Greatest moments in rock

[KickTheBobo]

That three note lead during the "When you hit sand" part of Pavement's "Pueblo"

For Sabbath, I gotta go with Into the World, when the intro ends and Tony lays out the riff and then the drums & bass kick in.

[dave from knoxville]

Telephone is RINGing!

Alice Cooper - Under My Wheels

[Martin]

That Portishead crowd sounded pretty annoying/rowdy though. WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! (No offense to Chris.)

[Crusherkc]

Cramps at Napa State Mental Hospital.  "Somebody told me you people are crazy, but I'm not so sure about that. You seem to be alright with me."

If only more audiences were like this I'd go to more shows. 

[Smelodies]

Keith Richards Guitar Hit

[Chris L]

That Portishead crowd sounded pretty annoying/rowdy though. WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! (No offense to Chris.)

Gotta admit I totally WOOO'd after That Part of "Glory Box" as well. At least I didn't post the version with the dude singing along in his best Beth Gibbons voice.

I was at the 2nd Hammerstein Ballroom show and it was brilliant. I had mixed feelings about the last album; a few tracks were fantastic, but overall I found it too unrelentingly dour.  Live, however, most of these songs attain a whole other level of grandeur.  Strange how a band that's barely active can seem like they have so many potential directions left to explore, but it feels like that's the case.

[buffcoat]

I agree about Third.  I like Machine Gun, Silence and The Rip a lot, and I don't like a couple of other songs for mostly the same reason that I like those songs.

Do you think their absence has anything to do with the weird bit about how the label refuses to consider Adrian Utley as part of the band?

[Chris L]

I agree about Third.  I like Machine Gun, Silence and The Rip a lot, and I don't like a couple of other songs for mostly the same reason that I like those songs.

Do you think their absence has anything to do with the weird bit about how the label refuses to consider Adrian Utley as part of the band?

I've never heard that before.  That sounds like one bad contract. Adrians always have it rough.

[buffcoat]

I agree about Third.  I like Machine Gun, Silence and The Rip a lot, and I don't like a couple of other songs for mostly the same reason that I like those songs.

Do you think their absence has anything to do with the weird bit about how the label refuses to consider Adrian Utley as part of the band?

I've never heard that before.  That sounds like one bad contract. Adrians always have it rough.

The worst was when Adrian got hit on by Clubber Lang.

[dave from knoxville]

Nirvana Bass Player Gets a Bass in the Face

[JonFromMaplewood]

I almost forgot to post my all-time favorite!  And it never weakens for me despite classic rock radio's apparent mission to run it into the ground.

From ~2:00 to ~2:20

Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl

[Smelodies]

The famous one note solo. 

[cavorting with nudists]

With the "whooo!"

[Steve of Bloomington]

Oh yeah, and the drumbeats when "To All The Girls" transitions into "Shake Your Rump" on Paul's Boutique.

I like the acid-y(?) synth line right after the Big Bank Hank sample 'Shake Your Rump-a'.

Also the guitar break with the ahhhh ahhhh vocals in Strawberry Letter 23. The Shuggie Otis version and The Brothers Johnson version.

[nec13]

Jeez. A lot of the ones I would have chosen have already been named. So I'll just add a few more.

"Kick Out The Jams" (intro)
"Good Vibrations" (bridge)
"Shake Some Action" (first thirty seconds or so)
VU's "What Goes On" (guitar solo and closing organ riffs)
"Helter Skelter" (ending & "I've got blisters on my fingers" line)