# Favourite song fade outs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 16, 2019, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031 "2019-05-16T00:43:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/21 "2019-05-17T19:35:20Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > 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. There was a saxophone outro on a song that I can’t remember the name of. I thought it was a Paul Simon song, but I can’t find it. The outro is a fast alto sax riff that finally fades. How about Ringo’s “I’ve got blisters on my fingers!” at the end of Helter Skelter? ---
**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:** [May 17, 2019, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/22 "2019-05-17T23:32:10Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > The FUNNIEST thing to see in a live band, is when they attempt a LIVE fade-out! 😃 I’ve never seen a live band do a fade-out. Who did you see attempting that? > [@Chefguy](#): > > There was a saxophone outro on a song that I can’t remember the name of. I thought it was a Paul Simon song, but I can’t find it. The outro is a fast alto sax riff that finally fades. Doubtfully the same songs you’re thinking: Supertramp’s [Bloody Well Right](https://youtu.be/-YAMbLHcS-8?t=238) Lennon’s [Whatever Gets You Through the Night](https://youtu.be/vjWebKavfuI?t=163) (which the video - and the song itself - always reminded me of an SNL credit intro/outro thingie. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/23 "2019-05-17T23:50:16Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > There was a saxophone outro on a song that I can’t remember the name of. This is also probably not the song you’re thinking of (and if you or anybody else _does_ figure it out, please let us know, because I’ve been racking my brains trying to remember if & when I’ve heard what you describe), but… ABC’s lushly orchestrated “All Of My Heart” ends with about a [minute’s worth of outro](https://youtu.be/xXPH2-yTwuA?t=245) that fades to a solo saxophone. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/24 "2019-05-18T01:17:21Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > I’ve never seen a live band do a fade-out. Who did you see attempting that? > > … Only very amateurish bands of the high school and college bar variety. In my youth in Chicago, I saw a ton of music - from the very very good to the truly awful. From concert halls, to friends’ basements. And I certainly played in some pretty poor bands, where we had trouble trying to figure out how to end songs. Never attempted a fadeout, tho. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/25 "2019-05-18T02:10:47Z")
Hey Jude ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/26 "2019-05-18T05:13:23Z")
The “Well, meanwhile, I’m still thinkin’” call out to Chuck Berry at the end of T. Rex’s “Bang a Gong” ---
**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:** [May 18, 2019, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/27 "2019-05-18T06:14:52Z")
Help Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds Run For Your Life (yeah, quick - I just like when John goes na-na-na) Magical Mystery Tour While My Guitar Gently Weeps Rain Michelle Hello Goodbye USSR’s use of an airplane flying away made for a fine fade out. Piggies ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/28 "2019-05-18T12:42:30Z")
[2HB](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMdkoAUjPa0) by Roxy Music. Made even better by the fact that the last lines are: _Your memory stays It lingers ever Fade away never…_ j ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/29 "2019-05-18T14:01:52Z")
Lots of Beatles songs mentioned, yet I still haven’t seen the first two I happened to think of: “Strawberry Fields Forever” (with its spooky “[del]I buried Paul[/del] cranberry sauce”), and “Cry Baby Cry” (with Paul’s “Can you take me back” song fragment) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/30 "2019-05-18T14:37:17Z")
An obvious one: Bowie’s “Space Oddity”; it kinda just drifts off into space. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/31 "2019-05-18T15:10:17Z")
Darn - I mentioned Help, when I meant to post A Hard Days Night instead. How about a fade _in_ with the Velvet Underground’s [Train Coming Around the Bend](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LApgGlOMG_Y)? (cleverly evoking a train moseying toward us) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/32 "2019-05-18T15:41:20Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > How about a fade _in_ [There’s a separate thread for that, now.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=875725) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/33 "2019-05-18T17:04:15Z")
A lot of Supertramp’s songs had great outros. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/34 "2019-05-18T17:40:28Z")
_Starship Trooper_ - Yes _Desire Lines_ - Deerhunter DIIV has a couple great ones, too. I’m a sucker for a long, drawn out outro. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/35 "2019-05-18T17:48:35Z")
EVERY song should be capable of being sung in front of listeners. Listeners who are actually THERE, and have shown up there, solely for the purpose of listening to that song being sung. As such, EVERY song should have a definitive ending.\* And any song that can be performed in front of listeners can be recorded verbatim in a studio. So my answer is that I have no favorite song fadeout. Song fadeouts are the Designated Hitters of the recording industry. Please be good enough to spread the word about this fact, as it is my understanding that people are still releasing songs with them, and this must be stopped. \*[This is the sole exception I know of.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz6OGVCdov8) I’d be grateful to learn of any others. TIA. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/36 "2019-05-19T14:55:54Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > _Starship Trooper_ I’m a sucker for a long, drawn out outro. And one of my favourite Yes passages. Probably not your style, but definitely a long, drawn-out fade with Cephalic Carnage’s [Ontogeny of Behaviour](https://youtu.be/5aQfUTNuJDQ?t=462) ---
**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:** [May 19, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/37 "2019-05-19T15:22:58Z")
Steely Dan had two guitar solos that I wish I could have heard to the end. Skunk Baxter on _My Old School_ and Larry Carlton on \*Kid Charlemagne. \* ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/38 "2019-05-19T18:24:08Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > There was a saxophone outro on a song that I can’t remember the name of. I thought it was a Paul Simon song, but I can’t find it. The outro is a fast alto sax riff that finally fades. [Have a Good Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtEm14zt3Ug). A thing of beauty. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/39 "2019-05-19T19:05:25Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Probably not your style, but definitely a long, drawn-out fade with Cephalic Carnage’s [Ontogeny of Behaviour](https://youtu.be/5aQfUTNuJDQ?t=462) I listened, I learned, I liked it! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2019, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/40 "2019-05-19T19:23:10Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > [Have a Good Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtEm14zt3Ug). A thing of beauty. Thank you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031.md?page=3)