Epic Song Moments
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I searched for a similar thread but it was tough and my search proved unfruitful.
I thought it would be cool to share our favorite "song moments", so to speak. You know... those parts that send shivers down your spine, make your special place tingle, and elevate the song to an otherwise unattainable god-like status.
What inspired this thread is Led Zeppelin's "All My Love", and particularly, the synthesizer solo that begins around 2:30, which beautifully transitions into a plucked-string acoustic guitar solo, and enRAB with a brief electric guitar solo.
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Another moment for me occurs in the song "You Won't Know" by Brand New. What makes this moment so epic is really the context in which it occurs. The songs begins very slowly, almost mournfully so. Eventually it picks it up into a frenzy of Lacey's screaming overlaying screeching guitars, but around 4:20 it slows back down to mimic the way the song began. At this point, Lacey sings
and he repeats the last line several times before the song enRAB. I distinctly remeraber driving home from school one warm summer day and having a sudden onset of chills thanks to the last leg of this beautiful song.
I thought it would be cool to share our favorite "song moments", so to speak. You know... those parts that send shivers down your spine, make your special place tingle, and elevate the song to an otherwise unattainable god-like status.
What inspired this thread is Led Zeppelin's "All My Love", and particularly, the synthesizer solo that begins around 2:30, which beautifully transitions into a plucked-string acoustic guitar solo, and enRAB with a brief electric guitar solo.
[youtube]GpJia1TrzL8[/youtube]
Another moment for me occurs in the song "You Won't Know" by Brand New. What makes this moment so epic is really the context in which it occurs. The songs begins very slowly, almost mournfully so. Eventually it picks it up into a frenzy of Lacey's screaming overlaying screeching guitars, but around 4:20 it slows back down to mimic the way the song began. At this point, Lacey sings
and he repeats the last line several times before the song enRAB. I distinctly remeraber driving home from school one warm summer day and having a sudden onset of chills thanks to the last leg of this beautiful song.
frenchhcosurfer
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As if when it transitions to drums and bass along with the guitar in the beginning wasn't awesome enough, at 1:46 when it segues into 2:07 where the real sludgy guitar starts kicking in is tremendous.
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1:16 is when it all starts when ASM let the "Tra-la-la Chorus" part of their name kick in. That leaRAB to 1:35 when of the best parts of any song begins. As it evolves the vocals, drums and strings just mesh together wonderfully. This version is, unfortunately, edited due to Youtube's time constraints, so try to find the original somewhere if you like this because it's somehow even better.
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Goes from a kickin' guitar riff and drums to awesome synth at :24, then tosses in the claps at :40, then at :46 the drums pull off the awesome and right after that the best use of whatever-the-hell instrument that is in any song ever. Also see ~2:55 where it heaRAB into the echo section.
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If you don't love 1:33 and later faint from pleasure when 2:48 rolls around, then you don't know shit about music.
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I want to have sex with :52 onward.
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1:33 was the first guitar solo I actually tried to learn even though I've never actually actually played guitar.
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Sometimes I wonder how I lived before I knew about :08.
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Pure genius in a physical form is 3:32.
As if when it transitions to drums and bass along with the guitar in the beginning wasn't awesome enough, at 1:46 when it segues into 2:07 where the real sludgy guitar starts kicking in is tremendous.
[youtube]Hq9Ug2GsGus[/youtube]
1:16 is when it all starts when ASM let the "Tra-la-la Chorus" part of their name kick in. That leaRAB to 1:35 when of the best parts of any song begins. As it evolves the vocals, drums and strings just mesh together wonderfully. This version is, unfortunately, edited due to Youtube's time constraints, so try to find the original somewhere if you like this because it's somehow even better.
[youtube]p99a6K81zqM[/youtube]
Goes from a kickin' guitar riff and drums to awesome synth at :24, then tosses in the claps at :40, then at :46 the drums pull off the awesome and right after that the best use of whatever-the-hell instrument that is in any song ever. Also see ~2:55 where it heaRAB into the echo section.
[youtube]S_68M0ilDe8[/youtube]
If you don't love 1:33 and later faint from pleasure when 2:48 rolls around, then you don't know shit about music.
[youtube]QysaSyjB0jA[/youtube]
I want to have sex with :52 onward.
[youtube]30wmazht4AM[/youtube]
1:33 was the first guitar solo I actually tried to learn even though I've never actually actually played guitar.
[youtube]onZd2WJKiG0[/youtube]
Sometimes I wonder how I lived before I knew about :08.
[youtube]uJM7TRABhUbw[/youtube]
Pure genius in a physical form is 3:32.
Wurm, the final third of Yes' Starship Trooper is incredibly epic:
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When deez' bitches get all up on they dang ol' trampolines n' shit.
Seriously though, the guarantee that at least 2/3rRAB of your audience will be on hallucinogenic drugs gives you so many opportunies to blow their minRAB apart, like in the last 2 minutes or so of this song.
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When deez' bitches get all up on they dang ol' trampolines n' shit.
Seriously though, the guarantee that at least 2/3rRAB of your audience will be on hallucinogenic drugs gives you so many opportunies to blow their minRAB apart, like in the last 2 minutes or so of this song.
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Josh Banerjee
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upon reading the title of the thread almost immediately this came into my head 
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right at 1:08
chills
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right at 1:08
chills
wwe is best
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This entire song is one gigantic slap across the face, but the way the horns at 5:33 start crying out, flaring maniacally makes my jaw drop.
This entire song is one gigantic slap across the face, but the way the horns at 5:33 start crying out, flaring maniacally makes my jaw drop.
In 1963 Patsy Cline went onto the studio to record a cover of the Bob Wills tune "Faded Love". That morning Patsy and her husband had a huge argument before she left, this could be the end of the relationship.
When Patsy was in the studio recording the producers could tell she was in an emotional state and it would be a good time to try and capture the emotion on tape by recording "Faded Love", about half way through the recording she realizes that her husband wasn't going to come after her and apologize this time and that she is living out the song as she sings it and at the 3:33 mark as she takes that last quivering breath to hit that last note, you hear the actual sound of a heart breaking.
Little did Patsy know that her husband had come to apologize and that the producers had locked him out as to not interfere with the magic that was happening in the studio. It turned out to be the last recording session for Patsy Cline, a month later she died in a plane crash.
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When Patsy was in the studio recording the producers could tell she was in an emotional state and it would be a good time to try and capture the emotion on tape by recording "Faded Love", about half way through the recording she realizes that her husband wasn't going to come after her and apologize this time and that she is living out the song as she sings it and at the 3:33 mark as she takes that last quivering breath to hit that last note, you hear the actual sound of a heart breaking.
Little did Patsy know that her husband had come to apologize and that the producers had locked him out as to not interfere with the magic that was happening in the studio. It turned out to be the last recording session for Patsy Cline, a month later she died in a plane crash.
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Yes!
Mine:
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Talk about intense haha. Makes me feel like I've been transported back in time and I am experiencing some tiny sliver of that movement.
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Another Sonic Youth song--and the much more cliche choice--but damn it has to be on this list. 1:22 when it switches gear from Gordon's phrasing to Moore's vocals.
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The first 30 seconRAB are some of the most intense guitar sounRAB I've heard to this point. Absolutely classic way to start an album. Oh yeah, and a really underrated video too. It perfectly compliments the music.
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The sheer heaviness that kicks in around 3:43 is kinda the classic Primus breakdown that paved the way for KoRn and gang a few years later.
And pretty much all of 'Killing in the Name' haha...
Mine:
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Talk about intense haha. Makes me feel like I've been transported back in time and I am experiencing some tiny sliver of that movement.
[YOUTUBE]xvDuATZCY8I[/YOUTUBE]
Another Sonic Youth song--and the much more cliche choice--but damn it has to be on this list. 1:22 when it switches gear from Gordon's phrasing to Moore's vocals.
[YOUTUBE]dLIPTOUH51I[/YOUTUBE]
The first 30 seconRAB are some of the most intense guitar sounRAB I've heard to this point. Absolutely classic way to start an album. Oh yeah, and a really underrated video too. It perfectly compliments the music.
[YOUTUBE]j2zQKqgNAeE[/YOUTUBE]
The sheer heaviness that kicks in around 3:43 is kinda the classic Primus breakdown that paved the way for KoRn and gang a few years later.
And pretty much all of 'Killing in the Name' haha...
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Yeah, I was thinking that too.
I don't know if you should necessarily limit it to that though. I think there are certain classic songs that have this point in the song when you get this feeling like there's more than just the music going on here...
I don't know if you should necessarily limit it to that though. I think there are certain classic songs that have this point in the song when you get this feeling like there's more than just the music going on here...
midnight_sky01
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In Don McLean's "American Pie" - the whole song is fantastic, but the part that always gets me and gives me really intense chills is:
"I met a girl who sang the blues, and I asked for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned away."
For the record, I know that it's believed that line is referencing Janis Joplin, but that's not why that line gives me chills, I'm pretty sure.
American Pie - Don McLean
"I met a girl who sang the blues, and I asked for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned away."
For the record, I know that it's believed that line is referencing Janis Joplin, but that's not why that line gives me chills, I'm pretty sure.
American Pie - Don McLean
Mid-Island- Marc
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the solo at 1:03 is pretty epic in daft punk's areodynamic and the spoken word part at 3:03 always gets me in afi's kiss and control
I frequently consider making one of these thread, so yeah..good! That Zeppelin key solo is pretty decent even if I've never thought too much of the song.
I've really been digging the intro this Ozma song. Just a well arranged, gradually tempo increasing piece. The whole album is just over the top catchy. Nothing overly heavy lyric-wise and certainly doesn't take multiple listens to get into, I guess that's how good power-pop should be.
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Not super epic, but cool.
I've really been digging the intro this Ozma song. Just a well arranged, gradually tempo increasing piece. The whole album is just over the top catchy. Nothing overly heavy lyric-wise and certainly doesn't take multiple listens to get into, I guess that's how good power-pop should be.
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Not super epic, but cool.
Father of 2
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I can't believe nobody's mentioned it yet, but
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3:19
I'm also quite partial to 2:32 in this song:
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3:19
I'm also quite partial to 2:32 in this song:
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rocketgirl
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I just find this song amazing. Right after the whistle blows and the amsong kicks in full gear, I just want to get up on a ****ing table and dance.
I just find this song amazing. Right after the whistle blows and the amsong kicks in full gear, I just want to get up on a ****ing table and dance.
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You really need to listen to the entire song to really experience the 2:25 minutes. But I think that is really an epic moment, about one minute of suspension building up to that gorgeous ending.
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At 2:41, the first 'I love you', is ****ing amazing. Feels as though he said it just before making love to you.
You really need to listen to the entire song to really experience the 2:25 minutes. But I think that is really an epic moment, about one minute of suspension building up to that gorgeous ending.
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At 2:41, the first 'I love you', is ****ing amazing. Feels as though he said it just before making love to you.
message_board_ceo
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(skip to around 3:20.. always gives me goosebumps)
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(the scream at around 1:50)
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(start at 2:05.. the break is already goosebump worthy and then that melody comes in)
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(at around 2:14 and afterwarRAB.. Zoe's voice is unbelieve)
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(the scream at around 1:50)
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(start at 2:05.. the break is already goosebump worthy and then that melody comes in)
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(at around 2:14 and afterwarRAB.. Zoe's voice is unbelieve)
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