Best outro?

**Frownland** · 07-20-2017, 12:10 AM

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.

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.

Lisnaholic · 07-20-2017, 03:56 PM

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:-

DriveYourCarDownToTheSea · 07-20-2017, 05:31 PM

I concur with that Fall of Saigon piece. Interesting song overall!

DriveYourCarDownToTheSea · 07-20-2017, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

skip to 5:15 if u just want the nice outro:-

This one reminds me of the end of I Want You (She's So Heavy) - which is another great outro BTW.

**Janszoon** · 07-20-2017, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

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!

Well, like I said, the point is that it feels endless and it's up to you to stop it when you want it to stop. Supposedly, the vinyl version actually does repeat endlessly.

Lisnaholic · 07-21-2017, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Well, like I said, the point is that it feels endless and it's up to you to stop it when you want it to stop. Supposedly, the vinyl version actually does repeat endlessly.

Well, that's an interesting idea, and an infinite outro is certainly worth mentioning in this thread. I wonder how that feels for you in practise? I'm not sure why, but I think I prefer it when the musician tells me the song's over and I can go and get a cup of tea with a clear conscience.

Not infinite, but too long to post here, the outro on Heavenly Music Corporation is mournful, but so exquisite that it keeps you listening right to the last moment, "Is that the last note? No, there's one more...that must be finished... no there's a bit more echo/reverb going on..." In that sense it's similar to, but better than A Day In The Life's climactic piano-chord outro.

Yes also have some good ones, I think. Roundabout has a beautiful multi-tracked a cappela bit by Jon Anderson, and Time and a Word devolves into a singalong mantra with lots of nice string things going on:-

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Originally Posted by DriveYourCarDownToTheSea

This one reminds me of the end of I Want You (She's So Heavy) - which is another great outro BTW.

^ Good comparison - that never occured to me, Drive !

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DriveYourCarDownToTheSea AllTheWhileYouChargeAFee Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Kansas City Posts: 1,158	I concur with that Fall of Saigon piece. Interesting song overall! __________________ Stop and find a pretty shell for her Beach Boys vs Beatles comparisons begin here