We've all professed our favorite songs at one time or another, but what parts are there specifically that you just get so caught up in that you'll actually rewind the track just to listen to it again? Parts that send tingles all down your legs and make you think "holy god, do that again." Is it a kickass bass solo? Or a build-up from ambient noise?
Just today I listened to the final two minutes of
The Dead Flag Blues by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. It's essentially the outtro; you have a prominent violin presence, a hint of bass and what I can only assume is a Xylophone, and it all works together and just feels heartwarming after the first fourteen minutes of gloom and misery (which was also awesome). A fitting end to a sixteen-minute suite, and a segment I often repeat when listening to the album all the way through.
The Mars Volta's
Day of the Baphomets begins with one of the best bass solos that I can remember, and also acts as a build-up into the pulsing swirl of energy that permeates the rest of the song. YouTube will yield several people's attempts to recreate this solo, but they all fail miserably. It's just too awesome.
For a while I considered
Rolodex Propaganda to be a turgid pile of crap that was a stain on the otherwise legendary
Relationship of Command. Yes, marvel at my shame. Iggy Pop was featured in this song, and he saves it. The parts where he gurgles out "manuscript replica" while the vocalist is belting out shit about cutting throats is the best thing to drive to.
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smoke from the tires and the twisted machine
just a nickel's worth of dreams
every wishbone that they saved
lies swindled from them, on the way
to Burma Shave
how did i overlook this
A lot of songs.
A shitload.
I can't hold up in the presence of violins
they make me melt
I agree with this. Especially if the violins go all high and weepy, sometimes I have to sit down or just stand still and listen.
keith cuts right to the center of my being
they give me the jibblies
does that count
"hey charlie, for chrissakes / do you wanna know the truth of it?" from 'christmas card from a hooker in minneapolis' by tom waits
the chorus of 'distant stations' by the mountain goats
its just a bunch of notes
Come on in heeeere
That, along with some ISIS, Pelican and Explosions in the Sky, are under heavy rotation on my ipod.
I can feel it coming
In the air tonight
i highly enjoy mars volta
When they start singing "I got soul but I'm not a soldier" over and over again. The crescendo and when they introduce the chorus I get goosebumps all the time. Well a lot of songs can give me goosebumps but hell if I can remember them all.
I especially love it in songs when they drop all the instruments, or most of them and you just hear the singer, oh yes.
I love The Killers and I love that song.
Kentucky Avenue gets me every time
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cicatriz ESP, mate
when it begins to kick back in at the end
and then the vocals burst in
i had to take a cold shower after that
I love their acoustic version of Sam's Town so much more than the other, why they didn't just use that is beyond me.
All These Things That I've Done is the Killers' Bohemian Rhapsody.
My empire of dirt.
I will let you down.
I will make you hurt.
Fuckin' Cash, man.
Also I'm glad Sam's Town was pretty much all the best stuff from Hot Fuss but for the entire cd
uh
those lyrics aren't
nevermind
Yes I know its a cover, but I wanted to make sure nobody thought I was saying that Reznor's version gave me goosebumps. Its a great song but, really, Cash's version is full of emotion.
Except that one time NIN got David Bowie to sing lyrics. That rocked
yea i much prefer cash's cover to the original too
ok, yes I agree
it's just it really bugs me when people think cash wrote it