Listening to a song just for a certain part

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31 Jan 2011, 4:47 pm

Do you have songs you listen to just to get to a certain part you love?

I heard this on TV the other day and I absolutely love it. It's my favourite song this week. (Hey, I wasn't around for the 80's, so I've got the rest of my life to discover lots of awesome music from the past )

Anyways, I listen to it mainly for the synthesizer part at 1:39, and the same synth at the end. It's so awesome; I wish I could play that .

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwxlourL1yg[/youtube]

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31 Jan 2011, 5:28 pm

Sure - listening to the whole song, or just skipping ahead to the good parts. I.e. the synth break at 0:17 and 2:11 in the song below:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EXxMlIExpo[/youtube]

Or skipping ahead to anywhere from 4:30 to 6:20 or so and listening to the end of this gem...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cUjii3tMo8[/youtube]

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01 Feb 2011, 2:35 am

Fast forward to the 3:25 mark to hear one of the greatest codas ever recorded.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TnL-LJKWE0[/youtube]

The section beginning at the 2:05 mark still makes my hair stand up.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7D65IomNYY[/youtube]

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01 Feb 2011, 2:45 am

I do this quite often. Well, there are parts of some songs that I really love, but I also like the full song so I usually just listen to the whole thing, but play the part I like over again a few times.

The intro of YYZ by Rush I love:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nmOMo4OPi4[/youtube]

The intro to God of Way by Týr which is just epic:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CPJLM5FtfQ[/youtube]

Also at 5:43 of Alive by the same band that's very catchy I think:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6FLNdZNc9g[/youtube]

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01 Feb 2011, 3:10 am

Don't Drop That Bomb on Me by Bryan Adams is a mediocre song overall. The first 30 seconds or so are a musical ecstasy.

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01 Feb 2011, 3:06 pm

The best example of this for me is "In The Flowers" by Animal Collective, off of Merriweather Post Pavilion. The first time I heard it, the climax at 2:31 sold me on the entire album.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY8WH8qgBLM[/youtube]

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02 Feb 2011, 2:11 am

my favorite part of richard harris' "macarthur park" is the rapid fugue in the middle.

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02 Feb 2011, 9:12 am

I'm ashamed to admit it, but sometimes I skip to the cadenza in Rach III.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IydArFYvvak[/youtube]

One of the best things, ever.

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03 Feb 2011, 12:48 am

this song, i love the intro to this song

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPHg47YDSjE[/youtube]

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11 Feb 2011, 2:33 am

There's a little bass figure that I really like in Elvis Costello's "Everyday I Write the Book." The bass line stops, then drops with two quick notes. In this video the first time it happens is at 0:34. I always listen for it whenever I hear the song.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfFunjzyIsE[/youtube]

There are others, but that's the first one that comes to mind.

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11 Feb 2011, 6:56 am

bruce springstein, when listening to various rock drummers play in live performance, can always tell when one of them emulates or borrows a famously identifiable tom-tom triplet figure that was the signature of drummer hal blaine, and he will shout out to the drummer, "HAL BLAINE!"

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11 Feb 2011, 7:32 am

I like listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird just for the guitar solo.

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11 Feb 2011, 8:01 am

i listening to the [quite rare!] CD "Shut Yo Mouth!" CD featuring "Slam" Stewart and Major "Mule" Holley, just to hear Major Holley singing in his inimitable basso profundo growl down low, accompanying his string bass bowing.

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11 Feb 2011, 5:05 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjiZmMF5RtU[/youtube]
The high note at around 3:06 is just amazing. I'll listen to the whole song just for it :3

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