Do you have a favourite pause in music?

[Stato]

Having just watched Gary Moore's tribute to Phil Lynott on SkyArts I realised how much I love the couple of second's pause between 'The Cowboy's life' and 'Is the life for me'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5-rZay-Tdw

Comes at 5:08, but you have to watch the whole thing (and probably have to have grown up with 'Live and Dangerous') for it to work.

Any other suggestions?

 

[Skaville]

There is a pause in Upside Down by Diana Ross that for some reason I find just so damn sexy. 2:08 in I think.

 

[Gwylan]

Captain Beefheart's Moonlight on Vermont. There's a drum roll: you think it's stopped and it comes back even more raucous than before. If I were ever on Desert Island Discs, it would be my opening song

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[Acker79]

I think the iconic one is from sweet transvestite in The Rocky Horror Show



I see you shiver with antici..... pation.


I have hazy memories of quite a few pauses I like, but can't quite put my finger on any of them.

 

[Gwylan]

I have hazy memories of quite a few pauses I like, but can't quite put my finger on any of them.

Yeah, same for me. There's one in a Bach cantata that I love but I can't remember which one

 

[Pavilionaire]

"Can't stop...Hammer Time!"

 

[Prince Monolulu]

For me, one of the greatest songs ever written, and about 2.19 or so the pause is so fitting.

 

[Buzzer]

Barry White - First, last my everything has a superb pause. Quite brilliant

 

[hart's shirt]

Prince - Purple Rain
Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
Aerosmith - Living On The Edge
INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
B52s - Love Shack

 

[Stato]

There's another in Up The Junction. Its just for a heartbeat at 9 seconds before Lavis's roll kicks into the song, but it adds so much for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQciegmLPAo

 

[Prince Monolulu]

23 secs in

 

[vegster]

23 secs in

Pity, he looked much more up for it than Kanye...

 

[Albumen]

Come up and see me ....

 

[Mellotron]

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1.43 in. Live they can leave it for up to 5 seconds, and always nail the unusually timed re-intro.

 

[sully]

Feel Good Inc - Gorillaz

 

[Algernon]

At 0:20 and again at 3:08.

 

[OvingdeanSeagull]

3:00

 

[The Orange Seagull]

UB40 - Tyler

 

[The Upper Library]

Come up and see me

The musical term for a pause is "tacet".

 

[Titanic]

Come up and see me

The musical term for a pause is "tacet".

Or perhaps more accurately... "fermata".