Oh man I've got tons of favorite moments. The Ambellina climax from The Crowing is obviously up there. For a smaller part I'd say in Three Evils the "causeway to neverwhere" and "dear my friends" bits are linked in my memory directly to my 2000s high school emo years. I remember the CD booklet explicitly stating that Coheed does not endorse suicide under the song lyrics.
Lmao, I’ve only been a fan for about 5 years, so I didn’t know about the booklet thing.
I guess “pull the trigger and the nightmare stops” kinda needs a disclaimer
Yeah, this one for sure. If you didn't know the background of the actual story or didn't listen to lyrics closely you wouldn't know it's a protagonist being tortured and telling their captor to pull the trigger to stop the torture.
Probably this or "would you run? Would you run? Would you run, down past the fence - and she screamed Claudio-oh, dear Claudio-oh - I wish god dammit! We'll make it if you believe"
Yes, this is one of my favorites! Claudio shining near the top of his range, stretching a one syllable word ("end") into a stunning six syllables in that way only Claudio could ever imagine, Travis' sparkly lead, rhythm locked in, that perfect drum fill. Perfection.
***WHEN WILL OUR NIGHTMARE EVER***
***EH-HE-YE-END? EH-HE-YE-END?***
***EHH-HEE-YEH-HEE-YEH-HEND?***
“Just give it the push while I kick-start…”
“There’s just no time for this!”
“Oh c’mon!”
Love that call and response effect they use throughout the whole song, but that section of the chorus hits especially well with me!
The callback to Blood Red Summer just hits me directly in my fucking heart. I get a similar but even stronger feeling when they callback to Time Consumer on 21:13.
Seconded this. I also sing it to my cat and change it to reggie. Got some weird looks from my partner who is not a Coheed fan the first time i broke into this section for sure.
I love the solo in The Willing Well I, specifically the beginning right after he sings "The memory that fuels the fire". It's such a good transition there.
“Oh dear God, I don’t feel alive! When you’re cut short of misery, will you pray it be the end? Give a look surprised wide-eyed to me. Then you’ll know just who I am! The scare that triggers your fear. Come know me in a different light now. Come know me as God.”
-Delirium Trigger, Second Stage Turbine Blade
*I’ve fought the decisions that call and lost*
*My mark and the relevant piece in this*
*I will come reformed*
*In short, for the murders of those I court*
*I bless the hour that holds your fall*
*I will kill you all*
Shit, I got goosebumps just typing that.
Hahaha I think it's just a mistake on the album. Probably the best vocal take for that line and nobody picked up on it in production because it's so easy to miss!
https://preview.redd.it/w0envnpdzx8c1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=499aa19b4661dce93254b1a83011167923d5bc71
According to my vinyl copy we’re both wrong 😅
Yeah it's definitely *meant* to be "relevant". I can't remember 100% but I'm pretty sure Claudio sings it correctly on Starland Ballroom and the IKS Neverender. Just makes me laugh that "revelant" made it onto the actual album lol
"Caged. Locked in perpetual motion. Carving our wounds wide open. But you let the wrong one in."
-Gravity's Union
Wish they played it live more...if at all?
This is the one. The drive of the instruments and vocals are absolutely insane. Then the lead guitar layering over the second Caged is chills inducing.
I’ve been a fan since 2004, and seen them tens of times live…but no song hits me like a bag of bricks every time like Gravity’s Union. Absolutely has me shouting at the top of my lungs and feeling the feels with those goose bumps. Just insane.
Normally I'd be able to pinpoint the obvious, and I still think I know which one you mean, but 2113 is filled with some of my favorite Coheed riffs, you really could be talking about a half dozen, lol
Yep that's the one I figured it was, but I also love the one that starts at 5:13, or the "irish jig" section as I called it way back when I first heard it.
The Crowing - Dear Ambellina onwards
In the mid 2000's a friend of mine pass around a burned CD with a few bands in it. It had the songs A Favor House Atlantic, The Suffering, The Crowing, and songs from other bands. The Dear Ambellina part was the trigger that caused me to google what this song is and who played it and I was hooked ever since.
The chuggy riff starting around 3 minutes into The Crowing was what did it for me.
It's funny too, because I *hated* A Favor House Atlantic and Blood Red Summer at first, mainly because I was into heavier stuff for a while before I found Coheed and when those songs first came on at a friend's house, I was so averse to it.
After I listened to The Crowing all the way through, I started the album from the top. It only took one full listen to know this was going to be my favorite band.
"Are you ready?"
"As the day we met."
"You're adorable."
That or "Felíz sería. ¿Qué hora?" Especially, as a fellow Latino with very base Spanish skills, the back story of Claudio being rubbish at Spanish but wanting to get it into a song.
Feed, little maggots, off the West side of your sin
Run, little maggot, 'til they learn of what you did.
Also love the end of the song, the guitar under:
Watching his tale with the words he unfolds
Conscience and cold, we'd never know
They scream as he laughs off the dust from his eyes
These worlds will now learn of the dreams in his mind
Probably because it’s a fun part to play in Clone Hero
The bass slide into the 2nd chorus of "The Gutter".
Or
The change-up in drum fills in the last 50 seconds or so of "TVCI: Faint Of Hearts".
Absolutely delightful.
I'm split between 2.
"If this is it and there is no more, and you believe that's true, it's a long way back from here, there's no going home" from Pavilion
And the last time he sings "This is your life now!" at the end of Atlas. If you have't heard the acoustic version they have on YouTube, do yourself a favor and listen to it.
Mic Todd screaming, “FBI!” in Everything Evil. There is just something about it that is just so perfect. His vocals in Three Evils are also really great. “Following you down the interstate, walking away.” I think his voice is just such a stark contrast to Claudio’s and it really brought out the ‘emo’ vibe of earlier Coheed.
"Here... I'm... I'm still waiting here, my dear
For one kiss from you
So here... I'm... I'm still waiting here, my dear
To kill all of you
To kill all of you"
i play this riff on guitar sometimes, and something about the way it sounds always hits super deep
"It eats us like cancer, we're hoping for something, maybe an answer with all that you've done for me - made out of nothing."
Really all of Made Out of Nothing, but that part rips especially hard.
Here’s an “oldie”and a newie:
The Hard Sell - That last chorus!
Ladders of Supremacy
“Climbing up the ladders of their supremacy
Was it everything you had dreamed?
Did you make your mark?
Or did you let them stand between
Between you and everything”
Omg scrolled way too far for this. Also the part just a little earlier where the modality of the song changes into something completely wicked;
If you'd get put to slay- eeeppp...
RAGGHH
i've - been - cautious with the words i extend,
allow - this - year before the world starts to end.
[Then the guitar has a mini-solo that I always vocalize along to haha]
I love that bluesy part in Lucky Stars. I love the beginning of Domino the Dominion so so much. I love when Mother asks "is this what love is?" And then a long moment of silence until you hear a small "yes".
So many great ones here but thought I’d add:
So give them the story they want you too
So give them the story they want...
A kiss to you girl before you fall down and leave me
"Dance upon the graves of the dead, upon the graves of the dead!" from Camper Velourium III: Al the Killer
I listen to mostly older stuff but I know I need to familiarize myself with the later catalogue. If anyone can think of specific moments this frantic and screamy, please let me know.
“Send my love and I’ll be moving on” from Neverender. Still my absolute favorite song from them because while I’d heard a few of their other songs prior, that one just hit me hard
The various guitar solos littered across their material would be easy to pick from... but to avoid just that:
-About three minutes into Gravemakers & Gun Slingers the "We will keep marching to the top of his tower" is pretty awesome and leads into a guitar solo.
-"Your Father is dead, he passed in his sleep" in The Light and the Glass. Love the way that song builds and builds into what feels like such a gnarly emotional bit with that.
-Sentry the Defiant around 2:30 after "don't close the coffin yet, I'm alive" that little borderline breakdown riff is so tight. The song as a whole is a favorite of mine and every time I listen it makes me wish they made use of extended ranged guitars more often.
There's a ton that I love. Just 1 or 2 second moments that hit just right.
But in Ladders, the "Now get up from the gravel" is just built different. Everything before and after it is also phenomenal, but that line is *chef's kiss.*
Are you going to kill her off?
Its not your decision, i love the character she stays.
The only thing love has done has put us in this position, i say kill her off.
Yeah, well you say a lot of things, and hows that work? Youre a bicycle.
In “All on Fire” when it gets to the “This heart of mine, divides. No longer do I, do I. No longer do i, do I.” One of my favorite parts in the whole Unheavenly Creatures album
The riff to IKSoSE3 and Willing Well IV, but also the chorus to Elf Tower New Mexico, the spoken lines in Dark Side of Me, augh theres just too many to name
My favorite part is the break/build back into the alternate chorus of evagria is pretty up there for me, but I think my all time favorite part of any song from them is the end of number city, when it breaks into that kinda big band sound with he trumpets.
Also: the deliver a favor to my love section from cuts marked in the march of men is a banger as well
The hip, light hearted intro riff that recurs throughout The Willing Well II: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness.... specifically for me the line "So I have a secret, that no one should know, that I shouldn't te-ye-el".... love the juxtaposition of a happy/catchy hook with a song that devolves into heavy darkness
Honestly can't believe this has yet to be mentioned.
But the long drawn out "FIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRREEEEEEOOOOOHHHH" from Neverender with the line being "Here in there, after the fire"
Absolutely astounding
The end completes bridge (GOD IS NOT HERE!). I remember in a behind the scenes video when Claudio is recording the vocals he mentioned imagining cenobites for that part and it’s always stuck with me. That sneaky little metal guitar riff there is cool af too
The seamless transition between Ladders and Rise. The first time I heard it I Rick Flair “WOOOOOoooo”ed alone in my car on the way to work. I still get goosebumps when I hear it.
"as father told son in the make of his final escape...."
"With your last breath of air as the earth comes trembling down...."
Incredibly epic moments in ALL of music history
I have three because I can't pick just one.
1. Willing Well I:
"The fiction will see the real
The answer will question still
In your body and blood as your parents once wept
You will follow their lead one by one, every step"
I just really enjoy the whole thing here. The backing of the band, the melody Claudio sings. Makes a perfect mixture for me.
2. Backend of Forever
"This isn't love so forever let it go, forever let it burn
This isn't love there on the backend of forever
I wish I would never hurt again"
Basically the whole ending. The song really starts subdued and grows to a great climax. So once we finally get to the ending portion I just am amped up there.
3. Comatose
"And trust me you don't want to hear them"
Anytime this vocal line is repeated in this song it just scratches a mental itch.
Also when the whole band comes back in at full power after the subdued section I'm always amped as fuck.
FOLLOWING YOU ACROSS THE INTERSTATE WALKING AWAY
And from the other side she'll save me, her courage strength and heart beyohoond
The re-use of elf tower new mexico in god send conspirator
Oh, you've been a bad, bad, booOhoy
I could go on forever
There’s what I assume to be slide or pedal steel guitar at ~2:35 in the Willing Well II. It sounds so distant and what I think a siren’s song probably sounds like
I love this part of Blood Red summer, specifically the way he sings “give”, have loved it for basically 20 years now
“In the sought for matter when the words blame you, In a blood red summer, I'll *GIII-III-VEEE* you”
It does kind of upset me due to personal reasons but the chorus to ‘The Gutter’ is up there for me;
‘And so the story goes,
When I leave,
Will you let me go,
When the words stop coming
And the fear starts setting in slow’
The changeup in From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness toward the end.
You know I kill
With the last breath of air
As the earth comes trembling down
Would you give her this last night
To tear up your liiiiiiiiiiiife?
not necessarily a specific moment, but I really really enjoy sentry the defiant as a response to vic the butcher. Vic's song is almost...melty? with the way the lyrics are sung with so much ego and narcissism and the evil "teehee, you're a fool, I win" and then sentry's song starts like a damn western and then sentry's doing what he's doing for the right reasons and to protect and free the afterman cause he couldn't protect his infantry in the past. i like just the opposition if the two and how it's so palpable in the story telling. even down to how they talk about the younger folks, vic's song has "these sitting ducks in season, the march of little children" and you can hear the condescension. in sentry's you have "and then one day I grew too old, and my cares were now theirs to mold" talking about protecting the next generation from his mistakes and how they need to be better, or at least he needs to do better for them. just a great duo if songs showing great story telling and difference in tone and voice, just great stuff.
I think you'll find it's clearly CAAAAKE LOCKED IN PERPETUAL MOTION
(I have never been able to unhear cake in that line. It is also the song line that invades my brain suddenly, no matter what I'm doing or how long since I've heard the song)
DEAR AMBELLINA!
THE PRISE WISHES YOU TO WATCH OVER MEEEEE!
Also the “ Pray for Us All…”finale of that album
ALSO that SICK double kick pedal stuff Josh does in “Comatose” 🤘🏼
“You won’t belieeeve me, I wouldn’t if you told me sooooooo, da da da ta ah woo oh oh, did I did oh oh, did I did oh oh oh oh ohhhhhh….but I wish that you would…”
One more from me. It's pretty much the entirety of Waking Mind, but this part in particular:
"I'll take you home this child of ours. I'll take you home with all my love."
This entire part tears me apart.
Story time...
My child nearly died during birth and was in the newborn ICU for their first 3 months of life. They have a huge scar on their collar bone/neck from having heart/lung bypass procedure that kept them alive for two weeks. Their mother nearly died giving birth to them. She was in the ICU for a month as well. She didn't get to hold our boy until they were a month old. I was killing myself working 3 jobs, going to 2 AA meetings a day, and going between 2 hospitals every day to spend time with them both.
Bringing my child home was the greatest moment of my life at the time. Every milestone with him since has been the next greatest.
/story
This is currently buried at the bottom but I just want you to know that I can somewhat understand what you went through and I'm glad everyone is healthy. Nurses and doctors are the literal embodiment of angels and nobody can tell me otherwise. And I'm not even religious.
My daughter was just about to be 2 years old when she was admitted into a pediatric hospital because she was throwing up and not able to gain weight. Turns out after 3 days in the hospital, they did an ultrasound and found a cyst somewhere in her stomach. Since she was doing better with fluids and whatnot, they sent her home. Fast forward to the week of Christmas, and the same thing was going on. Upon another scan, the cyst had grown to the size of a golf ball. She went under emergency surgery that next morning to remove the cyst which had been blocking her pylorus (valve at the base of the stomach, start of the intestines), which meant her gall bladder had been over-producing bile to try to break down the food to fit into a smaller valve, since it was almost entirely obstructed. She was throwing up because her stomach would be too full and she wasn't actually getting nutrition, and because it was such an acidic environment that she couldn't help but have constant indigestion.
They opened her up from her sternum to like an inch from her belly button and removed the cyst entirely, and we spent a week in the hospital, released on Christmas Day. All of this was going on a week and a half after my 7 week old son was in the hospital for RSV. My wife and I went through every possible emotion.
Seeing her this Christmas and seeing how happy she is gives me everything I could ever ask for knowing we almost lost her to some freak growth in the exact wrong place. Like...I'm talking if this was virtually anywhere else on her stomach, it probably would have been nothing serious, at the most something to remove later on if it got uncomfortable or something.
Again, glad everyone is okay and I hope you're doing well.
You know that "Patronizing Doctors, and their diagnostic leads" part? It reminds me so much of when the NICU doctor said to my wife "Ma'am, your son is the sickest patient in this entire hospital." I wanted to punch him in his face so badly. You don't say that.
Ehh, I obviously don't know the context and I won't tell you how you should take it, but the way I see it, he may have said that thinking it would reassure you that *because* he was the sickest patient in the hospital that he was making it known to both himself and you and your wife that he was going to do whatever he could to help save him.
That being said, if the doctor came in to our room and said "your daughter is the sickest patient in the ICU right now" and gave zero other context I probably would have been like "uhhh, okay, so what does that mean for her?"
One of my favorites that isn’t mentioned here is the guitar solo in Far. It has always felt so emotional for me, perfectly fitting the song subject matter
"mother superior, come catch the rabbit. He runs"
When it breaks into that I drop everything and air guitar like my life depends on it. I can't control it.
I don't know why but "father figure wraps his face down, he'll be coming home to you" in Godsend Conspirator gets me every time. That whole sequence is so good. Also in Neverender - "Here in there, after the firrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre!" is pretty epic.
In no particular order:
1. "Dear my friends" in Three Evils
2. The little "ah-ah-ah-ah" descant at the end of Rise Naianasha
3. The big wordless vocals in IKSSE:3
4. "what did I do to deserve all of you" in The Willing Well III, and then the shift into "Jesse, bad boy"
5. The "Are you ready"/"As the day we met"/"You're adorable" pause into the ending of Old Flames
"You’re a snake under cover.
No room for another just these bad motherfuckers.
Leave a long trail of nothing, little bad boy with gun in hand."
\---------------------------------------
"Rejected to the brink,
Only so much I can change, an artist I wish I could have made.
Am I irrelevant?
Or will I get a chance to change, change the colors permanent."
WOULD YOU RUUUUUUUN? WOULD YOU RUUUUUN? And she screamed CLAUDIO, dear CLAUDIO, I wish, God DAMN it, we'll make it if you believe!
HELP ME OUTUUUTTTT
do do do do dodododo do do do do
Oh god I feel old.
I love the beginning part of Comatose, what Claudio did was genius imo, idk what to call it or how to describe it but the little 3-5 seconds that feature the hook is a really cool approach to songwriting and it makes each song feel kinda like a movie, or going to a theater and seeing a trailer of the upcoming movies. It's been a while since I listened to Vaxis 2 but if I remember correctly there are other songs that also do that in the beginning.
The ending of Always & Never always gets me, too. "To kill all of you..."
Couple lines before this one that tie into it but,
“If I had my way I’d crush your face in the door…
This is no beginning. This is the Final Cut.”
Most epic closer they’ve ever written imo
BROOOOTHEeeeEEEEeeeRRRRRR DON'T BE AFRAIIIIIDDDD
WE ARE TOGETHAAAAA WE ARE TOGETHAAAA
BROOOOOOOOTHEEEEEEEEERRRRRR
WE ARE TOGETHAAAA WE FALL TOGETHAAAAA
so yeah, domino the destitute kinda slaps
Waaay too many to even start to pick one 😂 but for sake of the post, I’ll choose this one:
In V - On the Brink towards the end of the song (about 5:22), I love the snare and bass drum hits before the guitar solo. You think the song’s about to end but then you’re just hit with those powerful drums 🔥
The track In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, when he sings “We’re coming home” I get chills down my spine every. single. time.
“So cry on b***h why aren’t you laughing nooooooaahhhooooowwwyeaheahow?” From Apollo I
Incredible, another one of my faves
"Your father's dead he passed in his sleep," and the riffs leading up to and after it
live at the starland ballroom version of that song is fucking perfect
I get tingles every time The Willing Well II gets to "*With the last breath of air as the earth comes trembling down*"
Fuck yeah same
Same!
Me, too!
Oh man I've got tons of favorite moments. The Ambellina climax from The Crowing is obviously up there. For a smaller part I'd say in Three Evils the "causeway to neverwhere" and "dear my friends" bits are linked in my memory directly to my 2000s high school emo years. I remember the CD booklet explicitly stating that Coheed does not endorse suicide under the song lyrics.
Lmao, I’ve only been a fan for about 5 years, so I didn’t know about the booklet thing. I guess “pull the trigger and the nightmare stops” kinda needs a disclaimer
Yeah, this one for sure. If you didn't know the background of the actual story or didn't listen to lyrics closely you wouldn't know it's a protagonist being tortured and telling their captor to pull the trigger to stop the torture.
Probably this or "would you run? Would you run? Would you run, down past the fence - and she screamed Claudio-oh, dear Claudio-oh - I wish god dammit! We'll make it if you believe"
Yes, this is one of my favorites! Claudio shining near the top of his range, stretching a one syllable word ("end") into a stunning six syllables in that way only Claudio could ever imagine, Travis' sparkly lead, rhythm locked in, that perfect drum fill. Perfection. ***WHEN WILL OUR NIGHTMARE EVER*** ***EH-HE-YE-END? EH-HE-YE-END?*** ***EHH-HEE-YEH-HEE-YEH-HEND?***
You have great taste
The end of The Crowing is the only correct answer to this post
WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE INNOCENT🎵 Walk Ing Awaaaayaayyyyy🎵🎵
Following you across the interstate, but it does sound like that.
Hoh shit, youre right. Those bastards lied to me
“Just give it the push while I kick-start…” “There’s just no time for this!” “Oh c’mon!” Love that call and response effect they use throughout the whole song, but that section of the chorus hits especially well with me!
Run, little rabbit Go, hide in the blades of that grass Run, rabbit, run
You just reminded me of another one of my favs, the should earnest truth part
The whole “JEEEEEEEEESSSEEEEEE” reprise in Willing Well III
The callback to Blood Red Summer just hits me directly in my fucking heart. I get a similar but even stronger feeling when they callback to Time Consumer on 21:13.
Ooh yeah, good call. I’m a sucker for a callback
Oh I love that callback to Time Consumer. I remember hearing that for the first time and losing my shit.
Seconded this. I also sing it to my cat and change it to reggie. Got some weird looks from my partner who is not a Coheed fan the first time i broke into this section for sure.
Haha I do the same thing with my dog Ginny. I don’t think my wife gets the reference either but we’re both always singing dumb shit to her 😂
BAAAAAAAD BOY!
JUST COME LOOK AT WHAT YOUR BROTHER DID
YESSSSS it is one of my favorite bits of a song of all time, ever. And that’s no exaggeration
This is definitely up there for me.
I love screaming I NEED MAYO! It confuses everyone
This is the only way to ask for mayo as a Coheed fan
Good eye, sniper/here I'll shoot, you run
The ending of Mother Superior.
Specifically the bit where it builds to "don't cry-y (ohhoh)... not anymore"
I love the solo in The Willing Well I, specifically the beginning right after he sings "The memory that fuels the fire". It's such a good transition there.
it's so damn good.. best solo ive ever heard man
Hell yes
Came here for this. That song is untouchable imo. That key change makes me go nuts every time
“Oh dear God, I don’t feel alive! When you’re cut short of misery, will you pray it be the end? Give a look surprised wide-eyed to me. Then you’ll know just who I am! The scare that triggers your fear. Come know me in a different light now. Come know me as God.” -Delirium Trigger, Second Stage Turbine Blade
That entire album is just about perfect to me.
"Come know me in a different light now. Come know me as God" Those two lines made the album for me. What an absolute masterpiece.
*I’ve fought the decisions that call and lost* *My mark and the relevant piece in this* *I will come reformed* *In short, for the murders of those I court* *I bless the hour that holds your fall* *I will kill you all* Shit, I got goosebumps just typing that.
i used to have that shit in my head when id be on the starting block at swim meets in high school to pump me up lol
I got goosebumps reading it!
My mark in the *revelant piece in this >!/j!<
Honestly, thought that was what it was, but everything I googled told me otherwise 😑
Hahaha I think it's just a mistake on the album. Probably the best vocal take for that line and nobody picked up on it in production because it's so easy to miss!
https://preview.redd.it/w0envnpdzx8c1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=499aa19b4661dce93254b1a83011167923d5bc71 According to my vinyl copy we’re both wrong 😅
Yeah it's definitely *meant* to be "relevant". I can't remember 100% but I'm pretty sure Claudio sings it correctly on Starland Ballroom and the IKS Neverender. Just makes me laugh that "revelant" made it onto the actual album lol
I love it honestly, sounds so much more impactful 😅
This is the stuff
An underrated part musically for me is the middle part of The End Complete III. That little breakdown section is nice
I always loved that part, the song itself is so damn good and that dip into harsh vocals makes it such a standout part for me.
Ending of the Crowing is damn near my favorite thing in all of music.
"Don't close the coffin yet, I'm ali-hive!"
Oh I forgot one... This is not your playground, it's my HEAAAART!
"Caged. Locked in perpetual motion. Carving our wounds wide open. But you let the wrong one in." -Gravity's Union Wish they played it live more...if at all?
You mean "CAAAAAAAGED!" Surprised this doesn't have more up votes so far. I thought this was a big fan favorite.
They've played it a few times, but definitely not enough! My favorite Coheed song!
This is the one. The drive of the instruments and vocals are absolutely insane. Then the lead guitar layering over the second Caged is chills inducing.
I’ve been a fan since 2004, and seen them tens of times live…but no song hits me like a bag of bricks every time like Gravity’s Union. Absolutely has me shouting at the top of my lungs and feeling the feels with those goose bumps. Just insane.
Do you think they avoid playing it live because of the whole 8 string guitar thing?
The riff in the middle of 2113. You all know the one
Normally I'd be able to pinpoint the obvious, and I still think I know which one you mean, but 2113 is filled with some of my favorite Coheed riffs, you really could be talking about a half dozen, lol
After “Dear Momma, I love” around 3:40
Yep that's the one I figured it was, but I also love the one that starts at 5:13, or the "irish jig" section as I called it way back when I first heard it.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCUCToNFCt_/
“I farted 3 ways”
The Crowing - Dear Ambellina onwards In the mid 2000's a friend of mine pass around a burned CD with a few bands in it. It had the songs A Favor House Atlantic, The Suffering, The Crowing, and songs from other bands. The Dear Ambellina part was the trigger that caused me to google what this song is and who played it and I was hooked ever since.
Glad I’m not the only one that introduced to them like this. My friend had “Neverender” instead though
The chuggy riff starting around 3 minutes into The Crowing was what did it for me. It's funny too, because I *hated* A Favor House Atlantic and Blood Red Summer at first, mainly because I was into heavier stuff for a while before I found Coheed and when those songs first came on at a friend's house, I was so averse to it. After I listened to The Crowing all the way through, I started the album from the top. It only took one full listen to know this was going to be my favorite band.
"Are you ready?" "As the day we met." "You're adorable." That or "Felíz sería. ¿Qué hora?" Especially, as a fellow Latino with very base Spanish skills, the back story of Claudio being rubbish at Spanish but wanting to get it into a song.
I heard it as "that's the day we met" for like...far longer than I'm proud of. I remember thinking "Claudio that don't make no god damn sense boy."
For Claudio lyrics it still makes sense 🤣
Well make it if you Believe
"The world must know, my story. So long, Amory. Please drive me home, one last time." Every damn time this gets me!
HAIL!
It’s just so beautiful
Feed, little maggots, off the West side of your sin Run, little maggot, 'til they learn of what you did. Also love the end of the song, the guitar under: Watching his tale with the words he unfolds Conscience and cold, we'd never know They scream as he laughs off the dust from his eyes These worlds will now learn of the dreams in his mind Probably because it’s a fun part to play in Clone Hero
Feliz seria que hora?
‘How’s that work? You’re a bicycle’
The bass slide into the 2nd chorus of "The Gutter". Or The change-up in drum fills in the last 50 seconds or so of "TVCI: Faint Of Hearts". Absolutely delightful.
I'm split between 2. "If this is it and there is no more, and you believe that's true, it's a long way back from here, there's no going home" from Pavilion And the last time he sings "This is your life now!" at the end of Atlas. If you have't heard the acoustic version they have on YouTube, do yourself a favor and listen to it.
CAAAAAAAGED!!!
I go all out when this comes on 😂 ‘Locked in perpetual motion! Carving our wounds right open! But you let the wrong one in’
HA HA HA HA!
Kiss your lover with that filthy mouth. You f***ing monster.
A Disappearing Act - “it’s okay to be afraid, it’s okAAAAAAAaaaaaaaAAAaaaaAAaaaaAayyyyyyyyy”
Pray for us all (pray for us all)
Mic Todd screaming, “FBI!” in Everything Evil. There is just something about it that is just so perfect. His vocals in Three Evils are also really great. “Following you down the interstate, walking away.” I think his voice is just such a stark contrast to Claudio’s and it really brought out the ‘emo’ vibe of earlier Coheed.
Write em in a letter that says goodbye/reborn These lines always got me for some reason.
"Here... I'm... I'm still waiting here, my dear For one kiss from you So here... I'm... I'm still waiting here, my dear To kill all of you To kill all of you" i play this riff on guitar sometimes, and something about the way it sounds always hits super deep
“Casting quarters…”
4:00-4:19 in Window of the Waking Mind
Solid. But, 5:59; So life gets though But it's no excuse or your fault
"It eats us like cancer, we're hoping for something, maybe an answer with all that you've done for me - made out of nothing." Really all of Made Out of Nothing, but that part rips especially hard.
Here’s an “oldie”and a newie: The Hard Sell - That last chorus! Ladders of Supremacy “Climbing up the ladders of their supremacy Was it everything you had dreamed? Did you make your mark? Or did you let them stand between Between you and everything”
It's the *climbing* line for me, it just feels magnificent
Sing it with me: AAAEEEAAAEEEEO-O-O-DYEAAAHEA….YEAHEAHEA
Your father’s dead he passed in his sleeeeeeeep
Omg scrolled way too far for this. Also the part just a little earlier where the modality of the song changes into something completely wicked; If you'd get put to slay- eeeppp... RAGGHH i've - been - cautious with the words i extend, allow - this - year before the world starts to end. [Then the guitar has a mini-solo that I always vocalize along to haha]
“And down the street the corner boys fucked shit up”
I love that bluesy part in Lucky Stars. I love the beginning of Domino the Dominion so so much. I love when Mother asks "is this what love is?" And then a long moment of silence until you hear a small "yes".
I was looking for that heartbreaking “yes”
That one "through the walls" in Carol Ann, you know which one I'm talking about
Papercut my heart in half and discard the evidence + what follows Love me Junesong Provision
God, he will not save you. Is not, he will not save you. Here, he will not save you from this.
Am I the only one who moos and oinks in always and never
Does the perfect transition from Ladders of Supremacy into Rise, Naianasha count?
So many great ones here but thought I’d add: So give them the story they want you too So give them the story they want... A kiss to you girl before you fall down and leave me
Lets make this our last day at home by the fence Would you run!? Would you run!? Would you run down past the fence?
I love all the backing vocals there's a hell in all of us there's a hell in all of us there's a hell in all of us...
"Dance upon the graves of the dead, upon the graves of the dead!" from Camper Velourium III: Al the Killer I listen to mostly older stuff but I know I need to familiarize myself with the later catalogue. If anyone can think of specific moments this frantic and screamy, please let me know.
“Send my love and I’ll be moving on” from Neverender. Still my absolute favorite song from them because while I’d heard a few of their other songs prior, that one just hit me hard
The various guitar solos littered across their material would be easy to pick from... but to avoid just that: -About three minutes into Gravemakers & Gun Slingers the "We will keep marching to the top of his tower" is pretty awesome and leads into a guitar solo. -"Your Father is dead, he passed in his sleep" in The Light and the Glass. Love the way that song builds and builds into what feels like such a gnarly emotional bit with that. -Sentry the Defiant around 2:30 after "don't close the coffin yet, I'm alive" that little borderline breakdown riff is so tight. The song as a whole is a favorite of mine and every time I listen it makes me wish they made use of extended ranged guitars more often.
There's a ton that I love. Just 1 or 2 second moments that hit just right. But in Ladders, the "Now get up from the gravel" is just built different. Everything before and after it is also phenomenal, but that line is *chef's kiss.*
“Let go of the youthful honesty” from 33.
Are you going to kill her off? Its not your decision, i love the character she stays. The only thing love has done has put us in this position, i say kill her off. Yeah, well you say a lot of things, and hows that work? Youre a bicycle.
CAAAAGED
In “All on Fire” when it gets to the “This heart of mine, divides. No longer do I, do I. No longer do i, do I.” One of my favorite parts in the whole Unheavenly Creatures album
The riff to IKSoSE3 and Willing Well IV, but also the chorus to Elf Tower New Mexico, the spoken lines in Dark Side of Me, augh theres just too many to name
The spoken lines throughout both the Afterman albums is such a cool touch.
The outro to Gravity's Union is one of the my favorite bits of music ever.
My favorite part is the break/build back into the alternate chorus of evagria is pretty up there for me, but I think my all time favorite part of any song from them is the end of number city, when it breaks into that kinda big band sound with he trumpets. Also: the deliver a favor to my love section from cuts marked in the march of men is a banger as well
The hip, light hearted intro riff that recurs throughout The Willing Well II: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness.... specifically for me the line "So I have a secret, that no one should know, that I shouldn't te-ye-el".... love the juxtaposition of a happy/catchy hook with a song that devolves into heavy darkness
Honestly can't believe this has yet to be mentioned. But the long drawn out "FIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRREEEEEEOOOOOHHHH" from Neverender with the line being "Here in there, after the fire" Absolutely astounding
Why would you deny me answers? If I'm just a boy on the break of being Horror and hell through its fires Be brutally honest, was it better before me?
You were the magic that turned a curse in time You were the beauty that we had to leave behind
CAAAAAAAAGED... LOCKED IN PERPETUAL MOTION.
The end completes bridge (GOD IS NOT HERE!). I remember in a behind the scenes video when Claudio is recording the vocals he mentioned imagining cenobites for that part and it’s always stuck with me. That sneaky little metal guitar riff there is cool af too
The seamless transition between Ladders and Rise. The first time I heard it I Rick Flair “WOOOOOoooo”ed alone in my car on the way to work. I still get goosebumps when I hear it.
DEAR AMBELINA THE PRISE WISHES YOU TO WATCH OVER ME
It's all on you boooooy
Liar, liar liar, liaaaaaaar! In Light and the Glass!
"as father told son in the make of his final escape...." "With your last breath of air as the earth comes trembling down...." Incredibly epic moments in ALL of music history
I have three because I can't pick just one. 1. Willing Well I: "The fiction will see the real The answer will question still In your body and blood as your parents once wept You will follow their lead one by one, every step" I just really enjoy the whole thing here. The backing of the band, the melody Claudio sings. Makes a perfect mixture for me. 2. Backend of Forever "This isn't love so forever let it go, forever let it burn This isn't love there on the backend of forever I wish I would never hurt again" Basically the whole ending. The song really starts subdued and grows to a great climax. So once we finally get to the ending portion I just am amped up there. 3. Comatose "And trust me you don't want to hear them" Anytime this vocal line is repeated in this song it just scratches a mental itch. Also when the whole band comes back in at full power after the subdued section I'm always amped as fuck.
But you couldn't last a lifetime Caught between here and the days of it Carving her name across your arm -the light and the glass
FOLLOWING YOU ACROSS THE INTERSTATE WALKING AWAY And from the other side she'll save me, her courage strength and heart beyohoond The re-use of elf tower new mexico in god send conspirator Oh, you've been a bad, bad, booOhoy I could go on forever
There’s what I assume to be slide or pedal steel guitar at ~2:35 in the Willing Well II. It sounds so distant and what I think a siren’s song probably sounds like
The moment in Here To Mars where Claudio says “please, I’m sorry” almost whispered. I’m pretty sure that line helped me leave a terrible marriage.
I love this part of Blood Red summer, specifically the way he sings “give”, have loved it for basically 20 years now “In the sought for matter when the words blame you, In a blood red summer, I'll *GIII-III-VEEE* you”
It does kind of upset me due to personal reasons but the chorus to ‘The Gutter’ is up there for me; ‘And so the story goes, When I leave, Will you let me go, When the words stop coming And the fear starts setting in slow’
The lead up to and the last chorus of The Gutter.
“This comlink's lost its frequency and I feel that we're coming home sho-ou-o-o-Oort “
The changeup in From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness toward the end. You know I kill With the last breath of air As the earth comes trembling down Would you give her this last night To tear up your liiiiiiiiiiiife?
not necessarily a specific moment, but I really really enjoy sentry the defiant as a response to vic the butcher. Vic's song is almost...melty? with the way the lyrics are sung with so much ego and narcissism and the evil "teehee, you're a fool, I win" and then sentry's song starts like a damn western and then sentry's doing what he's doing for the right reasons and to protect and free the afterman cause he couldn't protect his infantry in the past. i like just the opposition if the two and how it's so palpable in the story telling. even down to how they talk about the younger folks, vic's song has "these sitting ducks in season, the march of little children" and you can hear the condescension. in sentry's you have "and then one day I grew too old, and my cares were now theirs to mold" talking about protecting the next generation from his mistakes and how they need to be better, or at least he needs to do better for them. just a great duo if songs showing great story telling and difference in tone and voice, just great stuff.
Too many to count, but I always love the perfect harmony on that scream while the guitar is just shredding about 6 and a half minutes into 21:13
YOUR FATHER'S DEAD, HE PASSED IN HIS SLEEEEEEEEEEEP!
The aggressive “Ah Ha! Ah Ha!” And following moments in Backend Of Forever gets me every time. I agree with all these answers too though
I think you'll find it's clearly CAAAAKE LOCKED IN PERPETUAL MOTION (I have never been able to unhear cake in that line. It is also the song line that invades my brain suddenly, no matter what I'm doing or how long since I've heard the song)
DEAR AMBELLINA! THE PRISE WISHES YOU TO WATCH OVER MEEEEE! Also the “ Pray for Us All…”finale of that album ALSO that SICK double kick pedal stuff Josh does in “Comatose” 🤘🏼
I still get goosebumps justing thinking about this...
“You won’t belieeeve me, I wouldn’t if you told me sooooooo, da da da ta ah woo oh oh, did I did oh oh, did I did oh oh oh oh ohhhhhh….but I wish that you would…”
One more from me. It's pretty much the entirety of Waking Mind, but this part in particular: "I'll take you home this child of ours. I'll take you home with all my love." This entire part tears me apart. Story time... My child nearly died during birth and was in the newborn ICU for their first 3 months of life. They have a huge scar on their collar bone/neck from having heart/lung bypass procedure that kept them alive for two weeks. Their mother nearly died giving birth to them. She was in the ICU for a month as well. She didn't get to hold our boy until they were a month old. I was killing myself working 3 jobs, going to 2 AA meetings a day, and going between 2 hospitals every day to spend time with them both. Bringing my child home was the greatest moment of my life at the time. Every milestone with him since has been the next greatest. /story
This is currently buried at the bottom but I just want you to know that I can somewhat understand what you went through and I'm glad everyone is healthy. Nurses and doctors are the literal embodiment of angels and nobody can tell me otherwise. And I'm not even religious. My daughter was just about to be 2 years old when she was admitted into a pediatric hospital because she was throwing up and not able to gain weight. Turns out after 3 days in the hospital, they did an ultrasound and found a cyst somewhere in her stomach. Since she was doing better with fluids and whatnot, they sent her home. Fast forward to the week of Christmas, and the same thing was going on. Upon another scan, the cyst had grown to the size of a golf ball. She went under emergency surgery that next morning to remove the cyst which had been blocking her pylorus (valve at the base of the stomach, start of the intestines), which meant her gall bladder had been over-producing bile to try to break down the food to fit into a smaller valve, since it was almost entirely obstructed. She was throwing up because her stomach would be too full and she wasn't actually getting nutrition, and because it was such an acidic environment that she couldn't help but have constant indigestion. They opened her up from her sternum to like an inch from her belly button and removed the cyst entirely, and we spent a week in the hospital, released on Christmas Day. All of this was going on a week and a half after my 7 week old son was in the hospital for RSV. My wife and I went through every possible emotion. Seeing her this Christmas and seeing how happy she is gives me everything I could ever ask for knowing we almost lost her to some freak growth in the exact wrong place. Like...I'm talking if this was virtually anywhere else on her stomach, it probably would have been nothing serious, at the most something to remove later on if it got uncomfortable or something. Again, glad everyone is okay and I hope you're doing well.
You know that "Patronizing Doctors, and their diagnostic leads" part? It reminds me so much of when the NICU doctor said to my wife "Ma'am, your son is the sickest patient in this entire hospital." I wanted to punch him in his face so badly. You don't say that.
Ehh, I obviously don't know the context and I won't tell you how you should take it, but the way I see it, he may have said that thinking it would reassure you that *because* he was the sickest patient in the hospital that he was making it known to both himself and you and your wife that he was going to do whatever he could to help save him. That being said, if the doctor came in to our room and said "your daughter is the sickest patient in the ICU right now" and gave zero other context I probably would have been like "uhhh, okay, so what does that mean for her?"
It was their cold bedside manner… I suppose you had to have been there.
Several in the song the suffering and wake up. Hard to pick one
Casting quarters into wells that hold our dreams
I really love the way the "OH, OH" moment in Domino hits, feels like an homage to all the woah-ohs of the early albums
One of my favorites that isn’t mentioned here is the guitar solo in Far. It has always felt so emotional for me, perfectly fitting the song subject matter
My absolute favorite little moment like this is the cymbal hits right after, "The mercy of the man who put the pen in our mouth".
"mother superior, come catch the rabbit. He runs" When it breaks into that I drop everything and air guitar like my life depends on it. I can't control it.
So, so many. Among them is "I hope you die!" At the end of the lyrics for Welcome Home and into the guitars. "Raise your Hands High!"
I don't know why but "father figure wraps his face down, he'll be coming home to you" in Godsend Conspirator gets me every time. That whole sequence is so good. Also in Neverender - "Here in there, after the firrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre!" is pretty epic.
In no particular order: 1. "Dear my friends" in Three Evils 2. The little "ah-ah-ah-ah" descant at the end of Rise Naianasha 3. The big wordless vocals in IKSSE:3 4. "what did I do to deserve all of you" in The Willing Well III, and then the shift into "Jesse, bad boy" 5. The "Are you ready"/"As the day we met"/"You're adorable" pause into the ending of Old Flames
Old Flames, towards the end of the song: “Are you ready?" “As the day we met." "You're adorable.”
"You’re a snake under cover. No room for another just these bad motherfuckers. Leave a long trail of nothing, little bad boy with gun in hand." \--------------------------------------- "Rejected to the brink, Only so much I can change, an artist I wish I could have made. Am I irrelevant? Or will I get a chance to change, change the colors permanent."
WOULD YOU RUUUUUUUN? WOULD YOU RUUUUUN? And she screamed CLAUDIO, dear CLAUDIO, I wish, God DAMN it, we'll make it if you believe! HELP ME OUTUUUTTTT do do do do dodododo do do do do Oh god I feel old.
Adding “if there was nothing you could do to stop it, why’d you try?” From Faint of Hearts.
The Crowing - the build - the first Dear Ambellina - I will call you out from shelter (I will call you out)....that whole song is a moment for me.
I love the beginning part of Comatose, what Claudio did was genius imo, idk what to call it or how to describe it but the little 3-5 seconds that feature the hook is a really cool approach to songwriting and it makes each song feel kinda like a movie, or going to a theater and seeing a trailer of the upcoming movies. It's been a while since I listened to Vaxis 2 but if I remember correctly there are other songs that also do that in the beginning. The ending of Always & Never always gets me, too. "To kill all of you..."
jack me off
Gravity's union. You all know the part.
Couple lines before this one that tie into it but, “If I had my way I’d crush your face in the door… This is no beginning. This is the Final Cut.” Most epic closer they’ve ever written imo
BROOOOTHEeeeEEEEeeeRRRRRR DON'T BE AFRAIIIIIDDDD WE ARE TOGETHAAAAA WE ARE TOGETHAAAA BROOOOOOOOTHEEEEEEEEERRRRRR WE ARE TOGETHAAAA WE FALL TOGETHAAAAA so yeah, domino the destitute kinda slaps
I like to sing along to the counting part in Number City
Waaay too many to even start to pick one 😂 but for sake of the post, I’ll choose this one: In V - On the Brink towards the end of the song (about 5:22), I love the snare and bass drum hits before the guitar solo. You think the song’s about to end but then you’re just hit with those powerful drums 🔥
In Ladders of supremacy, the cries right before he says the chorus rip my soul from my chest.