Songs/Music That Give You Goosebumps!

The soundtrack to Braveheart never fails to give me goosebumps.
What songs/music does it for you?

some others...The Movie "Magic".
Love Theme from Joe Black
Closing Instrumental Music from Titanic...

 

Randy Rhoads' guitar solo in Children Of The Grave on the Ozzy Tribute. His genius comes out in a one minute solo.

 

Kate Bush - The Man With the Child in His Eyes
AC/DC - Have A Drink On Me (!)
Almost all Beatles stuff.

Lots of others...

 

Derek & The Dominoes - Key To The Highway. Brilliance, although drug induced, and blues ideas. Thank god someone hit the REC button at all!

 

Nothing does it for me quite like A Day In The Life.

 

Lead Guitar in..."Aqualung"(song)...

 

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Lead Guitar in..."Aqualung"(song)...
WoW! me too.
Also '39 from A Night At The Opera
The opening to VooDoo Child (Slight Return)

 

I first heard take 1 of "A Day In The Life" through a 3' TV speaker playing back a VHS off-air copy of The Making of Sgt Pepper.

When John's voice began my jaw dropped as my spine shivered.

The higher fi experience of Anthology 2 does not re-create that shiver.

 

Eric Clapton's guitar solo on While My Guitar Gently Weeps - the Beatles. Eric does it again 25 years later on the same song - George Harrison Live in Japan. Ethereal vibrato.

 

Crash & Burn by the Bangles. It was the closing track on the last album. Great way to end (the first phase) of a carear.

The lead vocal soars without trying to, effortless but passionate. The backing vocals are superb. Female Beatles they sound like.

The song rocks as hard as anything they've ever done.

It really gives off the excitement of "escape". And how does it end? Well, it crashes & burns.

Thrilling.

-BZync

 

Tina Turner...River Deep Mountian High

Pearl Jam...Black

The guitar solo in Pink Floyd's "Dogs" from Animals

Peggy Lee...Fever

 

All the songs on "Revolver" from my newly acquired German copy on Apple are giving me the goosebumps. Just received it in the mail today from a recent eBay purchase. Now I want to get every Beatles album from Germany. The album is a tad crackly in places but it sounds wonderful and the jacket is in near mint condition. One of the best purchases I've made in an while on eBay.

The album even came with the original insert.

 

He said goosebumps not salivate.

 

just about anything Gordon Lightfoot has done (his worst album by far is Gord's Gold Vol. 2 but I have it anyway)
country music (especially the real stuff)
Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffett
anything Don Williams has done
Les Paul and Chet Atkins's guitar picking (in fact last night, I listened to the Pair CD of Chet and Les together and the night before, listened to Les's ASV CD "How High The Moon")
lots of others

 

The only thing I can think of at the moment is "I'm Every Woman" by Chaka Khan.

The Arif Mardin production just doesn't let up the energy. It keeps driving and pulsating with fierce intensity! The track is thickly layered with a grand paintbrush. The song blooms like a bright sunrise on a spring morning. The lush, multi-layered instrumentation is augmented with more layers of Chaka's vocals.

 

Anything that speaks directly to one's condition, or expresses so uncannily a feeling, mood, emotion or thought, that you wish you yourself had written/performed that song.

"Today" - Jefferson Airplane. An achingly gorgeous song expressing what it must be like to fall into the abyss of love, and the fear of something so transcendentally beautiful. Say what you will about those hippies, they sure wrote some real pretty music.

"American Tune" - Paul Simon. This 1973 recording so nailed the mood of post-Vietnam Watergate America. Remember Scott Mckenzie's flower power ode to "a generation in motion"? American Tune is about that generation in resignation.

Jim W.

 

Granted, Everything we choose to listen to we love...But certain songs just give me goosebumps...a little chill up and down the spin...I'm not as fortunate as you are to have that happen with all the music I love...I guess that's why all the music you remaster has that special something nobody else can match...

 

The opening Octave Guitar riff into that Wes Montgomery plays on "The Shadow Of Your Smile" which is on the Verve label the title of the LP I believe is A Day In the Life. It features a song called OGD ( Oh God Dam ) aka The Road Song. But that opening of just those 4 notes that he plays rythemically before into the melody of the song Shadow Of Your Smile are totally killer to me!

 

My apoligies, to all, this was not on the Verve Label but it was on the A&M label. I might also add that the background string arrangement which was written by Oliver Nelson makes those 4 notes note only do they give me goosebumps but ya sort of just tingle until the end of the song of Shadow of Your Smile is completed but then he vamps back into the intro as the song fades out again with the strings grooving on every note that Wes plays into the fade. WOW!!!!!!!

 

Frank Zappa's guitar solos.
Igor Stravinsky's Russian Ballets.
Ray Charles' version of Ol' Man River.
Shirley Bassey singing Send In The Clows.

And on and on and........

Thom

 

I think the number one song that gives me the chills is "Maybe" by The Chantels. Arlene Smith, the lead singer and later school teacher, emotes with an innocence and unparalleled passion, IMO.

 

Hmmm, there's definitely more than one for me
Pink Floyd: Run Like Hell (One of Gilmore's best)
Rush: 2112 (The whole band at their peak IMHO)
Phil Collins: In The Air Tonight (Love those drums )

 

Where do I start? More importantly, where do I end??

"He Stopped Loving Her Today" -- George Jones
"Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone" -- Charley Pride
"Where've You Been" -- Kathy Mattea
"I Will Always Love You" -- Dolly Parton
"The Bargain Store" -- Dolly Parton
"You Can't Make a Heart Love Somebody" -- George Strait
"Amarillo by Morning" -- George Strait
"The Chair" -- George Strait
"Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" -- Garth Brooks
"The Dance" -- Garth Brooks
"Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground" -- Willie Nelson
"That Was Yesterday" -- Donna Fargo
"Tryin' to Get Over You" -- Vince Gill
"Ain't That Lonely Yet" -- Dwight Yoakam
"Here in the Real World" -- Alan Jackson
"He Thinks He'll Keep Her" -- Mary Chapin Carpenter
"Travelin' Soldier" -- Dixie Chicks
"I Can Never Go Home Anymore" -- The Shangri-Las
"Frozen" -- Madonna
"The End of the World" -- Skeeter Davis
"I Want to Know What Love Is" -- Foreigner
"Bernadette" -- The Four Tops
"I Got You" -- Split Enz
"Driver's Seat" -- Sniff 'n' the Tears
"Raindrops" -- Dee Clark
"Taxi" -- Harry Chapin
"Don't Give Up" -- Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush
"Take On Me" -- a-ha
"Forever Autumn" -- Justin Hayward
"We Don't Need Another Hero" -- Tina Turner
"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" -- Darlene Love or U2 [both of 'em work]

"Adagio for Strings" (Samuel Barber)
"9th Symphony: 4th Movement" (Beethoven)
"Air on a G String" (J.S. Bach)
"Gymniopedes" (Erik Satie)
"Messiah: Hallelujah" (Handel)

and a lot more where they came from...