What's some of your favourite few-second-segments of a song?

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Sorry if the title is a bit funky. What I'm referring to is just that little tiny bit you almost have to rewind back to (if listening digitally) because of how much you like it.

Mine, for example, is in H61's Desolation Row - the six seconds of 4:57 to 5:03 are like my crack cocaine, from his delivery of the lines to the distinctive fingerpicking guitar - I swear it just sends serotonin coursing through my whole body.

Posted Oct 25, 2020, 2:58 AM UTC

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captain_aharbAin’t Goin’ Nowhere •

I'll look for you in ol' Honalula, San Francisco, or Ashtabula.

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lpalf•

This

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kdseeghst•

Thought I’d shaken the wonder and the phantoms of my youth Rainy days on the Great Lakes, walkin’ the hills of old Duluth

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_I_am_dog_whisperer_In Black Diamond Bay •

The last verse of Black Diamond Bay and the climax of Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts. If I miss em I gotta start that shit over.

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Piano on the chorus of One of Us Must Know

And the opening guitar of Hard Rain’s Shelter from the Storm

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downincaliforniaThe Rolling Thunder Revue•

And I’m just like that bird, ooohh singin’ just for you

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Douglasbadger•

Alternate idiot wind:

‘You close your eyes and part your lips / and slip your fingers from your glove / you can have the best there is / but it’s gonna cost you all your love / you won’t get it...for money...’

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ceilingfan_brokenBurning A Hole In My Brain •

2:37 of Love Sick.....the drums and the keyboard together always give me the chills... up to "To a shadow...."

2:33 Thunder on the Mountain - that whole second guitar jam solo is awesome

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Juanlu0708Desire•

"I was thinking about the things that Rosie said I was dreaming I was sleeping in Rosie's bed"

Also "We always did feel the same, we just saw it from a different point of view, tangled up in blue"

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boutsibaby•

The harmonica and slide guitar break in Wallflower. Just works for me

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Imipolex42•
  1. And me I nearly got busted/And wouldn’t it be my luck/to get caught without a ticket/and be discovered beneath the truck and the ensuing chorus

  2. The last verse of Mr. Tambourine Man

  3. Your lover who just walked out the door/has taken all his blankets from the floor

  4. And every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal/pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you...Tangled up in blue

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adamblair12•

The various moments in Just Like a Woman after the chorus when he sings “but she breaks just like a little girl” then it goes into that calm breakdown bit then builds up into the next verse. Don’t know why but I’ve always loved that.

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Rob_OSullivanOP•

This is a big runner up for me too!! I can’t help but sing it and air guitar along with the music every time I listen to it.

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adamblair12•

Same with me !

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Waylon_R_Soul•

The way his voice goes on "Suddenly I turned around and she was standin' there" on Shelter From The Storm.

My absolute favourite Dylan lyric: "I wish I could write you a melody so plain, that could hold you dear lady from going insane, that could ease you and cool you and cease the pain of your useless and pointless knowledge". Have to rewind to '...tuba players rehearse around the flagpole...' fairly often, to make sure it hits right!

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cyprus-avenueA Creature Void Of Form •

The harmonica intro to lily rosemary and the Jack of hearts

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She'll be standing on the bar soon

With a fish head and a harpoon

And a fake beard plastered on her brow

You'd better do something quick

She's your lover now.

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bbsezJUDAS!•

The opening of Queen Jane Approximately gets me every time

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BlitzBlake•

The very end of Take 2 of Sitting On a Barbed Wire Fence when Bob references the guitar player and then screams and laughs. Gets me every time.

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Wessex2018•

The penultimate verse from Changing of the Guards. It’s perfect.

Either get ready for elimination

Or else your hearts must have the courage

For the changing of the guards

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