That moment that makes a song great

[Uncle Leo]

Not asking just for great songs here, but great moments in great songs. The kind of moment that makes you turn the volume up to 11, or that turns a song from four stars to five.

I'm thinking along the lines of the WHAM BAM THANK YOU MA'AM at 2:50 in Suffragette City by David Bowie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLnPd7lzT4g

Other nominees...

1:49 in to That'll Be The Day by Buddy Holly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq9FCBatl3A

The gentlest of gentle touches on the cymbal at 1:40 in REM's Perfect Circle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXxprhjaot4

 

[Pubey]

Not quite sure it's what you're after, but this has been in my head for weeks:

[video=youtube;HvPpf_raSog]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvPpf_raSog[/video]

Starting as a reasonably standard Low track, the urgency of the track is upped at 2:20 when Alan Spearhawk's guitar gradually builds up to 2:54 before bringing the chorus back in. 8 bars of guitar that turn a good song into a brilliant one. Low at their best.

 

[MK Shrimper]

70s rocktastic Carry on my Wayward Son by Kansas - The acapella intro followed by some rockin' geetar makes me tingle!

 

[Uncle Leo]

Not quite sure it's what you're after, but this has been in my head for weeks:


Starting as a reasonably standard Low track, the urgency of the track is upped at 2:20 when Alan Spearhawk's guitar gradually builds up to 2:54 before bringing the chorus back in. 8 bars of guitar that turn a good song into a brilliant one. Low at their best.

Yeah, that's the sort of thing we're (I'm) looking for here.

 

[Pubey]

Another earwork is when Dre say "THERE'S SO MUCH PRESSSSURRREE" on All In A Day's Work off his new LP.

Sadly no youtube link, but you can hear it here at exactly 2 mins

https://9xtunes.com/single/4912/dr-dre-all-in-a-days-work-download

Great track too.

 

[Mad Cyril]

The outro of Cars by Gary Numan

 

[Shrimpers are Magic]

Guitar solo at end of Whole lotta Rosie always worth a volume up.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Probably far too mainstream but THAT key change in Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You is right up there for me.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Probably far too mainstream but THAT key change in Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You is right up there for me.

Get out. Just GET OUT NOW. :angry:

 

[OldBlueLady]

:smile: It could have been a lot worse!!!

 

[MK Shrimper]

:smile: It could have been a lot worse!!!

You'd have to go some. :stunned:

 

[Uncle Leo]

Probably far too mainstream but THAT key change in Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You is right up there for me.

If I was to nominate a Whitney moment it would be about 2:58 in to this performance of Saving All My Love...

[video=youtube;r-w6h7vjEDw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-w6h7vjEDw[/video]

When she was on form she was truly, truly great.

 

[MK Shrimper]

You too Leo, get the funk out. :stunned:

Anodyne, FM radio-friendly soul less soul music.

 

[Uncle Leo]

You too Leo, get the funk out. :stunned:

No. Whitney Houston had an amazing voice and sang some of the great pop songs of the 1980s.

I'll fight you to the death over this one.

 

[MK Shrimper]

No. Whitney Houston had an amazing voice and sang some of the great pop songs of the 1980s.

I'll fight you to the death over this one.

And you think you know someone.......I'd rather listen to someone scrape their nails down a blackboard.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Anodyne, FM radio-friendly soul less soul music.

No absolutely not. Glad to have an ally in Uncle Leo on this amongst such music snobbery!!! :raspberry:

 

[Supernaut]

No. Whitney Houston had an amazing voice and sang some of the great pop songs of the 1980s.

I'll fight you to the death over this one.

I'd agree that WH made some excellent pop music, however her ballads, particularly those 2 posted here, are total dross. I'm with MK on that score - soulless muzak.

 

[Swiss Tony]

The Whos won't get fooled again,the massive scream by sir Roger,spine tingling.:thumbsup:

 

[RHB]

As we're talking older stuff here, then my offering is the build up to, and then Mark Knopfler's guitar riff in Money for Nothing. Has to be up there with the best. And for those who have been on the moon for the last fifty years....

[video=youtube;iwDDswGsJ60]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwDDswGsJ60[/video]

 

[Mr Plow]

I woke last night to the sound of thunder...how far off I sat and wondered....

[video=youtube;_mRFWQoXq4c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mRFWQoXq4c[/video]