What's Your Favorite Pop Moment in a Song?

Moments that make you go, holy shit I think I'm in heaven! I've got a couple:

-"No other sound is quite the same as your name" (Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing)

-When the drum kicks back in the last chorus of The Ronettes' "Be My Baby".

Your Favorite Moment in a Song

that thread is for any moment. you can talk about the shaggs or aphex twin or anything there but this is stricly for pop moment.

*strictly

what is pop

catchy things

pop. it's being going for years, you must have heard of it. x fucking post.

My favorite pop moment is whenever Michael Jackson goes "HEE heeeee!"

Especially when an "OW!" and a kick quickly follow.

"It's business/It's business time"

"I see you lookin' over here
Cant you tell I'm havin' fun
If you care like I know
You would stop
starrin' at us
And get your own space
And do somethin'"

Specifically the countermelody on, like a kazoo?

They say I talk with so much emphasis,
OOOO They so Sen-Sa-Tive.

Actually, I'd better not start posting on this thread. I get pretty easily pricked by pop puncta.

okay i'll bite

from chris br*wn's "forever"

"all you need to do is watch me!/do what i can do with my feet!"

Beach Boys - warmth of the sun
vocal intro and outro

'feeeeeellsss soooo goooooood... you're coming home soon!' - Care of Cell 44 - The Zombies

with 'flyin' mother nature's silver seed to a new home... ' - Heart of Gold - Neil Young a close second ...

The Beatles: "From Me To You". The very unprepared modulation from C-major to F-major in the middle-eight.

And the vocal harmonies in the verse of ELO's "Wild West Hero".

Cleaners From Venus - drowning butterflies
"...to drooooown..."

high note in the Communards "Never Can Say Goodbye"

the bridge in Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better "and do you feel scared - I Do - but I want stop and falter"
also, the violin shriek fitting perfectly in Pink Floyd - Vera

but I wont argue whether Vera is a pop song, I'll just leave it at that

"In the bluuuuuuuuuuue August moooooon - in the coooooooooool August mooooon" Eno's St. Elmo's Fire
makes my heart swell

when Ringo hits the hi-hat right before the nanana part in "Hey Jude"

"mercy" in pretty woman

Shangri-Las Walkingin the Sand:

(whispers) "remember"
"then he touched my chee-ee-eek"
(whispers) "remember"
"with his finger ti-i-ips" (at this point I invariably touch my own cheek)
(whispers)"softly"
(big finish) "softly we MEET. WITH. OUR LIPS"

so frigging awesom

- The rasp in John Lennon's voice on Twist and Shout, especially when he's saying those words and 'now'

- Graham's little guitar squelch thing in the short quiet bit after 'and then she lets me slip away' in Beetlebum

Ah, the Shangri-la's.

I pick the bit just after the girl mentions obliquely something devastating, then lightly adds "shall we dance?" and the orchestra swirls in.

That bit, there.

ahem: "Past, Present and Future" of course.

"so trina, how would you get with a nigga who lives with a bitch?"

"WAIT - for his bitch to leave
miss trina got a trick up her sleeve
open up the door and walk straight in the house
put your man down and put my cock in his mouth"

"all you need to do is watch me!/do what i can do with my feet!"

― wow heaven is cool (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:57 PM (Yesterday)

"The world would show nothing to me" (flutes swell in) "So what good would living do me?"

"It's business/It's business time"

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 22:21 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OTM

When the harmonica comes in in Fleetwood Mac's "I Know I'm Not Wrong"

And infection easily spreads.. bit at the end of echoes by gene clark

Piano arpeggios in Erasure, Blue Savannah (which I suspect I'm misspelling...)

The "What a beautiful buzz" part of the Loving Cup, off The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St.

The vocal harmony responses, panned extreme left and extreme right, in the chorus of Dodgy's "Staying Out For The Summer"

3:15 into 'He's on the phone' by St Etienne -
silence-doof-YES-drum machine ahhh

The "cut the crap" line in White Town's "Your Woman", also the Casio drums at ~3m10s.

The laugh at the beginning of Duran Duran's "Hungry Like The Wolf".

The guitar feedback noise at the beginning of The Beatles' "I Feel Fine".

"The towns grew up
the people were still
Sleeping in the midday sun
Sleeping in the midday sun
Sleeping in the midday sun
Sleeping in the midday sun" - "Buffalo Ballet" - John Cale

"Hit me with your laserbeams" in Relax

Mazzy Star - halah
"...i need to...hear you say good bye..."

2raumwohnung - zwei von millionen sternen
"in seinem eigenen all zu verschwinden"

Barry Gray - the mysterons theme
delayed trombone(?) entry @0:34 & 1:34

Makin' Time - where the rythm takes you
low key chord in hammond solo @ 2:10-15

Barry White - neve never gonna give you up
uhhhh! after the intro drum roll

At the moment it's the part in Minnie Riperton's Les Fleur at about 1.15 where the music builds and builds then "Ring all the bells, sing and tell the people that be everywhere that the flower has come"

Barry Gray - the mysterons theme
delayed trombone(?) entry @0:34 & 1:34

Trombone? I only remember a 'shimmering keyboard'

If that's the Pye single...

the call and response in the Chiffons' Sweet Talkin Guy. All of it really, but particularly "oh you never win"

Trombone? I only remember a 'shimmering keyboard'

i meant this one. sounds like a wind instrument?!

Minnie Riperton's Les Fleur

very nice one.

The sound of glass toast in The Shangri-Las' "Long Live Our Love".

Electric Light Orchestra - telephone line

the key change after
"ohhh telephone line, give me sometime, i'm living in twilight"

Jonzun Crew - ground control

"we must go where the end is wrong or right"

Two spring to mind at the moment:

1. The distant French Horn that looms over proceedings like a bird of prey during the intro of "If I Can't Have You" by Yvonne Elliman. It sounds like an instrument out of "Planet of the Apes" in an otherwise rapturously overproduced disco classic. Love it.

2. There's a fleeting moment in "Policy of Truth" by Depeche Mode where Gahan & Co. manage to shut the fuck up for a second and just let this two-note pulse of the song carry over for a moment (I'm talking 3:10 to 3:12).

xxpost...'Telephone Line' for me too, but for me it's the moment when it shifts from the verse into 'DOOWUP, DOOBYDOOBYWUP, DOOWAH DOOLAAAAAANG'...paroxysms of awesome.