Favorite Headphone Moments in Songs - Page 3

All the guitar moments by John Frusciante in Red Hot Chili peppers,

as in

Tear 2:17 - 2:30 (By The Way)

Strip My Mind -  First few seconds

basically, a lot of songs by RHCP where John plays the guitar.

13 by Blur is full of great headphone moments.  "Bugman" is particularly beguiling when listening through headphones.

Slash's soloing from November Rain, amazing stuff. I still remember watching the music video when I was little, now it's even more amazing when you listen to it on a good headphone setup

Too Afraid to Love You by the Black Keys on Brothers

All of the SRV mentioned in this thread as well!

Ok, here's a couple that I will describe as best I can.

Kissing Families by Silversun Pickups off the Pikul album. At the 3:22 mark, Joe Lester, the band's keyboardist, plays a short, pulsing synth solo which ends abruptly as a cello, played by Tanya Haden (actor Jack Black's wife) begins at the 3:31 mark. I think the stark contrast of those two sounds, new vs old, is pretty cool.

Albert Collin's "If Trouble Was Money" off the album, "Collins Mix: The Best Of" is a 9:21 slice of Blues heaven. Collins begins the first part of the song in his usual "ice picking" style, using mainly quick, short notes in his licks. Suddenly, at the 4:00 mark, another guitar joins the fray, playing these loooong notes and then ripping thru the licks. The mystery guitarist is the late Gary Moore, former lead guitarist for Thin Lizzy and recent converted bluesman. Again, the contrast in styles just blows me away.

YMMV 

Actually, my favorite moment from that record is Staralfur at the 03:15 mark, when the drums come rippling in after the sound has dropped out.

Another one that springs to mind is the second side of Thick as a Brick, at about the three-minute mark.  There's a skittery drum solo, then some tympani come banging out of the far right and left channels.  I'd never really noticed the spacing so much through speakers, but through headphones, it's quite jarring at first.  In a good way.

I just picked up "Give Up" by the Postal Service and the synth on "Nothing Better" is really great on the cans.

Any ghost in the shell intro