Songs you know that have really intense climaxes

[Rushmore]

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Fake Plastic Trees

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Very nice first response.

[Rushmore]

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uh, really? am i going to be the first person to mention godspeed you! black emperor, whose songs are basically all 15 minute setups to giant climaxes?

Moya, Blaise Bailey Finnegan III, uh - any song by them, basically.

Explosions in the Sky have a bunch too - six days at the bottom of the ocean sounds right.

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Sounds like you need to include MONO and Russian Circles and Red Sparrowes in this post.

But I'd say the actual real and true answer to the original question is the live version of Blood Promise by Swans.

Want to hear the soundtrack for the descent into Hell?

But I suppose the "climax" lasts too long, so my answer is...

Pushit by TOOL. If you don't get a chill from "There's no love in fear..." til the end of the song, you don't enjoy great rock and roll.

[Don_Lapre]

"Moonlight Mile" by the Rolling Stones. Not so well known, incredible song and has the one of the most intense climaxes out of all the songs I know.

[rebuyboy]

never gonna give you up - rick astley

[boscoboy]

Bridge over Troubled Water would make my list - however stairway to heaven is a pretty good example of what OP was asking for

[theblackkeys]

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Boy Hits Car - Beneath the Sea's Bed

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I work with the drummer of this band. What kind of music is it? Fallout boy type stuff?

[mirrorman]

Kansas - Carry On My Wayward Son

[mirrorman]

omg, listen to this:

Grand Funk Railroad - Inside Looking Out

[dustybottoms]

Alone- Heart

Goodnight Saigon- Billy Joel

[suzzer99]

Def Leppard - Bringin on the Heartbreak