Disappointing song endings

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. :wink:

“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.

Believe me, not only in the 80s, but for the whole history of popular songs…

“Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.”
~ George Bernard Shaw

Probably not.

“Never trust the attribution of a quote unless the book and chapter is specified, and then only half the time”
¬ Mark Twain.

Interesting. Thanks.

Not crazy about the artsy triangles at the end of Supertramp’s “Dreamer”.

I had never heard/seen this. That is Freakin’ Awesome!

Yeah, it definitely is a fantastic cover!

I’ve always felt like Eleanor Rigby needed one more instrumental phrase at the end.

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.

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.

Perhaps you’d prefer Doodles Weaver’s ending?

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!

Cite?

I hope that’s not a serious question.

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.

I’m fairly sure that Jim Steinman and Karla DeVito’s “Dance In My Pants” has absolutely NOTHING to do with actual dancing.

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?

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.

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.