re: What are some of your personal favorite tidbits/parts of music?

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The sound of Peter Buck's guitar on those early REM records...

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can´t believe somebody downvoted this

The string outro on Purple Rain
The keyboard solo on Do You Feel Like We Do? Frampton Comes Alive
The first 8 bars of Back in Black
Any of the drum fills on Fool In The Rain (THE greatest RnR Groove of all Time)
The retard section of the Beatles The End
The string opening and harmony on LRB's Long Way There
Trumpet intro on Tower of Power's Still a Young Man (RIP Mick Gillette)
Steve Cropper's rhythm guitar on Green Onions
Steve Gadd's drumming in the modified bridge of Aja
The first 8 bars of VH's Running with the Devil
Tom Scott's sax solo on Deacon Blues

- Jimi's wah-wah intro and opening chords/licks to Voodoo Child.
- Merry Clayton doing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqXyjbgs5rU
- Robert Plant's voice and JP Jones' bass at the start of What Is and What Should Never Be.
- In the first and last verse of All I Ever Wanted, Santana mirrors the vocal melody, so it's like the guitar is singing along.
- Steve Howe busting out an intense guitar solo in the middle of a swishy Yes song called To Be Over.
- "frick you I won't do what you tell me..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPWYcjypSWo
- The lyric "I know you don't owe me, but I wish you would let me ask one favor from you..." I could write a whole essay on what a primal moment this is, and I would link wiki articles like this one, and I would find an appropriate Far Side cartoon to help make my point (that our behaviors are not so different from what you see in nature), possibly this one: