History Main / BigRockEnding

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiRuj2_czzw Limelight]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIGKlicb8n0 Working Man]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w3s2T0VBug Xanadu]] (Music/{{Rush}})

* Music/PinkFloyd was not exactly known for this outside of their live shows (most of their studio work ended on subdued notes of varying flavor), but standing out in this troper's memory is a fairly subdued ending in Dogs (from Animals), and perhaps most prominently both versions of In The Flesh from The Wall. Less prominently is the song Biding My Time, which was only released on the compilation Relics - but since that was pretty much a blues song, such an ending was sort of foregone.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRYNYb30nxU I Believe in a Thing Called Love]] (The Darkness)

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boptcdvX27E The Great Misconceptions of Me]] (Music/{{WASP}}) to the point of overkill. The track runs 9m44s and the last fifty seconds or so are this.

* Music/PinkFloyd was not exactly known for this outside of their live shows (most of their studio work ended on subdued notes of varying flavor), but standing out in this troper's memory is a fairly subdued ending in Dogs (from Animals), and perhaps most prominently both versions of In The Flesh from The Wall.

->''"Big endings. Lots of spitting, swearing, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick death]]... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking eye contact]] and thumping"''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9a_-KlVzxs Now!]] (Music/{{Scorpions}})

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NQu_NZVjUI Zero Punctuation Theme]] (Ian Dorsch) - used in [[Webanimation/ZeroPunctuation the show]] for the end credits

* The most important aspect of a Big Rock Ending is that the tempo goes away, and the band plays while ignoring tempo entirely. There's no beat or rhythm to Big Rock Ending at all. If the song has a steady beat until the end, it doesn't have a Big Rock Ending. A good guide is to see if you can tap your foot to the beat of the song until the song ends. If you reach a point where you can't tap your foot to the beat of the song, you may have a Big Rock Ending. Disclaimer: Tapping along to a song in [[UncommonTime Uncommon Time]] might prove extremely difficult.

* Niechęć's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGGv46qy8kU After You]]" has '''[[UpToEleven NINE TOTAL]]''' Big Rock Endings, 8 of which are at the beginning, and the remaining one actually ends the track.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQUXuQ6Zd9w War Pigs]] from ''Music/{{Paranoid}}'' and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq5Ejw42Yog Never Say Die]] (Music/BlackSabbath)

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PLHXoqFxwc Set This World on Fire]] (Music/{{Rage}})

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP5ikQpTR3c Rock Bottom]] (Music/UFOBand)

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP5ikQpTR3c Rock Bottom]] (Music/{{UFO}})

Often the GrandFinale of a song. Frequently lead into by a LastChorusSlowDown and sometimes accompanied (especially in metal songs) by a MetalScream. Not to be confused with RocksFallEveryoneDies or a DancePartyEnding.

A sub-trope and/or sister trope to EpicRocking.

* "Big Rock Finish" by AndyPrieboy specifically invokes this trope in its name, but the song is largely an aversion. (It is the last song on the album, though.)

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv16KRlNJgA Metal Bucetation]] by Massacration, a Brazilian comedy metal[[note]]in the same vein of [[WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}} Dethklok]], but with the slapstick turned ''way'' UpToEleven[[/note]] band (the song itself ends at 3:32 - after that there are a few seconds of silence, followed by a bonus track form their debut album)

* [[http://youtu.be/q8VhFooPsfA The live version of "Don't Fear The Reaper]]" continues for another two or three minutes after the last vocal, in the form of duelling guitar solos and riffs around the main theme which build to a climax followed by several afteshock notes.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGiTPgvKktM Alive]] from ''Music/TenPearlJamAlbum'' (Music/PearlJam)

** Also "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4smim2MNvF8 Know Your Enemy]]", which has one right before the last minute of music kicks in.
* Music/GunsNRoses' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN3hH8LG4Yw Paradise City]]" has a Big Rock Ending... which is then followed by a good few more minutes of the song... [[DoubleSubverted which ends in another]] Big Rock Ending.
* Music/TheWho's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZtRedcmTIQ Young Man Blues (Live At Leeds)]]" has about three or four Big Rock Endings before its actual one, most of which are marked by Keith Moon's monster drum fills.

* [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Everything Else by]] EverythingElse [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment off of the album Everything Else]] has four of them.

* And it's actually used by Music/{{Chicago}} at the end of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vXVoHXMaKg Hard Habit to Break]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K96-PvB49Eg Believe]] (Lenny Kravitz)

* Just because a song doesn't have a Big Rock Ending in ''Rock Band'' doesn't mean it doesn't actually have a Big Rock Ending. Take Music/JethroTull's ''[[Music/AqualungJethroTullAlbum Aqualung]]'' as an example; it has all of the components of a Big Rock Ending yet isn't charted as such.