Songs where the last few seconds (or the fade out ) are the best part?

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The fade out of Beck's Loser brings in a slugde-metal guitar riff, and I'm always sad the song doesn't keep going.

― Maxwell von Bismarck (maxwell von bismarck), Thursday, 9 October 2003 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought of "Loser" as soon as I saw this title!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 9 October 2003 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Disco Inferno's 'The Last Dance' goes incredible about 5 seconds from the end. It isn't translated fully in 'The Long Dance' either...

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 9 October 2003 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i started a thread once about how much i love the fade out of im sticking with you by the velvet underground
the version from the box set,not the car ad
also,the last track on mwng by the super furry animals has an incredible fade out

― robin (robin), Thursday, 9 October 2003 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"Simply Beautiful" by Al Green where the wicked percussion kicks in.
"Poing!" by Rotterdam Termination Source, the song gets a bassline about four seconds before it fades out.

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 9 October 2003 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Simply Beautiful--sublime choice

Jerry Lee Lewis doing 'Who Will the Next Fool Be' on that Bones Howe Elektra LP. He starts going into a rap, fade out, gone.
Simply agony.

― rumple, Thursday, 9 October 2003 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Sly & the Family Stone - Stand
It's longer than a few seconds, but it's not nearly long enough. Somebody must have sampled it or done an extended mix surely. That's the bit where the dancefloor should go nuts and never want to stop
The rest of the song is great too though

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Thursday, 9 October 2003 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Sacha Funke - Now you know
where the titular vocal finally comes in....

― Eric our fearless leader (Eric our fearless leader), Thursday, 9 October 2003 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Keith McD is the most OTM that has ever been

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 9 October 2003 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

aaliyah - "one in a million"

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 9 October 2003 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

it's possible there's a live version of "Stand" where they extend the ending.

― billstevejim, Thursday, 9 October 2003 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

How 'bout the last few bars of NIN's 'Closer', where those last few bars on the piano lay waste to whatever the first nineteen-twentieths of the song built up...

― Botoxface, Thursday, 9 October 2003 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Just cos Fleetwood Mac are uppermost in my mind at the moment:

The long, long fadeout of 'Crystal' has to be one of the all time greats. It's like being in a flotation tank.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 9 October 2003 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Bye Bye Badman by the Stone Roses

― William R Henderson (Cabin Essence), Thursday, 9 October 2003 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

That Red Hot Chilli Peppers song that ends with a sudden burst of "Sweet Child o'Mine" by GnR. Hilarious.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 9 October 2003 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Van Morrison - "Madame George"
Ted Hawkins - "Share Your Love"

― Burr (Burr), Thursday, 9 October 2003 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Elvis Costello - "Beyond Belief"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 October 2003 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)

basemnet jaxx - romeo
new order - true faith

― eddddd, Thursday, 9 October 2003 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Not entirely sure if it's the best part, but:
The Small Faces - Lazy Sunday
they start up this fun-sounding semigroovy jam thing at the end, and promptly fade out the whole song.

Then again, it's a pretty neat way to end the song anyways, it'd probably have sucked if the jam went on for five minutes instead; as I can't help but imagine that the Small Faces were no good at it.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Thursday, 9 October 2003 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The ending of Roots' "I Got You", when the drummer gets wicked.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

My Bloody Valetine - Soon!

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Thursday, 9 October 2003 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Death - The Philosopher, when Hoglan and DiGiorgio get wicked

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 9 October 2003 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of the tracks on Eureka/Jim O'ROurke

― half jack, Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Killdozer - "The Rub" - Most of the song is a slow, plodding story about how "and old acquaintance of my mom and my dad" "Blew his own fucking guts out with his own fucking gun." .. And then "As Burt's bitch lie screaming, (as he fell next to the hub - lyrics?) - I said to myself .. Therein, Lies the RUB"... and the song takes off for one verse of "Java" - although "I'd rather drink from the dick of a goat/ I tell you motherfuckers that's all she wrote" I think was added in the Killdozer version and not part of the original jazz standard.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 9 October 2003 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

August...Love.
Summer breeze...The isley brothers.
Putta block...The Fall.

― Kris England., Thursday, 9 October 2003 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I know a lot of really terrible and annoying songs where the fadeout is clearly the best part. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 9 October 2003 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Oasis 'D'You Know What I Mean?'

The Firm 'Star Trekkin'

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i tend to always rewind the little "yeah yeah yeah yeah" at the end of "her innocent stock of words" by hood.

― chomisan, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw. :-) That whole song, though. Man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"Layla" by D & the Dominos.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The last five seconds of 'Making Plans For Nigel' by XTC are the best because of the twangy guitar ad-libbing. I reckon.

― Ferg (Ferg), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Since I Left You by Avalanches where they chop up the sample to make it like "since I left FUH - YOU - I found a world I Left FUH You"

― DarrensCoq, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

blur to thread - Tracy Jacks and Starshaped in particular

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, those last twenty seconds or so of "Waiting for the man" when Cale takes over!

― tod (tod), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

A Whiter Shade Of Pale. When the organ refrain comes around again, but modulates up an octave half way through, then does that splurge into the final chorus, and then the whole thing fades out in about 1/4 a second.

The rest of the song is very nearly as good as this bit too.

― harveyw (harveyw), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Scott Walker "World's Strongest Man" he's just going off one of those cheesy "do-dum-do-de-dah" but it sounds really fucking good to me.

― James Morris (HorrayJames), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Love Me, Vol. 1" - Lotion

― fred burrows, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"Losing My Religion"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Alwyas liked the coda to Nick Drake's Man In A Shed, a wee bit of acoustic guitar frippery

― mentalist (mentalist), Thursday, 6 November 2003 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I've had this thought about a lot of songs, but I can't remember a goddam one of them. This thread is driving me nuts. I'm leaving.

― Debito (Debito), Thursday, 6 November 2003 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Same here! But I just thought of the Chameleons. They have a lot especially on "Strange Times" such as, I'll Remember, and the full vs. of Tears.

― sucka (sucka), Thursday, 6 November 2003 06:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i know this is kind of weird but i've been secretly lurking on this board for several months. i think this is my 2nd post or something.

the very last bit of She Said She Said always strikes me as the best part.

― Zach Scott (feedback), Thursday, 6 November 2003 07:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Chiquitita

― man, Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm in a German frame of mind today so i would have to say the exquisite little melody played on the fadeout of "Kekse" by Harmonia

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Enon - "Conjugate The Verbs"

I got so frustrated with the short coda that I edited the mp3 in Goldwave and made the 5 last seconds loop for a minute straight but then I lost the new version when I accidentally erased all my wavs.

― DarrensCoq, Thursday, 6 November 2003 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Autechre "Flutter"

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

The Boy with the Thorn in His Side - definitely. The very peak of Johnny Marr's genius.

― Rick Spence (spencerman), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

way of life by new order

just a taste of 'love will tear us apart' to remind you that, yes indeed, these guys were in joy division.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the end of "Kiss" by Prince. The album version, without those funk guitar bits being faded out afterwards.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Outkast's "Prototype", extremely lovely all the way through, but the everything-fade-out-except-those-gorgeous-synth-pads outro = MAGNIFICENT.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Stephen 'Tintin' Duffy - "Kiss Me"

Altered Images - "Goodnight, and I Wish"
(Last song on Pinky Blue. The final chorus section goes for a fleetingly short 20 seconds or so and features this incredibly dreamy, rippling/ringing synthi effect with Claire Grogan's blissed out vocals: "Mmmmmm, naaaah, naaaah! Mmmmmm, naaaah, naaaah!"

― Stephen Stockwell (Stephen Stockwell), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Every song ever to thread.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"Who we be" when DMX loses it - 'this shit is CRAZY!!'

― scissors (Honda), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh are, Chameleons - 'The View From A Hill'.

― Ferg (Ferg), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane where the synth comes in for the last 2 seconds

― ejad (daje), Thursday, 13 November 2003 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

last few seconds of Dizzee Rascal's Do It (also last song of teh album) where he says (like he almost forgot) "and you need to talk more" or "and talk more"

― mentalist (mentalist), Thursday, 13 November 2003 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i wish there was more of that little electro squiggle at the end of "Big Pimpin'".
and of course, the long fade-out of Eugene McDaniels "Sagittarius Red," just when it starts to buuuurn.

― Beta (abeta), Thursday, 13 November 2003 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd Rather Be with you - Bootsy Collins, where he says Imma stick ma luv in your eye

Rhymes Like Dimes - MF Dooom, nuggetnuggetnugget

and My First Song where Jay-Z shouts S'yer BOI!!!

― nick.K (nick.K), Thursday, 13 November 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

and Les Ondes by Motorbass, the 808 kicks in as the track fades.. it's such a tease

― nick.K (nick.K), Thursday, 13 November 2003 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Long Neck Goose-Detroit
She Blacked the Sun~ Dillard & Clark

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The fade-out of "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts" by X, where the band (especially DJ) start going absolutely shit-hot-crazy. I used to stand by the stereo and slowly ease up the volume knob to maximize my pleasure -- on the "Beyond and Back" anthology, they don't fade the song out and it's even better than I'd imagined.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 13 November 2003 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"There's No Other Way" by Blur

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 13 November 2003 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"Carrion" from British Sea Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Dave Potts, Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, especially in the past, drool-worthy song fade-outs were common because it allowed you a small window to see a band actually cutting a bit loose for a split second, as they were just ending their take and going "ok, whatever, improvise, this is gonna be cut off the tape anyway, just run with it, fuck around". And at certain times, just enough of it was left in to show a bit of the "magic". It has a nice aesthetic quality to it, too, as far as pop singles go.

One of the sad things with the ProToolsization of popular music today is the convenient function to just edit those moments out cleanly or process them into something totally different (which isn't bad either, but just *sigh* not the same)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always liked the little slide guitar solo that gets faded out at the end of the Wallflowers' "One Headlight".

― boldbury, Friday, 14 November 2003 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

R. Kelly - Ignition Remix

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

(this is on reflection a lie, but the fadeout is great)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

The end of Wichita Lineman is amazing. Everything winds up, and the music seems to break down in a way that the vocals never do. The band starts giving it some, and the jazzy drumming kicks in, giving it all a mournful timbre. Certainly the best bit of an already incredibly sad song.

― Johnney B, Friday, 14 November 2003 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Otis Redding, "Try a Little Tenderness"

― Greg, Friday, 14 November 2003 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Cornelius - 'New Music Machine'

― Barima (Barima), Friday, 14 November 2003 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Two years ago, i would've said "Wounded Kite" by Pavement. But after hearing "Nothing Ever Happens" on the redux of Slanted & Enchanted, I take it all back.

I always liked the cello thing at the end of "Glass Onion". I could go for that some more, i suppose.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I always liked the cello thing at the end of "Glass Onion". I could go for that some more, i suppose. \

That always used to scare the shit outta me. That and the creepy coda of "Long Long Long," which used to send me scampering out of the room. I still get the heebeejeebies at the weird flute nonsense at the end of "Strawberry Fields" too.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Mclusky - Undress for Success ("waiting at the bar with their claws on my credit card!")

― Simon H., Saturday, 15 November 2003 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a few Beatles songs.
Got to get you into my life - this cool guitar comes in and starts matching the bass
Cry Baby Cry - a fragment of a Mcartney song (not actually better than the main track, but..)
I've always wanted to hear another minute of that music-hall piano at the end of Tomorrow never knows.

― Pete S, Sunday, 16 November 2003 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if it's the "best part" but it's extremely disappointing that AC/DC's "High Voltage" fades out during what sounds like a pretty blistering solo.

― hstencil, Sunday, 16 November 2003 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"everybody wants you" by billy squier, for the roger taylor, freddie mercury backup vocals!

― cristal, Sunday, 16 November 2003 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Golden Brown by the Stranglers.

― ddrake, Sunday, 16 November 2003 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I always found the eerie synth line at the fade of "Ashes to Ashes" to be sublime. Must be Brian Eno?

― rscheil, Monday, 17 November 2003 06:47 (twenty-one years ago)

The Smiths - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want This Time. The mandolin solo that kicks in right at the end as the guitars go slightly minor, and the positively INSANE amount of reverb that seems to drag the last chord on for several seconds... that never fails to send shivers down my spine.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Monday, 17 November 2003 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Another "the end is great but so is the rest" is Belle & Sebastian's The Boy With The Arab Strap

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 17 November 2003 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"This is Harcore" by Pulp. The slow death of a beautiful beast.

― daavid, Monday, 17 November 2003 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

this always bothers me, but, out of all the music i have, i think this most bothers me with a few U2 tunes... at the end of both "with or without you" and "new year's day", bono is done "emoting" and the edge picks a few very choice notes that really should go on longer...

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 07:06 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

JAGGED EDGE - The last seconds of "Freaky Thangs" (w/ Ludacris and Twista and.. ????) and "Where the Party At" (w/Nelly) are completely amazing. Do any of Jagged Edge's other songs do this getting-even-more-amazing-at-the-end trick?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 15 January 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"Low Rider" by War. Just as the song fades out, another instrument cuts in (I think maybe it's a saxophone? I don't know nothin' 'bout no music), I always wish the chorus sounded like that for the entire song. Man, I'm so glad there's an entire thread dedicated to this cause, because it needs to be discussed! Also, during the fade-out of "The Addams Groove", M.C. Hammer starts to talk about something funny that Fester did one time and I always get mad because I don't get to hear it.

― Matthew Estes, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

P.I.L. - Seattle

Really love the 'Palaces, Barriacades, Threats Meet Promises!' chant.

Prince & NPG - Gold

For the Hey Jude style, Na-Na-Na outro.

― mzui, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

1979 -Smashing Pumpkins

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"When a woman's fed up" R-Kelly. When the beat kicks in towards the end (and I also agree on the greatness of the fade out to "Ignition - The remix").
Also, Al Green (damn, I can't remember the title of the song I have in mind. It's the one that Mary J.Blige "sampled" on her track "PMT"...).
Otherwise, I could think of possibly all Suede's (Butler's era) fade outs, when he starts some kind of alternate guitar riff.

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Disappointed - Morrissey
Freak Like Me - Sugababes

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, about the Al green song, it's "simply beautiful" (and it was "sampled" by Blige on "pms", not "pmt"...)

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Recoil by Magazine
Steal Softly Through Snow by Captain Beefheart

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

pavement - father of a sister of a thought
built to spill - stop the show (though everything up until the end also kicks ass)

― big baby jesus, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Beach Boys songs to thread.

― may pang (maypang), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"Stand" - Sly & The Family Stone. 99% of it is hippy-dippy crap then it kicks into this fantastic wild funky freak-out... and fades out! The idiots.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

uh,,this thread has no mention of Broken Arrow~Buffalo Springfield.
now the thread is legit.

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Phew! Good job you got here in time!

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

the gastr del sol song that quickly fades out saying "a corpse a corpse a corpse a corpse" &c.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Why the FUCK hasn't anybody mentioned "7 and 7 Is" by Love????

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

oh and the gastr song is the one with a dsp-d edith frost chanting in it. i think jim o'rourke sings the main parts.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Blur - Oily Water

― Shooz (shooz), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

the very end of "space oddity" is great. it just slowly disappears.....
actually, all the instrumental breaks in "space oddity" are great.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Thursday, 7 October 2004 00:23 (twenty years ago)

There's a lovely piano sample that comes in just before the fade-out of Massive Attack's "One Love".

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 7 October 2004 00:41 (twenty years ago)

...I've always liked the sax solo at the end of Walk on the Wild Side. Not that it's the best part or anything. Just good. Goodness.

― skowly (skowly), Thursday, 7 October 2004 01:37 (twenty years ago)

steely dan - everyone's gone to the movies

where the drums sound like CAN.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 7 October 2004 01:43 (twenty years ago)

"Fatal Flaw" - The Sound. I turn up the volume as it fades because I want to stay with the song where it is going.

― Pangolino (ricki spaghetti), Thursday, 7 October 2004 02:14 (twenty years ago)

radiohead - optimistic. can't beat the breakdown.

― big baby jesus., Thursday, 7 October 2004 03:47 (twenty years ago)

EVERYBODY'S GOT A LITTLE LIGHT UNDER THE SUN UNDER THE SUN UNDER THE SUN

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:08 (twenty years ago)

Oh, oh, and "King of Pain."

King of Pain!
King of Pain!
I will always be King of Pain!
I will always be King of Pain!

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:09 (twenty years ago)

i wouldn't say it's the best part of the song, but the minute long fade out of "It's a Kid's World" by Disco Inferno is unbelievably incredible.
(THANKS NED)

― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:14 (twenty years ago)

"That's How I Get Down" by Ginuwine brings this wicked synth in right at the end and then overlays these out of control Edward Scissorhand stlye xylophones that are in the track earlier (but are kinda buried under the vocals) as it fades.

― jjj, Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:36 (twenty years ago)

Jimi Hendrix's "Stone Free" suddenly doubles its tempo just as he steps on the fuzz-box, and it sounds like he's gonna begin a classic ten-minute raveup, but instead it fades after 10 seconds. Aaarggh!
(Later live versions DO become 10 minute jams, just right.)

Maybe not the best, but still great is Neil Young's little free-time unaccompanied guitar outro in "Cinnamon Girl"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 7 October 2004 09:44 (twenty years ago)

Several songs where the end is clearly the best part:

Electronicas: Dance Little Bird
Black Lace: Agadoo
Modern Talking: Any of their hits
Los Del Rio: Macarena
Las Ketchup: The Ketchup Song
O-Zone: Dragostea Din Tei

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 7 October 2004 09:49 (twenty years ago)

The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night
That little guitar thing at the end that has nothing whatsoever to do with the rest of the song but is just GREAT!

― Melson (ArchCarrier), Thursday, 7 October 2004 12:29 (twenty years ago)

"That Little Guitar Thing" is supposed to be the intro to "Boys Don't Cry", innit?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 7 October 2004 21:07 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

born this way

― idgi fridays (blueski), Monday, 14 February 2011 15:49 (fourteen years ago)

Talking Heads, "Stay Hungry," sort of. Technically, the majority of the song is coda, but the melancholy synth part is the best bit.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 February 2011 15:54 (fourteen years ago)

I don't know if it's necessarily the best part--it might be; the whole song's great--but Minor Threat's "Salad Days" has a fantastic ending: "You had me pegged all along--damn." I've used that before myself, when someone deigns to explain to me why I think what I think, and they're laughably off the mark. That's even happened in here on occasion.

― clemenza, Monday, 14 February 2011 20:03 (fourteen years ago)

love mick jagger shouting down the fade of "all down the line" like he's trying to will it back up.

― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 14 February 2011 20:17 (fourteen years ago)

i've got blisters on me fingers!

― frankly, mr. cankly (Pillbox), Monday, 14 February 2011 20:20 (fourteen years ago)

Clash, "Jail Guitar Doors"--harmony bit sends it off nicely.

― bentelec, Monday, 14 February 2011 20:30 (fourteen years ago)

Bobby Womack's If You Don't Want My Love (Give it Back), where he runs into a quote from You Keep Me Hanging On

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 14 February 2011 20:38 (fourteen years ago)

Beach Boys "I Get Around"

― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 14 February 2011 20:45 (fourteen years ago)

the gastr del sol song that quickly fades out saying "a corpse a corpse a corpse a corpse" &c.

I was gonna say the one that fades out with "why did the sharks watch him drown."

― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Monday, 14 February 2011 20:48 (fourteen years ago)

no wait I meant Fun Fun Fun.

argh

― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 14 February 2011 20:48 (fourteen years ago)

last 20 seconds of the-dream's "fancy"

― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Monday, 14 February 2011 20:49 (fourteen years ago)

Sly & The Family Stone's Family Affair is obviously perfect all the way through but that last fifteen seconds is just so incredible, it always makes me want to hear the song again straight away hoping it will somehow last a bit longer.

Kid by the Pretenders is another one that is a perfect song but it really peaks at the end with those chiming guitars. It's one of those songs where every part is better than the last.

― Kitchen Person, Monday, 14 February 2011 20:56 (fourteen years ago)

Feist, "Lonely Lonely"

― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Monday, 14 February 2011 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

joek answer: the last few seconds of any shitty song are the best part! because then the song's over!

</snark>

― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Monday, 14 February 2011 21:03 (fourteen years ago)

last 20 seconds of the-dream's "fancy"

OTM

Sophie B Hawkin's "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" with the bizarre lyrical adlibs

Josh Rouse's "Feeling No Pain" has this guitar part that sounds like it should have been part of the song and made it far better

― o0o00h really? (boxedjoy), Monday, 14 February 2011 21:21 (fourteen years ago)

Van Morrison - Slim Slow Slider. Just a freakout in the final seconds of an otherwise kinda bland blues.

― dolphins cavorting in a cathedral (staggerlee), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 02:50 (fourteen years ago)

Velvet Underground "She's My Best Friend" -the harmonies and the weird cooing

― Maltodextrin, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 07:41 (fourteen years ago)

Beach Boys songs to thread.

Absolutely. Version of "Wind Chimes" on "Smiley Smile" for one.

― Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 12:19 (fourteen years ago)

Blur - Tracey Jacks. The orchestra sounds like they're starting to play a completely different song.

― dentarthurdent (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 12:26 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

"Enter Sandman", right around 4:55 and then even more at 5:13.

http://youtu.be/MPJKuygePHk?t=4m51s

― pplains, Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:25 (twelve years ago)

has the session tape ever leaked out for "Mother" so we can hear an unfaded Lennon finally screaming his guts out?

― there were chinchillas, these weird little rat animals, in cages (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:29 (twelve years ago)

mbv - nothing is :D

― imago, Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:30 (twelve years ago)

I don't know about the "best part", but I enjoy listening closely to fade-outs on Rush tracks because Geddy seems to cut loose a little bit on the bass when it comes to the fade...

― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:39 (twelve years ago)

seven years pass...

"Sending out an Esso Blue..."

― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 07:25 (four years ago)

No-one is right
Nothing is solid
Nothing can be held in my hands for long

― Extractor Fan (Branwell with an N), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 07:29 (four years ago)

"Fotzepolitic" by Cocteau Twins stops at precisely the wrong time, with Robin's solo just about to take off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QoYAsRgTHU

― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 09:27 (four years ago)

'With Or Without You'.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 09:37 (four years ago)

Beach Boys - Surf's Up

― nashwan, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 09:41 (four years ago)

Fotzepolitic has one of the greatest outros of all time, yeah, and I do rather wish it went on four times as long

― imago, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 11:33 (four years ago)

«Pretty Girls Make Graves»

― Mule, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 12:28 (four years ago)

I've always liked the fade out of Rush's "Open Secrets," which features the remains of a guitar solo and some truly awesome bass and drum jamming as the song is fading out.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 12:28 (four years ago)

Johnny Marr was great at this in general

― Mule, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 12:30 (four years ago)

Fotzepolitic has one of the greatest outros of all time, yeah, and I do rather wish it went on four times as long

― imago, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 11:33 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'll add that this thread isn't really for outros so much as fade-outs/the very very end of outros though, so I don't think this counts

― imago, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 12:41 (four years ago)

Gene Clark - "Lady of the North"

― henry s, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 12:44 (four years ago)

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