Best Album Closer

[Rick N. Backer]

Natural Science I can see someone taking over La Villa, even though I wouldn’t.

 

The rest of them are inexcusable votes.

The Garden has 19 votes, and Working Man zero.

 

:laughing guy: :laughing guy: :laughing guy:

 

Working Man might as well be a Britney Spears song. Real fans don’t fall for that sellout sh*t.

Working Man, Spirit Of Radio, Tom Sawyer, Subdivisions...overrated radio-friendly pablum. I'd list my favorite RUSH tunes, but you probably haven't heard them.

 

 

[goose]

Natural Science I can see someone taking over La Villa, even though I wouldn’t.

 

The rest of them are inexcusable votes.

The Garden has 19 votes, and Working Man zero.

 

:laughing guy: :laughing guy: :laughing guy:

 

Fixed!

x2.

 

Yet, In the End still has twice as many votes as Working Man?

[Justus_2112]

Voted La Villa Strangiato, but Natural Science and Something For Nothing are great contenders as well.

[Rushman14]

La Villa barely edges out Natural Science

[JohnnyBlaze]

Natural Science I can see someone taking over La Villa, even though I wouldn’t.

 

The rest of them are inexcusable votes.

The Garden has 19 votes, and Working Man zero.

 

:laughing guy: :laughing guy: :laughing guy:

 

Working Man might as well be a Britney Spears song. Real fans don’t fall for that sellout sh*t.

Working Man, Spirit Of Radio, Tom Sawyer, Subdivisions...overrated radio-friendly pablum. I'd list my favorite RUSH tunes, but you probably haven't heard them.

 

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What I wanna know is why isn’t he holding a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon?!!

[1-0-0-1-0-0-1]

High Water

Available Light

You Bet Your Life

Everyday Glory

Carve Away the Stone

Out of the Cradle

We Hold On

 

Man, that is a bad stretch of closing songs. No coincidence that stretch started with a Hold Your Fire song -- that's when they started releasing albums at CD length as opposed to vinyl length, which meant more filler tracks at the end of each album.

 

La Villa is the obvious choice here.

 

1. La Villa

2. Natural Science

3. Between The Wheels

4. Cygnus X-1

5. Working Man

[Bigbobby10]

A lot of amazing closers, a lot of horrible ones, and some very underrated ones.

 

Ill rank them

 

1. La Vill Strangiato

2. Between the Wheels

3. Natural Science

4. Cygnus X-1

5. The Fountain on Lamneth

6. Working Man

7. In the End

8. The Garden

9. Everyday Glory

10. Available Light

11. Something for Nothing

12. Vital Signs

13. Countdown

14. Mystic Rhythms

15. We Hold on

16. You Bet your Life

17. High Water

18. Carve Away the Stone

19. Out the Cradle

[goose]

Natural Science I can see someone taking over La Villa, even though I wouldn’t.

 

The rest of them are inexcusable votes.

The Garden has 19 votes, and Working Man zero.

 

:laughing guy: :laughing guy: :laughing guy:

 

Working Man might as well be a Britney Spears song. Real fans don’t fall for that sellout sh*t.

Working Man, Spirit Of Radio, Tom Sawyer, Subdivisions...overrated radio-friendly pablum. I'd list my favorite RUSH tunes, but you probably haven't heard them.

 

http://www.menshairstyletrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/stefanotratto-mens-hipster-hairstyles-handlebar-mustache-e1504823787433.jpg

 

What I wanna know is why isn’t he holding a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon?!!

No True Hipster?

[grasbo]

From La Villa to Mystic Rhythmns all are a winner with special mentions Working Man ,Avaidable Light and The Garden.If i had the vinyl of VT it would be the run out groove.

[Weatherman]

reupping this

Dirk and Lerxst and the Prof (RIP) put a lot of thought into album closers.

Let's put some thought into their effort.

 

La Villa is incomparable, but it's too complex for a closer. Same with Natural Science.

Epics aren't closers.

A closer should be emotional -- it's a climax. Themes (both musical and emotional) are resolved, or at least summarized. Think Eclipse on Dark Side of the Moon, for instance. That's the ultimate closer.

 

By that metric, the ultimate closer is either

 

1) Available Light

2) Countdown

3) Mystic Rhythms

 

Just my two cents.

[goose]

reupping this

Dirk and Lerxst and the Prof (RIP) put a lot of thought into album closers.

Let's put some thought into their effort.

 

La Villa is incomparable, but it's too complex for a closer. Same with Natural Science.

Epics aren't closers.

A closer should be emotional -- it's a climax. Themes (both musical and emotional) are resolved, or at least summarized. Think Eclipse on Dark Side of the Moon, for instance. That's the ultimate closer.

 

By that metric, the ultimate closer is either

 

1) Available Light

2) Countdown

3) Mystic Rhythms

 

Just my two cents.

Those are three good ones. I'd ranks them AL, MR, and Countdown 3rd.

[78jazz]

Natural Science

Everyday Glory

The Garden

 

Maybe High Water too.

[mattroland76]

For me, its "Between the Wheels," but with "Natural Science" in a very close 2nd. :codger:

[zepphead]

Some very good early ones and not so good later ones. Edited July 10, 2021 by zepphead

[zepphead]

For totally personal reasons :heart: :rose: I go way back to 'In The End'.

Very special

[Alex’s Amazing Arpeggios]

I reckon Natural Science , with La Villa Strangiato a very,very close second.

( 3rd would be Between the Wheels )

[Mosher]

I know it matters a lot to many people, but I have never cared about the order of songs on a record.

 

Therefore the best song that ends an album is inherently the best closer.

 

Natural Science.