Greatest guitar outro's ... But no Layla ok !

mudslide73

Has anyone said Tumblin Dice yet? I could listen to those drum fills all day

lasermonkey

Musette And Drums (Cocteau Twins)
 View From A Hill (The Chameleons)
 Tungsten 4- The Refugee (Besnard Lakes)
 Ain't That Nothing (Television)

Octafish

From 2 mins, always seems like a very long outro to me...
 

guitarfishbay

3:30 to end on Sikth - Skies of the Millennium Night.

Octafish

Very short, but love that little repeating lick on the runout from 5.40

DrJazzTap

I like axis bold as love.

Bygone_Tones

Smashing Pumpkins - Drown (unedited version)
Rainbow - Surrender

btw who is the bell end that decides it's a great idea to chop off the outro solo when a song plays on the radio? usually the best bit of the whole song. Even some rock stations do this, so annoying.

eg there is a radio edit of sweet child of mine, how have they reduced the playing time? cut out the best part of the guitar solo, yep, just the climax of the whole song, lets chop that out, no-one wants to hear that. people listen to guns n roses for the singing.

Octafish

DrJazzTap said:

I like axis bold as love.

So do I - have linked at top of this page. Also that clean guitar tone at the beginning and in the verses is sublime...

roberty

I like The Smiths' That Joke Isn't Funny Any More with the false fade out.  Haunting stuff

ewal

Husker Du - You Can Live At Home Now

Absolutely no contest for me - the last song on their last album. The band was imploding, they knew the end had come, and the whole song expresses this feeling superbly, a manic Grant Hart vocal, then Bob's guitar outro kicks in... A wall of noise and guitar mania. I must've listened to it hundereds of time and it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up...

Honourable mention for Low - Nothing But Heart - a superb song with a hypnotic mantra, deceptively simple, but with a hugely accomplished guitar part which very, very few players could come up with

And moving from pure guitar outro to songs with exceptional finales, another honourable mention goes to Sigur Ros - Popplagið which I think has the finest finale in modern live rock music.

mburekenge

Wish there was less fade out on little wing! Edit. and back in black.

Octafish

mburekenge said:

Wish there was less fade out on little wing! Edit. and back in black.

Yeah, I've often thought that about Little Wing, but then again I think it's concise nature is what makes it so good. SRV is great and all that, but his version of Little Wing is boring rambling and noddling to me, sounds like what Hendrix might have gone through before honing it down to two and half minutes.

guitars4you

Mr Big - Free - more of a band and in particular bass groove as against pure guitar solo ending - shows how a band should groove on a simple theme

Life In the Fast Lane

and not a guitar solo at all but a great ending and again an awesome groove - Stevie Wonder - I Wish - the bass and drums on this fade out teach any band member how to work as a unit

fendergibson

roberty said:

I like The Smiths' That Joke Isn't Funny Any More with the false fade out.  Haunting stuff

Good call. Well I Wonder is also suberb, fading just to the sound of rain. Melancholy genius

Flanging_Fred

The Cardiacs - Is this the life. Its not really my usual thing but find it totally mesmerising.

koneguitarist

Did anyone listen to my Cliff Richard suggestion, or did everyone dismiss because it's Cliff? Just wondering, not offended, but he certainly employed some good session players in his day! 

dindude

Teetonetal said:

Ben Howard's End of the affair for me. Love the ending.

I came here to say this, love it.

Most of the other classics have been said but I'd add Reeling in the Years - the whole band seem "in the zone" and you just want it to go on.

Nunogilberto

Love Is The Law - full version, by The Seahorses. John Squire at his riffing best.

ToneControl

Roxy Music In Every Dream Home A Heartache


a very good example of the guitar in an excellent supporting role

rawk100

The Cult - Love Removal Machine

"Shake it don't break it baby,
Shake it don't break it baby"

(I'm always having to tell the missis that)....
:-)