# Rock song with the most effective/best crescendo?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 4, 2010, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-song-with-the-most-effective-best-crescendo/523588 "2010-01-04T04:58:03Z")\
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> [@Zsofia](#):
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> Is it silly to say “Shout!”?

Only if you’re referring to Tears for Fears. 😃

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**Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-song-with-the-most-effective-best-crescendo/523588/22 "2010-01-05T00:59:34Z")

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I know it’s not rock but it’s mighty hard to beat the 1812 Overture. Live cannons and bells.

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**Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-song-with-the-most-effective-best-crescendo/523588/23 "2010-01-05T01:44:28Z")

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I’d suggest “Locomotive Breath” by Jethro Tull, but the increase in loudness is pretty close to the beginning.

IMO, Peter Frampto’s “Do you feel like I do” is one of the best “releases” of that sort.

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**Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-song-with-the-most-effective-best-crescendo/523588/24 "2010-01-05T02:03:30Z")

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Tool - Lateralus.

Spiral out…keep going, spiral out, KEEP GOING, SPIRAL OUT!

Honorable mention: Hallucinogen - Dark Magus

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**Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-song-with-the-most-effective-best-crescendo/523588/25 "2010-01-05T02:42:33Z")

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Lot’s of good stuff in this thread. I’ll nominate the full album version of Sweet’s “Love is Like Oxygen”.

Another rock-solid selection – Zebra’s “Who’s Behind the Door” (well worth checking out on youtube … Randy Jackson can bring it on vox).

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**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-song-with-the-most-effective-best-crescendo/523588/26 "2010-01-05T02:42:55Z")

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Both Bjork and Regina Spektor have a way with the cresendo, although I don’t know that anyone classifies them as rock.

I want to thank devilsknew for posting Toto. I can never hear that song without getting chills. I just love sweeping music.

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