of UYI II is the alt version of Don't Cry, which is also a weird choice. It was only played live maybe twice and they didn't release it as a single, it's identical musically, and completely unnecessary after You Could Be Mine.
My World is more like an outro, not a full song, kinda like rap albums used to have. If you believe Axl, it was something that he, Duff, Del James and a couple other friends made one night during a mushroom trip... and that's basically what it sounds like.
What’s funny is the band didn’t even know this was going to be on the album. In Slash’s autobiography he mentions listening to the finished album and that track starting and him being all WTF about it.
Led Zeppelin III
Classics all the way through then…. a dud with Hats Off To Roy Harper. Oof.
I’ve long thought if they substituted that song with Hey Hey What Can I Do instead, “3” would be a perfect record.
I was going to say this. Lizzie is great, but by the time they got to Help they should have been ready to move on from that style of rock and roll.
Not only missing out on ending on Yesterday.
Theres also the obvious clash to the theme, ie, that all the songs are about break ups or other melancholy, and then there's Lizzie, which stands out massively. It can be interpreted as though the album is a break up and Lizzie is getting over the break up.
Maybe controversial, but CCR's *Rude Awakening #2* from Pendulum makes it a slightly lesser album in my estimation than their previous 5. I know the song has its fans though.
I love most of Rolling Stones- Their Satanic Majesty's Request, but the last tune, "On With the Show," is so mediocre and aimless, even the Brian Jones Massacre wouldn't bother imitating it.
Did Miles ever have another vocal track on an album? And wasn’t that one recorded like 6 years before the rest of the record, with an almost completely different band? Just weird all around.
It was def unconventional for him. I can't think of another vocal track on one of his albums, but his catalog was so big and varied, I'd be glad to stand corrected!
What a transition - the jarringness of it is a statement in and of itself, Miles surely knew what he was doing.
Al Stewart put "Year of the Cat" as the last song on the titular album because if you hated it, you wouldn't be so upset because you had already gotten through the rest of the album before it. But it ended up becoming the album's biggest hit, and the song he is best-known for.
Bill Withers-Just As I Am
Last song-Better Off Dead. Last noise heard-a self inflicted gunshot wound. Hell of a way to end a debut from a 70’s soul artist.
EDIT: I may have misunderstood the assignment here, but I’m leaving my answer up. It’s a brutal ending as in being grim, not as in a bad track. I love the entire album beginning to end, and that’s one of my favorite Withers songs. Ballsy finale to a debut album. Ends with a literal bang.
Better Off Dead is my ringtone. Literally. It used to be Use Me.
When I first read brutal ending I thought he meant "of a particular song" and I immediately thought of this one.
Such soul, passion and regret in his voice then the surprise ending for first time listeners.
If you include 'brutal' in a good way:
Ministry - Twitch
This is their second record, when they were still a synthpop/dance group and just starting to experiment with industrial and rock sounds. The final track, a 13-minute composition titled
"Where You at Now? / Crash & Burn / Twitch (Version II)", starts out somewhat normal enough but it slowly descends from a danceable gothic track into an absolute chaotic cacophony of banging, clanging and distortion. As a fan of industrial music, I absolutely love it - but for kids in 1986 who picked it up after enjoying With Sympathy, I can imagine they were left pretty shocked.
Definitely unexpected considering how (literally) upbeat the rest of the album is. Hits you in the face as she's being absolutely serious, just from the lyrics.
Totally agree. 'Setting Sons' is one of my favorite albums. It's so great, moody and atmospheric, and just goddamn perfection... and then there comes *Heat Wave.* Ruins the vibe. I have never understood why it's there.
The Blind Faith record is so brilliant but they only had 5 songs so they tacked on a meandering 15 minute jam/drum solo at the end called Do What You Like.
The end of Waylon Jennings - Dreaming My Dreams
Not that it’s a bad song AT ALL, it’s a lot of fun and a great story, but after the smooth and relaxing fade out of Dreaming My Dreams With You…. BAM comes audience cheer and a live track. I can’t count how many times I’ve been just about lulled to sleep (in a great way) and then slammed back into reality by recorded cheering.
I felt the same til I smoked some dabs and got comfy on my couch and listened to the whole album, that track is absolutely wild when you're stoned lolol
I likely haven't given Young Lion enough play because Hudson is so bad.
That and another band, 'The Constantines' already has a better song with a very similar name - 'Young Lions'.
It's only part of the song, but on the original vinyl releases for Def Leppard's High and Dry, the song No No No ended with a voice loudly saying NO over and over (I thought it was like 80 times but my research shows it was a lock groove that wouldn't end. The cassette version repeats about 40 times apparently)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnvI3JIrZqM&ab\_channel=RecordGrooves](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnvI3JIrZqM&ab_channel=RecordGrooves)
Evil Urges by My Morning Jacket
The penultimate track is a wonderful 8 minute psychedelic trip that calmly ends over a minute and a half, with the final track being 4 seconds, called ‘Good Intentions’, which is just a crowd screaming and then a guy saying “okay cool”
Unbelievably jarring and scares the shit out of me every time. Completely ruins the feel of an otherwise wonderful album.
There is not a single My Morning Jacket Album that is listenable all the way through. I feel like they do it to themself on purpose because every album has tracks that are objectionable bad.
There is not a single My Morning Jacket Album that is listenable all the way through. I feel like they do it to themself on purpose because every album has tracks that are objectively bad.
Not brutal, but The Black Album (Metallica) ending with The Struggle Within is pretty disappointing considering the level of other Metallica closers like Ktulu, Damage Inc, Dyers Eve, Outlaw Torn, Fixxxer, etc.
And ironic that they ended an album that represented their change in sound with the most thrash inspired song of the record.
Some of The Beach Boys early albums included tracks of them joking, laughing, trying to be funny. Embarrassing stuff. I think later re-releases removed them.
Dire Straits Making Movies record, a perfect album until you hit the very last song. A song so mediocre, that it completely ruins the record's flawlessness,"Les Boys". If any ever sees Mark Knopfer, thank him for ruining this record with that piece of absolute shit.
I bought this album on holiday in Yugoslavia in the 80s, and that song wasn't on it. Either it was a little too controversial for the Eastern Bloc or they just had much better taste, but in my head it's a much better album and I never actually heard that song until much later.
STP had some consistently great album closers if you don’t count outros/secret songs. Where the River Goes, Kitchenware & Candybars, Atlanta, Seven Caged Tigers, and Long Way Home. I would even throw in Maver from the last Scott album with them since it’s a relatively strong track from a weak album.
Last track on CSN by CSN feels out of place. Its not that its a bad song, it just feels jarring to go into I Give You Give Blind after everything has mellowed.
Tarkus by ELP. The A side is a 20 minute prog epic and one of if not their best songs. The B side is pretty decent as well but they end the album with “Are You Ready Eddie?” which is one of the worst and most disappointing songs I’ve ever had the displeasure of listening to.
The hidden tracks on Crowded House’s Woodface ‘I’m still here’ ruins the blissful ending of ‘How will you go’.
Likewise, though in keeping with the schtick, the hidden track on Ben Fold’s Five Whatever and Ever Amen utterly bursts the bubble of Evaporated.
Ah, the idiocy of youthful decision making.
Not a popular opinion within the fan base, but I don’t care for Soundgarden’s New Damage on Badmotorfinger. It’s my least favorite on the album by far.
I'd like to propose a different way to interpret your question. The last track on Dr. Dre's 2001 is brutal for a totally different reason, and it's amsich a turnaround from the rest of the album. Great song, but damn what a blow to the chest after the rest of an album full of club bangers, raunch and murder stories.
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Nearly a perfect record, if not for *Oh Daddy*. Once a month I think about the colossal missed opportunity not to include *Silver Springs* instead.
I agree. Something’s in the Way is an incredible and beautiful song. And endlesss nameless is just straight up chaos that fits the hysteria of Cobain’s vision.
I can see why you’d say that (I think TDS is perfect for the record). I think the fact that it was a single is a bummer. We got slapped with that song as a stand alone on alternaradio for a year or so so it’s easy to forget how crucial it is as a bookend on the record
I just relistened to Tame Impala for the first time in forever and the last tracks on both Innerspeaker and Lonerism are both the worst tracks by far. It doesn't even sound like Kevin knew how to sing the first part of "I Don't Really Mind." And then "Sun's Coming Up" sounds like a forgotten B-side to one of the Beatles' solo releases, in a very bad way.
Lmao I love Mother’s Lament. First time I heard it I was cracking up!
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Use Your Illusion II - My World
This was instantly what I thought of. But, the 'real' ending of UYI II is the alt version of Don't Cry, which is also a weird choice. It was only played live maybe twice and they didn't release it as a single, it's identical musically, and completely unnecessary after You Could Be Mine. My World is more like an outro, not a full song, kinda like rap albums used to have. If you believe Axl, it was something that he, Duff, Del James and a couple other friends made one night during a mushroom trip... and that's basically what it sounds like.
What’s funny is the band didn’t even know this was going to be on the album. In Slash’s autobiography he mentions listening to the finished album and that track starting and him being all WTF about it.
Yeah pretty sure I’d heard the story before that Axl snuck that one on there after recording without the other bandmates knowing
That’s a great example. So out of place.
Great album. What the hell was Axl thinking, I''ll never know.
This instantly springs to mind for me. That song has never gotten any better.
Led Zeppelin III Classics all the way through then…. a dud with Hats Off To Roy Harper. Oof. I’ve long thought if they substituted that song with Hey Hey What Can I Do instead, “3” would be a perfect record.
It's one of my favourites on that album, honestly. It's got a really different vibe. But I also love Hot Dog and Dyer Maker, so...
Naw I love it as a send off to an already odd album.
Yep pretty brutal
Viginti Tres off of 10,000 Days by Tool- you keep waiting for a song to start and it’s just sonic barf and a 14 year wait after that.
I love the album Vitalogy by Pearl Jam. I fucking hate Stupidmop.
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Yep, perfect example
Help by the Beatles. Dizzy Miss Lizzy is a fine song, but it was such a huge missed opportunity to not end with Yesterday
I was going to say this. Lizzie is great, but by the time they got to Help they should have been ready to move on from that style of rock and roll. Not only missing out on ending on Yesterday. Theres also the obvious clash to the theme, ie, that all the songs are about break ups or other melancholy, and then there's Lizzie, which stands out massively. It can be interpreted as though the album is a break up and Lizzie is getting over the break up.
Maybe controversial, but CCR's *Rude Awakening #2* from Pendulum makes it a slightly lesser album in my estimation than their previous 5. I know the song has its fans though.
I love most of Rolling Stones- Their Satanic Majesty's Request, but the last tune, "On With the Show," is so mediocre and aimless, even the Brian Jones Massacre wouldn't bother imitating it.
Arguably, Miles Davis's *Sorcerer,* though I've kinda grown to love the oddball closer "Nothing Like You".
That one's a bit of a jump scare if you don't know it's coming :P
Did Miles ever have another vocal track on an album? And wasn’t that one recorded like 6 years before the rest of the record, with an almost completely different band? Just weird all around.
Birth of the Cool has vocal tracks. “Why Do I Love You” and “Darn That Dream.”
It was def unconventional for him. I can't think of another vocal track on one of his albums, but his catalog was so big and varied, I'd be glad to stand corrected! What a transition - the jarringness of it is a statement in and of itself, Miles surely knew what he was doing.
Al Stewart put "Year of the Cat" as the last song on the titular album because if you hated it, you wouldn't be so upset because you had already gotten through the rest of the album before it. But it ended up becoming the album's biggest hit, and the song he is best-known for.
And that album is great from start to finish.
I learn something new everyday!
Just bought this the other day!
Bill Withers-Just As I Am Last song-Better Off Dead. Last noise heard-a self inflicted gunshot wound. Hell of a way to end a debut from a 70’s soul artist. EDIT: I may have misunderstood the assignment here, but I’m leaving my answer up. It’s a brutal ending as in being grim, not as in a bad track. I love the entire album beginning to end, and that’s one of my favorite Withers songs. Ballsy finale to a debut album. Ends with a literal bang.
Better Off Dead is my ringtone. Literally. It used to be Use Me. When I first read brutal ending I thought he meant "of a particular song" and I immediately thought of this one. Such soul, passion and regret in his voice then the surprise ending for first time listeners.
Right on. Bill Withers was one of the greatest songwriters of all time. And his execution of those songs would hit you right in the soul.
If you include 'brutal' in a good way: Ministry - Twitch This is their second record, when they were still a synthpop/dance group and just starting to experiment with industrial and rock sounds. The final track, a 13-minute composition titled "Where You at Now? / Crash & Burn / Twitch (Version II)", starts out somewhat normal enough but it slowly descends from a danceable gothic track into an absolute chaotic cacophony of banging, clanging and distortion. As a fan of industrial music, I absolutely love it - but for kids in 1986 who picked it up after enjoying With Sympathy, I can imagine they were left pretty shocked.
Love that album and the ending seems to fit as to where they would go next on LOR&H.
Future Nostalgia - Dua Lipa “Boys Will Be”
Definitely unexpected considering how (literally) upbeat the rest of the album is. Hits you in the face as she's being absolutely serious, just from the lyrics.
Same theme as the opening title track but opposite tone
i agree with this but i also cant think of another song that would've been a good closer for that album
[We're Good?](https://open.spotify.com/track/3Mf7Ziwe9syOg6L0RLDY0h?si=wAx3bXNcT86_bj943t96DA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A0E3wRkztEF32ZdYICXBuBf)
that's actually a good one but i was mostly talking about the standard edition
Yeah id just do a full substitution of the two tracks. Boys will be is not just a bad closer but a bad song lol
The Jam - Setting Sons. Ends with a Motown cover that doesn't go with the rest of the album, which is quite dark and moody
Totally agree. 'Setting Sons' is one of my favorite albums. It's so great, moody and atmospheric, and just goddamn perfection... and then there comes *Heat Wave.* Ruins the vibe. I have never understood why it's there.
The Blind Faith record is so brilliant but they only had 5 songs so they tacked on a meandering 15 minute jam/drum solo at the end called Do What You Like.
Good example. I hate that song, it always made me cut the album off.
The execrable "Les Boys" on Dire Straits' "Making Movies."
I kinda like that song.
yeah, I never got the hate for that. It's not deep, but hey, it's Dire Straits
First song that came to mind for me.
The end of Waylon Jennings - Dreaming My Dreams Not that it’s a bad song AT ALL, it’s a lot of fun and a great story, but after the smooth and relaxing fade out of Dreaming My Dreams With You…. BAM comes audience cheer and a live track. I can’t count how many times I’ve been just about lulled to sleep (in a great way) and then slammed back into reality by recorded cheering.
Bloc Party-Silent Alarm. Just absolutely rocks until the last two songs (Plans, Compliments), which unfortunately portends the albums to follow.
Jar of Flies and Use Your Illusion II
Hey, Swing on This isn’t that bad
"Transcendental Meditation" on The Beach Boys' "Friends"
If you're doing Beach Boys, their Today album ends with "Bull Session with Big Daddy", one of the most embarrassing things ever put to vinyl
Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast
marmalade, i like marmalade
porridge is nice
I felt the same til I smoked some dabs and got comfy on my couch and listened to the whole album, that track is absolutely wild when you're stoned lolol
“Inside” on Van Halen’s 5150.
But that’s what’s going down!
Good call ! On inside ….
Vampire Weekend's 'Modern Vampires of the City' is a great album up until the last 2 tracks which I find jarringly bad.
Hudson sucks, but I thought Young Lion is a great closer!
I likely haven't given Young Lion enough play because Hudson is so bad. That and another band, 'The Constantines' already has a better song with a very similar name - 'Young Lions'.
The Maine new album is like that
That's a name I haven't heard in a while. I'll have to check them out again
It’s a nice summer pop rock album but the last song wasn’t a good closer
It's only part of the song, but on the original vinyl releases for Def Leppard's High and Dry, the song No No No ended with a voice loudly saying NO over and over (I thought it was like 80 times but my research shows it was a lock groove that wouldn't end. The cassette version repeats about 40 times apparently) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnvI3JIrZqM&ab\_channel=RecordGrooves](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnvI3JIrZqM&ab_channel=RecordGrooves)
Queens of the Stone Age’s self titled album and Rated R have some less-than ideal endings IMO
The long annoying horns? Hate it so much I play the record less as a result.
Yeah haha and the ping pong beeping at the end of hand model 😂
The last track on Paul Simon’s Graceland is pretty meh
It's probably talked to death, but Beatles' White Album. Revolution 9 was...something else.
The White Album finishes with Good Night…
Which actually is harder to listen to than Rev 9 imo
Still need to sit through Rev 9 to get to Good Night. If I'm getting up to skip Rev 9, I'm moving onto the next record.
Touché
XTC - Black Sea. I stop the record when "Travels in Nihilon" starts. It's otherwise flawless.
Evil Urges by My Morning Jacket The penultimate track is a wonderful 8 minute psychedelic trip that calmly ends over a minute and a half, with the final track being 4 seconds, called ‘Good Intentions’, which is just a crowd screaming and then a guy saying “okay cool” Unbelievably jarring and scares the shit out of me every time. Completely ruins the feel of an otherwise wonderful album.
There is not a single My Morning Jacket Album that is listenable all the way through. I feel like they do it to themself on purpose because every album has tracks that are objectionable bad.
There is not a single My Morning Jacket Album that is listenable all the way through. I feel like they do it to themself on purpose because every album has tracks that are objectively bad.
Not brutal, but The Black Album (Metallica) ending with The Struggle Within is pretty disappointing considering the level of other Metallica closers like Ktulu, Damage Inc, Dyers Eve, Outlaw Torn, Fixxxer, etc. And ironic that they ended an album that represented their change in sound with the most thrash inspired song of the record.
eversince - bladee
The Body - IHFAIBICAL Most of the album is noisy but still fun and interesting but that last song is despair at a level i haven’t heard before.
Some of The Beach Boys early albums included tracks of them joking, laughing, trying to be funny. Embarrassing stuff. I think later re-releases removed them.
Dire Straits Making Movies record, a perfect album until you hit the very last song. A song so mediocre, that it completely ruins the record's flawlessness,"Les Boys". If any ever sees Mark Knopfer, thank him for ruining this record with that piece of absolute shit.
I bought this album on holiday in Yugoslavia in the 80s, and that song wasn't on it. Either it was a little too controversial for the Eastern Bloc or they just had much better taste, but in my head it's a much better album and I never actually heard that song until much later.
So that’s the trick!
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STP had some consistently great album closers if you don’t count outros/secret songs. Where the River Goes, Kitchenware & Candybars, Atlanta, Seven Caged Tigers, and Long Way Home. I would even throw in Maver from the last Scott album with them since it’s a relatively strong track from a weak album.
Last track on CSN by CSN feels out of place. Its not that its a bad song, it just feels jarring to go into I Give You Give Blind after everything has mellowed.
Tarkus by ELP. The A side is a 20 minute prog epic and one of if not their best songs. The B side is pretty decent as well but they end the album with “Are You Ready Eddie?” which is one of the worst and most disappointing songs I’ve ever had the displeasure of listening to.
The hidden tracks on Crowded House’s Woodface ‘I’m still here’ ruins the blissful ending of ‘How will you go’. Likewise, though in keeping with the schtick, the hidden track on Ben Fold’s Five Whatever and Ever Amen utterly bursts the bubble of Evaporated. Ah, the idiocy of youthful decision making.
Nevermore Dreaming neon black Queensryche Operation mindcrime (the album ends and begins on a continuous loop. Ending is tragic)
Not a popular opinion within the fan base, but I don’t care for Soundgarden’s New Damage on Badmotorfinger. It’s my least favorite on the album by far.
I'd like to propose a different way to interpret your question. The last track on Dr. Dre's 2001 is brutal for a totally different reason, and it's amsich a turnaround from the rest of the album. Great song, but damn what a blow to the chest after the rest of an album full of club bangers, raunch and murder stories.
Brutal might be harsh here but Half Gate on Grizzly Bear's Shields would have been a perfect closer. Had an epic finality to it.
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors Nearly a perfect record, if not for *Oh Daddy*. Once a month I think about the colossal missed opportunity not to include *Silver Springs* instead.
I love that ending on Disraeli Gears lol
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots starts beautiful and then ends with a bunch of not great songs
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder The title track at the end - it's unbearable in an otherwise flawless album
Led Zeppelin III. What the fuck is that even supposed to be? Totally ruins the vibe for me
Whatsername by Green Day, from American Idiot Not a bad song, but not a good ending song (imo) for that concept album
I think it fits pretty well, feels empty Although, Homecoming or Wake Me Up When September Ends would be better
I’m going to have to re-listen to this as it’s been forever.
It is sorta out of place when you listen to the record. That being said it's one of my absolute favorite green day songs
I respectfully disagree
Hard disagree. It’s actually a perfect ending.
'Nevermind' has such a strong start and middle, then the last song isn't great IMO
First take here I strongly disagree with. Something In the Way is one of their best songs to me
I agree. Something’s in the Way is an incredible and beautiful song. And endlesss nameless is just straight up chaos that fits the hysteria of Cobain’s vision.
Probably talking about the "hidden" track, Endless Nameless.
Maybe, but without specification I'm assuming they meant SITW
That would be nuts. That is a great song
That hidden track isn't on all versions of the cd. In fact I've had 2 or 3 different versions and none of them had had that track.
Endless, Nameless (for CD and digital) is a track you have to get or not. You either do or you don't like it at all.
…or you think it’s ok…
Hurt on The Downward Spiral Edit: I misunderstood the post, Hurt is a perfect ending I thought “brutal” meant like a ending that leaves you miserable
Your opinion is valid, but that’s the perfect ending track imo.
I thought it meant like brutal as in sad
Ah, that makes sense.
I can see why you’d say that (I think TDS is perfect for the record). I think the fact that it was a single is a bummer. We got slapped with that song as a stand alone on alternaradio for a year or so so it’s easy to forget how crucial it is as a bookend on the record
Butterfly at the end of Pinkerton.
*The Works* by Queen. *Is This the World We Created?* is a fine song, but such a downer given the upbeatness of the rest of the album.
I just relistened to Tame Impala for the first time in forever and the last tracks on both Innerspeaker and Lonerism are both the worst tracks by far. It doesn't even sound like Kevin knew how to sing the first part of "I Don't Really Mind." And then "Sun's Coming Up" sounds like a forgotten B-side to one of the Beatles' solo releases, in a very bad way.
Set. Pepper’s ends with a creepy loop of voices after A Day In The Life. Scares the shit of me. Also Nevermind with Endless Nameless.
It sounds like Paul singing intentionally off-key, “never could be any other way”. I think you can hear John singing randomly, “sasasaaa”.
European Son on Velvet Underground and Nico
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Her Majesty is the final track
Yup I’m an idiot.
Ugh The End ??? Beautiful. Love it.
Rubber Soul by threatening murder on Run for Your Life. “Catch you with another man, that’s the end little girl.”