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Greatest Endings In Rock and Roll

Feel free to poke holes in this list...some are stronger candidates than others. We're just having fun, thought-provoking off-the-cuff chat. As it is, it's really only the tip of the iceberg if you think about all the songs in the rock era...I'll post more when I think of some. I realize I'm all over the map here format & datewise - if you wanted to limit it to "Classic Hits" I'd understand. Plus some of these have been mentioned previously.

1st several are really great "fade-outs", but if you wanna include 'em:

Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits - 1978/79
Hotel California - The Eagles - 1977
The Boys Of Summer - Don Henley - 1984/85
You're No Good - Linda Ronstadt - 1974/75
Everything That Touches You - The Association - 1968
Tunnel Of Love - Bruce Springsteen - 1987/88
Human Touch - Bruce Springsteen - 1992
I'm The Only One - Melissa Etheridge - 1994
The Chain - Fleetwood Mac - 1977
Beginnings - Chicago - 1969/1971
The Beatles:
All You Need Is Love - 1967
I Am The Walrus - 1967
Tomorrow Never Knows - 1966
Crimson And Clover - Tommy James & The Shondells - 1968/69
Bruce Hornsby & The Range:
The Way It Is - 1986/87
The Valley Road - 1988

Now the rest:

Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye ("please don't masturbate" - ??) - 1982/83
Hot Blooded - Foreigner ("makin' me sing for your sweet sweet thing") - 1978
Start Me Up- The Rolling Stones ("make a dead man come") - 1981
Steve Miller Band:
The Joker - 1973/74 (guitar "catcall" followed by "show you a good time")
Fly Like An Eagle - 1976/77
Queen:
Dragon Attack - Queen - 1980 (in the "olden" days of vinyl with "The Game" album, if the DJ/engineer didn't stop/fade the record quickly after the drum/bass sudden ending, it would quickly go into "Another One Bites The Dust"-hmmm, not a bad ending to that song, either!)
We Will Rock You - 1977
Bohemian Rhapsody - 1976
Prince & The Revolution:
Purple Rain (long version) - 1984 (more of a fade-out?)
Let's Go Crazy b/w Erotic City - 1984
What I Like About You - The Romantics -1980
My Sharona - The Knack - 1979
Can't You Hear Me Knocking - The Rolling Stones - 1971
Cherish - The Association - 1966
Along Comes Mary - The Association - 1966 ("sweeter than punch!")
Good Morning Starshine - Oliver - 1969
Turning Japanese - The Vapors - 1980
I'm A Man - Chicago - 1969/1971
Simon & Garfunkel:
The Sounds Of Silence - 1965/66
Homeward Bound - 1966
I Am A Rock - 1966
A Hazy Shade Of Winter - 1966
Fakin' It - 1967 (coda that's a fadeout)
Scarborough Fair (/Canticle) - 1968
The Boxer - 1969
Bridge Over Troubled Water - 1970 (mentioned previously by another poster)
Roundabout - Yes - 1972
Revolution #2 - The Beatles - 1968
Santana:
Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen - Santana - 1970/71
Oye Como Va - 1971
When Will I Be Loved - Linda Ronstadt - 1975
Working For The Weekend - Loverboy - 1981/82
The Eagles:
Heartache Tonight - 1979
Those Shoes - 1979
Amie (long version) - Pure Prarie League - 1975
Journey:
Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' - 1979
Faithfully - 1983
Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who - 1971
You Keep Me Hangin' On - Vanilla Fudge - 1967/68
Eve 6 - Inside Out - 1998
Zombie - The Cranberries - 1994
Complicated - Avril Lavigne - 2002
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana - 1991/92
The Kinks:
You Really Got Me - 1964
All Day And All Of The Night - 1964/65
She's Not There - The Zombies - 1964
If I Didn't Love You - Squeeze - 1980
Island Girl - Elton John - 1975
The Cars:
Bye Bye Love - 1978
Just What I Needed - 1978
You're All I've Got Tonight - 1978
Snow Patrol:
Chasing Cars - 2006
Take Back The City - 2008
U2:
Bad (Live) - 1985
I Will Follow - 1981
 
That's quite a list, pjc1961. I wouldn't poke a hole in any part of that list, although I would note that we have a person on the radio who uses "Start Me Up", as her little clue for grubbing money for a luxury car. Guess she has a thing going with some dead guy, and her car is the place to go for it. ROFLMAO
 
Ordinarily, I don't particularly like fading endings, as I believe I said earlier, but I like the fadeout on the live (yes, I said live!) version of "Lay Down Sally" by Eric Clapton on the Just One Night live album which was released in 1980. The only time I have ever heard a live version which faded out, other than when it was faded for the record (usually a single). "Cocaine" on that live album also has a very clever ending!
 
Clapton's Bell Bottom Blues also has a good fade.

Dead Man's Curve - Jan and Dean
It Don't Come Easy - Ringo Starr
 
American Woman - The Guess Who ("Goodbye American woman, goodbye American shit...")
 
radioman148 said:
phantom444 said:
American Woman - The Guess Who ("Goodbye American woman, goodbye American shit...")
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Is that it or is it "goodbye American chick?" I never could figure out which.
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Given their track record of not making many songs that were anything too pleasant or cheerful, does it matter?
 
"Flashlight" by Parliament. The single actually never ended...it's just kept repeating "under the sun...under the sun...under the sun" until you took the record off the turntable.
 
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