There are always parts of songs that I continue to just rewind and listen to over and over again. In the most recent case it involves about 30 seconds.

For me, it is the minutes 1:46-2:17 of Imogen Heap's Hide and Seek. Thanks to Glimber for introducing me to her.

What a great song.

What are yours?

last 30 secs or so of "Forever Longing the Golden Sunsets" by the Appleseed Cast.

Melodramatic title - i know... but...it must be taken in context of the fact that it is from a loose concept album with a strong "ocean" theme. I really hate how much this band has been negleted and overlooked.

Anyways... I feel like my insides want to explode when the last bit kicks in. Frantic, noisy, melodic and completely kick ass.

great song, great album. local boys too. maybe they'll start to get more recognition now that they've moved to california or wherever it is they are.

right now i'm loving the last 30 seconds or so of "tell me what you want me to do" by charles wright. the song builds real slow for four minutes or so and it all pays off bigtime.

The intro build up on the live Les Bains Douches version of Joy Division's Shadowplay, with the "turn the vocals up please" part, just before the song really kicks in at about 0:33

At end of the solo in Another Girl, Another Planet when the vocals come back in with the "space travel's in my blood!" part

i can't say I hate it, but I do think that more people would benefit from listening to the appleseed cast. They are definitely one of my favorite bands but are certainly hardly ever mentioned here.

edit: oh yes. welcome to the board too. I assume you are new here.

Opening to The Cure's "Fascination Street" -- have always loved it.

The first 30 seconds of "Holiday Head" from Screaming Blue Meessiahs is absolutely white hot. When the rhythm section kicks in I just can't keep myself from rewinding over and over again.

Also, towards the end of The Clash's Remote Control.

last 30 seconds of 'Shout at the devil 97'....

i think the industrilaized version is so much better then the original overall as well.

not 30 seconds, but the last two minutes of "Paradise City" might be the best in music!

the last 30 seconds of rites of spring's "persistent vision" and the last 30x2 seconds of the constantines' "shine a light".

The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors
And the boys try to look so hard
The amusement park rises bold and stark
Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist
I wanna die with you wendy on the streets tonight
In an everlasting kiss - - HUH

(CRAZY BASS PART)

The highway’s jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
Everybody’s out on the run tonight but there’s no place left to hide

GREAT CALL!!!

that part in Wilco's "Pieholden Suite" where the horns come in.

Actually, about 5000 songs when the horns kick in.

OHHH, yeaH, Tania. I once had my E kick in at the exact beginning of that song.*


* it was 1989, come on

Yup. That middle section in the Saints' "Know Your Product", when Chris Bailey ad libs "I said take it!" and then the R&B horns kick in over the punk din and Bailey keeps ad-libbing ("Come on... soul man... let's shoot the professor... Alright!").

And 4,999 others.

YEAH, and the 1,2,3,4..THE HIGHWAYS...

I often find myself pumping my fist and screamingalong with that part while driving too fast (and possibly under the influence)

...is usually the last 30 seconds of the last song I've listened to. One standout comes to mind: "Let Down" by Radiohead: the build from the middle instrumental break through the last verse and chorus.

The piano opening of "Fairytale of New York". So good.

Andre's Rhyme on Goodie Mob's Black Ice

Friends, Romans, countrymen lend me yo' eardrums
It was a beautiful day off in the neighborhood
Yellows and greens and blues and browns
and greys and hues that ooze beneath dilapidated woods
Ain't a thing could explain what pertains
to cocaine it's a stain that rain
See summer roll around niggaz holla bout change
Then they steady move them ki's like Bob James
Cause old man winter's arrived, the temperature dives
November just died, December's alive
Thus it ain't no typical ride
Just individual's way to bring home
the bacon when bacon was all gone
Makin it our own, takin me all wrong
We've all indulged in the bulge of those no-no's
No you ain't solo, it's even lower levels you can go
Take sun people, put 'em in a land of snow

radiohead has some great ones. that part right when the bass kicks in on exit music for a film and he's all like "sing sing a song" is killer.

hmm, I agree with Tania's Cure assessment, I would also say the same for "Plainsong" the opening track on Disintegration.

Bad Brains - Pay to Cum
Chameleons UK - Swamp Thing
Bauhaus - Stigmata Martyr

all the first 30 seconds of the song

huh. I was going to say the first 30 sec. of "The Big Takeover."

you nailed it here. can't think of anything better.

The beginning of Reign In Blood by Slayer.

The end of "The Bleeding Heart Show"

The ensemble break "Too Precious" by The Stranglers.