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ATM - Moments that induce upstanding back of neck hair.
Posted by hey_mr_c on 2 December 2011 - 11:00pm.
Anyone want to share any short moments of any songs which they love so much that they rewind mp3s/cds to listen to just that part again. Two examples of this for me are the vocal harmonies on Dosed by the Chili Peppers around the 4:21 mark and between 3:00 and 3:05 on Kalamazoo by Ben Folds. Don't be embarrassed by any 'uncool' choices as mine are not exactly cutting edge and as Ben Folds reminded us "There's always someone cooler than you."
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Pinball Wizard
I could listen to the introduction to Pinball Wizard for hours. Sometimes it feels as if I have!
Also from Tommy
When the Hammond organ comes in during the overture in the original Who version.
Or the "Listening to you..." mantra from the movie version.
Golden Slumbers
After the ragged chorus, the lush strings of George Martin - sad and reflective ushering in the last of the Beatles. The 60's ended around about then - I rewind it every time I hear the track.
Two spring to mind
The bit in King Crimson's Epitaph when the mellotron shifts up the scale.
And when Alison Goldfrapp hits the high notes at the end of Utopia.
Brooklyn Owes The Charmer Under Me
the bit just as it fades out.
Redd Kross
Too many to mention but the hand-clap parts in this always cheer me up - around 1:30 into a quality solo from a vastly under-rated band.
Excellent call, mr c
Man we derided the Kross. We looked at thema as something of a joke band and how wrong we were. Took the piss out of TSOL too. True Smell of Leather, we said. Great track.
Lucky
I was lucky enough to record Jimmy's Fantasy on a radio show and was hooked from that day on. Early stuff was a bit ropey but don't forget they were only kids. You could create a very best of compilation that would blow many ' successful ' bands away.
When Aretha Franklin slurs "open up baby" at 3.02...
on Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do).
And I haven't even mentioned the drummer's tap taps...
The Guitar Solo...
...in the middle of "Some Fantastic Place" by Squeeze has literally reduced me to tears on more than one occasion . It is perfect in every respect
Totally agree
Been listening to Squeeze this afternoon and can't believe how many classic songs they have done over the years.
I don't usually last that long
The lyrics do it for me. Such a heartfelt tribute to a close friend.
This
The National
The chorus in Conversation 16 and those swooning synth-choral harmonies. Coupled with Matt Berninger's perfect lyrics, it does it every time.
In a similar vein & I'm listening to it as I type...
Bloodbuzz Ohio.
All of it.
Just a few of mine
Abba - Dancing Queen: 'YOU can dance, YOU can jive'. Is there a more joyous song in all of pop music?
Ultravox - Vienna: 'Ooooohhhh, Vi-eee-nnaa!'
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody: the freakout that forces EVERYBODY who has seen Wayne's World to headbang uncontrollably.
Good Choices
Nice to see you took on board the comments about 'coolness' - ( no offence intended ! - I own all those tracks ! )
Ry Cooder's slide guitar entry at 1.24
Randy Newman - Birmingham (from Good Old Boys)
http://soundcloud.com/hanshand/randy-newman-birmingham
The Stone Roses
This is the One.
The bit where Brown's voice (play nice now!) soars over Squire's first riff with 'I'd like to leave the country, for a month of Sunday's. '
Something magical happens.
Kate Bush..
This Womans Work, the bit at 01:50 where she pleads "Give me these moments back"..gets me every time
Indeed - I'm filling up typing this post
There are some songs I almost don't dare think about and that's certainly one
The point in "I Am The Walrus" where Lennon is really falling to pieces - "Semolina Pilchard..." he's HOWLING with anger and frustration even though its gibberish.
The end 30 secs of 'Very Very Hungry' by Byrne/Eno - when the sampled word "Dark" is tracked over and over on itself
The National - the line in "Lemonworld" - "It takes me a day to remember a day I didn't mean to let it get so far out of hand" - a perfect expression of a feeling I desperately wish I didn't recognise so clearly
These moments are why I listen to music.
It's not close to being my favourite Hold Steady song - in fact, it's a bit sub par by their ridiculously high standards - but the bit in Hurricane J that goes "But they didn't name her for a saint / They named her for a storm".
Ooh.
I literally just got goosebumps just THINKING about it.
A bootleg moment.
The "rain down" section from Paranoid Android during Radiohead's Glastonbury '97 set. There's a bit - "the yuppies networking / the panic / the vomit" - where Thom's voice, Ed's backing vocals and Jonny's Mellotron all coincide and something happens. Not sure what. But it raises every hair on my neck and arms, regardless of how many times I hear it.
Nice choice
Also while we're on Radiohead can anyone listen to Exit Music (For A Film) without thinking of Father Ted and conjuring up Theme From Shaft in their head aswell ?
Rod Argent - Hold Your Head Up
Intro
Every single moment of this...
Always has been and always will be the single most spine-tingling performance. When she invokes 'Smurf' at 4' 03" , especially around Aids Day, has been known to make me cry.
And while we're at it, how about a bit of Alan 'Smurf' Murphy? One of our greatest and most innovative guitarists. RIP Smurf.
"I....
... I will be king..."
(from Heroes by David Bowie if you have a morning head and didn't recall)
If your hairs don't get up for that, then you have no hairs.
Amen
And "We're nothing, and nothing will help us"
Actually on the whole of that album the moment that shakes me the most is on 'Blackout" when after the second time round with 'Get me off the streets' he's singing 'hot air gets me into a blackout' and the backing vocal is a screamed 'blackout' just a half beat behind and the band all comes back in.
Those drums
That launch 'Bone Machine' at the start of Surfer Rosa. Always sounds like Pixies have set up on my back seat. And the volume HAS to go up to 11.
Aretha again
1.48 to 2.04 of this....and the whole middle 8 of Say A Little Prayer.
Man, I love Aretha.
Can't You Hear Me Knocking...
Just a good Stones' song, with a typical Keef riff - but then at 2.47, for some reason, the band keep playing and it turns into something different altogether.
And from the same album
Not to mention the guitar solo on Sway, the guitar solo on Bitch and the bit on Sister Morphine when the drums kick in. Hard to top that album really for moments. Apparently it came out in 1971, not that is significant in any way of course.
My hairy moment
is always the 'hey, hey noooooww' from Sway.
Mick Taylor
Didn't he come up with this section and didn't it lead to him leaving the band when he discovered The Glimmer Twins were greedily refusing to give him a songwriting credit?
While we're talking the Stones...
I was in a shop yesterday and refused to leave until about 2:42 when the drums kick in. Sheer pleasure.
[Rolling Stones Soul Survivor]
sorry to get all Terry Wogan on your ass
but when it comes to hair-standing, this immediately springs to mind. How could it not?
So many people love this.
That's OK.
I just feel compelled to say I do not.
Not to take away your or anyone else's personal experience, but I HATE the way she completely ignores and wrecks one of the great melodies of the 20th century.
Richard Hawley
About 3.31 when the most gorgeous string arrangement I've ever heard on a pop song comes in, and we get to hear Richard's best ever singing.
Open Up Your Door
You do need to hear the whole song though to fully appreciate how good the ending is.
For me it's got to be
the sax solo and instrumental break on Jungleland by Bruce Springsteen. Absolutely stunning.
The Live in NYC version
The coda at the end where it gets allegro again...
"Outside the streets on fire in a real death waltz
Between what's flesh and what's fantasy and the poets down here
Don't write nothing at all, they just stand back and let it all be"
and then the band falls silent and Bittan's piano comes tinkling back in
" And in the quick of the night they reach for their moment..."
Brilliant.
Led Zep - "Thank You" (BBC Sessions version)
specifically - when Jimmy kicks off at 2.28 - "soaring" I think is an appropriate term.
Rain Song
The part in The Rain Song when it 'soars' towards the end always has me singing along !
Guitar Solo from
Another Girl Another Planet - superb
Despite several years practising, I still can't play it - too twiddly for me I suppose
Van the Man
on his version of Carrickfergus - when he sings' for the see is wide, and I can't swim over'. Absolutely beautiful.
Nessum Dorma, when the strings come in after the first chorus.
Obviously
I meant sea.
You know you can edit your posts...
so long as no one has replied to them.
It's a white men thing...
Bear with it till 3:14. He nails Radiohead's Creep.
Spiritualized...
are very good at this sort of thing. The best examples I can think of are the version of Shine a Light on the 1998 Live at the Royal Albert Hall record when the celestial organ comes and the version of Lord Can You Hear Me on Let It All Come Down when it gets simultaneously gospel and psychedlelic on the listeners' candy ass.
I would also nominate the moment when the big guitars come in on Fake Plastic Trees by them Radioheads.
One of Wellers
"Going Undergrounds" just sounds different and sends the neck hairs rising
Too many Justin Currie / Del Amitris to mention but the stop start bit in "Where Did I Go" and the harmonies in "Walking through You" are sublime.
Finally the last verse of "Alone Again, Naturally" by Gilbert O'Sullivan
is just this, enough said
And at sixty-five years old
My mother, God rest her soul
Couldn't understand why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start
With a heart so badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally
Alone again, naturally
Three moments
Three that come to mind...
The bit in Deeper Understanding by Kate Bush when the voice of one of The Trio Bulgarka breaks out of the mix at 2.51
The bit in Sigur Ros's Sæglópur where the music seems to fade and then returns st 5.36 ish
The bit at 1.54 in the Finn Brothers' song Where is My Soul where Neil Finn's voice cracks... it gets me every time!
Nice One
I love Sigur Ros and have been waiting for someone to mention them.
Bill Withers - Harlem
When the strings come in at the start....wonderful
Two of many
Blue Nile - first time the choir sings "Happiness" in the song of the same name on Peace at Last.
Van Morrison - "It's too late to stop now", followed by the brass section and everyone else giving it loads, in Cyprus Avenue, from the double live "It's too late to stop now" album.
From my raving days...
The intro on this...
The 1-2-3-4 drum beat at 3:41
Little light.........shining
The intro to Dream of Sheep by Katie B, gets me every time
Gorecki Symphony No3 Sorrowful Songs
The late Polish composer based this on a folk song describing the pain felt by a mother looking for her lost child.
Angelite with Huun Huur Tu
This usually makes me cry. Angelite with Huun Huur Tu performing Mountain Tale.
Bold As Love
at 50 seconds Jimi plays some lovely filigree guitar and then at 55 secs he sings "My red...."
it's always been a back of the neck moment for me
Two bits of guitar
Jimi Hendrix - The beginning of "Still raining, Still Dreaming" on Electric Ladyland.
Stone Roses - Towards the end of "Waterfall" when Squire decides to go all funk on yo' ass!
Several for me, but I'll choose this one
An underrated song that really gets me at 3:41 onwards, especially when Thom duets against himself. Sublime.
Couldn't agree more
Really takes flight
Bohemian Rhapsody
The opening harmonies.
Hearing 'Hey Yah' by Outkast on the Radio.
I went to a carol service by accident...
...the other day, and where the descant comes in on the last verse of "O Come All Ye Faithful", well, it's indescribable.
Also, in Jacob Golden's "Jesus Angelina", towards the end where you think the song is about to finish with some soft, scuffy drumming, and he swoops back in with "Where d'you go, Angelina, where d'you go?"
http://youtu.be/RV1l4gipbWQ