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Title: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: LaurieBiagini on February 28, 2006, 09:47:55 AM
"Song of Joy" - Captain and Tennille... crank the volume for this one... reminds me of the power of the THX ad


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: Jason on February 28, 2006, 11:07:42 AM
Thoughts Of You, when the strings come in. That's positively awesome.


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: CosmicDancer on February 28, 2006, 11:39:55 AM
I have always loved the "never ending chord" at the end of "A Day In The Life" by The Beatles.  And of course the hillarious spoof of it in the Rutles movie.  I can't recall the name of the Rutles song though!  Was it on "Cheese and Onions"?


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: Lester Byrd on February 28, 2006, 12:07:14 PM
"White Shadow" on Peter Gabriel II, end of side 1. There's a sustained note at the end of the song that on vinyl actually goes into the runoff groove, so it is literally neverending (unless your tonearm picks up automatically).


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: jdavolt on February 28, 2006, 12:13:42 PM
I've been told that UK promo copies for Sweet's "Lies In Your Eyes" do the same...holding out the last note indefinitely. I guess they considered doing it on the actual release but decided against it, or something to that effect.


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: Jonas on February 28, 2006, 12:23:02 PM
Thoughts Of You, when the strings come in. That's positively awesome.

Denny's Thoughts Of You? The part youre talkin about is freakin BRILLIANT. I can listen to that one section over and over and over and over...


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: Jason on February 28, 2006, 12:23:56 PM
Yes, I'm referring to the Dennis track. Man I hope the POB reissue will have the backing tracks to all the songs.


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: I. Spaceman on February 28, 2006, 12:39:35 PM
"EMI" by the Sex Pistols.

"I Heard Her Call My Name" by the Velvet Underground.


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: Jason on February 28, 2006, 12:40:05 PM
"I Heard Her Call My Name" by the Velvet Underground.

That also has a wicked beginning.


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: donald on February 28, 2006, 12:50:03 PM
Ending of I Want to Hold Your Hand. 


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: Mitchell on February 28, 2006, 02:10:15 PM
Holiday by weezer
Prophet's Song by Queen


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: halleluwah on February 28, 2006, 04:16:28 PM
Radiohead's "The Tourist," where it builds up to this great, emotional climax, then everything gets stripped away, before the song (and album) abruptly ends with the sound of a tiny bell.

I also really love the end of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)," where the Moog noise just gets louder and louder until the song suddenly gets the plug pulled on it altogether.  I'm a sucker for sudden surprise endings like that.


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: scooter on February 28, 2006, 04:22:15 PM
you take my breath away-Queen...surf's up-the BBs...when you dance-neil young...that'll do


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: CosmicDancer on February 28, 2006, 04:28:45 PM
"EMI" by the Sex Pistols.

Good call!  The best use of a fart on an album by far!!!


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: punkinhead on February 28, 2006, 05:07:36 PM
i enjoy the ending to bluebirds over the mountains..everyone always says brian did that...but i didnt think he had anything to do with that.


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: b.dfzo on February 28, 2006, 06:27:42 PM
"Baba O'Riley".


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: Ron on March 01, 2006, 06:09:57 AM
I got one.  Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge - "The Worst That Could Happen" when the song dies and the horns come in and restart it. 

I usually don't like the songs that end with a big high note, but Elvis' "American Trilogy" is an exception, he takes this well written medley, ending with the battle hymn of the republic, and just raises it up to an impossibly high level at the end.  Makes the song sound as big as it should. 


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: 1-1-wonderful on March 01, 2006, 07:16:04 AM
Won't Get Fooled Again

the tension created by the synth, resolved by Daltrey's scream is like no other moment in R&R


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: Bean Bag on March 01, 2006, 07:34:36 AM
Good point, I almost can't listen to that song (WGFA) anymore because I'm afraid that my heart will explode!


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: DavidLeeRoth on March 01, 2006, 12:16:43 PM
"Only in Dreams" by Weezer


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: coldlimepizza on March 05, 2006, 04:43:04 PM
Nothing better for a song ending than the birds chirping sounds at the end of Layla.
Dont know why its like that, but its really part of the song.


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: Big Bri on March 06, 2006, 10:15:08 AM
The ending of:
"Do You Feel Like We Do" Frampton Comes Alive
"Free Bird" Skynyrd from the live album 1976
"Black Diamond" from Kiss-Alive!
Brian


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: matt 1234 on March 10, 2006, 09:23:36 AM
I can't believe nobody put up         "Atlantis"    by Donovan
"Hey Jude" Beatles    They actually sorta sound the same if u listen to them, not the notes, just the whole ending part.  Its not hard to believe that Donovan and Paul hung out.


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: Lorenschwartz on March 13, 2006, 12:17:34 AM
Invaders of the heart by Cheap Trick. :3d


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: mike thornton on March 13, 2006, 07:06:14 PM
i'd say "friends of mine" by the zombies has a dern pretty kewl ending. :afro


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: b.dfzo on March 13, 2006, 08:16:29 PM
It's Now or Never!


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: Superlux on March 16, 2006, 04:59:32 PM
'Clock Strikes Ten' by Cheap Trick


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: Chris Brown on March 16, 2006, 10:52:58 PM
Til' I Die


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: SurferGirl7 on March 17, 2006, 12:21:53 PM
Anamorphose by Stereolab




I dig the horns  :3d


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: Big Bri on March 29, 2006, 10:07:18 AM
The ending of "The Musical Box" by Genesis

"Why don't you touch me
  Now,Now,Now,Now,Now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bri


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: jazzfascist on March 29, 2006, 12:55:37 PM
"Leaving This Town" by Beach Boys, wonder who came up with that?

Søren


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: cta on March 29, 2006, 07:45:11 PM
Yes - Wurm...last section of Starship Trooper. 

Great ending for a live show.


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: Jonas on March 30, 2006, 06:23:22 AM
Funky Pretty - The Beach Boys

I cant get over the last 2 minutes...


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: Daniel S. on April 05, 2006, 06:32:31 PM
"Leaving This Town" by Beach Boys, wonder who came up with that?

Søren


The ending to "Leaving This Town" is probably one of my favorite moments in the Beach Boy catalog. A perfect example of how powerful Mike Love's voice could be.


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: Big Bri on April 25, 2006, 04:12:20 AM
"Back In The Saddle"  Aerosmith
Just heard it this morning on WYSP and realized what a killer ending it has!


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: b.dfzo on April 25, 2006, 05:20:40 AM
"Love Reign O'er Me" - The Who.


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: SloopJohnB on April 25, 2006, 05:46:40 AM
Have you ever noticed that 90% of the Beach Boys songs end with a simple fadeout?  :(

(Actually, I'm saying "90" because there must some be exceptions... But I can't see any  ??? )

And for the great endings, I suggest "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen. "Any way the wind blows..."


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: asswax on April 26, 2006, 11:18:15 AM
"lonesome tears" from beck's sea change (best album of 2002, btw)   :hat


"I Heard Her Call My Name" by the Velvet Underground.

That also has a wicked beginning.


That also has a wicked middle.


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: mikee on May 04, 2006, 01:01:04 AM
Without  doubt:  "Til The End Of The Day" by the Kinks


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: Chance on May 04, 2006, 06:38:54 AM
Hots On For Nowhere - Led Zep


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: al on May 04, 2006, 10:33:04 AM
More Who - Song Is Over and Bargain from Who's Next (again!) are both brilliant endings - Moons drumming on SIO (well, both actually) is wonderful.


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: Big Bri on May 11, 2006, 10:04:15 AM
"All In A Mouses Night"  Genesis - from Wind and Wuthering.


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: Reverend Joshua Sloane on May 11, 2006, 05:49:27 PM
Radiohead's "The Tourist," where it builds up to this great, emotional climax, then everything gets stripped away, before the song (and album) abruptly ends with the sound of a tiny bell.


That's my favorite ending. Throughout the whole of OK Computer you're in a trance, lost betweenst the music that's playing. Speechless and motionless you sit through its entirety, the swooning ballad from Johnny Greenwood is the last beautiful moment heard. It's a song about a car crash, or the stupidity leading to one, when --- DING! ---the chime of a bell. Was that the accident? Airbag starts up again, (Granted you are on the repeat setting) and you're once again saved.


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: RangeRoverA1 on March 01, 2014, 05:10:09 AM
Off the memory card:

1. "Strange World" (the whole song is great, but the ending is like totally another level)

2. "There's a Girl", Jan & Dean (never was a fan of this, however, there's sth. innocently beautiful about the tag vocs)

3. our friend Mike Leroy's version of "I'll Bet He's Nice". Just listen to that.

4. "Don't Come Around Here No More", Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (aside from Tom miming monkey voice, the ending is epic! The best bit of the song imo, love that guitar solo/background one-note drone & when the pace of the song gets faster)

5. "Seasoned Greetings" by The Residents (one of my faves by this unconventional group, it is eccentrically warm, esp. the simple "Merry Christmas" speech, right after which, however, we hear grand piano stomps. Very cool)

6. "Strawberry Fields Forever" (that cuckoo-gone mellotron)

All for now.


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: JK on March 01, 2014, 01:07:31 PM
"Seven And Seven Is"----Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCoKcAD6FJc

"Society's Child"----Janis Ian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYJ2wLon6KM

Oh, and "I'm Only Sleeping"...


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: G.C on March 01, 2014, 01:37:26 PM
Mambo!


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: bringahorseinhere? on March 01, 2014, 01:39:06 PM
all this is that
don't go near the water
surfs up

RickB


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: Summertime Blooz on March 01, 2014, 04:55:09 PM
David Bowie- Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family. It's also the best album ending ever (I think).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj12y3UFb80


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: MaxL on March 01, 2014, 05:05:48 PM
Prefab Sprout's "Mysterious" - a really haunting repetition until an abrupt end, very different from the tone established by the album 'til that point.
Neutral Milk Hotel's "Sailing Through".


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: JK on March 02, 2014, 02:16:14 PM
Steve Hillage's version of "Hurdy Gurdy Man":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKTpKG5jQIo


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: RangeRoverA1 on May 09, 2018, 01:20:22 AM
NRBQ "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive"
The Sugar Shoppe's interesting "Skip Along Sam" rendition
The Electric Prunes "It's Not Fair"
Gene Pitney "Town Without Pity"
The Cowsills "We Can Fly"


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: JK on May 09, 2018, 02:01:37 AM
Good idea to resurrect this topic, RR. One that comes immediately to my mind is "Seven And Seven Is" by the West Coast band Love:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntnkjw2mDWA


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: NOLA BB Fan on May 09, 2018, 06:34:35 AM
Strange Meadowlark - Dave Brubeck Quartet
Hello It's Me - The Nazz
Magical Mystery Tour - Beatles

And as was mentioned earlier in this thread, I LOVE the ending to Leaving This Town


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: NOLA BB Fan on May 10, 2018, 09:03:56 PM
And the endings of these songs make me want to dance around the room:

The Ocean - Led Zeppelin

Please Don't Go - Stevie Wonder



Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: JK on May 11, 2018, 02:01:28 AM
Another song with a change of metre at the end (like Love's "Seven And Seven Is") is Pink Floyd's "Matilda Mother"--a perfect pop song (another is Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVHf0OLTA6g


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: RangeRoverA1 on May 11, 2018, 04:34:08 AM
Magical Mystery Tour - Beatles
Cool you listed Paul's song. Even talking with hal about Beatles few times, he said Paul is no question the most talented in the Fab 4. Great minds think alike! :3d


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: KDS on May 11, 2018, 05:59:31 AM
The ending of the early Pink Floyd single "Paintbox" sort of reminds me of Magical Mystery Tour with Richard Wright's twinkly piano on the outro. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KygYMI9-Tms


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: JK on May 15, 2018, 01:09:32 PM
"Leaving This Town" by Beach Boys, wonder who came up with that?

Søren
Yes indeed (16 years later).

How about the massive instrumental coda to Captain Beefheart's "Kandy Korn"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwp5Cic3N3I


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: JK on May 20, 2018, 05:10:12 AM
More BB stuff:

- "Marcella" (those shakers are to die for, to say nothing of the vocal interplay)

- The last three tracks on Surf's Up--wow


Title: Re: Songs with really cool endings
Post by: SMiLE-addict on May 21, 2018, 03:12:05 PM
One of the most extended endings in pop I suspect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47BvgpRTKno