# What's your favorite moment in music?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 3, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-moment-in-music/158716 "2003-03-03T05:09:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-moment-in-music/158716/141 "2004-03-28T05:21:18Z")

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Posted before reading whole thread, so I’ll probably get reminded of something…

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  - The drum run after the feedback in Queen’s “Shear Heart Attack”

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  - Queen again, the highest note in “Somebody To Love”

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**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-moment-in-music/158716/142 "2004-03-28T06:13:36Z")

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> [@zoogirl](#):
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> Posted before reading whole thread, so I’ll probably get reminded of something…

:rolleyes: yep!

The high note at the end of “In The Mood” Glen Miller. My idea of the most joyous, exuberant moment in music!

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**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-moment-in-music/158716/143 "2004-03-28T06:13:38Z")

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“Complete Control,” by The Clash. The last third of the song, starting right after Joe Strummer sings, “Complete control – let me see your other hand!” Then it drops to that three-note riff – “all over …” and the rest of the song is just musical perfection – “This is Joe Public speaking!” “C-O-N control!”

Darnit, this stuff is hard to describe, but it’s absolutely gorgeous.

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**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-moment-in-music/158716/144 "2004-03-28T06:17:12Z")

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As soon as I hit “enter,” I remembered another one: Big Star’s “My Life is Right.” The very opening (“Once I walked a lonely road”) is fantastic, but my favorite is the chorus, especially the part that goes “So right, so right.” That entire song is frickin’ amazing.

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