Erm…
“Perpetual Change” returns to its original melody, though, which isn’t what the OP is looking for.
“Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” by Billy Joel.
Okkervil River, “John Allyn Smith Sails”.
Now I must listen to Yes’s Perpetual Change
Roxy Music: If There Is Something
“Promises in the Dark” by Pat Benatar starts out all torchlit and ends as a rock tune.
“Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” starts out very slow and sombre and ends violently after the 233rd verse when the listener blows his brains out.
Over the Hills and Far Away by Zeppelin.
Starts as a nice mellow guitar-y song and then BOOM.
Bill Monroe’s “Blue Moon of Kentucky” was a popular bluegrass waltz. Elvis Presley recorded a jumped up 4/4 version for the flip side of his first record, “That’s All Right Mama.”
Elvis & his band performed at the Grand Ole Opry & some were looking forward to Bill Monroe’s anger at what Elvis did to his song.
Nope. He enjoyed it. Thereafter, whenever the Bluegrass Boys played “Blue Moon of Kentucky” they started out in stately 3/4 time–then switched to 4/4 halfway through…
The old timers say, she would have made Whitefish Bay, if she put 10 more verses behind her.
Speaking of which…has anyone ever survived an entire rendition of The Star Spangled Banner?
My thoughts exactly Eddie.
Queen certainly have several songs to fit the OP, first one I thought of was The Millionaire Waltz.
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The Doobie Brothers’ “Black Water”.
ETA-Although I don’t remember offhand if it stays that way or not.
Come Sail Away by Styx
Hitch a Ride, by Boston.
Mr. Blue Sky - ELO. The outro is a completely different tune and has no relation to the rest of the song. I always wondered what the reasoning behind it was.
The Load Out / Stay - Jackson Browne.
They’re unthinkable without each other at this point, but they are definitely two songs stuck together.
The Load Out was newly written by Jackson Browne, and Stay is a cover of a Maurice Williams song from 1960. Stay was also released separately as single,and the two were combined and not-combined in various permutations at the time they came out.
On ELO’s “Out of the Blue,” the four songs Standing in the Rain, Big Wheels, Summer and Lightning and Mr. Blue Sky are, collectively, Concerto For A Rainy Day (there’s a vocorder snippet at the beginning saying it) and I suppose JL had to have a big flourish for the ending.
Sometimes I will decide that, because there is no significant downtime between two tracks on an album, they are the same song.
Examples include: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes* and Marrakesh by Crosby, Stills, and Nash; and Hazy Shade of Winter and At the Zoo by Simon and Garfunkel.
My insistence on this point is so great that I shout at the radio for ending the song too early whenever the second song isn’t played right after the first.
Also, I shouted at a Bangles record when they included a track of Hazy Shade of Winter as though it were a stand-alone song.
*This song qualifies for the conditions of the thread anyway.