A Little Something Special at the End
July 15, 2011 8:19 AM Subscribe
Looking for songs with something special (spoken words, sound effects, etc.) at the end.
Johnny Cash's When The Man Comes Around is a perfect example of what I'm looking for (with the spoken words and the sound effect of the record player needle) at the end.
Johnny Cash's When The Man Comes Around is a perfect example of what I'm looking for (with the spoken words and the sound effect of the record player needle) at the end.
The album version of "Helter Skelter" by the Beatles has a "fake-out" ending where they fade out, then fade back in again for a minute before Ringo screams "I'VE GOT BLISTERS ON MAH FINGERS!" at the top of his lungs and they finally stop (they'd been playing for about 20 minutes straight in the studio).
"Beautiful Boy" by John Lennon has ocean sound effects at the very end.
On his first album, Phil Collins did a cover of the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows," and at the very end he very quietly sings a verse of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" a capella (and there's also a spoken "okay" at the very end of THAT).
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:29 AM on July 15, 2011
"Beautiful Boy" by John Lennon has ocean sound effects at the very end.
On his first album, Phil Collins did a cover of the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows," and at the very end he very quietly sings a verse of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" a capella (and there's also a spoken "okay" at the very end of THAT).
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:29 AM on July 15, 2011
Oh man, there are going to be a ton, but literally the first one that popped into my head was "Cult of Personality" by Living Colour. Does the backwards stuff at the end of Prince's "Darling Nikki" count?
posted by mintcake! at 8:32 AM on July 15, 2011
posted by mintcake! at 8:32 AM on July 15, 2011
Response by poster: Does the backwards stuff at the end of Prince's "Darling Nikki" count?
I'm open to pretty much anything except sounds related to live performance (ie: sounds of applause, stage chatter, etc.). Studio chatter would be ok, though.
posted by anastasiav at 8:36 AM on July 15, 2011
I'm open to pretty much anything except sounds related to live performance (ie: sounds of applause, stage chatter, etc.). Studio chatter would be ok, though.
posted by anastasiav at 8:36 AM on July 15, 2011
"Lady Godiva's Operation" by the Velvet Underground — heartbeat, shivery breathing and moaning.
posted by argybarg at 8:37 AM on July 15, 2011
posted by argybarg at 8:37 AM on July 15, 2011
There's that long bit of poetry ("Late Lament") at the end of Nights in White Satin, by the Moody Blues.
posted by jquinby at 8:39 AM on July 15, 2011
posted by jquinby at 8:39 AM on July 15, 2011
On his first album, Phil Collins did a cover of the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows"
Likewise, the song "Do You Know, Do You Care" (on Hello, I Must Be Going) begins and ends with sfx.
posted by mintcake! at 8:41 AM on July 15, 2011
Likewise, the song "Do You Know, Do You Care" (on Hello, I Must Be Going) begins and ends with sfx.
posted by mintcake! at 8:41 AM on July 15, 2011
Warning: TV Tropes link. That's to their page about songs with "studio chatter," although they list songs with chatter at the beginning as well as just on the end. (Not sure whether that is a dealbreaker. But the entries do specifiy whether songs have stuff at the beginning or end.)
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:46 AM on July 15, 2011
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:46 AM on July 15, 2011
I Love Everything about you by Stevie Wonder. Think that's the right title... Makes me laugh every time.
posted by oohisay at 8:51 AM on July 15, 2011
posted by oohisay at 8:51 AM on July 15, 2011
At the end of "Pick U Up" by Adam Lambert (a very strange song written by Rivers Cuomo of Weezer), he laughs.
posted by katyggls at 8:55 AM on July 15, 2011
posted by katyggls at 8:55 AM on July 15, 2011
It's been a while, but I seem to remember that Sting's "If You Love Somebody" had a good one. The song expressed the exact opposite sentiment of the Police's "Every Breath You Take", and at the end it had a fade out of silly pokes at that song (like "Every Cake You Bake".
posted by madmethods at 9:01 AM on July 15, 2011
posted by madmethods at 9:01 AM on July 15, 2011
"Strawberry Fields Forever" by the Beatles
"A Day in the Life" by the Beatles (vocal loop after the long final chord)
"Within You Without You" by the Beatles (audience laughter segues into "When I'm 64")
"Cry Baby Cry" (ends with a song fragment: "Can you take me back where I came from...")
"Good" by Better than Ezra (weird spoken voice at the very end)
"Thru the Eyes of Ruby" by Smashing Pumpkins (ends with musical fragment that sounds totally disconnected from the rest)
"Green Mind" by Dink
posted by John Cohen at 9:01 AM on July 15, 2011
"A Day in the Life" by the Beatles (vocal loop after the long final chord)
"Within You Without You" by the Beatles (audience laughter segues into "When I'm 64")
"Cry Baby Cry" (ends with a song fragment: "Can you take me back where I came from...")
"Good" by Better than Ezra (weird spoken voice at the very end)
"Thru the Eyes of Ruby" by Smashing Pumpkins (ends with musical fragment that sounds totally disconnected from the rest)
"Green Mind" by Dink
posted by John Cohen at 9:01 AM on July 15, 2011
"Eclipse," the last track on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon ends with a heartbeat.
posted by griphus at 9:04 AM on July 15, 2011
posted by griphus at 9:04 AM on July 15, 2011
Spinning Wheel by Blood Sweat & Tears ends with a cheezy waltz tune (The More We Get Together) and the drummer saying "That wasn't too good"
Happy Loving Couples by Joe Jackson ends with Joe shouting "Right, that's enough" as the song comes to an abrupt end.
In My Time of Dying by Led Zeppelin has a bizarre ending where Robert Plant sings the final line that should be "Don't you make it my dyin' dyin' dyin' bed" but he says "Don't you make it my dyin' dyin' dyin' cough". The song then ends with studio chatter saying "That's gonna be the one 'ain't it?", "Come have a listen, then.", "Oh yes, thank you."
posted by rocket88 at 9:05 AM on July 15, 2011
Happy Loving Couples by Joe Jackson ends with Joe shouting "Right, that's enough" as the song comes to an abrupt end.
In My Time of Dying by Led Zeppelin has a bizarre ending where Robert Plant sings the final line that should be "Don't you make it my dyin' dyin' dyin' bed" but he says "Don't you make it my dyin' dyin' dyin' cough". The song then ends with studio chatter saying "That's gonna be the one 'ain't it?", "Come have a listen, then.", "Oh yes, thank you."
posted by rocket88 at 9:05 AM on July 15, 2011
I'm not sure this really counts but I also thought of "Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me" by Pearl Jam. The entire song is just bass, drums, and distortion over recordings of what sound like deranged children, but are actually recordings of mental patients, or so the internet tells me. But at the end all of the other sounds fade out and you just hear the voices.
posted by katyggls at 9:06 AM on July 15, 2011
posted by katyggls at 9:06 AM on July 15, 2011
Right idea, wrong song. It was apparently "Love is the Seventh Wave", not "If You Love Somebody".
posted by madmethods at 9:06 AM on July 15, 2011
posted by madmethods at 9:06 AM on July 15, 2011
"Sucker" by Self ends with a loving tribute to the "Darling Nikki" thing (and is also awesome).
posted by mintcake! at 9:16 AM on July 15, 2011
posted by mintcake! at 9:16 AM on July 15, 2011
There is a lovely little conversation with the Enchanted Wizard of Rhythm at the end of Hotwax by Beck
posted by beau jackson at 9:47 AM on July 15, 2011
posted by beau jackson at 9:47 AM on July 15, 2011
The end of Queen's "Seven Seas of Rhye" descends into a number of people singing "I Do Like To be Beside the Seaside", a British music hall song.
posted by monospace at 9:51 AM on July 15, 2011
posted by monospace at 9:51 AM on July 15, 2011
Wilco's Poor Places ends with a sample of a numbers station operator repeating the phrase "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" (also the name of the album the song is on).
Actually, several songs on that album probably qualify.
posted by Roommate at 10:07 AM on July 15, 2011
Actually, several songs on that album probably qualify.
posted by Roommate at 10:07 AM on July 15, 2011
Every song on the incredible album Tubthumping by Chumbawamba has a weird spoken word thing at the end.
posted by Lutoslawski at 10:13 AM on July 15, 2011
posted by Lutoslawski at 10:13 AM on July 15, 2011
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was my first thought, too. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart has feedback at the end. Ashes of American Flags has a distorted piano playing a few notes of the next song, Heavy Metal Drummer.
The end of Coast to Coast contains the poem Exile in Paradise's Tourmaline by Nelson Gary
At the end of Oh Comely, someone yells "Holy shit!" It's quiet, though.
posted by quiet coyote at 10:34 AM on July 15, 2011
The end of Coast to Coast contains the poem Exile in Paradise's Tourmaline by Nelson Gary
At the end of Oh Comely, someone yells "Holy shit!" It's quiet, though.
posted by quiet coyote at 10:34 AM on July 15, 2011
On the latest REM album, "Collapse Into Now", the last track, "Blue" ends with a fade out, then the chorus of the album's first track, "Discoverer" comes roaring back.
posted by davebush at 10:53 AM on July 15, 2011
posted by davebush at 10:53 AM on July 15, 2011
At the end of "Airport Song" by Guster (on their album Goldfly), you can hear a recording of the band playing ping-pong in the studio. Hardcore fans actually now throw ping pong balls at the stage at the end of this song when it's performed live.
posted by jitterbug perfume at 11:22 AM on July 15, 2011
posted by jitterbug perfume at 11:22 AM on July 15, 2011
Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) by Pink Floyd has children playing while a man is screaming "Wrong, Do it again! If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat? You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!" and then a telephone off the hook.
posted by Deflagro at 11:31 AM on July 15, 2011
posted by Deflagro at 11:31 AM on July 15, 2011
I have some more!
* The Beatles: "I Am The Walrus" has clips of a BBC radio adaptation of KING LEAR mixed in, and "Good Morning, Good Morning" has a lot of animal sound effects mixed in.
* At the very end of Sting's "Dream Of The Blue Turtles" (the title track itself, not the album), everyone suddenly bursts out laughing. Sting is laughing especially hard, which prompts Branford Marsalis to say, "What's his problem?" through his own giggles.
* Megadeth's cover of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid:" the drummer didn't know they'd stopped, and you hear the band trying to stop him -- then you hear the drummer say "Fuck me running!"
* Found this last on TV Tropes: Pinmonkey's "Stay with Us," at the end one of the guitarists says, "That better be it, because I just broke my A string on the last bar."
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 11:43 AM on July 15, 2011
* The Beatles: "I Am The Walrus" has clips of a BBC radio adaptation of KING LEAR mixed in, and "Good Morning, Good Morning" has a lot of animal sound effects mixed in.
* At the very end of Sting's "Dream Of The Blue Turtles" (the title track itself, not the album), everyone suddenly bursts out laughing. Sting is laughing especially hard, which prompts Branford Marsalis to say, "What's his problem?" through his own giggles.
* Megadeth's cover of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid:" the drummer didn't know they'd stopped, and you hear the band trying to stop him -- then you hear the drummer say "Fuck me running!"
* Found this last on TV Tropes: Pinmonkey's "Stay with Us," at the end one of the guitarists says, "That better be it, because I just broke my A string on the last bar."
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 11:43 AM on July 15, 2011
On "Ophelia" by Natalie Merchant, there is a song "when they ring those golden bells", but after the song ends, wait about 30 seconds or so and out comes this incredibly awesome cello and violin instrumental that lasts about 4 minutes. I love that part so much that I usually fast forward the "golden bells" song to get to it.
posted by foxhat10 at 12:23 PM on July 15, 2011
posted by foxhat10 at 12:23 PM on July 15, 2011
The Dukes of Stratosphear (XTC group) album has several snippets from a kind of Alice in Wonderland narrative between many tunes.
posted by Glinn at 2:05 PM on July 15, 2011
posted by Glinn at 2:05 PM on July 15, 2011
At the close of Dan Fogelberg's tribute to his father, 'Leader of the Band,' music fades up from the background. It's the UCLA Band playing the 'Washington Post March' by John Philip Sousa arranged by Lawrence Fogelberg. His Dad was a high school band director in Peoria, Illinois.
posted by ericb at 2:13 PM on July 15, 2011
posted by ericb at 2:13 PM on July 15, 2011
David Bowie - The Bewlay Brothers - high-pitched sing-along a la The Laughing Gnome.
posted by Kafkaesque at 2:18 PM on July 15, 2011
posted by Kafkaesque at 2:18 PM on July 15, 2011
At the end of the first side of Stevie Wonder's Music Of My Mind you can find a song called "Sweet Little Girl" which ends with an amusing soliloquy (but the CD's mix fades out a little early to prevent you from hearing him say the n-word).
posted by Rash at 2:49 PM on July 15, 2011
posted by Rash at 2:49 PM on July 15, 2011
Just Call Me Joe by Sinead O'Connor ends with a rambly stream-of-consciousness soliloquy (presumably by 'Joe') that sounds like voices do when the listener is on the verge of dreaming ...
posted by Rube R. Nekker at 8:31 PM on July 15, 2011
posted by Rube R. Nekker at 8:31 PM on July 15, 2011
Joni Mitchell does a great giggle at the end of Big Yellow Taxi. I love it.
posted by kjs4 at 1:27 AM on July 16, 2011
posted by kjs4 at 1:27 AM on July 16, 2011
I've always loved the way Rickie Lee Jones mimics the sound of cars going by on a highway at the end of Last Chance Texaco. This is a live version, but the sound effect is better on the original recorded version.
posted by Paris Elk at 2:34 AM on July 16, 2011
posted by Paris Elk at 2:34 AM on July 16, 2011
I keep thinking about this question! There's a story (with record player needle sound effects) at the end of Your Southern Can is Mine by The White Stripes.
posted by quiet coyote at 5:27 PM on July 18, 2011
posted by quiet coyote at 5:27 PM on July 18, 2011
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Watching the Wheels by John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Voice by Sense Field
posted by amro at 8:23 AM on July 15, 2011