Love In Store
I find this outro as tepid as the song, but it's a nice guitar tone, and I like the low notes.
BTW although Can't Go Back also has a slight guitar outro, I excluded it because poll options are limited to 10 songs.
Book Of Love
This is an absolute standout in my "book"--very glad to see it get some votes despite the hot competition! A searing sound like that heard in Countdown. Guitar acrobatics, beautifully integrated into the rhythms of the song.
Gypsy
Was tempted to exclude this from the poll since I feared its popularity would be a fait accompli and was curious to see how the other tracks would fare without it. But it's an iconic outro and deserves the acclaim. As I recall, Lindsey recorded it using two separate recordings played on top of each other, a technique I think he often uses for outros.
Only Over You
Agree 100% with WalkAThinLine.
Empire State
Short and punchy, though no masterpiece. A little bit erratic, like the oddball, jangly song that precedes it.
Straight Back
I find this outro to be a bit hazy, like Lindsey is "playing on top of the music" rather than the guitar forming a part of the structure, his preferred approach. Then again, the entire song doesn't do anything for me and I guess that colors one's opinions of its discrete elements as well.
Hold Me
This probably should be 3 stars. It's a virtuoso outro that kind of gets shadowed by the strong catchy song; they're still singing the chorus over the outro so it doesn't fully get the limelight it deserves. Also I more heavily associate the song as a whole with piano, due to the start and that piano interlude.
Oh Diane
Deceptively simple yet memorable, like the outro of Trouble, but too short to amount to much.
Eyes Of The World
Has to be my favorite. Fun, boisterous, and searing. And are there many other FM songs that have such a loud and definitive full stop at the end of the outro? (Compare Sisters of the Moon, where we can hear it grind to a halt but only after it has faded considerably.)
Wish You Were Here
Never been a fan of the song, but what an outro--and not just the guitar but a classic FM full-band effort, as mentioned by others.
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