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Originally posted by RadiantSilvergun:

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Originally posted by DFelon204409:

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Originally posted by RadiantSilvergun:

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Originally posted by DFelon204409:
Most of that fuckin Girl Talk album, but I guess that's the point.

Have a Nice Life's album Deathconsciousness is so stacked with these moments, but if I had to pick one it'd probably be the last minute of "I Don't Love" where the shoegazy fuzz fades out into solo vocals. Still I doubt myself even as I type this because that album is saturated with "moments."

Despite the fact that the album as a whole is underwhelming, on Kayo Dot's Blue Lambency Downward, on "Symmetrical Arizona," that awesome, slow-burning guitar solo that starts at 1:54.

On "F.T.W." from Xiu Xiu's Women as Lovers when Stewart sings "the scorpiooooonnnnnnn / in our chests" is awesome. I think it's around 1:55.

I have more but those are probably the top 3.

On "Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000", where the acoustic guitar and frozen vocals exit, only to re-enter with an aggressive set of loud friends. I swear I almost collapsed when I first heard it. Sometimes when I walk down the street I think I'm gonna fall down and either die or weep like a girl.

YES. Imperial fucking march dude. That is my favorite album of the year hands down. I'm repping them super hard in these forums, trying to get it to catch on. So far only a few have been giving it the cred it deserves.

Yeah, it'd be awesome for more people to hear the record. I believe I got the tip from you (or another fine forum-er) from the "Underrated Albums of the year" thread.

There are two songs that have been so depressing for me, but manage to pick me up right before the song ends; these tracks are from the same artist on the same record, I speak of "Une Année Sans Lumière" and "Crown of Love" by The Arcade Fire. The endings of those tracks just make you want to blissfully skip or prance about. You could get hit by a car, but it's ok, cause the song could end that way too.

(OH shit, that's from 2004)

Another relevant moment would have to be in the second half of Coldplay's "Lovers in Japan/Reign of Love", the piano melody is so calming that a bus could hit you, soundless, and for some bizarre reason, it would be ok.

The chorus (if you can call it that) from Deerhunter's "Never Stops" is quite lovely also.

AH. Where would I be if I didn't mention "The Modern Leper" off Frightened Rabbit's second LP? One of the best openers in a long time, I'd say. The first time I heard that track, I felt like I was 12 again, hearing a track on the radio, and immediately scheming my way into a ride to the record store to buy it. The instant I heard that track, I said, "I need this album."

1:27 into Late of the Pier's "Whitesnake" a lovely bass strum comes along and makes me feel like I'm on some ship at sea, going merrily along the ridiculously large waves, like the ones from cartoons. You're kinda being tossed around and the ships going all about, but there's a sense of adventure to it. Someone please say they understand what I'm trying to get at, it's essentially that mindless feeling of adventure, I guess.

There are countless moments in Ponytail's disc, either due to the killer, almost math-y guitar work or the... vocals.

Lastly, the nuclear sirens at the end of "Threads" off of Portishead's Third is so frightening it's awesome.

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Originally posted by DFelon204409:

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Originally posted by RadiantSilvergun:

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Originally posted by DFelon204409:
Most of that fuckin Girl Talk album, but I guess that's the point.

Have a Nice Life's album Deathconsciousness is so stacked with these moments, but if I had to pick one it'd probably be the last minute of "I Don't Love" where the shoegazy fuzz fades out into solo vocals. Still I doubt myself even as I type this because that album is saturated with "moments."

Despite the fact that the album as a whole is underwhelming, on Kayo Dot's Blue Lambency Downward, on "Symmetrical Arizona," that awesome, slow-burning guitar solo that starts at 1:54.

On "F.T.W." from Xiu Xiu's Women as Lovers when Stewart sings "the scorpiooooonnnnnnn / in our chests" is awesome. I think it's around 1:55.

I have more but those are probably the top 3.

On "Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000", where the acoustic guitar and frozen vocals exit, only to re-enter with an aggressive set of loud friends. I swear I almost collapsed when I first heard it. Sometimes when I walk down the street I think I'm gonna fall down and either die or weep like a girl.

YES. Imperial fucking march dude. That is my favorite album of the year hands down. I'm repping them super hard in these forums, trying to get it to catch on. So far only a few have been giving it the cred it deserves.

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Great, great Topic....

Some of my Favorites...

1) The many solo's that break out in various parts of the final 4 minutes of the Jick's Hopscotch Willie, but particularly the final beats of the first solo, and then the way the guitar picks up the "Minus the Mean" chant that concludes song.

2) Opening Verse of Golfrapps A&E, catchiest moment on record this year.

3) Odd, opening choral vocal to Bon Iver's Lump Sum.

4) Second Quivering Forest chorus on Fleet Foxes Blue Ridge Mountains.

5) A Bit of a Cheat, but the way the sudden Horn blast of Elbow's Starlings give way to the unmitigated joy of One Day Like This by Album's end.

Special Note to poster who mentioned Call Upon the Author by Nick Cave, caught him a Hollywood Bowl last month...the album does nothing to capture how great that song and Moonland are live...two songs that just can never be properly rendered in record form.