# What are the itty-bitty bits you love in certain songs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [March 19, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-itty-bitty-bits-you-love-in-certain-songs/831368 "2019-03-19T14:23:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
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Been on an Elvis kick lately. This number has a very basic and primal style and sound to it, and the part that I find totally uplifting and catchy is the ascending keyboard run during the “it’s in your eyes” lyrics. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/a91_uGPR9_o/hqdefault.jpg "Uncomplicated - Elvis Costello") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a91_uGPR9_o) ---
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The guitar crescendo at 9:08 from Green Grass and High Tides, The Outlaws. The drum rolls from Stranglehold, Ted Nugent. ---
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The part in In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida where they play “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” on the organ. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-itty-bitty-bits-you-love-in-certain-songs/831368/244 "2021-01-01T02:57:36Z")
The keyboard fill at about 2:00 in Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/HQZBaJAngH8/maxresdefault.jpg "Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle (Official Audio)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQZBaJAngH8) ---
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Not really itty bitty per se - how the catchy, head-nodding bass line carries the verses (along with its interplay with the vocals) in Chilliwack’s “Something I Like About That”. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/LZ56UpuBwCs/hqdefault.jpg "Chilliwack - There's Something I Like About That") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ56UpuBwCs) ---
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The ending of Charlie Byrd’s “Charlie’s Blues.” Classic. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XX9FxZwM0SU/hqdefault.jpg "Charlie's Blues (Live At The Concord Summer Festival, Concord, CA / June 28, 1974)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX9FxZwM0SU) ---
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In Richard Thompson’s \* 1952 Vincent Black Lightning\*, there’s a 9-word phrase that to me is my favourite of all times: “Red hair and black leather - my favorite color scheme.” ---
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The background vocals that begin at about 1:08 and continue through the rest of the song. (Be advised: it’s kind of earwormy.) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Gq9I44QRk04/maxresdefault.jpg "The New Pornographers - Dreamlike And On The Rush (Audio)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq9I44QRk04) ---
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In Efterklang’s Scandanavian Love, I absolutely love when the music lulls as they say, “I’m a little bit. I’m a little bitter.” and then picks back up. [Scandinavian Love - YouTube](https://youtu.be/mcLOcCoO5wU?t=150) Dark Souls 2 OST’s Bearer of the Curse. It goes from exciting fight song to a sudden, eerie chanting accompanied by very soft music. Crawls up my spine every time. [- YouTube](https://youtu.be/4FO0pydbBoA?t=143) Ween’s Stallion Part 3. He’s been singing in a silly high-pitched voice, and then he switches to a slowly low-pitched voice to remind us several times that, dude, he’s the Stallion. [Ween - The Stallion Pt. 3 - YouTube](https://youtu.be/TgJ9e7tdoaQ?t=134) ---
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Another tiny lyrical gem, this time from Dire Straits _Industrial Disease_ “Two men say they’re Jesus - one of them _must_ be wrong” ---
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Beatles - _In My Life_ I love the sped up piano that sounds like a harpsichord bridge @ 1:28. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/YBcdt6DsLQA/maxresdefault.jpg "In My Life (Remastered 2009)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBcdt6DsLQA) If that’s not itty-bitty enough, here’s another. The seven second guitar solo @ 1:40 in Dr Hook’s _Cover of the Rolling Stone_. I always picture the guitar player falling off the stage after the last note, the fans catching him and standing him back up on the stage to finish the song. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-Ux3-a9RE1Q/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGGUgXihPMA8=&rs=AOn4CLCB6lAm_Bd7BwSFmHLeoR6Iy4us5w "Cover Of The Rolling Stone-Dr.Hook") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ux3-a9RE1Q) ---
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> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > Another tiny lyrical gem, this time from Dire Straits _Industrial Disease_ > > “Two men say they’re Jesus - one of them must be wrong” When I hear that line I always think, “ **At one** of them must be wrong” Also from the same song, I love the entire verse that begins, “Dr Parkinson declared…” but my favorite part is the chuckle at the end. ---
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The short baritone sax solo on this: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PkhhoK9xekU/hqdefault.jpg "Saxophones- Jimmy Buffett") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkhhoK9xekU) ---
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> [@Steven\_Maven](#): > > When I hear that line I always think, > “ **At one** of them must be wrong” Should be “At **LEAST** one of them…” ---
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Reminded of one in the car today. The Cars’ "Just What I Needed. It starts off with a strong riff on the first beat for four bars… And then moves into two riffs. I love that first bar with two riffs. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Z5-rdr0qhWk/maxresdefault.jpg "@TheCarsOfficial ― JUST WHAT I NEEDED (1978)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5-rdr0qhWk) ---
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Warning - old guy story here. When DVDs first came out, along with the DiskMan, I got a copy of Sheryl Crow’s “Tuesday Night Music Club”. I was awed by the clarity at the beginning of “Leaving Las Vegas”. I’d crank up the volume; you felt the “THUMP” in your chest, followed by the “CRACK!” that was like two icepicks jammed into your ears, but in the best possible way. ---
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The way John Philips tackles this line in “California Dreamin.”: [_Well, I got down on my knees_](https://youtu.be/aQ53_yJ7tKw?t=50) The bluesy inflection he puts on “well”, and ending with that emphatically groovy “_knnnneeeeees_”. . ---
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Rockstar by Nickelback, a great song- made even better by a few spoken interludes by **Billy Gibbons** of **ZZ Top**. ---
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I’ll go with different Canadians - Rush, and my favourite little Geddy bit when he plays this quick little descending bass line at 1:37 in [New World Man,](https://youtu.be/sQRShD0xuAk?t=94) which is then repeated twice (barely) at the very end. ---
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In Led Zeppelin’s, “Kashmir,” Bonham’s snare drum is fed through a phase shifter; when they conclude the first bridge, JB has a short fill that swishes real nice. Later, as the song is fading out, he goes hog-wild on a snare roll and it swirls like a mad bastard. Oh, the colors. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-itty-bitty-bits-you-love-in-certain-songs/831368.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-itty-bitty-bits-you-love-in-certain-songs/831368.md?page=14)