Favorite Moments on Favorite Albums

[Sepstrup]

Those few seconds on your favorite albums that give you chills or send you to the floor in a near-epileptic spasm.

Tom Waits - Bone Machine. When he sings "You say that it is gospel but I know that it's only church" during That Feel, the album closer.

Your turn.

[Storm In A Teacup]

The last half of "Abbey Road" by the Beatles is epic, but the three songs, Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight, and The End make for the greatest moment in music ever.

[masada]

everything

[Sepstrup]

The point is to choose a very specific moment. A few seconds of climax or all-around greatness that you love. So yeah, Eliminator, you were a bit too general.

[masada]

but everything is my favorite moment

[Sepstrup]

Okay you win.

[Sepstrup]

Yay for someone contributing :)

I remember having this one as a favorite moment when I was younger and more into Muse.

When he sings:

You'll make us want to die
I'd cut your name in my heart
We'll destroy this world for you
I know you want me to feel your pain


A bit too long but still.

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds - When he sings: "It's so sad..." I sort of want to cry. In a good way.

[masada]

5:51 into "Teen Age Riot" is probably the greatest thing ever when lee does this little descending guitar thing and i wet myself etc.

[Sepstrup]

I'll listen for that, because I don't get the fuss about that album.

Pick one for In the Aeroplane over the Sea... I can't.

[masada]

everything on in the aeroplane over the sea

[BringHomeTheBacon]

Jimmy Eat World- Clarity
Right before the 12 minute loop in "Goodbye Sky Harbor", when Jim sings "So here I am, above palm trees. You are smaller getting smaller. But I still see you."

Sunny Day Real Estate- Diary
The second half of "Grendel"- "I wanted to be them but instead I destroyed myself".

Weezer- The Blue Album
The rad post-rock buildup in "Only In Dreams".

[Sepstrup]

everything on in the aeroplane over the sea

I should've seen that one coming, shouldn't I?

[JonM]

The last half of "Abbey Road" by the Beatles is epic, but the three songs, Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight, and The End make for the greatest moment in music ever.That's one of mine too. I once had the opportunity to play that medley live. Check it out:
http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=30589

[/whore]

Other favorite moments...

Radiohead - Kid A: Toward the end of "How To Disappear Completely," when the strings get louder.
Incubus - Morning View: The very, very end of "Aqueuous Transmission," where the music gets quieter and then fades into the frog sounds.
OutKast - Aquemini: The anticipation between "Hold On, Be Strong" and "Return Of The G."
Red Hot Chili Peppers - BloodSugarSexMagik: The guitar at the end of "Under The Bridge."
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon: The climax of "Eclipse," the "everything under the sun" part.
Jimi Hendrix's Band Of Gypsys - Band Of Gypsys: The gun battle in "Machine Gun"

[Sepstrup]

Good call on Pink Floyd. There are several really great climatic moments on the last half of that album.

Also when the guitarsolo kicks in in Money and it changes to 4/4 time.

[BringHomeTheBacon]

I forgot the most obvious one ever.
Sigur Ros- ( ): The end of Untitled 8.

[JonM]

Good call on Pink Floyd. There are several really great climatic moments on the last half of that album.

Also when the guitarsolo kicks in in Money and it changes to 4/4 time.Yeah that's another good one. Not as epic, but much more rockin'.

I forgot the most obvious one ever.
Sigur Ros- ( ): The end of Untitled 8.I feel like Sigur Rós's music is entirely comprised of moments like these. I was gonna try to choose one, but I gave up.

[sexymuffin]

That's one of mine too. I once had the opportunity to play that medley live. Check it out:
http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=30589

[/whore]

Other favorite moments...

Radiohead - Kid A: Toward the end of "How To Disappear Completely," when the strings get louder.


There are so many for radiohead. But that song gets best when yorke is just belting "I'M NOT HEEEEEEERRRRREEEEE"

So gooood.

Maps + Atlases - Trees, Swallows, Houses: On "Songs for Ghosts to Haunt to" the chorus to that song is just beautiful. It really gives the album good closure.

Menomena - I am the Funblame Monster: The song "monkeys back" breaks into a heavy part where the singer just wails in this animalistic voice "so i fed him poison grapes/he spit the seeds into my face" Really good stuff.

Radiohead - The Bends: Probably one of my least favorite albums by them, but "Fake Plastic Trees" makes up for it with thom crooning "it wears me out" softly after the huge climax of the song at the end.

[ToolBox]

When Jeff Mangum says
The music and medicine you needed for comforting
So make all your fat fleshy fingers to moving
And pluck all your silly strings
And bend all your notes for me
Soft silly music is meaningful magical
The movements were beautiful
All in your ovaries
on the song Oh Comely. It is probably my favorite NMH moment.

On Sonic Youth - 'Cross the Breeze there are two notes right before Kim starts singing that just make the whole song for me.

[PECOAE]

Radiohead - OK Computer - When all three guitars kick in with the bass and EVERYONE's playing something different in "Paranoid Android". It's orgasmic.

Radiohead - Hail to the Thief - In "2+2=5", When Thom screams "BECAUSE!", and then again at 2:25 when it switches to 4/4 ROCKINGNESS. Then it becomes ultima. With the screechy guitar and the synth.

R.E.M - Automatic for the People A lot of people hate it, but when the violin kicks in on "New Orleans Instrumental No. 1". It just fits with the theme so well, and its hypnotic.

Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze In the break of "Someone's in the Wolf" when the bass is playing its thing and a distorted far away Josh is singing, "So glad you could stay..."

Pixies - Doolittle In "Mr. Grieves", before the drums kick in, when the ska thing is happening, and Francis sings, "What's that floatin' in the water? Old Neptune's only daughter..."

Sonic Youth - Goo In "Mildred Pierce", when things go insane.

[masada]

oh yeah

MILDREEEDED PIEERRRRCEEE MILDREE PIERCEEEE AAHHHH RAAAHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

On Sonic Youth - Silver Rocket there are two notes right before Kim starts singing that just make the whole song for me. uh kim doesn't sing on that song

[ToolBox]

oh yeah

MILDREEEDED PIEERRRRCEEE MILDREE PIERCEEEE AAHHHH RAAAHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

uh kim doesn't sing on that song

I meant 'Cross the breeze. Damn time to edit.

[PECOAE]

Oh yes, and in The Eraser at the end of Harrowdown Hill with the guitar and the funk.

[masada]

i should be a true fanboy and make a massive list of sy moments

[ToolBox]

i should be a true fanboy and make a massive list of sy moments

There are too many to list honestly.

[YDload]

Minus The Bear- Menos El Oso Those six notes coming out of silence on the last track. You know what I mean, and then they play again with "She sang a short tuuuuuune-"

And also on "Michio's Death Drive," the bridge-like part with "You know how a finger folds, and you know what you need to breathe."

Trail of Dead- Source Tags and Codes The final set of verses on the title track, with "Each painted sign along the road will melt away in source tags and in code" and then there's a little string part after the song is done.

Oh, even better! "After The Laughter" perfectly segues "Relative Ways" into the title track.

Pixies- Surfer Rosa "Ride a tire down the River Euphrates!"

HUM- Downward Is Heavenward Toward the end of "Apollo" when you think the song is going to build up like all the other songs, but it actually stays subdued and finally fades away as the narrator's character dies or something.

Just a couple I can think of right now.

[masada]

river euphrates is the best song on that album

[Greg Ginn]

Black Flag - My War When Henry shouts "I get fed up!" in Scream, the album closer, I get goosebumps.

Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade The chorus and solo of I'll Never Forget You. Same thing, I get goosebumps.

Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me The intro to Sludgefest, it's like it just hangs in the air or something. It has that loose feel to it.

Big Black - Atomizer The intro to Big Money, it's kinda emotional. I thought that was impossible for a punk band to do.

[rocknrollstar5]

Oasis - Live Forever (Definately Maybe)

Before the song starts, someone whistles, then someone else (possibly noel) says "Oh Yeah" then the drums kick in on what is one of the greatest indie ballads, if there is such a thing.

PURE GOLD

[nutty_bar]

On the Stadium Arcadium cd the I love the first verse on "Storm In A Teacup"

[PECOAE]

Oasis - What's The Story? (Morning Glory) The beginning of Hey Now, when the second guitar kicks in and then Liam starts singing.

Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins In the break of Forecast Fascist Future, when Kevin sings, "May we never go go, mental... May we always stay stay, gentle..."

[Zebra]

Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do: I really love the first track once the cool spacey electronic effects come in along with the heavy drumbeats.

Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow: When the trumpets make their way into "First in Flight."

Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden: Towards the end of the song there is a really cool harmonica solo.

[The Jungler]

I can't come up with alot from my favorite albums, but I think during the second verse of It's Too Late by The Streets (Original Pirate Matirial) where Mike's rapping as the strings get higher and higher is really a defining moment in the album. It really sort of gets ruined on the next track though. Alot of the Streets' ballads are brilliant.

Also on Nas's I Gave You Power (It Was Written) when Nas starts about "The Barrel is my dick" it's so powerful.

On The Arcade Fire's The Arcade Fire EP, the few seconds (at around 2:50) on No Cars Go where some quiet backing vocals start to harmonize with the strings during the build up is absolutley breathtaking.

[Matt?]

on a promise.

the second chorus of apistat commander

probably

[Well_Respected_Man]

Olivia Tremor Control - Green Typewriters suite

"When you're ready to come back down......"

[br3ad_man]

river euphrates is the best song on that album

Yep.


Talk Talk - Laughing Stock - In "New Grass" when it cuts back to just the piano playing some block chords for a few seconds, around 3:35.

The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free - In "Empty Cans" where it changes halfway through and the piano starts playing.

Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On - In "Kicked It In The Sun" where it changes dramatically at 4:21.

Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - In the first track at 0:59 where he does that falsetto thing.

The Cure - Disintegration - In "Pictures of You" when he finally starts singing.

[Te Karanga]

Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports - The introduction of 1/2, where the piano lightly steps in accompanied by light ambience.

Joni Mitchell - Blue When the music fades out leaving Mitchell's voice holding onto the word "Bluuueeeee". So much raw emotion.

Michael Jackson - Thriller In the chorus of Beat It when Michael Jackson sings "Just beeeeeaaat it, beat it, beeeeeeaaat it, beat it. No one wants to beeeeeaaaat it, beeeeaaat it". Especially the last line, "No one wants to beeeaaaat it, beeeeaaat it".

Klaus Schulze - Mindphaser At 11:42 in Mindphaser just when the high-pitched choral voices reach their peak then suddenly give way to the powerful booming drums. There are so many moments in the second 10 minutes of the song that are spine-tingling and mesmirising, but the introduction to that 10 minute segment at 11 minutes 42 seconds is unbeatable.

Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun When the vocals start pouring into Ný Batterí, the emotion is just overwhelming.

[Kyle]

Smashing Pumpkins - I Am One (Gish)
During the instrumental section, when all the instruments except for the bass stop. It plays a couple of bars, and then all the instruments come back and create 'the wall of sound'. I'm getting excited just thinking about it.

Smashing Pumpkins - For Martha (Adore)
In the climax section when Billy sings 'Long horses we are born / Creatures more than torn / Mourning our way home', and then the guitar fades out with the original piano part being re-introduced.

Thom yorke - Harrowdown Hill (The Eraser)
The Outro section.

At The Drive-In - Enfilade (ROC)
My favorite chorus ever.

Dresden Dolls - Half Jack (self-titled)
Climax - "I'M HALF JACK UH HUH!"

Portishead - Glory Box (Dummy)
That agonising guitar solo that hits at 2:39.

[Te Karanga]

Portishead - Glory Box (Dummy)
That agonising guitar solo that hits at 2:39.
I prefer the section in Mysterons between 2:30 and 3:00, the rattling drums, dampened melody and those unmatchable vocals beat anything in Glory Box.

In Glory Box itself I prefer the moment where she sings "Give me a reason to be a woman" at around 2:00. The guitar solo is nice when contrasted with her vocals, but I prefer it when it has a little duet with her vocals at about 3:30 rather than when it hits at 2:30ish.

[Sepstrup]

I want Dummy

[Kyle]

I prefer the section in Mysterons between 2:30 and 3:00, the rattling drums, dampened melody and those unmatchable vocals beat anything in Glory Box.

In Glory Box itself I prefer the moment where she sings "Give me a reason to be a woman" at around 2:00. The guitar solo is nice when contrasted with her vocals, but I prefer it when it has a little duet with her vocals at about 3:30 rather than when it hits at 2:30ish.Yeah, the one you mentioned is probably the better in 'Glory Box'. That album is amazing though, full of so many classic moments.

[PECOAE]

Thom yorke - Harrowdown Hill (The Eraser)
The Outro section.


I chose this one too - it's fantastic.

[Pirate Satellite]

I just totally wrote a really good one and then I got Sputnik'd, so here it goes again.

Cursive- Staying Alive (The Ugly Organ)
The way ending part when the drums finally stop and all that's left is a choir singing "the worst is over" with the somber cello in the background.

The Clash- White Man In Hammersmith Palais (The Clash)
"If Adolf Hitler were here today, they'd send a limousine anyway!"

Steel Pulse- Prodigal Sun (Handsworth Rebellion)
An intro so ****ing irie that it makes me have to stand up. Also, when they go into the verse by chanting "War!" it's super-sweet.

The Exploding Hearts- Throwaway Style (Guitar Romantic)
Right after the solo, the guitar drops out and there's just a very Motown-y drums/bass/snapping thing under the vocals, and then the guitar comes back and it's eargasmic.

Sonic Youth- Silver Rocket (Daydream Nation)
That part like 1:30 in where it sounds like the guitars are having a panic attack. It still surprises me everytime I listen to it, and I listen to that CD all the time.

Grateful Dead- Box Of Rain (American Beauty)
The way the vocals and the instruments work so beautifully together in the chord change during the "Walk into splintered sunlight/maybe you're tired and broken" verse is breathtaking. Maybe my favorite album intro ever.

The Smiths- The Queen Is Dead/Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty (The Queen Is Dead)
"She said: 'Oh, I know you and you cannot sing.' I said: 'That's nothing. You should hear me play piano.'"

[albinoblacksheep]

The Mars Volta - Cassandra Geminni (Frances the Mute)

"25 wives in the lake tonight..."

Radiohead - Idioteque/Morning Bell (Kid A)

The transition

Porcupine Tree - Baby Dream in Cellophane (Stupid Dream)

The vocal harmonies starting at 1:00

Joni Mitchell - Hejira (Hejira)

"There's comfort in melancholy, when there's no need to explain..."

[BringHomeTheBacon]

Radiohead - Idioteque/Morning Bell (Kid A)

The transition
Isn't the transition between Optimistic and In Limbo?

[albinoblacksheep]

Well there is some sort of "transition" between Idioteque and Morning Bell, it's not very long or anything, I just find it very...pretty, especially because I think Morning Bell is a nice contrast to Idioteque

[Traversing]

Dredg - Same ol' Road The break out into the first chorus

Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla The whole second half of the song...I just love how the horns and strings soar above the sound in such a triumphant way. There's some new movie coming out, and they play this part of the song in the trailer...pretty amazing.

Porcupine Tree - Where Would We Be The guitar solo in the middle, always gives me chills.

[NineBitFable]

The Shins- Caring is Creepy The very beginning of that song where the vocals kick in is incredible.
Fugazi- No Surprise I have no idea what hes saying, but the part where everything cuts out and its just him singing, then right after the music kicks back in. Totally sweet.

[Dog]

Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food: "Watch me work!"

The Beatles - [I]Abbey Road: The chorus to "Oh! Darling." this is one of my favorite Beatles songs but it never gets any love.

Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand: the last half of "The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory."

Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance: "If the devil come, we'll shoot him with a gun."
or the slow, lonely, country-ish guitar part in "Chinese Radiation"

Pixies - Trompe Le Monde: "Last night, he could not make it! He tried hard but he could not make it!"

[Well_Respected_Man]

Doves - Snowden: at around 2:10 when the guitar fuzzs out into feedback.

Blur - Swamp Song - the shakey "Give me feeeeeevear" and the la la la la la's. oh and "Stick in my vien" what I say when I get my flu shot.

Pere Ubu - Dub Housing When the drums join in with the creepy saxophone and David Thomas disturbed lyrics. "have you seen this house"

Radiohead - Climbing up the Walls Thom Yorke's distorted screaming

[Happymeal]

Nation of Ulysses - Plays Pretty for Baby: "DESTROOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYY AMMMEERICAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

[Sepstrup]

The Smiths- The Queen Is Dead/Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty (The Queen Is Dead)
"She said: 'Oh, I know you and you cannot sing.' I said: 'That's nothing. You should hear me play piano.'"

That one for me too, probably.

The Beatles - Abbey Road: The chorus to "Oh! Darling." this is one of my favorite Beatles songs but it never gets any love.

Oh! Darling is fantastic.

[team_racket]

betraying chino by 65daysofstatic. all goes apes'hit. also the synth solo in silver by hundred reasons. s'hit band, good song.

[sgrevs]

The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium The too epic for words ending of 'Take the Veil...' When Cedric sings "Virulent hives..." and then "Who brought me here..."

Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastophe Waitress - On 'I'm A Cuckoo' near the end when all the brass comes in at the chorus. Stunning.

The Arcade Fire - Arcade Fire EP - on 'Vampire/Forest Fire', the build up and climax at the end is just magnificent.

Sigur Ros - Agætis Byrjun - the main piano line in 'Vidrar Vel Til Loftarasa' is more than orgasmic when the bass comes in with it. As well as when the drums come in for the second time in 'Ny Batteri'.

Jaga Jazzist - What We Must - the part when it builds up about half way through 'All I Know is Tonight' at 3:00 and then has the pauses with the vibraphone style instrument playing in the pause. And then the vocal harmonies come in over the top.

[Daniel!]

Scientist - Rids the World of the Curse of the Evil Vampire
Once it kicks into the vocal part with the descending bassline in "Your Teeth In My Neck" I am in musical heaven.

Mission of Burma - Vs
The three high hat hits and snare hit that starts off "That's How I Excaped My Certain Fate".

[YDload]

good calls.

Let us not forget "rub it on me, Duane" followed by a badass solo on "Nub" by the Jesus Lizard.

I have some fav. moments from that album too:

-When the guitar comes in to play the same thing as the bass in "Then Comes Dudley"

-"Waiting waterlogged for that guy to arrive!" in "Seasick"

-That spiraling riff in "Monkey Trick"

At The Drive-In- Acrobatic Tenement:

-The "please get some medication" part in "Ticklish" and also the chorus

-second verse of "Ebroglio"

Melvins- Houdini:

-when the song picks up in "Honey Bucket"

-"It's a big dark world now, it's a big dark hell" in "Night Goat"

-the RIFF in "Copache"

[JonM]

When the bass drops in the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Mellowship Slinky In B Minor," I have a funkgasm.

[Sleeper]

Incubus - Make Yourself

The part at 2:25 when Brandon is singing "You are stellar".

Deftones - Self Titled

The final time Chino does his scream in the song, gives me goosebumps.

Radiohead - Kid A

In the song Kid A at 3:08, when the keyboard fades in and out.

[PECOAE]

Spoon - Gimme Fiction - In "I Summon You", at 3:37, when the other instrumentation comes in softly, and the song goes for a bit and then ends.

The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth - The opening few bars of "Electricityscape" are fantastic.

Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise! - When the electric guitar comes in on "Jacksonville", it contrasts greatly with the folky guitar.

[Mambuto_O'Mally]

Radiohead - Dollars and cents
the part when Thom sings:
"You don’t live in a business world and..."
That part is amazing and just sounds so great.

Radiohead - Lucky
The climax (when the interlude breaks right into the last chorus) where Johnny plays that beautiful lead part, it almost made me cry the first time I heard it, and I NEVER cry.

Tool - Parabol/Parabola
Right when the two songs fade into each other.

Rilo Kiley - It Just Is
The last line:
"...and everybody dies"
I think that is one of the best closing lines to an album. :thumb:

[Sepstrup]

Hey, this is a pretty good thread.

[Otherside]

The Pixies - Doolittle

On Monkey Gone to Heaven, the part near the end where he goes:
"then the devil is 6
then the devil is 6
then the devil is 6
And if the devil is 6
THEN GOD IS 7

I mean that doesn't mean anything to me religiously but the delivery is top notch.

Weezer - Blue Album

On Only in Dreams, the part after the break at the end of the song is just incredible.

Dredg - El Cielo

The part in Triangle at about 4:03 where all the instruments come in stunned me motionless when I first heard it.

At The Drive-In - In/Casino/Out

The last three tracks are incredible, but the end of Transatlantic Foe is just the perfect finish for the album.

Radiohead - OK Computer

The final section of Let Down, with the multilayered vocals. Just great.

[Sepstrup]

Radiohead - OK Computer

In Exit Music (For a Film).

When all the instruments kick in and he sings: We hope your rules and wisdom choke you, Now we are one....

His vocals really soar in this moment.

[Sep]

Belle And Sebastian - The Stars Of Track And Field

She never needed anything to get her round the track
But when she's on her back
She had the knowledge to get into college

Belle And Sebastian - Dress Up In You

The trumpet section.

Jimmy Eat World - For Me This Is Heaven

The call and answer part with guitar/guitar and piano/guitar.

The Flaming Lips - The Sound Of Failure

The main rhythm.

Cursive - The Recluse

The main rhythm.

Thrice - Of Dust And Nations

outro.

Thursday - Autumn Leaves Revisited

The instrumental build-up.

These Arms Are Snakes - Your Pearly Whites

3:26 "They acted too quick!" followed by that kick *** guitar riff.

The Shins - Saint Simon

The "Mercy's eyes are blue" part, backed up by the choir.

[YDload]

The Replacements- Let It Be: The chorus of "Favorite Thing" and the little solo thing that follows.

The outro solo on "Sixteen Blue."

Built To Spill- Keep It Like A Secret: The guitar solo on "Carry The Zero" and when the verse comes back and he sings "I can't be your apologist very long /I'm surprised that you'd want to carry that on."

[PECOAE]

The Pixies - Doolittle

On Monkey Gone to Heaven, the part near the end where he goes:
"then the devil is 6
then the devil is 6
then the devil is 6
And if the devil is 6
THEN GOD IS 7

I mean that doesn't mean anything to me religiously but the delivery is top notch.


Yes. Definitely Awesome.

And:

The Cure - Faith

The beginning of "The Holy Hour", with that unholy awesome bass riff.

The Cure - P[color=black]ornography[color]

When the bass comes in with the drum machine in "The Hanging Garden".

Radiohead - Amnesiac

In "You And Whose Army," When the drums come in with the piano and Thom goes, "WE RIDE, TONIGHT!"

The Shins - Oh, Inverted World

The "Oohing" in "New Slang".

[Dog]

Pixies - Trompe Le Monde: "Last night, he could not make it! He tried hard but he could not make it!"
i think i'm gonna have to change this to the whole of "Letter to Memphis." whenever i think of TLM that always pops into my head as the shining moment.

The Pixies - Doolittle

On Monkey Gone to Heaven, the part near the end where he goes:
"then the devil is 6
then the devil is 6
then the devil is 6
And if the devil is 6
THEN GOD IS 7

I mean that doesn't mean anything to me religiously but the delivery is top notch.
for me it would be "uh! says the lady to the maaaan she adoooores."

[seth86]

Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
outro of PDA especially the "something to say... something to do" part.
outro of Stella Was A Diver, best bass outro ever?
second half of The New, the bass and the drum... woooo

Interpol - Antics
outro of Not Even Jail

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
intro of The Present
outro of Tulips, Plans and Blue Light
every second of So Here We Are

The Strokes - Is This It?
The Modern Age when Julian sings "stop to pretend, stop pretending, it seems this game is simply never ending"

The Strokes - Room On Fire
the guitar riff of Automatic Stop

The Strokes - First Impression of Earth
guitar solo of Ize of the World

[The Great Decay]

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See A Darkness

I See A Darkness is a flawless song.

[Irish Nostalgic]

Clann Zú - Black Coats and Bandages

About 3:12 into From Bethlehem to Jenin where it drops to just vocals and guitar. It's about six cubic shitloads of beautiful.

[Well_Respected_Man]

On my Marshall Mathers Ep that I got at Sam's Club and whenever he's about to say something I hear a silence. I love those silences, it's genious. It's more revolutionary than beefhart.

[BringHomeTheBacon]

Jeff Buckley- Grace
In "So Real": "I love you but I'm afraid to love you".
In "Dream Brother". When everything stops on those 2 F chords and then comes back in.

[lak89]

Dream Theater - Train Of Thought

the outro to "In The Name Of God", simply amazing, gives me chills everytime i listen to it

[sexymuffin]

Tool - Parabol/Parabola
Right when the two songs fade into each other.

great transition, but the best part in that album is when maynard screams "ALLIIIIIVVEEEEE" followed by that sweet guitar part

[The Jungler]

Ride- Nowhere
The post chorus on Decay.

The Mars Volta- De-Loused
The transition between the first two tracks (the intro and Inertiatic ESP)

Jaga Jazzist- What We Must
Oslo Skyline, when the song turns "heavy".

Pavement- Slanted and Enchanted
The chorus of In the Mouth, A Desert.

[shilton81]

The Flaming Lips - Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
At the very end when the vocals are fading out and all echo-ey, you can hear the crickets of Sleeping On The Roof and there is this very low and quiet bass line.

My Bloody Valentine - Honey Power
The outro is probably the greatest My Bloody Valentine moment ever, better than the drums in Only Shallow or the ascending keyboards in Sometimes.

Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945
"The world just screams and falls apart"

The Olivia Tremor Control - I Have Been Floated
The final chorus has every single Elephant 6 person ever doing harmony against the melody vocals and ridiculous tape effects.

[mda]

At home:

Jeff Buckley- Grace
Fiona Apple- Tidal
Patti Smith- Horses

Walking around the streets:

Röyksopp- The understanding
Anything by Pink Floyd
Stone Temple Pilots- Purple

At night:

Kruder & Dorfmeister- The K&D Sessions
Anything by Groove Armada
Anything by Goldfrapp

[YDload]

Pavement- Slanted and Enchanted
The chorus of In the Mouth, A Desert.

Yes. **** yes. The best chorus without actual words in it since "The Trooper" (which is a completely different genre anyway).

[AfroMan]

Radiohead - Sit Down. Stand Up(Hail to the Thief) - The build up and then break into the "electronic bit" towards the end. Genius!

Kruder & Dorfmeister - Going Under(K&D Sessions) - When he says "mashing up my brain... too much cocaine"

Fugazi - Epic Problem(The Argument) - Everything from about 1.40 onwards.

Rage Against the Machine - Calm Like a Bomb(The Battle of Los Angeles) - That chorus...

[fingis]

the song needle in the hay by elliot smith on his self titled album.

the part where he sings "you should be proud that im getting good marksss"
really gets me

[Sepstrup]

At home:

Jeff Buckley- Grace
Fiona Apple- Tidal
Patti Smith- Horses

Walking around the streets:

Röyksopp- The understanding
Anything by Pink Floyd
Stone Temple Pilots- Purple

At night:

Kruder & Dorfmeister- The K&D Sessions
Anything by Groove Armada
Anything by Goldfrapp

Cool, but that's not what the thread is about.

[Quirky Turkey]

The sublime second half of Radiohead's Exit Music (For A FIlm) and the intro to Queen Bitch by David Bowie. Awesome.

[Little Man being Erased]

the intro to Queen Bitch by David Bowie. Awesome.
Yessssss.

[Interstate]

Slint - Spiderland: the end of "Good Morning Captain", obviously.

Same, that part sends shivers down my spine.

[Kaden]

Common - The Light, when he says "It don't take a whole day to recognize sunshine"

[Sunny Afternoon]

The part on The Who's Tommy when it switches from Amazing Journey to Sparks. Sparks is basically a 3 minute orgasm.

The last minute of De-Loused In The Comatorium.

About the 2:30 mark on The Mars Volta's Tetragrammaton when it finally hits the vocals and Jon does that amazing snare high hat rhythm pattern.

The last minute and a half of At The Drive-In's Invalid Litter Dept.

All 17 minutes of The Velvet Underground's Sister Ray.

The insane wailing feedback of I Heard Her Call My Name, also by TVU.

Eclipse by Pink Floyd.

The second solo on Comfortably Numb.

Freebird solo.

I Want To Change The World - Ten Years After solo.

All of Hotel California by The Eagles.

[W.M.A]

It's All In Your Mind by Beck from Sea Change, when he sings "and the people your with, they're all scared and stiff." I just like the way he sings it.

[Sunny Afternoon]

The chorus of Fire Department by Be Your Own Pet.

Don't ask.

[Amphetamine]

Weezer- Across the Sea:

The part that goes "Words and dreams and a million screams of how I need a hand and mind to feel" and then busts into the chorus for the last time gets me every single time.

A Perfect Circle- The Noose:

The ending outro where everything comes together and Maynard sings "Your halo slipping down..."

Muse- Microcuts

That chorus.

Incubus- Just a Phase:

The part where, instead of going all soft like they did the first time, the lyrics go "And it's just a phase and I'm waiting for it to be over too"

[deejuks2]

Eagles- Hotel California : The line "and why must we grow up so fast", and the oooohs and symphony/guitar jig after it from the song "Pretty maids all in a row"

Beatles - SPLHCB : The circus instrumentals in "Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite!"

Mr. Bungle - California : The ending of Pink Cigarette, "There's just 3 hours until you will find me dead"... and the wooah's during that portion.

Pink Floyd - The Wall : "why are you running away" and the "ooooooooohhh Babe..." from the song "Dont leave me now".

[stevensonmat2]

That part in "My Hero" (foo fighters) when it gets quiet and they build up and just go crazy for a bit, brings tears to me eyes.

[Rubes9492]

On Peter Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive, the 3rd solo in Do You Feel Like We Do makes me go insane....

[Eliminator]

Everything in "New Grass" by Talk Talk is just ugggghhhhhhhh.

[ToolBox]

[B]The Olivia Tremor Control - I Have Been Floated
The final chorus has every single Elephant 6 person ever doing harmony against the melody vocals and ridiculous tape effects.

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[sobelecta]

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The Cure - Disintegration, the whole thing is a favourite moment, but the rain at the beginning of Same Deep Water As You is quite a highlight.

[Sunny Afternoon]

The chorus of Roulette Dares and Cicatriz ESP by The Mars Volta.

[Quirky Turkey]

The highlight on The Cure's Disintegration has got to be the achingly beautiful Pictures Of You.

[Jawaharal]

Destroyer - European Oils The distorted guitar part after "Her father the maniac"
The Clash - Rock The Casbah The part where his voice has massive echo on it when he screams CRAZY CASBAH SOUNDDDD
ATDI - Rolodex Propaganda I love the stuttering awkward singing in the choruses.
The Flaiming Lip When the guitar jumps in at the end of What A Wonderful World. The string part in The Spark That Bled. The chorus of Be My Head.
Beck - Golden Age The intro is so beautiful.
Bravo ****ing Bravo The transition between Jean Claude and Part 2.

[Frequently Tripping]

Radiohead - OK Computer the guitar (or whatever it may be) solo on "Climbing Up the Walls" just makes me melt every time I hear it.

[handsomerob2]

the first half of Sigur Ros's "( )" album has to be one of my favourite parts of any album. Besides all of The Beatles' Revolver...

[EinzingerIsGod]

I love the part of "Oretes" off of APC's Mer de Noms where Maynard sings "I don't want to feel this overwhelming hostility". I get chills.

[Sepstrup]

Pulp - "Babies" (His 'n' Hers) - the buildup and release during the "I only went with her 'cause she looks like you, my god" bridge. So awesome.

I hate myself for not having heard His 'n' Hers yet. I need to buy it.