Epic Song Endings

chriswallace85 · 14th July 2010, 11:01 AM

Simon & Garfunkel's The Boxer. The way it builds up into a great wall of sound of drums, strings and lie-la-lies, and then calms right back down for the guitar to finish off, awesome.

Dr Mackem · 14th July 2010, 11:05 AM

Lynard Sknyard - Freebird.

Sideshow Bob2 · 14th July 2010, 11:06 AM

Radiohead - Paranoid Android. The whole last three minutes or so.

SAFC2403 · 14th July 2010, 11:06 AM

A day in the life - The Beatles.

Pell · 14th July 2010, 11:07 AM

radiohead - life in a glass house
the national - fake empire
meatloaf - bat out of hell
and you will know us by the trail of dead - a perfect teenhood
manics - condemned to rock and roll
elbow - grace under pressure

Mackem Al · 14th July 2010, 11:08 AM

The Beatles - A Day in the Life.

tunstall birdman · 14th July 2010, 11:08 AM

Terry Callier-Dancing Girl

This song is pure 'epic' all the way to me.

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kingmonkey · 14th July 2010, 11:08 AM

The stone roses - I am the ressurection

They just kept the tapes going and kept playing at the end of the song.

The Roker Roar · 14th July 2010, 11:12 AM

Derek & The Dominos - Layla

Beau Peep · 14th July 2010, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Pell

radiohead - life in a glass house
the national - fake empire
meatloaf - bat out of hell
and you will know us by the trail of dead - a perfect teenhood
manics - condemned to rock and roll
elbow - grace under pressure

^^^ This. You think its ending two or three times, then there is that expansive rising guitar just before the real ending that sends shivers. Awesome.

I would add Muse - Butterflies and Hurricanes (the album version). Sticking Rachmaninov style passages into a rock song is pretentious, ridiculous, incongruous and precocious, and because of all these things it's absolutely brilliant.