Favorite 5 Seconds.

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Hey, What's everyone's favorite 5 seconds in a song?

My is either in "Road to Nowhere" by the Talking Heads at the bridge where David Byrne sings really loud "IT'S ALRIGHT, IT'S ALRIGHT!"

or "Kick Out the Jams" by The MC5 where they sing that line "You know you can't get enough Miss Mackenzie (Mackenzie)"

or "Monkey Man" by the Rolling Stones toward the end when Mick Jagger start saying "Monkey" a lot to go with the rhythm of the guitar solo.

Yeh, I'm Great

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Friday, 3 June 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

I'd give you the opening guitar riff of "When Doves Cry".
I used to sit in front of the CD player and just keep restarting the track every two seconds. For an hour. My roommates hated me.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 June 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

If I have to pick, the little guitar break in "Frankly, Mr. Shankly."

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 3 June 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

the frogs in the breakdown on Perfect Kiss by New Order

― biz, Friday, 3 June 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

1) "Suddenly Everything Has Changed" by The Flaming Lips
After vocal aaahhhs and strings are held out for too long, they begin to stutter and "DRIVIN' HOME THE SKY ACCELERATES" enters as a strummy, twangy stomp begins.

AND

2) "Via Chicago" by Wilco - there's a build into what should be a long-awaited proper rock chorus, but instead of going into rock-out mode, the drums go wayyy offbeat as the rest of the instrumentation freezes along with "I KNOW I'LL MAKE IT BACK ONE OF THESE DAYS."

In each case, I speak of the two seconds before the breakdown and the first three seconds of the breakdown.

― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Friday, 3 June 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

In It's Montgomery Clift on the Clash's London Calling, when Joe Strummer says something that sounds like qmfgrrrwahhh!

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 3 June 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

"The Right Profile"?

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 3 June 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, Yes that is the proper title

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 3 June 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

We've done this sort've thing before, but....

02:56 into "Marian (Version)" by the Sisters of Mercy, where Andrew starts singing in perfect, fuck you German.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 3 June 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

the frogs in the breakdown on Perfect Kiss by New Order

ooh, bigno

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 3 June 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

bingo, rather

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 3 June 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

i never realized, but the opposite of "bingo" is "bigno".

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 June 2005 03:32 (twenty years ago)

- when Peter Hook's bass arrives halfway into the version of "Subculture" on New Order's Substance

- The middle-eight of "Juanita/Kiteless" by Underworld ( THERE IS A SOUND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS WALL, A BIRD IS SINGING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS GLASS.....)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 3 June 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

Alex in NYC OTM^10 re: Juanita /Kiteless /To Dream of Love

― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Friday, 3 June 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

Same song, when the beat kicks back in after the middle-eight...

YOU SHOULD'VE WALKED AWAY WHEN YOU WALKED AWAY YOU SHOULD'VE WALKED AWAY WHEN YOU WALKED AWAY YOU SHOULD'VE WALKED AWAY....

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 3 June 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

It's one of two Nick Cave moments

'Scum':
[Hawks phlegm]
WEEEEEELLLL, I LIVE WITH ONE-
[blows snot out of his nose]
WEEEEELLLLL [distorted], I LIVE WITH ONE....&c

'Papa Won't Leave You Henry':
AND THE WALLS RAN RED AROUND ME
A WARM ARTERIAL SPRAY

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 June 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

'Papa Won't Leave You Henry':
AND THE WALLS RAN RED AROUND ME
A WARM ARTERIAL SPRAY

Oh SOOOOOOOOO OTM!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 3 June 2005 03:56 (twenty years ago)

Actually, the live version of "Red Right Hand" that came with the best-of disc a couple years back.....Nick lets out a furious YEAH! right after the delivery of the last chorus that just ROXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOR

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 3 June 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

Second 18-23 of the long feedback squeal that ends "Dreams Reoccurring." The first 18 seconds arent bad, but after 24 it's just crap.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 3 June 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

"No shoulder...no shoulder...no shoulder to cry on." -"White Noise" Cop Shoot Cop

"One hand will wash the other...one hand will wash the other." "Savory"-Jawbox (as the music drops out under the second "errrrrr" and the missing harmony grinds into your ears)

"But not for me...not me..." As the shoe drops in "Beautiful World" - Devo.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 3 June 2005 06:53 (twenty years ago)

Near the end of Björk's "It's oh so quiet" cover, on her second to last lyric, when her voice flutters on "blow your fuse"!

It just makes me... melt

― Jean-Sébastien in N5, Friday, 3 June 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

Off the top of my head...maybe the beginning of 'I wanna be your dog', when the feedback squeal turns into those three scuzzy chords

― Seuss, Friday, 3 June 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

Towards the end of Galaxie 500's cover of "Listen The Snow is Falling" there's a point where Dean starts soloing and a few seconds in Damon goes hogwild on the drums, hammering the cymbals and pummelling the kit. That bit.

Also, the beginning of the "Ba-ba-ba-baaaa" backing vocals on Mercury Rev's "Meth of A Rockette's Kick", and the following blaring trombone. Magic.

― Bill A (Bill A), Friday, 3 June 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

"But not for my two dollars, not on this street" Thief/15-60-75

Key change "In a Jar"

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Friday, 3 June 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

The end of Bob Mould's guitar solo on "Turn on the News," where it's doubletracked and then just *elevates* into the chorus

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Friday, 3 June 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

The part in "Night of the Living Baseheads" where it pauses and you hear the sample of the old guy say "We gonna get on down now," and then it kicks back in with a scratch-riff built on Chuck D saying "How low can you go" combined with a Maceo sax riff from "The Grunt." There's no other moment in hip-hop like it.

― Keith C (kcraw916), Friday, 3 June 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

This is a great, great list of these

http://www.chicagoreader.com/hitsville/great1.html

― Keith C (kcraw916), Friday, 3 June 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

Mr. Bungle "Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz", where it "ends" with the fade-out, and it's oh so quiet, then GAH erupts back in full-blast only to completely fall apart. That shit gets me EVERY SINGLE TIME.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 3 June 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

"Is she really going out with him?" and then those thundering drums.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 3 June 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

Also that bit in "I Hang Suspended" when the guitar starts screaming and feeding back.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 3 June 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

In whatever the title of track 7 on Agaetis Byrjun is supposed to be called, when there's that fade-out back to just the piano...the subsequent build back in and the monstrous space-whale orgasm guitar sound roaring in with the drums.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 3 June 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

I guess that's probably more than 5 seconds though, knowing how Sigur Ros roll.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 3 June 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

At the very end of Steely Dan's "Bodhisattva," where the song cuts out and all you're left with is that creepy, reverberating piano chord.

― Keith C (kcraw916), Friday, 3 June 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

The bombastic opening of T.Rex's "Metal Guru" is pretty great.

Wire - "Map Ref": "Chorus!"

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 3 June 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

There's a moment in the opening guitar solo of "Power of Love" from the Band of Gypsys record that is just fucking unreal. My iPod says it's :30 to :40. Anyone that has that on CD, go grab it.

― Nigel (Nigel), Friday, 3 June 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

I've always been partial to the Sha la la section of Pavement's Trigger Cut which leads into the riff. Perfection.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 3 June 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

My alternate answer: when the solo kicks in in "Blank Generation."

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 3 June 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

"This ain't no party! Thia ain't no disco!"
"Love's ugly -- CHILDREN!"
"*garble* BASTARDS! BASTARDS! You're all--- *garble*"

― Ian Riese-Moraine's all but an ark-lark! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 3 June 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

"A last FATAL FUCK!"

― Ian Riese-Moraine's all but an ark-lark! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 3 June 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Guy Kyser's strangled "AAAARGGHHH!" as the instrumental break crashes into the second verse of 'The Fish Song', on 'The One That Got Away'.

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Friday, 3 June 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

At the end of GROSS CHAPEL - GB GRENADIERS:
"I'll put you doooooooooowwwwwwnnn"

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Friday, 3 June 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

First 5 seconds of Just Like Honey

dum dum-dum kish
dum dum-dum kish
dddrrrraaaaaannnnnnnnggggggggggggggg!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 3 June 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

last 5 seconds of "Brother James" by Sonic Youth

― Aaron A., Friday, 3 June 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

". . .And if a double decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side, the pleasure, the privellage is mine."

or maybe "Saaaaaad Eyed Laaady Of The Looowlaaands"

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Saturday, 4 June 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)

Piano on "Loving Cup"

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Saturday, 4 June 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

Bryan Moore totally OTM!!!!

bryan you have good taste. anyone who's a stones nut has great taste. I was actually thinking like .. " ba na NA na, dn dn dn-uh , OH YEAH" myself

My other choice was

"one two three four five six"

"kick it!"

A FEW YEARS AGO, I PUT THIS TOGETHER TO

"ROCK!"

The bells, of those that choose to dope [..]

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 4 June 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.