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| That Moment In Music pt.2
Based off this: http://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?listid=124666&memberid=436113
Thought I'd add some of my own moments I deemed worthy. Each link has the time embedded into it rather than writing out what part of the song I'm referring to. | 1 | | The Ocean Pelagial
Mesopelagic: https://youtu.be/ba7y1ZYFODw?t=40 - A lesson for anything and everything related to build up before the main riff. For about half a minute it's amazing how every element in this part of the song holds its own, from the clean guitar, to the wailing motif and that cello... All leading up to that riff but this part is honestly beautiful in its own way. And just for contrast, a later song reuses this riff and jumps straight into it unlike this and it's inferior and lacklustre in every way imaginable in comparison. | 2 | | Opeth Blackwater Park
Bleak: https://youtu.be/1zzqI_jHWK0?t=400 - Similarly to The Ocean, this is just a part where everything fits together so well, from the wailing guitar to the calm bassline that accompanies it to the prog guitar breaks in between... Definitely one of the best atmospheres Opeth have been able to create. | 3 | | FKA Twigs LP1
Pendulum: https://youtu.be/7yk-o5TGvXE?t=109 - "You forgot how we fell in love" sung in a cracking voice with so much emotion and it's heartbreaking and beautiful all at once. Also, I want to point out the prechorus, just as twigs sings 'trying' and how she fluctuates her voice seamlessly into the chorus and it's that moment that earns her a spot here. It's emotive, sensual, depressing and beautiful all in one. | 4 | | Damien Rice My Favourite Faded Fantasy
Title track: https://youtu.be/Rh1C8qpODZs?t=327 - It's how the track wraps itself up which makes it. The spontaneity, the sporadic guitar, the wailing by Damien in the background and the vocal loops are so damn powerful and ending masterfully by ending in such a concise fashion. | 5 | | The Antlers Hospice
Kettering: https://youtu.be/8We0FVflGaU?t=158 - Could have chosen many moments from this album but it's the fluttering electronics that stand the highest, with it just bringing so much to the table. I tend to imagine the chopped up sound of ECG monitor or the jittered, agitated shaking of a hand, all of which adds an extra layer of imagery to the plot of the album. | 6 | | Bjork Vulnicura
Lionsong: https://youtu.be/koYozb8y9gA?t=201 - It's an odd combination, the dark electronic beat with bjork's soulful mourning and dissonant harmonies but it's just that - the contrast between the two that was rather unexpected and took me back upon first listen and in a good way too. | 7 | | Tribulation The Children of the Night
Strange Gateways Beckon: https://youtu.be/OFc3zyZrJEk?t=144 - It's a pop song. Everything about it is a pop song but and it's just so damn epic. That micro pause before hitting the guitar again just as the second verse starts is something I've heard a million times before yet... it just brings a grin to my face when it's this song in particular. Indescribable, really. | 8 | | Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett
Ketsarku Mozgalom: https://youtu.be/NEm6oq69voU?t=177 - "I used to understand happy, i know that i used to be happy, i was really happy
I'm unhappy now and i can't remember what it's like to be happy, i only remember...i don't remember...
I remember being happy only comparison to not being happy just what i am now...". Yeah this vocal sample along with the violin is astonishingly haunting and feels mildly insane. It's so easy to get lost in this brief organic moment V.Snares provides before lashing out in breakcore insanity but it's difficult to distinguish as to which part is more insane than the other. | 9 | | Gorguts Colored Sands
Le Toit du Monde: https://youtu.be/7LQd0IoJ25M?t=286 - Crushing is the only word I can use to describe this song and the album as a whole but the final quarter, when the outro creeps in and the mist clears to bring forth those 4 notes played repeatedly is silence inducing in just how well this atmosphere was pulled off. | 10 | | Gazpacho Demon
I've Been Walking part 2: https://youtu.be/DtRfazKdka8?t=416 - I thought the part 1 did a perfect job in itself with the lonesome piano part but part 2 amazingly topped it with just the simplest addition of a violin. Haunting and breathtaking to say the least. | 11 | | Everything Everything Get To Heaven
Blast Doors: https://youtu.be/nph9IW5KGbc?t=156 - "BUT YOU DON'T HAVE ANY TIIIIIME". Falsetto perfection. No more words needed. | 12 | | Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool
Forgive Me: https://youtu.be/QNlLqvZPfI8?t=251 - Never considered myself a fan of country music but the outro is absolutely flawless. Everything amalgamates amazingly, with the occasional twangs and simple yet so good plucked strings and Che's distant vocal sample being dispersed like an echo travelling in the wind. Please don't let this be the only Casualties of Cool album, Devin. | 13 | | The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li
Antarctica: https://youtu.be/L-J_iCrjW0U?t=263 - Whenever I hear anyone say "chug" in a musical sense, I'm met by silent groans internally at how awful chugging is most of the time and how poorly it's used. But then again, I had never heard chugging with soaring tremolos and a huge atmosphere to accompany it and I love everything about the chugging done in this song, especially that one paused note hidden in the mix. It's times like these which make you redefine what you like and look for in music that is truly 'that moment in music'. | |
ChoccyPhilly
01.24.16 | This took an more time to do than I hoped. Good procrastination for this assignment, I guess.
Honourable mentions:
Steven Wilson - Three Years Later
Lapalux - Don't Mean a thing.
Tell me your secrets, sputnik. | Tunaboy45
01.24.16 | 2 couldn't agree more man
you could also include all of Joga by Bjork | ChoccyPhilly
01.24.16 | Yo, definitely check out that The Ocean song (and album). It's right up your alley | LotusFlower
01.24.16 | 12 is an amazing track. For me, at the moment, it's the heavy chuggy electro bass in the latter half of Tame Impala's Let It Happen | Sinternet
01.24.16 | great list, my personal ones would be:
the last two minutes of sigur ros - glosoli
the moment just after this line in manchester orchestra - sleeper 1972
'The men in black ties arrive at the house in surprise.
To find a little girl by your side in the wood box where you're sleeping.'
and Johnny Foreigner - Salt, Pepa and Spinderella when the drums kick in and the whole dodododo vocals start | Tunaboy45
01.24.16 | @choccy Thanks for the rec, I'll check it out soon | flalafell
01.24.16 | definitely agree with kettering, the last few minutes of epilogue are also incredible
my personal favorite is the last like 4 minutes of "we flood empty lakes" by Yndi Halda | ScuroFantasma
01.25.16 | "This took an more time to do than I hoped. Good procrastination for this assignment, I guess."
It's such a weird phenomenon that when you don't want to do an assignment, you have so much energy to do literally anything else.
Sweet list too. | Shuyin
01.25.16 | That jazzy part around 2:30 in Kokomo - Ein Dachs Hat Zweifel | DinosaurJones
01.25.16 | The drop in "Dance Yrself Clean" by LCD Soundsystem
When the loud-ass synths come in during "Bleed" by George Clanton
The ending solo in "Wet Sand" by Red Hot Chili Peppers | barcafan21
01.25.16 | strong agree with hospice and sleeper 1972
let it happen for me its when the drums come strong in the last 2 minutes
also:
the solo at the end of "limousine"-brand new
the backing female vocals in the chorus of "no intention"- dirty projectors
the end of "twin sized mattress"- the front bottoms
the part near the end of the bridge with just guitar of "say hello to the angels"- interpol
the intro to "retrograde"- james blake
the last 90 seconds of "nude" - radiohead
the last minute of "my sweet fracture"- saves the day
the synth in "should have known better"- sufjan stevens
whenever the song explodes at the beginning "nausea"- trophy scars
when the acoustic guitar comes in "poor places"- wilco | Archelirion
01.25.16 | Agreed so hard with 13. Awwww yeah.
My favourite is 'The King Is Dead' in Fall of Efrafa's 'Republic of Heaven'. Also, 5:41 in Downfall of Gaia's 'Drowning in Wing Beats' just... gets me. I can't explain it. | wacknizzle
01.26.16 | Great list, 13 fuck yeah
Pretty much every song on Inle has those moments for me @Arch, especially The Warren of Snares. Great album, Downfall of Gaia is great too | Boyaawitcheese
01.27.16 | There's so many moments in so many songs it's impossible to narrow down. I'm a sucker for a good explosion of distortion out of nowhere I have to say. | dbizzles
01.27.16 | I could get into this. Commenting to check later. | insanedrexl1
01.27.16 | The part at 2:10 in Oh My Fucking God - SYL
The final scream in Graves of the Fathers - Cryptopsy
The ending of Ars Moriendi - Mr. Bungle
The piano part in Knock Knock - Lights Out Asia
The intro to Lady Grinning Soul - David Bowie
The intro to Besvikelsens Dystra Monotoni - Shining
| MrSirLordGentleman
01.29.16 | Agreed hard on 12 | MyNameIsPencil
01.29.16 | Killer Mike's verse and the chorus on "Early" from Run the Jewels 2... holy fuck | rufinthefury
01.29.16 | The ending of Gris's "Veux Tu Danser"
The climax of Weezer's "Only In Dreams"
The first scream on Aquilus's "Nihil"
| MyNameIsPencil
01.29.16 | climax of Weezer's "Only in Dreams" [2] hard | Beardog
01.30.16 | The whole album A Dream In Static by Earthside |
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