I agree with notcynical !
And “Lucky Man” by Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
I don’t know if it fits the OP, but all I can think of is Prince’s Let’s Go Crazy.
ALSO agree with notcynical~~!!!
although a lot of good ones are listed here
it seems like the Beatles were masters at
the outro, don’t forget the DOG WHISTLE
does that even count? was it an outro?
The song White Trash Heroes by Archers Of Loaf. Ends with most of the instruments faded away, except for three guitars playing a beautiful harmonic refrain.
Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End - The Beatles
“Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In”–Fifth Dimension
I like the outro of “Hello Goodbye” by the Beatles more than the actual song.
“Loan Me a Dime” by Boz Scaggs. The first half of the song (the part where Boz sings) is done in 3/4 time, then the song shifts to 4/4 time and fades out in a glorious blast of horns and Duane Allman guitar. Duane’s guitar in the first half of the song isn’t shabby either.
In the same vein, Wilson Pickett’s cover of “Hey Jude” also features some of Duane’s best session work, and the Wicked Pickett’s screaming on the outro always gives me shivers!
hmmmmm… The way you talk it sounds just like he went from Sultans to Going Home which has that slow Sax part then picks up in the middle of the song.
Jackson Browne’s The Load Out/Stay deserves mention.
As does Pink Floyd’s Young Lust, if it fits the OP – being that The Wall is really like one long song.
I heartily second Sweet’s Love is like Oxygen, whcih IMHO is one of the greatest songs of the rock era.
Anything and everything by Wagner.
Tomorrow Never Knows.
Strangely, not the Beatles’ version, but the Mission (UK) version. Cool guitar, like you’re drifting downstream or something…
“Undone- The Sweater Song” by Weezer. It’s like the shrooms have come for me and they have big teeth.
Somebody probably already mentioned this, but “Layla” by Derek and the Dominos. Wasn’t that song about Clapton being in love with Ringo Starr’s wife?
And the award for terrible outro that almost ruins a good song goes to “Glycerine,” by Bush.
“We’re not gonna take it” from The Who’s Tommy (last cut). Wipe your mind clear of the Ken Russell abortion that was the movie, get the original recording, listen to the last minute, minute and a half, and try not to choke up… I dare ya.
Good outro, the song was about Patty Boyd, George Harrison’s wife.
My vote is for “I Am the Walrus” with those interwoven layers of sound spiraling higher and higher until you don’t even know what you’re listening to, but it seems like it can reach the sky…
“Cry If You Want,” the last song on the last studio album by The Who – Pete Townshend’s guitar crashes and slashes one last time before the band calls it quits (as a recording entity, anyway)
Oh, and the ending of “Pure and Easy,” another Who song, is pretty good too.
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Yes, I looked in Webster and Yahoo. Pardon my ig but what’s an outro? Is it kinds like a little song within a song?
If that’s it then my vote goes to
Joe Walsh & The Jame’s Gang’s
The Bomber.
Sepeltura’s cover of “War” by Bob Marley, Just an insane song with a bunch of vocal tracks overlaid. It goes out with a tribal drum beat that speeds up and makes you think some insane heavy riff is coming and it just stops.
Black Sabbath’s “Symptom Of The Universe” some really funky guitar at the end of a crushing song.
Since no one seems to have mentioned it yet, I’ve got to throw in with my favorite Stones song of all time, “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking”. Starting off as an altered blues, after the last verse the song seamlessly shifts into an extended jazz workout with a wonderful, liquid bass line and a brilliant sax solo (BTW, who’s credited with that part?)
I second the motion on Sweet’s “Love is Like Oxygen.” Since they’re one of my favorite bands, I have several CDs of theirs, including “Level Headed” which contains that song. However, a friend bought me a “Greatest Hits” sort of thing from Sweet and they just butchered that song. I never knew there was a shortened version until I popped in that CD and, “Hey! Where’s the rest of the song?”