Top 10 Greatest Moments: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (a thread)

God this was a struggle. Here's just a teeny selection of all the mindblowing emotion contained in my favourite album of all time!

Storm opens with such optimism and hope, due much in part to the beautiful horns that kick the track off

The cloud of tension that had been building and building collapses into the hardest beat switch since Nights

One of the most understated, yet heartwrenching moments on the entire project. The way that loney piano cuts like a knife through the whirlwind of noisy samples and static is just something to behold

Now I'm no man of god, but this makes me wanna worship something. The fear in her voice paired with those heart breaking strings set the tone to say the least

There's a certain anger behind the instrumentation. Who knew a screwdriver and a guitar could convey such meaning and emotion

The monologue to kick off the greatest 23 minutes in music history. There's a certain pain beneath his voice, a yearning for a time long passed. They don't sleep on the beach anymore.

The tension build and releases and builds and releases, before exploding into one of the most moving crescendos of the album

The effortless switch from the intense cacophony of strings to a marching passage of tight drumming and wailing guitars

Here we have it, what I believe to be the single finest musical passage in modern history. Could listen to just this section on loop for all eternity

And last but most certainly not least, the way the drone of monolithic guitars gives way to this almost western feeling guitar, accentuated beautifully by some of the most punchy and driving drums on the record