Songs/Music That Give You Goosebumps!

"He's Gone" is the one for me: the way Arlene sings it as if she means it in her fragile, teenage heart, and then, at the end, reaches and finds notes even she might not have realized she was capable of.

Also, a good portion of Tomita's SNOWFLAKES ARE DANCING; some bombast, but the quieter cuts--"Claire De Lune," "Girl With The Flaxen Hair," "Footprints In The Snow" have gossamer wings. Beautiful stuff.

And of course "She Loves You"/"I'll Get You," "Mandolin Wind," some of Ray Lynch's DEEP BREAKFAST, Lonnie Mack's "Why." So many, too many to remember right now.

ED

 

The Eva Cassidy version of "Over the Rainbow" does it to me every time. I can't wait for Steve's version on Vinyl.

Jay N.

 

Steve Gadd's two drum solos on "Aja"; never fails to make my jaw drop each and every time!

"A Day In The Life"
Any B.B. King guitar solo
Hounds Of Love-Kate Bush
Beethoven's fifth symphony
"Star-Spangled Banner"-Jimi Hendrix

 

Almost anything by the Four Freshmen or the Beach Boys. Their vocal sound/harmonies make my spine tingle... and the Seekers also. There's something about magic vocal blends that goe right to my soul.

 

That piano solo in "Jessica" from The Allman Brothers Band.

 

Check out some of the 40's harmony groups...Pied Pipers, Merry Macs, Modernaires. Ray Anthony (Capital Collectors Series) great Cee Dee! that's just a start. Such a wonderful era...

 

I got goosebumps just reading this title/artist. Yes! "Why" by Lonnie Mack. If it's possible to out passion Bobby Blue Bland, Lonnie did it on this song. You may know he recorded it again on his first Electra LP, though not quite as passionately. Don't think the Electra LPs have made it to CD. Too bad, as the first two continue the R&B groove with an added maturity that works well.

 

John Lennon- Imagine
Stevie Ray Vaughan- The Sky Is Crying and Life By The Drop
dont know the name of the band- Son Of A Preacher Man
Phish- Wolfman's Brother and Weakapaug Groove
Joe Cocker- With A Little Help From My Friends
Eric Clapton- Tore Down and Blues Before Sunrise
Nick Drake- Pick one
James Taylor- You've Got A Friend and Carolina In My Mind

 

Son Of A Preacher Man...Dusty Springfield had a hit with that one...#10 in 1968...Maybe that's the one your thinking of?

 

Well let's see here, when I first heard these songs I was filled with shock and awe>

Rush - 2112 - The Temples of Syrinx : first heard 1982

Rush - Show of Hands - Mission : first heard 1990

The Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children - Gypsy : first heard 1997

Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever OST - Night Fever : first heard 1978

John Denver - Rocky Mountain High (original studio version) : first heart 1976

Eric Johnson - Venus Isle - Battle We Have Won : first heard 1998

Smashing Pumpkins - Adore - Perfect : first heard 1999

Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuaion Junkie - Joining You : first heard 2000

really there are too many to name...all music gives me goosebumps!

 

There are so many by these artists, of course anything by THE BEATLES, also Rick Nelson, The Four Seasons, and Don't Worry Baby by The Beach Boys are just a few to add HA!!! I'm surprised that this thread will ever or should ever stop. Gives me Goosebumps thinking about all the great answers from all our cool people on The Steve Hoffman Forum.

 

Delibes, Lakme.

 

For me the opening glissando, followed by the shuffle at the beginning of Abba's "Dancing ueen" always do it for me. But then, it was the first record I bought.

 

For some reason, I never fail to get goosebumps when the background singers go "woo woooo" on Roger Waters' "Sunset Strip."

 

Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances

And a lot of other classical stuff.

 

The Beatles- (so many will do it but most recently: I've Got A Feeling from the roof)
Fleetwood Mac-Need Your Love So Bad (love the outtakes on the Blue Horizon box)
The Kinks-Waterloo Sunset
Procol Harum-Whiter Shade Of Pale
Jeff Beck-Beck's Bolero
Simon & Garfunkel-America
The Who-Live At Leeds and Quadrophenia
Jimi Hendrix-Angel (demo)
Jimi Hendrix-Electric Ladyland (Loose Ends/Box set version)
John Williams-Jaws soundtrack
Bach-Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
Beethoven-Ninth Symphony
Rolling Stones-Can't You Hear Me Knocking?
Split Enz-One Step Ahead and Message To My Girl
Neil Finn-Turn And Run, Anytime, Driving Me Mad, Sinner
BB King-(much of "Live At The Regal" with the crazed crowd!)
Michael Hedges-Aerial Boundaries
Left Banke-Pretty Ballerina and Walk Away Rene
Velvet Underground-Who Loves The Sun? (should have been a hit!)
Phish-Strange Design

 

the aria from "La Wally" sung in the movie Diva by Wilhelmina Wiggins-Fernandez. I can remember to this day the feeling that went up and down my spine when I heard this for this first time.

No More "I Love You's" by Annie Lennox

 

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Little Wing. 'nuff said!

 

Don't Take the Girl - Tim McGraw

 

Who's Next still gives me goosebumps. I've been listening to the new Who's Next Deluxe Edition cd set and it reminds me how powerful these songs are. What an album!

JohnG

 

Lots, but the most recent one was:

Yusef Lateef - Love Theme from Spartacus

 

Aretha's singing and the horns on Ain't No Way.Tina Turner on A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Every Day) from River Deep Mountain High.

 

Like A Rolling Stone

The entire London Calling album, from start to finish.

Springsteen, Growin' Up, live from the Roxy, 1978, where he is talking about his parents (who were in the audience)wanting him to be a doctor (or is it a lawyer, damn, can't remember) or a writer, and at the end saying "Well tonight, you're just gonna have to settle for rock 'n roll", and the band crashes in and just takes off into the stratosphere.

Jeff

 

Goosebumps

Oh Man, I have that bootleg. That's some powerful stuff. I used to love it when he did those raps. He used to do this thing before Pretty Flamingo where there was this girl walking down the street every day and they used to sit and wait and try to think of something cool to say her but they never muster up the nerve....
Those were some amazing concerts.

Anyway my choice is: kd lang's verson of the orbison staple "Crying"
That song kills me.

Peace
Norm