# SongShitting, as in, "Thats a real good song, except for this part"

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**Created:** [March 19, 2015, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359 "2015-03-19T05:25:05Z")\
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> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> I avoid [_Fool In The Rain_] like a dose of The Clap due to the fucking **Miami Sound Machine** Conga Line middle section.

Actually I can roll with that thingy.

> [@eschereal](#):
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> When I was ripping _Lucky Man_ for my song collection, I thought, screw that inane synth crap at the end, so I used Audacity to blend it into my favorite Steely Dan song, _East St. Louis Toodle-oo_.

Agreed. And Kieth’s twerpy synth ending at the end of “From The Beginning” I find all gucky-yuck-uck.  
The old west saloon ditty at the end of IMHO one of ELP’s more impressive numbers, “Bitches Crystal”, while incongruous as all get-out, gets my pass.  
And thank-you for introducing me to Audacity.

> [@scabpicker](#):
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> Yep, I will endure all of the protests of anyone in the room or car to listen to that guitar solo. The ring modulator tone is just crazy, and Page is in one of his best moments.

I believe **Face Intentionally Left Blank** was referring to the Knack.  
Unless if Jimmy Page did some mysterious sessions with them.  
(lol - sure, two and a half months late - better late than never?):o

To borrow from an earlier thread of mine:

> [@Songs with odd/creepy/incongruous endings](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-odd-creepy-incongruous-endings/748904/1):
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> “She’s a Rainbow” - Rolling Stones…Nothing like a nice, bucolic tune about a wonderful girl that ends with horror movie soundtrack violins.
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> Rambling, almost Bartok-like piano at the end of Bowie’s “Aladdin Sane” - even more spidery-like in the “David Live” version.
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> “Long, Long, Long” - Beatles - keyboards at the end go _way_ up in the mix, with odd howling. Definitely not in keeping with what is a very quiet, moving tune.

Wasn’t crazy about the cough in “Who Loves the Sun” by the Velvet Underground. Felt like they were trying to be all like “let’s make sure this isn’t radio friendly”.

> [@psychonaut](#):
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> For me, the quintessential example of this phenomenon is **“Something in the Air”** by Thunderclap Newman, an otherwise wonderful song ruined by someone whose idea of a solo is to bang tunelessly on a piano for a full minute.

Never been a big fan of the song, and that piano break is a major reason - definitely a quintessential example of song-shittery.

The first four minutes of the following tune? - FUCK THAT. (But the rest of it - S.F.G…Sheer Fucking Godliness):

(Actually the violin solo at 8:56 doesn’t really do it for me.)

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