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Thom yorke going "UGHH" at the start of arpeggi on the new Radiohead album.
Morrissey pronouncing "plagarise" as "play-ga-rise"

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yes_ | 14 Oct '07, 15:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

1:51 into 'Everyone Says You're So Fragile'

All together now...

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!"


Winner


^ this

just thinking about it cheered me up :)


at 3:31 on 'Kaz Hayashi '01' by Oxes

where the music stops and you hear this sudden sharp intake of breath, then the guitars/drums crash in with such force - wonderful.


3:51 mark on

'Crazy Woman Dirty Train' by These Arms Are Snakes - the track just spirals out on control from this point onwards (after a thunderous slow-but-steady build up.)


Libertines

I Get Along.
"Fuck 'em."


^


I used to love that

from being like 13 to being now.

Too cool for it these days.


*plagiarise

iggy's first two screams at the start of loose


...

2'09" into Dehumanisation by Meshuggah. "One syllable, one vowel" and then the most devastating, violent piece of music I've ever heard.

Never fails to produce a big fat grin from yours truly.


...

P.S. We did this already.


15 step

when yorke sings 'fifteen steps.. then a sheer drop'
AH, IT'S GOOD AND SHIT.


4:55 into Six by Mansun

Life is a compromise anyway.


The bit in This Cat Is A Landmine

by 65daysofstatic where it stops, and then KICKS in again at 2:30, fucking incredible.

Also, the bit in Pretty Lush by Glassjaw where Daryl goes 'yufynUH', which also happens to be at 2:30!


The Sonic 'Ring Ping'

In 'Heartache of Soccer Moms' by :(


...

I think you'll find you meant "the entire last minute and a half of One Out Of None by Oceansize".


well, I was focussing on the LITTLE moments

but, otherwise I agree.


*Gasp*

When the 'I'll drive so far away' bit starts in Blue Thunder by Galaxie 500.


Also...

The bit going into the last chorus burst of R.E.M.'s Cuyahoga when the bassline goes up for three notes.


'the shit sisters'

by These Arms Are Snakes, and the fast delay tremlo thing in the middle. Do doooo do doooo di dooo doo doooo.


The backing vocals

On the second chorus of "It's The End Of The World..." by REM.
The riff Kurt Ballou plays by himself near the end of "Fault And Fracture" by Converge before it all kicks in again...
When Bjork sounds like she's laughing as she sings the line "You're trying too hard" in Pagan Poetry...
The quiet "how well do you think that you know...'dum-dum' ME!" bit on The Ideal Height by Biffy Clyro.
The xylophone on "No Surprises" by Radiohead...
And the way Steven Malkmus sings "I could really give a fuck..." on Range Life...
I heartily agree on Crazy Woman Dirty Train. That bit is fucking unbelievable. Seriously. Utterly terrifying. Best song of 2006.


my favouritist

has got to be the pause before the word "again" in Love will Tear us apart... again. It's perfect. Like a sigh or something.

I'll stop being emo now.


the cash register noise

in Faith No More's Small Victory. Grin.


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Fugazi - Epic Problem (2.22 - 2.55)
Shins - So Says I (hoo-woo-woo!)
Libertines - I Get Along ('fuck 'em')
Radiohead - Where I End & You Begin (where the bass comes back in after dropping out before the 'eat you alive' bit)


Yes

to the Radiohead one. Where I End And You Begin may well be my favourite song at the moment.


yep

I would've said Epic Problem if could've been bothered


1:16 into USA Nails

by Blood Brothers. Where vocals switch from Johnny to Jordan basically mid sentence.


That bit in White Town

'Your Woman',

ding ding ding ding dink


The bit in the Kingsmens version of Louie Louie

where the singer starts singing the next verse a bar too soon, and the drummer does a dodgy drum fill to cover up. And the fact that they kept it in.

And on Mudhoney's Need off Superfuzz Bigmuff where the song comes clattering to a stop in the middle and Mark Arm sighs 'Aaaah' like he's just drunk a cold beverage on a warm day, before the riff creaks back in by itself. Perfectamondo, as they used to say in the 80's.


That single bass note

before the chorus kicks in again for the last time in Insomniac by Echobelly.

Yes. That one.


when Bjork giggles

a few minutes into Joga. Live having my prostate milked by Geoff Capes.


these bits:

Gimme The Heat - dEUS: The moment the second chorus starts.
Out Of The Angeles - Amusement Parks On Fire: The first time that bit guitar riff comes in.
Sense of Quickness - Scarce: "When're we gonna get out of this goddamn rain?!"
Tear in Your Hand - Tori Amos: That drum hit before the whole thing kicks back in.


Bad Seeds - Still In Love

Off Nocturama. I love the bit when Nick Cave's seat creaks right in the quiet bit, about 3.16...

"Call me up baby and I'll answer your call, call me up and remember I'm no use to you at aaaalll..." *CREAK*


xmas steps

the ep+6 version.
towards the end, so so quiet and beautiful, then something swoops in and scares the shit out of everyone. genius.


1.00 into Tomorrow Never Knows

the noise of the tape backwards.

Courtesy of Paul McCartney.

Paul McCartney: Making Lennon's songs amazing since 1963.

Also: every time the verse comes down in Eight Miles High. 'You'll find that its... stranger than known.'

SHIVER ME TIMBERs.


AUCH:

'...where the gun went off in the Carolina Rain' bit of Carolina Rain by DDDDDDDRYAN Adams.

Also: when the harmony starts on Scarborough Fair by S&G


The bit in Mogwai's

Ratts Of The Capital at the end of the 'loud' section where the guitar makes a noise like Wile E. Coyote skidding as he approaches the edge of a cliff top, trying in vain to stop, before plummeting inevitably to the ground where he lands in a cloud of dust normally followed shortly after by a heavy object.

Magic.


The meteorite is the source of the light,

And the meteor's just what we see;
And the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee.


The middle part of 'Bad Penny' by Big Black

"I think I fucked your girlfriend once... maybe twice, I don't remember
Then I fucked all your friends' girlfriends -- now they hate you"

Good 'ol Albini always the barer of good news


the bass note before it all kicks off

in 'it was there that i saw you'.

'standing, in the tall grass, thinking nothing...' in 'cowboy dan'. that entire midsection is just lovely. if i had to pick one bit from it itd probably be the 'everytime you think you're...' bit.

'my mom's god is a woman and my mom she is a witch' - 'lives'

when ryan adams does wonderwall live and he does the violin refrain bit (actually, is it violin? i forget) by singing it. awesome.

'walk awaaaaaaaaaay' - '198d'

'there is only toniiiiiiiight' - ' five, eight and ten'


Yep

"'standing, in the tall grass, thinking nothing...' in 'cowboy dan'. that entire midsection is just lovely. if i had to pick one bit from it itd probably be the 'everytime you think you're...' bit."

I agree. "Everytime you think you're talking, you're just moving your mouth."

For me, there's obviously so many 'little bits', but here's three recent ones:

Bushels by Frog Eyes, 6:32 minutes in:
"When am I ever gonna feel the sting of your sun?" sung somewhere between wailing and yodelling. Amazing.

These Are the Days by Lift to Experience, the intro: "These are the days, racing toward us, with blood on their teeth and lips..." followed by a sound of someone sucking their lips, and then it all kicks in.

And finally; Dens by 3hostwomexicansandatinofspanners, the intro: RIFF then "This is gonna be the next one after the fourth album." Cracks me up everytime I hear it, so funny.

Yeah.


Lightning strikes the postman...

*all the time*!!! Amazing!


"'s'not Bona Drag baby..."

And everything that follows.


the shortest lead break ever

in Buddy Holly by Weezer.

"can't fucking stop thinking about you" in No Culture Icons (the Thermals)


Pixies

Hey.
"Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun - HURGH!"


I was gonna say that

But I would've had to have said the whole song.


06.42

into good morning captain-"I MISS YOU!!!"