Best musical climaxes

[pap]

Inspired by RonManager's Best Intro's thread and informed by my own musical prejudices, I'm perhaps fondest of music with a rousing or genuinely well thought out climax. It's always annoyed me a little that an epic like Freebird doesn't have a recorded climax ( although I get why for that particular song ).

 

Anyway, ball rolling:-

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MKECkPawhU

[Sheaf Saint]

Not to p155 on your bonfire Pap, but there isn't really much of a climax to that track - it just kind of peters out at the end.

[pap]

It's a climax and an echo of that climax

Blimey. What more do you people want?

[Pugwash]

I'm with Bexy - more of a slow fade-out for insomniacs.

 

Classical - I guess would have to be Nessun Dorma.

 

Classic Rock - probably Deep Purple 'Sweet Child in Time', Led Zepp 'Stairway' or a few things by Wishbone Ash, or even Bohemian Rhapsody.

 

Struggling to think of anything more contemporary, as most of it just fades out. Guess it's a generational thing.

[shurlock]

Dondante by My Morning Jacket (album version). Defy anyone to say that's not an epic climax.

[Pugwash]

Dondante by My Morning Jacket (album version). Defy anyone to say that's not an epic climax.

Good shout, that SO reminds me of something else. I'll be racking my brains for the rest of the afternoon.

[pap]

Ok, audience identified - I submit the following for your consideration.

 

[RonManager]

Then there are those that just STOP

 

(not a bad intro either).

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oelLKR_ebcU

[dubai_phil]

Back in the Day I always found the last few moments of the Album version of Love to Love You Baby (Donna Summer) was pretty Climactic

[badgerx16]

The 1812 overture.

[pap]

Killing in the name of, as listened to on the school run this morning

 

It's basically all about the climax.

[Hamilton Saint]

Roger Daltry's scream in "Won't Get Fooled Again"

 

Jimmy Page's solo in "Whole Lotta Love"

 

the coda of Springsteen's "Jungleland"

[Lord Duckhunter]

Robbie Robertson's guitar solo at the end of The Band's King Harvest (has surely come).

 

The piano end of "A day in the life".

 

 

But this is my fav, simple rock and roll at it's best, kicks back the chair and bangs the piano lid down. Looks like The Killer has escaped from the local penitentiary

 

[Hamilton Saint]

Robbie Robertson's guitar solo at the end of The Band's King Harvest (has surely come).

 

The piano end of "A day in the life".

 

 

But this is my fav, simple rock and roll at it's best, kicks back the chair and bangs the piano lid down. Looks like The Killer has escaped from the local penitentiary

 

 

I was watching film of Jerry Lee Lewis just last night. There was always something very scary about him on stage. No wonder they called him The Killer! And then there was Little Richard - always something deranged and kinky about him on stage!

[ericofarabia]

Je t'aime with Jane Birkin, but the climax comes before the end of the song several times ;-)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9krvMqLnc5U

[Hamilton Saint]

Je t'aime with Jane Birkin, but the climax comes before the end of the song several times ;-)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9krvMqLnc5U

 

And then there's Donna Summer!

[KelvinsRightGlove]

Then there are those that just STOP

 

(not a bad intro either).

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oelLKR_ebcU

 

Is that a young Robert Smith on guitar there? I know he was with them for a bit.