Favorite song endings

[EStreetJoe]

To complement the song lead-in thread, I'm wondering about your favorite song ending.

I'm not talking about an instrumental or vocal that goes to the fade out (like with Freebird, Springsteen's Thunder Road, any number of pop songs, etc.).

I'm talking about a definite fixed ending, like the bird chirp on Layla, or the piano on Springsteen's Jungleland, or the guitar on Born to Run.

So SportsJournalists.com nation -- have at it..

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Two that immediately come to mind for me:

"Where The Streets Have No Name", U2. The Edge's work to close out the song is a perfect bookend to the intro, which I also listed on the best intro thread.

"Moonlight Mile", Rolling Stones. The strings to close it out are a wonderful cap to a beautiful song, with the final notes rising just a bit in timbre as an exclamation point.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Does "A Day in the Life" — where the end is the beginning and the beginning is the end — count?

 

[mustangj17]

Pearl Jam- Alive.

Great guitar riff at the end.

 

[mustangj17]

You know what Pearl Jam -Black has a cool ending.

It always makes me think of the Bill Simmons line.

The song is being sung to Darko by Joe Dumars

"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star. In someone else's eyes. Why, why can't it be mine."

 

[Huggy]

First two that come to mind are songs with great openings: "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who and "Rock And Roll" by Zeppelin.

 

[Buck]

I've got blisters on my fingers!

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

The end of AC/DC's Night Prowler:

"Shazbut. Nanu, nanu."

 

[dooley_womack1]

--Just Dropped In, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
--Strawberry Fields, Beatles
--Working Man, Rush

Most obnoxious ending: I'll Supply the Love, Toto. Same riff for about two minutes

 

[kingcreole]

I always love the instrumental part of "November Rain".

 

[Trey Beamon]

"Antichrist Television Blues" - The Arcade Fire (picks up speed, then stops on a dime)

"Song 2" - Blur (Oh yeah!)

"Stan" - Eminem (Come to think about it ... it was you. Damn)

"Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen (Any way the wind blows ... GONG!)

"Paper Boats" - Nada Surf (Not necessarily the "end," but the last verse gets me every time)

 

[Buck]

I'll stick my knife right down your throat, baby,
And it hurts!

 

[Claws for Concern]

Chicago -- Beginnings

It's a full on island parade at the end of the song.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

I like when that Britney Spears song ends.

Every one of them.

 

[vonnegutnaked2]

Beatles: I Want You (She's So Heavy)

 

[Captain_Kirk]

I like when that Britney Spears song ends.

Every one of them.

Can't say I recall having ever heard a Britney Spears song end...

 

[Cosmo]

Good call on Layla. Reminds me of GoodFellas every time I hear the song.

 

[RossLT]

The last half of Purple Rain when Prince is working the guitar.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

"Entangled" - Genesis - Hauntingly beautiful ending ... nicely performed by Tony and Steve. Plus a great setup for "Squonk."

"Los Endos" - Genesis - Nice tribute to Pete (it's the final track on the first album after he left) and a reprise on "Squonk."

"The Musical Box" - Genesis - Heartfelt lyrics by Pete and a tidy little ending.

"Seven Stones" - Genesis - All Tony ... and well done.

"Supper's Ready" - Genesis - Twenty-three minutes weren't going to be wasted with a limp ending ...

"Home By The Sea/Second Home By The Sea" - Genesis - Overlooked too often, very well done and proof that they hadn't forgotten their roots in the '80s. Outstanding lyrical piece, great instrumental ... yeah, you get the idea ... unless you're the idiots running the RRHOF.

"The Steppes" - Steve Hackett - Great little triplets by Steve.

"An Island in the Darkness" - Tony Banks - After 17 minutes, you didn't think Tony was going to put a pedestrian ending on this one, did you?

"YYZ" - Rush - Ends as nicely as it begins.

"Turn The Page" - Rush - The good: This underrated track ended well. The bad: "Hold Your Fire" should have ended right here, too.

"Chain Lightning" - Rush - "That's niiiice."

"The Pass" - Rush - Always has been one of Geddy's favorites. Heartfelt, powerful and holds that theme to the last note.

"Time" - Pink Floyd - Reflective ending absolutely perfect for reflective tone of track.

"New York State of Mind" - Billy Joel - Nice final chord and definitive end to the track still most associated with New York (says some poll somewhere ... )

"Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" - Billy Joel - The motorcycles revving up ...

"Ribbon In The Sky" - Stevie Wonder - See comments to "YYZ"

"Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology Song)" - Marvin Gaye - Dissonant ending pretty telling about the ecology and the things we do to further foul it up.
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Echo Claws on Chicago's "Beginnings." Superbly done.

 

[Batman]

"The Devil Went Down to Georgia" is pretty cool, both the lyrics ("I done told you once you son of a *****, I'm the best that ever lived!") and the fiddle at the end coming to a definitive ending.

And it's a fade-out, but I also love Weird Al's "Don't Download This Song". As the music is fading at the end he's still yelling some funny stuff at the listener that you have to turn up the volume to hear.