Submitted by therealfunky63 t3_zog22w in Music
For me personally it’s Hendrix, Voodoo Child (Slight Return) that whole song sounds like Jimi is just an actual fucking giant roaming the earth. But again this is just my opinion, I’d love to hear yours.
Edit - a good modern day example would probably be Boss Top - Hell Nah I’d prob have that on my list as well but it’s not as satisfying as voodoo child in my opinion
He will, in fact, chop down a mountain, with the edge of his hand
After the guitar solo in creeping death by metallica. There are harder ones, but this is the first that comes to mind.
Purple Haze.
Not sure about all history, but on the Tool album Lateralus there is two-track piece Parabol and Parabola. Parabol is quiet, atmospheric, and establishes a certain guitar line, then transitions to Parabola with this huge drop that turns the quiet little guitar line into an enormous crushing riff. You can't not crank it.
Good Times Bad Times - Led Zeppelin
1st album 1st song and Bonham's triplets !!!
Everything about Jimi was a game changer. Including the chances they took in the studio.
Imagine that guy living even 5 more years.
When the levee breaks just grinds and dominates
BTW ... Voodoo Chile - recorded the night before, Voodoo Child (Slight Return) was put to wax, is a great(er) version ! At 15 mins with Steve Winwood on Keys, Mitch on drums, and Jack *Casady on bass, it kicks ass !!!!
Turn this one WAY UP !
Voodoo Chile
Acid Bath -Graveyard Flower the part right after Dax says “ on the cold side of her face, the reptiles awake.” Actually this band has a lot of moments like that
If you mean a sort of musical climax then Climbing Up the Walls- Radiohead is a great one. Actually, Exit music as well.
Insomnia by Faithless is so moody and entrancing and then goes ecstatic
This sprang to mind for me too. You have good taste.
I was thinking this same thing but I feel like that whole song just aggressively builds up, personally to me that song feels like 4 gods fighting with one another to be in the spotlight especially page and Bonham
I feel like a better contender for the hardest drop would be dazed and confused off that same album
Raining Blood by Slayer, storm sets the mood drums thunder and the song pummels ya. I enjoy a lot of different genre’s of music. But this has always hammered. Then the storm at the end. Classic & heavy af.
"You can't not crank it."
I know exactly what you're talking about, I stand there with my fingers on the knob, giving it little turns up and up and up and boom! up to 11.
Jack *Casady. FTFY. Also, couldn’t agree with you more.
Wow. Climbing up walls has always been one of those sneaky awesome songs. I'm so grateful to you for giving it that credit. Don't think I've ever heard it being mentioned in these kind of conversations before. It was the song that stood out(or hit me in the feels) the most to me when I first heard ok computer.
Came here to post the same thing. Heard that song a million times and it still gives me chills at that moment. Impossible for me to resist headbanging to it
It’s a song from 2009 and to this day one of my most listened to songs of all time and I get unreasonably giddy every single time. I love it so much!
SRVs version as well
That album is a religious experience
Sabotage by the Beastie Boys, imho.
Reflection was my catharsis song for a long time.
Would turn the lights off, play it on my 360 with the full screen visualizer, and just relax.
That moment makes me feel like I could jump through a wall like the coolaid man
MY personal favorite is this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NTAzvtyRYs
it's gotta be the volume difference for me, I always turn up the quiet part to a 'listenable' volume, and then when it hits, it almost blows my speakers out
Not in history, but one of my favs is Ruins by Circles. Love the mood change at the middle of the song
That's a great one
Every live version of Where the Streets Have No Name
Whatever John Paul Jones is doing there… I want all of it all the time!
Tool has lots of great drops for sure…Parabol/a is a good one tho
Dance Yrself Clean subtly prods you to keep increasing the volume so that when the beat drops you are all cranked up and just itching for it. You know it's coming, you do it anyway.
It's stunning.
Another Radiohead one for just an almighty peak moment is 2+2=5 from Hail to the Thief. When everything comes in it's like a tornado just hit.
Dude, we're on the same level. 2+2 is also one of my favorites and yes... Mostly for when they all come in and just wreck it
Noooooo…. When the band comes in on Last In Line.
Or the scream at the end of won’t get fooled again.
Imagine being alive when that came out and putting it on for the first time. Mind blowing.
I've always thought it would be an incredible ring walk song for a combat sport.
Including "That's a nice way to start, Johnny...."
Radiohead are incredible at building that climax in a piece of music
Radiohead builds it up & pays it off better than anyone imo
BECAUSE!
Tenacious D - Tribute
“He asked us (snort), Be you angels? And we said nay, WE ARE BUT MEN. ROCK! Ahhhh!”
There is no drop in that song tho
As a tool fan I think it’s slightly overrated, at least when put beside most of their other songs, just my feel
When Jim I Hendrix first came out. Nobody ever heard of the sounds he was playing. They said he sounded like he came here from another planet . And he did. He was mind blowing
Black Sabbath-Into the Void
The build up and then the first "bom bom bom" of the drums.... you can feel the tension in the crowd just waiting to explode
When I lived in Tucson Az was parked on the top of the hospital parking structure as it started lightning/thundering, cranked up raining blood put my seat back and just took a few minutes at peace.
This love, cemetery gates
Lmao classic
Saw them at the Aragon ballroom on the tour that followed in 87’ . Complete mayhem when they played. Pits everywhere fkn chairs flyin’. One of the best shows of my life.
If we're doing those then I would like to suggest Suicide Note parts 1 and 2 by Pantera.
Gojira - Flying Whales
and Gojira - Love
Take a Step Back by Ski Mask the Slump God and XXXTentacion is THE definitive drop, cause it's not just a good song with a good drop, the drop is the song. It goes insane, if this comes on at a house party your plates are being broken
Saw them live at Lollapalooza 1994, they opened the second with Sabotage and the entire fucking stadium erupted in like one giant mosh pit. One of the craziest things I’ve ever seen.
Listening to a lot of Airplane lately.
I really like World Unknown by ERRA. It’s not the best song ever but it’s stuck in my head right now and it’s super catchy especially the chorus and second verse lol
Might even raise a little sand
Nice thread this
Hendrix wrote that song in like 3 hours one morning, after being up all night partying. For me that’s the baddest rock song ever written.
Gooood choice.
A more obscure one is ‘Stars’, by Hum. A really good example of a wall of sound.
Riff of the century so far, absolutely hits like a wall. I was at one of TCV’s surprise/prerelease shows, those were some good times.
I think if it weren’t for the whole satirical intro, the song would’ve been radio friendly and quite possibly more popular than No One Knows.
See: I Think I Lost My Headache
White fucking room. That solo is crazy
This right here.
David Gilmour, Fat Old Sun solo, live. I like the Pompeii version the most, it's like - let me show you how 70 year old man opens this solo.
Given Up by Linkin Park, Freak on a Leash is up there for me too by Korn. These are just stuff off the top of my head though
You're all wrong so far.. about halfway into this song is brutal:
I always hope there's no cop around when that song hits the radio, because I'm sure as hell not driving the speed limit until it finishes.
Ecifircas by Sewerslvt
Extremely pleased to see this here. Every drop should be preceded by an “Uh!”
Pumped Up Kicks
Voodoo Child might be my #1 pick too but here’s some other contenders:
Pink Floyd - The Great Gig in the Sky
Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Beethoven - Ode to Joy
Nina Simone - Feelin’ Good
GZA - 4th Chamber
Fatboy Slim - Praise You
Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
James Brown - The Payback
David Bowie - Fame
Prince - Purple Rain
Underworld - Born Slippy
Otis Redding - Hard to Handle
The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
Dre & Snoop - The Next Episode
Pallbearer - Foreigner
YOB - In Our Blood
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Celine Dion - It’s All Coming Back to Me Now
Britney Spears - Oops!…I Did it Again
Toots & the Maytals - 54-46 Was My Number
Funkadelic - Can You Get to That
The Band - The Weight
Daft Punk - Around the World / Harder Better Faster Stronger (Alive 2017)
Boards of Canada - Roygbiv
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Kendrick Lamar & Co. - King’s Dead
Earth, Wind & Fire - September
Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man
Toss up for Nirvana - Aneurysm and Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. One for hitting like a train out of nowhere and the other for somehow getting even heavier.
Easy.. O Fortuna from Carmina Burana. Even if you don't know what I am talking about.. once you hear it.. you know that YOU KNEW THIS DROP
The 9 self censored "I won't do what you tell me"s before all pretence is given up and we got a full live "Fuck you" broadcast of Killing In the Name Of before the BBC cut the feed. 2009 Christmas number 1.
FART STINKS LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER
Since we're doing Pantera, the slow riff that kicks in around the 1 minute mark of Strength Beyond Strength.
Martin grech - open heart zoo. Light, ethereal-creepy start, then that bass drop.... Musical orgasm.
As far as drops I think god is in the radio is the superior one on that album.
Tbh longer drum intro alone would’ve done it and a fake out with the riff like the reading one on rated R. Amazing groove.
Hey Man Nice Shot - Filter
Try not to headbang challenge =impossible
Pantera - domination..live in Moscow. No argument
After CCR, they are my fave American band.
The NGHTMRE remix of "Goosebumps" by Travis Scott has a fully bonkers series of drops in the chorus.
Pendulum- Witchcraft
Badge. Cream
Saw it live in New Orleans. LCD rules that drop was nasty
That is so on point. It's a song I love to play to people to surprise them. "Be ready!"
Suicide Note parts 1 and 2.
Blue Bell Knoll by Cocteau Twins. Lilting and shimmery for most of the song until the middle/end where it gets huge.
(I'm mostly kidding but also not.)
Manchester Orchestra - “Pride” especially after the bridge and back into the main riff. Oh man
NIN - The Day The World Went Away
It has this grumbly pad intro for about 30 seconds and then just breaks into this huge fuzzy, driving guitar completely out of the blue, until the lyrics start, then there is another big huge outro.
I think what makes it more impactful is that it is in 4/4 and right before the second break the tempo slows and the guitar comes in on the 3 count which adds an unexpected element to it.
My Last Creation by Gojira, off of their L’Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) album. It really explodes after the middle breakdown, absolutely incredible.
I remember hearing Domination for the first time and nearly going blind.
Walk With Me In Hell right at the 2:30 mark.
Honorable mention:
Deep Purple - Child in Time
Hands down, one of my favorite!
Perhaps the most favorite hard yet unexpected drops is “Little Black Submarine” by the Black Keys. It definitely took me by surprise.
I feel like there's too many but majority of the genres fall within classic rock alt rock pop and hip-hop,/rap because regardless of what genre you like we're Gunna act like there just aren't Hits that EVERYONE likes and will sing along to even if they don't like it lol.
Tool - Crawl Away drops insanely hard
Tool - Third Eye
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R Kelly?