What songs/musical pieces send shivers down your spine?

[FlashHarry]

For me, it would be

'Ode to Joy' • from Beethoven’s 9th
'Jerusalem' • an Anglican hymn; lyrics by William Blake, I think
'Non Nobis' • from Branagh's 'Henry V'
'El Paso' • Marty Robbins
'$1000 Wedding' • Gram Parsons'
'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' • Gordon Lightfoot (I'm embarrassed to admit!)
'He's Waiting' • The Sonics
'U-Mass' ‘Planet of Sound’ and ‘Bone Machine’ • The Pixies
'Blue Train' • John Coltrane

On edit: I forgot to add 'Juanita' by the Flying Burrito Bros. I also like the Sheryl Crow/Emmylou Harris version on the GP tribute album. Total goosebumps.

[VelmaD]

1. also a weird list

- Rachmaninov's 2nd piano concerto, 1st movement.
- "46 & 2" and "Stinkfist" by Tool
- "Ain't got no..." from Hair (don't know if I got the name right)
- The 2nd and 4th movement of Beethoven's 7th symphony and of course the last movement of the 9th
- "Mistress" by Disturbed
- "Spiel Mit Mir" by Rammstein
- "Brute" by KMFDM
- "Magdalena" by A Perfect Circle
- "Heaven on their Minds" and the song in the Garden of Gethsame from Jesus Christ Superstar

Darth Velma

[opiate69]

15. I second

46+2 and Magdalena... also, "Uninvited" by Alanis, "Hotel California" (Especially the little tom fill... you know the part..), "Touching Tongues" by Vai, and I'm almost sorry to admit the following: Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, "The Eagle and the HAwk" by John Denver and "Massachusetts" by the Bee Gees...

[FlashHarry]

29. "Massachusetts"

Me too. Also "New York Mining Disaster." I'm a sucker, I guess.

[LuLu550]

2. "We shall overcome"

I can never get though even two lines of it when I try to sing it.
LuLu

[FlashHarry]

6. I almost forgot: 'Le Marseillaise' does it to me every time!

I don't know why; I don't have a drop of French blood in my body. Perhaps it's the amazing scene in 'Casablanca' when the French drown out the Germans in Rick's bar by singing it.

[Snow]

3. I'll introduce you to something you've I hope never heard, that is

extraordinarily beautiful. This is an ancient choral piece, the Miserere by Gregorio Allegri. To quote from a reviewer, "There is a famous story of Mozart going to the Sistine Chapel to hear the Allegri Miserere when he was fourteen years old. After having heard it, he asked to see the score and was denied permission. He when to a second performance, and sat "as if in a trance" and returned to write out the piece from memory...making only two mistakes, which in fact turned out to be mistakes that the singers had made in the performance. "

The church kept the score to themselves because it was so very beautiful. Give a listen to the sample & see what you think....
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000J9GR/002-5878380-4946423?v=glance

[Cheswick2.0]

62. thank you

that was beautiful

[LynneSin]

4. (I've Been) Searchin' For So Long by Chicago

Something about the song that will literally give me goosebumps everytime I hear it. It starts off as a basic mellow song, but towards the end the horns start their cresendos and the song becomes this powerful force that creates goosebumps!

No other song I know does that. I have Led Zeppelin songs that create incredible moods for me, but never the goosebumps of "Searchin'" by Chicago

[rabid_nerd]

5. Lose Yourself

Imagine

[LynneSin]

9. My "Imagine" Goosebumps story

I forgot about that song and the major case of goosebumps I got from that song. It was March, the first day after the illegal invasion of Iraq occured. I had just left the noon-day protest from the local federal building in downtown Wilmington and I got in my car to drive home. Turned on the radio and this was the first song I heard:

Imagine - by John Lennon.

I was bawling by the time I got home from the protest! (I live 5 minutes away)

[asjr]

27. songs

i'm with you on that LynneSin. I love it. When it comes to mind I can't get it out of my head. Another I love and is pertinent now because of a new movie, is Joni Mitchell's "The Magdalene Laundries."
That is a must listen.

[UrbScotty]

54. Oh yes, "Imagine" and "Hey Jude."

[qb]

7. Southampton Dock

Pink Floyd (The Final Cut)

[BeHereNow]

8. SEXUAL Healing

Marvin Gaye...
OOOOOHHHHH BABY!
THE most perfect track in recording history!

Also, Coleman Hawkins- Anything he played can MELT me...

BHN

[noonwitch]

10. The Flesh Failures/Let the Sunshine In from Hair

It is so sad because it is about a young man going to Vietnam because he felt a duty to his country, even though he thought the war was wrong, and getting killed just like his friends said would happen.

High school choirs sometimes merge Age of Aquarias with Let the Sunshine In (because the Fifth Dimension did) and sing it like it's an upbeat song. That would be akin to a boy band covering "Fade to Black" with a beat you can dance to.

[VelmaD]

12. How could I have forgotten...

The Flesh Failues/Let the Sunshine In. Expecially considering I included something else from Hair. Thanks, now I have it in my head. :-)

Ya know, Age of Aquarius ain't half bad either. Not always goosebump worthy, but still pretty good.

-V-

[tjdee]

33. I believe in God, and I believe that God, believes in Claude, that's me..

Flesh Failures was the first song I thought of--and you're right, it SUCKS when they make it into an upbeat tune. It's not.

I especially love how they integrate Manchester into the middle of Flesh Failures, as if he's remembering a happier time, and the "I believe in God, and I believe that God believes in Claude, that's me" takes on a chilling different meaning. That, right on top of the Romeo and Juliet "Eyes look your last" speech, gets me every time.

The rest of the song is great too--Silence tells me secretly, everything....everything...

[jbfam4]

11. Interesting question, Harry.

My daughter has her MA in opera so I often have goose bumps when I hear her sing.

However the songs "Wishing you were somehow hear again" and "Wind beneath my wings"( sung at my Dad's funeral 13 years ago) still makes me cry.

"Amazinging Grace" and "With a song in my heart" give me goose bumps.

[FlashHarry]

19. I forgot the Navy Hymn!

Man, I must have a thing for Anglican sacred music! Although, 'Amazing Grace,' depending on how it's performed, does it for me, too.

Plus, parts of Mozart's Requiem and Magic Flute.

[Cheswick2.0]

63. I am sure they are not as good as you daughter, however

Listen to Rene Fleming sing Casta Diva, from Norma or Marilyn Horne sing Ombre Mai Fu, from Serse (a song about a tree).

[Cheswick2.0]

64. PS...what voice type is your daughter and.......

what does she sing that you like?

[kmla]

13. "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel

Peter is perhaps the coolest human being ever to have put on a pair of trousers. This is the song that I chose to dance to when me and the Mrs. got married a few years ago.

Saw him in concert a few weeks ago - probably the best concert I've ever seen.

We paid $72 each for tickets - and I would have paid twice that without blinking an eye.

[SEAburb]

32. how about the bridge on "Digging in the Dirt"

I have always thought it sounded beautiful, the way he shifted gears.

[SEAburb]

34. "We Don't Need Another Hero" Tina Turner

The musical arrangement, Tina's vocals, and the child choir made it an awesome and powerful song.

[4_Legs_Good]

36. The "Passion" track from Passion

Is one of my all time favorite musical pieces.

Agree 100% on Peter. I'm more of a fan of the Genesis days. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway was, IMO, the untilmate peak of music.

It's been downhill ever since.

I wish I had been able to see the concert! Grrrrrrrrr... I forgot he was on tour!

I like the soundtrack to Rabbit Proof Fence, though, far more than UP...

david

[kmla]

83. The song he did for his last encore, "Father and Son"...

...damn near brought me to tears. After the concert, I went home and immediately gave my two boys a kiss while they were sleeping.

I saw Genesis in concert in the late 80's. Possibly the worst concert I have ever seen. A little Phil Collins object on stage (I was 2/3 of the way back from the stage in a domed stadium) jumping up and down, no showmanship, and no encore! Soured me on Genesis and Phil Collins.

[4_Legs_Good]

87. Genesis...

... Ahhh, I'm sure you would have been even more soured had you seen the band in their hay-day with Gabriel in the lead and Phil just banging away on the drums in the back.

Sadly, I was 4 when Peter left the band in 1975.

*sigh*

I'll have to try to find a recording of this PG tour somewhere. I'm still kicking myself that I missed it.

david

[stlsaxman]

67. San Jacinto" and "Don't Give Up" (w Kate Bush)

and for a 20 minute goosepimple session there's "Swastika Girls" from the album No Pussyfooting by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp. Hear that first note
of the guitar solo? That's what God's voice sounds like!

and yes- Beethovens 9th complete. Second movent of the 7th is awesome, too.

[MrBenchley]

14. Gram Parsons rules..

I'd pick Return of the Greivous Angel: "The news I can bring, I caught up with the King, on his head was an amphetamine crown; he talked about unbuckling his old Bible belt and lighting out for some desert town."

Paul Winter did a great album called "Common Ground" that has a haunting duet he did with an actual timber wolf.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

16. Right Wing Country Music!

"Have You Forgotten"-Darryl Worley
"Red, White, and Blue"-Toby Keith
"Proud to be an American"-Lee Greenwood


As a proud American, I am sick and tired of this Hard Right Wing Tilted, Nationalistic, Bigoted, Propaganda. I find it disturbing! These men have a perverse concept of America. They are very simplistic in their thoughts. Toby Keith's "Red, White, and Blue" is full of vile anger. But he is an ignorant IT. "Have You Forgotten" makes the false connection between Iraq and the Taliban.

Otherwise I don't mind non-county music.

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. Mahler #2, final movement

Never fails to make me cry. So beautiful.

Steve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians and Tehillim

"Pigs", Pink Floyd (preferably a live version)

Watermelon in Easter Hay, Zappa (preferably the live version from "Guitar")

I'll also include Edmund Fitzgerald

Zappa's solo in "Yo Mama" from "Sheik Yerbouti"

Biko, Peter Gabriel

The ending of "Suppers Ready" from "Foxtrot", by Genesis, though the live version (sense a pattern here?) is better.

And, in terms of stuff I HEARD live, "Welcome to the Machine" on the Momentary Lapse of Reason tour was almost palpably RELIGIOUS an experience. Unbelievable! Seeing Floyd is like being in the presence of God anyway, but "Welcome to the Machine" that night was beyond cool.

on edit: made a funny, possibly correct, typo - I had "Monetary Lapse of Reason", not "Momentary". Hee hee hee.

[Snow]

20. Oh, man, me too!

And I was standing on bloody stage singing the thing! What a climax! Do you realize the low basses (that's me) have to (get to!) sing in a range from b-flat two octaves below middle C, to the F above middle C! Incredible! The symphony I was singing with gave three performances - I didn't notice it at the time, but after every performance cam downstairs just exhausted! Exhilarated at the same time, but when you listen to it, have some compassion for the chorus....this is a very demanding piece and requires very skillful conducting.

[Rabrrrrrr]

44. Yeah, that's a tough one!

Don't mess with Mahler - he'll make you work!

Love that b-flat, though. yummy!

Heck, I've always been exhausted after LISTENING to a performance! Never had a chance to perform it myself, yet, though. Perhaps some day! Sure hope so. But then, it moves me so deeply, I don't know if I could play it. I'd start listening!

Friend of mine, professional musician also deeply moved by the #2 won't sing it any more because he gets too caught-up in the emotion in it and ends up not singing anyway. Says he might as well be in the audience...

[DODI]

18. Ohio - CSN&Y & Edmund Fitzgerald n/t

[immoderate]

21. And add...

Concierto De Aranuaz by Rodrigo
Far East Suite by Ellington ... Also, In A Sentimental Mood
A Love Supreme by Coltrane
Almost any version of On Green Dolphin Street
Heat Wave by Martha and the VDs

--IMM

[carolinayellowdog]

22. Our Love is Here to Stay

Knowing it was the last song the Gershwins wrote together adds to the poignancy of the lyric. Sounds of Silence, especially the opening. For some reason, Eternal Flame by the Bangles. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto, first movement. Where or When. (On edit, hmmm, these came to mind randomly but looking over the list I see a certain thematic connection between the first, third, and last.)

[catzies]

31. That Gershwin does it for me too.

Also Schubert's "Ave Maria," Van Morrison's "Madam George," George Harrison's "Give Me Love, Give Me Peace On Earth," and "Going Home" by Mary Fahl.

[Cheswick2.0]

61. ahhhhh Gershwin

good choice

[dolo amber]

23. Marlena Shaw

"Woman of the Ghetto"...if this song doesn't give you chills, you have no soul. Or the heart of a robot. Even though I like robots. You can hear it here, although if you're a blackhearted music pirate I HIGHLY recommend the live version. ARGH! :D

http://www.timewarpdis.com/catalogue/details/5413.html

also: Bill Withers "I Can't Write Left-Handed", possibly the greatest anti-war song ever...

[Streetdoc270]

24. songs

Nessum Dorma always makes me shudder.

ALW's Requiem, and The Navy Hymn

[kixot]

25. The fiddle theme from Ken Burns' Civil War documentary.

If you know what I'm talking about you probably feel similar.

Also, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again" always made me tear up as a child.

[FlashHarry]

28. Me too

I'm no Reb, but 'Johhny' always gave me a lump in my throat.

[CBHagman]

35. "Ashokan Farewell"

That was a piece composed by Jay Ungar, if I'm not mistaken. It had a timeless, melancholy quality to it.

There should be a sample at this link:

www.pbs.org/civilwar/film/music.html


There were some much older tunes in "The Civil War" soundtrack that were almost as haunting.

[kanrok]

26. Odd Combo

"Ave Maria" and "When a Man Loves a Woman."

[Cheswick2.0]

66. lol, good catch

welcome

[Az]

30. SIgfried's Funeral Musique

Dang thing gets me everytime.

[4_Legs_Good]

37. Don Giovanni

The Commedore scene at the end.

Everything else seems kinda silly after that.

david

[Snow]

41. Fortunately, it's at the end....

A kid who takes lessons with my daughter's voice teacher wants to sing that duet with me - he's baritone, I'm basso-profundo. Then since both of us can sing counter-tenor, we thought we'd sing that duet, "Sound the Trumpets" by, ummmm, Purcell. My daughter is threatening not to come.

[Cheswick2.0]

65. basso-profundo........do I have a group for you

I sing russian and ukranian litergical music a capella. We sing the great composers (if you are up on that type of music) Rachmaninov, Arkangelsky, Bortnianski, Vedel (I think I better check the spelling, but you get the idea). I have no idea where you live but if you were near Scranton Pa, we could use another basso-profundo.

Learning the language is a hoot!

[Snow]

68. Love that stuff! But no, I'm in Pasadena (LA)

[Cheswick2.0]

85. guess you couldn't make rehersal on tuesdays huh?

= )

[catzies]

38. LET THERE BE PEACE ON EARTH

Let There Be Peace on Earth and let it begin with me.
Let There Be Peace on Earth, the peace that was meant to be!
With God as our Father, brothers all are we.
Let me walk with my brother in perfect harmony.

Let peace begin with me. Let this be the moment now.
With ev'ry breath I take, let this be my solemn vow;
To take each moment and live each moment in peace eternally!
Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me!

[Sequoia]

39. The FRENCH NATIONAL ANTHEM

and Bach's 2nd Orchestral Suite, Violin Concerto (TOPS) as performed by St. Martin Academy in the Fields led by Sir Neville Marriner for starters.
Of course there' the assorted blues and rock but you DUers are already naming them.

[blondeatlast]

40. "You're Still a Young Man"/Tower of Power

Fantastic jazzy R&B vocal and the horns at the finish--WOW.

On edit: voCal

[nuxvomica]

42. The Piltdown Man motif from "Tubular Bells"

You said "shivers", right? That piece always creeps me out in a delicious way.

[Dissenting_Prole]

43. Speaking of Tubular Bells...

what about that moment when Viv Stavshall sneaks up behind you and says:



"Grand piano"




yikes!

[nuxvomica]

53. How stupid I am!

I thought that was Oldfield. Announcing the instruments is one of my favorite parts and now I'm set straight on who's doing it. I am such a :dunce:.

[Capn Sunshine]

45. Kashmir --Led Zepp

only because of a freaky incident in a red dusty village in GUatemala....

[maxanne]

46. I wonder about me

Finlandia - Sibelius

In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel

Find the Cost of Freedom

Marie - Townes Van Zandt

Sargeant McKenzie - by Clann an Drumma <I want this played at my funeral - a wonderfully mournful bagpipe dirge>

Scotland the Brave can do it to me in the right circumstances

[SOteric]

47. Panis Angelicus

Schubert's Ave Maria, Bach's Prelude and Fugue in D Minor;

[MountainLaurel]

48. Fanfare for the Common Man

And the big push in Appalachian Spring. I loves me some Copland.

"What would you do if you were me?" from Cabaret

"John Doe No. 24" by Mary Chapin Carpenter"

"I will remember you" by Sarah MacLachlan

"Independence Day" by Martina McBride"

"Why" by Annie Lennox

[Rabrrrrrr]

50. Ooh, yes!! And Lincoln Portrait!

(and, on a side note, I get shivers of laughter from Peter Schickele's "A Bach Portrait")

[VelmaD]

69. God yes...

I had forgotten Fanfare for the Common Man. I was sitting in the IMAx theater in Lubbock, TX once - it was the first time I had ever been to an IMAX and at the time it was the newest one in the US. Before the show they showed off the sound system. They played Fanfare for the Common Man and it shook me to my core. I mean literally. It was so big that it just reached inside and started twisting a person. My boyfriend looked over and thought I was having a seizure or something. Tears were streaming down my face and I couldn't seem to remember to breathe.

It was quite possible the most intense musical experience of my life.

-V-

[Character Assassin]

49. As a lifelong musicologist, guitarist, composer and bagpiper....

Djavan Gasparian: "I will not be sad in this world"
Talk Talk: "It's getting late in the evening"
John Martyn: "Rope Soul'd"
Gesualdo: "Tenebrae:
Thomas Tallis: "Lamentations of the prophet jeremiah"
Pat Metheny: "The secret of the fountain"
Peter Gabriel: "Don't break this rhythm" and "Curtains"
The Rustavi Choir: "Tsmindao Chmerto" and, forever, the immortal "Orovela"
Whoever: "The Black March Polka", although it should never have been named a 'polka'. Those of you who love drumming, take heed.

If anyone wants to really understand the difference between east and west, and know the greatest masters of rejecting any formal codification between the two, listen to Georgian Choral music.

There is simply no substitute.

[ACK]

51. Alt/indy/postpunk version

In Rememberance of Elizabeth Cotton by Firehose

Boa by Duvet

Redemption Song by Bob Marley

The Navajo Know by the Pixies (don't ask me why)

How Soon is Now by the Smiths

Driver 8 by REM

Fuck and Run by Liz Phair

Rainy Night in Soho by the Pogues

Tank by Yoko Kanna

Hey Jack Kerouac by 10,000 Maniacs

Skyway by the Replacements

[carols]

52. "Holy Fool" from Boondocks Saints

Actually, the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Ode to Joy do too - good choices!

[Pert_UK]

55. Nimrod from Elgar's Enigma Variations.....

Can't hear that music without welling up inside!

Beautiful.

P.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

72. good pick...

The rest of the piece is lovely too...and his violin concerto is one of my favorites.

[jus_the_facts]

56. Wish You Were Here~Pink Floyd...

....and In The Beginning by Motley Crue always freaked me out!:evilgrin:


In the beginning
Good always overpowered the evils
Of all man's sins...
But in time
The nations grew weak
And our cities fell to slums
While evil stood strong
In the dusts of hell
Lurked the blackest of hates
For he whom they feared
Awaited them... Now many many lifetimes later
Lay destroyed, beaten, beaten down,
Only the corpses of rebels
Ashes of dreams
And blood stained streets
It has been written
"Those who have the youth
Have the future"
So come now, children of the beast
Be strong
And Shout at the Devil

[FlashHarry]

57. 'Mars the Bringer of War' from 'The Planets' by Gustav Holst

Gives me the willies every time!

[Skittles]

58. THE HAROMONIZING IN "BE MY BABY"

by a couple of Go Go girls, I do believe. It always gives me goosebumps; YES INDEED.

[FlashHarry]

59. 'God Only Knows' by The Beach Boys. N/T

[Cheswick2.0]

60. Hmmmm, I am singing The Holy City on sunday

coincidence?

the songs/music that comes to mind (I am sure there are many others)are the finale of Candide, "Make Our Garden Grow" and several pieces from Secret Garden, "Lily's Eyes" and "A Little Bit of Earth". I also get chills from several numbers from NINE the Musical, "Bells of St Sebastian" and "Unusual Way".

Oh damn, a rush of memories concerning my dear friend who directed a a production of Nine and has long since died of AIDS and my other dear friend who played Guido and has long since died of lung/brain cancer.

A Toast to inspired artists!

[Snow]

70. Yes, circumstances are important....

our symphonic choir's rehearsal accompaniest died a coupla years ago, asthma, age 43. Her husband, principle trombone in the symphony, asked us to sing at her memorial. We did Mozart's Ave verum Corpus, a 23rd psalm piece, Brahms piece, coupla others I don't remember, and the In Paradisum from Faure's Requiem - an extraordinarily beautiful and uplifting piece, that requires pianissimo in the last page or so - and there were about 50 of us singing it. Our conductor was a good friend of the accompaniest; they were both on faculty at the local Univ. school of music. She was directing us very emotionally, as you might expect, and in the last few phrases had her eyes closed. When she closed her hand for the final cutoff we could see tears - and she wasn't the only one....

[Cheswick2.0]

84. I sang Faure's req in high school and not since

I would love to sing it again.

[Lady Freedom]

71. Kissed by a rose

By Seal. God, it make me just tingle!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

73. Lukas Foss...Orpheus

But not because it's beautiful. The quasi-theatrical piece begins with 2 solo oboes (Orpheus and Euridice) in hell...playing with bells up to make the most gawd-awful hair-raising wail you could imagine.

[DS1]

74. Mountain Song - Jane's Addiction

something about it makes me want to scream along

[Bake]

75. The Star Spangled Banner

Brings a tear to my eye every time. That's why I'll never rest as long as the Pukes are intent on perverting this country, this democracy. It reminds me EVERY TIME what this country is SUPPOSED to stand for.

Bake

[jus_the_facts]

80. yeah me too....

....it's never failed to give me chills...even more so now!x(

[PittPoliSci]

76. the opening theme from "A Man for All Seasons"

absolutely haunting.

[LuLu550]

77. thinking more on it

There are two arias that make me cry, one is (something spelled sort of like this) "Mio Babbio" and the other is "One Fine Day" from Madame Butterfly (don't know the Italian name).
They are so beautiful and sad and remind me of my dear, departed father who loved opera so much.
LuLu

[Snow]

78. Heheh -

that's "O Mio Babbino Caro" - teenage girl wanting to marry a guy her father doesn't approve of. She wants him to take her to Porto Rosa (must be a local shopping mall) to buy a ring (engagement, presumably) or she'll throw herself off the "Old Bridge" - likely getting wet in the process. My daughter likes this piece a lot, partly because it's the spoiled daughter putting the squeeze on the grumpy father, partly because it is so pretty. Unfortunately for her, it isn't really her voice type - it's a lyric soprano piece, so all the true lyric sopranos learn it and do it better than she, since she's a coloratura. On the other hand, the lyrics can't sing fast Handel pieces or "Queen of the Night".

[LuLu550]

79. Thanks

I'm not good with remembering names, but the tune is lodged in my head.
(Even as I type!)
LuLu

[Loonman]

81. One Country - Midnight oil

Message To My Girl - Split Enz
Nightshift - Siouxsie & the Banshees

[sangha]

82. Hail to the Chief

Since at least 1/21/2001

[FlashHarry]

86. I guess I meant GOOD shivers

Orff's 'Carmina Burana' does it for me, too, by the way. Probably because I was enthralled by Boorman's 'Excaliber' when I saw it as a kid.

[ArkDem]

88. Cold Turkey

Yoko Ono