Top 10 Songs With the Most Unexpected Transitions
It's when in a song you hear something that you didn't see coming. It can be a whole song section. And the transition from one section to another is quite unexpected.The Top Ten Songs With the Most Unexpected Transitions
Transitions are used to create comical effects. It's a funny Jason Derulo cover where the singer (Anthony Vincent) changes the music style every 10 seconds (the reason he named the project Ten Second Songs). All transitions from one style to another are funny (20 styles altogether) but my fave transitions are between the styles of:
1. Aventura - Slayer - Bob Marley
2. Will Smith - Kataklysm - System Of A Down - Slick Rick (for me this is like the climax of the song)
3. Bee Gees - White Zombie - Hootie & the Blowfish (song sample features it)
4. Jason Derulo - ACDC - Ray Charles
5. Josh Groban - Muse - Metal_Treasure
I didn't add this song but I realized it deserves to be on this list. Thanks to whoever added it.
The song structure is like a labyrinth in the wonderland - every part is different and transitions from one part to another are pretty unusual every time; there aren't verses in the strict sense and there's no chorus! So imagine the transitions. - Metal_Treasure
It starts to sound like a completely different song!
Exactly! It's a multi-part song where every section is different and sections aren't repeated which might be one of the reasons some people can't understand and appreciate this song (music-wise). - Metal_Treasure
It's great how it always changes genres - PatrickStar3
The middle part of the song is just amazing. - PackFan2005
Heavy rock guitars followed by happy yodeling (play the sample). Rock fans don't expect to hear yodeling... That transition always puts a smile on my face. - Metal_Treasure
False /fake ending in the first half of the song - much more is coming after the fake end! - Metal_Treasure
Same deal as with November Rain, always gets me and I think it's a new song playing.
Amazing song - PatrickStar3
This one is pretty weird in terms of transitions, all sound funny to me - Metal_Treasure
And that makes this song good in my opinion. - Userguy44
It's a hard rock song and the transition to the sax solo is unexpected because you expect a guitar solo. I love this song. And the sax in it. - Metal_Treasure
A song with false /fake ending - when you think the song is finished, music suddenly comes back. - Metal_Treasure
A power metal song where suddenly the singer starts singing jazz (singer is Tobias Sammet). But it doesn't sound bad to me. I love it. I was just O_O when I first heard that transition. - Metal_Treasure
This song starts out hard with singing on the 1st half, then the other half is very pretty instrumental, like 2 songs in one.
That transition to the bagpipes sections is unexpected in a hard rock song. But I like it. - Metal_Treasure
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After the false ending, music suddenly comes back. - Metal_Treasure
A violin solo in an extreme metal song. Violins used in the arrangement aren't unknown in metal but a violin solo IS a pretty unexpected transition. - Metal_Treasure
A long and soft piano intro followed by... brutal technical death metal. Most fans believe this is Cryptopsy's best song. - Metal_Treasure
Sick solo. - JCHOW
The transition to the "No one but me can save myself..." part specifically takes the song in a different direction. - truckturner
When Dave Murray's solo starts (around 2'30), the rhythm becomes different compared to the beginning of the song.
This song is ten minutes long so there are many transitions. Especially around 4'00 with a quiet and peaceful midsection and from 8'05 till the end with a long singing section.
I mean the transition to the part where the lyrics are in a binary code - "01101000, 00010010, 11100010... " (and the singer sings "zero one one zero one,..."). It's a long section:
Zero (one) one (zero) one (zero) zero (zero)
zero (one) one (zero) zero (one) zero (one)
zero (one) one (zero) one (one) zero (zero)
zero (one) one (one) zero (zero) zero (zero)
Zero (one) one (zero) one (zero) zero (zero)
zero (one) one (zero) zero (one) zero (one)
zero (one) one (zero) one (one) zero (zero)
zero (one) one (one) zero (zero) zero (zero)
off (on) on (off) off (on) on (off)
off (on) on (off) on (on) on (on)
off (on) on (on) off (off) on (off)
off (on) on (off) off (on) off (on)
off (on) on (on) off (on) on (off)
off (on) on (off) off (on) off (on)
off (on) on (on) off (off) on (off)
no (yeah) yeah (yeah) no (no) yeah (yeah)
no (yeah) yeah (no) yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah)
no (yeah) yeah (yeah) no (no) yeah (yeah)
no (yeah) ...more - Metal_Treasure
The first time you hear this, no way do you see the beat switch-up coming!
That part around 5'00 is quite surprising (and beautiful)
The part that precedes the solo
When the bass solo comes in...
One of my favorite moments in this song is namely the unexpected transition to that powerful scream, after 7 seconds of soft background music (around 2:00). - Metal_Treasure
The solo kicks up out of nowhere and honestly sounds like another song suddenly starts up, until the main chords kick back in - RustyNail
Starts out very chill, and then all of a sudden, you hear "GO AWAY! GO AWAY! GO AWAY! GO AWAAY! "
Early in, the electro beat cuts off to play an unaltered sample of a kid's chorus in a completely different tempo, just to stop after a few seconds and go back to the original beat. - Martin_Canine
The third verse completely changes the tone without warning: much slower, in a different key... and in a 3/4 time signature. The transition back is more fluent. - Martin_Canine
VERY GOOD BTS! I LIKE THE PART WHEN JIN V JUNGKOOK AND JIMIN SAY FOREVER THEN JIMIN LIKE SHAKES EVERYTHING THEN THEY RESUME DANCING!
20 style Katy Perry cover. My fave transitions are between the styles of:
Tech N9ne - RHCP - Slipknot - Louis Prima
'N Synk - Iron Maiden - Jamiroquai - Pantera - Frank Sinatra - Metallica - Pavarotti
Boyz II Men - Type O Negative - John Mayer
Katy Perry - Nirvana - Metal_Treasure
The song itself is a happy 60s pop song, but in the middle, their producer stitched in a segment of Charles Ives' "Central Park in the Dark" to give it a psychedelic flavor. It's very scary sounding and doesn't fit in with the rest of the song at all. Look it up for yourself; I'm not making this up. - Gg2000
The album version ends with an extended piano outro that starts right at the last moment of the version that's widely known. It's completely unrelated. - Martin_Canine
It has a fake ending around 2 and a half minutes, which is also when the music video ends. But in the album version, after a second of silence, the beat suddenly comes back but while using the same sample, it completely changed its tone towards a slower, more melodic style, and the song continues until it reaches over 4 minutes of length. - Martin_Canine
At first, the main song transists into a slower ballad style, which isn't AS surprising, as the transition is fluent, but what follows afterwards is hella unexpected: out of this slow ballad, suddenly dramatic orchestral score-like uptempo music emerges, much like from a chase scene. This segment goes back into the original style more fluently. - Martin_Canine
The chord shift at the end of the chorus is quite unexpected and proves that on occasion Nickelback can mix things up, really well even.
It's a mellow song with screaming out of nowhere in the chorus. - JCHOW
The transition into the drum solo near the end caught me really off guard the first time I heard it - kempokid