Ear-gasms

Cool thread!

My favorites:

- The guitar jam in Rope Ends by Pain of Salvation, as well as many other emotional high points by PoS, such as Waking Every God, Beyond the Pale, In The Flesh, King of Loss, and Reconcilation

- The second half of One Last Time by Dream Theater, as well as The Spirit Carries On and Goodnight Kiss

- Chorus and following guitar soloing in Andromeda's II=I

- Most of Porcupine Tree's Arriving Somewhere But Not Here, as well as most of Trains, Heartattack in a Layby, and Where Would We Be

- All of Welcome Home by Coheed and Cambria, especially whenever they hit that third chord in the progression of the verse

- Climaxes of Mad Man Moon and Entangled by Genesis

- Various passages from The Flower Kings' The Truth Will Set You Free

- Choruses of L'via L'viaquez and Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus by The Mars Volta

- Most Shadow Gallery choruses... particularly those from The Archer of Ben Salem, Encrypted, Room V, The Andromeda Strain, War for Sale, and Rain

-The Devil's Got My Throat and Wind at my Back by Spock's Beard

- Whenever Symphony X's vocalist, Russell Allen, belts out those high notes atop those amazing chords!!




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• The waves of sound in Awaken as Anderson sings "Like the time I ran away, turned around and you were standing close to me."
• In Echolyn's Never the Same, when the chorus is extended: "After the song is over, the dance goes on, so dance away.  After all has been said and done, remember what's been given not taken away, remember all the life we shared every day, there's never any endings, but I'll never be the same."  Anyone who has lost someone must see the wisdom in that line, and anyone who has ears must hear the beauty of the harmonies.
• Peter Nicholl's screams of "You're not alone, so don't look back" at the end of IQ's Outer Limits.
• The middle section of Fitter Stoke Has a Bath with about 100 overdubs of flute and backing vocals.

and for something a little out of the ordinary...

• The chorus of Steely Dan's Pearl of the Quarter (an intentionally naive song about falling in love with a prostitute) "And if you hear from my Louise, won't you tell her that I say hello.  Please make it clear that when her day is done, she's got a place to go."
  

hehe- this thread has a good name. To be honest I have ear-gasms allll the time - it's kinda hard to get away from them. But at the moment I have that part from Cinema Show (this'll be hard to describe) when there's a transition from guitar-strumming and other great guitar and keyboard-riffs to dancy and flowing strings and flutes or possibly mellotron work. (If I had the sheet music infront of me then yourd know what I was talking about. Pardon the inaccuracy).

Aaaaah. So Lovely.

noo theres no lighttt in the darkness of your furthest reaches from cassandra geminni comes to mind right now

MarkCsigs wrote: When the mellotron kicks back in near the end of "Starless"

Speaking of Starless, when that sax solo kicks in at around the 9 minute mark. The solo itself is fantastic and the other instruments create an awesome foundation.

I have a bootleg version Looking Glass by Allan Holdsworth which is superb all round but there's a drum part near the end that i just love.

The dual guitar tremolo picking at the end of Atheist's Enthralled In Essence.

The entire song La Cathedrale De Strausbourg by Focus.

Girl With A Watering Can by Maudling of the Well at about 5:30 when the guy starts singing.

I, Galactus on Sol Niger Within by Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects.

The chorus of A Trace of Blood by Pain of Salvation as well as the start when the drums kick in.

The combination of Imago and Pluvius Aestivus also by Pain of Salvation.

The end of Blackwater Park by Opeth ("sick liaisons raised this monumental mark. the sun sets forever over blackwater park").

Mozart's Lacrymosa section of his Requiem.

On The Breath of Poseidon by Symphony X.

All of the solos (all instruments) in Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt 1 by Pink Floyd.

John Coltrane's solo in So What by Miles Davis.

The part in Meshuggah's Straws Pulled At Random with the guitar lead.

The guitar sweeps in Origin's Portal.

That's all i've got time for right now

I'm going to try and think of a few more now: -

The beginning of Carpet Crawlers - "the crawlers cover the floor..."

IQ's Harvest of Souls - the "day after day" bit

Mind Drive - the bit where it's just acoustic guitar and Anderson.

Awaken "like the time I ran away" which someone has already mentioned.

The end sections of "Musical Box" and "Supper' Ready".

Jon Anderson's chorus in "Lizard".

The choruses of Rush's "Entre Nous" and "Freewill" (if you choose not to decide...)

 

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Beatles While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Eric Clapton part)

Van Der Graaf Generator Childlike Faith In Childhood's End (that moment when Hammill sings thru the centuries of progress - keyboard part after that line)

Jethro Tull A Passion Play that musical part after when Ian sings "and the devil cries more" and that part when Ian sings "fell with my angels..."

Rush - solo in Red Sector A

whole VDGG's Sleepwalkers

that moment in Thick As A Brick (part 1) when acoustic guiat and keyboard seem to be more quiet and the pressure is off for a while.

there's much more on that but i'll post later.

learning to live...

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close to the edge, when the 2 vocals mix together, i just love that bit

marillion - misplaced childhood - " hearts of lothian" - guitar part during chorus