Do you have a favourite pause in music?

[Herr Tubthumper]

Phantom II - Justice. Remember Luke Slater playing this in Berghain and really messing with it, really building it up before the break then dropping it....best club moment ever by far.

 

[Garage_Doors]

3 second pause at 1.55

 

[tinycowboy]

Hard To Explain - The Strokes
Helicopter - Bloc Party
Like A Daydream - Ride
Cubik- 808 State
Voodoo Ray (Original Mix) - A Guy Called Gerald

 

[Hugo Rune]

Couldn't Stand The Weather - Stevie Ray Vaughan. Third pause in the intro. Slightly longer than the first two. Very difficult for a band to pull off. He was the best guitarist though!

 

[CherryInHove]

I really like the pause in Cannonball by The Breeders at 2:12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpoqzt2EHaA

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

 

[fire&skill]

The Jam - opening bars of 'Burning Sky' - Track 1 Side 2 of 'Setting Sons'. Reinforced years later by my son (without prompting) pinpointing the exact same moment as being a musical moment that made his spine tingle.

 

[Norman Potting]

Stretching it a bit to call it a pause but the "1,2,3,4..." bit in "Born To Run". Live in concert pause was also Bruce and the E Street Band at Earls Court in 2002 - cracking live version of "Thunder Road", brief pause then "1,2..." and straight into the aforementioned "BTR".

Going back to the initial post saw Thin Lizzy at the Centre in early '80's - they did "Cowboy Song" as per "Live and Dangerous" but then Phil Lynott (up there as one of the greatest rock front men imho) wound the audience up a treat by claiming that they had forgotten "The Boys Are Back In Town"and they got bored playing it! ..Of course they played it!

 

[Acker79]

All I really Want - Alanis Morissette

"Why are you so petrified by silence, here can you handle this (3.01-3.11)

Couldn't Have Said it Better - Meat Loaf (ft Patti Russo)

"Just say nothing, don't say a word, silence is gold, don't say a word..." (3.12-3.26)

 

[Icy Gull]

There are a number in this classic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeGyQIgvSV0

 

[joeywortho]

Hard To Explain - The Strokes
Helicopter - Bloc Party
Like A Daydream - Ride
Cubik- 808 State
Voodoo Ray (Original Mix) - A Guy Called Gerald

wonderful choices

strokes one for me

 

[Dan Aitch]

1:10

 

[Machiavelli]

Think that Creep has got one hell of a pause in it.

 

[blue-afro-man]

Novocain for the soul- The Eels

 

[SeagullCrow]

You Are by Pearl Jam (at 20 seconds) - a bit more obscure, but the silence works brilliantly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzv7OtPL8S4

 

[John Bumlick]

35 seconds in...

 

[Pevenseagull]

Come up and see me ....

is both my favourite and second favourite pause

a few years ago Steve Harley was on R5 giving bad horse racing tips and stated that the Wedding Present did it best .......



....I reckon The Wedding Present get mentioned in at least as many threads on here as Bobby Zamora

 

[Pevenseagull]

Novocain for the soul- The Eels

oooh, that's a VERY good one

 

[Pevenseagull]

"Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis", RVW. Riddled with suggestions of pauses. Glorious.

 

[blue-afro-man]

oooh, that's a VERY good one

Love it! Just used that track to test out my new speakers, very punchy bass line and a pause just long enough.