Music Moments

The guitar interludes in "Crazy Train." Maybe the greatest and most recognizable lick in heavy metal.

Also, Neil Young spitting with rage as he sings the following lines in "Rockin In The Free World:"

Now she puts the kid away, and she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life, and what she's done to it
There's one more kid that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool

Along those lines, the whole damn Pearl Jam/Young version at the MTV VMAs.

The verse of INXS' "Guns In The Sky" that goes a little something like this:

It's great to see you
I'm running late, da da da
Love your hair, da da da
Lend me a ten, da da da
Love your big house, da da da

Could you spare a dime
Well I'm sick of it, it's a load of shit

And the last verse of Bob Seger's "The Fire Inside." I wish I could write something this evocative:

Then in comes to you how it all slips away
Youth and beauty are gone one day
No matter what you dream
Or feel or say
It ends in dust
And disarray
Like wind on the plains
Sand through the glass
Waves rolling in with
The tide
Dreams die hard
And we watch them erode
But we cannot be denied
The Fire Inside

and because I'm a complete looser, the final verse of Night Ranger's "Touch of Madness" as well.

 

Don't worry, BYH, you can still rock in America.

I've always loved when the bass line kicks in on Zeppelin's "Tangerine".

 

Jim Gordon's piano coda in "Layla." The most beautiful piece of music I've ever heard.

Another good one is in the middle of "El Scorcho" when Weezer starts jamming beginning with "How stupid is it? I can't talk about it. I gotta sing about it and make a record of my heart."

 

Check out her duets with Gram Parsons.

 

Also forgot a lot of stuff from Yes:

1) The pipe organ from Close to the Edge. I love blasting that in the car.

2) The latter part of The Fish that's written in 7/8

3) The bassline from Roundabout

4) We Have Heaven from South Side of the Sky

 

the piano coda at the end of Springsteen's "Racing in the Street"

the way the guitar fades into the piano outro at the end of Springsteen's "Incident on 57th Street"

 

The latter half of "Layla" by Derek and the Dominoes, used to perfection in GoodFellas.

The final instrumental part of "Comfortably Numb".

The transition from "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" to "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2"

The opening of "Jailhouse Rock".

And the greatest ending to any song ... the final sequence of Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture".

 

Damn good call on both. Very solid.

 

A few...

-- Branford Marsalis has a wonderful little sax fill in the second chorus of Sting's "Fortress Around Your Heart."

-- The point where the sax and piano kick in at the end of "Thunder Road."

-- The (almost identical) point when the piano kicks in at the end of "Up The Junction" by Squeeze.

-- The opening riff from "Recurring Dream" by Squeeze.

-- The end of "7:30" by the Pernice Brothers, when it breaks into an homage to the Beach Boys.

-- The last verse to "Sweet Dreams" by Split Enz:

"Well you wouldn't know me from a bar of soap
A part of the furniture
An ornament, a rocking chair
But it's all very well to cry now
Sweet dreams, every once in a while."

-- Obvious choice, but still great - Daltrey's scream near the end of "Won't Get Fooled Again."

-- Another obvious one - "They say this cat Shaft is a bad mother.." "Shut yo mouth!"

-- Not so obvious, from OC Smith's "Blowing Your Mind", the theme from "Shaft in Africa": "The man's trouble! He's been to my house!"

-- In "We're Desperate" by X they sing "Last night everything BROKE!" and the music stops for a second.

 

An old stand-by, the beginning of Sweet Child O'Mine. Or the whistle-blow in Paradise City.

 

More of this:
The six-note bursts that Keith Moon drops into the beginning of every chorus of "I Can't Explain."
The little riff that Steve Cropper plays in the chorus of Soul Man.
Duane Allman's bottleneck solo on Clarence Carter's "Road Of Love."
The ensemble playing by the Band on "Don't Do It" from Rock of Ages. "My biggest mistake was lovin' you too much...BLAM!"

 

"I know what it means, but..."