# 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:** 17
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-itty-bitty-bits-you-love-in-certain-songs/831368/321 "2022-04-26T17:26:42Z")
True. (Billy Joe Royal recorded both Hey Joe and Hush, BTW, in both cases before their most famous versions). But the melodies of “Day” and “Hush” are identical as well. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-itty-bitty-bits-you-love-in-certain-songs/831368/322 "2022-05-07T20:57:59Z")
Four bits: D Boon yelling “NO WAY!” in the Minutemen cover of “Ain’t Talkin Bout Love”. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY5qplMvKgA) In the Beatles’ “I Want You {She’s So Heavy)”, I like when Paul chimes in his backing vocal on “Heavy”, giving that part more cojones. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tAe2Q_LhY8g/maxresdefault.jpg "I Want You (She's So Heavy)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAe2Q_LhY8g) The jazzy, atonal guitar noodle at the end of a “I want you so ba-a-a-ad” line. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tAe2Q_LhY8g/maxresdefault.jpg "I Want You (She's So Heavy)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAe2Q_LhY8g) And John’s scream. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tAe2Q_LhY8g/maxresdefault.jpg "I Want You (She's So Heavy)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAe2Q_LhY8g) ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-itty-bitty-bits-you-love-in-certain-songs/831368/323 "2022-05-18T22:05:14Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/I-hKBmTAADo/maxresdefault.jpg "Boz Scaggs - Lowdown (Official Audio)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-hKBmTAADo) I like the build from about 1:57-2:05, starting again at about 3:19… ---
**Author:** ![majicats](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/majicats/32/4952_2.png) [@majicats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/majicats)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-itty-bitty-bits-you-love-in-certain-songs/831368/324 "2022-05-23T14:38:10Z")
Eric Church- “Springsteen” “I bumped into her by happenstance…” I love the use of the word happenstance. For whatever reason, it makes me really happy. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-itty-bitty-bits-you-love-in-certain-songs/831368/325 "2022-05-23T20:20:03Z")
Welcome to the Dope, @majicats ! Hope you stick around. That’s a nice song; I like Eric Church but I hadn’t heard that one before. ---
**Author:** ![majicats](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/majicats/32/4952_2.png) [@majicats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/majicats)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-itty-bitty-bits-you-love-in-certain-songs/831368/326 "2022-05-24T17:47:58Z")
Thanks for the welcome- I’ve been here for years, but only post once about every three or four years. As you might surmise, I really, _really_ love the use of the word happenstance 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-itty-bitty-bits-you-love-in-certain-songs/831368/327 "2022-05-25T14:27:48Z")
Speaking of things that make you really happy, it brightened my day to see Eric Church mentioned here. I don’t see a whole lot of fans of country music on this board. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-itty-bitty-bits-you-love-in-certain-songs/831368/328 "2022-06-04T05:53:20Z")
Charlie Watts - “Shattered” - fun hihat/snare interplay at exactly [3:21.](https://youtu.be/1BjQYQ5p2Ko?t=195) ---
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Ringo’s lumbering, jazzy, (and longest!\*) solo in “Dear Prudence”, capped off by that groovy piano glissando. \* Yup, longer than “the End” one. ---
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> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Ringo’s lumbering, jazzy, (and longest!\*) solo in “Dear Prudence” Sorry, that was Paul. They laid that one down while Ringo had briefly left the band. “Back in the USSR” is another. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2022, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-itty-bitty-bits-you-love-in-certain-songs/831368/331 "2022-06-23T14:45:46Z")
The piano runs in “Manic Monday”: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/SsmVgoXDq2w/maxresdefault.jpg "The Bangles - Manic Monday (Official Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsmVgoXDq2w) I love this song! It got **a lot** of airplay at the radio station where I worked back in the '90s ---
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> [@Nonsuch](#): > > Sorry, that was Paul. They laid that one down while Ringo had briefly left the band. “Back in the USSR” is another. Ah interesting. Thanks. Cracking maybe my Top 28 Genesis numbers would be “Abacab”; I otherwise really like the groovy melodic Tony Banks break (or mini-bridge, whatever ya wanna call it) at 2:32. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/suCNZe3Gwkw/maxresdefault.jpg "Genesis - Abacab (Official Music Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suCNZe3Gwkw&t=147) ---
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Huh, _completely_ overlooked yours. Love the heavy guitar string bending at the end of every (verse) bar in Blue Cheer’s “Summertime Blues”. ---
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In Alan Jackson’s cover of “Mercury Blues” there are two little upward licks toward the end of the first guitar solo, I believe played by Brent Mason. Those alone made me start listening to country music in the 90s. ---
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The wonderful [fart note](https://youtu.be/iYYRH4apXDo?t=183) in Bowie’s “Space Odyssey”. ---
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> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Cracking maybe my Top 28 Genesis numbers would be “Abacab”; I otherwise really like the groovy melodic Tony Banks break (or mini-bridge, whatever ya wanna call it) at 2:32. Ahhh, the YES section of the song. I like that bridgelet too, but immediately thought of another prog band. As in so many of the posts here, I’ve got to hear more from this band. I loved Peter Gabriel-fronted Genesis, but after hearing that Tony Banks keyboard\* work, I’ll give the later stuff a try. \*and what keyboards… I just read the Wiki on him, and all the organs and synths he’s used and customized, even a piano-mixed-through-a-leslie. ---
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fuckin eh on Leslies. Churning _awesomeness_. And not just for Hammond organs/keyboards. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-itty-bitty-bits-you-love-in-certain-songs/831368/338 "2023-02-16T06:47:42Z")
**Remembering** that part in “Behind Blue Eyes” just gave me the shivers. I know what I’m listening to tomorrow ---
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> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > The wonderful [fart note](https://youtu.be/iYYRH4apXDo?t=183) in Bowie’s “Space Odyssey”. Speaking of “fart notes,” there’s a good one [near the end of the slow movement of Hydn’s 93rd symphony](https://youtu.be/U-zaGM39Cik?t=285). ---
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Silversun Pickups has a song called “There’s no secrets this year” which kicks off their album “Swoon”. Overall, it’s a mediocre song, compared to their hits, but it has this little guitar riff that is just amazing and gets me pumped up every time. It only happens twice in the song, once in the middle and again at the very end. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/J8fePYQmGiI/maxresdefault.jpg "There's No Secrets This Year") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8fePYQmGiI) It’s at 2:55 and 4:23. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-itty-bitty-bits-you-love-in-certain-songs/831368.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-itty-bitty-bits-you-love-in-certain-songs/831368.md?page=18)