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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReuWlABb8FQ
However, lately it's mostly been Floor Jansen's astonishing vocals that have been giving me those "wow" moments. That said, while there are countless moments of insane vocal gymnastics from her, the one that really gets me is the whole last section of The Poet And The Pendulum. It's just...perfect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEzZRMthhXU
10:00 onwards.
Also, a very cool bit of composition nerdery - at 7:00, the narrator says he has three minutes to live. The sword comes down exactly three minutes later in the song.
Tool - Prison Sex. 3:40 onwards always hits the spot.
Tool - Parabola. 6:10 the vocals there really hit the spot too.
Delerium - Silence (Tiesto Remix). 2:40 onwards. The vocals there always make my hairs go (what little I have left!) - epic vocal trance anthem!
1:38 - that solo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDyyMG0iQsw
1:20 - oh man that solo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bDVPLDppvE
1:10 - I could spend a week detailing a thousand Blind Guardian moments that make my hair stand on end, but I'll settle for this one. The whole second verse right through to the chorus is a great showcase for Hansi's vocals.
https://youtu.be/4HEwUwNRnlo
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Here’s some that give me goosebumps:
Ziggy Stardust the motion picture (live at Hammersmith) when Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud segues into All The Young Dudes.
Arcade Fire - Everything Now, the bit where he sings ‘Daddy, how come you’re never around?’
Leonard Cohen - Going Home from the album Old Ideas. Just the whole thing I get goosebumps all the way through. Same with You Want it Darker (title track).
Kate Bush - ‘take my shoes off, and throoow then in a lake’ from Hounds of Love.
Neil Young - the Guitar intro to Alabama.
Bon Iver - 8 Circle when he sings ‘I’m standing in the street now and I’ll carry his guitar’
https://youtu.be/IxgY9eEFiYM
https://youtu.be/fOr1stg9lds
Much more powerful than the studio version imo.
Those four notes (Bb, F, G, E) in the intro of Shine On You Crazy Diamond.
Gets me every time.
Sax solo starts around 3:45 and the kid nails it.
They played it at Coventry on The River Tour in 2016, the only UK date of that trip to get this song, and I was in tears for the whole thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8qpTL1wxGQ
Anyhoo, one issue featured this- the only version recorded, specially for the magazine article.
I still have my original version, and it is such a crappy format that I thank whoever put this on YT, with all my heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMcLuRd9Cwo
In the article, Bill discusses his greatest influence at the time-as I recall, Clapton, and the recording was his re-imagining of Layla. Just hearing it today sends chills down my spine, and nearly brings me to tears.
You can hear him building up to something that starts around 2-30, and at the 3 minute mark, I still cant understand what he is doing.
In the interview he explains that he reaches a point, where it is pointless to continue-and it ends with a single sustained note which is the essence of what he was trying to achieve.
I would pay a lot of money to hear more from this recording session, but there is none out there.
Some years later, the Chinese democracy stuff got leaked, and Buckethead was on my radar by now,
this chap has made a valiant effort to learn this part-very close, but still missing some of the subtlety, I think the leaked demo has more of the solo intact-but it is still an amazing thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMGWqekCj1c
And this blew my mind when it was uploaded a couple of days after the last Tool album was leaked a week early--
truly incredible---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYVvHhEoK9M