The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Funny thing happened yesterday, I was listening to my music library on random, and 'Pictures of Lily' by The Who came on. I've probably heard this song several hundred times since I was a young child, and yet, I only just now noticed how completely awesome Pete's guitar playing in it is; not just the incredible tone, which sounds like it wanted to blow the mixing console up and make the tape catch on fire, but his uncanny mastery of timing and rhythm, interesting chord progression, along with a bazillion chord inversions and fills, and proto-punkish power chording for the middle-eight, all in the context of a 2:42 pop song about masturbation made in 1967. This, to me, is a defining moment in music. I mean, I've loved The Who forever, but this song always seemed to slip under my radar.

So, what 'does it' for you?

The snare hits in "Where is My Mind?" and the pause right before the electric guitar kicks in.

The horns in James Brown's "Georgia on My Mind."

The way "Driving home the sky accelerates" is delivered in Flaming Lips' "Suddenly Everything Has Changed."

The harmonies in "Pressure Drop" by Toots and the Maytals.

The strings after the opening vocal part of the "Pie Jesu" in Faure's Requiem.

The Dirty Projectors' "Jolly Jolly Ego."

The chorus, especially's Guy's vocals, in Rites of Spring's "Hidden Wheel."

Those are just off the top of my head. Oh and the beat in "Meat Grinder" by Madvillain.

Carrot Rope on Xfm 7 years ago; after that I had to go out and find good music rather than letting it come to me.

Stapleton supporting Idlewild, when they played 'Why buildings fall down' made me realise I could actually do anything with music

Erick Sermon ending the first verse on React, is the greatest delivery of the word nigga I have heard.