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| Music Snapshots Part I
Inspired by the lists of CrisStyles, here's my version of this nice idea. These are some moments of songs that keep me going back to them. | | 1 |  | maudlin of the Well
Part the Second
"An Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, Or, the Revisitation of the Blue Ghost" (3:09-3:37)
I don't think I've ever been particularly interested in acoustic guitar solos, but not only is this one good, the way it hits makes me close my eyes and tilt my head back. It's just a soothing "oh yes" feeling I get, and the minimalism of the whole section let's it shine and take you wherever it takes you. | | 2 |  | Marvin Gaye
What's Going On
"Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" (0:00-0:41)
My favorite Marvin song, the intro simultaneously makes me smile while feeling the melancholy of it. It's beautiful, but heavy with the weight of its social commentary. A bonus feature of this song for me is the use of it in Zodiac, playing during a time lapse showing San Francisco change, and with it the investigation, time itself, and all the lives wrapped up in it. | | 3 |  | Foxing
Dealer
"Eiffel" (2:53-3:33)
The climax of what I still think is their best song. I could include the final chorus as well, but this list is about snapshots, trying to keep the selections short than 60-70 seconds. But fuck it, add it! The shouts underneath the final chorus are pretty wrenching as well. "Eiffel" is one of Conor's best performances, C#m is one of my favorite keys, and the song kinda blows me away every time. | | 4 |  | Every Time I Die
Radical
"AWOL" (1:56-2:09)
Like all of these entries, I could put too many songs from their catalogs. On this list, ETID might have the most, where picking anything feels wrong by virtue of leaving others out. I went with this because 1) it's their best album, and 2) while Radical is filled with nasty breakdowns, the quick build, hold, and release into the intensity of it is cathartic to me. The song itself has some of Keith's finest work, and at such a short run time, it's like get in, bang your head really hard, get out. | | 5 |  | The Mars Volta
De-Loused in the Comatorium
"Eriatarka" (3:38-4:09)
"Drunkship of Lanterns" is the song that got me into TMV, and while I still love it, a few songs off this surpassed it. The reason "Eriatarka" gets the nod first is this section, which acts as a lovely and aptly named bridge to the rest of the song. I think it's the vocal lines more than anything else, especially at the very end where the music lowers its dynamics in an instant and his voice carries through on "if you only knew the plans he had for us" and ushers you into the softer section. Also, Jon Theodore. | |
Josh D.
02.04.26 | I could just do snapshots for each song on all of these albums tbh. | Christbait
02.04.26 | Selkies: The Endless Obsession (BTBAM) - the instrumental outro (5:11 - 7:23) has stuck with me for years and years and was an early example to me of how a progressive metal track can become a chameleon and change identities completely
A Dying God Coming into Human Flesh (Celtic Frost) - another outro example (5:00 - 5:39) but one that is a culmination of the slowburning 5 minutes that preceded it.
Satan's a Lawyer (Gojira) - A very groovy track with some jazz fusion and sludge thrown in. At times, the song reminds me of a more docile Akercoke with its tonal shifts, but then it enters this really blistering few seconds before settling into the moshiest fucking riff imaginable (2:40 - 3:50). A great example of a song that I'll pull up just to listen to the last half. |
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