Musical Moments
What makes a certain piece of music really special?
Those certain transcendental moments that take a song outside it's boundaries...
A couple from me to start - ( i realise they may not make much sense written down like this but this point is you should go listen to them)
Marvin Gaye - Save The Children
As the song peaks and Marvin let's his guard drop, he breaks from singing "save the children" to add the final "save the babies!"
Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle
The orchestral overture that seems to build and build finally breaks into a cool as bassline and mnsr tellier steps up to the mic, swept along by the groove.
The Blue Nile - Downtown Lights
A distraught Paul Buchanan blurts out "i'm tired of crying on the stairs" after a verse of intimate mumblings and you feel like you've been eavesdropping on a lover's argument.
The Chemical Brothers - Sunshine Underground
The moment i still can't pinpoint when you just suddenly realise that the drum rhythm has somehow doubled in pace and a classic Chemical Brothers monster is unleashed.
I could go on but let's hear from you.
Share the moments in your favourite songs that elevate them from background noise to soundtracking the key moments of your life...
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Otis Redding - A Change Is
Otis Redding - A Change Is Gonna Come
Just after the horn intro the king of soul lets rip with the opening line: "I... was.... booooooooooorn by the river!"
The long "born" just contains so much feeling, straight from the gut. Brilliant, brilliant music!
And in the "indie folk with guitars" section: Stones Roses - I Am The Resurrection
From the false stop onwards, with Reni really showing what he's made off. The amount of damage I've caused by air-drumming along to this is unreal!!
Fleetwood Mac, Man Of The
Fleetwood Mac, Man Of The World - just after Peter Green sings 'I need a good woman' and the guitar starts wailing. Actually, perhaps any noise that man could make with a guitar.....
Pink Floyd - Us And Them, the moment just after Dave Gilmour sings "The general sat" and there's this little flourish of military drums....I could name a dozen other Pink Floyd songs but i won't. My first words were probably the lyrics to Run Like Hell....
Portishead - Glory Box. just before the end when the song breaks of into some sort of black hole you think it won't come back from then Beth Gibbons lets out one final anguished "I just wanna be a woman"
And a ridiculously contemporary moment - Kings of Leon - Trani. They have the ability to make it sound like they're all just stumbling along then everything converges and explodes into this sort of gurgling guitar solo, screeching vocals....