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Sigur Ros and Godspeed You Black Emperor make me feel nauseated with slow motion, particularly on songs like GSBE's 'The Dead Flag Blues', which is an exercise in trying to create an epic from the perspective of concealed pompous musicians.
There are pieces by Alan Curves and Ernst Reijseger or La Monte Young that wonderfully display an ability of making the listener's visual imagination first entranced and then slowly moving, amongst others people.
An example in rock music is a particularly mean version of VU's 'Sister Ray' by Lou Reed on a bootleg called 'Whatever Happened To Dick and Steve' where Reed slows down his singing mid-song in a totally demented and ridiculous way, thus hitting on the listener's visualisation of the lyrics in an unexpected way. He does the same on the original version of the song, but I prefer it on this bootleg because it is a more early-70's rock version of the song with this weird bit of singing and playing in the middle.
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