# Songs with odd/creepy/incongruous endings **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 13, 2016, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904 "2016-03-13T21:05:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904/21 "2016-03-15T02:39:06Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > I think **Esox Lucius** did mean LLL, because there’s a very definitive, single floor tom hit at the end. > Just before it is a final guitar strum. I meant the song that ends with an orgasm is Lovely Rita ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904/22 "2016-03-15T05:31:56Z")
> [@K364](#): > > No, that’s the “Lovely Rita” ending. That never occurred to me though you might be right. But the ending of Long, Long, Long is definitely sex leading to orgasm. Just ask me when I was 16. ---
**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 15, 2016, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904/23 "2016-03-15T08:55:10Z")
The ending of Queen’s “One Vision” is certainly incongruous: _Gimme one night (yeah!) Gimme one hope (hey!) Just gimme (ah!) One man (one man!) One bar (one night!) One day (hey, hey!) Just gimme gimme, gimme, gimme… **FRIED CHICKEN!!!** _ ---
**Author:** ![lilihob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a9adbd/32.png) [@lilihob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilihob)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904/24 "2016-03-15T10:44:27Z")
How about the “late lament” at the end of “nights in white satin”. A strange eerie spoken piece at the end of a classic song. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904/25 "2016-03-15T11:29:43Z")
Pink Martini’s “Da Svidanya Mio Bambino” ends with a bit of “The Happy Wanderer,” which isn’t the only song of theirs that ends with some private joke I don’t get. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2016, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904/26 "2016-03-15T13:47:28Z")
> [@lilihob](#): > > How about the “late lament” at the end of “nights in white satin”. > A strange eerie spoken piece at the end of a classic song. IMHO it shouldn’t be considered part of that song. It’s typical of the Moodies’ classic albums to have a spoken piece near the beginning and/or end. But [Days of Future Passed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Future_Passed#Track_listing), the album on which “Nights in White Satin” appears, doesn’t have separate tracks for each song/piece. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904/27 "2016-03-15T17:22:12Z")
“Hard To Say I’m Sorry” by Chicago is mostly a ballad and then has a very incongruous hard-rock ending. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904/28 "2016-03-15T17:28:12Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > IMHO it shouldn’t be considered part of that song. > > It’s typical of the Moodies’ classic albums to have a spoken piece near the beginning and/or end. But [Days of Future Passed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Future_Passed#Track_listing), the album on which “Nights in White Satin” appears, doesn’t have separate tracks for each song/piece. And _“Late Lament”_ isn’t even the only spoken word part of the LP. Side One, with _“The Day Begins”_ ends with the spoken word _“Morning Glory”_. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904/29 "2016-03-15T17:31:29Z")
“Save the Children,” Laura Nyro’s 1969 single, is an upbeat, piano/gospel, Power to the People sorta song. The Fifth Dimension covered it the same way. (It’s also one of Laura’s VERY FEW televised performances, part of the tiny video legacy she left behind): [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mwn97weAxa0/hqdefault.jpg "Save the country (with lyrics) - Laura Nyro") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwn97weAxa0) (My god, that HAIR. I want to get naked and go swimming in THAT HAIR.) But the album version, on _New York Tendaberry_, has a coda of a jarring atonal fortissimo minor chord for brass, a bizarre way to come down off such a happy song, and to end side one. Then you had to get up (in 1969) and flip the record over. And side two led off with the eerie illegal abortion song “Gibsom Street,” with its spooky tempo, its unpleasant metaphors (“They hang the alley cats on Gibsom Street”), and its oblique references to Christina Rossetti’s long Victorian poem of illicit female sensuality, “Goblin Market.” Very unsettling. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904/30 "2016-03-15T18:17:04Z")
The ending of Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Mercy Me” is pretty spooky. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904/31 "2016-03-15T18:54:21Z")
Sounds like the drummer suffers a seizure at the end of Richard Thompson’s _MGB/GT._ ---
**Author:** ![Flare4roach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7cd45c/32.png) [@Flare4roach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flare4roach)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2016, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904/32 "2016-03-20T02:27:38Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > About three-quarters through what _would_ have been my favourite Black Sabbath tune - “Symptom of the Universe” - they break into something that would have been much more at home on the Doobies’ “What Were Once Vices and Now Habits” album, which has a couple half-decent songs, itself, but definitely not capping off SOTU. It’s funny because Symptom is my fave Sabbath tune and I cannot imagine a better ending than what they gave. I love that quasi-spanish style acoustic riffing. It’s one of the great unexpected things Sabbath did throughout their classic years. They zigged when you thought they would zag. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2016, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904/33 "2016-03-20T03:32:35Z")
> [@Flare4roach](#): > > It’s funny because Symptom is my fave Sabbath tune and I cannot imagine a better ending than what they gave. I love that quasi-spanish style acoustic riffing. It’s one of the great unexpected things Sabbath did throughout their classic years. They zigged when you thought they would zag. A fair point. Another departure - “Changes” - with the piano and mellotron…lol lost cool points with friends back in the day for liking it. I learned a new word then - a friend said “maudlin”, and we were all calling each other that for a bit. > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Also “I got blisters on my fingers!” Especially after Ringo’s 18th take, apparently. > [@cmkeller](#): > > “Hard To Say I’m Sorry” by Chicago is mostly a ballad and then has a very incongruous hard-rock ending. Do you by any chance mean “Feeling Stronger Every Day”? One of my top five Hendrix tunes (huh - possible thread?:p) - “Ezy Ryder” - does the ole fade-out then fade-back-in ending. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2016, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904/34 "2016-03-20T04:33:46Z")
There’s an AOR song that was never a big hit but gets played a lot on the harder-rock stations whose artist and title completely escapes me right now where the song ends with an instrumental section - and a synthesizer. It’s completely incongruous with the rest of the song, and very haunting. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2016, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904/35 "2016-03-20T04:42:22Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > There’s an AOR song that was never a big hit but gets played a lot on the harder-rock stations whose artist and title completely escapes me right now where the song ends with an instrumental section - and a synthesizer. It’s completely incongruous with the rest of the song, and very haunting. Do you mean ELP’s “Lucky Man”? ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904/36 "2016-03-20T13:23:52Z")
Eddie the Horrible: > [@](#): > > Do you by any chance mean “Feeling Stronger Every Day”? No, it’s definitely “Hard to Say I’m Sorry.” After a whole song that’s a slow ballad, they do this fast part that starts “When we get there gonna jump in the air” which has absolutely no connection to the rest of the song. Incongruous is definitely the word for it. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904/37 "2016-03-20T13:41:06Z")
Helen Reddy’s “Angie Baby” has an extremely surreal ending. Being sucked into a radio(“never to be found”) can ruin your whole life. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2016, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904/38 "2016-03-20T14:44:05Z")
How about Sabbath’s “War Pigs” with its crazy speeding up to infinity ending. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904/39 "2016-03-20T14:50:31Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Eddie the Horrible: > > No, it’s definitely “Hard to Say I’m Sorry.” After a whole song that’s a slow ballad, they do this fast part that starts “When we get there gonna jump in the air” which has absolutely no connection to the rest of the song. Incongruous is definitely the word for it. You should have specified “Hard To Say I’m Sorry/Get Away” which has the ending you’re talking about, because if you look up just “Hard To Say I’m Sorry”, youtube directs you only to the adult contemporary version, which doesn’t have the ending you’re referring to. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904/40 "2016-03-20T17:27:18Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Do you mean ELP’s “Lucky Man”? Forgot to mention in the earlier post that it is NOT “Lucky Man”, or even ELP. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904.md?page=1)