Euphoria: a feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness.

I imagine there are quite a few euphoric moments in rock songs. Moments that have you turning the volume up to 11, punching the air and shouting “Yes! You go girl/boy!” Though, of course, one person’s “intense excitement” can be another person’s “meh”. An obvious example for me is in Bat Out Of Hell when Meatloaf is all torn and twisted and dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun, poor chap, after a motorbike crash and the last thing he sees is his heart “still beating… still beating… then breaking out of my body and flying away… LIKE A BAT OUT OF HELL”. That bit. Another good example is in Common People when Jarvis Cocker sings the last “Wanna live with common people like you” and goes into “ooooh a la la la la la, ooooh, la la la la.” Or a subtler, slightly less dramatic example would be the way Jackie Leven sings “honour” in Main Travelled Roads. Or when Thom York sings “One day I am gonna grow wings” in Radiohead’s Let Down. My absolute favourite though can be found in a most unlikely » Continue Reading.