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Originally Posted by DriveYourCarDownToTheSea
While I love The Boxer, I always thought that outro was overdone. Though the part at the very end where they calm it down is nice. Cut the outro in about half and it would be just about right.
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Yes, the specific moment you mention has a nicely-crafted, warm feel to it. That's down to Roy Halee, I suspect, who creates the same kind of transition from loud to delicate a couple of times on
Bookends.
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A similar song would be Hey Jude, but in that case it seems to work better because all they're doing is jamming and it's got more of a "fun" atmosphere to it.
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Hey Jude crossed my mind too; probably the most famous outro in rock, though I don't care for it much tbh.
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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete
Here's a few of my favourites.
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I liked both of these, esp
Sunrise Pulp
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Originally Posted by Aloysius
Good choice - actually one of the (many) things I can't listen to without tearing up.
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Yes, The Boxer packs in several emotional wallops as it moves through it's different parts. "I do declare..." and "In the clearing stands a boxer..." and indeed the outro. wow.
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Originally Posted by Janszoon
Liars—"This Dust Makes That Mud"
First of all, it's just a great song overall. Then it slowly unravels into this spacey kind of freakout and around the eight minute mark it subtly slips into just a hypnotic loop, repeating over and over and over for the next 22 minutes. This makes it this weird kind of infinite outro that dares you to be the one to hit stop. If you don't, and you listen to the entire track, you'll hear that in the final seconds the loop slows until it grinds to a halt.
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This clip didn't open for me, which is perhaps a relief, thb; a 22-minute tape loop! You really know how to sell a product Jans!
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Originally Posted by Frownland
Bad songs with good outros, now that's a category I want to see. It seems like most people are picking good songs with exceptionally great outros.
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Lucky Man by ELP certainly fits this description imo.
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This Heat - The Fall of Saigon
Everything about this song is great, but the guitar solo that closes the song is just the ****ing meaning of life. It influenced me in ways that I didn't realize until those ideas, forced only by repetition, became a part of the way I approached music. It's also incredibly singular and the way that it builds on this massive crescendo and fades into the bleeping error message from the intro is just...fuck. So good dude.
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About the best outro in the thread so far. Thanks for this tip, Frownland!
More good outros:-
the singing stops, but the song's not done, so that makes it an outro, doesn't it?
skip to 5:15 if u just want the nice outro:-