Mogwai - Helicon 1 (the original verion, the one on Ten Rapid).
Put it on maximum volume, wait until THAT moment at 2:54 and melt into bliss. They've never bettered this tune, although they've spent a long time trying.
It is clearly the moment on track 3 of Get Out by Pita when the oddly serene music blasts into coruscating laptop overload about 3 minutes in. A shame that all other laptop musicians took this as a sign that they should just make unstructured noise skronk for years on end, but that shouldn't diminish the sheer visceral power of this particular record.
by Blood Brothers. As well as the change in volume, everything suddenly starts going at a million miles an hour, and two people start screaming their tits off.
The piano teases you for just the right amount of time and then that little drum roll and the guitars shred your ears into pieces in the best possible way. It's my default track to use to test if earphones are up to scratch for me.
There's a Pixies song, think it's on Bossa Nova. Fairly quiet verse which all of a sudden bursts into a bar of unhinged playing before going quiet again. Can't for the life of me remember the rest of the song, but it's great.
10am Automatic. It's loud anyway, but there's a LOUDER guitar solo at the end that comes screaming in and scares the shit out of anyone in the car who hasn't heard it before. Not really quiet loud moments, but both have the same effect.
Just after the first chorus. Coupled with the projections that accompanied it on the tour for Go, it's one of the greatest live music moments I've ever experienced.
Also worth a shout is the choruses of Red House Painters' cover of All Mixed Up.
Building like a Japanese horror movie, Down River lulls you into a peaceful state with Nick Talbot's delicate Nick Drake-esque vocals. Admittedly the slightly ominous lyrics hint at the uncanny, but the gentle, undulating rhythms just let you drift along, blissfully unaware of your fate.
Then half-way through there's a jump. A brief jolt out of the blue. Shit!
Quietly... tenderly, he whispers into your ear, "Everything is going to be alright". Before whipping out a claw-hammer guitar and skull-fucking you with it as the credits roll.
I really love this album, and this song when it bursts into life is just so intense. It makes me want to curl up in a ball and scream forever. It absolutely needs to played loud. The lovely violin just leads you unaware into the screaming Scottish abyss at around 2:20
i thought you would say like herod
i think mogwai own the thread anyway
mogwai
but new paths to helicon, pt 2 (the BBC sessions version?). you know the bit I mean.
Wedding Present - Bewitched
Scared the shite out of me first time I heard it
dancing on the corpses ashes
danc-ing-on-the-corp-ses-ash-es
Pixies
Tame
cookie I think you're
TTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I Live With You - Grizzly Bear
In the Flowers - Animal Collective
The ending moments of To Here Knows When with that transition into When You Sleep. Gets me every time.
I'd say Sigur Ros
But they're not the "best". I hate Sigur Ros, ever since I turned 16, I hated Sigur Ros.
RACIST
EITS - Greet Death
DO NOT adjust your volume.
Nick Cave - Loverman
Wins this category hands down for me. Even Metallica couldn't out-heavy the original.
Mono - Yearning
I love the way it explodes out of nowhere, slightly off beat. It always catches me surprise no matter how many times I hear it.
when you see mono live
yearning will blow your socks off, just like most of their songs
first time I saw Mono they opened with Yearning and that bit made my knees buckle
Band Of Horses - Funeral
ding ding ding ding ding...
GUITARS
REALLY TOO LATE TO CALL SO WE WAIT FOR MORNING TO WAKE YOU THAT'S ALL WE GOT
the start of From Despair to Where
is pretty good
Bruce Springsteen howling at the end of State Trooper
So much ^this
apparently he is a big Suicide fan
and was trying to sound like Alan Vega on that.
cool
Soulwax - Much Against Everyone's Advice
Love the way the guitar riff crunches in all of a sudden
slay
When he whispers something beyond hearing, and just as you're straining to hear it it explodes back in. Quality.
So many
I like the bit in At Giza by Om, the bit in El Mundo Frio by Corrupted and best of all the bit in Cabin Man by the Cows.
ctrl+f Cows
good work
big big love for At Giza
the bass sounds fucking huge
The Unwinding Hours - The Final Hour
Hope of the States - The Black Amnesias
Aereogramme
Post-Tour is what I was gonna ssuggest...so yeah.
Good shout!
Deer Tracks- Yes, This Is My Broken Shield
Archers of Loaf
Bacteria
the live version of New Birds by Arab Strap
that comes with the rerelease of Philophobia
End of Rhoda by Slint
(The re-recorded version of the Untitled EP)
Slint, yes, but Rhoda?
I'd have to say "Good Morning, Captain." Saw them do it live, and it was something to see, *everybody* did devil horns *simultaneously*.
Yeah.. the end of it, when it goes well quite, then a 123! then
blammmmm! Note- the tweez version doesn't do this.
About 3.17 here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUzK-O11FX0
Everyone stop pretending that 'Washer' isn't their best example of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yEgcb167k4&feature=player_detailpage#t=360s
The end of The Redneck Manifesto - Soundscapes Over Landscapes
It's incredible:
http://theredneckmanifesto.bandcamp.com/track/soundscapes-over-landscapes
About 2:55
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seatle
Mono - Halycon
or 4:45 in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJAV1Zva7uc . doesnt work without the preceeding or following bits though
heard that for the first time live at the ICA
almost gave me a heart attack! So so good though
Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead at Glastonbury
when the guitar comes in at 2:44 here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDS4wOd_o1I
Easy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuTVKO0RScI
0:18
Oh for frick's sake, link didn't work :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuTVKO0RScI
Or serious answer...
Mogwai - Helicon 1 (the original verion, the one on Ten Rapid).
Put it on maximum volume, wait until THAT moment at 2:54 and melt into bliss. They've never bettered this tune, although they've spent a long time trying.
You're all wrong
It is clearly the moment on track 3 of Get Out by Pita when the oddly serene music blasts into coruscating laptop overload about 3 minutes in. A shame that all other laptop musicians took this as a sign that they should just make unstructured noise skronk for years on end, but that shouldn't diminish the sheer visceral power of this particular record.
Make that 1.39 in
Meh.
YES
Giant Swan
by Blood Brothers. As well as the change in volume, everything suddenly starts going at a million miles an hour, and two people start screaming their tits off.
Radiohead 2+2=5 probably
GREAT THREAD
I'm throwing Salt, Pepa and Spindarella by Johnny Foreigner in there even though the quiet isn't that quiet.
Bring on the real fun, turn on the real drums. <3
65daysofstatic - Aren't We All Running
The piano teases you for just the right amount of time and then that little drum roll and the guitars shred your ears into pieces in the best possible way. It's my default track to use to test if earphones are up to scratch for me.
Bloody loads, aren't there?
The first that came to mind was the day I tried to live by Soundgarden.
Van der Graaf Generator - A Plague Of Lighthous Keepers
The transition to the 'The Clot Thickens' section. Terrifying.
Harvey Milk - Brown Water
I raise you Sunshine (no sun) Into The Sun
probably the heaviest thing ever written.
Besnard Lakes- Albatross
features quite a special quiet loud moment- think it's around the 3 minute mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1hDLaTC6xw
The Cure - Subway Song
E.g. the scream at the end of the song. This was one of the first Cure tracks I ever heard and I knew I'd love them immediately.
Lava
By Silversun
LCD - Dance Yrself Clean = a great quiet to loud opener
Bob Dyan going electric.
Blur - Trimm Trabb
I can't possibly be the first person to post this.
Future Of The Left - Lapsed Catholics
Better for the way it goes quiet again after one bar.
Brand New - Vices
I was going to say this.
Mars Volta
The bit between the end of Son Et Lumiere and start of Inertiatic ESP
Mclusky - Support Systems
Sort of builds up to the first loud bit, then falls away again...stays quiet...pauses.....EXPLODES!
Can we count intros?
Cos I like how Silver Trembling Hands by The Flaming Lips begins.
ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh....AAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!
Don Caballero - Repeat Defender
The last 4 minutes is all sorts of quiet-loud win.
Kayo Dot - The Manifold Curiosity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik-Fp2defYk
4:48 CLARINET SOLO
Mogwai fear satan - Mogwai
Or...
Elbow - Snooks
when the riff kicks in in Bitten By The Tailfly deserves an honourable mention
The pixies...
...but not Tame, its Gigantic!!
rhinoceros
the smashing pumpkins
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Art Star
Certainly not as good as some of the other stuff on here, but definitely the most fun.
Liars- Scissor
Actually I am going to listen to sisterworld.
^this
x439769847889
and the brass at the end of Leaves too
just an incredible song all round
Refused – New noise
1:07
Best outrage I've heard so far.
My body is a...
BWWWWWWWWOOOOOORRMMMMMMMMMMMM
I honestly think Mars Volta are runner-up winners of this thread
I went to my iTunes to remember "Son Et Lumiere" and remembered "Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus" which, OH GOD
SURELY
ALL OF THE PIXIES EVER?!?! /Capslock
My Iron Lung
Also a very good loud-quiet bit.
let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor
let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the...
*tsh tsh*
FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAARRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Million Dead - The Rise and Fall
at least it seemed the best last night, but i was pished
Boris - Untitled
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEdFfBnVJJ8
I remember them finishing with this at the Cargo in 2008. That tidal wave of guitar was the loudest thing I've ever heard.
Napalm Death
The whole scum album. Aggggghhhaaa / pause before next track / agggghhhaaaa etc.
most songs by +/- (Plus/Minus)
they are also the kings of the stop and start move
Someone help me out
There's a Pixies song, think it's on Bossa Nova. Fairly quiet verse which all of a sudden bursts into a bar of unhinged playing before going quiet again. Can't for the life of me remember the rest of the song, but it's great.
Sunn o))) - Cry for the Weeper
3:59 makes me very very scared.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwUZoflOYfY
oceansize - ornament / the last wrongs
I've made a spotify playlist of most of the songs in this thread
http://open.spotify.com/user/godspeed_steve/playlist/4FcRgQ80279IsTvwak7ikF
I'll delete it if the OP fancies doing one themselves. Some tracks I could not find for love nor money.
nice one dude
nah i have neither the time nor the dedication
great work, man
This is quite possibly the best Spotify playlist EVER
immense
Well done everyone
:)
oh but
it's missing White Man by Queen
add it yeah?
It's been added...
Along with a few tracks I like: cop shoot cop by spiritualized I Gaer by Sigur Ros.
great work
Mono - (COM?)
or Mono - A Speeding Car
Actually those are both great, but the correct answer is
Rosetta - Clavius
May I quickly point out a great loud-quiet moment?
The end of 'Ascension Day' into the beginning of 'After The Flood' on Laughing Stock by Talk Talk.
Permission granted
Good call! Also, 'Desire' off of Sprit of Eden. I'd point out the exact moment but you'd be a fool not to listen to the whole thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPuxrLAbONk
Holy shit, has no one yet mentioned 'Rid of Me' by PJ Harvey?
That's embarrassing.
Clouddead - dead dogs two
when the bass comes in near the start
The Black Keys
10am Automatic. It's loud anyway, but there's a LOUDER guitar solo at the end that comes screaming in and scares the shit out of anyone in the car who hasn't heard it before. Not really quiet loud moments, but both have the same effect.
Explosions in the Sky - Yasmin the Light
lovely stuff.
silverfuck
Smashing pumpkins. Yum.
Catherine Wheel - 'Ferment'
Greatest thread ever.
Foo Fighters
New Way Home
Nine Inch Nails
Beside You In Time
I like NIN a whole lot, but BYIT is a proper tune and its a shame it was squirreled away at the back end of With Teeth
I've updated a few more tracks
any more suggestions?
Hey alright it's Kip Casper ln KLON Radio - LA's infinite repeat. How we feeling out there? How's your drive time commute? I need a saga. What's the saga? It's songs for the deaf. You can't even hear it!
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NICK FUCKING OLIVERI MELTING YOUR STUPID FUCKING FACE CLEAN OFF.
Jónsi - Kolniður
Just after the first chorus. Coupled with the projections that accompanied it on the tour for Go, it's one of the greatest live music moments I've ever experienced.
Also worth a shout is the choruses of Red House Painters' cover of All Mixed Up.
And So I Watch You From Afar - Don't Waste Time Doing Things You Hate
when the riff drops out and then back in again at about 3.30 and again when the chanting stops for a second at 5.12, then it all goes mental.
Antennas To Heaven...
the bit where the children are singing in French followed by the spacey synthy strings followed by P S H Y C H A D E L I C WOOOOO YEAHHH LETS ROCK OUT
Godspeed have all their best bits playing faster than usual : )
Massvie Attack
Builds and builds and builds then "WALLOP" the big crescendo of guitar which sweeps through you, total euphoria. Class.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbe3CQamF8k
Gravenhurst - Down River
Building like a Japanese horror movie, Down River lulls you into a peaceful state with Nick Talbot's delicate Nick Drake-esque vocals. Admittedly the slightly ominous lyrics hint at the uncanny, but the gentle, undulating rhythms just let you drift along, blissfully unaware of your fate.
Then half-way through there's a jump. A brief jolt out of the blue. Shit!
Quietly... tenderly, he whispers into your ear, "Everything is going to be alright". Before whipping out a claw-hammer guitar and skull-fucking you with it as the credits roll.
playlist has been updated again.
found a track of GY!BE's called 'outro' and have plonked that on there as well.
There Will Be Fireworks - We Were a Roman Candle
I really love this album, and this song when it bursts into life is just so intense. It makes me want to curl up in a ball and scream forever. It absolutely needs to played loud. The lovely violin just leads you unaware into the screaming Scottish abyss at around 2:20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W66ZuQNUIJI
This Will Destroy You 'Little Smoke'
http://soundcloud.com/monotreme-records/this-will-destroy-you-little