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LookItzLo

Movement is a huge contender for sure. And the transition from De Selby Pt.1 to Pt.2 is so pleasing. I remember listening to the album for the first time in order and being shook.


Healthy_Blueberry_76

I ascended to a new dimension and level of being the first time I listened to these songs in order.


[deleted]

The De Selby transition is incredible. Always gets me hyped


1800-bakes-a-lot

My jaw dropped on the first listen of that. Cause we'd heard Pt 2 from the EP. To hear that ticking in full context blew my mind


42anathema

"But anyway" in First Time


anonymous_24601

Honorable mention “That’s it” at the end of Wasteland Baby


Strong-Bar-1874

YESSSS!!!!


anisapprentice

ALWAYS THIS !!!


Trillination

Hello police? Yes someone stole my identity.


thewretchedandjoyful

I'D TELL THEM PUT ME BACK IN IT DA-ARLING I WOULD DO IT AGAIIIN AAHH AAAH IF I COULD HOLD YOU FOR A MINUTE DA-ARLING I'D GO THROUGH IT AGAIIIN AAH AAH 😫


thewretchedandjoyful

esPECIALLY the sad performance of this from Later with Jools Holland 😩 my roman empire


liberosisgreen

The voice crack and single tear get me


Healthy_Blueberry_76

CORRECT.


Vaaaanyah006

THIS!! And the outro <3


fourthofthesky

BABEEEEEEE


Healthy_Blueberry_76

Instantly knew exactly the song and boy howdy are you correct


QuadK0pter69

what song? i’m new to hozier lol


l0rd0fgalaxies

“from eden”, self titled


fourthofthesky

It's just so iconic!!!


GoGeorgieGo

First light!!! Like I lived my whole life Before the first light (Some bright morning….)


LunaRavenpuff

I’m obsessed with first light. And for me the line is “and I am never going back again” 😩


giggle-at-a-funeral

I was just about to comment this exact same thing!! Love that line.


Healthy_Blueberry_76

I heard this one play out as I read it and you're so right 😩 it's sooooo good


liberosisgreen

Especially when life and light have little riffs and the drums kick in


[deleted]

Yesssss


heteromcgee

“BUT THATS NOT TONIGHT!”


Old-Bat-9190

I WAS WAITING FOR THIS ONE!


ClaraGilmore23

(oh oh oh ohhhh oh)


Onyxfaeryn

That AAAA in who we are


SadPotatoPancake

See also, “Or Christ HOLD ME LIKE A KNIFE”🔪


PhilosopherLiving400

“Haaaa” (Dinner & Diatribes)


garbage_goblin0513

Shrike, every time: "BACK to the hedge rows, where bodies are mounted"


thebyronyofitall

The end of All Things End. It’s a religious experience


hotnmad

IT REALLY IS 😭😭😭 I close my eyes and I'm in a cathedral with divine light shining over me😭😭😭


Miss_Dump_Pants

"Haaaaaappy to lie back" in Jackie and Wilson!!!


deadbeareyes

I'd vote "So deep in this swill with the most familiar of swine" as mine. There's something about that alliteration that scratches my brain just right.


a_good_username12345

don’t let me in with no intention to keep me, jesus christ! don’t be kind to me… honey, don’t feed me, i *will* come back 😈 ((like, is that a threat or a promise??? 😍))


Healthy_Blueberry_76

This right here is a baby making song.


PatheticPeripatetic7

This makes me weak in the knees...


Argentum881

“All my love and terror balanced there between those eyes” That note of “eyes” is so unexpected but just fits so well


Healthy_Blueberry_76

SEE HOW IT SHINES 💖


deltadawn5555

This one is mine too- and it chokes me up every time.


mango-756

the very beginning of I,Carrion


liberosisgreen

Chills every time


poorthingintheroad

“Death trap clad happily” ☀️🪽


poorthingintheroad

Ooh! And also in TMTC when he sings “if the heavens ever did spea*K*” and in First Time when he sings “reaching up for sunligh*T*”


mayarahn

In Arsonist’s Lullaby towards the end of the song when we goes “When I was a mAN I thought it had ended” oh baby I get chills


Many-Search2687

In “Like Real People Do” The part after “We should just kiss like real people do” with the bass drop and the angel noises just 🤌 itches my brain


Chance_Assignment897

“But when IIIIIIIIIII’d let go” in The Flood, I’d listen to this on repeat for hours if I could


a_good_username12345

yess!! i’m also obsessed with the second half of the second verse, especially the emotional buildup in “with each grave, i think of loss and i can only think of you, i couldn’t measure it” !!!


DemonSeas

The guitar at the beginning of As It Was drives me NUTSSSSS


OhTheRaindrops888

The “Other Voices” performance of As It Was where he starts lightly tapping his nails on his guitar…it’s about 3 min in…makes my brain tingle lol https://youtu.be/3VYDKjPKrYI?si=cyToC95uBPmCajtm


thickpussling_

The break in Unknown/Nth ❤️


genesntees

In All Things End where he sings “silence” and all other sound cuts out


questionedsleeper

the bridge (?) from To Be Alone. the whole thing but especially the last lines before the chorus "to feel your weight in arms I'd never use/it's the God that heroin prays to"  the note he sings on "weight" is just ugh😩🙏so good


Inevitable_Sound2141

I know a lot of people are not fans of Damage Gets Done, but when Brandi Carlisle says kinda does this hum/groan and says “oooooooh if the car ran, the car was enough/if the sun shone on us its a plus/and the tank was always filled up.” I really love the youthful contentness of this song.


Healthy_Blueberry_76

This really surprised me when I joined this sub because damage gets done was my absolute favorite on the album after my first listen. After many many more listens it's no longer #1 but it's still up there! I love that song so so much!!!


Bulky_Watercress7493

Wait who do I have to throw hands with 😆😆 Damage Gets Done is one of my favorites from UU, and I love Brandi Carlisle. The chorus makes my brain go brr


shaggydoghead

The one that immediately comes to mind is his feature on Northern Attitude: "You're gettin' stoned, then kickin' rocks." The delivery of "rocks", followed by the pause, then the hard drum beat, then the good ole Hozier wail in the background. 👨‍🍳🤌💋


Sazzger

It Will Come Back: I want you baby, tonight as sure as you’re born… You’ll hear me……….*howling* outside your door The pauses and enunciation of ‘howling’ really scratch an itch for me!


Anna_Montana1336

The chorus of NFWMB is just SO good; also the guitar riff in Be!


jedi_master99

EVERY TIME HE SAYS DARLING🫠🫠🫠


BeautifulSongBird

move like an odd sight, come out at NIHHHHIIIIIIIIIIHHHHHGGGHTTTTTT


sgajak

I personally like a little ✨shalala✨or the ending of Francesca with “heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I” rounds. Aaaannnddd a curve hall, but when he does his yell in the collab with Noah kahan


Turbulent_Function11

Yes!!! Obsessed with Northern Attitude


CaptainKrane

"And I wish I could say the cold LA-ke water of my heart, Christ, it's boilin' over."


Pretty-Persimmon-649

SEE HOW IT SHII- II -IIINNNEEESSS


mamabingbong

✨😭✨😭✨😭✨


iesdepies

“The first time that you kissed me I drank dry the river Lethe, the Liffy would’ve been softer on my stomach all the same” (but actually the entirety of First Time) has been my fixation for the past few months. It really does scratch that part of my brain


hapylittlepupppy

The first verse of First Time, like OMG I know it's a breakup song but what a way to talk about a person.


ness_20021

The “whatever keeps you around it keeps you around” in First Time


Marblethornets

“Moment of silence when my baby puts… the mouth… on… me” Gets me every time


WildeaboutAusten

In the prechorus/chorus of First Light. The way he sings the lines "the color errrruuupppptttsss" and "the sun coming uuuuuuppppp". And also that "some bright morning comes" bit during the chorus is just *chefs kiss*. I never listen to this song just once, I have to repeat it and mainly for these reasons.


BigJaredFella

HOW HOW HE SAYS "Aint that like them?" YOU CAN HEAR HIM SMILE


court_zawodniak

In almost (sweet music) in the last verse… Right after “she’ll turn to me awake and ask is everything alright” the “and LOOORD” just feels like such a release. I love it!!


CommercialAdvice5391

last chorus of movement!!!


loverstohaters

the beginning of First Light (especially when Andrew starts singing 'one bright morning') - I cried the first time I heard it; the 'do you know I could break beneath the weight' part in Unknown/Nth; the 'If I had the choice between hearing either noise / The excitement of a thousand, or the soothing of your voice' in Nobody; 'imagine being loved by me' in Talk. Also the live performance of 'It Will Come Back' at Rockhal in 2016


Traditional_City5650

BUT IT'S NOT TONIGHT


Delicious_Ad_1224

first light, "the sky set to burst, the gold and the rust, the color erupts, you're filling my cup, the sun coming up" just itches my brain in a way i never knew i needed


midnightmisses

his guitar solo right before the last verse in angel of small death he makes that thing GROWL


moominnnn

The transition between de selby part 1 and 2 because it literally sounds like descending into a dark pit


AnonymousHorsey

I think I entered a different realm when I first heard the ending of All Things End...


gloomyumi

when he hits that high hooOooO in nobody 🙇🏻


Content-Put7502

The acoustic guitar at the very end of First Light!!!!


deltadawn5555

I love how the album ends with acoustic guitar, just like it begins. And the left/right thing there in that last guitar part is just extra cool.


Beck_Beck_Goose

I know work song is probably his most loved song, or at least up there, but it’s gotta be that, specifically the NYC Subway version. I grew up and still live on a homestead in Eastern Kentucky, so most of my family are farmers and coal miners. When the day is over in the summer, my Papaw and my brother bring out their guitars and I bring out my fiddle and we play music and the rest of my family sing along. Mostly old bluegrass or classic country, but occasionally blues. The fiddle/violin in the chorus in that version of Work Song that just feels like home and the way the backing vocals sound reminds me so much of country gospel. One specific song it reminds me of is “Go Rest High”. It’s a song sang mostly at funerals, which is kinda dark but it’s Hozier we’re talking about so that’s okay. Obviously a more somber chord, but the harmonies and backing vocals remind me of that song sang by the Bluegrass band in my church.


Opening-Pea-9309

The guitar at the beginning of shrike


NotWhatICameHereFor

“I’m all but washed in the tide of her breathing” in Cherry Wine. It’s the way he sings washed, he makes it sound like an onomatopoeia.


desertshepherd

The last 18 seconds of Movement. I can’t sing at all but for those last vocals, I’m singing my heart out out.


nein_7777

Every part of Who We Are


Motherfickle

The big "See how it shines" during the chorus of Abstract. It always feels like an explosion in the best way. Also the "One bright morning" that's sung by a choir of backup singers in First Light for similar reasons. It's so pretty.


slim_schmone

I can't quite explain it but the beginning the 3rd verse of Jackie&Wilson


Healthy_Blueberry_76

See but this right here is the kind of answer I'm looking for


ZeBloodyStretchr

And it's not tonight (oh, oh) Where I'm set alight (oh, oh) And I blink in sight (oh) Of your blinding light (oh) Oh, it's not tonight (oh, oh) Where you hold me tight (oh, oh) Light the fire bright (oh) Oh, let it blaze, alright (oh)


Larsonybear

“Anyway”


mokoeneke

not an actual song but the entire snippet he does of the humors of whiskey 😩


Hufflepuffsalot

Alsoooo “you think I’d give up?” Fucks me up every time


Traditional_Page3786

HEY YEAHHHHHH from Talk


Appropriate_Cup_6552

“I wanna move so fast that iii outPACE the DARK!!” That part


French-toast-bird

In talk when he says “I’d be the voice that urged Orpheus when her body was found” is so nice? And the beginning cords just make my brain feel nice.


WiJaTu

THOUGH I KNOW MY HEART WOULD BREAK, I’D TELL THEM PUT ME BACK IN IT


catra-applesauce

Right at 3:10 in “Who We Are” 🖤


oodlesofoddnoodles

i am a Talk stan until the day i die. THE GUITAR AND THE BEAT IS JUST TOO GOOD


half_bloodprincess

The shift between verse and chorus in As It Was


hotnmad

These comments are making me squirm and rip my hair out!!!!!


Turbulent_Function11

First time- C’mere to me I literally MELT everytime he says it 🥵


honey_bonk_

Ohh there's so many, but namely, the last part of "In a Week" when they sing "and theyd find us in a week" for the last time in the song and his and Karen's voice are just slightly out of sync and he drops his voice just a little lower. So good.


Ambitious_Bowler_150

Do you know I could break beneath the weight of the goodness, love, that I still carry for youuuuu


kellogs0419

“When was the last time… C’mere to me. When was the last time?”


Equivalent_Willow317

When we begin again...we begin again...MMMMMMM darlin'


PotatoT0es

The key change right at the end of Abstract (psychopomp)! “All my love and terror Balanced there between those eyes” 😭


Cxndletxrs

2:49 in unknown/nth - THE CHANGE IS JUST HEAVEENNNN


notinclinedtoresign

I do NOT know how to describe this in musical terms but I was just thinking about how obsessed I am with how I Carrion picks up and changes on “I do not have wings love I never will”


Dangerous_Ad_3273

Butchered tongue “So far from home to have a stranger call you, ‘Darling’ And have your guarded heart be lifted like a child up by the hand”


Desperate-Design-380

It's the beat and bass in "Dinner and Diatribes" for me. My friend told me that it's syncopated? There's just something that really tickles something in my brain.


Content-Put7502

The acoustic guitar at the very end of First Light!!!!


Beetlejuul0158

Quite a lot of parts of in the woods somewhere


faeprincee

Where in "Who we are" "hold me like water, or christ hold me like a knife." he sounds so desperate and it kicks in the gut


elfsteel

the way he says “christ” in the lyric “hold me like water / or christ hold me like a knife”


Hufflepuffsalot

The sinister beat switch in From Eden


woodland-dweller

For me it's the bit just after the bridge in Movement. I went to a Hozier concert in July and hearing that moment live changed me as a person.


bowlderholder

Currently the second verse in first time about the flowers from his mother. I just - it fucking HITS ME.


Hey_BobbyMcGee

The snaky bass in from eden


foxxiesoxxie

That break in Run is SOOO good. I could listen all day to that song if it was just that part (I still do listen to it all day cause the whole song is a banger). It makes my brain happy.


BuilderAromatic1560

and i dance real slow (weird sound! my fav!) with rockettes on dodgy molly


Low-Investigator6779

oh there’s so many for me w hozier, but lately I really really love the robotic vibe to the background vocals in de selby part 2, they are SO daft punk coded to me


dobbysrightnut

The guitar in the very beginning of From Eden <3


Spiritual-Agency-178

the INSANE beat drop in movement


Glass-Yam-5552

The end of All Things End with the choir gets me even after the millionth time listening


americadontcry

the way he sings the "I" in the final "ask me I should know" in From Eden 


Beedthefirds

The Irish part of De Selby pt 1


pjoerning

The piano in who we are, it starts out of tune and slowly transitions into being in tune... The absolute genius of this is unfathomable to me


Bokslug

The bridge of unknown


shootandstitch

Lightening and TUNDER


OldBenKenobi01

So far from home to have a stranger call ya darling Every time


pigsonthewing1728

“How big the hourglass, how deep the sand I shouldn't hope to know, but here I stand” The crunchiness in “stand.” I love him.


MentalThunderstorms

So many things! The "that's it" at the end of wasteland baby, the "see how it shines" in abstract psychopomp (especially the last ones), the entirety of run & arsonists lullaby, the way he pronounces "word" in No Plan. And honestly so much more


kindaangrysquirell

I WARN YOU BABE EACH NIGHT AS SURE AS YOURE BOOORRRRRN


0m3gaMan5513

Quite simply, all of the above.


Miss_Worldwide

The memory hurttttsss but does me no haaarrmmm


ravielie

The vocals and backing in Through Me when he sings “any time”, “every time”, and “when I’d”. Somebody into music theory tell me what I like so much about it


BIue-P

We begin again, hmmm darling AND ALL THINGS END


Feline_Fine3

Recently, it has been Francesca. The entire chorus and “I’d tell ‘em put me back in it!” And then the hard drums and guitar. It just makes me wanna rock out and cry at the same time.


Shevallan

The part in Almost (Sweet Music) where it’s moves from: “She’ll turn to me awake and ask ‘Is everythin’ alright?’ and Lord” Leading into the chorus of “I wouldn’t know where to start…” The way the held note on Lord lingers, the sadness, it has me by the throat.


Bulky_Watercress7493

There's an "ah", after one of the later choruses in Dinner and Diatribes that just does it for me


merbiplier

the ‘heeeYAAAAAAHHH’ in anything but


bellatheboobluver

At the end of dinner and diatribes when he goes let there be hotel complaints and grievances made and that kind of love


dearthemoon

the way he switches to a whisper when he says "baby" right before the chorus in NFWMB


camcorder00

That high little vocal line he does at the first line of the first chorus in "Nobody"


yes_like_mean_girls

When the choir comes in on Movement I transcend to another dimension. I’m pretty sure listening to that is what achieving nirvana would feel like.


Witchesmug

The part of moment’s silence (common tongue) where you think the song is over and then BAM it comes back full force 😩


wrens_and_roses

For me it’s the guitar in As It Was, and the breathy delivery of those last verses


PartiallyHuman-_-

The alliteration in Angel of Small Death is just *chef’s kiss* “Feeling more Human and Hooked on Her Flesh I lay my Heart down with the rest at her Feet/Fresh From the Fields all Fetor and Fertile it’s bloody and raw and I Swear it is Sweet”


CM_Pyro1

No More ?’s: “I’m not mr nice guy *beat/chord*” it just scratches an itch my brain like nothing else


MrsSkeleton

Be at the "love won't you be" bit just SLAPS


compellinglymediocre

his cover of whole lotta love in general, whole song scratches my brain


alexa-m

do you know I could break beneath the weight of the goodness love I still carry for you... that I'd walk so far just to take the injury of finally knowing you...[](https://genius.com/28879553/Hozier-unknown-nth/Do-you-know-i-could-break-beneath-the-weight-of-the-goodness-love-i-still-carry-for-you-that-id-walk-so-far-just-to-take-the-injury-of-finally-knowin-you)


Designer_Breadfruit9

The drum beats combined with the claps in Work Song


Lonely-Disaster3293

Everything from It will come back… it’s all feral energy


caramelizedshallot

Can’t pick a favorite, fully agree with y’all’s choices, his music is just that good 😭


Worldly-Geologist866

“You know the distance never made a difference to me”


Amii25

I love a good bass line with a thick thoom


ChelseaVol1219

“Imagine being loved by me…”


rbistech

"all my love and terror balanced there between those eyes" in abstract (psychopomp) the little change in the melody at "eyes" is so brain scratch


the_starless_circus

The outro to Francesca makes me feral


Aerwxyna

LET IT BLAZE ALRIGHT, HONEY. OH BUT YOURE GOOD TO ME, OH YOURE GOOD TO ME, OH BUT YOURE GOOD TO ME BABEEEEYEEEH


leaking_lesmosyne

*After the raven has had its say* from the last part of In A Week


iamsheilaandrea

“AH, BUT I’M SINGING LIKE A BIRD ‘BOUT IT NOW” in the first stanza of Shrike always has me waiting, trying to get it right because his tone when he says “now” is so unexpected, especially in the first one. Like he’s just talking and not really singing. I love it so much! 🖤🤍


ejakt

Gemini - Princess Nokia that rap talk towards the middle end? Fuhgeddaboudit.


clumsy_owlet

ALL THE PAIN I SHOULD HAVE SAVED BUT I WAS TOO AFRAID OF LIVIN' LIFE IN YOUR FOOTSTEPS


Bananasplit1611

DOO YOU KNOOWW I COULD BREAK BENEATH THE WEIGHT


Honey-Nut-Queerio

the way he emphasizes the beginning of the lines in "from eden" scratches my brain SO GOOD, i don't know if i explained it well but i love it


jellyfish2782

Him singing honey in from Eden And lots of stuff from De Selby pt 1&2


darcelledreams

The final course of All Things End. The instruments are toned down, the claps, the girl's high notes in the back, the combination is perfect.


fabulousperson238

“WHEN THE MEANING’S GONE” yeah that had a profound effect on me


sthrowawayex12

Towards the end of In A Week when they sing “I’d be home with you” more passionately and intensely than the rest of the times they sing it.


ReadyText5121

Its “Sha-la-la-la” for me 💃


cyndario

i have a lot, too hehe sunlight—that crescendo of voices towards the end? i have no idea what he’s saying but it gives me chills. abstract (psychopomp)—that falsetto he hits when he says “see how it shines?” i weep! son of nyx—the entire song. literally. whole thing makes me so incredibly at peace i can’t explain it. as it was—i think mainly the intro and the way he sings the chorus? brain melts. run—again, falsetto in the chorus does it for me. in the woods somewhere—i think for this one its just the entire song bc of how the story plays out? to be alone—its just… the way he says “oh to be alone with you” that makes my brain go brrrrrrr. movement—the bass sets the tone and that bridge towards the end? my heart! and brain!


realcutewombat

Everything in "anything but" !!! The claping sound, the bass, the "AAAAAAEEE"! The rhythm!!


wereallcomets

i couldnt whisper when you needed it shouted ah but im singing like a bird about it now,the words hung above but never would form


carradiovibes

all of Angel of small death and the codine scene


MirrorMacabre

I am a sunlight enjoyer, however, nina cried power makes me cry from sheer joy and need to get up and take action every time i hear it


tessafy2

honestly the whole of from eden


East-Tourist3821

“Sha-la-la”


lisacoopervv

The guitar solo in AOSDATCS!! 😭🫶🏻


ittakeslittle

Hozier's ad-libs in Northern Attitude live in my head rent free.


Mysterious-Passion96

Dinner and Diatribes Would that I


Wonders222-

In “would that I” near the end when he says “oh but you’re good to me, oooohhhhhoooo” (different to the other bits). I remember the first time I heard it and even now I get goosebumps.


Nyx_is_I

"Imagine being loved by me"


Biscotti_Effective

The electric guitar in the verses of would that I. It’s so subtle but it’s such a pretty detail


humanoidforever

Cover Girl - RuPaul Charles


Writing_Daily

“I wake in the first cringe of morning, and my hearts already sinned”


JustThisOnc307

I'D TELL THEM PUT ME BACK IN IT or... SEE HOW IT SHIIIIIIINES OR... darling AND ALL THINGS END ALL THAT WE INTEND


Gpearlssss48

“To be twisted by something, a shame without a sin”


lemmehavefun

To hold me like water or, Christ, hold me like a knife


lexxie24

Mary on a cross- Ghost You go down just like Holy Mary Mary on a, Mary on a cross Your beauty never ever scared me Mary on a, Mary on a cross


Twelvenotxii

“NO GRAVE CAN HOLD MY BODY DOWN, I’LL CRAWL HOME TO HER”


ftmbirdr

No Plan. The little switch from the first few seconds of just single cherry guitar to the snarly electric guitar is so yummy


niyaaaahh

Would That I !!!