tracks that GENUINELY send shivers down your spine without fail

Pete Heller - "Big Love"

The Sugarcubes - "Birthday"

Ben Harper - "Sexual Healing (live)"

Supercar - "Recreation"

New Order - "Bizarre Love Triangle"/ "Here to Stay"/ "Temptation"

Depeche Mode - "Somebody" (especially live version from "101")/"Enjoy the Silence"

Jackson 5 - "I'll be There"

Inner City - "Good Life"

The Cure - "High"/"A forest"/"Lullaby"

The Stone Roses - "I wanna be adored"

Pavement - "Grounded"/"Here"/"In the mouth a desert"

Smashing Pumpkins - "Set the Ray to Jerry"

Sonic Youth - "Mote"/"JC"

The Smiths - "There is a light that never goes out"/Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before"

Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On?"

Quicksand - "Fazer"

Al Green, "I Think It's for the Feeling."

Big Star, "You Can't Have Me."

Elis Regina, "Zazueira" (her greatest recording)

João Gilberto, "Sampa"

Bobby Womack, "Daylight"

Byrds, "Dolphin's Smile"

U2, "Even Better than the Real Thing"

Scritti, "Wood Beez"

Prefab Sprout, "I Remember That"

Everly Bros., "So Lonely"

Gram Parsons, "$1000 Wedding"

Gary Stewart, "Single Again"

South Shore Commission, "Free Man"

Sly and the Family Stone, "If You Want Me to Stay"

Spring Heel Jack, "Midwest"

Sinatra, "One for My Baby" (live version with Bill Miller, piano)

Soul Man Burke, "Someone Is Watching" (from "King Solomon")

recently:
El-P "Oxycontin"
The Silures "21 Ghosts" (thanks to Matt Perpetua)

"But you'd better love (LOVE), find some love, you'd better love me, Jesus Christ"

Rufus Wainwright's Oh What a World and In My Arms.
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Fugazi - Do You Like Me?, or Full Disclosure
Mission of Burma - Mica
Underworld - Dirty Epic
Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely
Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel the Illinoise, or Casimir Pulaski Day
Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools
Four Tet - Unspoken
DJ Shadow - Building Steam With a Grain of Salt
Tori Amos - Professional Widow (ugh, this song came on the iPod yesterday and I got incredibly fucking distracted while I was driving. This is probably her greatest moment. Fie to those who doubt Boys for Pele's brilliance! Nothing else she ever did or has done since matches it, but what a definitive statement from a weird artist).

I mentioned it in another thread just the other day, but Built to Spill's "Velvet Waltz", particularly the "and you better not be angry, and you better not be sad!" part.

Kraftwerk's "Neon Lights", especially the 1/3 of it.

Microphones - "Map"

A lot of Neutral Milk Hotel.

I guess they're my "artists that consistently send shivers down your spine)

Also, the live/acoustic recording of Bjork's 'The Anchor Song' with the Brodsky Quartet gobsmacks me every time--just thinking about it stands my arm hair on end. It was a song I'd completely forgotten from 'Debut'--she wasn't even able to hit the single note that gives me the shivers on the original recording.

-- Emily B (emily.burnha...), April 15th, 2006.

I may hang out in the wrong circles, but this is the first time I've seen anyone share my opinion on the awesomeness of this song.

Phoenix "If I Ever Feel Better (Todd Edwards remix)"
- never listen to it if you're going through a break up.

The Avalanches "Live at Domino's"
- it's like they condensed all the joy and sadness from the album into one track. And when strings somewhere in the middle of the song start to change pitch... Pure genius, with a soul of a child.

Pet Shop Boys "It Must Be Obvious"
- unexplainable sadness kicking in at 0:04 and then despair at 0:20.
Oh, and that line, "It should be poetry, not prose". Horror of everyday commonness in just 6 words.

Kate Bush -- Pull Out The Pin

you like kate bush??

hush you

When the guitar comes in for the noodly bit in Eno's "Golden Hours."
When everything but the guitar drops out before the last verse of "Teenage Riot."

The little guitar riff in Fugazi's "Repeater" after the "1-2-3... REPEATER!" literally kicks off an adrenaline rush in me, 18 years running...

Kate Bush -- Pull Out The Pin

"I LOVE LIFE, I LOVE LIFE"

I think I need to get high to get shivers down my spine.

I think the first few times I heard Robert Wyatt's Cuckooland I had shivers. The atmosphere was so thick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7PJpFhkEds Just A Bit

A Jobriath thread got revived last week, which reminded me of the line in "Street Corner Love" that goes "love me like we never met". Maybe because it's a bit of honesty from someone who otherwise dressed like a Christmas tree bauble.

those martial drum breaks that come right after

"cameras ready prepare to flash"

I heard twin peaks theme track last night and this happened
I don't even like the song that much!

What a lovely thread.

Some great songs listed above and I'm gonna nick some and more. Fwiw a random few:-

Swallow - My Vloody Balentine
Spirit Ditch - Sparklehorse
Jumbo- Underworld
History Lesson - Minutemen
Sain- Grifters
Lorelei- Cocteau Twins
What Does your Soul Look Like _ DJ Shadow
Suspension Bridge Over Iguazu Falls- Tortoise
Don't Stop Now -Guided By Voices
Bat's Mouth - Bat For Lashes
What's Going Ahn - Big Star
Holes- Mercury Rev
Whatever or Eight Miles High - Hooooosker du
Still Be around _ Uncle Tupelo
Bad Losers on Yahoo Chess- Half Man Half Biscuit

and Nine million more - off the top of my head. Wednesday Night mood. And totally showing my age.