Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run: At about 3:05 the Wall of Sound hits.
Lou Reed - Sweet Jane: The intro.
What are your favorite CMAs?
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Well, in terms of really awesome intros…
The Who’s “Baba O’Riley”
Spooky Tooth’s “Evil Woman”
Pink Floyd’s “Careful With That Axe, Eugene”
King Crimson’s “Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, Pt. 1”
And for awesome instrumental breaks, King Crimson’s “21st Century Schizoid Man”.
I had forgotten about them. Thank you!
Roger Daltrey’s scream at the end of Won’t Get Fooled Again.
I went through “Bohemian Rhapsody” trying to find the CMA, but it’s hard to select just one.
Can an intro be a crowning moment? Don’t you have to have some build-up to that?
Not if the intro overshadows the rest of the song.
Its CMA occurred in Wayne’s World where they were high and driving through suburban Chicago in an AMC product while singing it. That was my early-mid 70s.
In Badfinger’s song Baby Blue, when the harmonies kick in on the 2nd verse… “All the days became so long…” gets me every time.
Joe Cocker’s scream in *A Little Help From My Friends.
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In Rolling Stone they interviewed people regarding others’ hits. Gene Pitney, who did well off his hits, regretted that Pete Ham did not consult with him.
“One two three o’clock, four o’clock rock. . .”
This is what I’m talking about, and I apologize I did not describe it more clearly. Joe screams and the world stands still.
“He’s not a singer. He’s a song stylist.” First heard it about Sinatra, then about Joe, and there is nothing bad about it–Bob Dylan couldn’t sing his way out of a wet, brown-paper, bag.
Nirvana on MTV Unplugged. I was already a fan after Nevermind, but their *Unplugged *performance brought my appreciation to a whole new level. 
At 5:56 into Stairway to Heaven, when the guitars finally crank. What really makes it crowing is that you know it’s coming, you can’t wiat for it, and when it finally gets there, it’s every bit as good as you were hoping for.
The mirror image of that is Layla, at 3:12, when the guitar stops screaming and the piano takes over.
Yeah; but he can get his corpse in line with a bunch of others…Badfinger were derivative as hell, but they did it well…
That moment in Money for Nothing where the song really starts. The end of Sultans of Swing when Knopfler really gets going.
When Mick Jagger sings Gimme, gimme shelter or I’m gonna fade away
Van Halen “Eruption”, 0:47-1:26 … Absolutely mind-blowing
Eddie also gets credit for the guitar solo in Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”
Metallica “For Whom The Bell Tolls”, the intro … Epic
Elvis Presley “Jailhouse Rock”, when he does this
Betraying my age, if I haven’t already, FUCKING-A!
And I blew speakers–TWICE–on the “doo-ta-doos” on Sympathy for the Devil. CDs remove the explosive harmonics.
Some have claimed that Jimmy Page worked on The Kinks “All Day and All of the Night.” No, Dave Davies is just sentencing a Silvertone amp to death. Listening to tubes ringing is a wonder to behold, as they survived for a full three minutes.
Young’uns are not familiar with killing equipment. “It goes to eleven” used to means certain death. Er, eight could do it.
Thes Who’s set at The Concert For New York.