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This thread may not be for the impatient among us.
I'm stringing together songs that might not get fully enjoyed by the average, busy listener because they take
to build and climax (sorry) late!
With these jingles, you've gotta stick around to be rewarded. (1/15)
I'm stringing together songs that might not get fully enjoyed by the average, busy listener because they take
to build and climax (sorry) late! With these jingles, you've gotta stick around to be rewarded. (1/15)
"Ages Places" from @wildlifectrl is one of the most potentially tragic examples of a song that might get clicked away from too early by a perusing browser of streamed music. It elevates at 1:49, *explodes* at 2:28. It's entirely glorious. (2/15)
I get missing the tail ends of many a @sigurros song if you're quickly browsing for a zippy, instant-gratification diddy, but you're missing out in that case - especially if you didn't wait for the near-Helm's Deep transformation of "Untitled #8." (3/15) https://open.spotify.com/track/0juwzpu354078dcKpR5p0w?si=1O9gBA9kTxq0EEK1CYxxbA
Woo-wee. If you like to be caught off guard, float through "Time Stops" from @EITS and get blasted by the 6:05 mark. I guess you'd be more caught off guard if I hadn't handed you a specific time, but you get me. (4/15)
Tossing on @SylvanEsso "Hey Mami" at a bar filters the patient/engaged from the impatient/anxious. As lovely as the first half of the song is, some wonder if the music was turned off ---- until the kaboom halfway through. Extraordinary production. (5/15)
Few moments are more euphoric than the sudden simplification at the 2:30 mark of "HEAVEN" from @TheBlaze_Prod. It's a lot like the instance when your mom finished vaccuming the room right at the best part of a TV show. (6/15) https://open.spotify.com/track/227Z9UAmt1YTN1hS7kzZXc?si=FPGph3zHSByyF8dXmyhqTw
@arcadefire has a great many build-to-the-wow tunes that would qualify for this thread, but "My Body is a Cage" might legitimately chill your skeleton when the dynamics shoot up and drums enter. Halloween playlists without this are lacking IMO. (7/15)
"A Beginning Song" from @TheDecemberists does one of my favorite things ever --- solidly convinces you the song is dying out to a relaxed finish, then jolts a late mini-build to a ya-hoo! culmination toward the very end. Terrific. (8/15)
By this point in the thread, you may guess (rightly) that I actively look for these late peaks in songs, but even so, I am guilty of missing the late rewards in @MUTEMATH "Remain" until a friend showed me, despite my being familiar with the album. (9/15) https://open.spotify.com/track/02Ciow6VZcn1iPTuikpUbi?si=J_mYOhUBRXWsAhb4d9ErNw
"Lines" by @lil_silva makes you wait a while, picks up sort of obviously, calms down again, then more spontaneously lifts into a niftier, longer discharge. Neat knock to it! (10/15) https://open.spotify.com/track/63qu72CjJpo4TWkg7fY54B?si=ymD0pMVWRgisPa31TggUaA
"Don't Know When but a Day is Gonna Come" ( @brighteyesband) is like 6 dashes of Angostura bitters to the throat from start to end, but by the time 5:02 rolls around, it's easy to convince yourself you've gotten the entire gist. Nope. (11/15)
"Blue Light" will, unless there's no eternity, forever be the most under-sung song on Silent Alarm. If you don't stick around, you don't get to hear @MCH_Tong go bonkers, and that's your mistake people. (12/15) https://open.spotify.com/track/4nC7ADktP434rqxHtFbkba?si=JtxhCeqcQ26YyI_sq4GEmQ
Skipping around @TEEDinosaurs music too hastily is generally a bad idea to begin with, as he's inordinately loaded with surprise zags. BUT. *Definitely* don't forget to wait for the drums on "Don't You Forget About Me." THE TITLE TELLS YOU NOT TO. (13/15) https://open.spotify.com/track/4nC7ADktP434rqxHtFbkba?si=JtxhCeqcQ26YyI_sq4GEmQ
There's still time, but I've yet to meet another soul who both (1). knows this Guster album front-to-back *AND* (2). enjoys "Come Downstairs And Say Hello" more than all the other tracks. Are there others who love long builds toward magic?? 
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That'll complete my roundup of stickaround songs, for now. Go make playlists - there's never been a better year to do so excessively!
Make sure you hear songs out. Not every artist tries to immediately rope you into a zippity-doo-snappy sizzler at song's start!
(15/15)
Make sure you hear songs out. Not every artist tries to immediately rope you into a zippity-doo-snappy sizzler at song's start!
(15/15)
