# Crowning moments of awesome in rock **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 5, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638 "2011-08-05T20:55:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638/1 "2011-08-05T20:55:03Z")
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run: At about 3:05 the Wall of Sound hits. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wgnTU31z7s) Lou Reed - Sweet Jane: The intro. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ayCSA6fk9ZA/hqdefault.jpg "Lou Reed - Sweet Jane (live - amazing intro)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayCSA6fk9ZA) What are your favorite CMAs? For clarification: [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome?from=Main.MomentOfAwesome](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome?from=Main.MomentOfAwesome) but note that it can be a one-way trip down the rabbit hole. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638/2 "2011-08-05T21:46:56Z")
Well, in terms of really awesome intros… The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” Spooky Tooth’s “[Evil Woman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtVTHB319ns)” 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”. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638/3 "2011-08-05T22:42:43Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > Spooky Tooth’s “[Evil Woman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtVTHB319ns)” I had forgotten about them. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638/4 "2011-08-05T22:49:02Z")
Roger Daltrey’s scream at the end of _Won’t Get Fooled Again_. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638/5 "2011-08-05T22:49:04Z")
I went through “Bohemian Rhapsody” trying to find _the_ CMA, but it’s hard to select just one. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638/6 "2011-08-05T22:59:12Z")
Can an intro be a crowning moment? Don’t you have to have some build-up to that? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638/7 "2011-08-05T23:00:13Z")
Not if the intro overshadows the rest of the song. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638/8 "2011-08-05T23:02:41Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I went through “Bohemian Rhapsody” trying to find _the_ CMA, but it’s hard to select just one. 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. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638/9 "2011-08-05T23:50:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638/10 "2011-08-05T23:53:49Z")
**Joe Cocker’s** scream in \*A Little Help From My Friends. \* ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638/11 "2011-08-06T00:19:34Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638/12 "2011-08-06T00:28:25Z")
“One two three o’clock, four o’clock rock. . .” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638/13 "2011-08-06T00:29:41Z")
> [@campp](#): > > **Joe Cocker’s** scream in _A Little Help From My Friends._ 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. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638/14 "2011-08-06T00:48:28Z")
**Nirvana** on _MTV Unplugged_. I was already a fan after _Nevermind_, but their \*Unplugged \*performance brought my appreciation to a whole new level. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638/15 "2011-08-06T01:05:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638/16 "2011-08-06T01:07:40Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > 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. Yeah; but he can get his corpse in line with a bunch of others…Badfinger were derivative as hell, but they did it well… ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638/17 "2011-08-06T01:26:10Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638/18 "2011-08-06T01:55:05Z")
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](http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_first_rays/4435966416/) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638/19 "2011-08-06T01:56:50Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#): > > 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 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. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638/20 "2011-08-06T02:04:24Z")
Thes Who’s set at The Concert For New York. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowning-moments-of-awesome-in-rock/591638.md?page=2)