Possibly one of the greatest:
King Crimson "Starless" (RED) - After the tenor sax solo and the rest of the band has fallen away. Mel Collins (Sopraono sax) plays John Wetton's (Bass) lead vocal melody accompanied only by some intricate cymbal work by Bill Bruford (Drums), creating a sense of tension. After he playing the lead vocal melody *BOOM* the entire band junps in propelled by 3 HEAVY dicordant chords from Robert Fripp (Guitar)which leads into an insane run solo. Happens at about 10:23
Also:
David Sylvian "Wave" (GONE TO EARTH) - Rober Fripp, with atompheric synths swirling around, starts a short solo which lead into one of his trademark low-to-high note sustains at which point David sings "I'll tear my very soul to make you mine". Wow. (5:34-5:44)
Bjork - "Where is the Line" (MEDULLA) - The beginning of the where she is sing acapella ("where is the line with you, where is the liiiiine with you") and Rhazel starts the song with his digitally-enhanced beatboxing. About (0:20)
Cocteau Twins "Beatrix" (TREASURE) - At around the two minute mark when Liz starts wailing, in stark contrast to the unintelligible but beutiful singing prior to that point.
Meshuggah - "Future Breed Machine" - (DESTROY ERASE IMPROVE) - The machinegun (or rather Minigun) guitar/drum intro.
Mouse on Mars "Spaceship" (RADICAL CONNECTOR) - During the break in the song with the chopped up vocal samples ("space, space, space ship its a spacehiiiiip!") and then out of nowhere a heavy synth bass techno glitch beat starts up.
There's many, many more; almost too many to list all here, but well you get the idea.
― Cliftonb, Sunday, 1 January 2006 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Rolling Stones: Loving CupThe What a beautiful buzz bit.
The Clash: Complete ControlC-O-N-control
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Sunday, 1 January 2006 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Sunday, 1 January 2006 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 1 January 2006 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― clotpoll, Sunday, 1 January 2006 23:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― vartman (novaheat), Sunday, 1 January 2006 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stephen C (ihope), Sunday, 1 January 2006 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 January 2006 23:39 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Monday, 2 January 2006 00:30 (eighteen years ago) link
Joe Henry - "Monkey" (FUSE). During the begging of the song with the acousic guitar and the electronic drones. The part when the beat finally kicks in and Joe sing "And maybe someday you'll come back to me". Floors me every time.
Sixteen Horsepower - "Prison Shoe Romp" (SACLOTH N' ASHES). The beginning the second verse after the band crescendos up to full blast and David Eugene Edward yells "OUT OF THE KETTLE from craddle to coffin, in between there's just too much walkin'". Whoa!
Bela Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra (Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ) between 4:20 to 4:40 - this is an eerily beautiful orchestral passage. A truly great moment in Modern Composition.
― Cliftonb, Monday, 2 January 2006 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― sovietpanda (sovietpanda), Monday, 2 January 2006 00:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Pavement's "I swung my fiery sword" thing on Brighten the Corners.
The bass line on Chic's "Good Times".
Public Enemy "My posse come quick because my posse got velocity".
The drum intro to Junior Murvin's "Tedious". And the bit on "Dub Revolution" where the "Waaah-d-da-da-daaah" vocal comes in. And most everything else in Lee Perry's career. "Jah is I light and salvation".
"Born to Make You Happy".
"Paranoid" riff.
Fucking everything, man.
― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Damn fuckin' skippy, Bobby you sage!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:21 (eighteen years ago) link
Maggot Brain where Eddie just starts to play the solo.
"I Wanna be Adored" when that bassline starts.
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link
I have that as a bside somewhere, need to go dig that out now.
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:43 (eighteen years ago) link
"My smile is stuck, I cannot go back to your Frownland".
St Etienne: "In this world of ups and downs" sample on "She's the One".
Fiddy's voice.
― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Everything Screwed and Chopped.
― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr Straight Toxic (ghostface), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Unrelatedly, the delivery of the adlib "sing it, sing it, sing it baby" in the Spinners' "Then Came You" -- Mr Straight Toxic (straightu...)
don't laughwas this the theme to "webster" with emmanuelle lewis ?
― retroman, Monday, 2 January 2006 01:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr Straight Toxic (ghostface), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Wogan Lenin (dog latin), Monday, 2 January 2006 02:02 (eighteen years ago) link
- Steve Hackett's wonderful guitar solo on Genesis' "Firth Of Fifth"
- Those marvellous stereo effects in the background of the second verse of Depeche Mode's "Blasphemous Rumours"
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 2 January 2006 02:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mitya (mitya), Monday, 2 January 2006 02:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 2 January 2006 03:56 (eighteen years ago) link
2. Talk Talk - "After the Flood"The sixty-some seconds of shrieking feedback that just about defines beauty, for all intents and purposes.
3. The Beatles - "I Am the Walrus"The "Hee hee hee, ha ha ha, ho ho ho" background bit that never fails to give me shivers.
4. Gang of Four - "To Hell with Poverty"The "Ow ow ow OW!" bits with the harmonic jabs.
5. Slint - "Good Morning, Captain"The whole "I miss you" screams, and how the distortion holds and then cuts out at the end. Sometimes a sudden silence is better than any sound at all.
― PB, Monday, 2 January 2006 04:11 (eighteen years ago) link
-"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash"
- Cigarette being lit in the intro to "Red Right Hand" (0.00-0.16)
..I'll think of more..
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 January 2006 04:17 (eighteen years ago) link
and not to be really completely totally bloody obvious or anything, but the entrance of the drums on "stairway to heaven" still gets me every time.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 2 January 2006 04:18 (eighteen years ago) link
ot$, ALEX.
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 2 January 2006 04:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, the end of "Love Child" when Diana starts belting "I'l always love...you-u-u". And the first moments of "Stayin' Alive".
― musically (musically), Monday, 2 January 2006 04:41 (eighteen years ago) link
also:
Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn, Bill Rieflin (REPERCUSSIONS OF ANGELIC BEHAVIOR) Track 1 when Bill starts grooving in a shiftin, asymetric time signature and Fripp's solo starts. He plays up a slow scale and hits this unexpected high note sustain that surrounded by discordant digital harmonics.
Dengue Fever - "Sni Bong" (ESCAPE FROM DRAGON HOUSE). The start of the chorus gets me every time.
― Cliftonb, Monday, 2 January 2006 05:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 2 January 2006 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link
"PWREEEEEEEEEEEEOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRMMMMM"
Also, the strings in Barry White's "What Am I Gonna Do With You?" and the guitar bridge in the Hold Steady's "Cattle and the Creeping Things" (the one around 1:50 or so, leading up to "she said I've been seeing double for three straight days") have been giving me shivers.
― disco violence (disco violence), Monday, 2 January 2006 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― vartman (novaheat), Monday, 2 January 2006 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Nick Drake's "Road" when he says "I" an eighth note before the downbeat.
Bauhaus's "Bela Lugosi's Dead" - "Ohhhhhh Beeeeeeeeeeeelaaaaaaaa, Beeeeeeeeelaaaaaaaaaaaa's Undeeeeeeeeead."
Every time a new instrument is introduced in SAWII Disc 1 Track 3.
The Chameleons' "Soul in Isolation" - the guitars in the "No more would you cry, cry, cryyyyyyyyy" part. And just about every other moment of Strange Times, really.
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 2 January 2006 22:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― psychedelia smith, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 10:19 (eighteen years ago) link
"Watching the Detectives": the drum intro before the bass comes in.
Wynonie Harris, "Down Boy Down": "Ain't it 'bout time for the house to buy?!"
Dee Dee Ramone yelling "Wait!" just before the band starts playing on the Ramones' "It's Alive."
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 10:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 10:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Marvin Gaye: "Do you remember all of the *bullshit*, baby?"
Dylan and the Band in England, and the Caetano Veloso/Os Mutantes live version of "E Proibido Proibir" ("Ambiente de Festival"). When someone's laying tracks to get kicked out of his own country, as on the latter, now *that's* true rock and roll outlawry.
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 10:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 10:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 10:48 (eighteen years ago) link
also the drumbeat & Ray Davis' vocal intro on "Tear The Roof Off The Sucker (Give Up The Funk)"
and Carla Thomas & Otis Redding's exchange midway through "Tramp"
"Otis, you country. Straight from the Georgia woods."
"That's gooood.
― rockin' mel slirrup (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Love, "Andmoreagain" - the cello that accompanies Arthur Lee's "Mate-he-rial"
Velvet Underground, "I Heard Her Call My Name": "And then my mind split open-" SKRKREEEK!
The opening fade-in to "I Feel Love", just before the drum machine kicks in.
I could name HUNDREDS more (and so could you.)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Could we kiss a little longer, it wouldn't be any WRONGER.
THE BEST!
― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― vartman (novaheat), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 02:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Binjominia (Brilhante), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 08:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― mervin heinz, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 01:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sexy MFA (Hexy M.F.), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 01:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 02:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― joe schmoe (joeschmoe), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link
that first organ hit in "Love & Happiness"....
― m0stlyClean, Saturday, 2 January 2010 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Well... This was recorded. Has there ever been a greater moment?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaKWvAaSuyI
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 2 January 2010 05:14 (fourteen years ago) link
The bit in Tusk where the voices come in, way louder than everything else, "Just tell me that you want me". Makes me jump with surprise and shiver with pleasure.
― ithappens, Saturday, 2 January 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
The moment in the version of "The River" on Live 1975-1985 when the monologue turns into the song. The band plays this loooong note soaked in sadness and then Bruce scythes through it with a searing blast of harmonica.
― anagram, Saturday, 2 January 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Hello, I'm new.
The 3 second sliding bass intro to Wichita Lineman, as played by Carole Kaye.
The drum break in the Peel Session of The Container Drivers by The Fall.
― The Broken Brothers, Saturday, 2 January 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4YEW7tRxHw
5:14---->
I AIN'T GONNA STOP YOU! YOU JUST DO IT.. LIKE THAT!
― Sentimental drunk, Saturday, 2 January 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mibmtAMMCwk
those "whoa-oh-oh-oh"s just kill
― un(!)registered (unregistered), Sunday, 3 January 2010 04:38 (fourteen years ago) link
that first organ hit in "Love & Happiness"....― m0stlyClean, Saturday, January 2, 2010 12:38 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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which one :P
― meisenfek, Sunday, 3 January 2010 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
the bit in kate bush's Big Sky where she'll "pause for a jet", then the bass comes back in
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 4 January 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
and all of A Quick One While He's Away on the Rock n Roll circus, of course
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 4 January 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
The last 20 seconds or so of that footage of Jimmy Hendrix playing The Killing Floor (the live footage introduced by Brian Jones) where he actually slows down time by doing something wierd with a guitar.
― The Broken Brothers, Monday, 4 January 2010 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Nina Nastasia - Run All You...
When the whole band comes in just as she sings the word 'Air', what a glorious sound and so beautifully captured, give me chills every single time.
― Joe Pass Filter (MaresNest), Monday, 4 January 2010 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
The Accapella bit in Sloop John B.
― The Broken Brothers, Monday, 4 January 2010 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD7JsHWw3vg&feature=player_embedded
― hairylaser micropenis pavilion (latebloomer), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 05:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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