[TrooperBari]

I know the question sounds a bit fruity, but bear with me. In most music, usually no matter what kind, there's a moment in the song that defines a person's liking of the song or that sticks out most in their mind. I ask, then, what are your favorite musical moments?

It can be anything ... the final chorus of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy," the guitar opening to "Hell's Bells" or even your country's national anthem. Post your thoughts here.

[TrooperBari]

Here's my top 3:

1) The apex of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" (a.k.a. "Agnus Dei).

2) The final movement of Santa Clara Vanguard's 1989 show - corpsheads will know to what I refer.

3) "One Day More" from Lés Miserables.



Honorable mention to Charlie Parker's "Birdland" and Phantom Regiment.

[sgnerdboy]

Right now it's the guitars at the beginning of Comet Gain's "My Defiance".

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[odg78]

It's probably cliched but I love Jimmy Page's sold during "Stairway to Heaven"

My 2nd one is actually a whole song. Radiohead's "Polyethylene" starts off as a quiet acoustic number and turns into a more rocking song in the 2nd half.

[nicodemus]

A few recent favorites include:

1) Yo-Yo Ma's entire cello part for the Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon soundtrack. Regardless of what people think of the movie, the score is a fine piece of music.

2) The bombastic chorus of P.O.D.'s "Boom"

3) The Serbian Orthodox Church's musical rendition of the "Our Father" prayer, it is perhaps the most serene thing I've ever heard, just beautiful...and I don't even speak Serbo-Croatian...the music is just unreal. It is a short piece of music, so I will include the whole song.

4) The Philip Glass-esque piano intro to Moby's "In My Heart"

5) The looping frenetic theme of Philip Glass' score for the movie Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

[obie]

This has to be explained in its context.

Spring 1987, Meadowlands Arena, and I'm 16 years old. Five sold-out nights for U2's Joshua Tree tour ($12.50 a ticket, maybe?). The lights go down, and there's about a minute of deafening noise from the crowd but no music. Finally the low keyboards of When The Streets Have No Name start in total darkness, a few lights flash on stage as Edge begins the guitar, then a few more as Adam starts the bass line. Then Larry hits the drums, the guitar goes into full chords, dozens of white lights flood the stage and the arena, and Bono is standing there right in front of me on the right side of the stage, looking into my section, the coolest rock star in the world in a leather jacket, just surveying the totally berserk crowd.

If I saw the same thing now -- and come to think of it, the Elevation tour had a similar Streets intro -- it would not have the same effect, for sure. But when I was 16 all of the theatricality had so much meaning and emotion that I totally fell for it. Some 15 years later, whenever I hear Streets, I think about those opening concert moments. I never had goose bumps so strong before, and I haven't since.

[Unorthodox Yank]

I'm gonna limit my list to anything but classical, seeing as my knowlege of clssical music is at best not very good.

However, the 1812 overture is one of my most favorite pieces of music. ever. -

1) JOhn Bonhams Drum solo in "moby dick" from "the song remains the same"

2) the last 5 minutes of "only in dreams" by weezer

3) the beggining of Andrew WK- Get ready to die

[Col Mustard]

The last track on Rattus Norvegicus by The Stranglers is a track called Down in The Sewer. For the mosty part it's a pedestrian instrumental but the last two minutes has this blinding piece of music called Rats Rally which gets progressively faster and faster until you think they can't take the tempo up another notch. Then they take it up another notch.

The operatic sample on The Sun Rising by Beloved takes me back the a time and place in an instant. In fact the chilled groove of that song could easily be included as well.

[GringoTex]

The final crescendo-style chorus in Camper Van Beethoven's "She Divines Water."

[fiddlestick]

The theme playing when Indy uses the staff of Ra in the maproom and when he and Sallah are in the Well of Souls.

Randy Rhoad's solo during "Suicide Solution" on the "Tribute" LP.

The final "Revolution!......I remember now." at the end of "Operation:Mindcrime"