Songs that build to crescendo so amazing you stopped in your tracks 1st listen.

Pearl Jam - Any live version of Crazy Mary with Boom Gaspar on organ. First time I saw/heard this was at UNO in 2003. A ten minute version of one of my favorites, with Boom banging on the keyboard, hair swinging like Animal from the Muppets was WILD.

At Dawn - MMJ

The New Pornographers- The Bleeding Heart Show

Sorry, but I've got to break you're time span rule on my first one.

Led Zeppelin - Fool in the Rain - the crescendo towards the end of the song where Bonham builds and builds and builds before totally cutting loose on his mindblowing drum solo.

Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly - the crescendo to the "lift off/take off" part of this song gives me goosebumps.

Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer - there's a live version of this song on youtube with an amazing buildup to the opening notes of the song. The arena was dark and somehow the crowd recognized what song was coming and in unison started humming/chanting the famous opening notes of the song as the band was warming up. After about 45 seconds of this the band broke into the opening notes of the song. I've never heard a concert audience guess a song like that with. Of course, it may very well have been an encore where that was the only big hit left to play that night. Pretty awesome version that is one of the first versions that comes up if you youtube the song.

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I Am the Resurrection-The Stone Roses

Multiple crescendos, spectacular song.

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At first I wasn't gettin' it... then about 3 minutes in it throws that first hook in ya and reels you in.

I'm putting odds at 50/50 you'll have already heard this before... But in case you haven't:

Nine Inch Nails & Peter Murphy - "Strange Kind of Love"
Studio Version (Acoustic)
LIVE @Agora Ballroom 8/29/09

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Everyone was watching in stunned silence at the sheer awesomeness of the moment. No one knew who they were, but everyone stopped talking and stated to pay attention. It was amazing.

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I love it when your realize you are witnessing greatness as a live premonition.

A couple years ago, I was amongst a crowd of folks at SXSW and we all learned who Sharon Vam Etten was at the same time. Here's a couple good tracks from a recent concert: "Serpents" and "Give Out"


Nothing will EVER live up to this next one in terms of "Holy shite... Where the hell are all the people who should be seeing this?"

I was fortunate to be in a position to attend pretty mucht every concert that happened to be going on in my general vicinity from '92-'95 (more on that below). I was back in New Orleans for my mid-term break and thought I'd check this show out...



The London Suede was actually the headliner as Cranberries and Counting Crows had yet to wide-release a full album in the US at the time. Less than 1,000 people to see it all. I couldn't believe what I was seeing/hearing... Even wrote the bands' names on my hand with a sharpie so there was no chance I'd forget them. Here's the REAL kicker: The Cranberries played "Zombie" midway through their set (I thought they were singing "Zagreb" ). I was PISSED when their album finally got a wide release and that damn song wasn't even on there! I had to wait another year for it to show up on their follow-up album.

I felt like a music version of Marco Polo for the better part of a decade. Going here and there sampling audio like spices. I started hanging around with some of the DJs for 106.1 The Zephyr when I was a HS Senior in '92. They made sure I was well-connected in the DFW market when I headed off tho college. It made sense on both ends because most bands played Dallas/Houston/New Orleans (or the reverse order) within a few days of each other and we'd set each other up for promos and making contacts, etc.
I can honestly take credit for helping The Toadies make the jump to getting national airplay and go big-time. Summer of '93 I brought back a copy of the EP they were peddling during their "extended tour of Fort Worth" days. The guys at Zephyr knew they had lightening in a bottle approved a couple songs for deep rotation a good 1 1/2 years before those same songs helped Rubberneck go Platinum.

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Nine Inch Nails & Peter Murphy - "Strange Kind of Love"

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I think you and I are the only ones that recognize and appreciate Peter Murphy's greatness.

Weezer-Only in dreams

i'm always willing to try new stuff....but I just don't get the appeal. sorry.

Thrice-In Exile

Thrice-Firebreather

Bring out all of the roadies and opener bands

goosebumps