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    Posted: July 15 2018 at 18:08
I'm sure most of you have heard songs that end on a very anticlimactic note, you know, the type of songs that you expect to have a cool ending, but instead they stop dead in their track leaving you a bit unsatisfied.
Here are three tracks that come to my mind:

Tomas Bodin - M (really bizarre ending)
Todd Rundgren - Le Feel Internacionale (it goes dense and just stops)
SBB - Memento z Banalnym Tryptykiem (thankfully the sheer beauty of the guitar solo compensates for it)

Do you have any more examples? Just wondering.
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"Never Sleeps the Mouse Police" by Tull. It ends with a wheezing cough.
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Just finished listening to one, in fact.  Godspeed You! Black Emperor's "Motherf*cker=Redeemer (Part II)".  After listening to Part I which was over 21 minutes and is quite awesome, and then Part II never hits the climax, even after it's 15 minute run time.  It has a sudden quick crescendo and then ends abruptly.  Talk about disappointing.  I guess you could see that as a statement to their sudden hiatus, and it makes sense in that aspect, but I'm so happy they are back again.
 
Another one that more people would be familiar with is Yes "Hearts", the last track on "90125".  You expect a huge close to their comeback album, and it just ends.  I couldn't believe it was over the first time I heard it.  I kept expecting a final big guitar solo or something.  Most of Blue Oyster Cult's albums seem to end with a mediocre song too.
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Dream Theater- Pull Me under
The Beatles- I want you/she's so heavy(yes it's prog)
Yes- Heart of the Sunrise


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Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar". Though if kind of continues quite softly, it also gives me the impression of an abrupt ending.
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Flash – There No More.  It has one of my favorite extended codas which comes to a halt as abruptly as the aforementioned Beatles tune.

 

King Crimson – The Mincer.  Apparently the tape simply ran out, which led me to think something was wrong with the record the first I played it.
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Originally posted by TCat TCat wrote:

Just finished listening to one, in fact.  Godspeed You! Black Emperor's "Motherf*cker=Redeemer (Part II)".  After listening to Part I which was over 21 minutes and is quite awesome, and then Part II never hits the climax, even after it's 15 minute run time.  It has a sudden quick crescendo and then ends abruptly.  Talk about disappointing.  I guess you could see that as a statement to their sudden hiatus, and it makes sense in that aspect, but I'm so happy they are back again.
 
Another one that more people would be familiar with is Yes "Hearts", the last track on "90125".  You expect a huge close to their comeback album, and it just ends.  I couldn't believe it was over the first time I heard it.  I kept expecting a final big guitar solo or something.  Most of Blue Oyster Cult's albums seem to end with a mediocre song too.



Ahh mate,    I think Hearts is a lovely song with an almost perfect ending - I say almost because it's always grated on me a bit how in the production the reverb was removed from Andersons voice just on the very last line. 

"Pull me under" is the ultimate bad ending for me - well, perhaps not necessarily bad but just a bit disappointing in it's abruptness.


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Heart of The Sunrise
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Originally posted by AreYouHuman AreYouHuman wrote:

Flash – There No More.  It has one of my favorite extended codas which comes to a halt as abruptly as the aforementioned Beatles tune.

 

King Crimson – The Mincer.  Apparently the tape simply ran out, which led me to think something was wrong with the record the first I played it.


I was going to mention the Mincer but it's more of a case of the tape running out like you say. I think this issue was sort of fixed on the reissues but not sure since it's been a while since I heard it.
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The Black Rainbow by Coheed and Cambria. I think it ends on a dramatic crescendo and abrupt stop though, so not as bad
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Cheer-Accident have a fair few which end on a sudden sharp cut, though the only one with a disappointing result of these is "Driving a Nail With a Clock". I might be missing some too:

"Fat Dog's Gonna Hatch" from Dumb Ask
"Ignorance Moving Sideways" from Babies Shouldn't Smoke
"Driving a Nail With a Clock" from The Why Album 
"Grow II" from Not a Food
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Half the discography of Gentle Giant... just saying.

"Put Me On" by Styx (yes I consider Styx, up till Cornerstone, prog) ends pretty abruptly, and then speeds straight off into Mademoiselle.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

The Beatles- I want you/she's so heavy(yes it's prog)

This is an interesting one because although it does end abruptly, there is a big drawn out wind up to that abruptness. I don't consider it anti-climactic but I can see why others would.
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Originally posted by Jeffro Jeffro wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

The Beatles- I want you/she's so heavy(yes it's prog)

This is an interesting one because although it does end abruptly, there is a big drawn out wind up to that abruptness. I don't consider it anti-climactic but I can see why others would.

I love the ending 'cause they're just pounding away and all of the sudden...silence.  I got Abbey Road the Christmas after it was released and I'd never heard I Want You/She's So Heavy on the radio.  When the song just stopped I was wondering what went wrong with my trusty Radio Shack record player LOL

Type O Negative did a fantastic Beatles medley on their '99 World Coming Down album.  It starts with Day Tripper, morphs into If I Needed Someone then the last 4 minutes are the ending from She's So Heavy.  What they do different though is gradually keep slowing down over 4 minutes until the end just crawls at about 1/4 normal speed then it cuts off.  Type O had such a great sense of humor...love those guys Wink



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Originally posted by The.Crimson.King The.Crimson.King wrote:

Originally posted by Jeffro Jeffro wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

The Beatles- I want you/she's so heavy(yes it's prog)

This is an interesting one because although it does end abruptly, there is a big drawn out wind up to that abruptness. I don't consider it anti-climactic but I can see why others would.

I love the ending 'cause they're just pounding away and all of the sudden...silence.  First time I heard Abbey Road and the ending I was 10 and was wondering what just went wrong with my record player LOL

I always loved that ending as well. Just seems so right somehow.
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I think a lot of Blackfield songs scream for instrumental development, especially "Cloudy Now." It ends just when it should explode.
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