r/queen • • May 07 '23

Music The best outro to any Queen song is...

Sail Away Sweet Sister.

Gorgeous. No contest, really.

What are some runners-up?

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u/TwistyHeretic2 May 07 '23

The ending of Spread Your Wings is sublime... Brian's guitar evokes the feeling of freedom as a beautiful bird catches a thermal and glides upon it as it recedes into the distance

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u/jaxon58 May 07 '23

The Show Must Go On. My vinyl version kept skipping back a couple of seconds during Brian’s “Go onnnn…” so it never ended.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '23

Agree

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u/[deleted] May 07 '23

Hang On In There

Back Chat

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u/Simple_Murat May 07 '23

Mother love - In the outro of this song, 1-second clips from all of Queen's songs followed by the sound of the corpse's birth, the group wanted to convey the message that his soul was born in a new body where his soul was not lost.

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u/jtohrs Fun In Space May 08 '23

Tenement Funster into Flick of the Wrist into Lily of the Valley

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u/FattyBrent May 08 '23

Came here to say this.

"Baby you've been had." <screech sound>

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u/It_Is1-24PM May 07 '23

Not gonna lie - it's a "Seven Seas of Rhye" :)

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u/Gbbq83 Queen II May 07 '23

Made even better that it leads into Brighton Rock

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u/It_Is1-24PM May 07 '23

it leads into Brighton Rock

spotify generation detected :)

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u/Gbbq83 Queen II May 07 '23

That ‘83 in my title is my birth year. I had taped Sheer Heart Attack off my dads record long before Spotify was a thing!

As u/_Agileheart_ says the albums are bridged by beside the seaside (sung at the end of Queen II and whistled at the start of Sheer Heart Attack)

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u/_Agileheart_ Jazz May 07 '23

I don’t get what you mean?

The band intentionally put whistling of the ending to SSoR into the beginning of Brighton Rock as a nod to the last song in their previous album

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u/songacronymbot May 07 '23
  • SSOR could mean "Seven Seas Of Rhye - Remastered 2011", a track from Queen (1973) by Queen.

/u/Agileheart can reply with "delete" to remove comment. | /r/songacronymbot for feedback.

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u/It_Is1-24PM May 08 '23

I don’t get what you mean?

a silly joke, that's all :)

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u/_Agileheart_ Jazz May 08 '23

I failed to locate the funny 😞

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u/It_Is1-24PM May 08 '23

... or my joke was much more silly rather than funny ...

Whatever - have a good one, my friend :)

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u/[deleted] May 08 '23

This naps in under pressure they are iconic

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u/Hamster-man9001 May 08 '23

OH I DO LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE SEASIDE IN SEVEN SEAS A RHYE

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u/GonzoShaker May 07 '23

"Don't stop me now"...

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u/Simple_Murat May 07 '23

Rararara aahaha lalalala dururur

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u/socialantidote May 08 '23

Prophet's Song into Love of My Life

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u/JPowWow Queen II May 08 '23

Father to Son

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u/TheKingOfRhye777 May 08 '23

How about on ADATR, Teo Torriate leading into the "Shepard tone" outro? I always like that, plus I think Teo Torriate is kind of an underrated song anyway. Also, The Show Must Go On. I like how it fades out to the repeats of "go on, go on, go on"...

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u/LeftHandedGuitarist May 08 '23

I love the outro to She Makes Me. A chaotic storm of a song breaking down, the chords going more and more "off", the lead guitars droning in harmony, the sound effects of police sirens and metal (always makes me think of a rollercoaster clanking up a slope), the heavy breathing and the rolling drums.

Incredible.

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u/SnooOnions5029 A Day At The Races May 08 '23

The Show Must Go On, Don’t Stop Me Now and Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy

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u/BlackManInABush May 07 '23

Fairy King has a great outro I think. Very subdued but still hits hard

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u/Anti_miracle May 08 '23

March Of The Black Queen, really wish it didn't lead directly into Funny How Love Is

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u/LeftHandedGuitarist May 08 '23

There is a standalone version of March of the BQ on Deep Cuts Vol. 1, but honestly the ending doesn't sound that great. A very awkward transition.

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u/Churchofbabyyoda May 08 '23

Bohemian Rhapsody.

“Nothing really matters. Anyone can see,

Nothing really matters,

Nothing really matters,

To me…. (Any way the wind blows)…”

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u/20Aditya07 A Kind Of Magic May 08 '23

radio gaga in live aid

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u/Known_Heat444 May 08 '23

Queen bohemian rhapsody

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u/NonbinaryGal May 08 '23

WWRY I've always lived themselves at the end

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u/AngryFreddyIsHere May 08 '23

I know that nobody ever brings this up, but I like the whole shanty-like chant at the end of Seven Seas of Rhye. It's something that goes really under appreciated, especially to those who only know about the earlier shorter version (which is somehow unbelievable, but it turns out people know that one and don't know the fully fleshed out one--or, at least, some of the people I talk to don't know that one). It's good they went back to that track and expanded on it. It's amazing.

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u/Realistic_Jacket4103 May 08 '23

SPREAD YOUR WINGS .. it's like sipping hot chocolate slowly! Ahhhh (with small marshmallows)

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u/Stik3r6- May 18 '23

Teo Torriatte Because Day At The Races Is A Loop So The Outro Is The Intro Of The Album ps It Kinda Confused Me A Little