# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/41 "2019-05-19T19:27:40Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > The fade-out at the end of the live version of “Supper’s Ready” by Genesis. A _ **live** _ fade out as it was done either onstage by the musicians and/or by the sound man (not later during the mixing of the album). ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/42 "2019-05-19T19:33:15Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > I’ve never seen a live band do a fade-out. Who did you see attempting that? Genesis did it. (I saw this only after I posted my last one). ---
**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, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/43 "2019-05-19T23:37:00Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > Genesis did it. (I saw this only after I posted my last one). **Drive-By Truckers** do it very well. They play a song called _Grand Canyon_, and at the end, lay down their guitars (with heavy distortion sustain) one by one, till nobody but The Easy B is left on drums. It works. Go see them. You won’t be disappointed. ---
**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 20, 2019, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/44 "2019-05-20T01:12:42Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > **Drive-By Truckers** do it very well. They play a song called _Grand Canyon_, and at the end, lay down their guitars (with heavy distortion sustain) one by one, till nobody but The Easy B is left on drums. [Joseph Haydn did it first.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._45_(Haydn)) > [@](#): > > during the final adagio each musician stops playing, snuffs out the candle on his music stand, and leaves in turn, so that at the end, there are just two muted violins left ---
**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 20, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/45 "2019-05-20T16:21:41Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > [Have a Good Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtEm14zt3Ug). A thing of beauty. That’s it! It’s been driving me crazy (after all these days). ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/46 "2019-05-25T13:27:19Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > I’ve never seen a live band do a fade-out… A friend’s band (shout out to the now-long-gone Sadhana in Milwaukee) would do an amazing acoustic set. And mess with the audience in many subtle ways, including doing an occasional fadeout. They’d keep up vigorous strumming and picking, but had mastered muting the strings just a little, then more, til they were just miming and mouthing the lyrics. The second time, I realized that the drummer had to look like he was banging away while making less and less noise. ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2019, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/47 "2019-05-26T07:48:37Z")
Not sure if it counts as a “fade out”, but I love the long guitar outro by Neal Schon in “Who’s Crying Now”. Runs about 90 seconds of a 5-minute record. Starting here: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9meo3vazXcw) ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2019, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/48 "2019-05-26T08:12:45Z")
The song “Silver Rider” by the band \*\*Low \*\*ends with an epic, layered, harmony vocal “aah” outro. Sends chills down my spine. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KutWoEO-4ZY/hqdefault.jpg "Low - Silver Rider") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KutWoEO-4ZY) I doubt I would have ever heard of this band or this song if it hadn’t been used in an episode of the TV series “Rectify”. Which I highly recommend checking out, by the way… ---
**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 26, 2019, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/49 "2019-05-26T13:46:46Z")
The final movement of Holst’s, “The Planets,”–‘Neptune, the Mystic’–has a loooooong, nifty fade-out: a chorus of women are off-stage singing “ahhs” as the orchestra is silent and this goes on for minutes, slowly getting fainter, until it’s done. I saw the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra perform this and it was coooool–the conductor just stood there for the duration with his head down and hands at his sides, the orchestra tried to remain motionless, the house lights faded out with the chorus. All dark (mostly). The gong roll in, “Mars, the Bringer of War,” gave me an earache, but it was worth it. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/50 "2019-06-22T23:33:57Z")
^ cool. I’d consider the “Prince Rupert’s Lament” section in King Crimson’s “The Battle of Glass Tears” one, big fade out, despite there being - in the middle of it - a surge in Fripp’s guitar in the mix (almost like a last gasp, of sorts) to reinforce the main guitar line. Almost three minutes long, makes for a nice war-like effigy, evoking a grim, sodden trudge onwards, under leaden skies, or a surveying of smoking carnage… Starts exactly at [8:32](https://youtu.be/us4BlXcPIig?t=499) Good headphones at a good volume recommended. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2021, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/51 "2021-09-05T03:20:53Z")
Heard this again recently and figured worth zombie’ing the thread. One fine, long fade-out from Immolation. Warm, fun - just meditate on the eyes and [hope you summoned the power correctly.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhOjLY0fez0) Starting at 14:41. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ljhLSb-0rM4/maxresdefault.jpg "Immolation - Unholy Cult (2002) Ultra HQ") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljhLSb-0rM4) ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031/52 "2021-09-05T15:03:51Z")
Hello Goodbye, by some English band. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-song-fade-outs/834031.md?page=2)