Songs that don't end, but suddenly stop

I'm always curious about that - how many buyers at the time actually flipped a record to hear the B-side?
I think of the scene from the Assayas film L'Eau Froide, set in the early 70s, where the kids play "Around the Bend" repeatedly but never "Run Through the Jungle".

Would Mr. Bungle's Pink Cigarette count?

I think I've found an even earlier example of this. On the 1961 album The Best of Jimmy Reed, no less than four of the songs cut off with an obvious tape splice, sometimes in the middle of a measure. This probably has more to do with editing around the peculiarities of the live performance than a self-conscious mixing/mastering decision, because a couple of the songs end with the end of the performance, and the others fade out.

A newer example is the entirety of Whack World by Tierra Whack; IIRC she didn’t have a good ending for a song and they decided to spin the whole album in the same “Instagram friendly” 1 min per song/video format

I think I've found an even earlier example of this. On the 1961 album The Best of Jimmy Reed, no less than four of the songs cut off with an obvious tape splice, sometimes in the middle of a measure.

That's excellent.

This probably has more to do with editing around the peculiarities of the live performance than a self-conscious mixing/mastering decision

seems like something similar is up on Arthur Russell's 'Tower of Meaning', I don't really know what the deal is but would really like to know. I believe some of the tracks are sped up and others are slowed down.

Wilco - Poor Places (cuts off before the last "Foxtrot")

“Common Sense” (on Schmilco) cuts off in the middle of an instrumental part.

Deafheaven - Mombasa

XTC "Red" - End of side 1 on Go2

Occurred to me that they do this a lot in industrial music for dramatic effect, to highlight the I guess manufactured/cutnpaste/triggered/sampled qualities of the music. Like here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iprm5f78CA0

Somebody please upload that "sudden ending" version of "A House Is Not a Motel" to YouTube pronto!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_At4UAv4WUQ

Is this not it?

Arcade Fire - [Antichrist Television Blues]

Guided By Voices must have a bunch of these

(xp) No.

Yes, that "House is not a Motel" is a modern remix, and it seems to me that the ending of the track is the end of the performance.

(xp) I think it is..

There was a combination of someone mixing up the song titles on web boards, but listening to it there it seems to be :
1) A longer 'fade', and
2) The sudden ending, i.e. it drops rather than fading out completely.

It isn't, my (vinyl) copy had the sudden ending and that definitely isn't it. For a start, the version you posted is a completely different mix and it lasts longer and, most importantly of all, there's no fade at all in the sudden ending version.

I had the notion in my head that at least some of the tracks on Twin Infinitives do this... but listening back, they don't, the band really "stops playing" and the "end" of each "song."

Twin Infinitives kinda has the same effect though because of the excruciatingly long silences between tracks

Was listening to Floating Points’ Elaenia yesterday and the album’s closing song ‘Peroration Six’ does this after a big crescendo.

Several tracks on NY & CH's Barn just stop, awkwardly, like somebody dropped somethin.

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, "The Sun Goes Down", September 1967. Again, the b-side to a Top 10 hit, so pretty well known. Kind of sounds like a mistake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XEMGnXOZMs