Your favourite woahhhh moments in songs.

d8m

You know those songs that have those woah moments that just get you everytime.

1:47 when the Muff kicks in,

3:16 the tempo picks up and makes for an epic outro.

0:32 Chorus

1:54  That bass riff!

randomhandclaps

For me, the one I remember most is the bit where Sabrina's nipple slipped out in Boys (Summertime Love).

Drew_TNBD

6:05. "Choosing to be here in... this body... this body holding me... be my reminder here that I am not alone..."

Spine tingle moment for me.

ICBM

Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang - the key change at the end of the middle eight.

Still makes me catch my breath even after thirty years and having heard it hundreds of times.

Moss

2:28 - when the distorted guitars come in

2:32 - when everything goes a little bit mental...

3:00 - that synth part

2:00 and 3:45 - you'll just have to listen 

vasselmeyer

Stevie Ray Vaughan on his worst album but one of his best tracks, "Life Without You" at almost exactly 03:00 when the solo kicks off. Blindingly emotional playing:

MrSwanson

Moss said:

2:28 - when the distorted guitars come in

2:32 - when everything goes a little bit mental...

3:00 - that synth part

2:00 and 3:45 - you'll just have to listen 

Wisdom for the FJM!

thomasross20

Excellent, will listen to these

mudslide73

The middle eight in Raspberry Beret - lovely double entendre too!

Octahedron

Woaaaaahhh we're living on a prayer...

BigMonka

The moment when Hendrix ends Little Wing - imagine what heights of musical beauty the final solo could have blown up into, but instead it ends and leaves us forever wondering what it could have been (well that is until with here SRV's version ;-) )

stimpsonslostson

The moment in every Westlife song where they get up off their stools for the big key change! Gets me every time.

sticker

Probably the one before .... Bodyform , Body formed for yoooooooooou!

speshul91

devil in i by slipknot, the lyrics have meaning to me and the bassline is awesome to play as well as listen to

underdog

Lyrically, REM - The One I Love, the bit where the fact it's not a love song is made obvious.

Also the quiet almost whispered "until I find some body new" right at the end of Damien Rice - The Blowers Daughter

Visually, got to be the end of the video for Smack My Bitch Up - The Prodigy

guitarfishbay

The problem with woah moments shared in this way is you need to listen to them in context to get the full effect and not just skip straight to the cool bit. Totally get what you mean though.

Here's an awesome Dredg song, slow builder until the chorus kicks in at 1:39.

guitarfishbay

Also this whole song. Very powerful, deals with his disillusion with the music industry, and wanting to return to old drug taking habits despite knowing how it will end. Can't pick a woah moment, it is a woah song to me.

frictionfraction

1:28 when the guitar drums bass and keys fire up

not_the_dj

Two of my favourite noises ever committed to tape: Debbie Harry at 2:05 ...and Wendy James at 0:08

mike_l

At 3-52, one of my favourite guitar parts, harmony from 4-08, the delay laden part at 5-34

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=SFLVSxc8nVA

 

octatonic

Drew_fx said:

6:05. "Choosing to be here in... this body... this body holding me... be my reminder here that I am not alone..."

Spine tingle moment for me.

Excellent.

Also the huge snare reverb bit at 4:39 on this track.

This had such a huge effect on me that in every commercial production I've done  I mange to sneak in what I call the 'Tool snare'- one snare hit with massive reverb, as a kind of homage.

Then go back to 3:52 and hear one of the mightiest riffs of all time and then marvel at the total confidence and restraint they have to only play for one refrain, then its gone and they are onto something else.

Very few bands have the stones to do that sort of thing- anyone else would hammer it into the ground until it loses all meaning and relevance.

Consequently this song never gets old to me.