There are many, many great moments in songs and despite not particularly liking Squeeze, a special mention has to go to….

Cool For Cats

I kiss her for the first time
And then I take her home
I’m invited in for coffee
And I give the dog a bone

the bass bit at the end of Going Underground.

One of the only bits of a Squeeze song that is any good lyrically. Up The Junction is totally incoherent.
I love the guitar riffs in Steely Dan’s Reelin’ In The Years

I absolutely love this bit of Apparently Nothin’ from about 2:48 onwards, so so funky.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vkpBEv6Hrq0#t=162s[/video]

My favourite line of any song is

“the only sun she ever saw was the two he left her with”

‘ I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does.’

[you] ‘Ain’t a beauty, but hey you’re alright’

Also from Cool for Cats:

In and out of Wandsworth
With their number on their name
Funny how the missus
Always looks the bleedin’ same

“Share some greased tea with me”

3 Minutes 39 Seconds in…

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6QnK0yql8s&feature=player_embedded#![/video]

From 3.39:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6QnK0yql8s[/video]

From 2.40:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsbR2dEmHGc[/video]

From 2.22:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2xODjbfYw8[/video]

From 7:21:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlbunmCbTBA[/video]

The way Candy Statton sings “..occasionally…” in You’ve Got the Love. goosebumps.
And obviously, when the backing vocals crack in Gimme Shelter.

Second guitar solo in comfortably numb

Zulu-Eleven – Member

3 Minutes 39 Seconds in…

Bloody hell, great minds and all that….. 😀

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM2Ssne97ek[/video]

intro has to the most perfect. 8)

I got a Gibson without a case and i cant get that even tanned look on my face.
I am One The Who

Indeed Rusty Spanner, indeed 😀

From A New England by the Bard of Barking

“I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them but they were only satellites
Is it wrong to wish on space hardware”

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhUDyBwJhto[/video]

Stones – start of You Can’t Always Get What You Want is a good one.

More!

From 3.18:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgoGBzZbOc0[/video]

From 1.35:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvcgQyvPN6w[/video]

From 2.32:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCy65ZQx8WU[/video]

‘Remember, whatever the cost, you have to burn all the bridges you’ve crossed.
The devils you’ve yet to behold are better by far than the devils you know.’

the sun goes down alone………….bryan adams, boys of summer.

As a challenging alternative… A mere sixteen seconds into this, I challenge anyone to listen without being carried away to another place….

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR2JlDnT2l8[/video]

And the way the strings rise from the background to gradually dominate Pachebels Canon in D, starting about 51 seconds in, through to the big break at 1 minute 51, is simply exquisite.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkSp8wc8lKw&feature=related[/video]

everytime Andy Gill touches his guitar strings in this

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoaqxjTRo04[/video]

I’m with Zulu-Eleven on this one. That or the beginning of Joy Division’s Transmission.

the bit where Riders on the Storm turns into Rapture in that mash-up

The beginning of A Forest (live).

Wow, that Vaughan Williams one is beautiful.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5DCFjk_O4w[/video]

from 2.48 onwards till the next chorus

Bloody hell, almost forgot this:

6.13:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo6Es-itLg0[/video]

You Lot : Orbital

From – 2:29 – 3:35 gives me shivers still – whole song is ace.

[video]http://youtu.be/wLKOIHrnk80[/video]

2:16 on a 500 shroom brew back in 91, haven’t been right since. 😀

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAvHjoLxxh8[/video]

Up The Junction is totally incoherent

Made perfect sense to me.

You notion of no clearly have narrative.

Floyd – the entire of Shine on you crazy diamond. Entirely because my dad chose it to be played at his funeral the old sod – he knew we all loved the song beforehand too and was a big fan himself.

Only all of it!!! 😆
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JExMUFSdS0Y[/video]

Pachelbel’s canon is exquisite. I think it’s a piece in four parts in which they start at intervals and basically follow the same tune building to the crescendo and then gradually simplifying and fading back out again. Exquisite.

As a moment in a song, I love the ‘breaking glass’ in Lou Reed / The Velvet Undergound’s ‘Caroline Says’. 3:23

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuHgjtAK_PE[/video]

and also the Cure – Plainsong; which is so bleak but right at the end (and you have to strain to hear it) a depressing minor chord just suddenly starts to warm, like the first bit of warmth of sun coming up after a night of rain at Mayhem

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZoYzne9Tpg&feature=fvwrel[/video]

[edit] listening hard I’m not even sure it does on this clip, but you can tell it wants to.

1:05 to 1:40 (and opening 20 secs)

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ClfhXFifRw&feature=related[/video]

It’s all good, but the opening is amazing

loads of great bits already! 😀 Especially the Doors one. 😀 😀

To add to the list:

“Aaaaaaaaaah, wham bam thank you mam” from Suffragette City.

The bit in “Aquarius” by Boards Of Canada where it goes from minor to major.

about 100 great moments by Patton / FNM

”indecision clouds my vision, no one listens..”

”We care a lot about the garbage pail kids, they never lie.
We care a lot about transformers because theres more than meets the eye.” !