Post your 3 favorite Outros of all time

The Smiths - Pretty Girls Make Graves. From 3:00 until the end.



As soon as I heard that part I knew The Smiths would be a very special band to me.

 

Stevie Wonder - I Believe When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever (or whatever it's really called)
Ringo Starr - Six O'Clock (long version)
Paul McCartney - Beautiful Night

 

Morrisey's voice *sigh*

 

"Don't Back Down" (mono version) - The Beach Boys. The stereo version falls prey to the infamous Chuck Britz early fade.

 

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Sir Psycho Sexy. Love John Frusciante's guitar work on the outro of this track.

 

It's a shame it faded out so quickly - If Love Could Kill by Hurrah!

 

The way Carl hmmms at 1:45 *sigh*

 

Another beautiful outro 5:55 - 6:37

 

The crazy outro to "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey" is in my top 10.

 

I just remembered another one that's pretty awesome, Back Door by Clan of Xymox. I'm not quite sure whether the outro begins at 3:23 or when the guitar (which may be faux, as it's a synth pop band) kicks in at 3:46, but it's all good:

 

And another good one is Hide in Your Shell by Supertramp. Beginning right where the sax comes in after the last line of vocals. If you know the band you should know where I mean. Perfect!

I'd post a Youtube studio version but most examples lately have been live, and bands don't always copy note-for-note.

 

And I doubt you'll find a YouTube video of a Hodgson-era Supertramp studio recording. Maybe not impossible, but extremely unlikely. Roger Hodgson is one of the fiercest persecutors of copyright violators.

 

I'll provide direct links to all of these so you don't have to skip to the outro.

#3 - Carly Simon "Haven't Got Time For The Pain"



Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3_l5Ss203I&feature=youtu.be&t=2m26s

I don't know what it was about the early '70s, but there were a slew of songs released with wicked, dramatic outros. I've always thought this was one of the best.

 

#2 - Linda Ronstadt "You're No Good"



Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rITqN5wPwE&feature=youtu.be&t=2m18s

Another super dramatic - and impressively dark - outro.

 

#1 - Bobbie Gentry "Fancy"



Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORfoK5Ap0FA&feature=youtu.be&t=3m57s

Way too brief, that's my only issue with it. Otherwise I think this is about the funkiest, swampiest thing anybody ever captured on wax.

(Edit: I created a longer loop of the outro here - http://youtu.be/zqW53Vs5o9E)

 

I will add Springsteen's Racing In The Street. That coda is the second best melody he's written. Trails only Summer On Signal Hill.

 

Some of the ones posted already like "Goodbye Stranger", "The Chain", "Youre No Good" are great. I would include those as well as these:

Derek & The Dominos-Layla
Elton John-Grey Seal
Eagles-Hotel California
ELO-Shangri-La
The Monkees-Pleasant Valley Sunday
Paul McCartney-1985
Beatles-While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Steely Dan-FM

 

Oooh yeah, "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five" off Band on the Run. Killer track, epic outro.

 

I have always loved the outro to Lou Reeds Perfect Day but I especially love the BBC version of the song

https://www.google.ie/?gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=PYm-U-_4CNHb7AayloDICQ#

I also love loads of the songs already mentioned, High Hopes Pink Floyd, Bruces Racing in The Street and so many others.

 

Sorry, wrong link above, this should work,

 

Sorry wrong link above this should work,

 

The song is awful but I love this outro so much...2:32-309

 

Love the last couple minutes of Black Sabbath's Iron Man.

 

The last minute of "Brown Sugar" - the "yeah yeah yeah wooo!" vocals, the guitar, Bobby Keys' sax - it's the Stones at their most joyful and abandoned peak, right down to the faintly heard "Yah!" at the very end. It's the perfect encapsulation of the power of the Rolling Stones, and of rock 'n' roll itself.

 

The J.Geils Band's "Wreckage" ain't bad either - starts around the 3:35 mark..