Favourite song fade outs

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Shabby Doll - Elvis Costello
Nice inward screams (hurts - trying enough of them!), and the bass cheekiness at the end of every four bars.

Sexie Sadie - Beatles
I remember this nervous four-year-old listening to the ambling, slightly eerie guitar as a menacing preamble for the next :eek: song.

Making Plans For Nigel - XTC
“Nigel…”
And the haunting, three-note backing vocal.

Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except For Me and My Monkey - Beatles
The barrage of “come ons” make the band themselves sound almost monkey-like, and the fireman’s bell. For me, one of their more instrumentally appealing numbers - pretty zippy.

Siberian Khatru - Yes
Steve Howe does a fine turn here.
So what the fuck’s a khatru?

I might have one or two more.

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This song “Just another Cliche’” by Ookla the Mok has several fake-out fade-outs, which are fun.

3

Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull has a great outro to blowing winds.

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I was at first :dubious: about it, but fading out in the middle of a verse (with singing) kinda grew on me, with Life During Wartime by the Talking Heads.

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Don’t laugh, but Poco.

What Do People Know was one of my favorite songs of the late 80s, due in part to the tasty guitar noodling (starts at 3:20) on the fade out.

On a lot of their stuff, the little ditties like this are Rusty Young, but here I assume it’s Jim Messina.

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No laughing here - that was, indeed, tasty sounds of Paco-ness, (strange as it sounds saying that).
I like Burton Cummings’ ha-ha variations to usher in this Guess Who fade out.

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I always liked the outro to Man in the Mirror By MJ - it goes on for a few minutes and I find it very satisfying - I’m not even that big a fan of his

8

The sax solo on Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side, which I feel I could have listened to for at least another 3 minutes.

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The fade-out at the end of the live version of “Supper’s Ready” by Genesis.

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As I said in a thread almost 15 years ago, my favorite fade-out is the meta-fade-out Christine Lavin did at the end of the studio version of “What was I thinking?”

https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-323261.html

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“A Day in the Life”

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Toward the end if this wonderful exegesis by Rick Beato, he praises the fade-out of the Police’s “Every Little Thing She Does is Magic,” and rightly so (the repeating of snatches of verse lyrics, but with new melodies):

He mentions that radio DJs would typically not interrupt the fade out, as they did with most songs.

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I can’t remember the exact song right now, but the Beastie Boys’s hardcore punk EP “Aglio e Olio” has at least one that fades out, which is quite unusual for the genre.

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Fading out with a Tarzan yell (also heard at the beginning of the song): Red Brained Woman by Supachief.

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Laura Nyro’s “Captain for Dark Mornings,” from her 1969 masterpiece album New York Tendaberry.

The song is slow and spooky and exquisitely SEXY and the fade has you picturing beautiful Laura slowly and helplessly drifting out to sea alone in a small boat, in a dense fog that dims the very early morning sun.

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Truly a pompatous choice.

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I sometimes kinda really dig the last 90 seconds or so of Boston’s Hitch A Ride. More of an outro, maybe.

Also, Lux rambling at the end of any number of The Cramps songs. Mean Machine, for example.

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The interplay between Eric and Duane at the end of “Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?”

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As much of the coda to “Layla” as I can get away with including in a loose definition of “fade out”

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Just want to offer that as someone who has tried to cover tunes in various bands, I HATE the fade-out. Fuck - if the pros can’t figure out how to end the damn song, what chance do we amateurs have?! So nnearly all covers end up with some version of “shave and a haircut.”

The FUNNIEST thing to see in a live band, is when they attempt a LIVE fade-out! :smiley: I suppose they are hoping to be drowned out by tumultuous applause, but the types of bands that attempt this rarely encounter such reaction.