# Disappointing song endings **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [January 9, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770 "2025-01-09T20:18:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770/81 "2025-01-11T20:54:39Z")
Or you had it right to begin with. She likes going dancing. He likes _the idea_ of going dancing. But when push comes to shove he’d rather sleep or maybe have sex if he’s not too sleepy. And in typical male fashion, he’s doing the passive aggressive thing to her and singing happily about doing so while all the women in the audience are rolling their eyes. As you might be able to tell, IANA great musical critic. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770/82 "2025-01-11T20:56:36Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > With these super-abrupt endings, like with “Her Majesty”, you can’t help but wonder if they just, um, ran outa tape? “Her Majesty” ends that way because it was originally meant to be part of _Abbey Road_’s Side 2 medley: > The crashing guitar chord that opens “Her Majesty” is actually the final chord from a rough mix of “Mean Mr Mustard.” The song cuts off without the final note, meanwhile, because it was intended to segue into “Polythene Pam.” It is actually possible to edit the three songs together to hear how they were originally sequenced. [https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/her-majesty](https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/her-majesty) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770/83 "2025-01-11T20:59:04Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > Good point. I have heard that "dancing"in the 80s was code for sex. Believe me, not only in the 80s, but for the whole history of popular songs… ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770/84 "2025-01-11T21:02:20Z")
“Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.” ~ George Bernard Shaw ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770/85 "2025-01-11T21:12:04Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > “Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.” > ~ George Bernard Shaw [Probably not.](https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/09/11/dancing/) “Never trust the attribution of a quote unless the book and chapter is specified, and then only half the time” ¬ Mark Twain. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770/86 "2025-01-11T21:19:30Z")
Interesting. Thanks. Not crazy about the artsy triangles at the end of Supertramp’s “Dreamer”. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770/87 "2025-01-11T21:28:05Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I love Dinosaur Jr’s cover of the Cure’s “Just Like Heaven”… I had never heard/seen this. That is Freakin’ Awesome! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770/88 "2025-01-11T22:25:30Z")
Yeah, it definitely is a fantastic cover! ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770/89 "2025-01-12T00:56:01Z")
I’ve always felt like Eleanor Rigby needed one more instrumental phrase at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770/90 "2025-01-12T01:43:39Z")
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam had a big hit with their song Head To Toe. It’s perfectly cromulent up until the end, where they nail on some kind of shave-and-a-haircut xylophone shit. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770/91 "2025-01-12T01:48:48Z")
I used to think those final five violin notes were a little sudden, but then liked to imagine Paul/George M. trying to do a quick little ‘tidying up’ of the song, much in the same way the titular character’s life was basically ‘wrapped up and done’ in an unattended funeral. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770/92 "2025-01-12T01:54:14Z")
Perhaps you’d prefer Doodles Weaver’s ending? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/CefwSeDhkGM/hqdefault.jpg "Eleanor Rigby by Doodles Weaver") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CefwSeDhkGM) ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770/93 "2025-01-12T02:07:49Z")
Sloan’s _ **44 Teenagers** _ There’s some interesting harmonies in the chorus fade-out but they start the fade-out during the second chorus before I’ve even had a chance to sing along! It should go for another three or four minutes! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/kawZWN4Inlw/maxresdefault.jpg "Sloan - 44 Teenagers (lyric video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kawZWN4Inlw) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770/94 "2025-01-21T20:41:17Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > “Never trust the attribution of a quote unless the book and chapter is specified, and then only half the time” > ¬ Mark Twain. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770/95 "2025-01-22T03:27:39Z")
I hope that’s not a serious question. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770/96 "2025-01-22T03:44:27Z")
I just heard another one: the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ cover of Stevie Wonder’s “Higher Ground.” After the song should end, there’s a couple bars of a goofy up-tempo coda that has nothing to do with test if the song. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770/97 "2025-01-22T04:53:23Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > Good point. I have heard that "dancing"in the 80s was code for sex. I’m fairly sure that Jim Steinman and Karla DeVito’s “Dance In My Pants” has absolutely NOTHING to do with actual dancing. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/K0K_RY34z8U/maxresdefault.jpg "Jim Steinman - Dance In My Pants") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0K_RY34z8U) ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770/98 "2025-01-23T16:01:03Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > With a soap commercial I always wondered: does he really say “Stronger than dirt!”? Or was I just programmed to match those chords with that jingle, through hundreds of viewings of TV commercials? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770/99 "2025-01-23T16:13:11Z")
The end of “War Pigs” was apparently the idea of the sound engineer but was later embraced by the group. Personally I think it’s just a bad ending. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770/100 "2025-01-23T16:29:42Z")
The “speed up”? (Is that what it’s called?) I’ve always loved it. I like how it ends on that high note. Not sure how they did that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770.md?page=6)