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What song gives you a rock-gasm?

Vic Sage Jul 26 2017 02:27 PM

I was listening to Daltry hitting the high note during "Love, Reign O'er Me" during my morning drive, and i instinctively closed my eyes and almost hit the car in front of me. It's just one of those musical moments to which i have a Pavlovian response. Whether because it brings me back to a specific golden moment in my otherwise bleary past, or it's just a combination of sounds that resonates in my cerebellum (or, as some would have it, touches my "soul"), there are certain songs, or parts of songs (a particular hook, guitar lick, turn of phrase) that make me have a rockgasm... an eyes closing, sing-a-longing, air-guitaring, transcendent moment that only music (and sex) can provide. That Daltry moment is one of mine. What's one of yours? It doesn't have to be rock... jazz, classical, country, hip-hop (really?)... whatever. Or is it just me?

MFS62 Jul 26 2017 02:44 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

Alone Later

d'Kong76 Jul 26 2017 02:59 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

When they break into the butcher and the baker... gets me every time... [youtube:3k3czuwr]Jfz7gW2Wf3I[/youtube:3k3czuwr]

themetfairy Jul 26 2017 03:39 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm? Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jul 27 2017 02:23 AM

ELO's Mr. Blue Sky. I start every race with it so when I hear it randomly I feel like I should be running. [youtube:175c9ty0]s7dTBoW5H9k[/youtube:175c9ty0]

seawolf17 Jul 26 2017 06:29 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

[youtube:11l5ku9u]-2zwBRa0YhA[/youtube:11l5ku9u] This video came out in 1991, at perhaps the most impressionable musical time in my life. My friends and I were way into Tesla's "Five Man Acoustical Jam" record, to the point where we'd formed our own band around that premise, playing acoustic versions of our favorite songs. When this video hit -- in a time before the internet, MTV video debuts were appointment viewing to our 14yo minds -- and this song is still probably my favorite single song of all time. It gets turned up LOUD every time.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 26 2017 06:41 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

I have a lot of these and I like this topic. But I can't think of them all right now 1. The contrast between the two rounds of sax-drum breakdowns in Steely Dan's Aja. The first round, there's a moment where Gadd fills not with a drum hit but by clicking his sticks together. It's genius, but EVEN MORE GENIUS when the next time the same moment comes around he DOESN'T click them and in that emptiness I'm reminded how great the first hit was. Never fails to gasm me. 2. The way Michael Stipe sings "coriander" in REM's "Find the River" 3. The intro of "We're an American Band" just when the drum roll ends and the majestic fanfare of the guitar cuts in, all the way to the cowbell-clanging and first vocal 4. The ending of Thomas Dolby's "Dissident" -- studio trickery, singing to mock the studio trickery, and then an instrumental outro mimicking that.

RealityChuck Jul 26 2017 07:04 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

"Rosalita" by Bruce Springsteen, at the line "'Cause the record company, Rosie, just gave me a big advance!"

Edgy MD Jul 26 2017 07:14 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: 1. The contrast between the two rounds of sax-drum breakdowns in Steely Dan's Aja. The first round, there's a moment where Gadd fills not with a drum hit but by clicking his sticks together. It's genius, but EVEN MORE GENIUS when the next time the same moment comes around he DOESN'T click them and in that emptiness I'm reminded how great the first hit was. Never fails to gasm me. Are jazzgasms allowed?

d'Kong76 Jul 26 2017 07:15 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: 3. The intro of "We're an American Band" just when the drum roll ends and the majestic fanfare of the guitar cuts in, all the way to the cowbell-clanging and first vocal Yeah that's a good one, and brings back memories of the sugar and hormones kicking in at middle school dances when the band rocked that tune.

Edgy MD Jul 26 2017 07:29 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

Yeah, that's pretty much where it kicks you. The footage from GFR at Shea shows what looks like 14-year-olds sitting on the dugout roof at Shea losing their minds to "WaAB." Could there have been any sweeter freedom for a 14-year-old than rocking out to GFR at Shea in 1973 while sitting on the dugout roof like you own the place, kinda getting the dirty lyrics, and feeling empowered that this forbidden knowledge has been carefully meted out to you by an older cousin? It's, like, a natural fact.

41Forever Jul 26 2017 07:34 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

There's a wonderful Christmas song from The Killers, "Boots," about a person who has faced struggles in life and is looking for redemption and direction -- the song starts with a clip from "It's a Wonderful Life" -- and the song builds to a point where Brandon Flowers cries out "Do you hear my voice? Do you know my name? Light my way, Lift my head. Light my way." It stirs emotions every single time. It's one of a handful of Christmas songs that I keep on the iPod year round. [youtube:2lyh2z4x]UymN_kjYeFk[/youtube:2lyh2z4x]

metirish Jul 26 2017 07:48 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

Great thread, I love The Cars Touch and Go, especially when that cool guitar kicks in , in the video it's the 45 second mark .....love it [youtube:6s1js4vv]L7Gpr_Auz8Y[/youtube:6s1js4vv] INXS Don't Change

metirish Jul 26 2017 07:54 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

This one reminds me so much of when I first immigrated to NYC ....That opening chord?, everytime I hear this I am brought back to the mid nineties .. [youtube:24tfl0pf]xSHAqHA-SPc[/youtube:24tfl0pf]

d'Kong76 Jul 26 2017 07:57 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

I've heard that song 12 dozen times and never really appreciated that guitar until just NOW!!! (re: Touch and Go)

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 26 2017 08:15 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

That's probably because the stupendous guitar solo that starts at 1:17 makes you forget.

Edgy MD Jul 26 2017 08:15 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

It's ("T&G") like every instrument is landing in a different place in the beat, achieving some insane syncopation that they somehow hold together despite each other. It may be the nu waviest song ever. The first gasm that came to my mind was the primal harmonica lick on this song. In the intro and in the break, it pins you down, promising delivery of the guitars and drums that come in on top of it, but denying at the same time until you scream and beg for it. It breaks you. [youtube:1k5ivdhq]7T-c1x0ILWI[/youtube:1k5ivdhq]

cooby Jul 26 2017 08:41 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

MFS62 wrote: Alone Later Excellent excellent choice For me, maybe Holly Holy

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 26 2017 09:29 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

[youtube:u8phx6is]NO5oX6ElPm4[/youtube:u8phx6is] I get a cheese-gasm for the 18 seconds beginning at 0:43: The drums, the marching-band maneuver, the crowd.

dgwphotography Jul 26 2017 11:13 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

"This is the real life. This is just fantasy" Gets me every time. [youtube:3le8m4fu]fJ9rUzIMcZQ[/youtube:3le8m4fu]

Ashie62 Jul 26 2017 11:27 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

Springsteen's "Candy's Room" intro The Who "Behind Blue Eyes" windup Todd Rundgreen "Couldn't I just tell you." Give me a reason to live! ELO "Do Ya" All of it.

Edgy MD Jul 27 2017 12:11 AM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

Springsteen's "Candy's Room" intro The end of the intro, where the bass and the drums come in, BOOOM! That's an overwhelming rockgasm. It even has the added bonus of sort of being about an overwhelming rockgasm. Way back in the times long gone, my father stopped off at the convenience store to get cigs when I was 13 or so. Somehow I had shotgun, with my 15-year-old brother and my 11-year-old cousin James in the back, and and my dad left us the keys. I hit the switch and turned on WNEW, just as "Candy's Room" comes on, and my brother goes into a revery, singling. [list]In Candy's room There are pictures of her heroes on the wall But to get to Candy's room You gotta walk the darkness of Candy's hall[/list:u] My cousin and I are no more than dimly aware of this song, so we're fascinated. My brother can't really sing, and was always shy about it, but he's overwhelmed and cutting loose, and the "singing" so far is more narration. [list]Strangers from the city Call my baby's number They bring her toys When I come knocking, she smiles pretty She knows I want to be Candy's boy[/list:u] My cousin and I stare in wonder. And brother suddenly throws a forceful hip into my cousin, demonstrating the raging currents in this teenage soul, speak-singing in a baritone with Springsteen now: [list]There's a sadness hidden in that pretty face A sadness all her own From which no man can keep Candy safe, WE KISS![/list:u] Bru starts SHOUTING the lyrics, so overcome with mindless teenage passion that he sticks his feet against the street-side door, using it as leverage to push his back against my poor cousin, forcing him up against his curbside door, as the scream-singing takes over. [list]MY HEART'S PUMPIN TO MY BRAIN! AND THE BLOOD RUSHES IN MY VEINS! THE FIRE RUSHES TOWARDS THE SKIES![/list:u] Cousin is cracking up as he's being crushed against the door. He's squashed, and he'd be toast, but my brother backs off just a bit as Springsteen and the band dial it back just for a bit. [list]I go driving Driving deep into the night I go driving deep into the light, in Candy's eyes[/list:u] And then the violence becomes total, with cousin James smushed like a pancake against the windw by raging teenage hormones he doesn't yet understand, but is fascinated by. [list]SHE SAYS BABY IF YOU WANNA BE WILD! YOU'VE GOT A LOT TO LEARN! CLOSE YOUR EYES, LET THEM FIRE! LET THEM MELT! LET! THEM! BURN!!![/list:u] Passion needs a release of course, and so my cousin did what any 11-year-old would do — hits the latch on the door and tumbles onto the sidewalk pavement of Brower Avenue, catching his breath as he recovers from overwhelming and simultaneous pain and pleasure. The opening door, of course, lets loose on the world the UNBEARABLE VOLUME we're playing the song at just as the guitar solo starts, and of course at that exact moment my dad is back with his cigarettes, screaming, "CAN'T I LEAVE YOU BOYS ALONE FOR FIVE MINUTES!" No, no you can't, Dad. You should have known. To his everlasting merit, he got me Springsteen's autograph a few weeks later. [list]Hey, Edgy, Take care of your Pop for me. Bruce Springsteen[/list:u] The words "for" and "me" were confusingly close, and everybody who read the autograph asked me the same question: "What the hell is your pop forme?" I'm not sure, but I've been taking care of it ever since.

Ashie62 Jul 27 2017 12:58 AM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

Same here!

Frayed Knot Jul 27 2017 01:29 AM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

That gun-shot of a drumbeat that hits near the tail end of the short intro and just prior to the start of the vocals on WOULND'T IT BE NICE I know it's there, I know it's coming, I know when it's coming, and I still get a kick out of hearing it each time.

d'Kong76 Jul 27 2017 01:48 AM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

Some songs are so good they make it into Shrek movies... [youtube:zpe3lj78]terg_LPT3X0[/youtube:zpe3lj78]

Edgy MD Jul 27 2017 01:50 AM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

Ashie62 wrote: Same here! Your brother crushed your cousin too? Frayed Knot wrote: That gun-shot of a drumbeat that hits near the tail end of the short intro and just prior to the start of the vocals on WOULND'T IT BE NICE I know it's there, I know it's coming, I know when it's coming, and I still get a kick out of hearing it each time. Hal F. Blaine.

metirish Jul 27 2017 03:13 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: That's probably because the stupendous guitar solo that starts at 1:17 makes you forget. Yes, a very underrated guitarist I would think, but perhaps not amongst peers

MFS62 Jul 27 2017 03:51 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

Thought of another. In I Will Always Love You when Whitney Houston hits the crescendo for "And IIIIIIIIIIIIIyyyyyyIIIIIIIIIIIIyyyyIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII" ! The entire song is a magnificent performance, but that gives me the rock-gasm. Later

dgwphotography Jul 27 2017 05:46 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

I'll tell you what song doesn't give me a rock-gasm, but gives me rock-constipation: Richie Valens' cover of Here Comes the Sun. Each time it plays on Music choice, it sends me diving to my playlist for the Beatles' original, just to cleanse my auditory palate.

Ashie62 Jul 27 2017 06:00 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

I get still get shivers when I hear Pete Townshend closing out Tommy at Woodstock. I call the gasm part the "solo to God."

Mets Willets Point Jul 27 2017 06:21 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

I'll tell you what song doesn't give me a rock-gasm, but gives me rock-constipation: Richie Valens' cover of Here Comes the Sun. Each time it plays on Music choice, it sends me diving to my playlist for the Beatles' original, just to cleanse my auditory palate. Didn't he die 10 years before the Beatles released that song?

Edgy MD Jul 27 2017 06:25 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

I think he's crossing Richies. Somewhere, Richie Havens is thinking "Hey, dgw, yo no soy marinero."

HahnSolo Jul 27 2017 06:27 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

The first minute or so of "The Spirit of Radio"

d'Kong76 Jul 27 2017 06:32 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

MFS62 wrote: Whitney Houston hits the crescendo for "And IIIIIIIIIIIIIyyyyyyIIIIIIIIIIIIyyyyIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII" ! Like nails on a chalkboard for me. Make it stop! (RIP)

dgwphotography Jul 27 2017 08:15 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

I'll tell you what song doesn't give me a rock-gasm, but gives me rock-constipation: Richie Valens' cover of Here Comes the Sun. Each time it plays on Music choice, it sends me diving to my playlist for the Beatles' original, just to cleanse my auditory palate. Didn't he die 10 years before the Beatles released that song? Havens, not Valens. I was so annoyed with it, I messed up his name

MFS62 Jul 27 2017 08:29 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

d'Kong76 wrote: Whitney Houston hits the crescendo for "And IIIIIIIIIIIIIyyyyyyIIIIIIIIIIIIyyyyIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII" ! Like nails on a chalkboard for me. Make it stop! (RIP) That's strange. We usually see eye-to-eye on everything. :) Later

Frayed Knot Jul 27 2017 08:33 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

I liked that Havens cover, but then again I liked most Havens stuff.

d'Kong76 Jul 27 2017 08:33 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

I dunno, I kinda like it... [youtube:1jaqax6m]VBbXKsKXyNU[/youtube:1jaqax6m]

Mets Willets Point Jul 27 2017 08:59 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

I'll tell you what song doesn't give me a rock-gasm, but gives me rock-constipation: Richie Valens' cover of Here Comes the Sun. Each time it plays on Music choice, it sends me diving to my playlist for the Beatles' original, just to cleanse my auditory palate. Didn't he die 10 years before the Beatles released that song? Havens, not Valens. I was so annoyed with it, I messed up his name Ah, that makes much more sense than the time travel scenario I was imagining.

dgwphotography Jul 27 2017 10:01 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

Frayed Knot wrote: I liked that Havens cover, but then again I liked most Havens stuff. I love most of Havens' stuff, too. There are some songs that just shouldn't be covered, and, for me, the Beatles catalog is fully encompassed in that subset.

Frayed Knot Jul 27 2017 11:41 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

You're certainly free to dislike any particular cover, but I don't think any song or set of songs is exempt from alternate interpretations, even those from J, P, G, & R (individually or as a set).

cooby Jul 28 2017 01:24 AM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

d'Kong76 wrote: MFS62 wrote: Whitney Houston hits the crescendo for "And IIIIIIIIIIIIIyyyyyyIIIIIIIIIIIIyyyyIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII" ! Like nails on a chalkboard for me. Make it stop! (RIP) Yeah that's putting it nicely. Dollys version was much sweeter

Rockin' Doc Jul 28 2017 04:31 AM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

The opening 30 seconds of Girlfriend by Matthew Sweet. An awesome lead in for a great song.

metirish Jul 28 2017 12:42 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

metirish wrote: That's probably because the stupendous guitar solo that starts at 1:17 makes you forget. Yes, a very underrated guitarist I would think, but perhaps not amongst peers I knew I had read about him before, good read https://web.musicaficionado.com/main.ht ... gn=fanpage

Edgy MD Jul 28 2017 01:19 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

The inspiration for the solo [from "My Best Friend's Girl"], meanwhile, came from George Harrison's playing on the Beatles "I Will". As Easton once remarked, "Amateurs copy, professionals steal! This was something I recognized the first time I heard it at 11 or 12 (even though I thought the song was called "She's the Best-Dressed Girl"). And George was referencing Buddy Holly.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jul 28 2017 04:13 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

dgwphotography wrote: "This is the real life. This is just fantasy" Gets me every time. [youtube]fJ9rUzIMcZQ[/youtube] Yep. Also, "KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHERFUCKEEEEEER!" Also also, almost every Jon Spencer Blues Explosion drum fill.

Vic Sage Jul 28 2017 04:31 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

Springsteen's "Candy's Room" intro The end of the intro, where the bass and the drums come in, BOOOM! That's an overwhelming rockgasm. It even has the added bonus of sort of being about an overwhelming rockgasm. Way back in the times long gone, my father stopped off at the convenience store to get cigs when I was 13 or so. Somehow I had shotgun, with my 15-year-old brother and my 11-year-old cousin James in the back, and and my dad left us the keys. I hit the switch and turned on WNEW, just as "Candy's Room" comes on, and my brother goes into a revery, singling. [list]In Candy's room There are pictures of her heroes on the wall But to get to Candy's room You gotta walk the darkness of Candy's hall[/list:u] My cousin and I are no more than dimly aware of this song, so we're fascinated. My brother can't really sing, and was always shy about it, but he's overwhelmed and cutting loose, and the "singing" so far is more narration. [list]Strangers from the city Call my baby's number They bring her toys When I come knocking, she smiles pretty She knows I want to be Candy's boy[/list:u] My cousin and I stare in wonder. And brother suddenly throws a forceful hip into my cousin, demonstrating the raging currents in this teenage soul, speak-singing in a baritone with Springsteen now: [list]There's a sadness hidden in that pretty face A sadness all her own From which no man can keep Candy safe, WE KISS![/list:u] Bru starts SHOUTING the lyrics, so overcome with mindless teenage passion that he sticks his feet against the street-side door, using it as leverage to push his back against my poor cousin, forcing him up against his curbside door, as the scream-singing takes over. [list]MY HEART'S PUMPIN TO MY BRAIN! AND THE BLOOD RUSHES IN MY VEINS! THE FIRE RUSHES TOWARDS THE SKIES![/list:u] Cousin is cracking up as he's being crushed against the door. He's squashed, and he'd be toast, but my brother backs off just a bit as Springsteen and the band dial it back just for a bit. [list]I go driving Driving deep into the night I go driving deep into the light, in Candy's eyes[/list:u] And then the violence becomes total, with cousin James smushed like a pancake against the windw by raging teenage hormones he doesn't yet understand, but is fascinated by. [list]SHE SAYS BABY IF YOU WANNA BE WILD! YOU'VE GOT A LOT TO LEARN! CLOSE YOUR EYES, LET THEM FIRE! LET THEM MELT! LET! THEM! BURN!!![/list:u] Passion needs a release of course, and so my cousin did what any 11-year-old would do — hits the latch on the door and tumbles onto the sidewalk pavement of Brower Avenue, catching his breath as he recovers from overwhelming and simultaneous pain and pleasure. The opening door, of course, lets loose on the world the UNBEARABLE VOLUME we're playing the song at just as the guitar solo starts, and of course at that exact moment my dad is back with his cigarettes, screaming, "CAN'T I LEAVE YOU BOYS ALONE FOR FIVE MINUTES!" No, no you can't, Dad. You should have known. To his everlasting merit, he got me Springsteen's autograph a few weeks later. [list]Hey, Edgy, Take care of your Pop for me. Bruce Springsteen[/list:u] The words "for" and "me" were confusingly close, and everybody who read the autograph asked me the same question: "What the hell is your pop forme?" I'm not sure, but I've been taking care of it ever since. thank you. this was the kind of post i was hoping for when i started this thread.

Ashie62 Jul 29 2017 12:44 AM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

Rockin' Doc wrote: The opening 30 seconds of Girlfriend by Matthew Sweet. An awesome lead in for a great song. Good call, I feel that way also.

41Forever Jul 29 2017 01:51 AM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

Edgy MD wrote: The inspiration for the solo [from "My Best Friend's Girl"], meanwhile, came from George Harrison's playing on the Beatles "I Will". As Easton once remarked, "Amateurs copy, professionals steal! This was something I recognized the first time I heard it at 11 or 12 (even though I thought the song was called "She's the Best-Dressed Girl"). And George was referencing Buddy Holly. I think I read that he grew up in Massapequa.

Fman99 Jul 29 2017 02:32 AM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

I have many many of these. A few right off the top of my head. 1. The opening bars of "Tears of Rage," the first Band song on the first Band album. Amazing. Gives me a chill just to type it. 2. The outro to "Hey Jude," that first appearance of the chord, the second chord in the outro lines, that does not appear at any point in the song prior to that. In the key I prefer to play it in, it's an F. And there ain't no F prior to it. 3. The drum break to guitar solo in "Bold as Love," by the late great Jimi Hendrix. There's a brief drum solo and it modulates back and forth and then WHAM. 4. The part in "Time," by Pink Floyd, where the chords change and it turns into "Breathe (Reprise)." And then, right after that, the opening salvo of "The Great Gig in the Sky," those first high, hard notes. Damn. There are four or five other moments like that on "Dark Side of the Moon," the switch from "Brain Damage" to "Eclipse," and also the transition from "Us and Them" to the "Any Colour You Like" organ solo.

Edgy MD Dec 08 2017 05:36 PM Re: What song gives you a rock-gasm?

Joan Jett sat in with Blondie on this track that was released back in the spring. Man, it really did a great job predicting the rest of the year. it smokes, because everything Clem Burke drums on smokes, but a sweet guitar solo too. [youtube:1w6iv8j7]YI2z27Ufy8k[/youtube:1w6iv8j7]