I'm thinking of well-crafted songs that reach a perfect resolution, and then blow it by going on too long. Techniques include pointless extra verses, repeated choruses and (my pet hate) unnecessary key changes. It makes me think that the writer doesn't really know what they're doing, and just struck lucky.
1. The Kinks: 'Sunny Afternoon'. Ripe around 2'35", the really bold move would've been to cut it at 1'27" - but no, it gets an extra plodding chorus. The chorus isn't the good bit, foolz.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)
dream attack - new order. it's almost as if, because it was the last track on the album they wanted to make it all fit just-so onto a 45 minute cassette tape side with no space left at the end. but it just goes on and on and on and oyyyyyy.
― pisces, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)
Pink Floyd "A Saucerful Of Secrets" studio version ends just as it's getting good, with a cop-out final organ chord. The live version, although not so satisfying up until that point, does the final section SO much better.
― Just got offed, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)
The last 45 seconds of "Hot Rats" by Zappa ("Good morning your highness") is the only bit where it starts to get good.
― PhilK, Sunday, 26 August 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)
Plush by the Stone Temple Pilots does not need to be more than 5 minutes long.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 26 August 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)
Klaus Schulze - Bayreuth Return (track 1 on Timewind) For some reason it ends with a loud bang of sorts. It feels like a joke or something - it really ruins the mood the song puts me in.
― Øystein, Sunday, 26 August 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)
Plush by the Stone Temple Pilots does not need to be more than 5 minutes long. -- kornrulez6969, Sunday, August 26, 2007 8:26 PM (27 minutes ago)
"Plush" honestly doesn't need to exist, but I'd cut it around 3:30 assuming it *HAS* to stick around.
― stephen, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)
Zappa's 'Willie the Pimp' totally goes downhill after Beefheart's contribution. In fact nothing Zappa did before or after lives up to that.
― S-, Monday, 27 August 2007 08:14 (eighteen years ago)