Cathartic Moments In Songs

[Chris_H_2]

There are several songs that have moments that just "get" me. Be it a lyric, bridge, etc. No matter how many times I hear them, there's an emotional sense of enlightenment or catharsis, like the clouds clearing and everything being put in a positive perspective.

Here are some examples (in some you have to listen to more of the song for context or lead in's):

Doves - Pounding (3:24 - 3:40 mark)


Wilco - Muzzle of Bees (3:57 mark on)


War on Drugs - In Reverse (5:12 - 5:34 acoustic guitar out of nowhere)


The National - Guest Room (2:00 - 2:13 mark "Just tie a woman to your wrist . . .")


and last but not least . . .

Sigur Ros - Festival (7:32 mark on)


what are yours?

[Simple Torture]

I've posted about it before (I think I created a thread about your favorite moments/song performances from any concert you've been to), but the sing-along parts (the ooo-oooo-ooooooos) in Arcade Fire's "Wake Up" are fine on the album, but in a live setting they just floored me.

Sound quality here is not the best (this is the only time I saw them, like 9 years ago), but if you start it from the beginning, it kicks in at about 20 seconds. Then it happens again at like 1:35. My favorite one is at about 2:50, after the "I guess we'll just have to adjust" line.

[Superblood Wolfmoon]

When Chris Cornell brings it home at the end of Four-Walled World, starting at around 5:10 until the end.

[Peeps]

long road on tb2k gets me. it was one of the first songs i heard after my mom passed and it fucking wells me up every god damn time

[E.H. Ruddock]

Sigur Ros - Festival (7:32 mark on)


what are yours?

This is a good one. For me, the opening music to svefn-g-englar before he starts singing is my moment from their catalog. But that is just one of many from them, I'm sure.

[E.H. Ruddock]

0:00 to 2:00

[Chris_H_2]

0:00 to 2:00

i can't wait to listen to this on our first day on our iceland roadtrip.

[E.H. Ruddock]

0:00 to 2:00

i can't wait to listen to this on our first day on our iceland roadtrip.

It will make you cry.

[verb_to_trust]

The first one that came to mind for me was Festival. Gives me goosebumps every time I hear it take off at the end.

[verb_to_trust]

About 2:55 in on Ghost Town by Kanye is a good one.

[bune]

The end of "We" by brad, from their first album. Jesus, the way the guitars build and then Stone lets loose. I just wish it was longer, it just crashes to an end like a wave.

[washing machine]

The white noise moment that Kim builds up to after the spoken word part of Washing Machine is it for me. Starting at about 4:04 and blooming until the end. Time stands still. Gets me every time.

[guestT]

6:05 on... ("the fact that my heart's beating...")



4:25... The whole song slowly building to "I'm alive, can you hear me?"...

[lennytheweedwhacker]

6:05 on... ("the fact that my heart's beating...")

this song so dang much

[LoathedVermin72]

The guitar solo outro of Kanye’s “New Slaves”. Not only is it beautiful and emotional, but it is the first instance of the snare drum sound on the whole album (and it’s track 4!). Hugely cathartic.

[Freewheelin]

Good morning, captain - slint. The ending, naturally
The live version of what happens when the heart just stops- the frames. Those notes and the conviction at the end. He lived that.
When I go deaf - low. THAT guitar entrance
Release me on the floor - figurines that cascading guitar all over the end of the song slays me

[spike]

great thread, i'll have to think of a few.

sigur ros definitely excels at this.

[EJ]

Radiohead - Let Down (3:30 to the end)

The whole song grabs me. It’s like a journey, it keeps opening up, and then really hits with a fantastic finish.

[Norah]

The white noise moment that Kim builds up to after the spoken word part of Washing Machine is it for me. Starting at about 4:04 and blooming until the end. Time stands still. Gets me every time.

yesssssssssssssssssssss

[doone]

Times of Trouble used to be a cathartic song for me but it's hard to listen to now.