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ARTIST
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ALBUM/
SONG
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION
OF GREAT MOMENT
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Aphex
Twin
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Come to Daddy /
Flim
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Right when this gentle chime-based
song starts after the assault of the title track.
It's so right.
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Barenaked Ladies
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Gordon/
Be My Yoko Ono
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When Yoko sings.
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Beastie Boys
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Hello Nasty/
I Don't Know
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Miho Hatori's background vocals.
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Beatles
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The White Album/ Helter Skelter
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"I've got blisters on my
fingers!"
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Beck
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Midnite Vultures/ Debra
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The horn stabs after he says "When
our eyes did meet".
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Beethoven,
Ludwig Van
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Ninth Symphony/ Fourth Movement
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When the music stops and then
starts again in that childish march kind of way
and then builds up to another climax. I think a
lot of Beethoven's music is about trying to sonically
represent multiple orgasms. Particularly in his
codas.
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Ben Folds Five
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The Unauthorized Biography of
Reinhold Messner/ Lullabye
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"Uncle Richard, me and James
Earl Jones." I'm not entirely sure what he's
trying to say, but it gets me every time.
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Hector
Berlioz
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Symphonie Fantastique/
Fifth Movement
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The idee fixe grotesquely returning
during the witches' sabbath.
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Big Wreck
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In Loving Memory of.../
Blown Wide Open
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The incredible three note guitar
solo. This is simple musical economy at its finest.
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Bjork
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Homogenic/
Alarm Call
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"I'm no fucking Buddhist,
but this is enlightenment." (Also every time
she makes that growling sound with her voice on
any album)
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Blackalicious
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NIA/
Do This My Way
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Do This My Way- The verse where
Gift of Gab doesn't take a single breath for like
8 days straight.
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Blind Melon
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Soup/
Vernie
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The "ee-ee-ee-ee." This
is one of my favourite things- where the music drops
out almost completely and then comes back in a slightly
changed form. There will be many of these to follow.
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Blind Melon
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Nico/
Soup
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Okay, Blind Melon deserves a double
dose. This one is the part where the electric guitar
comes in and releases all the tension built up previously
in the song.
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Blue Dog Pict
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Anxiety of Influence: A Nodding
into...?/ Anima, A nodding into...?
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This is one of the best opening
tracks I've ever heard (on one of the best albums
I've ever heard).
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Boards of Canada
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Music has the Right to Children/
Aquarius
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The sample of kids saying, "Yeah,
that's right".
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James Brown
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The Payback/
The Payback
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"I don't know Karate, but
I know c-razy"
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Jeff Buckley
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Mystery White Boy/ Kanga Roo
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Giving the word "want"
about eight syllables.
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Cardigans
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First Band on the Moon/
Iron Man
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Just having them cover this song
is enough, but the best bit is when Nina Persson
starts her "doo-doobie-opp" vocals at
the end.
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Cibo Matto
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Viva! La Woman/ Artichoke
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Waiting over a minute for the
opening line of a song and then hearing these words
softly spoken, "My heart is like an artichoke."
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Cinematic Orchestra
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Every Day/
All That You Give
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Fontella Bass singing the word
"down"
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Coldcut
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Let Us Play/
More Beats + Pieces
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The "Peter and the Wolf"
sample.
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Coldplay
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Parachutes/ Everything's Not Lost
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The perfect three note guitar
line that replaces the chorus.
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Cujo
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Adventures in Foam/ Fat Ass Joint
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Any time this song is combined
with its subject.
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Danielson
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Tell Another Joke at the Ol' Choppin'
Block
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The little bass flourish after
"Said my daddy could beat your daddy"
bit.
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Miles Davis
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Kind of Blue/ Flamenco Sketches
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The first bar, when you know everything's
going to be alright for the next nine minutes.
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DJ Food
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Refried Food,
Vols. 1-6/
Turtle Soup (Wagon Christ Remix)
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Now I'm not sure who I should
attribute this to, since it is a remix (and a remix
of an original song that was never released, mind
you) but this is it. That part where the beat stops
and that whistling voice starts. My friends and
I always sing along to it.
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Brian Eno
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Apollo Atmospheres & Soundtracks/
An Ending (Ascent)
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The whole song. It's pure emotion.
You can listen to it any almost any mood and have
it match your feelings. This is perhaps the best
piece of music ever written, purely because of its
stark simplicity.
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Fatboy Slim
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Halfway Between the Gutter and
the Stars/ Demons
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When he and Macy Gray both erupt.
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Fog
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Fog/
Pneumonia
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The "Hey!"
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Foo Fighters
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Winnebago/
(B-side to This is a Call)
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The crazy drum roll at the end.
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Funki Porcini
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Love, Pussycats & Carwrecks/
Purrfect
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The percussion that sounds like
it's being played under water.
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Gandharvas
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Kicking in the Water/
A Quick Feel
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The bit where everything disappears
except the voice and then the bass comes back, and
then the drums, and then the guitar.
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Herbie Hancock
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Headhunters/
Watermelon Man
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The first time I realized that's
not a guitar.
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Ben Harper
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Live From Mars/
Burn One Down
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The way you can almost hear the
flick of the lighters and smell the sweet cloud
of smoke after the cheering dies down.
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Havalina Rail Co
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Havalina Rail Co./
Big Lu
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The misplayed opening that's still
on the record.
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Herbaliser Band
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Session One/
The Missing Suitcase
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When they make you think they're
done and then they start up again with redoubled
force.
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I Mother Earth
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Scenery and Fish/ Songburst &
Delerium
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The "but sun" when the
music chills out.
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Jane's Addiction
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Ritual de lo Habitual- Three Days-
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The crunching guitar before the
"Erotic Jesus" bit
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Wyclef Jean
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The Ecleftic/
It Doesn't Matter
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"Stop, jump, the Rock's up
in here." This is before he was the Scorpion
King
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Kid Koala
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Scratchhappyland/ Tricks 'n' Treats-
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When he cuts Charlie Brown back the last time he
says "I got a rock" and you know the beat
is about to hit
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Led Zeppelin
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Led Zeppelin (I)/ How Many More
Times
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When the drums come back after
the "Oh Rosie" part
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Lotion
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Nobody's Coo/
The Enormous Room
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"God bless whiskey"
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Mojave 3
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Out of Tune/ Caught Beneath Your
Heel
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Diva vocals
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Monty Python
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Matching Tie and Handkerchief/
World War Noises in Four-
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The great huge silence when awaiting
a response from Mr. Paslow
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Mr. Scruff
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Keep it Unreal/ Fish
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When it speeds up, which it technically
doesn't, but it sounds like it does
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Nick Buzz
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Circo/
Formica Tango
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The screaming monkey and breaking
glass sounds
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Nine Inch Nails
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The Downward Spiral/
Mr. Self Destruct
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Opening their greatest album with
a sample from a George Lucas movie
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Nirvana
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Nevermind/ Territorial Pissings
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The brief cover of
"Get Together"
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Parliament
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Mothership Connection/
P Funk (Wants to get Funked Up)-
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"Funk not only moves, it
can remove." I honestly believe this and lay
various parts of my body on the stereo when instructed
(and nobody's looking)
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Passengers
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Original Soundtracks 1/ Beach
Sequence
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-One line of singing. Incredible
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Oscar Peterson
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At the Stratford Shakespearean
Festival/
Love You Madly
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Almost destroying the piano during
his solo (also the way you can hear him singing
along with it)
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Pink Floyd
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Meddle/
Echoes
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At the end of the several minutes
of weird horror movie guitar sounds and crows, when
the music is building and that high-pitched guitar
riff with the delay effects starts
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Plug
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Drum 'n' Bass for Papa/
Delicious
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"That was delicious, I wonder
what it was"
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Pogues
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Essential/
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
(Long Version)
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"I love your lips and I
love your eyes, I love your breasts, I love your
thighs"
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Portishead
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Portishead- Strangers
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The violin at the beginning
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Pulp
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Different Class/ Common People
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"In that case I'll have a rum and Coca-cola"
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Radiohead
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Where do I begin?
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Of course there's the c-chunk in "Creep."
Everyone knows that one. Also, the harp that comes
in in the second verse of "Motion Picture Soundtrack."
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Rage Against the Machine
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Rage Against the Machin/
Know Your Enemy
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"Fight the war, fuck the
norm"
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Lou Reed
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Transformer/
Walk on the Wild Side
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The du-du-dus of course
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Rheostatics
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Okay, I have to do this by band
member, because they each have their moments
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Dave Bidini
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Night of the Shooting Stars- PIN
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The acoustic guitar flourishes
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Martin Tielli
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The Blue Hysteria/ Sweet, Rich,
Beautiful, Mine
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The scream.
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Tim Vesely
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Introducing Happiness/ Introducing
Happiness
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"I must appear a mess to
have to write a song about you"
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Don Kerr
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The Story of Harmelodia- The Sky
Dreamed
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"A little smile on my little
lips where there was a frown, because of you"
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Dave Clark
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Nothing.
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What? What am I going to say,
"Guns?" The sorry bastard was a disgrace
to the band.
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Sly and the Family Stone
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Dance to the Music/
Dance to the Music-
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"Listen to the voices!"
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Smashing Pumpkins
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Singles Soundtrack/
Drown
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-"Was it something someone
said?"
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Soundgarden
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Down on the Upside/
No Attention-
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The tempo change.
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Spiritualized
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Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating
in Space/ Broken Heart
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-The time I was listening to this
because I was sad and realized that they were only
making me sadder. Then I realized that girl or no
girl, I had no reason to be this sad and I started
to get happier again
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Starflyer 59
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Americana/
You don't Miss Me
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Channeling both U2 and Jimi Hendrix
on the same song
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Tea Party
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All
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Not having Jeff Martin speak
on the albums
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Tenacious D
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Tenacious D/ Double Team
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"And squee-ee-ee-ee-ee-eeze"
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Martin Tielli
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We Didn't Even Suspect that he was the Poppy
Salesman/
My Sweet Relief
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"All the secret life designs
that everyone is privy to, missed me by a thousand
miles." Me too, Martin, me too
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Amon Tobin
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Permutations/ Sordid
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When it goes from bloody noisy
to absolute silence for a moment. He held the record
at that point extra long once when I saw him live
and I started dancing again prematurely, and I think
he looked straight at me and snickered, but you
never can be sure about such things.
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Tragically Hip
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Day for Night/ Inevitability of
Death
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Switching "inevitability
of death" with "death of inevitability"
in the lyrics.
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Treble Charger
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Self=Title/
Even Grable
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That opening screeching guitar.
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Tricky
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Pre-Millennium Tension/
She makes me wanna die
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The whole song.
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U2
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Okay, I'm sorry, but it has to
be the opening of the Joshua Tree.
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Everyone knows this, and the
world's familiarity with it makes it no less true.
The opening of the Joshua Tree is incredible
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Verve
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A Storm in Heaven/ Already There
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The "You walk around like
you're some kind of angel" part
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Luke Vibert
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Every time
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he drops a beat, and you think
that's it, but then he drops the real beat on top
of it
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Wagon Christ
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Throbbing Pouch/ Floot
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The flute.
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Tom Waits
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Bone Machine/ Jesus Gonna Be Here
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"Hollywood be thy name"
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Weakerthans
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Left and Leaving/ Exiles Among
You-
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"She shoplifts some Christmas
gifts, and a bracelet for herself"
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Ween
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Chocolate and Cheese/
Voodoo Lady
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The "oogie-oogie-oogie-oogie"
at the beginning.
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Weezer
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Weezer/
Only in Dreams
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The guitar solo near the end.
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Whale
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We Care/
Kickin'
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"Is there some possibility
that we could check out my fertility?"
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