Greatest 5 seconds of Rock and Roll....

[Taverner]

The rise David Gilmour does on the Pedal Steel to mark the beginning of Clarie Torry's vocals on "The Great Gig in the Sky"

Gives me goosebumps EVERY TIME and I've heard this song a million times....

[Orsino]

1. "Won't Get Fooled Again"

Daltrey's final scream.

Runner-up: Page's lead break in "Whole Lotta Love."

[Phillycat]

2. The buildup to the climax of Dream On.

Of course I hate Pink Floyd.

[Oeditpus Rex]

39. How can anyone POSsibly hate Pink Floyd??

Unless, of course, they also hate Mer'ka.

[tigereye]

3. guitar intro to Mannish Boy

preferably the Muddy Waters version, but the intro sounds good no matter who does it....

[gr8dane_daddy]

4. Intro to Highway to Hell...

or Whole Lotta Rosie.....

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. The repeated riff right before the sax solo on "Born to Run."

[WritingIsMyReligion]

6. Ohhhhhhhh yeah.

BSpringsteen, you can own me anytime.

[kwassa]

7. Most of Keith Richards' opening chords on the great Stones songs

from "Brown Sugar" to "Jumping Jack Flash" to whatever

[Twillig]

25. Fuck That Shit!

The intro to 'Gimme Shelter' is the greatest thing in rock and roll. And I'm no fan of the Stones.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

8. Lennon, McCartney and Mal Evans' E-major chords on 3 different pianos

to close out A Day in the Life.

[InternalDialogue]

9. Guitar riff and Bowie's wail and hup at the start of Ziggy Stardust.

Tho I was jes' a tyke at the time.

[underpants]

10. The part where you realize it is "The Way" by Fastball or "Cannonball" by the Breeders

basically a ball needs to be involved

[matcom]

12. what about that part in the middle of the Theme To Ice Castles?

or have you completely forgotten already!

[underpants]

17. Who could forget?

[underpants]

11. The Police

[Taverner]

13. But which 5 seconds?

There were a lot of 5 second increments in their catalouge

[underpants]

15. It's a big enough umbrella...

but it's always me that ends up getting wet

That line appears on three different times on Ghost it the Machine

[Orsino]

33. Maybe either half of the "Driven To Tears" solo.

Best song they ever did.

[Taverner]

34. That's a good one

Even better live...

[swag]

14. The last couple lines of the one verse of "White Noise" by Pussy Galore.

I think the whole song is about 12 seconds. The greatest 12 seconds of Rock and Roll.

[AngryAmish]

16. Walk This Way by Run-DMC

[carly denise pt deux]

18. 3:05 into "whole lotta love" by Led Zepplen

the drum/guitar solo part.....golden

this is longer than 5 seconds- but the african sounding breakdown just before the guitar solo....that sounds freaky on headphones, gives the illusion that the guitar sounds are shooting from one side of your head to the other.....
Carly

[Schema Thing]

19. Intro to Cadillac Ranch

[NYCGirl]

20. The opening of "Johnny B. Goode"

[speedoo]

22. There ya go.

Several of Chuck's riffs qualify, including that one.

[BOSSHOG]

23. The last five seconds of Michael J. Fox

on stage at the prom in Back to the Future

[mitchum]

38. That's it!

[BOSSHOG]

21. Cher humping a 16-incher on the battleship

for her "If I could turn back time" video.

[bullwinkle428]

24. Opening guitar chords from "Iron Man"...

...right after the weird, distorted-sounding opening line "I am Iron Man!" Maybe it's lost some of its cachet after Ozzy sold it out to Nissan for their Titan commercials. "Yeah, that Robert Plant is such a sell-out for letting Cadillac use their stuff in commercials...Sabbath would never do that!" Oops...

[Burma Jones]

26. There's some from each era.....I'll stop at the late 70s

Elvis Singing "Warden threw a Party at the County Jail"

Chuck Berry intro to Johnny B. Goode

Jerry Lee Lewis singing "You leave me........Breathless"

Little Richard singing "A Wop Bop a Loo Bop a Lop Bam Boom"

The intro to "I Saw Her Standing There"

John Lennon screaming in Revolution

Pick pretty much any five seconds of a Jimi Hendrix solo

Janis Joplin singing "You know you got it, if it makes you feel good" in Piece of my Heart, from Big Brother & the Holding Company

Keith Richards' playing in the first verse of Street Fighting Man on "Get Yer Ya Ya's Out"

And if the Band you're in starts playing different tunes, I'll see you on the Dark Side of the Moon.

Fuck this and fuck that Fuck it all and fuck a fucking brat - Sex Pistols - "Bodies"

Highways Jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive

The segue from Sheena is a Punk Rocker into Havana Affair on "It's Alive" from the Ramones

[speedoo]

29. I like your list, but I would add...

Something from the Allmans, something from Dylan, and something from The Band.

I know.. "but what?". I'll do some research and post.

[Burma Jones]

31. I know, I would also add the Grateful Dead, but.......

Allmans, Something from Whipping Post live at Fillmore

Dylan, How Does It Feeeeeeel?

The Band - First lines of The Weight

The Grateful Dead - there's this 5 second chunk of Garcia's solo in Alligator off of Anthem of the Sun.....

[johnnie]

27. My opinion..

"One... two...three...FOUR!"

The first thing you heard on the first Beatles album.

There are tons of important things before that, but to me personally, that is the most important. The Beatles change music, and especially the recording aspects of music. I love recording and production and a lot of it came from picking Beatles recordings apart.

[speedoo]

30. I hear ya.

Was that "I Saw her Standing There"?

I can remember them yelling that, but I just can't connect the the song.

It was like they were saying: "Hey, listen to us. NOW!!!".

Music was NEVER the same after that!

[ForrestGump]

37. That's a good choice. And if it came down to the best TWO seconds in rock 'n' roll

my immediate choices would probably be the two opening chords of the "Jailhouse Rock" intro and the sustained strum that opens "A Hard Day's Night" (twelve-strong guitar, right?). Both are instantly recognizable, probably to most people on the planet.

[Beaverhausen]

28. Steely Dan - "Gaucho" - the piano riff in the middle of the chorus

those 7 descending notes get me every time!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

35. Or how about the lyricon at the beginning of "Peg"?

Way fucking cool.

[Jo March]

32. Janis Joplin in "Turtle Blues"

"and go on and give 'em to me 'cause I want 'em RIGHT NOW"

Priceless.

[RedG1]

36. Santana's "Europa" opening

[begin_within]

40. 34 great moments:

Instrumental interlude 1:46 to 1:51 in "Old Man" by Neil Young
Clarinet solo in the middle of "Take the Long Way Home" by Supertramp
Transition between "Good Morning" and "Sgt. Pepper (reprise) by the Beatles
Opening 5 seconds of "The Air That I Breathe" by the Hollies
Portions of "Ashes to Ashes" by David Bowie ("The shrieking of nothing is killing..."
Chorus of "Everybody Rejoice" by Luther Vandross ("Can you Feel a brand new day"
Climax of "All in Love is Fair" by Stevie Wonder
"Little Drops of Rain" in "Thank you" by Led Zeppelin
Ending of spoken poem at end of "Nights in White Satin" by the Moody Blues
Opening chords of "Hey Joe" by Jimi Hendrix
Organ solo in middle of "Never My Love" by the Association
Ending of "Strawberry Fields Forever" by the Beatles
Yelp at 1:03 in "Dazz" by Brick
Guitar part at 1:07 in "Badge" by Cream
Gunshots and surrounding vocals in "The Unknown Soldier" by the Doors
Chorus of "Shining Star" by Earth, Wind & Fire
Guitar chords at 2:41 in "Fire on High" by Electric Light Orchestra
Climax at 1:18 in "A Little Less Conversation" by Elvis Presley
Middle-eastern riff in "Father Figure" by George Michael
Guitar chords at 3:22 in "What's On Your Mind" by Information Society
Second verse at 0:53 in "I'll Be There" by the Jackson 5ive
1:56 to 2:01 in "Angel" by Jimi Hendrix
Opening note with feedback in "I Feel Fine" by the Beatles
1:15 to 1:20 in "One Rainy Wish" by Jimi Hendrix
"Broken trail so long" 0:42 to 0:47 in "Trail of Broken Hearts" by kd lang
First 15 seconds of "Ten Years Gone" by Led Zeppelin
Transition at 1:02 to 1:07 in "Your Time is Gonna Come" by Led Zeppelin
Spoken section by Vincent Price at end of "Thriller" by Michael Jackson
Flue solo at end of "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" by the Beatles
Guitar solo at 2:06 in "Cinnamon Girl" by Neil Young
Guitar solo at approximately 3:12 into "Time" by Pink Floyd
"Well at least in your mind if you want to be" in "Stand" by Sly and the Family Stone
Opening of "Tears of a Clown" by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
Intro to "It's All Over Now" by the Rolling Stones

[charlie and algernon]

41. first 5 seconds of "Start me Up" by the Rolling Stones

[rug]

42. A bop bop a loom op a lop bop bom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvlSrqcyw9I