Songs that burst into glory

Inspired by this exchange from the Cocteau Twins : Classic or Dud thread:

the way songs like "pitch the baby" build to a sort of euphoric climax... does that make sense?
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, March 28, 2012 10:27 AM

My friend and I used to call this the Cocteau structure. It's very minimalist and repetitive for most of the song and then BAM it explodes into fireworks and confetti and sometimes swooshes of caramel and cotton candy.

"The Spangle Maker", "Donimo", "Feet-Like Fins", "Great Spangled Fritillary", "Sigh's Smell of Farewell", "Ooze Out and Away, Onehow", "Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires", "Pur", and "Treasure Hiding".
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, March 28, 2012 5:43 PM

Gimme non-Cocteau Twins songs that do this. Not so much a slow build to climax, but "minimalist and repetitive...and then BAM" as LeRooLeRoo said.

There's gotta be a slew of slow-burning soul records that do this.

The burst doesn't have to be all sweetness & light; how about cathartic (R.E.M. - "Everybody Hurts") or crazed (John Cale - "Fear Is a Man's Best Friend")?

Mentioned this on the Cocteau thread: The Sundays - "Joy"

The most obv example for me is the Diana Ross version of "Ain't No Mountain."

"candy's room"

Yuki - "Good Times"

Faust - No Harm

PiL - "Memories" (a new and hotter realm - Bangs)

bedhead - "bedside table"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTkfOVorDl4

Bruce Springsteen - Something In the Night (when the droney bass drums gets louder and more clear and then louder and BANG straight into heavy emotion)

Saint etienne - how we used to live

salsoul orchestra - magic bird of fire (it builds, recedes, builds, recedes and then BAM)

Velvet Underground - Heroin

Otis Redding - "Try A Little Tenderness"

minnie riperton - les fleurs (the chorus)

Big Star - Daisy Glaze

"Magic Bus" from the Who's 8/23/72 Stockholm show culminates in, I can say without hyperbole, the most profoundly earth-shattering climax(es) from a band whose career is defined by such moments. It was officially released on the online-fanclub-only View From A Backstage Pass, but is of course out of print now.

Minutemen, "The World According to Nouns"
Radiohead, "The Tourist"
Miles Davis, "In a Silent Way/It's About That Time" at 13:12 when Tony Williams just can't hold it in anymore

xp "Daisy Glaze" is a good one -- my favorite Big Star song

Good call on the Miles!

Number 1 with a bullet:

Underworld - Cups

Others:

The Sundays - Hideous Towns
Hidden Agenda - Dispatch #2
Disco Inferno - The Last Dance
Jay-Z - Come & Get Me

storm queen - it goes on

Kitchens of Distinction - Mad As Snow

Booka Shade - In White Rooms

obvious di pick also 2nd language

Higher Than The Sun.
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space.

Reminded of the end of Deep IN The Woods by The Birthday Party where the burst into Glory would be Rowland Howard's guitar burst. You might have to cut off 2 minutes at the beginning before it goes into the repetitive bit though.

Otis' "I've Been Loving You Too Long", tho it's not exactly glory

Best example of this is "Final Dream" by Toto from the Dune soundtrack. YouTube it. So majestic.

Meat Puppets "Plateau" in a mellow sort of way

Wedding Present, "Dalliance". Also their cover of Julee Cruise's "Falling".

Memory Tapes "Bicycle".

Low / Dirty Three's cover of "Down By The River." It's murky noise, random strumming and static for about 6 minutes before Mimi's vocals rise up with a stunning take on one of Neil's best melodies.

bluetile lounge - ambered

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqJOz1wKYAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwSuPXMHhaE&feature=artist

Maybe noone agrees but I think this is one of Radiohead's elemental tricks. Letting it simmer for a while and suddenly, a big cathartic moment near the end.

Let's take for example OKC, where almost every song follows in the same pattern of accumulating tension and exploding into bits (it's in all their discography from Pablo Honey through King of Limbs):

Airbag (In an interstellar burst I am back to save the universe)
Karma Police (phew for a minute there I lost myself)
Lucky (Pull me up from the aircrash...)
No Alarms (Such a pretty house and Such a pretty garden...)
Tourist (Slow down...)

Quite a few songs on Pink Floyd's The Final Cut do this, notably "The Post War Dream", "The Gunner's Dream" and "Two Suns In The Sunset". You get it in Waters' solo LPs as well, it seems to be one of his favoured tropes.

My favourite example on OKC is Let Down - the "one day I am gonna grow wings" part

Yeah forgot that one too, I was writing from memory. Also fucked up and wrote 'no alarms' instead of 'no surprises'.

Moments in Love - Art of noise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrS5ztAJ5xw

3:15 onwards (shake my head, turn my face to the floor etc)

Which reminds me, there's also "Desire" from Spirit of Eden.

Capt. Beefheart, "Big Eyed Beans from Venus" & "Kandy Korn"

Mott the Hoople, "Hymn for the Dudes"

Has Any Music Ever *BURSTED WITH JOY* to the Same Extent as Early Beatles Songs Such as "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "Please Please Me?"

here it comes...HERE IT COMES!

The Turtles - "Happy Together"

(there it was)

Kontakte - Life's Road Movies (Winterlight Remix)

I particularly love it when a song explodes into glory when you’re not expecting it and the ending takes you totally by surprise as a result. My faves:

Josef K – Chance Meeting - a kinda fine, slightly wonky post-punk track, but when that horn riff swells up and the strings come in and it builds and builds… wow. Like stepping out into the sun on a summer’s morning.

The Chameleons - Second Skin – A very different kind of thrill, but if Chance Meeting is like opening your door onto the sunshine then this has got to be like seeing the face of God or arriving at a state of perpetual nirvana or something. That coda gives me shivers like basically nothing else in music.

Can - "All Gates Open"