Main Entry: co·da Pronunciation: 'kO-d&Function: nounEtymology: Italian, literally, tail, from Latin cauda1 a : a concluding musical section that is formally distinct from the main structure
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 18 March 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 18 March 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
X FUCKING POST.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 18 March 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link
I've seen this happen in other people's livesAnd now it's happening in mine.....
― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Friday, 18 March 2005 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― dan. (dan.), Friday, 18 March 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― odell, Friday, 18 March 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Telephonething, Friday, 18 March 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link
I spun this one backward to hear the "secret message". Scared the shit out of eleven-year-old me.
― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Allen Baekeland (Allen Baekeland), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link
The guitar bit at the very end of "There's No OTher Way" by Blur and the final bit of "Beyond Belief" by Elvis Costello
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― David N (David N.), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pangolino again, Saturday, 19 March 2005 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Derek Krissoff (Derek), Saturday, 19 March 2005 05:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 March 2005 05:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 19 March 2005 05:58 (nineteen years ago) link
I Saw Her Again by the Mamas and the Papas
Crimson and Clover by Tommy James, just gorgeous
― Cunga (Cunga), Thursday, 4 August 2005 06:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Thursday, 4 August 2005 07:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― mentalist (mentalist), Thursday, 4 August 2005 07:39 (eighteen years ago) link
so true!
"as it is when it was" by new order (a coda later lifted wholesale by the lightning seeds for "pure").
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 4 August 2005 11:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 4 August 2005 11:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― jermaine (jnoble), Thursday, 4 August 2005 11:59 (eighteen years ago) link
The only thing I ever liked by Bauhaus is the coda of that one song where they chant "We love our audience!" for like half an hour.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 4 August 2005 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Draw Tipsy, ya hack. (dave225.3), Thursday, 4 August 2005 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Outsider Enter Port City (sexyDancer), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Draw Tipsy, ya hack. (dave225.3), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Philip Philip Philip Avoidant (Ferg), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link
there's also a bunch of sebadoh that suddenly lurch off into screaming...or some odd bit..
and most of blur's 13 (im thinking "bugman" esp) have something like a coda tacked on that jumps off entirely from the song itself to briliant effect and completely recontextualize what you just heard
― b b, Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link
SLUDGEFEAST!
― Outsider Enter Port City (sexyDancer), Thursday, 4 August 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Thursday, 4 August 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― b b, Thursday, 4 August 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 4 August 2005 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― caspar (caspar), Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 4 August 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link
1. Not sure if it qualifies as "formally" different but that faded in bit at the end of "Video Killed The Radio Star" is most evocative.
2. "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "I am the Walrus" (Lennon was the Coda-King, eh? I could probably list a half dozen more e.g. "Glass Onion")
3. Interrupting noise/synth end of "Dead Finks Don't Talk" by Eno.
― declan zimmerman, Thursday, 4 August 2005 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Thursday, 4 August 2005 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― tk (tk), Thursday, 4 August 2005 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link
That was George Martin and was his way of fixing an otherwise dull song.
― Cunga (Cunga), Thursday, 4 August 2005 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 5 August 2005 00:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― declan zimmerman, Friday, 5 August 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― joe schmoe (joeschmoe), Friday, 5 August 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 5 August 2005 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link
Roxy Music- In Every Dream Home...
Not sure if it qualifies as "formally" different but that faded in bit at the end of "Video Killed The Radio Star" is most evocative.
It's funny you should mention that one as well. I remember the Wondermints liking it so much they stole the entire thing for the coda to Puppet Girls R Go (I think it was that song).
― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 5 August 2005 23:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 6 August 2005 00:13 (eighteen years ago) link
At least 12 other Supergrass songs as well.
Also, "I Was Never Young" by Of Montreal.
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 6 August 2005 03:31 (eighteen years ago) link
It's never been a favorite off the album (but considering all the other songs...) but it's been on repeat for the past half-hour. Bryan McClean's religious revelation and the song's gorgeous, gorgeous coda, "Fine old man, nice old man now...". Heavenly.
― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 6 August 2005 07:03 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link
"She Gets Down on Her Knees" - Yoko Ono
― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Thursday, 14 September 2006 02:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 14 September 2006 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 14 September 2006 08:43 (seventeen years ago) link
(is that a coda, technically?)
― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Thursday, 14 September 2006 08:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― dave q (listerine), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe
Goes from being one of their heavist riffs to some deep balearic jam.
― Moka, Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Gordons "Spik and Span"
"WATCH OUT, WATCH OOOUUUUUUUUUUT!"
― Gino-Vanellyville (Mackro Mackro), Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyway, speed metal kinda pwns the whole best codas in the world thing
― Gino-Vanellyville (Mackro Mackro), Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
"Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head," though the song would be good even without it.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Pure Prairie League - Amie
I keep falling in and out of love with youFalling in and out of love with youDon't know what I'm gonna doI keep falling in and out of love with you, ooh
― Let a Man Come In and Do the Popcorn (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Does the "No Future" bit at the end of God Save The Queen count as a coda?
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyway, best coda ever is the single version of The Monkees' "The Porpoise Song". I got the greatest hits just so I could have this version of "The Porpoise Song".
― Gino-Vanellyville (Mackro Mackro), Sunday, 14 December 2008 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link
decoration day - drive-by truckers
― Moreno, Sunday, 14 December 2008 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link
'Pinball Wizard'
― dubmill, Sunday, 14 December 2008 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Underworld - CupsPortishead - Machine GunMassive Attack - One Love
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 20 October 2013 02:26 (ten years ago) link
I love the bit at the end of 'King George Street' by Squeeze where the child's lullaby/music box tune fades into the music from a pub fruit machine, so grim.
― im 12 and i hav all the films and series' im proud i luv oon the buses (bends), Sunday, 20 October 2013 02:31 (ten years ago) link
Oh, and I love the accordion fade-out at the end of Bjork's Bachelorette.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 20 October 2013 02:37 (ten years ago) link
The bit at the end of 'Strange Pursuit' by Devo and the bit at the end of 'Battery Brides' by XTC- what other songs do that? I guess 'When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty' by XTC is kind of similar as well
― im 12 and i hav all the films and series' im proud i luv oon the buses (bends), Sunday, 20 October 2013 02:38 (ten years ago) link
The "love is strange"-part of Gn'R's Locomotive.
― Mule, Sunday, 20 October 2013 08:19 (ten years ago) link
'Alec Eiffel' by the Pixies
― Third Rate Zoo Keepers With Tenth Rate Minds (Windsor Davies), Sunday, 20 October 2013 10:20 (ten years ago) link
― im 12 and i hav all the films and series' im proud i luv oon the buses (bends), Sunday, October 20, 2013 2:31 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
My favourite thing about that song is how many damn chords it has in it!
― Dog Man Star took a suck on a pill... (Turrican), Sunday, 20 October 2013 12:46 (ten years ago) link
Super Furry Animals - Ice Hockey Hair
It's one of their best songs anyway, in my opinion (Top 3 for me alongside 'Slow Life' and 'Some Things Come From Nothing'), but that little drum fill followed by "now that you're here, tell me you're non-believer", before the trademark SFA 'space-synths' pile on top of it, is such a fine moment and shifts the song up another gear.
― Dog Man Star took a suck on a pill... (Turrican), Sunday, 20 October 2013 12:49 (ten years ago) link
i like the end of new slaves a lot
― (emphasis Treeship's) (Treeship), Sunday, 20 October 2013 12:49 (ten years ago) link
I hear what sounds like a quote from Then He Kissed Me right at the end of Love Will Tear Us Apart which i think adds to the poignancy and was conspicuous by its absence on the Swans cover.
Also love the ending of Deep In The Woods by the Birthday Party. Not sure how much of that is Coda but the bit from Love Is For Fools up to the Cave proclamation of the word End including the feedback breaking through the song is all rather delicious.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 20 October 2013 13:13 (ten years ago) link
I don't know if something that takes up half the running time of the song properly counts as a coda, but the last 4 minutes of "Matty Groves" by Fairport Convention is astounding and I can listen to it over and over. The first half, with Sandy Denny singing, is also excellent. But the total meltdown led by Richard Thompson and Dave Swarbrick is just volcanic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK_7AqH1VGQ
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 12 April 2021 03:32 (three years ago) link
Very similar concept to the one on Optimistic but;
Radiohead - I might be wrong
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 April 2021 06:06 (three years ago) link
The Wrens - 13 months in 6 minutesSmashing Pumpkins - Thru the Eyes of Ruby
XP FC’s “Matty Groves” absolutely rules in spite of that back half of the song. That song falls under the same category as Miles Davis’s “Go Ahead John”
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 12 April 2021 06:18 (three years ago) link
"Matty Groves" is great. Vaguely reminds me of Captain Beefheart's Kandy Korn in its dimensions and density. (Though on re-listening, that's probably 70% of the track's length, lol.)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 12 April 2021 06:36 (three years ago) link
Lots of GN’R songs, including some obvious ones not mentioned in the thread already – Sweet Child o’ Mine, Patience, November Rain...
― Yawnsomely Literal Cover Band (morrisp), Monday, 12 April 2021 06:48 (three years ago) link
Pixies - No 13 Baby
There's even a fan edit that extends the coda by a few mins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E8sptpHZGs
― Maresn3st, Monday, 12 April 2021 07:32 (three years ago) link
The High Llamas are (among other things in my estimation and enjoyment of Sean O'Hagan's music) the kings of wonderful repetitive codas that make the already wow songs soar to an ever higher level. See: "The Hot Revivalist" from "Hawaii" (1996), "The Sun Beats Down" from "Cold and Bouncy" (1998), "Bach Ze" from "Snowbug" (1999), "Jackie" from "Here Come the Rattling Trees" (2016) et al.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2FKlK06IpQ
David Sylvian's band Japan used the elongated, repetitive coda to great effect, too - see the title track for "Gentlemen Take Polaroids" (1980).
― Max Florian, Monday, 12 April 2021 11:16 (three years ago) link
NIN have some great long codas - Closer, We're In This Together...
― chap, Monday, 12 April 2021 13:06 (three years ago) link
The best part of Games Without Frontiers is the demonic Kraftwerk coda:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95SWMqzM_Sg
― dinnerboat, Monday, 12 April 2021 16:06 (three years ago) link
Velvets' "Rock And Roll"
― "Gaspar? No way." (sleeve), Monday, 12 April 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
Surprised no-one has mentioned "Stand" by Sly and the Family Stone. Not surprised that no-one has mentioned "Vieilles courroies" by Harmonium.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 12 April 2021 16:15 (three years ago) link
Gene Clarke's Lady of the North.
― Duke, Monday, 12 April 2021 20:05 (three years ago) link
I love this thread! I'll add a few more:
Led Zeppelin's "Carouselambra" ends with this awesome disco/mechanized synthy-bass motorik that is unlike anything they'd ever done. In an alternate universe, just that section of the song would have been an amazing lead single for In Through The Out Door (imagine the reactions of the rock literati!). I'm not sure if we're allowed to count the final section of a proggy 10-minute track as a "coda", but it's doubtful the Zeppelin viewed the song as some Tales From Topographic Oceans-style suite (Also, JPJ was too busy holding down the low end to pull a Wakeman and have a full dinner delivered to his Yamaha GX-1 during the slow, trippy middle section).
Franz Ferdinand's "What She Came For" has this rowdy '60s-garage meets thrash-metal coda that would be the perfect closer for every live performance, whether the band on stage is Franz Ferdinand, or, hell, anyone else.
Self Esteem's "You Wife" goes from percussive intro to "Faith"-intro church organ to mid-'90s hyper-melodic "Alternative Nation" breeziness, ending with a goth-adjacent left turn that answers the question, "What if Enya was asked to score a horror movie?".
Muna's "Never" begins like a modern recasting of Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me", then follows Dramatic Pause #1 with a heavy 4-on-the-floor beat & ascending 16-note synth pattern, before Dramatic Pause #2, which leads to the appropriate synth-guitar tradeoff theatrics, like the best moments of Rush's "Power Windows" all rolled into one glorious minute.
― Bill Bruford's drumbeat for "South Side of the Sky": proto-dubstep? (Prefecture), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 00:47 (three years ago) link