Howyadoin,
On one of the MTV Unplugged CDs, Elton John does a fantastic solo rendition of “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me”, just him and his piano. The crowd’s really into it, starting to applaud wildly at what they think is the end, then he jerks them around to a false ending, building to a crescendo, then turning it around again… He does this 3 times before he finishes. Great stuff, by a man who really knows how to work an audience.
-Rav
you monster!!
Also Goodman’s “Don’t Be That Way” has a long decresendo towards the end that is interrupted by a huge drum solo before siding into the end.
What’s the number for child protective services?
“Let Me” by Paul Revere and The Raiders also fades completely out and has some silence before they come in with the chorus again. That messed up a lot of DJs when it was new! “there’s Paul Revere and the Raiders and their new ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma Let me, let me…”
I don’t know that this really qualifies, but on first pressings of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Goin’ On” single, it almost completely fades out, then the engineer turned up the volume knob briefly before fading it out again. It’s not like that on subsequent pressings, or the album, or the CD.
867-5309
sits back and watches everyone get forced to sing
Do You Love Me? by The Contours. Also one of the best spoken intros to a song.
Haydn was doing it back in the 1700’s.
“Brush Up Your Shakespeare” from Kiss Me, Kate! has, I believe, appr. 17 encores.
Since the OP mentioned King Crimson… there’s a break in the cacaphonous finish toi “21st Century Schizoid Man” where the song seems to come to an end… but the cacaphony briefly resumes a few seconds later.
I have quite a few Beatles boots myself actually. I don’t really know what George was on about, but there are a lot of eyebrow-raisers like that in his book “Summer of Love.”
The rousing, toe-tapping Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot has appropriate end points at each of its final four verses. Anyone of them would have made a complete song, and kept the typical Lightfoot fan from screaming “come ON, already!”
Eric Carmen’s ballad All By Myself faded to a dead stop before coming back for one last chorus. This not only confused disc jockeys, but thoroughly screwed up my radio station’s automated system.
Yeah, George Martin is the wrong person to ask about what went on at Beatles recording sessions, even though he was there. His memory has been blunted by the passage of time, and age, and I’ve read where he “remembered” stuff that never happened. It’s really odd, thousands of people who weren’t even born when those records were made can tell you more about how it was done, right down to the n[sup]th[/sup] degree of detail. But the people who made them have little or no memory of the actual processes. If you want to know, get the books by Mark Lewisohn.
Yeah. I read this article the other day where this guy tried to find out where/when he got his Rickenbacker painted black (it was originally Maple Glo, a natural wood finish). This guy went all over the place trying to find out exactly who painted it and with what. Crazy, OCD shit.
Actually, I found the article fascinating, but I’m…not crazy…really
On an album called Damnation by Opeth, there’s a song called Closure which goes into a really cool riff, then just cuts out in the middle of it and goes into the next song. There’s no closure to the song, get it?
My Fave: Mike Watt & Friends (In this case; Eddie Vedder) doing (or is it falsely ending) Against The Seventies
Oh, Jebus! :smack:
Theat “he” would be John Lennon…
Not sure if this really counts or not, but another example from the Beatles would be the end of the “Abbey Road” medley. After an extended pause, “Her Majesty” finishes the album.
Another one that always has me guessing is an instrumental called “In Shades” from **Tom Waits’ ** “Heartattack and Vine”. Lots of stops, applause, starts again.
Theres one by a band I listen to a lot:
Suburban Legends - Up All Night.
You think the song ends… and then: “Whoo!” and it continues. Makes for easily telling who the fans are in the concert and who’s just clapping because they’re enjoying it. Anyways, it’s a pretty good song, if you’re into ska (3rd wave)
John Mayer’s “My Stupid Mouth”
*I’m never speaking up again… starting now.
<silence>
One more thing,
Why is it my fault…*
For some reason I really like the way he does that.