Lush little guitar bits at the end of songs, that you have to listen to OVER and OVER.

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Pretty Girls Make Graves and Cocteau Twins "OrangeAppled" come to mind. I always adored the little riffs at the end of those songs.
Any more?

― kinski (kinski), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 09:57 (twenty-three years ago)

east river pipe ~ million, trillion

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 10:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Orange Appled! Chewn.

― chrys sallys, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 11:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others and Well I Wonder by The Smiths both fall into this category. Also Number 13 Baby from The Pixies' Doolittle.
I really like songs which, when the vocal parts end, carry on for a good few minutes. The Fox by A Certain Ration is a classic example.

― Dr. David Jackson, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 11:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Disco Inferno iz da classix! "The Last Dance", "Second Language".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 11:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Soukous - the entire genre. The Mondo Soukous comp is excellent, esp. the Franco of course.

― B:Rad (Brad), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Denmark by the Chemical Brothers, the guitar riff that comes in halfway through needs major repeat treatment.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Come on, Dr David-so-called-Jackson. What about the really long instumental fade-out at the end of "Girlfriend's Finished With Him"? I thought you of all people would mention that one.

― Microkomputer (Microkomputer), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:46 (twenty-three years ago)

"Off your face" by My Bloody Valentine... the last two minutes when the singing stops and this drunken swooning guitar takes over the main melody, and in the meantime just as it all fades out in the last seconds you get a glimpse of a complete maelstrom of chaotic guitars which has been going on in the background without you even noticing.

Stuns me every time, always makes the volume go up, and makes me play it over and over.

― Rob M, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:52 (twenty-three years ago)

not quite the end of a song but the solo in "May This Be Love" by Jimi Hendrix.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 13:02 (twenty-three years ago)

the little harmonics at the end of "Cinnamon Girl" just as all the loudness is fading out. So perfect.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

The Concept rules this one, surely?

― Richard Jones (scarne), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 13:34 (twenty-three years ago)

The guitar/sing-along part at the very end of "White Palms" on the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club album is by far the best part of the album.

― Rahul Kamath (Rahul Kamath), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

"Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" should go on for at least another minute. I love the ending of "When The Sun Hits" by Slowdive, too; it always leaves me wanting more.

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 24 September 2002 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Mogwai - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong... three descending banjo notes at the end, just after guitars have died down. The loveliest thing they've done by a mile.

I second the Last Dance as well, especially the last ten or so seconds.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

philistines jr - the russians burned my uncles house down ('cept it's at the beginning of the song)

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Bereft of thought, I second Tim, Clarke and Matt's answers. Yay!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 18:34 (twenty-three years ago)

The guitar riff in "Lament" could play forever, as could pretty much anything by Ultra Vivid Scene.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I think that "Untitled" by the Cure is a perfect example. That fade out at the end is gorgeous.

― Brenya, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I love the end of 'Somewhere' by American Music Club and usually turn up the volume to cancel out the fade out just to get the most out of it.

Not a fade out, but the middle eight in 'Mizake the Mizan' by the Cocteau Twins always gets the hairs on the back of my neck.

And 'Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning' by the Cowboy Junkies has a lovely pedal steel outro.

― Alfie (Alfie), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 19:34 (twenty-three years ago)

the fade out at the end of aaliyah's "one in a million" is one of the best parts of the song.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 21:10 (twenty-three years ago)

The harmonic screech at the end of The Church's "Aura" is my vote.

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 00:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I really like the end part of "Tellin' Stories", where the guitar does that THING and then the strings go all nuts.

― paul b, Wednesday, 25 September 2002 18:33 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

OMG THE END OF "PLANET TELEX"!!!

You cannot POSSIBLY top the end guitar/keyboard bit of "Planet Telex", ever. In fact I would assert that it is the gold standard of little guitar bits at the end of songs, period.

Other notable bits:
Brian Eno - "Backwater" (I'm still having a very difficult time grasping the fact that this little end bit was recorded in 1977)
Sleater-Kinney - "Lions and Tigers"
Mogwai - "Yes! I am a Long Way from Home"
Phish - "Gotta Jibboo"
Pixies - "Debaser"
Dandy Warhols - "Horse Pills"
starsailor - "Good Souls"

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Saturday, 19 August 2006 04:19 (nineteen years ago)

I absolutely LOVE the guitar outros to The Smiths "Cemetry Gates" (someone please sample this and make a swoony new-soul tune out of it, post-haste), and Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl" (which, basically, has nothing to with the rest of the song).

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 19 August 2006 05:21 (nineteen years ago)

suede - "whipsnade" or whatever.. the end of that is the best piece of music ever...

― gaseous (gaseous), Saturday, 19 August 2006 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

the end of Modest Mouse's Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset is very, um, pretty.

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Saturday, 19 August 2006 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

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