Comments on: Friday fun thread: Rock out

By: Jeff (no, the other one)

Jeff (no, the other one) — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:53:27 +0000

Other Prince secret message, for those who spun the vinyl backwards:

“Baby I’m A Star”(?) intro has a female voice which says something like, “What the fuck do they know? All you need is a big mouth, really. C’mon baby. Let’s go crazy.”

And J. Geils Band Love Stinks LP, “No Anchovies Please”. The narrator says something about a “…strange foreign land” and you hear gibberish in the background. Play it backwards and: “It doesn’t take a genius to tell chicken shit from chicken salad.”

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By: william

william — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:59:39 +0000

#77 and $84 -- Wikipedia says it was John.

By: Dr Paisley

Dr Paisley — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 04:28:02 +0000

“Girlfriend,” by Matthew Sweet (which up to that point is a solid pick-up song enhanced by the sonic magnificence of Robert Quine) goes from the final chorus to a brief drum riff to multiple cross-sqalling guitars when Sweet takes the song into a creepily different direction with the final lines: “And I’m never gonna set you free/No I’m never gonna set you free.”

21. Everything I’ve seen says Ringo shouted that at the end of “Helter Skelter,” but it sure sounds like John to me.

77. The “I hope we passed the audition” line is Ringo.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:26:44 +0000

U2’s Bullet the Blue Sky ends with Bono doing spoken word:

Across the field you see the sky ripped open
See the rain through a gaping wound
Pounding on the women and children
Who run
Into the arms
Of America

By: el kabong

el kabong — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:07:24 +0000

Heavenly’s “Me and My Madness” stops very abruptly with a guitar squall that stops dead after about one and a half seconds.

By: dglynn

dglynn — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 18:49:52 +0000

Parliament’s Flashlight ends acapella, and fades, but is definitely sudden and certainly distinctive. I always like it.

By: Norsecats

Norsecats — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 18:47:41 +0000

The Doors’ “The End” ends quietly on a Picardy 3rd (minor-key piece resolving on a major triad). Clearly Jim Morrison listened to JS Bach.

At the end of the Pogues’ version of “South Australia”, you can hear one of the musicians muttering, “shit.”

By: william

william — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 18:07:13 +0000

#77—I think that’s John. It was John did most of the silly voices on Let It Be.

By: william

william — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:55:17 +0000

Pavement have always been very good at endings, more structured than a freak-out, less repetitive than a fade. “Father to a Sister of Thought” on Wowee Zowee is in some ways just “Trigger Cut” for old people, but the spiky ending completes it in a delightfully unexpected way.

And let’s not forget the classic stop-abruptly line:

I’m
Too sexy for this
Song.

By: Tom Parmenter

Tom Parmenter — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:47:23 +0000

Another Beatles ending, Paul yelling out “I hope we passed the audition!” at the end of “Get Back”. A a true ending, as it turned out, and a pretty melancholy one in retrospect.

By: maurinsky

maurinsky — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:01:28 +0000

The Ballad of Guiteau from Stephen Sondheim’s “Assassins” – Guiteau has just finished singing his little poem about going to the Lordy, and then there is silence, and then you hear the sound of a rope, heavy with his body, swinging.

I love the end of “For All Y’all That Wear Fanny Packs” on Ben Folds Five’s “Naked Baby Pictures” cd. The song itself is just silliness, a rap that doesn’t make any sense, but with some awesome jazzy bass and piano riffing, and at the end, the guys are just laughing their asses off. One of them says “that’s our next single”, and Ben looks into the booth, and sees that the studio techs are gone. He imagines they said to themselves “what the fuck? These guys are fucking nuts!” and left.

Nellie McKay throws some fun little motifs into sone of her songs. At the end of “Won’t U Please B Nice”, which sounds all chipper and Doris Day-like, but includes lyrics like:

“If you would sit, oh so close to me,
that would be nice, like it’s supposed to be
if you don’t, I’ll slit your throat,
so wont’ U please B nice?”

Anyway, at the end of that song, she throws in a playful rendition of the funeral march.

And at the end of “Toto’s Dead”, she’s sings “Oh-we-oh-we-ohhhhhhhhhh” on a low pitch, sustained, and you can hear the overtone about 2 octaves up. Nice.

By: Kip

Kip — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 15:21:00 +0000

One cannot omit the end of Ice Cube’s classic “It Was a Good Day.”

Also, the Flaming Lips tend to have good endings, such as the song “Fight Test”

“The Test is……over”

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 12:40:04 +0000

To add to the Beatles list, in the middle of the traditional fade out/jam in All You Need Is Love, someone (Paul?) sings “She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah!” . Several Beatles songs have false endings, too. I’m only Sleeping stops dead after about a minute, before kicking off again.

By: deadtrees

deadtrees — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 05:30:38 +0000

Massive Attack, “Angel”—after the torrid climax, all the instruments fade out except for the drum machine and acoustic bass that the song started with. The bass notes slow, then fade out, leaving the thump…clack…thub-bump…clack of the drum machine for about ten seconds. Until it stops.

Kinda had to be there.