As much as I love Hallowed, the Iron Maiden last track epic for me is Alexander the Great, absolutely adore that song, was so good to hear it live on the last tour.
1) "Teo Torriatte" - Queen - A Day at the Races 2) "Nights in White Satin" - The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed 3) "A Day in the Life" - The Beatles - Sgt Pepper 4) "Love to Love" - UFO - Lights Out 5) "Purple Rain" - Prince - Purple Rain Soundtrack 6) "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" - Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland 7) "Won't Get Fooled Again" - The Who - Who's Next 8) "Magnum Opus" - Kansas - Leftoverture 9) "The Court of the Crimson King" - King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King 10) "Perpetual Change" - Yes - The Yes Album
I think the reason Alex Lifeson doesn't come up more in the discussion of the all-time great guitarists is because everything he does is in service to the song. It's about the composition not about a solo. I actually think that contributes to his greatness
It’s because he’s not a great onstage improviser. Yes Alex is a great player and great prog composer. But what you heard at last week’s,concert is exactly what you heard at last month’s concert which is exactly what you heard at last year’s concert. Absent the demonstrated ability to blow you away with improvisation, he will never be held in as high regard as, say, Steve Howe or Ritchie Blackmore or Jan Akkerman.
Echoes from my favorite Floyd album, Meddle. Wonderful topic, Phil! And thanks for inviting Pete. You guys compliment each other with your passion for music.
Great program, Phil. Always good to see you and Pete get together. I agree with your choice of Dirty Women. Technical Ecstasy is my favorite Sabbath album, also. One of my picks would be The Garden by Rush, final song.on Clockwork Angels. Final song on their final album. In a word: poignant.
Here's a few obscure ones that are MUST hears: 1) On Fire - Van Halen (not that obscure) 2) Fuel To The Fire - Rory Gallaher Photo Finish 3) You Told Me That You Love Me - Tommy Bolin Private Eyes (every song is amazing) 4) Black Train - Montrose W.B. Presents (if you don't know this one, you need to) Cheers Guys!
Van Halen 'On Fire' from the debut Iron Maiden 'Hallowed Be Thy Name' from 'Number of the Beast' Judas Priest "Steeler' from 'British Steel' The Who 'Won't Get Fooled Again' from 'Who's Next' Black Sabbath 'The Writ"' from 'Sabotage'
That was great to watch - cheers Phil. Just last night, I listened to MSG's Lost Horizons around 5 times. It's so meaningful and emotional. Even though there was no actual band at the time, the album had an identity. That song leaves such a great impression. The bandleader Michael Schenker had arrived. Was hoping you'd include Light in the Black, but in fact I also think Rainbow Eyes is a great album closer, in a completely different way.😂 For Zeppelin, Bring It On Home is my fave end piece. Your UFO choice was perfect. I reckon Born to Lose, Anyday and Profession of Violence also hit the spot. Cheers.🙂
Fantastic episode Phil, I agree, sequencing has just gone out of the window. The End was a great start, A Light In The Black is an absolute epic, Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, lastly You Keep On Moving puts Tommy Bolin with the greats.
One thing sealed it for me: Is it a fadeout that gives the impression/illusion of continuing forever, past the conclusion of the groove? That suggests two to me immediately: “Pilgrim’s Progress” from A Salty Dog by Procol Harum, and “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” from Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones.
Even tho it participation wasn't invited here are my favs (excluding any mentioned in the vid): The Wildhearts - Sky Babies (Fishing for Luckies / PHUQ 2023) Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland (Born to Run) BOC - Astronomy (Secret Treaties) Tracy Chapman - All That You Have is Your Soul (Crossroads) Neil Young - Cowgirl in the Sand (Everybody Knows this is Nowhere) Thin Lizzy - Black Rose (Black Rose) Pink Floyd - Echoes (Meddle) Magnum - Don't Wake the Lion (Wings of Heaven) Blackfoot - Highway Song (Strikes) Overkill - Evil Never Dies (Years of Decay) Motorhead - Orgasmatron (Orgasmatron) Marillion - Fugazi (Fugazi) Genesis - The Knife (Trespass)
Hallowed be thy name - Iron Maiden Reigning Blood - Slayer One road to Asa bay - Bathory The Philosopher - Death Aerials - System of a down Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen Come to the Sabbath - Mercyful Fate White Cluster - Opeth Damage Inc - Metallica Train in vain - The Clash
If think just right off the top of my head the epic jungleand from Born to run from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band is one hell of an album closer Followed by Tomorrow never knows from the Beatles on revolver definitely a sound unheard of at its time
Both last two tracks Chris’s Oh Daddy and Stevie’s Gold Dust Woman bring the album to a great atmospheric close. I love GDW, one of the best tracks Stevie wrote.
My favorite album closers off the top of my head: Natural Science - Rush (Permanent Waves) Lonely Is the Word - Black Sabbath (H&H) The Count of Tuscany - Dream Theater (Black Clouds and Silver Linings) Learning to Live - Dream Theater (Images and Words) Echo - Joe Satriani (Surfing With the Alien) Marching In Time - Tremonti (Marching In Time)
Eloy are the *absolute masters* of "the epic album closer": "Mighty Echoes" from "Silent Cries & Mighty Echoes" (1979) "Carried By Cosmic Winds" from "Planets" (1981) "A Broken Frame" from "Performance" (1983) "Jeanne D' Arc" from "Destination" (1992) "Company Of Angels" from "The Tides Return Forever" (1994) "The Answer" from "Ocean II - The Answer" (1998) - this one is "the most epic of the Eloy album closers", 11 minutes of sheer majesty. "Mystery - The Secret, Part 2" from "Visionary" (2009)
"Slim Slow Slider" - Van Morrison "Goodbye" - Free "It Don't Matter" and "Take Me to the Top" - Loverboy "Lonely Is the Word" and "Over and Over" - Black Sabbath "First Step of Love" - Hughes/Thrall "King of the Mountain" - ArcAngel "Shame on the Night", "Egypt", "Bring Down the Rain" and "This Is Your Life" - Dio "Dr. Mabuse (First Life)" - Propaganda "Lost Reflection" and "Transcendence" - Crimson Glory "All Things Must Change" - Widowmaker "You Fly" - VandenPlas "It Falls Through Me" - Iommi "Nothing but Time" - Metric
"The Call Of Ktulu". An absolute epic finale to a groundbreaking album. The gargantuan journey Ride The Lightning takes you on via the previous songs is already exhilerating, but Ktulu's call is a cinematic, climatic cresendo. It is a stunning, awe inspiring piece of brilliance that sounds like it is a bands absolute final statement. Yet, they were only really getting started. Hot Take: I think the S&M version is even better. The orchestration introduces a whole new experience and dimension to it.
I was about to call it a day but then I saw this. So while listening I quickly scanned the CD collection. I'm glad you guys came up with Whole lotta Rosie, Larks Tongues in Aspic Pt II, When the Levee Breaks, Love to Love, La Villa Strangiato and the gorgeous I Believe in You. So here are some you may have missed (not sure: the video is still playing) in no particular order: Beatles - Sgt. Pepper - A Day in The Life Big Country - The Crossing - Porrohman Deep Purple - In Rock - Hard Lovin' Man Deep Purple - Now What?! - Vincent Price Def Leppard - Pyromania - Billy's Got a Gun Dream Theater - Images and Words - Learning to Live Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos - In the Presence of Enemies Pt II The Michael Schenker Group - debut - Lost Horizons Queensryche - Roads to Madness Rainbow - Down to Earth - Lost in Hollywood Rush - Permanent Waves - Natural Science Rush - Grace under Pressure - Between the Wheels Threshold - Hypothetical - Narcissus Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff - The Sleepwalkers Haha: you did mention Purple's Hard Lovin' Man and DT's Learning to Live. Excellent show.
Great chat and very informative Phil. Pete touched on a subject I think would make a good topic for a future discussion. In the age of the 78 minute cd, how many albums considered 'good' would be considered classics if they had a few less tracks on them. Too many artists feel the need to fill the disc with filler tracks when a few less would lead to a far higher quality album.
For me, it has to be Last Exit For The Lost by Fields Of The Nephilim from The Nephilim record. This is not only the best album closer but also the best gig closer. It never fails to inspire and always take me to another place. I never tire of hearing this song. At almost 10 minutes long it just builds and builds reaching an outstanding crescendo, always leaving me wishing this track would never end. Its simply a stunning piece of music, on a wonderful record by an often overlooked, fantastic band.
My ten closers (in no order) : - Black Diamond / Kiss - Suite Madame Blue / Styx - Emerald / Thin Lizzy - A Light in the Black / Rainbow - Love to Love / UFO - The Hammer / Motorhead - When the Levi Breaks / Led Zeppelin - One More Heartache / Detective - Princess of the Dawn / Accept - Moonlight Mile / the Rolling Stones
Such a great topic and idea behind it. Brilliant show, Uncle Phil, you had me at hello. My choices are obvious, perhaps becauce they are so good - 1. Echoes - Pink Floyd (Meddle) 2. Hallowed be thy Name - Iron Maiden (The Number of the Beast) 3. Whole Lotta Rosie - AC/DC (Let there be Rock) 4. Don't Wake the Lion - Magnum (Wings of Heaven) 5. Brothers In Arms - Dire straits (Brothers In Arms) 6. When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin (IV) 7. You can't always Get what You Want - The Rolling Stones (Let It bleed) 8. Shooting Stars - Rival Sons (Feral Roots) 9. The Garden - Rush (Clockwork Angels) 10. Into the Void - Black Sabbath (Master of Reality) HMs Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Iron Maiden (Powersalve) Knights of Cydonia - Muse (Black Holes and Revelations) Spiral Architecht - Black Sabbath (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath) High Hopes - Pink Floyd (The Division Bell) Eyes of a Stranger - Queensryche (Operation Mindcrime) We wish you well - Whitesnake (Lovehunter)
Blue Oyster Cult 'Astronomy' from Secret Treaties and Y&T 'Winds Of Change' from Black Tiger and Ozzy Osbourne 'Waiting For Darkness' from Bark At The Moon to name a few . 😉
These two gents together is magic so much knowledge. Great having Pete on your own channel Phil! It makes me so happy that Phil mentioned I Believe In You one of my personal favorite songs, just an epic track and the best Y&T song (in my opinion). One for me would be Highway Song by Blackfoot. One of my fav bands (fav southern rock band) just love that song!
Here are a couple which came to my mind: Judas Priest - One Shot at Glory Majestic, full throttle impact, one of Rob's best vocal performances Roy Orbison - Careless Heart /You may feel me crying This is a tricky one because the other one is basically a bonus song but it still serves not only as an album closer but as a career closer because he sadly died shorty before the album was released. What a voice. Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland What a great composition! One of the best sax solos. As much as I love the direction he went I'll always cherish Wild Innocent E Street and Born to run for their lavish and complex arrangements. The Cure - Faith Although everything goes bananas for the successor, I always preffered this album to it and especially the title track which finishes it. Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms Although I prefer their work up to this point, there is no denying that there are some gems on this album and the title track especially is a timeless classic. Depeche Mode - Higher Love Although DM has many strong suits album closers are not one of them in my humble opinion. Blasphemous rumours might get close but it feels more like a hitsong at the end, whereas Higher Love from Songs of Faith and Devotion (my favourite DM album) has a hymnic, final quality to it. Elton John - Madman across the water (Original version) One of my favourite songs by him, probably shared by quite a few. 9 minutes, epic and poignant, ripping solo by Mick Ronson.
An interesting topic, so many to choose from...here's a bunch that came to my mind : "in a glass house" and "i lost my head" Gentle Giant, "heart of the sunrise" and "awaken"-Yes, "lunar sea"-Camel, "Vital signs" -Rush, "all things will pass"-Opeth, "into the void" "under the sun" ,"spiral architect"- Black Sabbath......and the list goes on...good choices BTW.
A couple of personal favourites are As Sure As Eggs Is Eggs, the closing segment of Suppers Ready by Genesis from Foxtrot and Paradise/The Spell, the closing track from Heep's Demons And Wizards platter.
As for The Babys I suggest the closing track on their debut "Dying Man" it's an epic for sure. Great list anyway guys! Also I'l add Animal Magnetism by Scorpions...awesome track.
My favourite epic album closer? 'A Louse Is Not A Home' by Peter Hammill from his 1974 album 'The Silent Corner and The Empty Stage'. By guitar based hard rock standards Hammill and Van Der Graaf Generator probably get filed under 'left field theatrical also rans', for being keyboard and sax led where they are well received at all. But the intensity of the lyric and ear worm nature of the music on 'A Louse Is Not A Home', a song about divided identity, is so much more than merely 'memorable'.
Cool show guys! Won't Get Fooled Again is another great closer by The Who! Hard Lovin' Man on DP In Rock - heavy, fast, powerful, simply unbelievable for 1970. I expected a DP track. Great pick! Hay You by Thin Lizzy from Chinatown would make my list too.
There are great picks on here and the comments. Queen knew how to list tracks: In The Lap of The Gods, Teo Torriate, Princes of The Universe and Was It All Worth It?
Love To Love is the first song I thought of for this excersise. I knew it would be on Pete's list but, I didn't see it coming from you Phil, nice choice! Shine On You Crazy Diamond VI - IX is another epic album closer that you have to hear before you die. Anyone who hasn't been through Wish You Were Here from beginning to end has to find time for that before it's too late. Absolute perfection from David Gilmour and company. My #1 is an epic Tour De Force from the late great Randy Rhoads, Diary of a Madman. Yeah Bob Daisley, Lee Kerslake, and Ozzy Osbourne helped make that song great as well but, Randy outdid himself the performance of a lifetime to end that masterpiece.
Always loved " A light in the black" with the speed and power and especially when it came out in 1976 i always thought it was proto thrash metal just year's earlier. I remember in Geoff Barton's review at the time in sounds music paper he called this thermo nuclear rock n roll. A very apt description i think.
As always an absolute joy to see the 2 of you doing a show together, you're a really great double act. There are 2 or 3 songs that you didn't mention, an obvious one being Supper's Ready, Pete mentioned Genesis but not that track. The one I was most surprised you didn't include was Day in the Life from Sergeant Peppers, if I had to choose a favourite closer that might be it. Finally a bit of a cheat, I want to include Bohemian Rhapsody, I know strictly speaking it isn't the closer on night at the Opera, but I always forget about the National Anthem 7 it doesn't really count for me. Certainly I was surprised you didn't include any Queen. Cheers guys I look forward to the next show
Here are ten that I love. It's not a complete list of course and not in any order: Need Your Love - Cheap Trick - Dream Police Over and Over - Black Sabbath - Mob Rules Astronomy - Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties Octavarium - Dream Theater - Octavarium Los Endos - Genesis - A Trick of the Tail Halloween - Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1 Magnum Opus - Kansas - Leftover Tea For One - Led Zeppelin - Presence Echoes - Pink Floyd - Meddle The Show Must Go On - Queen - Innuendo
1-freebird..2-disedent aggressor..3-rockett queen..4-whole lotta rosie..5-iron maiden..6-back door love affair..7-hook in mouth..8-bomber..9-gold dust woman..10-greengrass and high tides
Hi, all your chosen songs are brilliant, but I would like to mention one song from this millenium too. It's OPETH - Deliverance (LIVE AT RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE)...the last 5 to 6 minutes are outstanding! Cheers from Switzerland
If we get to include live albums, then DEEP PURPLE Made In Japan - Space Trucking has got to be it. Great performance of the base song itself, and mind-blowing improvisations from stellar players who are clearly listening to and supporting each other’s wild performances.
Ace Frehley - Fractured Mirror Kansas - Death of Mother Nature Suite Alan Parsons Project - Old and Wise Alice Cooper - Inmates Def Leppard - Overture Dio - Egypt Rainbow - Eyes of Fire Jethro Tull - Elegy Motorhead - Orgasmatron Judas Priest - Lochness Kerry Livgren - Ground Zero Kiss - Black Diamond Manowar - March for Revenge Toto - Africa
Excellent can we have some more of the same please Phil and Pete, I’d like to mention Magnum Opus from the Leftoverture album from Kansas an absolute epic of an album closer agree with every track you’ve mentioned all classic album tracks and well worthy of a mention 👏.
Great choices, nice to se Emerald get a mention, it's one of mine too, along with... Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced? (Are You Experienced?) David Bowie - Rock n' Roll Suicide (Ziggy Stardust) Queen - In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited (Sheer Heart Attack) Thin Lizzy - Emerald (Jailbreak) The Stranglers - Down In The Sewer (Rattus Norvegicus) Japan - The Other Side Of Life (Quiet Life) The Waterboys - This Is The Sea (This Is The Sea) The Cure - Untitled (Disintegration) Porcupine Tree - Sleep Together (Fear Of A Blank Planet) Steven Wilson - Insurgentes (Insurgentes)
Jimi's Voodoo Child (Slight Return) closing Electric Ladyland Rush's Xanadu or La Villa Strangiato closing AFtK and Hemispheres The Stone's You Can't Always Get What You Want closing Let It Bleed Iron Maiden's Hell On Earth clsing Senjitsu or Hallowed Be Thy Name - The Number Of The Beast The Who's Won't Get Fooled Again closing Who's Next The End is mentioned ..... Riders On The Storm from L.A. Woman, also good There are SO many amazing closers.... it is a lost artform.
Great topic from a, potentially, lost art ... Love to Love jumped to mind straight off so it was easy to see it would appear of Pete and Phil's lists ... so many to choose from ... here's a few to consider ... Throw Down the Sword ... Argus, Wishbone Ash The Last Resort ... Hotel California, Eagles Get Where I Belong .... Free Live, Free (awesome gentle studio relief at the end of a great live album) Moonwater .... Baby James Harvest, BJH The Poet - After the Day ... And Other Short Stories, BJH For No One ... Everyone Is Everybody Else, BJH Los Endos ... Trick of the Tail, Genesis Afterglow ... Wind & Wuthering, Genesis Astronomy ... Secret Treaties, BOC Gold Dust Woman ... Rumours, Fleetwood Mac You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman ... Tapestry, Carole King Jungleland ... Born to Run, Springsteen etc etc CMcG, Aberdeen, Scotland
There are some great music appreciation channels on You Tube and these are two of my favourites. I always thought that Black Sabbath were painstakingly careful with all of their closers.
Supertramp, Crime of the Century; Styx Claire de Lune/Ballerina; Genesis Los Endos (100% agree with Phil); Steve Hackett, Shadow of the Hierophant; Camel, Ice; Peter Gabriel, Here Comes The Flood; Joni Mitchell, The Silky Veils of Ardour; Jefferson Airplane, Volunteers; Renaissance, Ashes are Burning; Jackson Browne, The Pretender, Before The Deluge, Stay. Vangelis, Albedo 0.39; Tangerine Dream, Ricochet Part Two; Rush Cygnus X-1; Yes, Awaken; Marillion, This Strange Engine.
A really great show, chaps! Four more 💯 epics from me: Thin Lizzy - “Black Rose” Status Quo - “Forty Five Hundred Times “ Status Quo - “Mystery Song” Michael Schenker Group - “Lost Horizons”
Ozzy Osbournes Diary of a Madman is the first that comes to my mind. What away to leave the stage Randy Rhoads. The second is Black Horseman by King Diamond fantastic. Number 3. Dallas 1pm by Saxon
Highway Song Blackfoot, 4500 times Status Quo, Mystery Song Status Quo, Don't Wake the Lion Magnum, For Crying Out Loud Meatloaf, Call Me the Breeze Lynyrd Skynyrd. So many to choose from!
hard to look past King Crimson title track from glorious 1st album....... but magnificent title track from Islands & of course the ultimate Starless closer from Red ! we rockers are truly spoilt for choice when it comes to album finales !
Mercyful Fate - Melissa - Melissa Pink Floyd - WYWH - WYWH Part 2 Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways - TSMS Part 2 Pineapple Thief - Tightly Unwound - Too Much To Lose
Great picks guys, but seriously: Diary of a Madman by Ozzy!!! Staying with the mad: Roads to madness- Queensryche Touch the wind - Teaze absolutely gorgeous!!! You keep on moving - Deep Purple of my fav Purple album To tame a land by Maiden. Brilliant Rock n roll machine- Triumph On fire - Van Halen Forty five hundred times - Status Quo April Wine: 21st century schizoid man (closing majestically with a cover) Dream Theater : the count of Tuscany Come on Pete, no Kansas??? Magnus Opus from Leftoverture And so happy Y&T got picked: easily my nr 1 closer of all time. And yeah, Dirty Women is Tony Iommi at his best!!!!
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I love it when Pete and Phil get together. You get a conversation of passion and intelligence about music,
Totally agree unlike reaction channels and no erm and ahs Love both channels
Thank you 🙏
That thumbnail of Pete. Almost unrecognizable without a comic book or rock t shirt😂
I had to look twice.
1. Krim “Starless” . . Talk about a band with numerous epic closers! 😅
2. Doors - The End (again, Pete’s right)
3. Iced Earth - “Dante’s Inferno”
4. The Who - “Love Reign O’er Me”
5. Queensryche - “Road to Madness”
6. Genesis - “Supper’s Ready”
7. Thin Lizzy - “Roisín Dubh/Black Rose”
8. Yes - “Ritual”
9. Maiden - bugger, this is difficult! . . “Rime Of the Ancient Mariner”
10. Pink Floyd - “Echoes”
As much as I love Hallowed, the Iron Maiden last track epic for me is Alexander the Great, absolutely adore that song, was so good to hear it live on the last tour.
The Beatles - A Day in the Life ( Sgt. Pepper )
1) "Teo Torriatte" - Queen - A Day at the Races
2) "Nights in White Satin" - The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
3) "A Day in the Life" - The Beatles - Sgt Pepper
4) "Love to Love" - UFO - Lights Out
5) "Purple Rain" - Prince - Purple Rain Soundtrack
6) "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" - Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
7) "Won't Get Fooled Again" - The Who - Who's Next
8) "Magnum Opus" - Kansas - Leftoverture
9) "The Court of the Crimson King" - King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
10) "Perpetual Change" - Yes - The Yes Album
I think the reason Alex Lifeson doesn't come up more in the discussion of the all-time great guitarists is because everything he does is in service to the song. It's about the composition not about a solo. I actually think that contributes to his greatness
It’s because he’s not a great onstage improviser. Yes Alex is a great player and great prog composer. But what you heard at last week’s,concert is exactly what you heard at last month’s concert which is exactly what you heard at last year’s concert. Absent the demonstrated ability to blow you away with improvisation, he will never be held in as high regard as, say, Steve Howe or Ritchie Blackmore or Jan Akkerman.
Tomorrow Never Knows by THE BEATLES, stunning !
I always felt it also pointed the finger to where the Beatles were headed next. Brilliance on my favourite Beatles album.
Great conversation. Your enthusiasm is for music is contagious. Take care, guys!🎸
A Day in the Life by The Beatles is probably my favorite.
Also Pink Floyd- Echoes. Thought you guys would mention it.
Deep Purple In Rock..Hard Loving Man!!!Rainbow Light in the Black!!!
Hey guy's , one I'd certainly have picked is Starless by King Crimson, amazing track.
Immediately comes to mind: Rainbow - A Light in the Black; Uriah Heep - Salisbury; UFO - This Kid's including Between the Walls, etc.
Love the shirt, Phil! I'd say "You Keep On Moving" is one of the best closers... so hauntingly beautiful.
I did nearly choose that. It is my favourite track from Come Taste The Band.
Echoes from my favorite Floyd album, Meddle. Wonderful topic, Phil! And thanks for inviting Pete. You guys compliment each other with your passion for music.
Thank you very much - Phil
Great program, Phil. Always good to see you and Pete get together. I agree with your choice of Dirty Women. Technical Ecstasy is my favorite Sabbath album, also. One of my picks would be The Garden by Rush, final song.on Clockwork Angels. Final song on their final album. In a word: poignant.
Light in the black is rock perfection
Brilliant...2 of my favorite channels together!!!
Thank you 🙏
Thanks guys - great picks. There will never be another Jimi Hendrix - what an impact he had. Cheers
Here's a few obscure ones that are MUST hears:
1) On Fire - Van Halen (not that obscure)
2) Fuel To The Fire - Rory Gallaher Photo Finish
3) You Told Me That You Love Me - Tommy Bolin Private Eyes (every song is amazing)
4) Black Train - Montrose W.B. Presents (if you don't know this one, you need to)
Cheers Guys!
Van Halen 'On Fire' from the debut
Iron Maiden 'Hallowed Be Thy Name' from 'Number of the Beast'
Judas Priest "Steeler' from 'British Steel'
The Who 'Won't Get Fooled Again' from 'Who's Next'
Black Sabbath 'The Writ"' from 'Sabotage'
That was great to watch - cheers Phil. Just last night, I listened to MSG's Lost Horizons around 5 times. It's so meaningful and emotional. Even though there was no actual band at the time, the album had an identity. That song leaves such a great impression. The bandleader Michael Schenker had arrived. Was hoping you'd include Light in the Black, but in fact I also think Rainbow Eyes is a great album closer, in a completely different way.😂 For Zeppelin, Bring It On Home is my fave end piece. Your UFO choice was perfect. I reckon Born to Lose, Anyday and Profession of Violence also hit the spot. Cheers.🙂
Light In The Black Phil absolute classic 💯💯💯🤘🤘
Face melter of a solo!
Fantastic episode Phil, I agree, sequencing has just gone out of the window. The End was a great start, A Light In The Black is an absolute epic, Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, lastly You Keep On Moving puts Tommy Bolin with the greats.
One thing sealed it for me: Is it a fadeout that gives the impression/illusion of continuing forever, past the conclusion of the groove? That suggests two to me immediately: “Pilgrim’s Progress” from A Salty Dog by Procol Harum, and “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” from Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones.
Desolation Row by BOB DYLAN, bloody hell !
One of my all time favorite closing tracks Harmony Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road absolute classic Closer to a absolute classic album
Here's hoping this becomes a regular collaboration on this channel. Pete is the best.
Even tho it participation wasn't invited here are my favs (excluding any mentioned in the vid):
The Wildhearts - Sky Babies (Fishing for Luckies / PHUQ 2023)
Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland (Born to Run)
BOC - Astronomy (Secret Treaties)
Tracy Chapman - All That You Have is Your Soul (Crossroads)
Neil Young - Cowgirl in the Sand (Everybody Knows this is Nowhere)
Thin Lizzy - Black Rose (Black Rose)
Pink Floyd - Echoes (Meddle)
Magnum - Don't Wake the Lion (Wings of Heaven)
Blackfoot - Highway Song (Strikes)
Overkill - Evil Never Dies (Years of Decay)
Motorhead - Orgasmatron (Orgasmatron)
Marillion - Fugazi (Fugazi)
Genesis - The Knife (Trespass)
Great show!! Yes do a part II and part III - you got my positive vote!
Hallowed be thy name - Iron Maiden
Reigning Blood - Slayer
One road to Asa bay - Bathory
The Philosopher - Death
Aerials - System of a down
Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen
Come to the Sabbath - Mercyful Fate
White Cluster - Opeth
Damage Inc - Metallica
Train in vain - The Clash
Just started watching so I've no idea what you're going to pick but I particularly like Gold Dust Woman at the end of Rumours - great atmosphere
Brilliant track, and my favourite from Rumours
If think just right off the top of my head the epic jungleand from Born to run from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band is one hell of an album closer
Followed by Tomorrow never knows from the Beatles on revolver definitely a sound unheard of at its time
Great pick - one I also thought of and my favourite track from Rumours back in the day too 👍
Both last two tracks Chris’s Oh Daddy and Stevie’s Gold Dust Woman bring the album to a great atmospheric close. I love GDW, one of the best tracks Stevie wrote.
Two of my very favorite classic and hard rock enthusiasts!!
Thank you - phil
My favorite album closers off the top of my head:
Natural Science - Rush (Permanent Waves)
Lonely Is the Word - Black Sabbath (H&H)
The Count of Tuscany - Dream Theater (Black Clouds and Silver Linings)
Learning to Live - Dream Theater (Images and Words)
Echo - Joe Satriani (Surfing With the Alien)
Marching In Time - Tremonti (Marching In Time)
Eloy are the *absolute masters* of "the epic album closer":
"Mighty Echoes" from "Silent Cries & Mighty Echoes" (1979)
"Carried By Cosmic Winds" from "Planets" (1981)
"A Broken Frame" from "Performance" (1983)
"Jeanne D' Arc" from "Destination" (1992)
"Company Of Angels" from "The Tides Return Forever" (1994)
"The Answer" from "Ocean II - The Answer" (1998) - this one is "the most epic of the Eloy album closers", 11 minutes of sheer majesty.
"Mystery - The Secret, Part 2" from "Visionary" (2009)
Well, Atlantis' Agony and the Bells of Notre-Dame are some of their greatest.
"Slim Slow Slider" - Van Morrison
"Goodbye" - Free
"It Don't Matter" and "Take Me to the Top" - Loverboy
"Lonely Is the Word" and "Over and Over" - Black Sabbath
"First Step of Love" - Hughes/Thrall
"King of the Mountain" - ArcAngel
"Shame on the Night", "Egypt", "Bring Down the Rain" and "This Is Your Life" - Dio
"Dr. Mabuse (First Life)" - Propaganda
"Lost Reflection" and "Transcendence" - Crimson Glory
"All Things Must Change" - Widowmaker
"You Fly" - VandenPlas
"It Falls Through Me" - Iommi
"Nothing but Time" - Metric
“Take me to the Top” is my favorite Loverboy song ever
Phil, Thank you and Pete for the video !!
"The Call Of Ktulu". An absolute epic finale to a groundbreaking album. The gargantuan journey Ride The Lightning takes you on via the previous songs is already exhilerating, but Ktulu's call is a cinematic, climatic cresendo. It is a stunning, awe inspiring piece of brilliance that sounds like it is a bands absolute final statement. Yet, they were only really getting started.
Hot Take: I think the S&M version is even better. The orchestration introduces a whole new experience and dimension to it.
AWESOME PICKS & Excellent Channel !!!
Thoroughly enjoyed this. Cheers gents!
Fantastic episode guys, making me think now! Hallowed will always be my favourite pick though!
I was about to call it a day but then I saw this. So while listening I quickly scanned the CD collection.
I'm glad you guys came up with Whole lotta Rosie, Larks Tongues in Aspic Pt II, When the Levee Breaks, Love to Love, La Villa Strangiato and the gorgeous I Believe in You. So here are some you may have missed (not sure: the video is still playing) in no particular order:
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper - A Day in The Life
Big Country - The Crossing - Porrohman
Deep Purple - In Rock - Hard Lovin' Man
Deep Purple - Now What?! - Vincent Price
Def Leppard - Pyromania - Billy's Got a Gun
Dream Theater - Images and Words - Learning to Live
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos - In the Presence of Enemies Pt II
The Michael Schenker Group - debut - Lost Horizons
Queensryche - Roads to Madness
Rainbow - Down to Earth - Lost in Hollywood
Rush - Permanent Waves - Natural Science
Rush - Grace under Pressure - Between the Wheels
Threshold - Hypothetical - Narcissus
Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff - The Sleepwalkers
Haha: you did mention Purple's Hard Lovin' Man and DT's Learning to Live. Excellent show.
Thank you and fantastic choices also ! Phil:)
Great chat and very informative Phil. Pete touched on a subject I think would make a good topic for a future discussion. In the age of the 78 minute cd, how many albums considered 'good' would be considered classics if they had a few less tracks on them. Too many artists feel the need to fill the disc with filler tracks when a few less would lead to a far higher quality album.
Great choices. The Babys - Broken Heart is one of my favourite albums.
A Piece of the Action!
For me, it has to be Last Exit For The Lost by Fields Of The Nephilim from The Nephilim record. This is not only the best album closer but also the best gig closer.
It never fails to inspire and always take me to another place. I never tire of hearing this song.
At almost 10 minutes long it just builds and builds reaching an outstanding crescendo, always leaving me wishing this track would never end.
Its simply a stunning piece of music, on a wonderful record by an often overlooked, fantastic band.
My ten closers (in no order) :
- Black Diamond / Kiss
- Suite Madame Blue / Styx
- Emerald / Thin Lizzy
- A Light in the Black / Rainbow
- Love to Love / UFO
- The Hammer / Motorhead
- When the Levi Breaks / Led Zeppelin
- One More Heartache / Detective
- Princess of the Dawn / Accept
- Moonlight Mile / the Rolling Stones
Great choices - Phil
Such a great topic and idea behind it. Brilliant show, Uncle Phil, you had me at hello.
My choices are obvious, perhaps becauce they are so good -
1. Echoes - Pink Floyd (Meddle)
2. Hallowed be thy Name - Iron Maiden (The Number of the Beast)
3. Whole Lotta Rosie - AC/DC (Let there be Rock)
4. Don't Wake the Lion - Magnum (Wings of Heaven)
5. Brothers In Arms - Dire straits (Brothers In Arms)
6. When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin (IV)
7. You can't always Get what You Want - The Rolling Stones (Let It bleed)
8. Shooting Stars - Rival Sons (Feral Roots)
9. The Garden - Rush (Clockwork Angels)
10. Into the Void - Black Sabbath (Master of Reality)
HMs
Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Iron Maiden (Powersalve)
Knights of Cydonia - Muse (Black Holes and Revelations)
Spiral Architecht - Black Sabbath (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath)
High Hopes - Pink Floyd (The Division Bell)
Eyes of a Stranger - Queensryche (Operation Mindcrime)
We wish you well - Whitesnake (Lovehunter)
Wonderful choices - thank you for sharing - Phil
Blue Oyster Cult 'Astronomy' from Secret Treaties and Y&T 'Winds Of Change' from Black Tiger and Ozzy Osbourne 'Waiting For Darkness' from Bark At The Moon to name a few . 😉
What a great video! Love all your picks!
Awesome video. Two of my favorite channels. Hope to see more Sabbath content..funny when Phil pulls out The Doors lp😅
These two gents together is magic so much knowledge. Great having Pete on your own channel Phil! It makes me so happy that Phil mentioned I Believe In You one of my personal favorite songs, just an epic track and the best Y&T song (in my opinion). One for me would be Highway Song by Blackfoot. One of my fav bands (fav southern rock band) just love that song!
Thank you - Phil
Here are a couple which came to my mind:
Judas Priest - One Shot at Glory
Majestic, full throttle impact, one of Rob's best vocal performances
Roy Orbison - Careless Heart /You may feel me crying
This is a tricky one because the other one is basically a bonus song but it still serves not only as an album closer but as a career closer because he sadly died shorty before the album was released. What a voice.
Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
What a great composition! One of the best sax solos. As much as I love the direction he went I'll always cherish Wild Innocent E Street and Born to run for their lavish and complex arrangements.
The Cure - Faith
Although everything goes bananas for the successor, I always preffered this album to it and especially the title track which finishes it.
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Although I prefer their work up to this point, there is no denying that there are some gems on this album and the title track especially is a timeless classic.
Depeche Mode - Higher Love
Although DM has many strong suits album closers are not one of them in my humble opinion. Blasphemous rumours might get close but it feels more like a hitsong at the end, whereas Higher Love from Songs of Faith and Devotion (my favourite DM album) has a hymnic, final quality to it.
Elton John - Madman across the water (Original version) One of my favourite songs by him, probably shared by quite a few. 9 minutes, epic and poignant, ripping solo by Mick Ronson.
I love Lonely is the Word the last track on Heaven and Hell. It's a perfect ending to the album.
An interesting topic, so many to choose from...here's a bunch that came to my mind :
"in a glass house" and "i lost my head" Gentle Giant, "heart of the sunrise" and "awaken"-Yes, "lunar sea"-Camel, "Vital signs" -Rush, "all things will pass"-Opeth, "into the void" "under the sun" ,"spiral architect"- Black Sabbath......and the list goes on...good choices BTW.
A couple of personal favourites are As Sure As Eggs Is Eggs, the closing segment of Suppers Ready by Genesis from Foxtrot and Paradise/The Spell, the closing track from Heep's Demons And Wizards platter.
As for The Babys I suggest the closing track on their debut "Dying Man" it's an epic for sure. Great list anyway guys! Also I'l add Animal Magnetism by Scorpions...awesome track.
My favourite epic album closer? 'A Louse Is Not A Home' by Peter Hammill from his 1974 album 'The Silent Corner and The Empty Stage'. By guitar based hard rock standards Hammill and Van Der Graaf Generator probably get filed under 'left field theatrical also rans', for being keyboard and sax led where they are well received at all. But the intensity of the lyric and ear worm nature of the music on 'A Louse Is Not A Home', a song about divided identity, is so much more than merely 'memorable'.
A great one!!
Cool show guys! Won't Get Fooled Again is another great closer by The Who! Hard Lovin' Man on DP In Rock - heavy, fast, powerful, simply unbelievable for 1970. I expected a DP track. Great pick!
Hay You by Thin Lizzy from Chinatown would make my list too.
Thank you !
There are great picks on here and the comments. Queen knew how to list tracks: In The Lap of The Gods, Teo Torriate, Princes of The Universe and Was It All Worth It?
Love To Love is the first song I thought of for this excersise. I knew it would be on Pete's list but, I didn't see it coming from you Phil, nice choice! Shine On You Crazy Diamond VI - IX is another epic album closer that you have to hear before you die. Anyone who hasn't been through Wish You Were Here from beginning to end has to find time for that before it's too late. Absolute perfection from David Gilmour and company. My #1 is an epic Tour De Force from the late great Randy Rhoads, Diary of a Madman. Yeah Bob Daisley, Lee Kerslake, and Ozzy Osbourne helped make that song great as well but, Randy outdid himself the performance of a lifetime to end that masterpiece.
Always loved " A light in the black" with the speed and power and especially when it came out in 1976 i always thought it was proto thrash metal just year's earlier. I remember in Geoff Barton's review at the time in sounds music paper he called this thermo nuclear rock n roll. A very apt description i think.
I really enjoyed this video thank you 👍
Great video guys great picks --- Anthony
Thank you
Great show, as always.
Thank you 🙏
@@NowSpinningMagazine You're very welcome.
As always an absolute joy to see the 2 of you doing a show together, you're a really great double act. There are 2 or 3 songs that you didn't mention, an obvious one being Supper's Ready, Pete mentioned Genesis but not that track. The one I was most surprised you didn't include was Day in the Life from Sergeant Peppers, if I had to choose a favourite closer that might be it. Finally a bit of a cheat, I want to include Bohemian Rhapsody, I know strictly speaking it isn't the closer on night at the Opera, but I always forget about the National Anthem 7 it doesn't really count for me. Certainly I was surprised you didn't include any Queen. Cheers guys I look forward to the next show
Thank you - Phil :)
Here are ten that I love. It's not a complete list of course and not in any order:
Need Your Love - Cheap Trick - Dream Police
Over and Over - Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Astronomy - Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties
Octavarium - Dream Theater - Octavarium
Los Endos - Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
Halloween - Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1
Magnum Opus - Kansas - Leftover
Tea For One - Led Zeppelin - Presence
Echoes - Pink Floyd - Meddle
The Show Must Go On - Queen - Innuendo
Wonderful choices - Octavarium is a brilliant track
@@NowSpinningMagazine thank you sir.
1-freebird..2-disedent aggressor..3-rockett queen..4-whole lotta rosie..5-iron maiden..6-back door love affair..7-hook in mouth..8-bomber..9-gold dust woman..10-greengrass and high tides
A couple of mine are Tull-Benefit-Sossity;Your a Woman.Uriah Heep-Look At Yourself-Love Machine and another Heep-Sweet Freedom-Pilgrim
Phil that shirt you're wearing has an excellent closer in You Keep On Moving! But mostly I agree with Purple were about the openers
Can't wait for part 2!
The Doors - The End - for a 10 year old, heating this late at night when this was released, yow,
Great show as always guys! Tea For One by Zep would be high on my list
Fantastic video, thanks to both you guys. My choice would be For No One by Barclay James Harvest from Everyone is Everybody Else
No question The Who 'Won't Get Fooled Again' on 'Who's Next' has got to be #1 of all time.
Hi, all your chosen songs are brilliant, but I would like to mention one song from this millenium too. It's OPETH - Deliverance (LIVE AT RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE)...the last 5 to 6 minutes are outstanding! Cheers from Switzerland
I am going to play that now!
If we get to include live albums, then DEEP PURPLE Made In Japan - Space Trucking has got to be it. Great performance of the base song itself, and mind-blowing improvisations from stellar players who are clearly listening to and supporting each other’s wild performances.
This is a wonderful video! Yes Thin Lizzy Emerald! And Black Rose! And the Stranglers Down in the sewer! But Rainbow Zeppelin fantastic! 👍
Ace Frehley - Fractured Mirror
Kansas - Death of Mother Nature Suite
Alan Parsons Project - Old and Wise
Alice Cooper - Inmates
Def Leppard - Overture
Dio - Egypt
Rainbow - Eyes of Fire
Jethro Tull - Elegy
Motorhead - Orgasmatron
Judas Priest - Lochness
Kerry Livgren - Ground Zero
Kiss - Black Diamond
Manowar - March for Revenge
Toto - Africa
Excellent can we have some more of the same please Phil and Pete, I’d like to mention Magnum Opus from the Leftoverture album from Kansas an absolute epic of an album closer agree with every track you’ve mentioned all classic album tracks and well worthy of a mention 👏.
Thank you - Phil
Great choices, nice to se Emerald get a mention, it's one of mine too, along with...
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced? (Are You Experienced?)
David Bowie - Rock n' Roll Suicide (Ziggy Stardust)
Queen - In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited (Sheer Heart Attack)
Thin Lizzy - Emerald (Jailbreak)
The Stranglers - Down In The Sewer (Rattus Norvegicus)
Japan - The Other Side Of Life (Quiet Life)
The Waterboys - This Is The Sea (This Is The Sea)
The Cure - Untitled (Disintegration)
Porcupine Tree - Sleep Together (Fear Of A Blank Planet)
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes (Insurgentes)
Jimi's Voodoo Child (Slight Return) closing Electric Ladyland
Rush's Xanadu or La Villa Strangiato closing AFtK and Hemispheres
The Stone's You Can't Always Get What You Want closing Let It Bleed
Iron Maiden's Hell On Earth clsing Senjitsu or Hallowed Be Thy Name - The Number Of The Beast
The Who's Won't Get Fooled Again closing Who's Next
The End is mentioned ..... Riders On The Storm from L.A. Woman, also good
There are SO many amazing closers.... it is a lost artform.
Whisper a Prayer for The Dying on Coverdale / Page is beyond epic and underrated.
"Free Bird" may be overplayed to death, but I still get chills from Allen Collins' epic guitar solo at the end! Rest in peace, Mr. Collins!
Great topic from a, potentially, lost art ...
Love to Love jumped to mind straight off so it was easy to see it would appear of Pete and Phil's lists ... so many to choose from ... here's a few to consider ...
Throw Down the Sword ... Argus, Wishbone Ash
The Last Resort ... Hotel California, Eagles
Get Where I Belong .... Free Live, Free (awesome gentle studio relief at the end of a great live album)
Moonwater .... Baby James Harvest, BJH
The Poet - After the Day ... And Other Short Stories, BJH
For No One ... Everyone Is Everybody Else, BJH
Los Endos ... Trick of the Tail, Genesis
Afterglow ... Wind & Wuthering, Genesis
Astronomy ... Secret Treaties, BOC
Gold Dust Woman ... Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman ... Tapestry, Carole King
Jungleland ... Born to Run, Springsteen
etc etc
CMcG, Aberdeen, Scotland
The Last Thing On My Mind by the Move.From the album Shazam.My favourite closing song from my favourite album!
Rainbow - Eyes of 🔥
We're struggling a bit lately as injuries have killed us, but as always UTFV!
Thank you Phil for having "Hard Lovin' Man in your list. The best song on the best album side ever
There are some great music appreciation channels on You Tube and these are two of my favourites. I always thought that Black Sabbath were painstakingly careful with all of their closers.
Thank you 🙏
Just what I was thinking too- Warning, Fairies Wear Boots, Into The Void, Under The Sun & Dirty Women in particular. All stunning closers.
First songs that came to my mind was Black Rose with Thin Lizzy and Egypt with Dio.
Supertramp, Crime of the Century; Styx Claire de Lune/Ballerina; Genesis Los Endos (100% agree with Phil); Steve Hackett, Shadow of the Hierophant; Camel, Ice; Peter Gabriel, Here Comes The Flood; Joni Mitchell, The Silky Veils of Ardour; Jefferson Airplane, Volunteers; Renaissance, Ashes are Burning; Jackson Browne, The Pretender, Before The Deluge, Stay. Vangelis, Albedo 0.39; Tangerine Dream, Ricochet Part Two; Rush Cygnus X-1; Yes, Awaken; Marillion, This Strange Engine.
Of course, it doesn't go without a piece that takes up the entire B side: Pink Floyd - Echoes
I came close to choosing Echoes, such a stunning piece of music.
A really great show, chaps! Four more 💯 epics from me:
Thin Lizzy - “Black Rose”
Status Quo - “Forty Five Hundred Times “
Status Quo - “Mystery Song”
Michael Schenker Group - “Lost Horizons”
Ozzy Osbournes Diary of a Madman is the first that comes to my mind. What away to leave the stage Randy Rhoads.
The second is Black Horseman by King Diamond fantastic.
Number 3. Dallas 1pm by Saxon
Highway Song Blackfoot, 4500 times Status Quo, Mystery Song Status Quo, Don't Wake the Lion Magnum, For Crying Out Loud Meatloaf, Call Me the Breeze Lynyrd Skynyrd. So many to choose from!
hard to look past King Crimson title track from glorious 1st album.......
but magnificent title track from Islands & of course the ultimate Starless closer from Red !
we rockers are truly spoilt for choice when it comes to album finales !
Raining Blood (Slayer), Once around the World (It Bites), Purple Rain (Prince), Fractured Mirror (Ace Frehley), The Garden (Rush),...
Cheers.
Mercyful Fate - Melissa - Melissa
Pink Floyd - WYWH - WYWH Part 2
Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways - TSMS Part 2
Pineapple Thief - Tightly Unwound - Too Much To Lose
Pete and Phil! I watch both of your channels! Could you also get together with Brendon Snyder?
Great picks guys, but seriously:
Diary of a Madman by Ozzy!!!
Staying with the mad:
Roads to madness- Queensryche
Touch the wind - Teaze absolutely gorgeous!!!
You keep on moving - Deep Purple of my fav Purple album
To tame a land by Maiden. Brilliant
Rock n roll machine- Triumph
On fire - Van Halen
Forty five hundred times - Status Quo
April Wine: 21st century schizoid man (closing majestically with a cover)
Dream Theater : the count of Tuscany
Come on Pete, no Kansas???
Magnus Opus from Leftoverture
And so happy Y&T got picked: easily my nr 1 closer of all time.
And yeah, Dirty Women is Tony Iommi at his best!!!!
Brilliant choices, thank you for sharing - Phil :)
@@NowSpinningMagazine From one Phil to another Phil, tuned to perfection.
So let’s add a 3rd Phil: Roisin bubh/Black Rose by Thin Lizzy!
Love your passion❤🎼
Thank you very much - Phil