Listening to The 6ths Hyacinths & Thistles for the first time in about a year. "Oahu" starts out as a sweet little indie pop tune and then plods off into the forever distance looping the same sustained ambient nothingness for 25 more minutes. I like it, but it's a tad silly.

Others where the song morphs into something baffling or gooftard?
Obviously the Wilco one, but others?

Blerwytirhwng? by Super Furry Animals

I think that is actually Welsh for "WTF, dude?"

I remember the first time I heard The End by the Doors. I think I was about 10 or so, and remember thinking 'what the hell is this' and eventually 'when the hell is this dumb song going to stop'.

Not their finest moment, regardless of what everyone's hippie uncles claim.

doesnt crimson and clover go into some weirdness near the end? its been a long time since ive listened to it but the last time i did i remember it going into wtf-itude near the end. correct me if im wrong, though.

Another wtf-er for me has always been Can't You Hear me Knockin'. I remember being surprised it that it had such a meandering ending. That was, or is one of the longest Stones studio songs, if I'm not mistaken. Still like the song though.

Rolling Stones "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" - starts out as a great rocker and then transmogrifies into a Carlos Santana hand job. At least they bring it back on track by the end.

Beat you to it, Rads.

damn...i really like both the end and can't you hear me knocking.

I like both songs as well, but it doesn't change the wtf factor.

"Number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine..."

Don't forget the first Polyphonic Spree album.

The Wondermints' Bali ends with 10 minutes or so of soothing ocean waves, then suddenly a loud, fast Coors jingle they wrote that was never used. Tap the Rockies!

Olivia Tremor Control's "Green Typewriter" and all those interludes on Black Foliage.

I was gonna mention some Sonic Youth song, but really there's nothing unusual about a Sonic Youth song going all wonky at the end.

Doesn't the Buzzcock's "Moving Away from the Pulsebeat" keep driving on and on for quite a while at the end of Another Music in a Different Kitchen? (And oh, I'm sure that's just peachy, but somehow the end of "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" is evidently a wankfest. Next somebody will try to tell me that "Tears of a Clown" is a bad song.)

"Nevada" from John "TMBG" Linnell's State Songs album features a field recording of a marching band in a parade as the backing track for Linnell's vocal; the vocal ends but the parade sounds continue for many minutes.

Syd-era Pink Floyd's "Bike" degenerates into a barrage of sound effects and stuttering puppet laughter. I wonder what the casual '70s rock fan who bought the "as-seen-on-TV" Echoes greatest hits comp makes of that song when it turns up at the end of Disc 2?

If I take any longer to submit this reply, someone's bound to post one of these first.

Whew!

Fuckin' Hey Jude by the Beatles just keeps going on and on and I don't like it.

As Prince once said, there's "joy in repetition."

Sincerely,
Philip Glass

Kind of a "why the fuck" instead of a "what the fuck"" Simon & Garfunkel's "The Boxer" does this, too, but not as annoyingly.

I love how radio stations often fade out the end of The Cranberries "Dreams" because the banshee ending doesn't fit with their "Aren't these The Corrs?" kind of nicey-nice.

'Late Lament' poem closing 'Knights in White Satin'. Absolute nonsense.

There's gotta be someone who will realize what a hiphop sample goldmine Glass is.

BREATHEFUCKINDEEPDEEPTHEGAHERINGFUCKINGGLOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


My wife wanted to marry Justin Hayward when she little and stills loves the Moodys, but even she admits this is twaddle.

not sure which one you meant phil, but if you intended to cover a lot of wilco bases with that one song, even funnier.

on the positive side of this: spiders by wilco

on the negative side of this: less than you think by wilco

more like "wtf this rules"

Little Computer People, "Friends Are Not Electric"
Broken Spindles, I forget which track, though, but there's one long one ("Connection in Progress"?) that just goes off into never-neverland.

PS I love this shit. One of the first demos that I brought to the table in one of my previous bands was one that started with this really pretty little melody, but it kept climbing in pitch. My synthesizer starts to distort at the highest pitches, so by the end, it was just noise.

yes

Sonichrome, "Self-Indulgent"

That fucking hippie love-fest jam-type-whining-noodling thing that makes up the final 7-8 minutes of that song make it not even worth listening to.

Born by the Wires by Low, after a while my God.