All the power to you, but I absolutely do not understand how you can set songs that you like as alarms. Even without the negative association with waking up, it’s just not the time I want to listen to music
I seriously owe my existence to these lines. I was in the darkest of places years ago, and these words gave me hope. I will never not get chill bumps when I hear that part of “Let Down” play.
I resonate too much with this comment. I lost count of the days i played this song, imagining a better me in a better world, memories i now reminisce in a placid way. Glad to see i am not alone here
My God the From the Basement version of reckoner is amazing. I prefer it over the album version. I agree with the other poster about the best part being just after the bridge, or interlude?
When I'm with people in my car I'll ask them, "hey, do you want to hear a fucking gorgeous song?" and then play Reckoner.
Side note but I might also ask them, "hey, do you want to hear the most depressing song ever made?" and then I'll play Motion Picture Soundtrack, and hand them the phone so they can follow the lyrics, lmao.
The outro of How to Disappear Completely when the whining synth and reverb give way to the clarity of Thom's vocals. Feels like getting your head above water right before you drown
This is mine as well. It might just be one of the most beautiful things they’ve recorded… the choice to cut the reverb at that moment is genius. I have goosebumps just thinking about it.
The guitar solo in the The Tourist. Seeing them play in Blackpool, the Winter Garden (I think it was, rather than Wolverhampton the next day or two) in 2006, on rail, and thinking I'm standing 20 feet from Jonny playing the guitar solo from The Tourist. It was everything.
I was shocked to go so far down in the comments to see this. I remember being in college and hearing this for the first time and literally feeling paralyzed. Arguably my favorite part of any song ever.
So many, to name a few:
Strings in Faust arp, the whole of Idioteque, “such a pretty house and such a pretty garden”, knives out riff, in limbo when all the instruments kick in, bridge of exit music, “because!” In 2+2=5 and “But I’d be alright”
“City boys in first class don’t know they’re born. They just know that someone else is gonna come and clean it, born and raised for the job. Someone always does”
Basic but the climax of Exit Music