24 Musical Moments To Die For, Part 2
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24 MUSICAL MOMENTS TO DIE FOR (13-24)
- Listen close enough, and you can practically hear American Indie Rock being made up on the spot at 1:40 of Walk By Your House by The Individuals.
– From 1982’s just-reissued Fields
- Paul, George and (especially) Ringo are all together, but John’s head is in the clouds, seeding a downpour of psychedelia at 0:50 in Rain by The Beatles.
– B-Side to 1966’s guitars vs. harmonies “Paperback Writer” single
- Jason Isbell’s rock ‘n’ roll-loving father gives him the best advice ever at 0:58 in Outfit by Drive-By Truckers.
–From 2003’s fully Southern Decoration Day
- Robert Pollard gets lost in an echo-y cavern full of guitar chords piercing the darkness like stalactites at 2:06 in Look At Them by Guided by Voices.
– From 1996’s still magical Under the Bushes, Under The Stars
- Paul Weller — and his Rickenbacker — make reality seem pretty easy, all things considered at 3:32 in Away From The Numbers by The Jam.
– From 1977’s mod-reviving In The City
- Bernard Sumner celebrates his band’s most perfect chorus with a little yelp at 3:20 in Age of Consent by New Order.
– From 1983’s statement of purpose Power, Corruption and Lies
- Scott Oliver hopes that he doesn’t die while Manny Diez reminds you that he almost did at the breakdown at 3:08 in The Shiny Unfeeling by The Miss Alans.
– From 1990’s transitional debut Smack The Horse
- Eddie Kendricks reveals just how deep the fantasy went and yet it still seems more romantic than psychotic at 3:08 in Just My Imagination by The Temptations.
– From 1971’s post-psychedelic Sky’s The Limit
- Thank gods that Lloyd Cole still lives like this so that rest of us don’t have to at 3:16 in Vin Ordinaire by Lloyd Cole and The Negatives.
– From 2001’s comeback The Negatives
- The way the entire band joyously piles on during the chorus at 0:50 in Alice on The Radio by The Cat Heads.
– From 1988’s shamefully out-of-print Submarine
- After 7 minutes of raining pure psychedelic noise bliss, Ira Kaplan stumbles into the perfect riff, and finally after all of those years of loving The Velvets, they love him back at 7:07 in Pass The Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind by Yo La Tengo.
– From 2006’s return to form I Am Not Afraid of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
- The awesomely gorgeously perfect horns that frame: “Do you know what I saw today? / A man blow himself away over youuuuu” at 2:50 in Forbidden Fruit by The Blow Monkeys.
– From 1986’s hits -plus-filler Animal Magic
There you go. Combined with my previous effort, that makes 49. And I’ve only scratched the surface. There are loads more on the horizion.
- 25 Musical Moments to Die For
- 207 of The Greatest Indie Rock Songs of All Time
- 50 Great Songs Over 7 Minutes Long That Didn’t Make Rolling Stone’s List
- That’s What I Like: Drive-by Truckers
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