Started mostly for Remember When We Were Very Young? by Tyro, which is completely incredible - if any instrumental closer could fulfil the all-too-rarely-accurate cliche of being manically uplifting and impossibly melancholy all at once, it's this. (The album, Audiocards, is possibly the most underrated album I know - it's been heard by maybe fifty people ever? at a guess? - the Toenut fans who stayed Toenut fans into the 00's - but it's completely amazing)
ANYWAY. List others - good, bad, bizarre, fitting, short, long. Only rule is that the album has to be otherwise vocal-heavy.
― imago, Sunday, 19 February 2017 00:36 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8MiP0n68fI
― flappy bird, Sunday, 19 February 2017 00:37 (seven years ago) link
lol, tt's first response to me announcing i was starting this thread was 'elliott smith did this'
― imago, Sunday, 19 February 2017 00:40 (seven years ago) link
Roxy Music - Tara (Avalon) Silver Jews - The Silver Pageant (Starlite Walker)
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 19 February 2017 01:26 (seven years ago) link
B 52s - Follow Your Bliss
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 19 February 2017 01:40 (seven years ago) link
^^^ good call
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 February 2017 01:48 (seven years ago) link
The Allman Brothers - "Little Martha" (gotta be one of the most famous examples)Mac Demarco - "Jonny's Odyseey"DJ Quik - "Quik's Groove" (multiple albums)
― ridiculous perm ban decision (voodoo chili), Sunday, 19 February 2017 01:56 (seven years ago) link
ABC - The Look of Love, Part 4
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 19 February 2017 02:04 (seven years ago) link
Would be remiss of me to not mention the latest Sea Nymphs album as well, although it has two other instrumentals. Closer is joyous
― imago, Sunday, 19 February 2017 02:10 (seven years ago) link
Fitz of Depression, "Shimmy" (from Swing)Teenage Fanclub, "Is This Music?" (from Bandwagonesque)Smashing Pumpkins, "Farewell and Goodnight" (from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
― THAC0 Pastorius (Tom Violence), Sunday, 19 February 2017 02:45 (seven years ago) link
Braid, "Autobiography" (from Age of Octeen)
― THAC0 Pastorius (Tom Violence), Sunday, 19 February 2017 02:49 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQr7wyq3UYw
brother woodrow -- lead us in the closing prayer
― mookieproof, Sunday, 19 February 2017 02:55 (seven years ago) link
^^^grebt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTkDFt-dYoQ
stereolab, fiery yellow -- just kind of there
― mookieproof, Sunday, 19 February 2017 02:58 (seven years ago) link
The inverse of this is "Darn That Dream" from Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool collection, one vocal track on an otherwise instrumental album.
― THAC0 Pastorius (Tom Violence), Sunday, 19 February 2017 03:01 (seven years ago) link
police, the other way of stopping -- also just there
― mookieproof, Sunday, 19 February 2017 03:03 (seven years ago) link
Oh, that Fitz of Depression album also starts with an instrumental. How many vocal albums are bookended with instrumentals like that?
― THAC0 Pastorius (Tom Violence), Sunday, 19 February 2017 03:06 (seven years ago) link
New Order - Avalanche - Republic
Although this has one word repeated a few times, I consider it a closing instrumental. I would accept that my belief was wrong on a technicality, though.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 19 February 2017 03:07 (seven years ago) link
Blur did this a lot: Commercial Break (Modern Life Is Rubbish), Lot 105 (Parklife), Optigan 1 (13), and if you count hidden tracks, there's the instrumental version of Ernold Same at the end of The Great Escape, and Interlude at the end of the self-titled. A few of these have an instrumental around the mid-point of the album too.
Others:They Might Be Giants - Space Suit (Apollo 18)Magnetic Fields - Dust Bowl (The Charm of the Highway Strip)Momus - Forests (The Ultraconformist), Momutation 3 (Voyager)Yo La Tengo - I Heard You Looking (Painful)
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Sunday, 19 February 2017 03:37 (seven years ago) link
Love & Rockets' "Saudade" from Seventh Dream of Teenage Heavenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL07_7wPZK0
Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo -- "Sunsquashed"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T26JfVsdbIk
Triumph -- Epilogue (Resolution) from Never Surrenderhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8vBae5_7bY
― bodacious ignoramus, Sunday, 19 February 2017 03:52 (seven years ago) link
don't know yet - husker du (flip your wig)end of a holiday - airport convention (what we did on our holidays)
― salthigh, Sunday, 19 February 2017 04:01 (seven years ago) link
fairport obvalthough a jefferson airplane/fairport mash up would be sweet
― salthigh, Sunday, 19 February 2017 04:02 (seven years ago) link
Japan - The Tenant
― new noise, Sunday, 19 February 2017 04:04 (seven years ago) link
Sulk by the Associates begins and ends with different instrumentals.
― new noise, Sunday, 19 February 2017 04:08 (seven years ago) link
Smashing Pumpkins, "Farewell and Goodnight" (from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)― THAC0 Pastorius (Tom Violence), Saturday, February 18, 2017 9:45 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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? this isn't instrumental
― flappy bird, Sunday, 19 February 2017 04:11 (seven years ago) link
oh sorry, my brain may be broken
― THAC0 Pastorius (Tom Violence), Sunday, 19 February 2017 04:19 (seven years ago) link
Maxwell - Phoenix Rise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwOnmo3ozVs
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 19 February 2017 04:28 (seven years ago) link
fwiw Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo is a compilation
― mookieproof, Sunday, 19 February 2017 05:07 (seven years ago) link
Alan Parsons Project - Total Eclipse/Genesis Ch. 1 V. 32 (I Robot)The Bonzo Dog Band - Slush (Let's Make Up and Be Friendly)Buzzcocks - Late for the Train (Love Bites)The Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein (They Only Come Out at Night)
If wordless vocals are allowed...Electric Light Orchestra - Untitled 2 minute instrumental after the song Shangri La (A New World Record)
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 19 February 2017 05:24 (seven years ago) link
Dandy Warhols: "Pete International Airport" & "The Creep Out" on ...Come Down
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 19 February 2017 06:37 (seven years ago) link
Nick Drake's Bryter Later begins and ends with instrumentals. "Introduction" is slight and overture-y, sweeping strings setting a dreamy mood that the relatively propulsive "Hazey Jane II" kicks off nicely against. "Sunday" is as lyrical and emo as the songs that precede it and does sterling work letting you down from "Northern Sky" plus it's got a flute lead so all is good. sad but good as per.
Always liked the way Side 1 of Bowie's Low does the same thing, sandwiching all the songs between "Speed of Life" and "A New Career in a New Town" which are absolutely the equals of everything else on there, especially the latter's beautiful reworking of the Midnight Cowboy theme.
― Treesh-Hurt (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 19 February 2017 09:34 (seven years ago) link
there must be a shitload of prog-related or 70s UK folk-related records that use the beginning/end instrumental thing tbh
― Treesh-Hurt (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 19 February 2017 09:37 (seven years ago) link
Sade - Siempre Hay Esperanza and Mermaid
― mmmm, Sunday, 19 February 2017 09:37 (seven years ago) link
'Trumpets from Montparnasse" - The Lilac Time
― Mark G, Sunday, 19 February 2017 09:52 (seven years ago) link
if any instrumental closer could fulfil the all-too-rarely-accurate cliche of being manically uplifting and impossibly melancholy all at once, it's this.
Kraftwerk - Ohm Sweet Ohm (Radioactivity)
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 February 2017 09:54 (seven years ago) link
Lô Borges - "Tôdo Essa Água" from the s/t (sneakers album)
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Sunday, 19 February 2017 09:56 (seven years ago) link
Started mostly for Remember When We Were Very Young? by Tyro
Interestingly, "The Commercial Album" by the Residents ends with this:
https://www.you.tube.com/watch?v=Om0uOla3H_c
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 February 2017 10:10 (seven years ago) link
Oops, see what happens when you try not to embed youtube clips.
When We Were Young
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 February 2017 10:12 (seven years ago) link
Alice Cooper, 'Grand Finale' from 'School's Out'.
― 2017, how bad could it be? (snoball), Sunday, 19 February 2017 11:10 (seven years ago) link
Blur - Lot 105 (little bit of singing right at the end but it's an instrumental really)Madness - Return of the Los Palmas 7
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Sunday, 19 February 2017 13:54 (seven years ago) link
One of my favourites is The End on Change's The Glow Of Love.
― kitchen person, Sunday, 19 February 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link
Chic - "Baby Doll" from Take It Off
― kanye twitty (m coleman), Sunday, 19 February 2017 14:51 (seven years ago) link
Broken Social Scene - Pitter Patter Goes My Heart
― MarkoP, Sunday, 19 February 2017 14:53 (seven years ago) link
love 'fiery yellow.' something about it is really humorous...
― afriendlypioneer, Sunday, 19 February 2017 15:12 (seven years ago) link
The Who, "The Ox" from My Generation.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 19 February 2017 15:23 (seven years ago) link
Teenage Fanclub, "Is This Music?" from Bandwagonesque.
The first song that came to mind was "Here Come the Warm Jets", which isn't an instrumental but only seems like it is sometimes.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 19 February 2017 17:48 (seven years ago) link
Past Houses (Reprise) - Meg Baird Don't Weigh Down the Light
― salthigh, Sunday, 19 February 2017 18:30 (seven years ago) link
Big Black - "Bombastic Intro" from Songs About Fucking
― nate woolls, Sunday, 19 February 2017 18:33 (seven years ago) link
Coupla Genesis ones. "The Brazilian," "Los Endos" (more or less) ...
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 February 2017 18:39 (seven years ago) link
Husker Du, "Reoccurring Dreams" from "Zen Arcade."
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 February 2017 18:43 (seven years ago) link
Minutemen - "Love Dance" (Double Nickels)
― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Sunday, 19 February 2017 18:45 (seven years ago) link
"Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)" from the Flaming Lips "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" comes to mind.
― bigbigrobot, Sunday, 19 February 2017 19:15 (seven years ago) link
also 'sleeping on the roof' from the soft bulletin -- i don't think those alternate mixes really count
― mookieproof, Sunday, 19 February 2017 19:46 (seven years ago) link
this one isn't quite an instrumental buthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mDde12_pi0
― tylerw, Sunday, 19 February 2017 22:11 (seven years ago) link
"A New Career in a New Town"...beautiful reworking of the Midnight Cowboy theme.
Speaking of which, the actual "Midnight Cowboy" theme on Faith No More - Angel Dust.
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 19 February 2017 23:11 (seven years ago) link
"All World Cowboy Romance" from Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls and Marches.
― obvious, Monday, 20 February 2017 01:08 (seven years ago) link
Suzanne Vega's Solitude Standing ends with an instrumental version of "Tom's Diner".
― banjoboy, Monday, 20 February 2017 01:15 (seven years ago) link
Gary Numan/Tubeway Army's Replicas ends with two - "When the Machines Rock" and "I Nearly Married a Human". The other 8 tracks have vocals.
― frogbs, Monday, 20 February 2017 01:18 (seven years ago) link
Broadcast did this on The Noise Made By People (Dead The Long Year) and on Tender Buttons (I Found the End), and Helen did on The Original Faces (title track).
― city worker, Monday, 20 February 2017 01:27 (seven years ago) link
Radio 4 - PIL (Metal Box)
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Monday, 20 February 2017 07:36 (seven years ago) link
Tom Waits - Rainbirds
― chap, Monday, 20 February 2017 18:43 (seven years ago) link
Metallica - Call of Ktulu
― chap, Monday, 20 February 2017 18:44 (seven years ago) link
Benton Falls - 'Eudora' (off Fighting Starlight)
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 20 February 2017 20:51 (seven years ago) link
Bark Psychosis - Pendulum Man (off of Hex)
Cardiacs - All His Geese Are Swans (from Songs For Ships And Irons)
― Noel Emits, Monday, 20 February 2017 21:02 (seven years ago) link
Queen's debut album and A Night at the Opera end with instrumentals, and Wings' Venus and Mars ends with 'Crossroads Theme'
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Monday, 20 February 2017 21:06 (seven years ago) link
Frogbs already named it but I have to post "I nearly married a human" anyway, as it's my total paragon of 'closing instrumental on a rock album'
Sometimes it's my favorite numan track. I also have a false memory that it was used in the soundtrack to Cosmos.
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Monday, 20 February 2017 22:56 (seven years ago) link
Unwound - "Who Cares" (Leaves Turn Inside You)
― a passing spacecadet, Monday, 20 February 2017 22:59 (seven years ago) link
Air Miami - "Reprise" (Me Me Me) is a spaced-out instrumental version of "Bubble Shield" iirc
― a passing spacecadet, Monday, 20 February 2017 23:05 (seven years ago) link
Frozen Energon on Chad VanGaalen's Soft Airplane. Last line on Rabid Bits of Time is 'No one knows where we go / when we're dead or when we're dreaming' and then there's a noise postludium as if to illustrate dying.
Also Be It on Azeda Booth's In Flesh Tones. Last line on Brown Sun is 'face down in the parking lot' and then there's a noise postludium as if to illustrate dying, and then Be It sounds like ascension.
Members of Azeda Booth used to play with Chad VanGaalen incidentally.
― Frederik B, Monday, 20 February 2017 23:25 (seven years ago) link
"Rhoda" off of Tweez.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 20 February 2017 23:31 (seven years ago) link
Ghost's Opus Eponymous ends with an instrumental. I think all the other tracks have vocals.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 02:56 (seven years ago) link
Barbara Morgenstern, "Love is in the Air, But We Don't Care".
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 03:18 (seven years ago) link
But there's a "pow!" at the end!
― Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 04:37 (seven years ago) link
Dust, "Loose Goose"Attila, "Brain Invasion"Human Beinz, "April 15th"
― Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 04:54 (seven years ago) link
The Cure - Unlisted ["The Weedy Burton"] (Three Imaginary Boys)The Lemonheads - "Jello Fund" (Come On Feel...)The Lemonheads - "Secular Rockulidge (Car Button Cloth)Duran Duran - "Lake Shore Driving" (Big Thing)Public Enemy - "Terminator X Speaks With His Hands" (YBRTS) A couple of voice snippets admittedly...Models - "Rate of Change" (Local And/Or General)
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 12:29 (seven years ago) link
The Promise Ring - "We Don't Like Romance" - 30° Everywhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAfIpScR_xQ
― fits, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link
Oh yeah..
'The Foz' - off The Second Coming, The Stone Roses
― Mark G, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 07:39 (seven years ago) link
Jane's Addiction - "Thank You, Boys" off the vinyl version of Nothing's Shocking. Perry Farrell thanks the band, but I'd say it still counts.
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 08:32 (seven years ago) link
Wanky
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 09:18 (seven years ago) link
Sounds like a nice.
Doesn't sound like an instrumental.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 09:35 (seven years ago) link
Unrest - The Hill (from Malcolm X Park)
― Liquid Plejades, Sunday, 26 February 2017 21:29 (seven years ago) link
I already got Wanky covered upthread!
Let's, like, try to say a little about the songs?
― imago, Sunday, 26 February 2017 21:33 (seven years ago) link
Visage - The Steps
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Sunday, 26 February 2017 22:00 (seven years ago) link
gastr del sol - bauchredner
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Sunday, 26 February 2017 23:36 (seven years ago) link