Whats songs end with the sound of the "tape speeding up"??

[blood5150]

I know that there are a few.. but I caught the end of one last week on the radio and its killing me that I cant remember it....It was on a classic rock channel in NYC...Heard it a million times, but it is eluding me..

I know that "Wild, Wild, Life" by The Talking Heads is one...

Maybe you guys can help me...

[twinrider1]

I hate you.

(I can hear an ending now in my head that winds up like that, can't think of the song). :-)

Is it a big low sustained piano note right before it starts the wind up? Beatles?

[Ray]

It' by Black Sabbath, but I can't think of the name.

[blood5150]

It' by Black Sabbath, but I can't think of the name.


Dude, you may be on to something... not sure yet...

[?&!]

It's the end of "Luke's Wall", the instrumental section at the end of "War Pigs."

[cram]

do I get points for a song slowing down to stop at the end of a song???

Women and Children First - Take Your Wiskey Home

[guitarslinger21]

I think:

Soul Asylum - Misery

[Aaron Cheney]

Those two really high pitches that warble down into guitar notes at the beginning of Joe Satriani's Can't Slow Down were recorded while the tape being held, and then suddenly let go.

ac

[goodwill559]

:agreeIt's the end of "Luke's Wall", the instrumental section at the end of "War Pigs."

[reddgeetarzan]

It' by Black Sabbath, but I can't think of the name.

War Pigs

[burningyen]

Pink Floyd's Great Gig In the Sky ends with the tape speeding up slightly and slowing back down during the last sustained piano chord.

[franksguitar]

The Beatles had a few

[mcknigs]

To me this begs the question "what do you mean by 'tape speeding up?'" Because the pitch will go up, or down, when you make the tape machine go faster, or slower, depending on what machine you change, when. I'm guessing that there are more songs that feature the sound slowing down than speeding up, but in some cases the slowdown effect was actually achieved by speeding up the downstream deck.


In addition to those already mentioned, I can think of:

An NRBQ song (can't remember the name) that ends up with the pitch going down. They must have either slowed down the multitrack master or sped up the 2 track master deck to achieve that.

There's a song on Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's Uncle Charlie and His Dog Teddy ("Yukon Railroad?") where everything goes up an octave on the final chord. I'm guessing they slowed the 2 track master deck (say, from 15 to 7.5 ips) while mixing to achieve that effect.

As I recall, the intro to "Working All Day" on Gentle Giant's Three Friends starts at one pitch/tempo then slows down to a new pitch and tempo just before the vocals come in. Not sure how they went about that.

-Scott

[MudPies]

War Pigs

Yep, WP ends with a tape ramp up.

[AlChuck]

Holdsworth's "Checking Out" from I.O.U

[TommyMambo]

War Pigs by Black Sabbath.

[blood5150]

It is War Pigs....

Thanks everyone.

[Phillip_H]

New Slang by the Shins

[KRosser]

"I Know What I Know" from Paul Simon's "Graceland"

[LittleWiggler]

Styx - Put Me On from the Crystal Ball album.

[Jahn]

Every Little Counts by New Order. Sounds like a record needle jumping around but it could have actually been tape induced in the studio.