# Moments in music that you love **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 8, 2014, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095 "2014-08-08T06:08:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![nani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58956e/32.png) [@nani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nani)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095/41 "2014-08-10T09:04:46Z")
Rammstein is, well, Rammstein, but what made me first like them so long ago was this guitar rhythm (I have no idea how to describe it correctly) in [Mein Herz Brennt](http://youtu.be/2t47tpmJ5oA?t=3m26s) that just built up and up and up. Awesome. I don’t like Maná quite as much as they insist on showing up in Pandora “Latin Rock” stations, but I can’t help feeling the guitar for [Dejame Entrar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZpkzPjpGU4) is just so cool, right at the beginning. And of course, there are always the fun little surprises that come with live music, such as [this hot Russian girl rendition of This Love](http://www.yapfiles.ru/show/917464/16fdb2ceb7f1aed5fa10d37559f1327e.flv.html) by Maroon 5, that gets interrupted (for the best). ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095/42 "2014-08-10T10:31:01Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Respighi’s Feste Romana, the fourth movement, depicting the pilgrims on their long, slow march to go to Rome: the scene where they see Rome, and the cries of joy pass back along the line of march. You can all but hear it. “Rome! We see it!” > . Excellent choice. I thought Respighi was forgotten! [I am also fond of his pines and Fountains] > [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite.” In **Fantasia 2000** , it’s where the volcano (read: Firebird) comes alive to start kicking butt. Firebird is a favorite. Tomita’s version of [The Planet Suite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsFZfv70O8Y). He also has an interesting transcription of [Firebird](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBb7-He4o5E). The Fibonaccis [Romp of the Meiji Sycophants](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gDsb8ZBJfc) is just funky, and appeals to me. NO idea why. Huun Huur Tu - [Chiraa Khoor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bDntRWfL70) [Yellow Trotter] Mongolian dual note singing. It is a song about the Hero riding around the steppes naming things. I can just hear the little pony running around. [URL=“[http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/](http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/)”] ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095/43 "2014-08-10T14:23:19Z")
The final verse of “She’s Gone,” by Hall and Oates. “They can never be what she was (was!) to me”–it just works perfectly for me, how the voices interplay, the “echo” on the word “was,” the resignation in the words and their vocals. Great song, great moment. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095/44 "2014-08-10T20:27:59Z")
_Prog_ 1:47 mark [Pinback - Blue Screen Life - Prog - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ZS0qw5Hc4) I’d post more by my internet is kinda wonky today. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095/45 "2014-08-10T20:35:54Z")
One of the most profound lines I’ve ever heard in a song came from [Mess](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmJ9e2vR-G0) by Ben Folds Five. The song is about how the narrator has a tendency to fuck things up in his relationships, and, by extension, his life. At one point, he’s taking to the love he’s just had, and talking about the new one he’s just starting to get to know. He realizes he’s been a complete dick to the old love, and he wishes like hell that that never happens again. During the last verse, he says > [@](#): > > I want to be for her what I could never be for you Man, that line just kills me. Every single time. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095/46 "2014-08-10T21:12:51Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Excellent choice. I thought Respighi was forgotten! [I am also fond of his pines and Fountains] . . . And “The Birds.” I absolutely adore “Gli Uccelli.” (I adore Renaissance and Medieval music, and The Birds is a re-orchestrating of old dance music. And I bet you already knew that, so I’m only mentioning it in hopes of enticing someone who might be reading this. Hey, you! People reading! Respighi! You’ll thank us!) ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095/47 "2014-08-10T21:36:50Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > And “The Birds.” I absolutely adore “Gli Uccelli.” (I adore Renaissance and Medieval music, and The Birds is a re-orchestrating of old dance music. And I bet you already knew that, so I’m only mentioning it in hopes of enticing someone who might be reading this. Hey, you! People reading! Respighi! You’ll thank us!) Lets make it easier - [Ancient Airs and Dances](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwBAmivGs-A) [Pines](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFkqyxy6oUw) [Birds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YJ55DWCc-s) [Church Windows](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY1iFC5hzmw) [Festivals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u1oT7QtQp4) [Gregorian Concherto](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB5KRHTPTjA) [URL=“[http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/](http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/)”] ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095/48 "2014-08-10T21:53:45Z")
Anything by Haendel does it for me. I’m listening to the **Music for the Royal Fireworks** right now, and I can’t put into words the feelings it evokes. Had I ever been married, I would have insisted that **The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba** be played instead of the traditional wedding marches, which I loathe, and the **Water Music** would have been played at the reception. ---
**Author:** ![HyacinthBucket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hyacinthbucket/32/3063_2.png) [@HyacinthBucket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HyacinthBucket)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095/49 "2014-08-10T22:51:29Z")
Every note of Beethoven’s Egmont Overture gets my blood pumping, but the last 2 minutes make me want to jump up and fly. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsI0yTC7bic) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095/50 "2014-08-11T02:01:25Z")
“Behind Blue Eyes”, by the Who. “But my dreams, they aren’t as empty as my conscience seems to be.” In the middle of the word “dreams”, Roger Daltrey’s voice casually jumps up an octave and back down again. It seems like a tiny thing, but I cannot do it. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095/51 "2014-08-11T14:01:17Z")
If I have to pick just one moment, it would be the ascending arpeggio sung by the chorus as it comes in after the instrumental introduction at the very beginning of **Bach** ’s **Matthäus-Passion**. Here, it’s at 1:20 but you really have to listen to it from the start to get the full effect. The music before it is already great but this simple four-note motif launches the whole thing and makes it well... greater than great. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095/52 "2014-08-11T14:30:41Z")
I’ve mentioned a few before, but I’ll now add the closing section of the Tannhäuser Overture - as the stringy section in the middle has been getting increasingly frantic, the “Pilgrim’s Chorus” theme returns, originally compromising with the strings by playing four to the bar, then asserting its right to go _three_ to the bar as it did at the beginning and pulling the strings around it to settle on _its_ rhythm. Fantastic music marred only by the fact you can never quite manage to not think of Bugs Bunny. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095/53 "2014-08-11T17:06:32Z")
Billie Holiday singing [Night and Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHVMunODR2g). The way, at about 2:20, she draws out the “under”. It’s just beautiful 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Enigma42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/87869e/32.png) [@Enigma42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enigma42)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095/54 "2014-08-11T17:42:13Z")
Here are a few of my favorites: Dire Straits - [Brothers in Arms](https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=k5JkHBC5lDs#t=173) The guitar part after he sings “But we live in different ones.” There’s the muted slide, the power chord, a hammer-on and then that wonderful slow bend up. . . Literally makes my scalp tingle when listening through headphones. All of the guitar work in this song (and pretty much all Knopfler songs) is great, but that moment is the highlight for me. Elbow - [Ribcage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hyIpDzTnpU) A somewhat strange song that nevertheless I like a lot. But it transforms into something even more interesting when the choir comes in suddenly. . . Just listen! I intentionally did not link to the specific time because it needs to be heard from the beginning to have the full effect. Bach - [St. Matthew Passion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaSvJZE3dCI) “Wir setzen uns mit tranen nieder” when the choir begins, and even moreso at about 5:57 with the soaring high notes. Overall a beautiful, sorrowful piece of music. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095/55 "2014-08-12T05:01:11Z")
There are lots of passages that do it for me, but single moments? Quite limiting, but here are two. The very end of “Clair de lune”, when the harmony finally resolves back to the major. 5:12 in this performance. [Claude Debussy : Clair de Lune, for Piano (Suite Bergamasque No. 3), L. 75/3 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG-vmVrHOGE) Near the beginning of Liszt’s _Un Sospiro_, after starting in D-flat major with lots of arpeggios in that key, there is one arpeggio in D-flat minor, then the piece modulates to A major. 1:03 in this performance. [Liszt - "Un Sospiro" - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjGhkG7v7tI) ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095/56 "2014-08-12T19:25:22Z")
This is pretty lowbrow, but mine occurs in the opening theme for **Stargate SG-1** : [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/aqAUmgE3WyM/maxresdefault.jpg "Useless Box Kit from ThinkGeek") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqAUmgE3WyM) It starts with a sort of melancholy theme, then there’s some bombastic and menacing strings and low brasses. And then, at about 0:20, the higher brasses and strings suddenly break in with a beautiful lyrical melody, like the sun rising. Lovely. ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095/57 "2014-08-12T21:49:27Z")
A couple of my favorite musical moments are all in one song - Steely Dan’s "[My Old School](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq8OU-7JDFA). They’re not “Tingle Moments”, they just make me smile. [ul] [li]02:56 - The little drum fill in the middle of the instrumental break, with a kind of reprise at 03:22[/li][li]03:39 - The horn fills in the last verse, especially that big fat bari sax note at the end of the first fill.[/li][li]04:27 - The change in rhythm on the final “And I’m never goin’ back to my old school.” Every syllable is on an upbeat, without that pause in the middle of the phrase you get every other time.[/li][li]05:09 - The drums, which have been very mannered and almost delicate, just go into a straight-on-the beat, driving rhythm and come forward in the mix.[/li][/ul]I love this song. It just makes me smile at all the little things they do musically. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095/58 "2014-08-17T00:16:16Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > This is pretty lowbrow, but mine occurs in the opening theme for **Stargate SG-1** : > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqAUmgE3WyM](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqAUmgE3WyM) > > It starts with a sort of melancholy theme, then there’s some bombastic and menacing strings and low brasses. And then, at about 0:20, the higher brasses and strings suddenly break in with a beautiful lyrical melody, like the sun rising. Lovely. How did that link get screwed up? :dubious: Try this: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCxe36ds09A) ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095/59 "2014-08-17T02:07:44Z")
The opening to “The Weight”. Roger Daltry’s second scream in “Won’t Get Fooled Again.” “How does it Feeeeeeel?” ---
**Author:** ![tonyfop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85f322/32.png) [@tonyfop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tonyfop)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095/60 "2014-08-17T02:27:46Z")
For me, it is actually a point in one song which is reached from things that happened in the song before it on the record. Yes, I said record, because it was originally released on vinyl, and it doesn’t work on any other format. I am talking about Pink Floyd’s “Have a cigar”, followed by “Wish You Were Here”. Someone actually put both songs together on Youtube. I am starting in the instrumental part at the end of the first song. At 4:50 you hear a sound effect, and abruptly it sounds like you are hearing the song on an old mono AM radio. The song continues in mono, and abruptly ends as someone starts tuning the radio dial. The next song starts, still in mono with lots of radio interference in the background. If you are listening straight through on a record, or a tape, your ear gets used to the mono at this point. At 6:07, Gilmour cuts in with a simple guitar riff, but it is crisp and clear and sounds beautiful. It doesn’t work on CD, at least for me, because the interference is too crisp, and you can’t buy an MP3 of the too songs together, so I guess this piece of brilliance will fade away. [http://youtu.be/NP4JeyJCVag?t=4m42s](http://youtu.be/NP4JeyJCVag?t=4m42s) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moments-in-music-that-you-love/695095.md?page=4)