Hollowgen

can you add "undecided" to the poll?

seriously, i don't think i can generally say one over the other. when i think about it, i'd say it depends.

some of my favorite closing tracks (in cahoots with many here already)

beatles - a day in the life
bruce - my hometown
clap your hands - upon this tidal wave...
clash - train in vain
led zeppelin - when the levee breaks
led zeppelin - the ocean
bowie - rock n roll suicide
fleetwood mac - gold dust woman
gnr - rocket queen
fogerty - vanz kant danz (haha!!)
manson - man that you fear
arcade fire - my body is a cage
my morning jacket - strangulation!
nirvana - all apologies
sleater-kinney - night light

Norm de Plume

Can't believe no one has mentioned Tom Petty's "American Girl", from his self-titled debut. A masterpiece to caboose an otherwise shitty album.
A few others:
-"Saturday Night" (Hats) by Blue Nile
-"Strange Waters" (Charity of Night), "Tie Me at the Crossroads" (A Dart to the Heart), "Down Here Tonight" (World of Wonders), and "Messenger Wind" (You've Never Seen Everything) by Bruce Cockburn
-"Blind Faith" (Fields of Fire) by Corey Hart
-"The Red Plains" (The Way it Is) by Bruce Hornsby
-"Child for a Day" (Izitso) by Cat Stevens

deadlax

wow, no mention of love, reign o'er me (quadrophenia) or i shall be released (the band)

Rypro 525

Wow, i'm the first to mention "Raining Blood" by Slayer (starts humming opening riff)
a couple more
"Hate Crew Deathroll" Children of Bodom
"Empire" Chimaria
"Revenge I Seek" Bleeding Through
"The Last Relapse" All Shall Perish
"Lip Gloss and Black" Atreyu
"White Walls" Between the Buried and Me

Jack Straw

"Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" - Band On The Run w/the segueway back into the title cut and fadeout. An under-appreciated tune that never got airplay for some reason.

rw2516

Great pick! For the first few weeks after the album's release a local FM station played it quite a bit and then it dropped off the face of the earth. My favorite McCartney solo song. Brought up in the solo Beatles thread also. The Wingspan documentary has rough footage of the band playing it live at some college.
Reminds me of another great closing track that got FM play when the album was new and then disappeared, "The Window" off Fly Like An Eagle-Steve Miller.