The attached came on my headphones this morning. It’s an excellent track, but it also has an terrific coda at the end of it (which lasts for almost as long as the song itself). Much is made of good introductions, but I’m not sure how much the other end of songs is appreciated. Does anyone have any other examples to share (I can think of one, but I won’t reply straight away).
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This is an obvious one. I buried Flanders etc. Thumbs up for spelling favorit in Swedish.
First time I heard that as a youngish lad, I went properly cold. It comes out of nowhere, and is so odd – but that makes it stand out.
If the instrumental second half of Layla is a Coda (it is to my ears) then I will nominate it. Better than the song itself imho.
Definitely better than the (overplayed) song.
And when heard over a big PA in a sweaty club, one is reminded just how darn fine it really is.
Also, a magnificent musical backdrop to that pivotal scene in “Goodfellas” when all the miscreants are bumped off.
Not only the miscreants, but also the ne’er-do-wells.
Not to mention the hobbledehoys.
Oh! I just did..
Hey Jude by the fabs is a rather obvious example.
The Smiths. Kings of the intros and Lord of the coda.
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
Barbarism Begins At Home
I could post another 20 or so I reckon.
Oooooh I LOVE a good coda.
U2 redeem a rather pedestrian song with a knockout orchestral bit – ‘All I Want Is You’
The Stones have not one but two on Sticky Fingers – ‘Can’t You Hear Me Knocking’ and ‘Moonlight Mile’
And Dire Straits also have not one but two on On Every Street – the title track and ‘Calling Elvis’
Tom Waits brings a New Orleans jazz band in for about thirty seconds – ‘Anywhere I Lay My Head’
Yes! The second half of Can´t You Hear Me Knocking is quite possibly the best thing The Stones ever did. Mick Taylor is at his best.
Good call on Moonlight Mile. I like the gospel ending of Salt of the Earth too.
More Dire Straits – ‘owz about Telegraph Road
The Jam – Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (All Mod Cons Album version)
The single ends at the fade.
The album version fades, ends with an “Oi” and then the sound of a train pulling out of the station can be heard.
Rick Bucklers drums impersonate a train on rails and Weller’s guitar and Foxton’s rumbling bass kick back in.
It’s only a minute, but a pretty good minute
Is it a coda, or just an extended guitar solo?
Freebird can provide many hours of happy listening … again and again
AC/DCs Down Payment Blues has a rather nice slow shuffle finish.
Turn up the wick and you can almost hear the amps tubes rattling.
Not sure how long something needs to last for it to be a coda, but Slash plays a lovely, pining bit of Spanish guitar at the end of Double Talkin’ Jive:
Edit: I guess it’s about 40 seconds.
Moog Madness!
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Lucky Man
More electronically created madness, with a violin over the top
The Who – Baba O’Riley
La de de da, la de da (repeat)
The Rutles – Shangri La
My first thought was Stone Roses. I Am The Resurrection is the obvious one, but I prefer Waterfall. Just fantastic guitar. Or the amazing live versh of Fools Gold.
Traffic – “Rainmaker” from The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys. A pretty long track at 7m54s, but for about the last three and a half minutes they’re playing a barely related instrumental riff which sounds as if it was started by Chris Wood on his tenor sax and just followed by the rest of them.
The first two that immediately came to mind were the aforementioned Layla and Richard and Linda Thompson’s finest hour Dimming of the Day/Dargai although I’m not sure they really count as they are really an instrumental track bolted onto a separate song, particularly the latter. So instead I’ll suggest the last two minutes of Eric Clapton’s gorgeous Opposites – there’s a little guitar riff about 30 seconds before the end which kills me every time
And I love the way the band takes it home for the last two and a half minutes of Ronstadt and Harris’s superlative version of Springsteen’s ‘Across the Border’
Cheers for commenting and suggesting everyone. Here’s the other one I was thinking of earlier:
Another airing for this quite brilliant clip. Coda last three minutes (ish)
Talking Heads – Found A Job. A glorious wigout coda that shows they always had that funky groove in them. I just wish it went on longer.
Mr. Blue Sky has a rather good coda, no?
I have another one.
The Tubes were an odd band. Each of their albums, apart from the debut, had a couple of good tracks and a load of mediocre filler, it seems to me. “Poland Whole/Hey Madam I’m Adam” from Young And Rich was one of the good bits on that album. The last minute, when the insistent riff that has been there throughout disappears and they segue into a different bit before starting to chant “Poland Whole” (wonder what they mean?) to the fade.
Rather stupidly, there is no full version of this track on YouTube unless you either listen to a clip of the entire album (and it’s the second from last track so not recommended) or else you skip the first 4m40s from another clip (below) that starts with “Tubes World Tour” and then segues into it. Presumably it’s taken from a compilation album or else the guy who compiled it is an annoying git.
Does the fade out and fade back in on Thankyou/Led Zeppelin 2 count? My favourite of theirs by a country mile. Original studio version not the later released longer one or the live ones, either.
Bacharach is a master at this – two great examples:
BJ Thomas – Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head from 2.28
Bobbie Gentry – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again from 2.36 (short but perfect)