Passages that make your hairs stand up

Some tracks have lots of varying pieces, not all of which instantly spring to mind as memorable. However many songs have passages that make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end.

These might last for 10 seconds or even 10 minutes, sometimes even an entire song might do it for you, which are your favourites?

To get you started how about (in no particular order)

• The closing passage of Supper's Ready by Genesis
• Keith Emerson's solo near the start of Tarkus
• The powerful instumental that closes Russia On Ice by Porcupine Tree
• The whole of Cinderella Search by Marillion (am I alone in thinking that it is astonishing this was considered only good enough to be a b-side?)
• John Petrucci's guitar break about 4 and a half minutes into Stream Of Conciousness
• Rick Wakeman's solo near the end of  Roundabout
• Steve Hackett's guitar solo in Firth Of Fifth
• and to add a bit of spice... the anthemic ending to Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead

That's only off the top of my head, if I think of any more I'll post them. Let's hear your suggestions

KC's Starless

camel's airborne

pfm's river of life

YES - The Remembering from TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS
Song part time: 9:10 -> 10:38

Don the cap and close your eyes imagine yourself that is the challenge
Iron metal caast to other
Distant drums

Force the bit between the mouth of freedom didn’t learn to fly
Remember to sail the skies
Distant suns
Will we reach
Winds allow
Other skylines
Other skylines to hold you

This part of the song gives me chills ... WOW !

Great thread idea by the way !!!

I think there is a definite link with prog and these emotional moments - i recall an interview on Yes Years when Wakeman said they actively persued musical composition in which the maximum amount of emotion was garnered from the listener - much in the classical symphonic mould - by using key changes etc... i think he was referring to And You and I in particular

The Pixies' solo from Monkey gone to Heaven

The first riff on Shine On...

The beginning of Us And Them

The background of Dazed And Confused

• Keith Emerson's piano on the second fate of "The Three Fates", Trilogy, The Endless Enigma, The Barbarian, Take a Pebble, Piano Improvisations, Piano Concerto #1, Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman, ... (ok... every piano piece he's ever played)
• The Moog ending to "Lucky Man"
• Greg Lakes voice on every song he's ever sung...( I was trying to list a few from KC and ELP and realized it was all of them )  Including the choruses off Pete Sinfield's song "Still"
• Toccata
• Tarkus off the WBMFTTSTNE's live album...
• That section of the "3rd Impression" when Greg comes in "Rejoice, glory is ours"

ok... I'll move on...

• PF - The beginning of SOYCD & Coming Back to Life
• PF - Dogs
• PF - The guitar solos on CN
• PF - WYWH
• Yes - The beginning of "A Venture"
• Yes - The piano solo on "Southside of the Sky"
• Yes - "I Get Up, I Get Down" from CTTE
• Yes - The verses from "And You and I" regarding the Preacher and theTeacher
• Yes - The section of TFTO (3rd side) where the lyrics start..."Do the leaves of grass stay greener thru the autumn"..
• Renaissance: the piano solo in "Can You Understand" and "Running Hard"
• Strawbs - the beginning of "Ghosts"
• Strawbs - "Grace Darling"

• the whole of KC's Red
• the whole of Lazy from Deep Purple
• the intro of Coca Neon Kamera Sutra from Sonic Youth (sdownload free and legal from epitonic.com, it's a MUST!)

James Lee - kudos for the TALK TALK insertion - TOTALLY!!!!!

this is the kind of thread I like to read on Prog Archives -

- the opening two songs on The Mars Volta's De-loused in the Comatorium.  It just explodes form ambinece into a full- tilt rocker!

-Maynard's scream in the song "The Grudge".  Also, the double bass pattern Danny Carey pulls off at the beggining

-The "Battle" section of Gates of Delerium from Relayer.

And a whloe ton of Rush stuff.