A belated Great Moment in Rock

I'm a little slow to jump in the party conversation.

The Meat Puppets "Plateau" - The song kind of plods along as if it has been crawling through the desert in the late afternoon heat. The chords are sandy and the vocals thirsty. It has a slightly off-kilter, drunken wobbly feel up until near the end of the song. Then, suddenly, as if the song didn't see it coming, the electric guitar passage comes in - only for half a minute or so, but that half a minute seems to last for days. It's spacey and expansive, like looking out across the desert at sunset and knowing there are hundreds of miles to crawl.