Top 10 Songs with Fake / False Endings
Fake / false ending is when you think a song is finished (because it does sound like finished), only to hear it starts again... It's an element of surprise in songs.Well it has like four fake endings so it has to be number 1.
"I've got blisters on my Fingers! "
A pity you get a false hope that this song is over and then Bryan Adams continues with this dribble. (Sorry to anyone who likes this song).
The original album version is 6:30 minutes long and the false ending became the real ending of the single/video edit of the song.
I was honestly about to click off when I first heard the fake ending
Probably the best-known use of the "false fade." And a great song overall.
At 4:10 the singer even says "This is the end" but after 3-4 seconds of silence music comes back for 1 more minute. I love this song - great riffing. The sample is from a live verstion.
Here music even comes back after 15 seconds of silence!
As this is the last song on the album you'd want it to go out with a bang. After the third chorus it seems to play the tune to close off the song, but just when you think it ends it then starts rocking up again with Seth Morrison blasting out a truly awesome solo.
What a song to end the album on.
After the long instrumental part that sounded like an outro to me, the music came back. It's amazing.
On the Dirty Deeds Version there's a false climax
At the end it goes silent which then goes into about 15 seconds of more acoustic guitar riff