Best songs that build up

[zurch1818]

I'm trying to compile a playlist that consists of songs that slowly build up. An ideal song is one that starts out with an acoustic guitar and finishes epically...but it doesn't have to.

 

So far I have:

 

AC/DC - Hell's Bells

Aerosmith - Dream On

Allman Brothers - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed

American Pie - Don McLean

Apocalyptica - Worlds Collide

Audioslave - Cochise

Augustana - Boston

Bad Company - Feel Like Makin' Love

Beatles - Hey Jude

Beatles - Let it Be

Beck - Where It's At

Bell X1 - Eve, The Apple Of My Eye

Ben Folds - The Luckiest

Ben Harper - So High So Low

Beta Band - Dry The Rain

Billy Joel - Captain Jack

Black Sabbath - War Pigs

Breaking Benjamin - Forget It

Broken Social Scene - It's All Gonna Break

Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road

Bush - Glycerine

Bush - Greedy Fly

Candlebox - Cover Me

Candlebox - Far Behind

CCR - I Heard it Through the Grapevine

Chris Deburgh - A Spaceman Came Traveling

Coheed & Cambria - Welcome Home

Coldplay - Fix You

Coldplay - The Scientist

Dave Matthews Band - All Along The Watchtower

Dave Matthews Band - You Might Die Trying (live off Mile High Music Festival)

David Bowie - Rock and Roll Suicide

David Gray - Alibi

David Gray - Slow Motion

Death Cab For Cutie - Marching Bands of Manhattan

Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism

Diamond Head - Am I Evil

Dire Straits - Money for Nothing

Eagles - Hotel California

Embrace - I Can't Come Down

Evanescence - My Immortal (Full Band)

Fear Factory - Resurrection

Fleetwood Mac - The Chain

Foo Fighters - Band on the Run (cover)

Foo Fighters - Everlong

Foo Fighters - This is a Call

Grateful Dead - Ripple

Guess Who - American Woman

Guns N Roses - November Rain

Guns N Roses - Paradise City

Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O Mine

Guster - Come Downstairs and Say Hello

Guster - Either Way

Halloween, Alaska - All the Arms around You

Hurt - Alone With The Sea

Hurt - Better

Hurt - Falls Apart

Hurt - House Carpenter

Hurt - Summers Lost

Hurt - Talking To God

Ike and Tina Turner - Proud Mary

Incubus - Anna Molly

Incubus - The Warmth

Iron Maiden - Hallowed be thy Name

Jack's Mannequin - Caves

Jack's Mannequin - Swim

Jack's Mannequin - Walls

Jethro Tull - Cross-Eyed Mary

Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath

Journey - Don't Stop Believin'

Joy Formidable - Whirring

Led Zeppelin - Dazed & Confused (first version -- there are two -- off the BBC Sessions album)

Led Zeppelin - Gallows Pole

Led Zeppelin - Over the Hills and Far Away

Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven

Led Zeppelin - What is and What Should Never Be

Lifehouse - Hanging By A Moment

Lighthouse - Everything

Linkin Park - Crawling

Linkin Park - Shadow of the Day

Linkin Park - Valentine's Day

Live - I Alone

Live - Lightning Crashes

Live - The Dolphin's Cry

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird

Manchester Orchestra - I've Got Friends

Meatloaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Metallica - ...and Justice for All

Metallica - Blackened

Metallica - Enter Sandman

Metallica - Fade to Black

Metallica - Nothing Else Matters

Metallica - One

Modest Mouse - Fire It Up

Modest Mouse - Little Hotel

Modest Mouse - Parting of the Sensory

Modest Mouse - Spitting Venom

Motley Crew - Home Sweet Home

Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man

Mumford & Sons - The Cave

Nada Surf - If You Leave

Nine Inch Nails - Hurt

Nirvana - All Apologies

Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night (cover)

Oleander - Why I'm Here

Ozzy Osbourne - Revelation (Mother Earth)

Patti Smith - Free Money

Pearl Jam - Black

Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror

Pearl Jam - Unthought Known

Pete Yorn - Atlantic City/Murray (live track, off of Live from New Jersey)

Pete Yorn - Crystal Village

Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight

Placebo - Meds

Postal Service - In the Air Tonight (cover)

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

Queen / David Bowie - Under Pressure

Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees

Radiohead - Let Down

Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name of

REM - Man on the Moon

Robert Randolph & the Family Band - Shake Your Hips

Robert Randolph & the Family Band - Tears of Joy

Robert Randolph & the Family Band - Ted's Jam

Santana - Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen

Secondhand Serenade - Goodbye

Secondhand Serenade - Life A Knife

Secondhand Serenade - Why

Secondhand Serenade - Twist in My Story

Sia - Breathe Me

Sick Puppies - All The Same

Sick Puppies - Odd One

Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye

Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings

Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm

Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight

Something Corporate - Konstantine

Stone Sour - Through the Glass

Styx - Come Sail Away

Switchfoot - Dare You To Move

System Of A Down - Lonely Day

Taproot - Calling

Tesla - Gettin' Better

The Decemberists - The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid

The Fray - Happiness

The Only Moment We Were Alone - Explosions in the Sky

The Raconteurs - Carolina Drama

The Raconteurs - Rich Kid Blues

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Your Guardian Angel

The Rolling Stones - Gimmie Shelter

The Rolling Stones - Midnight Rambler

The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want

Third Eye Blind - Motorcycle Driveby

Tool - 46&2

Tool - Jambi

Tool - Lateralus

Tool - Parabol/Parabola

Tool - Schism

Tool - Vicarious

U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name

Velvet Underground - Heroine

 

 

Any other suggestions?

[pitchleague]

so cliche, but "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey

[I Heart Brewers]

Let Down by Radiohead is by far my favorite.

 

There is a new one by this Welsh band called The Joy Formidable, song is Whirring. Great guitar and drums at the build up.

 

Neither of these start with an acoustic guitar but have a good crescendos in my opinion.

[TooLiveBrew]

Skynyrd -- "Freebird"

 

Doesn't fit with the acoustic guitar criterion, though.

 

 

EDIT: Thought of one more, because I'm a big Dave Matthews Band fan.

 

DMB's version of "All Along the Watchtower"

[gypcasino]

These I think fit the bill, some more of what you're looking for than others-

 

Ozzy Osbourne- Revelation (Mother Earth)

Diamond Head- Am I Evil

Iron Maiden- Hallowed be thy Name

Metallica- Blackened

Metallica- One

Guns N Roses- Sweet Child O Mine

Bruce Springsteen- Thunder Road

Aerosmith- Dream On

Queen- Bohemian Rhapsody

Lynyrd Skynyrd- Free Bird

[nate82]

Metallica - Nothing Else Matters

Metallica - Fade to Black

Metallica - ...and Justice for All

[Schlitz001]

The Velvet Underground's "Heroin" is my ultimate build up song. Bowie does this quite a bit, specifically with "Rock and Roll Suicide". I like a good buildup, but I'm more a fan of the huge unexpected drop at the 2-3 minute mark.

[razzzorsharp]

In the Air Tonight-Phil Collins

[jjkoestler]

November Rain - GNR

Let it Be - Beatles

Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead

In the Air Tonight - Lots of bands covered it. I prefer The Postal Service's version.

Hotel California - The Eagles (I hate The Eagles, man)

Gimme Shelter & You Can't Always Get What You Want

All Apologies - Nirvana

Black - Pearl Jam

Ripple-Grateful Dead

Hurt - NIN

[Gobias Industries]

The Rolling Stones - Midnight Rambler

[Baldkin]

Paradise City - GNR

Gallows Pole - Led Zeppelin

Dream On - Aerosmith

Hey Jude - Beatles

Cochise - Audioslave

Where It's At - Beck

Dry The Rain - Beta Band

War Pigs - Black Sabbath

 

I'm sure there's more in my head

[trwi7]

Money for Nothing - Dire Straits

[Glennron]

Explosions in the Sky- "The Only Moment We Were Alone"

[brettac1]

The Rolling Stones - Midnight Rambler

THIS.

 

Gimme Shelter probably would work, too.

[Hammer]

Maybe even some "Smells Like Teen Spirit"? That really builds...

[brettac1]

The whole grunge thing is basically that loud/quiet/loud thing (thanks to the Pixies).

[RayKingsForemanGrill]

Pearl Jam has tons of them, Unthought Known is the best off the last album... Rearviewmirror is another good one.

Our Lady Peace - Not Enough

Drive by Truckers - After the Scene Dies

[Point Beer Is Best]

Nirvana (Unplugged album) - Where did you sleep last night? (Leadbelly cover)

[zurch1818]

Thanks for all the suggestions. Like I said, it doesn't have to start

out acoustically....it just has to build up. I'm pretty sure Tool has

no idea what an acoustic guitar is but many of their songs build up. The Brewerfan community has an amazing taste in music is all I have to say.

[lukevan]

"Resurrection" by Fear Factory

[Mass Haas]

"Under Pressure" -- Queen / David Bowie

[Menotti80]

Lots of good ones mentioned. Here are some more, most are a much different style than the others. Also, I had a complete list, almost all ready to go, and I accidentally hit the "back" button on my browser after spending about an hour thinking of these songs, and scanning through my Ipod. grr...

 

Slow Piano/Acoustic --> Rock at the End:

Augustana - Boston

Chris Deburgh - A Spaceman Came Traveling

Coldplay - Fix You

Coldplay - The Scientist

Evanescence - My Immortal (Full Band)

Guster - Come Downstairs and Say Hello

Guster - Either Way

Jack's Mannequin - Caves

Linkin Park - Valentine's Day

Lighthouse - Everything

Secondhand Serenade - Goodbye

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Your Guardian Angel

 

Harder Rock - Gradual Buildup(s):

Breaking Benjamin - Forget It

Linkin Park - Crawling

Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight

 

Slow --> Gradual Buildup

Bell X1 - Eve, The Apple Of My Eye

Ben Folds - The Luckiest

David Gray - Alibi

David Gray - Slow Motion

Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism

Death Cab For Cutie - Marching Bands of Manhattan

Embrace - I Can't Come Down

Halloween, Alaska - All the Arms around You

Jack's Mannequin - Swim

Linkin Park - Shadow of the Day

Nada Surf - If You Leave

Secondhand Serenade - Life A Knife

Secondhand Serenade - Twist in My Story

Secondhand Serenade - Why

Sia - Breathe Me

Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye

Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm

Something Corporate - Konstantine

The Fray - Happiness

 

Hard Rock - Series of Explosive Buildups:

Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings

 

 

EDIT: split songs into catagories & added a few more songs, especially one by the red jumpsuit apparatus. Also edited to fix one song title

[trwi7]

Proud Mary - Ike and Tina Turner

Paradise by the Dashboard Light - Meatloaf

Where the Streets Have No Name - U2

Feel Like Makin' Love - Bad Company

[BuckyBrewer61]

Led Zeppelin - Over the Hills and Far Away

 

One of my favorites, may not be a gradual crescendo, but starts acoustic and ramps up to epic.

[RockCoCougars]

I don't know about the acoustic guitar requirement, but to me the most 'epic' change of pace song ever is 'Come Sail Away' by Styx. You go from the piano beginning that sounds like the Mr. Belvidere theme song to a dual guitar arena rocker. I dare you to find anyone who owned the cassette who hasn't fast forwarded to 'the good part'.

 

Another one would be 'American Woman' by the Guess Who (the full version). I also thought of Lionel Richie's 'Say You, Say Me', which has an brief but totally rocking guitar bridge that elevates it from elevator music for about 20 seconds.