MOMENTS of 2010

Inspired by Tom's piece in the Guardian here. Think we did something similar to this in 2004 as well.

Enough lists, talk about the individual moments in 2010 tracks that never fail to get you.

1. The-Dream - Yamaha

Terius has been doing his best fake Prince impression for several minutes, enormous clouds of 80s synths swirling around him, then he moves into the outro... "Clutch! Brake! Get this motherfucker running, me and you together girl they never seen it coming". One moment of delerium before he shifts into darker territory.

2. Tensnake - Coma Cat

The extended chiming build in the middle of this track, until the moment the retro-90s house beat kicks back in, is pretty much my single most euphoric dancefloor moment this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkVqCpONcIc

3. The bit in Tinie Tempah's Pass Out when it suddenly explodes into drum and bass and audiences go apeshit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzvGKas5RsU

4. The first few seconds of Princess Nyah's version of Pon De Floor, when the sirens go off, she gets on the mic and for a few seconds it sounds like the biggest record ever is about to off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQy1e0ouxwM

The opening of Sleigh Bells Tell Em

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kJ05P-71gY

the part during Nicki Minaj's verse in "Bottoms Up" where the beat drops out and she sings in this cutesy/sexy babydoll voice (incl. the line "Do you want my bodyyyyyy?") , and then the beat comes back and she deadpans "Rest in peace to Anna Nicole Smith" — such an effin' weird moment — hearing that stoned outta my gourd was my big breakthru w/r/t Nicki (i.e. realizing she was on some next-level), but I'm still not totally sure what to think about any of it

cher lloyd's first xfactor audition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDkg8OJB820&feature=fvst

key change in "Fuck You" obv

3:30 into this remix of Azari & III's Reckless With Your Love where Tensnake does the unthinkably obvious and whacks in a big slab of Everybody Dance Now just for the sake of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v10CG_GYU3k

The 3 second harmonica solo in the Books' "A Cold Freezing Night" (2:40) goes so ham

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqlVCKfX3hk

i don't know tensnake. that first track could actually be from the 90's. i mean, if you told me it was from 1990 i would believe you. second one too actually. he/she/they does it well though.

When the half-sung backing vocals come in over the rap in the last verse of Pop the Trunk by Yelawolf.

The transition at 2:15 in "Empire Ants" by Gorillaz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nX-A061-9k

The riff at 7.11:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlKzz78hj60

okay that books thing is one of the awesomest things i've seen/heard all year.

Is that really what Agalloch sound like? I'm not sure I could really take it that seriously because of the vocals but it's... indier than I'd imagined.

The transition at 2:46 in "We Have To Mask":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBt2FOtmF08

(by Abe Vigoda)

Yeah they're not that heavy! All their stuff is pretty melodic and atmospheric.

xpost to Matt

Anyway, strings and drumfills at 0.50:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2RjWZhNk0c

the little foreshadowing "oohh yeeeeeaaaah" that starts "even your friend" by the chap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKFLs_V2XBo

1.55 - 2.03 part where song stops its sinister lurching of 'YFOC' and a riff signals the start of the demented hoedown of 'Slippy Floor'

(by The Fall)

okay that books thing is one of the awesomest things i've seen/heard all year.

― scott seward

Seconded! Great song, flat-out amazing video.

the chorus of Roach Gigz "Goomba Pimpin" how the bass kicks drop out and come back on the "and" of 3 for some reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YFFrbdOiFI

the last 30 seconds or so of "worm tamer" by grinderman

my baby calls me the loch ness monster
two great big humps and then i'm gone
i'm more like the abominable snowman
and i guess that i've loved you for too long
(FOR TOO LONG)
end

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPfuiT5XstU

1:15 into The Fives's 'It's What You Do', the shimmer and swell of the violins at the song opens up into the chorus. The thread on this song had way too much chinstroking and theorising and not nearly enough raving about its sheer pop joy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOcefsTgbhE

Spectral voices, 3.51:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnoJjq3JKD4

holy hell, I probably should not have enjoyed that Books video as much as I just did

does he say "roach stay soberless" in that goomba video? cuz that's pretty cool.

"Ja - saaahn DeRul-ooooooh"

Not a track as such, more of a motif that threaded through 2010. But certainly a MOMENT whenever it happened.

Spectral voices, 3.51:

Yes! That bit, that specific bit, is BEAUTIFUL.

anyway, cheers everyone! this is exactly the kind of thread i love. and why i dig ilm.

That Roach Gigz track has several great moments - like right after the dropping E line. Whiney on a serious roll.

Also, not a track as such, but umpteen hundred t(w)eens bawling out the chorus of "Firework" at the Radio 1 teen awards was quite a moment.

the end of "Lewis Takes Off His Shirt"...."im never gonna give it to you..."

one of my favorite moments of 2010.

While I love the whole song (and the video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAg8L9snDTM

It's all about the moment where she sings:

"Maybe you feel the same
But you don't"

And the drums kick in.

the end of "Lewis Takes Off His Shirt"...."im never gonna give it to you..."

one of my favorite moments of 2010.

― Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Friday, December 10, 2010 3:28 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark

- "Everybody's hands go UP—" [silence] "... AND THEY STAY THERE!!!" — still gets me every damn time

I haven't been taking all that much of a momentist approach this year, but let's see. . . I love how the opening track of Marina & the Diamonds's Family Jewels splinters into multiple beginnings and gear shifts (the actual beginning; 0:11 drums; 0:27 power chords; 0:42 one of her great choruses that just floats away into the clouds temporarily. Then roughly the same pattern is repeated. It's not just the moments, it's the speed at which the shifts take place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS2vMUIPeT4

That incredible-sounding synth solo bit between "It's your shoooooooooowwwwwww" and "Put your little feet doooooown" (abt 5:27-5:35), esp the last four notes at the v end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoA0cTC228M

- I could do a whole thread's worth of Lil B 2k10 moments but will limit myself to:

I'm not a teacher (Nope!)
I'm Ron Artest (*swish*!)
serve the whole crowd (Yep!)
win the championship (Swag!!)
I'm Doug Flutie (What?!)
with an assault rifle (Okay.)
I'm Larry Bird
with a half a bird (... With half a bird.)
like Church's Chicken:
you have some nerve.

several moments in the recorded version of Owen's "E For Estranged":

0:10 - the piano comes in just over the violin buzz
0:44 - the start of the first verse
1:18 - the start of the chorus
1:50 - the start of the violin descant
2:07 - the doubling of the violin descant
2:24 - the introduction of the first harmony line
2:41 - the introduction of the oboe
3:07 - the integration of winds and violin that plays through the coda

I don't know if this, "Always Loved A Film", or "Girl I Love You" is my favorite song of the year.

With all the euro-disco* vocoder slickness (which I do somehow like here), it's really helpful when things turn mas duro and shouty at 1:55 (on this youtube anyway), on the back of Daddy Yankee's flow picking up momentum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6OFxSMLYz8

*I don't really know what this means, so if it sounds wrong, just ignore.

I just realized my times may be off for the Marina & the Diamonds since I think I listened to an mp3 rather than making sure the times matched up with the posted youtube version.

actually wait I wanna change my lil B vote to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAYrMJWvC44

@2:18
goddamn
I fucked the bitch one time,
two times, three times, four times, bedtime

the entirety of the love language "pedals"...especially the end.

The drop at 4.09:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcYPsC879CA

I'm not usually that into house bangers, but this is big.

Also holy shit the synth melody from 3:37 to 4:01 is probably my #2 favorite moment of the year (the 15 secs of repetitions usually make me really giddy and crazy)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GqRsmffeVI

when the beat drops at 1:05 in this spirituals track, and you're like "oh, those were triplets"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNNsWKfpCDQ

The "I'M NOT FUCKING AROUND" bit on Sufjan Steven's 'I want to be well' always gets me going.

the first three minutes of Bardo Thodol, though youtube's sound quality doesn't do it justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_jhV6f62g8

Pop + chillwave's finest contributions 2010:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV5mNZ_fVnc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiLqAu4s-_s

Oh wait I have to mention moments:

YahZarah: The synths at the very start that keep lurking underneath the whole song + 'I hope you're happy or whatever on second thought not really, hey!'

Ariel Pink: Bass doing the 1st chorus melody before the actual chorus starts + second chorus even better that the first one at 2:00.

What a great thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frFs478OCbc

Section 0:44 - 0:59 with the awesome clean sample melody thing and the myriad Autechre cutups / glitches.

one of my favorite albums of the year was by Lustre. a one-man minimal ambient black metal project that i can listen to over and over again. kinda like if philip glass had been born in the 80's in sweden. and decided to make black metal. and was a techno fan. you can definitely imagine the remix possibilities when you hear this. this is actually one of the "busier" tracks too. and i just love the two minute synth intro before the guitars kick in. and then i love when the guitars kick in! simple. but effective. the whole album is a dream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSSn2T1MOjk

the opening drum beats of erykah's "window seat"

at :37 in "whip my hair" when willow goes a bit into the upper register for the pre-chorus

the climax of taylor swift's "dear john", which features the best burn on the album -- "i'm shining like fireworks over your sad empty town" -- & easily the most flooring vocal performance of taylor's career in one line

the opening notes of both "BMF" & "hard in da paint" -- indistinguishable to many, but still the biggest sounds coming out of the radio all summer

also loved this album. super-swinging norwegian power trio of bass + drums + organ. i just love that bass sound. and, um, the drum sound. and, hey, how about that organ! also just think these guys make mincemeat out of most bong-up-their-ass 70's grave robbers. and i played this album a ton this year. (dudes from supersilent and shining)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSC3RlLoRYI&feature=related

when ciara's vocals on "i-i-i-i-i-i'm speechless" get double- or triple-tracked around 2:52 and suddenly there's a choir of ciara-clones harmonizing w/ each other -- i feel like it's a really simple trick, but fuck, it gets me EVERY TIME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku-IptBci0k

xpost -- great album, that. Need to get back to it!

I love the bit in "Sun" by Caribou where the voice comes out from behind a cloud of EQ &/or effects to be super-present in the mix for one beaming second, after which it recedes for the rest of the track.

I love these two by almost the same reasons:

Simon Hinter - Take Care: It takes the kick and the song to take form 1 minute in but the scratching jazz drum keeps you hypnotized before it happens. There's nice details going throughout, handclaps, ocassional koto samples and around minute 3 comes a beautiful break of what sounds like an old gothic organ in the middle of a crowded street.
Kenton Slash Demon - Sun: The first 6 seconds you don't know what to expect... it sounds like a loop of some old blues record with a singer that sounds literary like an old goat and suddenly out of nowhere comes in one of the most addictive house basslines I've heard in a long time. The break at 1:30 with the very subtle horn section and choir is gorgeous and lifts the song up up above soaring the skies and never lets down from there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPRTEU2yfxc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0MwL20Wahk

cozen I had no idea who Cher Lloyd was since I don't really follow these sort of television show's but I'll admit that was incredible. I was prepared to be completely dissapointed or maybe laugh at something when she mentioned she was going to do a Soulja Boy song but that was astounding.

cher lloyd is in the x factor final this weekend and is almost certainly going to have a career where you'll hear of her eventually. (although she's also not going to win, and indeed given the demographic of the x factor has indeed managed to attract something of a hate campaign because she's a "chav" who's "got to fucking rap all the time" and has a "nasty attitude" - ugh british people.) she did "just be good to me", "no diggity", "hard knock life", "love the way you lie", "stay" and "nothin' on you" during the live shows - all those were vg.

this is a great thread btw, agree w/so many of the moments, will def contribute but any more youtubes and it'll become unusable ;_;

Seeing Titus Andronicus live, and feeling all show they had been striving towards a moment of ecstatic release, which finally arrived with The Enemy Is Everywhere, when all the ragged threads of what they had been doing finally came together

the part during Nicki Minaj's verse in "Bottoms Up" where the beat drops out and she sings in this cutesy/sexy babydoll voice (incl. the line "Do you want my bodyyyyyy?") , and then the beat comes back and she deadpans "Rest in peace to Anna Nicole Smith" — such an effin' weird moment — hearing that stoned outta my gourd was my big breakthru w/r/t Nicki (i.e. realizing she was on some next-level), but I'm still not totally sure what to think about any of it

― unemployed aerosmith fans I have shoved (bernard snowy), Friday, December 10, 2010 8:43 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

been listening to this song & verse A LOT lately & actually my favorite part & def my favorite vocal moment of nicki's guest verse career so far is when she goes real guttural when she says "now bottoms up and double my dosage" like she's in a race to finish the line

like she's in a race to down her drink!

Well went on to search for the Keri Hill version of swag on and it turns out it's nowhere near as good as Cher Lloyd's version. I don't know how this works... will she ever record her version of the song?

When the buzzing synth kicks in on 'Telephone'.....'k-kinda busy'!!!!

Technically released in 2009, but this was probably my song of the year..

the entirety of the love language "pedals"...especially the end.

Personally I lean towards the prechorus drum break on "Heart to Tell." Really underrated album.

she all ridin it out like baby baby/my bad i meant to say *baby baby*

beginning of Budos Band - Unbroken Unshaven...the drums, then those horn blasts. Kick ass.

Me: Where the hell are those drums coming from?
LJ: David Cameron is our new overlord, my phone says so ;_;
Goodbye humanity, at least you were a noisy goodbye.

It's all about the moment where she sings:

"Maybe you feel the same
But you don't"

And the drums kick in.

yesssss, i just heard this again & it hits hard

full-length album version of the Chemical Brothers' "Swoon" -- the beat from the prior track calmly winds down for the first 0:29, almost completely disappearing into the ether... then, at 0:30, lightning strikes --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCKeVj0JDjU

the full-on immersion around 2:03 (and again at 4:53) is also fucking incredible

this was probably my #1 most played track of 2010, if i'm being honest -- and at 0:30, my favorite piece of "sound qua sound" of the entire year

^^ 0:30 works best played LOUDDDD, btw

Robyn, "Dancing on My Own" -- whenever she plays the song live, right before the final chorus, she cuts off mid-vocal -- "I'm in the corner / watching you kiss her / whooaaa-----" and PUNCHES the AIR with her FISTS and i get CHILLS EVERY TIME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBleLInOzJw

that's just one example, she does it during every (non-"acoustic") live version i've seen:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=robyn+dancing+on+my+own+live

(yes i have watched all of those + more!)

About two-thirds of the way through Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom's "Track 5" things have gotten wonderfully hypnotizing, and then at the 7:25 mark this guitar that sounds straight out of Lush's "Desire Lines" drops in.

The moment when the merengue rhythm finally enters at around 0:48 (on this video anyway, since it tacks on an intro that fortunately isn't on the album) is the high point for me here:

Fuego - Que Buena Tu Ta Ft. Deevani

abe vigoda - 'sequins', when that 'bubble bobble' synth line comes in, redeeming what until then is just kind of moaning indie dribble

ciara - 'ride' - cannot count the number of times ATL GEORGIA, BOOTIES LOOK LIKE THIS SIZE bounced around in my head this year

glasser - 'apply' - 'AH-OOH-OOH THUUUUUUUUUNDAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH'

full-length album version of the Chemical Brothers' "Swoon" -- the beat from the prior track calmly winds down for the first 0:29, almost completely disappearing into the ether... then, at 0:30, lightning strikes --

the full-on immersion around 2:03 (and again at 4:53) is also fucking incredible

this was probably my #1 most played track of 2010, if i'm being honest -- and at 0:30, my favorite piece of "sound qua sound" of the entire year

― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Monday, December 13, 2010 1:00 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

Wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9MoGbbPaHM

2:03, where shit gets REAL, then 2:33, when shit gets realer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkx5-exuiUU

1:10. That shivery, breathtaking transition into the second chorus, where all the backing vocals swell up and dear god it is gorgeous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qewiYfF5CdM

0:20 is obvious; it's the most startled, jittery part of a startled, jittery song, then Julie starts with the part of her voice that sounds like broken crystal.

full-length album version of the Chemical Brothers' "Swoon" -- the beat from the prior track calmly winds down for the first 0:29, almost completely disappearing into the ether... then, at 0:30, lightning strikes --

the full-on immersion around 2:03 (and again at 4:53) is also fucking incredible

this was probably my #1 most played track of 2010, if i'm being honest -- and at 0:30, my favorite piece of "sound qua sound" of the entire year

― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Monday, December 13, 2010 1:00 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

Wow.

agree?

think i'm a little nuts?

major xxps

i imagined it in retrospect too but...no key change in cee lo's f'in song. too bad!

Great thread. Not long enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlRAJErqK4A

2:17 - Yes this rocks.