Know what I mean? Those songs that just totally send you to the moon and back.

For example:

This song does things to me.

Kashmir

First ones that come to mind are Pavement's "Fillmore Jive". Also "Pueblo". That era of Pavement had quite a few of those quiet-to-excessively-loud-and-frantically-noisy songs.





There are many examples from other bands. Will likely post more.

Probably no limit on how long this thread could go!

Saw GY!BE not long ago. Lots of slow builds into soaring crescendos in their output.

Where the Streets Have No Name

Yeah, yeah, I know, but seriously, this song zooms.

Couple from the Kadanes' body of work:

take yr pick



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and this

I think of 'soaring' as sort of the apex to the crescendo moment, and can't think of a more textbook example than the finale of the "Marquee Moon" guitar solo.