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Song endings...

Post by bobinho » Sat Sep 05, 2020 1:19 pm

Normally we discuss the best opening bars/lines/intro's from songs, but whilst in the shower this morning, i listened to some music and it struck me whilst listening to two songs in particular, just how good the endings were.
Namely The Smiths - what difference does it make?. Marrs guitar at the end could go on forever for me. I know it's repetetive and not a `guitar solo` in the strictest sense, but it's absolutely addictive. Followed by the drum solo at the end of The Jams - Funeral Pyre....great but not long enough.

This got me thinking.... are there anymore songs with great endings that i love?

I'll add The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel, and leave it at that for now.

Anyone have any to add?

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Post by Devils_Advocate » Sat Sep 05, 2020 1:26 pm

Where Angels Play - Squires final guitar part sounds like it could go on forever

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Post by Steve1956 » Sat Sep 05, 2020 1:36 pm

When any song by Coldplay ends that is always a relief to me!πŸ˜‰
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Post by Bosscat » Sat Sep 05, 2020 1:38 pm

Steve1956 wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 05, 2020 1:36 pm
When any song by Coldplay ends that is always a relief to me!πŸ˜‰
πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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Post by Chobulous » Sat Sep 05, 2020 2:03 pm

A Day In The Life - The Beatles
I Was Only Joking - Rod Stewart

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Post by SouthEastClaret » Sat Sep 05, 2020 2:41 pm

Layla - Derek and the Domino's
Mr Blue Sky - ELO
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Post by claptrappers_union » Sat Sep 05, 2020 3:44 pm

I'm going to go with the opposite reference.

She Hates Me by Puddle of Mudd, I know its a song that has rightfully been left in the rotting waste bin of the early 2000s... but I remember listening to this song on the radio (it heavily overplayed at the time) and it always used to bother me that it had no big ending.

It's just flat... it needs like a stadium drum and the electric guitar solo crescendoing into the lead screaming 'SHE HATES MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!' Dummer solo.... (beat) Bam!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYE4CVhVkhw

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Post by Stalbansclaret » Sat Sep 05, 2020 3:47 pm

Always enjoy the "Get pis sed, destroy-ah" at the end of Anarchy in the UK
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Post by groove » Sat Sep 05, 2020 3:51 pm

bobinho wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 05, 2020 1:19 pm
Normally we discuss the best opening bars/lines/intro's from songs, but whilst in the shower this morning, i listened to some music and it struck me whilst listening to two songs in particular, just how good the endings were.
Namely The Smiths - what difference does it make?. Marrs guitar at the end could go on forever for me. I know it's repetetive and not a `guitar solo` in the strictest sense, but it's absolutely addictive. Followed by the drum solo at the end of The Jams - Funeral Pyre....great but not long enough.

This got me thinking.... are there anymore songs with great endings that i love?

I'll add The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel, and leave it at that for now.

Anyone have any to add?
Few more Smiths songs with superb outros
Pretty girls make graves
Well I wonder
London (peel session)

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Post by Rowls » Sat Sep 05, 2020 4:00 pm

Hey Jude

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Post by Ptangyangkipperbang » Sat Sep 05, 2020 4:00 pm

You caught me at a bar time so why don't you **** off
Your Silent Face by New Order
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Post by basil6345789 » Sat Sep 05, 2020 5:11 pm

Isleys - Behind A Painted Smile, ends with a drum thump, ideal for the dj to segue it into Tell Me It's Just A Rumour
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Post by icu81b4 » Sat Sep 05, 2020 5:42 pm

Rowls wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 05, 2020 4:00 pm
Hey Jude
That's a joke, right?

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Post by Vintage Claret » Sat Sep 05, 2020 5:56 pm

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

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Post by tiger76 » Sat Sep 05, 2020 10:06 pm

One Vision - Queen

Just gimme gimme, gimme, gimme.
Fried chicken.
Vision.

Cracks me up every time, even though you know it's coming.

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Post by claret2018 » Sat Sep 05, 2020 10:20 pm

Song for the dead by QOTSA. love the several false endings
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Post by THEWELLERNUT70 » Sat Sep 05, 2020 10:59 pm

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Bowie - Moonage Daydream
Weller - Whirlpools End
The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps

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Post by ElectroClaret » Sat Sep 05, 2020 11:07 pm

Suffragette City.
David.
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Post by timshorts » Sat Sep 05, 2020 11:14 pm

It used to **** me off when djs cut of the end of "once in a lifetime" by the talking heads.
"sanctuary" by New music cut off abruptly on the single version but not on the album. The single version was better.
There are several great tracks that get progressively frantic up to a great final climax:-
Green grasses and high tides: the outlaws
Frank Martins exceptional piece that I can't remember what it's called but it's something like "concerto for 5 instruments".
Or suddenly soothing after a bit of chaos like yes's gates of delerium (the live version is so much better).
Or with a guitar masterpiece: perfect water by boc.
"the dead man's dream" and "feel" both by the Church.

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Post by Dyched » Sat Sep 05, 2020 11:16 pm

Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance

Arctic Monkeys - The Jewellers Hands. The whole song is so underrated (Not by Monkeys fans). It’s taken from the album Humbug and closes out the album. One of the most remarkable albums I’ve ever heard. In my top 3 of all time with Blonde on Blonde and Is This It. Anyone who likes their bands, should give it a few goes. It’s nothing like you’d expect from them.
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Post by GodIsADeeJay81 » Sat Sep 05, 2020 11:17 pm

https://youtu.be/Sb3XfrCtjVU

Always liked the end of this one.

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Post by Swizzlestick » Sat Sep 05, 2020 11:17 pm

The Boy With the Thorn In His Side is yet another great Smiths outro. Marr’s guitar from another planet.

Also Freak Like Me when the β€˜Are Friends Electric’ synth kicks back in, the slow down at the end of β€˜Belfast’ by Orbital and the kitchen sink treatment in the Purple Rain outro.

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Post by Mondsley » Sun Sep 06, 2020 8:43 am

Lucky Man. Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

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Post by CharlieinNewMexico » Sun Sep 06, 2020 9:34 am

Just like claptrappers I’m going the other way.

I can’t stand the ending of Sugar Hiccup by the Cocteau Twins. It’s a fade out! That melody could go on for about 10 minutes and make it an absolute transcendental classic ,or stop abruptly with aplomb. Instead, the producer (presumably Watts?) fades it out! Charlatan.
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Post by Rowls » Sun Sep 06, 2020 10:17 am

icu81b4 wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 05, 2020 5:42 pm
That's a joke, right?
It's by a band called The Beatles.

They're quite popular and Hey Jude is considered one of their "top songs". It was number one in the hit parade in 1968.

This YouTube video currently has 220 million views so make of that what you will.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_MjCqQ ... eatlesVEVO

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Post by karatekid » Sun Sep 06, 2020 11:23 am

Prince ~ lets go crazy

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Post by redcloud203 » Sun Sep 06, 2020 11:41 am

https://youtu.be/UDfAdHBtK_Q

one of the best song endings - ever , The rest of the song isn't bad either !

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Post by Steve1956 » Sun Sep 06, 2020 12:12 pm

The Smiths certainly know how to end a song...I'll go There is light that never goes out.

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Post by Darthlaw » Sun Sep 06, 2020 12:13 pm

Does Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd count?

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Post by BFCmaj » Sun Sep 06, 2020 12:21 pm

The Grudge by Tool
Danny Carey's drumming on this is amazing.
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Post by Volvoclaret » Sun Sep 06, 2020 12:32 pm

Darthlaw wrote: ↑
Sun Sep 06, 2020 12:13 pm
Does Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd count?
Must count.

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Post by Volvoclaret » Sun Sep 06, 2020 12:33 pm

icu81b4 wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 05, 2020 5:42 pm
That's a joke, right?
Nah, nah, nahnana nah.

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Post by bfcjg » Sun Sep 06, 2020 3:04 pm

The laughing policeman.

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Post by jdrobbo » Sun Sep 06, 2020 3:23 pm

Tunnel of Love (Dire Straits)
Music (John Miles)

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Post by icu81b4 » Tue Sep 08, 2020 8:43 pm

Rowls wrote: ↑
Sun Sep 06, 2020 10:17 am
It's by a band called The Beatles.

They're quite popular and Hey Jude is considered one of their "top songs". It was number one in the hit parade in 1968.

This YouTube video currently has 220 million views so make of that what you will.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_MjCqQ ... eatlesVEVO
Ha ha, Yes that's exactly what I do, I make my own mind up, and along with many music critics at the time thought the song was 3 minutes too long. Let's be honest here no matter who writes it, if the best lyric you can come up with is na-na-na-na it generally shows that you haven't finished writing it yet.

The song itself is a gem, but the ending is pants ..... Anyway Wilson Pickett's version is better (IMHO)

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Post by Vino blanco » Tue Sep 08, 2020 9:56 pm

Icu8, Hey Jude was the biggest selling single in the Uk, USA and in fact world wide in 1968, so millions of people enjoyed the whole song. I was around in 1968 and don't recall any critics panning the ending, just the opposite in fact, it was considered novel, different and innovative.
On song endings, I always liked George Harrison's guitar chords at the end of "A Hard Days Night".
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Post by Bullabill » Tue Sep 08, 2020 10:22 pm

Codas.

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Post by Rowls » Tue Sep 08, 2020 10:27 pm

Vino blanco wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 08, 2020 9:56 pm
Icu8, Hey Jude was the biggest selling single in the Uk, USA and in fact world wide in 1968, so millions of people enjoyed the whole song. I was around in 1968 and don't recall any critics panning the ending, just the opposite in fact, it was considered novel, different and innovative.
On song endings, I always liked George Harrison's guitar chords at the end of "A Hard Days Night".
Indeed it WAS novel, different and innovative which is why (despiteit being an obvious choice) I included it here.

It was also marvellously popular and continues to be so.

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Post by icu81b4 » Tue Sep 08, 2020 10:32 pm

Vino blanco wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 08, 2020 9:56 pm
Icu8, Hey Jude was the biggest selling single in the Uk, USA and in fact world wide in 1968, so millions of people enjoyed the whole song. I was around in 1968 and don't recall any critics panning the ending, just the opposite in fact, it was considered novel, different and innovative.
On song endings, I always liked George Harrison's guitar chords at the end of "A Hard Days Night".
You didn't read the NME then?, Even the orchestra that were hired to perform on it had to be paid double to persuade them to play on it. The coda is 3 simple chords ( I, V, IV ) in typical and common musical terms that had been used thousands of times previously and thousands of times since.

So not at all innovative, the only (almost) innovative thing about the song was its length as a radio 'pop' song and was only played by the DJ's producers because it was The Beatles. (McCartney said as such himself).
So I maintain that the song is good, but the ending is too long. The less said about the 'lyrics' the better.

Anyhoo, Who am I to say what people like or should not like, I do know that if I had written it, It wouldn't have had any air time. But because it was the Fab Four it got the entire song aired.

I don't think you'll find many musicians who rate it. (The ending that is). Unless you only know a few chords :)

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Post by Vino blanco » Tue Sep 08, 2020 11:04 pm

In the NME readers poll Hey Jude was voted the best single of the year and it also won an Ivor Novello award. It was inducted into the National Academy of Recording Arts and Science Hall of fame in 2001. In 2004, "Rolling Stone" placed Hey Jude at number 8 in the "500 Greatest Songs of all Time"

Chart success in 1968:

Australia. no 1
Austria. No 1
Belgium. No 1
Canada. No 1
France. No 2
Germany. No 1
Ireland. No 1
Japan. No 1 on foreign song charts
Netherlands. No 1
New Zealand. No 1
Norway No. 1
Spain. No 1
Switzerland No 1
UK. No 1
USA. No 1
Yugoslavia. No 1

Not bad for three chords!

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Post by icu81b4 » Tue Sep 08, 2020 11:41 pm

As I keep saying, good song, just a rubbish ending.

A lot of people like Trump. Go figure.

You'll be telling me you like the ending to The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel next. :)
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Post by Devils_Advocate » Tue Sep 08, 2020 11:43 pm

Wouldnt get anywhere near my list of top 50 Beatles songs and definitely one for the Alan Partidges of this world

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