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re: What Is The Most Emotionally Devastating Album Closer?

Posted on 9/22/26 at 6:25 pm to
Posted by High C
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Posted by TFTC
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Posted on 9/22/26 at 7:59 pm to
quote:

High C


That's funny, because I was thinking it was this one...

Posted by rebelrouser
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Posted on 9/22/26 at 8:26 pm to
Posted by Radio One
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Posted on 9/22/26 at 8:29 pm to
The Rolling Stone Record Guide (blue cover, second edition, from ‘82 or ‘83) called “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and “Gimme Shelter” “as terminal as the 60’s got.”
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Posted on 9/22/26 at 11:12 pm to
Posted by titmouse
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Posted on 9/23/26 at 6:27 am to
Posted by awestruck
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Posted on 9/23/26 at 9:27 am to
once again...
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What Is The Most
....can only be truthfully answered once and you've got at least two
Posted by Lsut81
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Posted on 9/23/26 at 9:49 am to
Don’t see how it could be anything other than “Keep Me In Your Heart” from Warren Zevon’s “The Wind” album…

Made the album on his death bed and it was released 2 weeks before he died. Doesn’t get more emotionally devastating than that with the final sone being about him asking not to be forgotten.
Posted by TheTideMustRoll
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Posted on 9/23/26 at 10:15 am to
This entire album is about the helplessness and isolation of heroin addiction. The lyrics of the songs as the album progresses show the writer making an attempt to get clean. The album closer is about relapse, starting the entire closed loop of addiction over again.

Posted by Sus-Scrofa
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Posted on 9/23/26 at 10:42 am to
Whiskey Myers - Reckoning

Dude’s wife dies. He can’t handle it, can’t drink or drug it away, so he offs himself at her gravesite.
Posted by High C
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Posted on 9/23/26 at 11:10 am to
quote:

That's funny, because I was thinking it was this one...


Yes, “Miss Misery” is a technicality. It was only included as the closing track on XO after the fact on the deluxe edition. I decided to include it because I felt that a technicality could be overlooked in an effort to provide STigers with more emotional devastation.
Posted by Snipe
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Posted on 9/23/26 at 11:40 am to
IMO Pearl Jam were masters at finishing off their albums on a sad note.

A few of my favorites.

All or None - Riot Act.

Indifference - Vs.

My personal fav.
Posted by Funky Tide 8
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Posted on 9/23/26 at 12:19 pm to
Posted by Tigris
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Posted on 9/23/26 at 4:49 pm to
quote:

“Keep Me In Your Heart” from Warren Zevon


I'll go with this.

Another for the conversation:

Posted by STigers
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Posted on 9/23/26 at 5:04 pm to
quote:

MO Pearl Jam were masters at finishing off their albums on a sad note.
Another great one from Ten
Posted by STigers
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Posted on 9/23/26 at 5:05 pm to
And this one from Yield
Posted by Cdawg
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Posted by TigersMaul Bammers
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Posted on 9/23/26 at 11:35 pm to
Posted by Degas
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Posted on 9/24/26 at 5:59 am to
Especially since Mimi has left us.
Posted by TFTC
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Posted on 9/24/26 at 6:07 am to
quote:

Yes, “Miss Misery” is a technicality. It was only included as the closing track on XO after the fact on the deluxe edition. I decided to include it because I felt that a technicality could be overlooked in an effort to provide STigers with more emotional devastation.


I just got finished with that new biography on him, Nobody Broke Your Heart..

So of course I have been listening to all of his records again and 90% of his songs are emotionally devastating...
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