Slow Burn Songs

I love long, slow-building songs -- the ones that begin at a slow walk, and build way the hell up as they go.

As opposed to songs that last for a long time at a slow simmer, like Bauhaus's "Bela Lugosi's Dead." Or long songs that start at a high heat and try to get even higher, like Melissa Etheridge's "Like The Way I Do." Both of those can be good, too, but it's a different kind of energy. And then there's the famous power ballad style of loud-soft-loud, about which the less said the better.

I was thinking about songs like that recently, and realized this would be a great excuse to play with one of my favorite Amazon widgets again. The down side is that you really don't get a good sense of what I like about these songs in thirty second snippets. But it's got to be better than nothing, right?

So here's the list I came up with:

• Josh Ritter, "Thin Blue Flame"
• live version of Richard and Linda Thompson's "Calvary Cross"
• Local H, "Hand to Mouth"
• Harvey Danger, "Radio Silence" (unavailable in the widget, but it's on YouTube)
  
• Okkervil River, "So Come Back, I Am Waiting"
• U2, "All I Want Is You"
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "Hallelujah"
• Eagles, "The Last Resort"
• Peter Gabriel, "Biko"
• Cracker, "Dixie Babylon"
• Dandy Warhols, "Be-In"
• Sinead O'Connor, "Troy"
• Camper Van Beethoven, "Civil Disobedience" (also unavailable in the widget, but it's on iLike)
  
• Dire Straits, "Romeo & Juliet"
• The New Frontiers, "Who Will Give Us Love?"
• Ambulance Ltd., "Stay Where You Are"
• Elvis Costello, "Battered Old Bird"
• Rachel Smith, "Juanita"
• Bodies of Water, "I Guess I'll Forget the Sound, I Guess, I Guess"
• Rilo Kiley, "Always" (yet another song unavailable in the widget, it's also on iLike)
  
• Modest Mouse, "Parting of the Sensory"

And here's the widget:

What songs do you like that have that pattern?