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Area's "Arbeit Macht Frei" has a really odd abrupt ending.
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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.
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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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Pretty much all the tracks on King Crimson's "Discipline".
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

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.



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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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.  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


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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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

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.

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).



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Plenty of Gorguts tracks.

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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

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.

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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Surely, the ultimate is "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" from The Beatles? One of the most prog things they ever did.
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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." 
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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
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"With Their Flesh, He'll Create", Gorguts.

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“Cans and Brahms” ends abruptly when I press ‘skip’ three seconds in.
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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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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!

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