Perfect Moments In Music
Moderators: SecondTalon, Moderators General, Prelates
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
I got chills just reading that. Such an awesome song.
- BurningLed
- Posts: 561
- Joined: Tue Feb 09, 2010 5:42 pm UTC
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
It's not really a perfect moment at all, but I think it deserves honorable mention: Whenever Serj screams "PIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIE!" in the System of a Down song Chic'N'Stu, I fall off my chair.
Edit: Official lyrics says its "BUYBUYBUYBUYBUYBUY!". Not as funny
Edit: Official lyrics says its "BUYBUYBUYBUYBUYBUY!". Not as funny

Last edited by BurningLed on Thu May 13, 2010 10:03 pm UTC, edited 1 time in total.
Axman wrote:Some people blow their cash on watches that they show off to people who think said watches make a person cool. Some people spend a weekend buying everyone fake gifts in a game of make-believe.
I think the latter group is awesome.
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
All of I'll Cover You (Reprise) from Rent is amazing, but I get major goose bumps when everything cuts and under Collins, and the huge gospel part following it.
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
I... feel compelled to post.
I think there's a term for this - 'Eargasm'. Anyway my eargasm would be when Guy Garvey sings the lyric 'Darling is this love?' in Starlings, just before the horns kick in. It kind of sends a shiver down my spine. Elbow seem to be really good at producing that sort of moment.
I think there's a term for this - 'Eargasm'. Anyway my eargasm would be when Guy Garvey sings the lyric 'Darling is this love?' in Starlings, just before the horns kick in. It kind of sends a shiver down my spine. Elbow seem to be really good at producing that sort of moment.
-
- Posts: 1
- Joined: Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:05 am UTC
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
The "Do You Feel Like We Do" off of Frampton Comes Alive, at about 11:25 when everyone comes in after Frampton's talk box solo.
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
I love the second half of "Whale Song" by Modest Mouse.
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
iwishiwuzskiing wrote:The "Do You Feel Like We Do" off of Frampton Comes Alive, at about 11:25 when everyone comes in after Frampton's talk box solo.
That was an epic first post. I saw this and was like YES and then listened to that part -> the whole song -> the whole album. You just brightened up around an hour and a half of my life.
double epsilon = -.0000001;
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
Listening to all of Explosions In The Sky's albums in chronological order, and then relaxing as the impossibly calming piano notes of So Long, Lonesome kick in.
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
d33p wrote:Two come immediately to mind:
Nine Inch Nails' "Just Like You Imagined"... at around 2:12, when the layered harmonic vocals come in on a decrescendo, and then all hell breaks loose.
And the ultimate in perfect moments, Radiohead's "Creep." You know the part. The gloriously decayed "cha-chunk" of a distorted guitar. Absolutely sublime.
Interesting rumor about that part you're describing: That may have been Jonny Greenwood attempting to sabotage the song because he didn't really like it. Other rumors are just that he thought the song was too quiet and wanted to give it more oomph. Who knows what the real truth is...
Anyway, some of my favorite musical moments:
Andrew Bird - Fiery Crash: The very last "to save all our lives, you've got to envision" he hits just a beautifully dissonant note on "envision" that differs from the two previous times singing that line. Absolutely stunning.
Bright Eyes - Poison Oak: Either of the lines "But me I'm a single cell..." or "The end of paralysis..." are just the most monstrous dynamic change that they send shivers down my spine every time.
Keane - Hamburg Song: When the song (normally in G major) breaks into the piano solo it transitions directly and seamlessly to an EbMaj7 chord, it fully completes the unrequited love feel to the song. ♭VI? Yes, please!
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah: God, this whole song is great. Whether performed by Leonard Cohen (original artist), Rufus Wainwright, or Jeff Buckley, it's good. Anyway, I guess it's hard to pick a perfect moment because I feel like the entire song is perfect... is that cheating?
Edit: Am I the only person largely into Indie music that finds both Neutral Milk Hotel and Wilco PAINFULLY boring? Musically, they don't do anything that even resembles something interesting, at least to me. Is there even a single key change or borrowed chord, ever, on any of their songs? Hell, Owl City has more interesting chord transitions than those two bands.
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
Link Wray: Rumble. Two minutes-thirty is a moment when it's this good...
I knew a woman once, but she died soon after.
- LeagueOfMorons
- Posts: 79
- Joined: Sun May 09, 2010 10:40 pm UTC
- Location: Muscatine, IA
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
Slurgi wrote:Edit: Am I the only person largely into Indie music that finds both Neutral Milk Hotel and Wilco PAINFULLY boring? Musically, they don't do anything that even resembles something interesting, at least to me. Is there even a single key change or borrowed chord, ever, on any of their songs? Hell, Owl City has more interesting chord transitions than those two bands.
I always thought the Wilco songs Either Way and Impossible Germany had some interesting chord changes going on in them. Haven't listened to any Neutral Milk Hotel, though, so I can't say anything there.
Another song I absolutely love the crap out of: Hum - Apollo. Might be the most perfectly melancholy song I've ever heard. The lyrics are gorgeous too. "I'm thinking of a number between everything and two . . . and it's molecules of you." Sounds like nonsense, I guess. Maybe I've just listened to it enough times to convince myself it makes sense. Anyway, it's still great. Pretty much the whole song - I don't know if I could pick a single moment. Although I really like the beginning of the first verse (0:34) and the final chorus (3:57).
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want." - Calvin And Hobbes
I write about music and stuff. You know, just for fun. You can read what I write here: http://relativepitchmusic.blogspot.com
I write about music and stuff. You know, just for fun. You can read what I write here: http://relativepitchmusic.blogspot.com
- icanflywaitno
- Posts: 25
- Joined: Thu Jun 03, 2010 7:02 am UTC
- Location: Atlanta, GA
- Contact:
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
Kaeyn wrote:Listening to all of Explosions In The Sky's albums in chronological order, and then relaxing as the impossibly calming piano notes of So Long, Lonesome kick in.
I salute to you good sir. I was about to say this too.
And Steve Vai's "For The Love of God". The whole song is just musical orgasm.
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
I have a few, I'll supplement them with links.
I've grown steadily more tired as i've typed, so descriptions have declined in quality. Music hasn't though.
Spoiler:
I've grown steadily more tired as i've typed, so descriptions have declined in quality. Music hasn't though.
Aum
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
I must be hormonal tonight or something, because I'm inundating myself with really tear-jerking music. Naturally, this has many amazing moments. Highlights from the evening have included:
Hmm, I've noticed that most of these are finales. I think I know what I like
.
- The last 3is minutes of Firebird
- The end of The Decemberists' Hazards of Love, where the couple drown together, and the final words "Never more will these hazards of love trouble us."
- The Finale to Rent, where a bunch of the musical themes come together and mesh beautifully
- The last piece on Ludo's Broken Bride EP
- The climax of Streetlight Manifesto's A Better Place, A Better Time, with the really passionate shout chorus before the horns place their last line, then the up tempo end thing.
Hmm, I've noticed that most of these are finales. I think I know what I like

Re: Perfect Moments In Music
InfamousAnarchist wrote:In Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, during My Eyes (On The Rise), when Penny and Billy harmonize on the chorus... I get goosebumps every time.
+1. Also in Slipping
A few other perfect little mind explosions I've had lately:
-Sergei Nakariakov playing Rondo and introduction Capriccioso
- This Love by Maroon 5
-Grazing in the Grass by Hugh Masekela
-Make Me Wanna Die by The Pretty Reckless(Yeah yeah yeah, she's a poser\bad role-model\whatchamedoodle. I still like her voice.)
-Gustav Holst's Jupiter
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
The cadence of the final movement of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony.
The entirety of Jeff Buckley's Grace.
The entirety of Jeff Buckley's Grace.
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
10,000 days by tool. The build from around 4:00 to the "give me my wings" around 5:40 to the solo. This is definitely their best work and its a shame this album is so underrated compared to their other stuff.
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
insom wrote:- Shine on you crazy diamond I-V by Pink Floyd. About 3.55 when the music goes from intro, the guitar starts and the drums kick in.
...Not much of a first post?
Falling in love hurts so fucking much
-
- Posts: 47
- Joined: Sat Dec 05, 2009 4:04 am UTC
- Location: Lebanon, NH
- Contact:
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
The opening of "Knife" by Grizzly Bear
(Bum-bum, bum-bum-bum, bum-bum-bum...)
Also, in the refrains of "A Campaign of Shock and Awe" by Evelyn Evelyn, there's a violin bit in the background that I really like.
(Bum-bum, bum-bum-bum, bum-bum-bum...)
Also, in the refrains of "A Campaign of Shock and Awe" by Evelyn Evelyn, there's a violin bit in the background that I really like.
- CaptainPerson
- Posts: 8
- Joined: Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:18 am UTC
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
I've got a few favourites which take me completely everytime
The trumpet explosion at the start of Goldfinger (Bwa BWAAA Bwaaaah)
Piano Concerto in F# - Adagio andante con moto by Gershwin is just full of them. When the muted trumpet kicks in, the sax, the piano, the whole thing.
When the guitar comes in in Echoes by Pink Floyd, it just seems to grow out of the piano and then off I go. And speaking of Pink Floyd, the first chord in Breathe loses me for the rest of the album. It's a masterpiece of those kind of moments.
God, there's so many!
♥ music
The trumpet explosion at the start of Goldfinger (Bwa BWAAA Bwaaaah)
Piano Concerto in F# - Adagio andante con moto by Gershwin is just full of them. When the muted trumpet kicks in, the sax, the piano, the whole thing.
When the guitar comes in in Echoes by Pink Floyd, it just seems to grow out of the piano and then off I go. And speaking of Pink Floyd, the first chord in Breathe loses me for the rest of the album. It's a masterpiece of those kind of moments.
God, there's so many!
♥ music
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock
John Lubbock
- saxmaniac1987
- Can't spell sex
- Posts: 825
- Joined: Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:58 pm UTC
- Location: Killadelphia Burbs
- Contact:
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
Another one by The Mars Volta--Multiple Spouse Wounds.
Actually, it's the buildup to the movement called Multiple Spouse Wounds, which starts at about :45. Pretty much the entire album builds up to that moment. I don't know why this artist wrote it as "Know there's no light," but it's still a cool project. Also, I use the part starting as :45 as my ringtone.
Actually, it's the buildup to the movement called Multiple Spouse Wounds, which starts at about :45. Pretty much the entire album builds up to that moment. I don't know why this artist wrote it as "Know there's no light," but it's still a cool project. Also, I use the part starting as :45 as my ringtone.
"A witty saying proves nothing" - Voltaire
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
Almost every Sigur Rós song contains one of these, especially on ( ). Radiohead has quite a few also.
-
- Posts: 143
- Joined: Mon Aug 02, 2010 5:13 am UTC
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
I'm gonna go ahead and get these out of my system. I'll stick to some less-obvious ones...
"Dazed and Confused"- Led Zeppelin
Right after the mega-solo when the loudest chords come crashing down with Bonzo going berserk on the drums behind it. I can't really explain how awesome it is in words.
"Panic Switch" - Silversun Pickups
The later part when he starts yelling "Waiting and fading and floating away...", everything just comes together so well there.
"Screwdriver" - The White Stripes
When he starts to build up saying "Got a little feeling going now...", and ends up punching out chords like all hell and screaming.
"Dazed and Confused"- Led Zeppelin
Right after the mega-solo when the loudest chords come crashing down with Bonzo going berserk on the drums behind it. I can't really explain how awesome it is in words.
"Panic Switch" - Silversun Pickups
The later part when he starts yelling "Waiting and fading and floating away...", everything just comes together so well there.
"Screwdriver" - The White Stripes
When he starts to build up saying "Got a little feeling going now...", and ends up punching out chords like all hell and screaming.
- BurningLed
- Posts: 561
- Joined: Tue Feb 09, 2010 5:42 pm UTC
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
So, this is the first time I've actually heard the song, which is apparently rare -- But anyways, the last few seconds of "Fly Like An Eagle" are completely surreal, especially the beeping at the end.
Axman wrote:Some people blow their cash on watches that they show off to people who think said watches make a person cool. Some people spend a weekend buying everyone fake gifts in a game of make-believe.
I think the latter group is awesome.
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
This gives me chills every time I listen to it. It's an arrangement of Taps played at Maynard Ferguson's funeral.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkmeiDsxXRk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkmeiDsxXRk
- Indubitable.
- Posts: 13
- Joined: Mon May 24, 2010 4:56 pm UTC
- Location: Scotland
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
Midnight wrote:ok so in Citizen Erased, by muse, the SECOND time the harmonic leady intro bit starts. Which is to say, after it all winds down to smooth melodic stuff, and then it goes "WHABAM HARMONICS R COOL U GUYS" and then the wall o sound starts.
Dear god, this.
Also, in the same song, when it has the piano breakdown. It's just so beautiful. <3
In New Born (also by Muse) - when the riff comes in after the first verse. Just yes.
Great Gig In The Sky (Pink Floyd) - 1:00 in when the vocals come in and the drums become more prominent and the whole song explodes. ><
21 Guns (Green Day) - Just before the final chorus, with the single bar of silence and then the whole band comes in on the same beat.
Also, most of Muse's pre-Resistance music. Like the solo in Knights Of Cydonia. Or the sheer beauty of Unintended. Etc. Etc.
My bass is called Rosa and I love her lots. <3
8-Bit Theater wrote:WM: Ok, an orphanage is on fire, what do you--
BM: Use FIRE-3 to torch the building and then pick off any survivors with BOLT-2 set to a wide dispersal.
-
- Branson
- Posts: 2643
- Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:53 am UTC
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Contact:
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoGtLq9Q ... re=related
This is now one of my favourite things ever. Every single one of those solos is epic.
The only bad thing is that I cannot for the life of me find the full version of that anywhere.
This is now one of my favourite things ever. Every single one of those solos is epic.
The only bad thing is that I cannot for the life of me find the full version of that anywhere.
- Dave_Wise
- Posts: 698
- Joined: Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:59 pm UTC
- Location: Wales. Explaining much.
- Contact:
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
The first few bars of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR9nDnyIhAU
I love this, it's totally awesome. It's the tune to which you can imagine wayward subjects being dragged before you for judgement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR9nDnyIhAU
I love this, it's totally awesome. It's the tune to which you can imagine wayward subjects being dragged before you for judgement.
The future is always bright. Bombs generate quite substantial amounts of illumination
-a friend.
-a friend.
- cjmcjmcjmcjm
- Posts: 1158
- Joined: Tue Jan 05, 2010 5:15 am UTC
- Location: Anywhere the internet is strong
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
The transition from the 3rd to the 4th movement of Beethoven's fifth, followed by the 3rd movement of San-Saëns' 3rd Syhmphony
frezik wrote:Anti-photons move at the speed of dark
DemonDeluxe wrote:Paying to have laws written that allow you to do what you want, is a lot cheaper than paying off the judge every time you want to get away with something shady.
-
- Posts: 133
- Joined: Mon May 17, 2010 8:52 pm UTC
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
The transition from the 3rd to the 4th movement of Beethoven's fifth
That's my favorite moment in music as well. A close contender is the section in the development section of the 4th movement just before the brief reprise of the scherzo.
- Cloud Walker
- Posts: 605
- Joined: Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:37 am UTC
- Location: Midwest, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way
- Contact:
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
From 2:11 to 2:51 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1zftPGLi0U
It's one of the absolute sweetest melodies of all time, just singing along while the beats get more and more frantic, until they finally die away and the dancing melody suddenly stalls and falls onto a single chord at 2:51, a pillow so soft it melts my heart.
It's one of the absolute sweetest melodies of all time, just singing along while the beats get more and more frantic, until they finally die away and the dancing melody suddenly stalls and falls onto a single chord at 2:51, a pillow so soft it melts my heart.
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. - Amelia Burr
I make pretty pictures!: Photography & Video Production
I make pretty pictures!: Photography & Video Production
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
I don't believe it's been mentioned (surprisingly) ...
Instrumedely live at Budokan repeatedly throughout (depending somewhat on which bits you recognize, and whether you recognize them yourself or have someone point them out to you) but it absolutely peaks after 11:50.
The piano building up in the first two minutes of Magic City also sends shivers up my spine, and... this might be nostalgia, but 54 seconds into this is astonishingly good despite being essentially MIDI.
Instrumedely live at Budokan repeatedly throughout (depending somewhat on which bits you recognize, and whether you recognize them yourself or have someone point them out to you) but it absolutely peaks after 11:50.
The piano building up in the first two minutes of Magic City also sends shivers up my spine, and... this might be nostalgia, but 54 seconds into this is astonishingly good despite being essentially MIDI.
All Shadow priest spells that deal Fire damage now appear green.
Big freaky cereal boxes of death.
- PhatPhungus
- Posts: 321
- Joined: Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:40 pm UTC
- Contact:
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
Ayreon, The Human Equation, Day 12 - Trauma
When Devin Townsend screams and Mikael Åkerfeldt growls at the same time ("you're better off dead").
When Devin Townsend screams and Mikael Åkerfeldt growls at the same time ("you're better off dead").
__________
_____
__
_
_____
__
_
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
Zanmanoodle wrote:"Panic Switch" - Silversun Pickups
The later part when she starts yelling "Waiting and fading and floating away...", everything just comes together so well there.
FTFY.
nyeguy wrote:The climax of Streetlight Manifesto's A Better Place, A Better Time, with the really passionate shout chorus before the horns place their last line, then the up tempo end thing.
This one too. Streetlight is easily one of my favorite bands.
- TheAmazingRando
- Posts: 2308
- Joined: Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:58 am UTC
- Location: San Diego, CA
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
I can't tell if you're joking, but the singer for Silversun Pickups is a guy.McCaber wrote:Zanmanoodle wrote:"Panic Switch" - Silversun Pickups
The later part when she starts yelling "Waiting and fading and floating away...", everything just comes together so well there.
FTFY.
- Midnight
- Posts: 2170
- Joined: Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:53 am UTC
- Location: Twixt hither and thither. Ergo, Jupiter.
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_mDG2TRv5I
It's all really good, but then at 4:35, the very end, it's just like BAM! FUCKIN' SYMPHONY UP IN THIS BITCH.
It's all really good, but then at 4:35, the very end, it's just like BAM! FUCKIN' SYMPHONY UP IN THIS BITCH.
uhhhh fuck.
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
- The prelude to Bach's first cello suite, I remember the opening of the evening news in 1989 : Rostropovitch playing that in front of a Berlin wall that had just crumbled. One of the most important early memory of world events I retain, and certainly the most beautiful.
- "Thinking about you" by Radiohead at around 1'15
- "Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley, the whole thing really
- "Fake plastic trees", at 3'50 : if I could be who you wanted...
- "Ces gens-là" by Noir Désir (originally by Brel), the rise up at 3'30
- "Drive" by R.E.M., the parts where he goes TICK TOCK...
- "Thinking about you" by Radiohead at around 1'15
- "Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley, the whole thing really
- "Fake plastic trees", at 3'50 : if I could be who you wanted...
- "Ces gens-là" by Noir Désir (originally by Brel), the rise up at 3'30
- "Drive" by R.E.M., the parts where he goes TICK TOCK...
Re: Perfect Moments In Music
Monster by Kayne is an amazing song but the best part is when Nicki Minaj just tears. shit. up.
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 7 guests