Prog songs that end abruptly
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Topic: Prog songs that end abruptly
Posted By: Hrychu
Subject: Prog songs that end abruptly
Date Posted: July 15 2018 at 18:08
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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. ------------- Bez pierdolenia sygnał zerwie, to w realia wychodź w hełmie! |
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: July 15 2018 at 18:59
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"Never Sleeps the Mouse Police" by Tull. It ends with a wheezing cough. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: TCat
Date Posted: July 15 2018 at 19:05
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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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Posted By: Junges
Date Posted: July 15 2018 at 19:34
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Dream Theater - Pull my undies! Pull my undies! Pull my undies! I'm not afraid! ------------- 
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 15 2018 at 20:27
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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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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: July 15 2018 at 21:31
| Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar". Though if kind of continues quite softly, it also gives me the impression of an abrupt ending. |
Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: July 15 2018 at 22:06
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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. ------------- Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously. Silly human race! Yes is for everybody! |
Posted By: flyingveepixie
Date Posted: July 16 2018 at 00:47
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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TCat wrote:Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: July 16 2018 at 02:28
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Heart of The Sunrise Cogs in Cogs Assorted Billy Cobham tracks ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: July 16 2018 at 03:16
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Discipline - When She Dreams She Dreams in Color ------------- 
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Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: July 16 2018 at 07:23
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Carpe Diem - Réincarnation A brilliant track slightly spoiled by the abrupt way in which it finishes. ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 16 2018 at 07:28
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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Posted By: tempest_77
Date Posted: July 16 2018 at 09:11
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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 ------------- I use they/them pronouns (feel free to ask me about this!) Check out my music on https://tempestsounds.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - my bandcamp ! |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: July 16 2018 at 09:36
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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 "Track 29" from Introducing Lemon ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: philipemery
Date Posted: July 16 2018 at 09:59
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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. ------------- But the sun is eclipsed by the moon. -- Pink Floyd |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: July 16 2018 at 10:03
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. |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: July 16 2018 at 10:55
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The Orange County Lumber Truck - Zappa Frank pulls the rug right out from under you and laughs as you try to figure out what just happened, Classic! |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: July 16 2018 at 12:00
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  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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1pcjpJROkA" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1pcjpJROkA
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Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: July 16 2018 at 12:05
I always loved that ending as well. Just seems so right somehow.
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Posted By: progmatic
Date Posted: July 16 2018 at 13:42
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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. ------------- PROGMATIC |
Posted By: ALotOfBottle
Date Posted: July 17 2018 at 03:03
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Area's "Arbeit Macht Frei" has a really odd abrupt ending. ------------- Categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden - step out of the space provided. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: July 17 2018 at 03:42
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Death Trap by Hawkwind, literally ends very abruptly, although I wuldn't say it leaves me unsatisfied, and it gives way to the very contrasting Jack of Shadows on the PXR5 album, which overall works very well. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Lamneth
Date Posted: July 17 2018 at 12:44
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Peter Gabriel - We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37) I always felt like this was just an intro and had the possibility for much more development.
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Posted By: austrianprogfan
Date Posted: July 20 2018 at 11:38
| Pretty much all the tracks on King Crimson's "Discipline". |
Posted By: Braka
Date Posted: July 20 2018 at 12:14
When I was terribly young, in the very early 80's, I had a radio show, and played this track just before the next guys were due to come on and do a punk/new wave show. They loved it and jumped about the place, and wanted to know who it was, assuming it was some new band they'd not heard of.
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 20 2018 at 12:26
I know Type O Negative. I don't think they are on this website though. They did the soundtrack to the version of the classic horror movie "Nosferatu" that I own. Speaking of metal bands though Black Sabbath(who are on here)have a couple of songs that end abruptly. One is on their 13 album if I'm not mistaken and the other is "hole in the sky" from Sabotage.
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Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: July 20 2018 at 13:05
Speaking of Type O Negative & Black Sabbath, the first time I heard Type O was on the 1994 Sabbath tribute album, "Nativity in Black" where they do this great cover of the song Black Sabbath...there will only ever be one Peter Steele (RIP). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDsWap9UOeE" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDsWap9UOeE
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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: July 20 2018 at 13:21
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Plenty of Gorguts tracks. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: stegor
Date Posted: July 22 2018 at 21:21
I sure hope they didn't try to "fix" that perfect ending. Has anyone heard this? Did they fade it out? Please don't say they faded it out before it gets to the mangled tape tail!
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Posted By: TiddK
Date Posted: August 08 2018 at 11:51
| Surely, the ultimate is "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" from The Beatles? One of the most prog things they ever did. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 15 2018 at 19:32
| I thought of another one and that is "chasing shadows" by Deep Purple(from their third album). It has the same cut off ending as "I want you/she's so heavy" and "pull me under." |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: August 16 2018 at 00:44
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Posted By: Chaser
Date Posted: August 16 2018 at 01:44
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"One More Red Nightmare" from King Crimson's Red album springs to mind. I thought something had gone wrong with the CD when I first played it. Love the track and the abrupt ending now though ------------- Songs cast a light on you |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: August 16 2018 at 03:16
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"With Their Flesh, He'll Create", Gorguts. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: TiddK
Date Posted: August 16 2018 at 03:35
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Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: August 16 2018 at 12:07
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“Cans and Brahms” ends abruptly when I press ‘skip’ three seconds in. ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: August 17 2018 at 13:46
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Can Utility and the Coastliners by - oh, you know who. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Harrekiet
Date Posted: August 19 2018 at 07:34
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Queen - The march of the black queen Probably my favourite Queen song. It's perfect in many ways and contains everything I ever need in music. However the sudden ending, as a transition to what I find the weakest song on the album, dissapoints a little if I listen to the song on its own. The Deep Cuts 1 version solves that problem though.
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: September 03 2018 at 19:15
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King Crimson - Lament Genesis - Can Utility and the Coastliners Are 2 that come to mind ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: September 10 2018 at 09:00
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Hi, I never thought as "life" as just a "song" ... so its ending is not that big a deal with me ... you might as well end up with that one by BJH ... that ought to end things fast!  ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: September 10 2018 at 16:37
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^ Incomprehensible. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: September 10 2018 at 17:38
but lovable.... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: September 11 2018 at 01:30
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Uli Jon Roth - Tanz In Die Dammurung. |
Posted By: GrafHaarschnitt
Date Posted: September 15 2018 at 12:17
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Introduzione Il Balletto Di Bronzo If you dont count primo ... |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: October 26 2018 at 12:04
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Queen: "Sheer Heart Attack" - the ultimate abrupt ending! Manfred Mann's Earth Band: "The Road to Babylon".
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Posted By: Kempokid
Date Posted: November 02 2018 at 01:57
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Serenity Painted Death by Opeth is a big one that comes to mind, having this powerful, energetic riff before just completely cutting out, feeling particularly unsatisfying considering Still Life is a concept album. Another one that really sticks out for me is Church of the Machine by Symphony X, which does a similar thing to Dream Theater's Pull Me Under, where there is a build up that then just cuts out.
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Posted By: DamoXt7942
Date Posted: November 02 2018 at 02:05
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Why not everyone say "Tangerine Dream's Genesis"? ------------- http://www.facebook.com/damoxt7942" rel="nofollow"> 
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