song endings more annoying than that to Losing My Religion

i'm convinced i've got you all here.

I don't even remember how it ends.

have a listen

that kind of ending is transcendentally wonderful when done properly (Wire - I Should Have Known Better for ex) but yeah that's pretty anticlimactic haha

i like that ending, what's wrong with it?

just find it extremely annoying

prove it. i want a scientific explanation.

it sounds like they had no idea how to end the song, but because they knew it was one of their best songs they wanted it to have a classy ending, but they couldn't quite come up with one, so they tried to make the ending they did come up with sound confident that it is classy rather than grating, which makes it even more grating.

my nomination for this thread is the 9.4 million songs that end with a slow fade out to the chorus because the band had no idea how to end the song, but because they knew it was one of their best songs they wanted it to have a classy ending, but they couldn't quite come up with one, so they tried to make the ending they did come up with sound confident that it is classy rather than grating, which makes it even more grating.

The only thing I don't like about Arrested Development (the show) is how at the end of the intro credit sequence, Ron Howard goes 'It's Arrested Development'. I hate it.

see i knew my ending was classy

anything that ends by modulating into a picardy third

doesn't LMR just end with a mandolin coda? Or is there an album version where Stipe howls for three minutes?

xp Caesura thread.

yeah it kind of holds the note on mandolin while the bass plays two notes and eventually resolves in a kind of backwards motion. I do kind of like it.

it has the gradually slowing thing going on, too (just like way too many joy division songs, which is pretty much my only complaint with them). the best songs, of course, end by getting faster and faster until one of the band members is injured

hahaha

so basically like Bastards of Young

I don't really see the problem with LMR's ending.
the slow fade outs with choruses are not necessarily bad but clearly illustrate the lack of musical ideas... on the other hand, I like it when the song fades out while something interesting/new is going on in the song. It's gutsy !
I don't have an exemple right now, though.

One of my friends used to say that the worst moment in the history of music was the ending of 'Enjoy the Silence', that one acapella "enjoy the siiilence" after the fade-out. I wouldn't go that far but the song is probably better off without it.

oh yeah, that's a bad one !
also the songs that end with the singer saying the title or some other line. like "make that change" in MJ's "man in the mirror".

wtf the end of "Man in the Mirror" is amazing

Well I don't hate it. but that's a pretty ridiculous gimmick to end a song !

xxpost Hmmm... I don't remember it doing that - maybe on the album version? Speaking of which, when I was a kid I remember hearing some crazy version of "Enjoy" (before even hearing the regular version) on the radio which seemed to be the title sung acappella over and over again and put through loads of effects. Did I dream it?

yes, that's the album version of "Enjoy The Silence"

(with the ending I mean, not the bizarro a capella version you are describing)

just realised the end to Losing My Religion would have segued really nicely (?!) into 'Bad Habit' by Offspring if I'd been making a mixtape for a friend circa 1994.

i've never been a particularly big fan of "Losing My Religion" but what the hell the outro is aces, probably one of the song's most memorable hooks.

memorable, for sure. maybe it's a unique allergy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8dd7q6z0OI

It's more funny than annoying, but a disproportionate number of New Order songs end with the sound of something exploding or breaking down. "Every Little Counts," "The Perfect Kiss," "Mr. Disco," "Round and Round..." I'm sure there are more.

they had to replace the slowing down thing with something!

I feel like a lot of ELP songs have this problem ("Pirates", "Tarkus", "Take a Pebble", "Endless Enigma", etc)

I saw a guy storm out of a performance by The Clean at Maxwell's because he was pissed that they ended every song by just letting it fall apart in an uncoordinated way.

How do songs by Can end?

The worst song ending is the way Fogerty ends "Fortunate Son" during live performances. (Although the fade out on the recorded version is pretty lazy.)

It's more funny than annoying, but a disproportionate number of New Order songs end with the sound of something exploding or breaking down. "Every Little Counts," "The Perfect Kiss," "Mr. Disco," "Round and Round..." I'm sure there are more.

"Notice all our songs have big endings? Big endings...small dicks..."