# Songs with long, anthemic endings **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 27, 2013, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088 "2013-03-27T11:23:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088/1 "2013-03-27T11:23:30Z")
I love songs with long, anthemic endings. I can only think of two off the top of my head: [Hey Jude](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDdI7GhZSQA) by the Beatles and [The Boxer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGFLLHs7_cA) by Simon and Garfunkel. Are there any others? ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088/2 "2013-03-27T11:52:32Z")
Well, there’s **Layla** 😉 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088/3 "2013-03-27T12:26:54Z")
Damn near anything Springsteen does live. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088/4 "2013-03-27T12:30:30Z")
[Free Bird!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIeK1FV273M) ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088/5 "2013-03-27T12:38:39Z")
Freebird!!! 😉 Funeral for a Friend - Elton John Tied to the Whipping Post - Allman Brothers Do You Feel Like We Do? - Peter Frampton Heard it Through the Grapevine - Creedence Radar Love - Golden Earring ETA: Alessan snuck in there while I was looking for songs! ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088/6 "2013-03-27T12:57:09Z")
[Link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKZfRAuY-M4) to live version of Freebird at Knebworth Fair Festival in 1976. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088/7 "2013-03-27T13:10:58Z")
Paranoid Android ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088/8 "2013-03-27T13:19:06Z")
[Manowar “Blood of the Kings”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bkPyfzgIpg) ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088/9 "2013-03-27T14:58:55Z")
“[Atlantis](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AUEjzVQwKo)” by Donovan “[Five Years](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=louXPUW7tHU)”, “[Memory of a Free Festival](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-VQv65jiH8)”, “[Starman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRcPA7Fzebw)” by David Bowie “[Down By the Sea](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Som1k26YJE)” by Strawbs “[Satellite of Love](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3wXqyRQZnA)” by Lou Reed ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088/10 "2013-03-27T15:07:06Z")
[Smaointe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd_Moons) by Enya. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088/11 "2013-03-27T15:09:20Z")
“Loving, Touching, Squeezing” by Journey ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088/12 "2013-03-27T15:09:26Z")
Also “[Orange and Red Beams](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO9T9WpuXxw)” and “[Sky Pilot](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69zvFnVa03g)” by Eric Burdon & the Animals “[Islands](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky5qjU8LEQI)” by King Crimson… the ending takes a long time to build, though. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088/13 "2013-03-27T15:21:02Z")
[_Desperados Under the Eaves_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0J3ossUzhU) by Warren Zevon. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088/14 "2013-03-27T15:24:12Z")
[Born Secular](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gwxte6_15k) - Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins First time hearing it, I said to the wife “Jenny paid them for five minutes and damn it, she’s going to get five minutes…” ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088/15 "2013-03-27T15:55:01Z")
**White Rabbit** - It’s got a “rising sound!” Good for committing suicide by electrocuting yourself in a bathtub. **Matty Groves** by Fairport Convention has a terrific anthemic instrumental finish to it. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088/16 "2013-03-27T16:33:58Z")
[Needing/Getting](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_MRvEJb6bc) by Ok Go. Nearly half of the song is a jam out. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088/17 "2013-03-27T17:16:56Z")
The live version of [Sultans of Swing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jxsnIRpy2E) ends with an extended coda. (They’ve got a guest playing second guitar in that clip; guess their regular guy couldn’t make it that night. He’s okay.) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088/18 "2013-03-27T20:27:36Z")
A Day in the Life by the Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088/19 "2013-03-27T21:29:34Z")
**[Rock and Roll Pt. 2](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-hB1TzoG7M)** - The entire cut is an ending. And **[Steam](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaG2Acg8n60)**’s one and only hit is about 75% ending. ---
**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088/20 "2013-03-27T21:32:56Z")
[“Tulimyrsky” by Moonsorrow](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgZA5J00aeU) (skip to 27:50 for the triumphant finale) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-anthemic-endings/654088.md?page=2)