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Okay, for those of you that have heard "Sleeping in Traffic" by Beardfish, do you think the song should stop around 34:45? I do. It is a song which feels like it totally ends with an extended coda, but then it goes on for another minute with a callback to that 7/8 riff  in e minor, then with ten or fifteen seconds left transitions to playing it in a minor (…why?), and then ends with a big fall on an e chord. The build-up wasn't quite as powerfull as the part before.. and the sense of finality felt at around 34:45 seems like a much better ending to me.



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Over the Edge It Goes - Au4:

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Safe (Canon Song) - Chris Squire:

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Memory of a Free Festival - David Bowie:


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For those who do not know what a coda is, famous examples in rock:
Layla
I Want You (She's So Heavy)



My three fav progressive rock codas are:
Gentle Giant - Mr Class & Quality (the best end to ANY prog lp. uplifting, religious and the (bass) coda is more extended/complex than usual)

Mike Oldfield -Ommadawn  end of side one     (again long and complex. I wish I could write something like that!)

Procol Harum - Pilgrim's Progress


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How about side-long prog epics? Can  future epics be effective if they do not include a coda?
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Okay - I am mainly talking about single-instance repetitive  codas, but if you want to include the other....that's okay also. (Only it would be good to distinguish it as such.)




Also: any codas you think rather fail.
For me the end to Hackett's first lp. The melody is absolutely beautiful but the problem is that he draws the coda out too long WITHOUT BUILDING IT UP ENOUGH.
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Didn't know what a coda is until now.

Well, i think Van Der Graaf Generator - White Hammer has one of this thing called coda, and is just amazing.
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Van Der Graaf  had one of the best codas of all time.
Its on the "Godbluff" lp.
(I think "Arrow"???)
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Asia - Cutting It Fine , has always been one of my favourite ones. Geoff Downes -> geniusSmile
 
but how about ELP - Aquatarkus (live version)? Now that's what I call a coda (in the stylee of 'Now that's what I call a knife')
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This song has a lovely string coda that always give me a quite dizzy feeling. Sigur Rós and amiina surely know how to make a good hypnotic coda. I also love the fact that when you think the song's over, it isn't!

Also, as someone noticed before. Dire Straits' Telegraph Road has a great ending.


Back in post-rock territory (though with an electronic twist), here's Come to Me by 65dos. It has an ending coda and also a pretty, atmospheric intro.


And, outside proggy stuff, both Damien Rice's It Takes a Lot to Know a Man (almost five-minute orchestral coda, with piano, strings, horns and a chorus, it's really amazing, very emotional and borderline chaotic!) and Josh Ritter's Another New World (another emotional coda, specially those bells at the end) have amazing codas I really love.



Worth mentioning, even though I'm not sure it can be considered a coda is Educated Guess by Umphrey's McGee ending, with its double-kick-drum-and-string-section breakdown.


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The Rolling Stones—Moonlight Mile, with that moody piano part by Jim Price (who usually played trumpet) and orchestral arrangement by Paul Buckmaster.
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Do the final sections of Gates of Delirium and Ritual count as codas?

Also the ending of The Ladder.
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"Selkies: The Endless Obsession" by Between the Buried And Me.  The last 2 minutes or so = absolutely gorgeous.
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Can't believe nobody mentioned Dancing With the Moonlit Knight...
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Well, the most obvious one is "Starship Trooper". I'd throw in Tull's "Nothing Is Easy", Derek and the Dominos "Layla" and Bowie's "Big Brother".
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Well, the most obvious one is "Starship Trooper". I'd throw in Tull's "Nothing Is Easy", Derek and the Dominos "Layla" and Bowie's "Big Brother".
 
Nahhh ... I was thinking that Beethoven's 5th is the best extended coda ... after the opening bars, it's all filler!
 
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No one has mentioned Hot Love by T Rex yet.
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Hmmm... Nobody mentioned one of my favourite codas: Does It Really Happen? by Yes (Drama). A moment where Chris Squire (RIP) shines clearly!
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The Eye of Ra by Star One
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