Most great albums have one truly awesome section

In the Critter Jams review of Akiko Yano record Gohan ga dekita yo, the gauntlet is thrown:

"most great albums have one truly awesome section"

Obviously, most great albums have a lot of great sections but I think we're talking relativity here. What is *the* truly awesomest section of [great album of your choice] ?

Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn: from The Sea Beasts through The Misty Coast of Albany.

It occurs to me that I should clarify this word "section" -- the example given by the Yano review was just a couple of minutes of music, so if people want to go micro, I'd like to hear about that too!

wrens "ex-girl collection" to the end of the album was the immediate thing that came to mind

the love suite on jordan: the comeback is where the album elevates from fantastic to transcendent

can think of many examples in prog rock....off the top of my head:

1) the "I get up, I get down" section in "Close to the Edge" where the searing church organ resolves into total chaos
2) guitar solo in "Dancing With the Moonlit Night"
3) the funky keyboard bit on "Mister Class and Quality?" about 1:45 in that leaps all over the place (bonus Gentle Giant moment - the bit in "Free Hand" where it's a frantic 3 point vocal harmony with just drums in the background...sadly only done in the live version)
4) on Sing to God, the endless second half of "Dirty Boy"...or the second half of "Fiery Gun Hand", both of which are either "are you fkin serious" moments if you're digging the music, or the moment where you turn it off
5) "Scorched Earth" on Godbluff going totally overdrive in the last few minutes
6) very beginning of "Rhyader Goes to Town". also when the keyboards come into "La Princesse Perdue" after the slow orchestral fade in.
7) final section of Magma's MDK where all hell breaks loose
8) "Lions, Tigers, and Bears" off Ummon by Slift...I guess the whole thing but the 'chorus' in particular where the vocal just shreds...hell yes

all of these albums rule but those are the bits I always look forward to no matter how many times I've heard them

"Heartbeat" to "Outdoor Miner" on Chairs Missings kills me, it's so good.

This does seem to be an especially fitting question for prog, huh? My first thoughts were all of Tull.

last 4 minutes of Thick of a Brick Side A :)

1. The instrumental outro at the end of The Joy Circuit by Gary Numan
2. The outro of Cinema Show by Genesis (the Seconds Out version, for preference)
3. Richard Thompson's solo in the live version of Calvary Cross
4. The way Ian Curtis's voice goes up in urgency at the end of Transmission by Joy Division

Last five minutes of "Slightly All The Time" on Soft Machine's Third

On Kevin Ayers' Whatevershebringswesing, Mike Oldfield's guitar solo on the title track.

The instrumental outro in the song “decades” on joy division’s album closer

The third verse of the song “Disintegration” on Disintegration
The transition from “The Box Part 1” to “The Box Part 2” on In Sides
The opening sample into the beat of “Strangers” on Dummy
The coda to “The Beautiful Ones” on Purple Rain
The scratching from the intro to the main beat of the song on “A Rollerskating Jam Called Saturday” on De La Soul Is Dead
The orchestral intro before the choral entrance in movement to of the Brahms Requiem
The climax of the Agnus Dei in the Martin Mass for Double Choir
The News aria from Nixon in China
The first chorus of “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out” on The Queen Is Dead
The opening bass line of “Excursions” on The Low End Theory
The booming bass on “Fantasy” on The xx s/t
The guitar riff on “Dull Life” on It’s Blitz!
The octave+fifth leap in the synth line of “Someone Great” on Sound of Silver
The angry response in “Jackie” on The Lion and the Cobra

Closer to The Becoming

The "theyre locking them up today, theyre throwing away the key" coda from "The Red Telephone" on Forever Changes

"1. The instrumental outro at the end of The Joy Circuit by Gary Numan"

I second that - it was obviously written as a big album closer and it works. If we're talking about little musical sections, I've always liked the jaunty little violin line that pops up mid-way through "Conversation":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRaCcmMUPZA

And the final seconds of Tor Lundvall's "Clearing Sky", the last track on Empty City, which has a twangy little guitar figure that stands out because there's no guitar on the rest of the record:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lty5Uy3HuvU

The spooky "driving at night" part of "Mojave Plan" from Tangerine Dream's White Eagle is great, but which unfortunately it only lasts about a minute before it's ruined by over-enthusiastic soloing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3RoDTfCTw0

Also, brief breakdown in "Magnetic Fields 1" where the music gets stripped down to the bassline and an echoing finger-click:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdCCPVt-tOI

Some of the more pensive parts of Ultravox's "Astradyne" and strangely atypical for the band, as if just for a moment they wanted to try subtlety but didn't like it.

The instrumental bridge on “monkey man” on let it bleed

That Numan mention is so funny because I was going to say something pretty similar: the viola’s entry on “M.E.”

And Jesus the viola solo on Cale/Eno “Cordoba”

hah I was thinking the violas on "Complex", that really was Numan's ace in the hole back then huh

It was a masterstroke to add one midrange bowed string instrument to the monstrously heavy one finger synths and awesome plodding drums

I imagine it was just cause he knew a bloke