What are the most amazing recorded moments in music ever?  You know the ones...  It doesn't need to be an entire album.  It could just be a few seconds within a song.    It doesn't need to be an artist with a huge history.  Nor does it need to be a legend.  Though it could be.  It could be the way a snare was hit.  It could be your favorite song that drove the best production possible.  It could be live, it could be memorex.  Analog or digital.  A player's nuance or a players boldness.  A wall of sound or a soft pad.  

A few that come to mind are...

1.  Eddie's solo in "Thriller."  
2.  The drums in Peter Gabriel's "Lay Your Hands On Me" before the last chorus.  
3.  The amazing drum fill by Stuart Copeland and the bass solo by Stanley Clark on Animal Logic's "Stone In My Shoe."
4.  The entire song of Robbie Robertson's "Fallen Angel" but especially because of Manu.
5.  Of course, the entire recording of "Where the Streets Have No Name."
6. The entire recorded orchestra on Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" the orchestra sessions, arranged by VInce Mendoza.  
7.  Youssu N'dour's vocals on the end of "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel.

Those are just a few.  I'm sure I can think of a few more.  

What are your moments?

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I forgot to mention... 8. The entire recording "One Headlight" by Jacob Dillon.
One that's got to be up there for me is the original cut of "Turn on Your Lovelight," with the amaaaaazing vocal by Bobby "Blue" Bland.

The songwriter he teamed up with (or he was paired with by Duke Records A&R?) did an incredible job of providing him material that he could bring to life like no other.
Warner Brothers "Putty Tat Trouble" The whole backing track plus sound effects. Especially the line starting at 4:34. This was recorded in 1951 !!!
http://www.mojvideo.com/video-tweety-and-sylvester-putty-tat-troubl...
Sheesh. You're right. That's amazing. I wonder how many SATA drives they had to use to stream that many notes in such a short time?!?

I actually think I heard a "Giacchino-esque" trombone slide in there.
I have to add again to my list:

9. The Who's Baba O'Riley. The intro, the part after the intro, the middle, the part after the middle, and the end. Yes. The entire thing.
Here's a few that have always moved me:

-the 3 note intro to Michael Jackson's "Remember The Time"
-The entire drum part of Bob Seger's "Hollywood Nights"
-The entire recording and arrangment of Elton John's "Madman Across The Water"
-The devil's solo in CDB's "The Devil Went Down To Georgia"
-Sting's BGV on Dire Strait's "Money For Nothing"
-Eminem's use of Dido's "Thank You" in his song "Stan" (one of the best hip-hop samples ever)
-The rhodes piano in Garth's "Rodeo"
-Babyface's entire production and arrangment of Madonna's "Take A Bow"
-the drum sound on Tom Petty's "You Don't Know How It Feels"
-and not to be cliche' but.....the drum fill in Phil Collins : "In The Air Tonight"

man......we could do this all day. Great topic to post. Thanks so much. That was a lot of fun to think about.
PS......How could I forget to mention:
-the guitar intro to Prince's "When Doves Cry".....BRILLIANT!
Gladys lead vocal- (first take) of Midnight Train to Georgia-

Barney Perkins was then engineer on that session and he had set the mic for her- she sang it down to check levels and that was the record-

would've loved to have been a fly on that wall-

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