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Not favorite songs, not favorite verses or choruses or whatever, but those moments, lasting 1-3 seconds, that you really love. i love these little moments that send feel good chills or warmth throughout your body, that chemical reaction in the brain.
Examples:
Nine Inch Nails, that moment when The Frail ends and you hear those first notes of The Wretched.
Allman Brothers, "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed", the moment when everything but the guitars drop out and the intro to the second theme melody begins.
etc.
You can also think of it as those points in songs you really look forward to hearing live.
Post by potentpotables on May 5, 2020 8:29:48 GMT -5
The first that comes to mind is the beginning of the coda in The Beautiful Ones. To pinpoint it, it's the moment right after Prince asks - "do you want him? or do you want me?". The self-answer - " 'cause I want you." The way the music swells and builds and then release on that lyric - I want you - sets up the last 90 seconds of the song perfectly. Oh God it is so perfect.
Post by Nathan Fieldcяab on May 5, 2020 8:38:42 GMT -5
Radiohead near the end of How to Disappear Completely when Thom is coming and the strings make it sound like the whole song is melting and then it just suddenly snaps back into place and swells up all beautiful-like
Perfume Genius on the opening track of No Shape when he tenderly sing "rocking you to sleep from the otherside" and then the world explodes
The last minute of Backseat by Charli XCX and Carly Rae Jepsen
Rage Against the Machine when Zach starts fully screaming "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" and the riff comes back in
Sufjan's voice on Romulus when he's singing "when my turn came, I was ashamed of her" just wrecks me every time
At the risk of taking an obvious one, the beat drop in Dance Yrself Clean
I can definitely think of tons more (probably a dozen or so just from Björk songs), but I'll stop for now... cool thread idea!
Radiohead near the end of How to Disappear Completely when Thom is coming and the strings make it sound like the whole song is melting and then it just suddenly snaps back into place and swells up all beautiful-like
Perfume Genius on the opening track of No Shape when he tenderly sing "rocking you to sleep from the otherside" and then the world explodes
The last minute of Backseat by Charli XCX and Carly Rae Jepsen
Rage Against the Machine when Zach starts fully screaming "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" and the riff comes back in
Sufjan's voice on Romulus when he's singing "when my turn came, I was ashamed of her" just wrecks me every time
At the risk of taking an obvious one, the beat drop in Dance Yrself Clean
I can definitely think of tons more (probably a dozen or so just from Björk songs), but I'll stop for now... cool thread idea!
great stuff here from the ones i know, i'll have to listen to the ones i don't. and please feel free to share the obvious ones, the beat drop in dance yrself clean is such a great moment, and so incredible to hear live at full volume when that midbass shakes your body and makes you blink.
you mentioning sufjan made me think of another obvious one, in "chicago", halfway through the strings and vocals only part, specifically the second time he repeats "i made a lot of mistakes" for the first time and you realize he is going to sing that line over and over. absolutely slayed me the first time i heard it and continues to slay every time.
radiohead has oodles of great song moments, one that came to mind: "no surprises", the slightly different way thom sings the "such a pretty house and such a pretty garden" line before going into the last chorus.
phish has tons and tons. "you enjoy myself" has two: the cowbell tap before the melody change, and of course the animalistic screaming peak before going into the "wash your face and drive me to firenze" theme.
About a minute into All My Friends when the bass and kick come in it's like the groove just settles perfectly into the track and you know the next 6 minutes are gonna be great. It makes my brain produce anticipatory chemicals every single time.
At 2:30 Suf softly says "I want to save you from your sorrow" and then some bright instrumentation emerges and is incredibly uplifing. Gives me chills.
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The part in Love/Paranoia where the guitar kicks in and Kevin sings “if only I could change your mind. I’d be normal.” And a little later it relieves the tension with the walking by the ocean part
Post by potentpotables on May 5, 2020 10:22:14 GMT -5
I won't do all Prince songs, I promise, but a few more:
- the intro to DMSR, just synths and the drum machine. The day after Prince died, at Coachella 2016, in Despacio with James Murphy spinning, the best moment for me was hearing this opening, knowing that there was an 8 minute party to follow.
- album version of I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man, at about the 4 minute mark, there's the lull - cymbals, one guitar note, building the shell. This goes on for about 90 seconds, then the bass and lead guitar kick in to lead it back to the melody for the outro. That's a part where I always play air bass.
- on Head, the intro of a drum machine and synth hits for about 16 counts before the drum machine leads into the main synth groove. The few beats of the drum into the main synth groove is rad.
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Let Me Back In by Explosions in the Sky has a set of guitar triplets about 2 minutes in (and repeats a bunch as part of the melody). I look forward to that part whenever I listen to the album.
The moment during the intro of Hoppipolla by Sigur Ros when the second instrument comes in always gives me chills. Could be because it is the song that played while my wife walked down the aisle, but that part is the one that gets me every time.
I'll have to think of others, but those are the first ones off the top of my head.
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Post by snowmanomura on May 5, 2020 12:07:28 GMT -5
on the Live in Chicago DVD from ween, during the transdermal celebration Deaner plays this really screamer of a solo, and then at the end does these really quick hammer ons whiule moving up the neck and the bass follows it. it's like this disoriented coming back to earth moment
Post by MrPricklePants on May 5, 2020 12:21:54 GMT -5
Regine's vocals at 3:30 of In the Backseat by Arcade Fire when she starts wailing away.
R.E.M. - when Michael Stipe laughs at the beginning of the last chorus on The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite. [edit: not the last chorus. edit: Katy ruined it, i hate her.]
I'm a Wheel by Wilco: when Jeff Tweedy says "um."
Radiohead - Bones: "I used to fly like Peter Pan."
Other good Radiohead moments: the percussion coming back in on Reckoner, ending of Burn the Witch, pretty much every note of Let Down
There is so much good drumming on In Rainbows. That part if reckoner is great. I also really like in All I need near the end when the piano builds up and Philip Selway comes using the crash for the hi hat rhythm.
re: Let Down, check out the toots and the maytals version of it. when he sings chorus (especially the second) it's just so full of soul. The whole song is great though
Post by actually @fortyfive33 now on May 5, 2020 15:36:59 GMT -5
The nine-note progression before the outro in "Sprawl II" is probably my all-time favorite.
The horns at the beginning of "Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach." ESPECIALLY the Glastonbury 2010 version. The synth line during CHVRCHES' "Tether" The bass line in "You Want It Darker" The vocals fading between channels during "Ribs" The angry, almost violent guitar during "Papers (Hades Finds Out)" Hi-hat taps at the beginning of Sinatra's NY, NY The massive, blown out intro to "Mirrored Sea" The sax lick at the beginning of "What's Going On" The bass riff in "The Chain" "But what will we do when we're sober?" (also the horns. THE HORNS.) The transition in "Come On! Feel The Illinoise!"
Obligatory Radiohead pick: Percussion and bass kicking in in "Jigsaw Falling Into Place"