This troper had the privilage of participating in a performance of Sergei Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto #3 in College. to this day, I have not been able to find a recording that matches the emotional response our performance envokes in me.

This troper was having a really bad day, and I felt like my luck couldn't get any worse. Well, after then getting told I have to get a root canal next week, I go home and get on Facebook. Looking on my Wall, my best friend just posted the song "Say Hey(I love you). You have to listen to it to know what I mean, it just completely changed my mood.

I guess this would be more funny than awesome, but somewhere, I saw a couple arguing about something. Cue, "I'm the Only Person Who Takes It Personally" by Breathe Carolina.

This troper mixed the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack, the Terran theme from Starcraft, the Tower of Heaven soundtrack and Red Hot Chilli Peppers. He's still stuck. Help me. Please god, help me!.

How about Crowning Music of Funny? I'm at the gym, resting between sets, when this cute girl sits down at the bench press machine across from me. I think to myself "Hey, she's kinda cute." Cue my iPod on shuffle going to Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get it On." She gave me funny looks as I held in the laughter.

Not sure if this goes here, but I hear Video Game Music. In my head. Here's where the strange part comes in. I also hear Video Game Sounds. For example, if someone stops what they're doing, I hear the Super Mario Bros. Pause sound. If someone drops something, I hear the Yoshi sound effect(not the annoying 'YOSHI!' and 'HNNNNNNNNNGH!' in the later games, but the one that sounds like a record scratching.) I could go on...

This troper's first time in bed had an MP3 on random shuffle in the background. The song playing? Helter Skelter. This is now one of my favorite songs.

I am essentially obsessed with music--even if I'm not playing something through my headphones, some song is always running through my head, and half the time I have an urge to sing out loud in public (and I do a lot). My life ''is'' CrowningMusicOfAwesome.

Same here!

Once this troper was listening to ''Never Gonna Give you Up'' on her ipod, and the back-to-class music blared out, you guessed it, ''Never Gonna Give You Up''. Rick rolled x 2

This troper and his sister were rocking to some intense music in her car once. Cue me hitting EVERY SINGLE BUTTON on the radio and Louis Armstong's "What A Wonderful World" blasting out the speakers.

Not so much awesome as hysterically appropriate, but when my brother bought his first car (a 20 year old Toyota made cheifly of rust), the first song to come on the radio almost immediately was "Loser" by Beck. It's now the car's theme song.

This Troper's got a great band anecdote about some fanfare she once played for festival. The song on its own was pretty epic, but what really added the awesome to this particular crowning music of awesome is the story behind it: While rehearsing one day, one of the percussionists on the Marimba messed up at the very end of the song, loudly shouting "DANG IT!" as soon as it ended without missing a beat. cue everyone in the room laughing their behinds off. The director, ever the comedian, then had all of us band kids replay the ending bars of the song and loudly shout "DANG IT!" at the end. This Troper likes to bring it up on occasion in random band conversation...

I now have a playlist with this exact title. So far only 2 songs have made it on there. "The Fall" by TheProtomen, and the AtopTheFourthWall theme song.

This troper suggests the latter half of Act II by TheProtomen, and most of Act I. if you're into the rockin' sorta songs.

This other troper would also suggest ''Won't Get Fooled Again'' by The Who. ''YEEEAAAAAAHHH!!!''

Romance}} I'd like to suggest "Don't Stop Believein'". One of the most effective power ballads EVER.

I would like to suggest "Riot" by Three Days Grace and "You're Going Down" by Sick Puppies.

Probably this fits here... this troper was once playing some [=ADoM=], and finishing out some nasty quest. The next track his audio player chose? "O Fortuna". Cue a feeling of awesomeness for a few seconds.

This troper was involved in the one-act play at school last year. While we were waiting for everyone to show up, one of the guys was listening to his iPod. Suddenly he starts singing along to "Don't Stop Believein'". It happens to be one of my favorite songs, so I joined him. Next thing I knew, EVERYBODY was singing along. That song now carries a bunch of wonderful memories.

Several years ago, this troper went to "Symphony On The Prarie" when they were performing Beethoven's 9th. During the 3rd movement (the slow one), I was laying back on my blanket, staring up at the stars. It was almost an out-of-body experience ... the way the music seemed to carry me up until I was drifting through space. Awesome indeed.

Probably comes under another trope, but...I was playing chess against my dad (who is very good at the game). I decided to play with my head rather than my heart and won three of the four games. However, when I won the first one, Johnny Cash's cover of "Danny Boy" was playing on the CD player. I was almost moved to tears (a rare thing from this troper). Ironically, the next game, I was beaten by a foolsmate. Moment of Funny}} Everyone was amused.

Same troper from above again. Was reading Mark Simmons Horror movie survival tips and realised that the song I was listening to, "Time Of Dying", suited the part I was reading. I felt a tremble down my spine at the moment I realised. I don't watch horror movies, either...

Far more appropriate one: whenever I finish a particularly hard English assaignment, I ALWAYS want to sing the very end of Barcelona (the bit where Freddy Mercury sings an ascending scale, followed by the opera singer singing a decending one. Basically the last fourty or so seconds). I only don't do so because it usually happens while in public, but I've been guilty of occationally singing it on the bus. The fact I sang "Barcelona, it was a beautiful horizon" when I first went to Barcelona easily tesifies the song's awesomeness...and the beauty of Barcelona (I'm not joking about that. Easily the best city I've ever visited, although I was surprised by the amount of traffic. But I digress).

In a car trip with a family of four, the original "American Pie" started to play on the radio. This troper sang a few lines, heard her mother sung a few, and her dad piped in as well. At the end of the song, This troper's father mentioned this was the first song that everyone in the car sang along to at some point. Turns out some parts where I thought my dad was singing was actually my brother, who almost "never" sings out loud.

A few years back, right after the release of Star Wars the Revenge of the Sith our headmaster told our school band to play "whatever they wanted" for our 'leadership assembly' - the normal fare plus inspiring leadership talk. So, they played the staff in to the Imperial March.

MadeOfWin, my friend. You should be proud.

Get on the highway, bring your speed up to 70MPH. Roll down both front windows, and blast the [=LotR=] version of Requiem For A Dream. The combination of epic music, high speed, and rushing wind is simply sublime.

The music from the first stage of Wily's Fortress always made This Troper feel inspired and heroic - like he could do ANYTHING, but he could never describe WHAT about it made him feel that way. Only later did it hit him; you're going up against the most dangerous man in the world - and you're the only one who can stop him. Any other game would have ominous, dangerous-sounding music to show you how much is riding on you coming out alive - and how little chance you have of doing so. Does this game do that? FUCK no! It's driving, inspiring and empowering - it says to you, "You've come this far; it's only a little further! Keep going!" Because that music knows you can do it; it ''believes in you.'' And then he realized - this is probably why that song stands out so much in gamers' minds and memories. Crowning Music of Awesome, with a side order of Crowning Moment of Heartwarming and garnished with Fridge Brilliance.

Gotta run gotta run now

This troper was on a sixthform politics trip to go down to London. Our train got delayed outside London for about half an hour, and we were all getting bored. We started moving again, at which point someone asked where we were. This troper slipped, and pressed his iPod (on a friend's speakers) on, to full volume. The song? London Calling, The Clash. At which point, the guard said "what Joe Strummer said..."

0dd1: No mock fight is complete without "Techno Syndrome" from MortalKombat, as my friends and I have found. Eventually, the "fight" between my friends got to the point where I started playing "Yakety Sax" instead when it just wouldn't end. ...It's one of those "you had to be there" moments...

This troper was a member of a symphonic band all through middle school, high school, and college. While there are certainly many songs from the many concerts he played in that could count, he is quite sure that absolutely ''nothing'' beats finishing the "last" song of a concert program, letting the audience go into a crazy round of applause as the conductor walks off the stage... and then comes back on the stage to cue "Stars and Stripes Forever". Best encore song ''ever'', and it never fails to bring a smile to my face when I play it.

0dd1: I've found that listening to BonJovi while playing ''CallOfDuty 4: ModernWarfare'' makes it seem that much more awesome.

Bon Jovi makes everything more awesome.

This troper has fantasized for years about using the Final Fantasy Prologue for her bridal processional. She just made good on it.

This troper thinks your mate is a darn lucky person.

This troper discovered Morgan Page by accident on Youtube. I have been hooked on his songs ever since. The first song I discovered was the longest road. I use his songs to relax or unwind throughout my day.(Plus it makes me feel awesome as well!)

DragonForce. No exceptions.

I had a friend in college who used to host giant house parties every weekend. At no less than one point during every party (usually towards the end when it was mostly just the close friends left), they would play Piano Man as loud as possible and everyone would stand together with their arms around each other and sing along. The effect was especially profound at the last party he had just after graduating and before moving away.

This Troper was the only percussionist in her band class last year. We got to play Wipeout.

When I was in high school, my younger brother and I listened to the radio as I drove us to school every day. On my last day of high school, The Final Countdown by Europe came on our local classic rock station. Cue epic rocking out and feelings of sheer badassery.

Gods Of War by Manowar. Not much more needs to be said.

my bard in my weekly D&D campaign is made of this trope, she carries around several masterwork instruments that give +5 to inspire courage and other bard skills a piece, and has trained several of our hirelings to act as her backup orchestra, once our party got into what seemed like a no win battle with 5 juvinile dragons, their pet basalisks a minotar and a lich, when my bard and our orchestra started playing THIS we steamrolled over them

I saw this guy in concert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hv9wlLviHQ Check out the other videos of him on Youtube. His act primarily consists of TV theme songs, show tunes, and Johnny Cash covers, with a few random favorites thrown in, and mimmicking the styles and sounds of the original artists almost perfectly.

This Troper has a playlist for gaming. While playing a game of BF:Vietnam he had it on shuffle (I know that game has awesome music but I have the songs on my playlist anyway) when he's flying a helicopter. It gets shot to hell and I barely manage to survive the landing. I am then jumped by a group of NVA and am stuck fighting them till some freinds in a huey killed them and picked me up to go with them. The whole time the cover of "The Minstrel Boy" from Black Hawk Down is playing. Twas awesome.

This troper played a season of American football in high school. Before the game, everybody had their own special song to get pumped up-- mostly rap, rock, and metal (Kid Cudi, Rage Against The Machine, and Priestess are a few that I remember guys using). Mine? Guile's Theme.

''SonicR''. The music alone makes this game the best game ever conceived to this troper, plus the gameplay is pretty wicked too.

This she-Troper has had Sephiroth's Theme from the Advent Children movie as her alarm clock for a few weeks now.

I don't believe I ever lived before that night, getting up in karaoke and leading a ''roomful'' of (admittedly drunken) non-power metal geeks in a rousing rendition of RhapsodyOfFire's Pride of the Tyrant.

I have a friend who occasionally has a show on the public radio station at his college. He's a power metal geek, so it tends to cover everything from {{Metallica}} to {{Rammstein}} to {{Apocalyptica}} and everything in between. He also has a habit of turning up the most incredibly ''insane'' music I've ever heard (Did you know there's such a thing as "pirate metal?" I didn't). But the part that everyone always ends up looking forward to is "What the Hell Did I Just Listen To?", where he plays the craziest metal covers he can possibly find. So far, this has included the Imperial March, {{Caramelldansen}}, the {{Mario}} theme music, "You Spin Me Round", "The Final Countdown", and the ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' theme. I suspect it's just a matter of time before he gets ahold of one of Crow's Claw's TouhouProject covers.

I was at the dentist's to get a filling, and they were about to numb me. Just as they put the needle in, "Give me Novocaine" from GreenDay's ''AmericanIdiot'' started playing over the speakers in the ceiling.

While playing ''GrandTheftAutoIV'', this troper began a mission to introduce using the in game internet. Upon reaching one of the computer and logging on, the radio began to play Philip Glass' Pruit Igoe needless to say he was both left in total awe and laughing his ass off.