vocal pop hits with long, entirely non-vocal instrumental outros

"Chump" by Green Day.

Not a charting hit, but I first heard the song played live on 120 Minutes so imo this should count.

ZZ Top - La Grange. Vocals only in the first third of the song.

Stranger In Moscow

Journey - Stone in Love goes from a catchy AOR to a sort pop-prog guitar solo outro (there are some light vox so it's cheating a bit but i still think it fits)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFqXFE8OSG4

oh! "Chump" by Green Day. wasn't a single but they played it at every show from like 93-98

― flappy bird, Wednesday, April 5, 2017 6:07 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not a hit, doesn't count.

This was the first one to come instantly to mind - I'd say the coda is like 40% of the song.

Yup, which is quite something given that the song only goes on for three and a half minutes!

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Gary Numan - 'Cars'

This was the first one to come instantly to mind - I'd say the coda is like 40% of the song.

it's more like 60%... numan stops singing before 1:30 and the song is about 3:50 long.

Manic Street Preachers - You Love Us

tom tom club "genius of love" (ends with about 70 instrumental seconds)

("wordy rappinghood" almost ends with two-plus instrumental minutes but they sneak the vocals back in right at the end)

Madonna's "Don't Tell Me" has a good 90 seconds of strings, keyboards and (very) processed vocoder at the end, including 30 seconds of fading coda. I reckon that counts.

Is there a complementary thread for songs with long intros relative to the song as a whole? I was thinking of another Gary Numan song, "Complex", which is only three minutes long half of which is intro.

For the long intro thread: Stone Roses' "Love Spreads." Vocals start about 1:15 into a 5:45 song.