Greatest moments in rock

[laura from brooklyn]

The guitar/fax machine solo in the Talking Heads, "Born Under Punches." It starts at 2:43.

Talking Heads Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) (HQ)

[Epic Soundtracks]

The breakdown at the end of Re-make/Re-Model by Roxy Music--where they do the little riffs on Day Tripper, Ride of the Valkyries, etc...post-modernism is born here (at least in music)!

[Lookit]

James Kirk's guitar solo in 'Blueboy' by Orange Juice. That song should be the National Anthem!

[sockhead]

It may seem like "Dynamic Tension For Dummies," but I pick 18:17 in Pink Floyd's Echoes, where you hear divebombing chord changes while David Gilmour plays his "rickety-tick, rickey-tick" notes for melody. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm0VBWnUhvU

[Wes]

The breakdown at the end of Re-make/Re-Model by Roxy Music--where they do the little riffs on Day Tripper, Ride of the Valkyries, etc...post-modernism is born here (at least in music)!

I absolutely love that whole section - and especially the way the song ends like the band is about to pass out - but if I had to pick an actual "moment" for Roxy, it'd probably be the part that hits right with "...but you blew my mind" during In Every Dreamhome A Heartache, which effectively makes the song jump from sci-fi to horror, genre-wise.

[TrapNeuterReturn]

Motörhead- We Are The Roadcrew

solo segues to feedback segues back into solo at 2:22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb3zSgxMuug

[TrapNeuterReturn]

I found it, thee greatest moment in rock history- Guitar solo at 1:29 through drum solo at 1:55.

AFTERBIRTH- Mr. Louis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqPy-Um0pvM

[Pete from Boston [and NJ]]

The guitar/fax machine solo in the Talking Heads, "Born Under Punches." It starts at 2:43.

That's a good one.  I like the part from 2:31 on in "The Good Thing":

Talking Heads The Good Thing (HQ)

[dave from knoxville]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxt8iyA5QyY

The whole song, but especially 3:47 - 3:57

I'm not seeing a preview, but it's Mott the Hoople's Hymn for the Dudes, not some smartass joke. I get emotional every time I hear it, and I have been listening to it now for 40 years.

[liberalcrow]

When the horns come in on Titus Andronicus' "Richard II."

[AllSussedOut]

Or the opening "whoo!" (forgive me) on Supergrass' "Richard III!"

[Steve of Bloomington]

I really like the floating chords that close out 'Sheik' by ZZ Top.

[break]

Drive Like Jehu "Here Come the Rome Plows" from 3:50-3:56.  I don't know why that tiny little part tickles me so. 

Drive Like Jehu - Here Come The Rome Plows

[Crusherkc]

next to Page's wind-up for the outro solo in "Black Dog" this moment has to be my 2nd favorite: as Neil comes out of the solo for the final verse "Shelter me from the powder and the finger..."  I get goosebumps every time. At around 4:25-30

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Powder Finger

[cavorting with nudists]

I don't disagree re: "Powderfinger," which I consider easily one of the 10 greatest songs of all time, but for me the goosebump moment is two lines later, when Neil stretches up away from the harmony vocalists with "Just think of me as one you never figured..." Partly because of the sudden, solitary leap upward, tunewise; partly because I remember a Rolling Stone review by Paul Nelson of a solo show by Neil where he sang the song before Rust's release. Nelson misheard the line as "Just think of me as one you'll never figure," and replied "How did he know what I was thinking?" One of the more sublime moments in the honorable history of mistaken lyrics, to my mind.