Favorite Song Moments?
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Topic: Favorite Song Moments?
Posted By: ahg33
Subject: Favorite Song Moments?
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 18:54
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What are some cool song moments that just blow you away? Two moments that came to my head first are the part in Octavarium when the keyboard solo kicks in out of nowhere and the moment in In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins when the drums kick in near the end. Those two moments are so sweet. So please reply, I'm interested to see what you guys come up with. |
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Posted By: Mantra
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 19:01
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In Dream Theater's In The Name of God after the last solo, when John Petrucci plays the main riff by himself with killer distortion and replaces the 4th beat with natural harmonics. Sends chills up my spine every time. ------------- 
"I was told, theres a new love that's born for each one that has died." |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 19:02
Well Bonham's entrance on Stairway is earthshaking. On Cobham's Stratus , after some electronic drum noodling, the rhythm take off with the bass is awesome. Hackett's solos :Firth, EveryDay and Spectral Mornings(wow) . I mentioned in the mellotron moments thread , the subtle choir 'tron "moment on Dancing with The Moonlit Knight. The rhythm explosion on KC's Sailor's Tale when the fury is unleashed and finally the opening of Autumn on Strawbs Hero and Heroine album. I need to add a specific Pierre Moerlen moment on Percolations when the drums kick in...... I could go on for another 20 hours or so, so I will just shut up now.  For a moment------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: ahg33
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 19:05
Hmm i've never got around to buying Train of Thought because all of the negative opinions about it. |
Mantra wrote:Posted By: ahg33
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 19:07
Another one is Lazarus by Porcupine Tree when the piano comes in. It's so beautiful
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Posted By: Mantra
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 19:17
I highly suggest you buy it. Sure it gets negative reviews, but thats from fans of the older prog and whatnot. It crosses into metal territory sometimes and its very riffy, but it's still an amazing album. It features some of Petrucci's best work, including the solo to In The Name of God. Very catchy songs, very high energy songs, just a bit less prog is all.
I suggest you buy it, its a quality album especially if youre into Petrucci's guitar work. -------------
"I was told, theres a new love that's born for each one that has died." |
Posted By: ahg33
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 19:19
I'll have to decide whether i want that album or 6 Degrees |
Posted By: Mantra
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 19:22
Well with 6 Degrees youre getting more music obviously considering its a Double-album, but do pickup Train of Thought some time.
Another moment would be in Porcupine Tree's "Trains," after the banjo(?) interlude when Steven sings by himself with just his acoustic. What a beautiful voice. -------------
"I was told, theres a new love that's born for each one that has died." |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 22:36
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The crescendo in Kayo Dot's "Amaranth The Peddler" beginning with "feathers ..." ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: ahg33
Date Posted: July 03 2008 at 07:27
I've heard so many good things about Kayo Dot but have never got around to getting any of their stuff. Anyway, I love the parts in Day Seven: School by Ayreon when it randomly turns mellow to loud, pounding heavy metal. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: July 03 2008 at 12:41
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This part of PT's 'Trains' has been blowing me away for some time. It's the power of that key change, working so well with the lyric..
"When I hear the engine pass I'm kissing you wide The hissing subsides I'm in love When the evening reaches here You're tying me up I'm dying of love It's OK" Too many others to mention, but here's a few anyway... Entangled (closing section) - Genesis To Rid the Disease (first chorus) - Opeth Assault & Battery/Golden Void (where the songs join - perfect mellotron and synth) - Hawkwind At the Harbour (Piano intro) - Renaissance Xanadu (guitar solo at end. Especially on ESL) - Rush Starless (ending with thunderous bass and tense Mellotron) - King Crimson. Service with a smile (one of the best album openers I've heard. Could be longer though) - Happy the Man |
Posted By: ahg33
Date Posted: July 03 2008 at 12:43
Good post, and man you gotta love Porcupine Tree. I feel sorry for fans of rock that have never heard of them. |
Posted By: ahg33
Date Posted: July 03 2008 at 12:47
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The beginning of the vocals in Mirror Mirror by Blind Guardian. "Far, far beyond the island We dwelt in shades of twilight" |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: July 03 2008 at 12:47
"I cannot hear, I cannot see, Down the corridor of pain" , you are so dead on, what a buzz!
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: July 03 2008 at 13:02
I know what you mean. Great band. I've been listening to prog for the best part of 25 years, but only really took any notice of Porcupine Tree last year. In Absentia is destined to be one of my favorite albums of all time. I think some prog fans dismiss them for not being 'progressive' enough which I dont think is an unfair criticism. I just happen to think their strength lies purely in excellent songwriting, and for me thats far more important. |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: July 03 2008 at 13:26
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The mellotron riff in PFM´s Impresioni di Settembre... music does not get much better than that! Around the 8th minute in Porcupine Tree´s Arriving somewhere... when the "clean" guitars plays the main arpegio while the distorted guitar plays some chords on top of it... it´s like liquid metal... love it! When Peter Hammill sings "I climb trhough the evening..." in Pilgrims, ah my soul craps in excitment!!! ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: July 03 2008 at 13:53
Great choices! 
Ok, lets deal with VDGG. The entire 'Still Life' album is superb, but Pilgrims has to be its crowning glory. I agree Hammills performance is fantastic. Also, when Hammill starts singing on 'Darkness 11/11' is sublime as is the 'Then his eyes, will rise and stare through mine!' in Man Erg, always sends a shiver through me. As for PT's 'Arriving somewhere..' I love the beautiful build up in that song, and how the tension breaks when Steve Wilson sings 'All my Designs..simplified' |
Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: July 05 2008 at 02:49
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-Roger Waters's psychotic screaming on "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" -The heavy intro to Yes's "Heart of the Sunrise" -The Willow Farm segment on Genesis's "Supper's Ready", it's hilarious in my opinion and should have been a song on it's own. -The first half of Caravan's "Nine Feet Underground" -The mellotron solo on "In the Court of the Crimson King", even if it is fairly brief I could go on and on... |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: July 05 2008 at 13:33
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The Knife by Genesis, it has a lot of head-banging moments that just orders me to make air-all instruments.
VUG by Atomic Rooster, when the Hammond solo begins, well it's just amazing and with the very-known guitar riff behind, it's just a Perfect Heavy Prog song. Supper's Ready has a lot.. As well as Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play. Lady Fantasy final section with the heavy guitar and hammond, just amazing. Gate of Delirium final Moog Solo, is just so POWERful with that bass line followed behind. Heart of the Sunrise intro as well as Roundabout's Rick's solo many others. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 05 2008 at 14:15
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I can't think of any band that has more moments that get to me than Magma. At about 26 minutes up into Retrospetiw III's "Theusz Hamtaahk" there is a part that I feel like playing over and over... "Mmm Theusz Hamtaakh...." And the final section of "Hhai" off Live/ Hhai; wow. Too many Magma moments.
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Posted By: Statutory-Mike
Date Posted: July 05 2008 at 16:16
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TRAPPED INSIDE THIS OCTAVARIUM!, Selkies solo, In the Name of God solo _popupControl(); ------------- 
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Posted By: song_of_copper
Date Posted: July 05 2008 at 17:49
If you ask me, the whole of 'Theusz Hamtaahk' is one great LONG wonderful moment.   |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 05 2008 at 18:20
Or a great many wonderful moments strung together for a momentous track. I see for some reason I said Retrospectiw III when it's I. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Weston
Date Posted: July 06 2008 at 03:09
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In Platos Halo's Riding the Dragon, about 4:00 minutes into the song the vocals have a more profound physiological effect on me than just about anything I've experienced. The woman (Marija Rawlins) is a living Theremin.
I love the ending to A Passion Play, the "Hail Son of Kings - ' section. So joyous.
The ending harmonies and sonorites of Three Friends always gets me. It's too short though.
The penultimate guitar riffage in Utopia (the song) by Utopia - the part where the guitar is just pounding away by itself working the crowd into a frenzy before the rest of the band comes in one by one before the final recapitulation of the opening themes.
The multi orgasmic climaxes near the end of Awaken. Nothing tops that for me.
I could go on at length. These are but a few of the goose bump moments for me in prog.
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Posted By: psychomonkey62
Date Posted: July 07 2008 at 11:22
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The part at 1:50 in DT's In the Name of God, where Portnoy shifts the beat around. I love little things like that. Also, in that same song, the keyboard/guitar unison and Petrucci's natural harmonic in the riff right after the solo. The sweeps in Selkies by BTBAM are epic as hell, too. I also love the chorus of The Suffering by Coheed and Cambria for some reason. Maybe because when it comes in, it's more than halfway through the song, and the song has built up to it a bunch of times but never went into it. Hooray for first post!  |
Posted By: preqT0THEseq7
Date Posted: July 07 2008 at 12:09
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[/QUOTE] Another moment would be in Porcupine Tree's "Trains," after the banjo(?) interlude when Steven sings by himself with just his acoustic. What a beautiful voice. [/QUOTE]Indeed, a better voice than MJK. ------------- Idk, My BFF Steve. http://imageshack.us"> 
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Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: July 07 2008 at 12:52
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The last minutes of "White Walls" (or the whole song)
The first few minutes of "Ants of the Sky"
Guitar solo in "Trial of Tears"
The final chorus of "Cygnus....Vismund Cygnus"
Basically the whole second track of "Cassandra Gemini," but I always especially liked they go into the "she fell for the whispers" part
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: July 09 2008 at 21:28
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I have so many to list it would take days to write a list. A notable one in the top of my head right now is the creepy and repetetive 11/8 section in Present's 'Promenade au Fond D'un Canal' from around 4:45 to 6:25 with that scraping sound in the background. It's very dark and sinister sounding, and it's so hypnotic to listen to. I can't help but thinking of it whenever Im out late at night.
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Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: July 21 2008 at 12:18
| All of Awaken is amazing, but from the start of Wakeman's church organ solo until the crescendo has to be the ultimate. The hairs on the back of my neck stand up and gives me goose bumps. Even now, 30 years later, if I'm driving my car and this comes on I have to pull over and listen. It still moves me so much and I get so carried away I'd probably crash. |
Posted By: YesGoblin
Date Posted: July 22 2008 at 16:54
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Near the end of Dream Theatres Erotomania, there is an amazing bass driven riff As well, in Roundabout when they return to the main theme which is slightly altered after the " Next too your deeper fears.... " part
When the synth, drums and bass come in on trilogy
During Castle in the Air, by Eloy, when they go into that amazing bass riff with the singers vocals
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Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: July 22 2008 at 17:01
| Hm. new one. The guitar solo and humming thing off Maneige's Douce Amere. |
Posted By: burtonrulez
Date Posted: July 23 2008 at 17:41
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The church organ solo in CTTE, surprised no one's mentioned that yet.
The 'Fast and Bulbous' intro to 'Pena' by Captain Beefheart. it always cracks me up.
In the song Time by David Bowie where there's a moment of silence before everything comes cascading in.
The last verse of Man-Erg.
The solo from Willie the Pimp.
A lot more, those are just the ones from CDs that are on my desk right now.
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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: July 29 2008 at 12:13
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The fast break in "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight" - it's where I learned that Phil Collins was actually a musician.
Several in Mindcrime "Eradicate the Fascists, Revolution will Grow" How can you not get riled by that?
Numerous Opeth spots with clean vox in harmony over heavy guitars (first time in "Drapery Falls" comes to mind)
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: July 29 2008 at 12:19
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Because I'm listening to it now, the end of Henry Cow's "Living in the Heart of the Beast" - Dagmar Krause's passionate vocals along side Chris Cutler's relentless "marching" drums and some simple piano chords... * chills * |
Posted By: AmericanKhatru
Date Posted: July 29 2008 at 16:56
I didn't even think about that until you mentioned it, but you're absolutely right. During the Tormato tour (I believe), they played something called The Big Medley, which was like 5 or 6 Yessongs spliced together. Right as Jon, Chris and Steve finish the Perpetual Change part with "Saying we have the whole world in our hand" and just BAM! Right into the end of the battle sequence of Gates. Oh man, I get chills. Look for it on The Word is Live because words don't do it justice. |
Posted By: Philip
Date Posted: August 07 2008 at 07:06
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David Gilmour's solo in Comfortably Numb.
Steve Hackett's solo in Firth of Fifth
Andrew Latimer's solo in The Snow Goose (it can be in the whole album)
Chopin's Nocturne no. 9, almost in the end when the piano plays "con forza"
For now, these are the ones I remember.
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: August 10 2008 at 20:23
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For me my favorite moment was in Octavarium (Dream Theater). It was near the end when the metal section kicked in and LaBrie was screaming "TRAPPED INSIDE THIS OCTAVARIUM!!!!!" over and over again, and then suddenly it ends and the strings come in for an emotional section. That part was just pure gold. Another favorite was also in Octavarium when the French Horn came in at the very end. It was composed perfectly, and closed the song wonderfully. ------------- 
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Posted By: musicnotes16
Date Posted: August 14 2008 at 17:39
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lovebug, pushin me away, burnin up all by Jonas Brothers Into ya by Jessie McCartney Karma and Hollywood by NLT |
Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: August 15 2008 at 10:12
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Out of those that haven't been mentioned yet: Pink Floyd's The Wall has lots of them: "We don't need no education", the modulated commands in Waiting for the Worms and The Trial. In general I have an unhealthy affection for ominous modulated narration especially when it's some kind of tyrannic command. It's one of those things I'll never find goofy or clichéd no matter how disillusioned I otherwise get. The "whoosh" sound effect that opens Deep Purple's Fireball. Speaking of Purple - Ian Gillan's screams on Child in Time, any of the solos in Child in Time... screw that, Child in Time is basically a 10-minute-long favourite moment. And the solo that opens Speed King on the European version of In Rock... back in 1970 it must have been even more spine-chilling, but today it's still one of the best ways an album has ever opened.  Beltane, the bonus track on 2003 reissue of Jethro Tull's Songs from the Wood (why the hell didn't it get on the album first time, it's as good as the title track or Hunting Girl) has one of my favourite lyric lines ever: "It's just the old gods getting older". I think it's mostly the way Ian sings it that makes it so great.  Another Jethro Tull moment: "Old Charlie stole the handle, and the train it won't slow down" in Locomotive Breath. The flute solo and intro of the same song as well.The climax of Hawkwind's Brainstorm, you know the part that starts with the chant of "This is it! This is it! This is it!". The moment on the Space Ritual live version where one of the members suddenly begins gargling furiously in the background I also happen to quite like no matter how random it probably is, it actually adds to the frenzied chaos of that song. Brainstorm also has another of my all-time fave lyric lines: "You're gonna help me or there'll be an explosion!" It's so... to-the-point. Back to Pink Floyd... I've always been very partial to that creepy sound effect (I think it's made using the guitar, but I can't remember right now  ) coming after "Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten" in Astronomy Domine. Not to mention the sample of ducks quacking that ends Bike and hence their first album. Yeah, I have a weird sense of humour. ------------- "The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: August 15 2008 at 20:29
One of my favorite parts on the entire album. Really powerful ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: August 15 2008 at 21:26
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The slow Robin Trower guitar intro for Bridge of Sighs and Steve Hillage 's "I never Glid Before" On Angel's Egg by Gong . Both goosebump material. ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: acelxpro
Date Posted: August 15 2008 at 21:31
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The last half of "Maahnt" by Magma |
Posted By: St.Cleve Chronicle
Date Posted: August 21 2008 at 10:12
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When the fast riff after the chorus starts on Genesis' "Dancing with the moonlit knight". |
Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: August 22 2008 at 10:03
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1. On the title track for Yes - CTTE when the pipe organ solo emerges 2/3 in. 2. On Kansas, SFA, 'Incomudro, Hymn to the Atman,' the last chorus of "...going back to where you are..." leading into the guitar and bombastic ending. 3. On Marilliion, Misplaced Childhood, 'Perimeter Walk' leading into 'Threshold' - a wonderful segue. I am sure there are others, but that's it for now... |
Posted By: Takeshi Kovacs
Date Posted: August 22 2008 at 20:06
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This will be an evolving list as things crop up:
1 Beginning and ending of Starless by King Crimson. 2 The long keyboard & then guitar solos in Firth of Fifth by Genesis. 3 Guitar solo by Buck Dharma on the Some Enchanted Evening live version of Astronomy by Blue Oyster Cult. -------------  Open the gates of the city wide....
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