― ron (ron), Saturday, 31 August 2002 16:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
two have done it since I had a baby daughter. both reduce me completely to tears, and regularly, too:zion - lauryn hillthere she goes - the las
old chestnut's arent they? but its an old chestnut attracting kind of quesyions, I guess.
PSGod Only KNows is like watching Bjorn Bjorg or Tiger Woods play. unimpeachable, best in the world, technically perfect, oddly unmoving.
― jon, Saturday, 31 August 2002 17:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Magnificat" and "Litany" give me shivers.
Also on the classical shiver-giving tip: anything by Penderecki.
― Jody Beth Rosen, Saturday, 31 August 2002 19:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
I tend to agree with this (although I'd argue that Pet Sounds has some very moving moments), but the harmony/voice leading in the chorus and coda, and the way the notes take shape as they ascend in little increments, then hit plateaus, then soar, then fall, is still pretty fuckin' cool.
― Jody Beth Rosen, Saturday, 31 August 2002 19:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
And, uh, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14 (especially "The Suicide"). Although it's so chilling it's practically comical.
― Jody Beth Rosen, Saturday, 31 August 2002 20:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 31 August 2002 22:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
but i almost can't listen to Scott Walker's "The Electrician"
― george gosset (gegoss), Sunday, 1 September 2002 05:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 1 September 2002 05:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
Others:
Bowie - "Absolute Beginners."Eminem - "Hallie's Song." Not as much now, because I overlistened to it, foolish me.Concrete Blonde - "Tomorrow Wendy."Tori Amos - "Winter." (And I'm not a Tori fan, really, apart from Little Earthquakes and that EP)Elvis Presley - "In the Ghetto.""Suicide is Painless," specifically as sung in the movie.Leather Strip's mix of the Cure's "Lullaby." Different kind of shivers.INXS - "The Stairs."The Kinks - "Celluloid Heroes."The Verve - "Bittersweet Symphony."Radiohead - "Fake Plastic Trees."Van Morrison - "Tupelo Honey."
― Bill Kte'pi (ktepi), Sunday, 1 September 2002 06:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
Kitchens of Distinction - "Gone World Gone"
Low - "Laser Beam"
and ..
Inner Life - "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" (the 10 minute remix)
― JC (JC A.), Sunday, 1 September 2002 16:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ryan McKay, Sunday, 1 September 2002 21:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm afraid I'm going to have bad dreams knowing that "Nightswimming" sends shivers down someone's spine.
― Burr, Sunday, 1 September 2002 23:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Underclocked, Monday, 2 September 2002 03:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― cybele, Monday, 2 September 2002 04:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
Id have to second that "boom" in Soma.Fantastic.
Tonights the Night- Neil Young
Sinead O Conner does the trick a few times on "I do not want what I havent got"
Dire Straits(yes!)play the single most chilling song Ive heard- a live version of "Where do you think youre going". We he moans "you better go with me girl" you know hes not fooling around.Scary shit.
Nirvana- the end of that Leadbelly tune where he lets out a goulish sigh or breath on Unplugged
Otis Redding "Dock of the Bay" of course.
― Kiwi, Monday, 2 September 2002 05:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Monday, 2 September 2002 06:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
probably lots more. For ages I couldn't think of any answer to this thread but then Julie C came on my playlist.
― Tom (Groke), Monday, 2 September 2002 06:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 2 September 2002 07:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 2 September 2002 08:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
But, maybe more than this, pretty much all of the Delgados' new album. It's like their previous stuff, but it's all realised so much better than anything they've done before, probably even Peloton - this could just be euphoria induced by putting 'The Light Before We Land' on again a minute ago, but... no, it isn't. It has a children's choir on a bit of it, and even that doesn't sound shite. It may just be me being indie, and the probability that no-one else will like it, and that no, it might not be breaking any new ground, and yeah, maybe it does sound fucking 'prog', as some will probably say, and perhaps there's fucking 'Dave Fridmann wank' in there somewhere... I don't have the words for this one. It comes out October 14th. And you may well hate it. It's worth the risk though, in my eyes anyway. Argh. Plugging. Off Topic. Fuck-uck-uck....
― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 2 September 2002 10:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 2 September 2002 10:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
Seconding the huge depth charge thingy in 'Chasing a Bee' and also the Jimmy Cliff - ESPECIALLY when actually watching him wander through Kingston in the film.
Also, the 'i must confess that my lonliness...' bit in the middle of 'Hit me baby one more time' where the tune kind of turns inside out
the ridiculously intense 'BABY! BABY! BABY!' in 'I want you back'
in Jonathon Richman's 'Hospital', 'last time i walked down your street, there probably were, uh, tears in my eyes'
the building paranoid mania in the ojays' 'backstabbers' - " i keep getting visits from all my friends.........they come to my house again and again and again and again........WELL ARE THEY HERE TO SEE MY WOMAN? I DON'T EVEN BE HOME BUT THEY JUST KEEP COMING"
the bit i 'you've lost that loving feeling' where they go absolutely mental imploring over each other to their baby
"all i want is peace and love on this planet" massive barrage of PE noise come to a dead halt, Chuck D sounding more righteous than even he's managed before "ain't that how god planned it" massive barrage begins again
the accapella breakdown bit in the first song on GZA's 'liquid swords' where it all comes close to falling apart and then gathers itself back together as the beat comes in.
"hey pauly pauly paul let's have a ball" from 'gigantic'
"well i dropped into a church, along the way. I GOT DOWN ON MY KNEES....." from California Dreamin'. And whenever this is played in 'Chunking Express' (which is often), well it's just all too much....
― adam b (adam b), Monday, 2 September 2002 11:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Keith McD (Keith McD), Monday, 2 September 2002 12:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Keith McD (Keith McD), Monday, 2 September 2002 12:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
Grandaddy - So You'll Aim Towards The Stars
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
and responding to various comments earlier in the thread, I got 100 Days Off by Underworld last week and it's been glued inside my CD player ever since - it's far more chilled than Beaucoup Fish but definitely worth buying.
― Ben Graham, Monday, 2 September 2002 13:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
My Bloody Valentine: "Swallow" & "No More Sorry"(Just 2 out of many!)
Sonic youth: "The Sprawl" & "JC"
Trail of Dead: "Another Morning Stoner" & "Claire De Lune"
Prince: "If I was your Girlfriend"
At The Drive-In: "Arcarsenal"
A Perfect Circle: "The Hollow"
Marvin Gaye: "Flyin' High"
Basement Jaxx: "Being With You" & "All I Know"
Tool: "Lateralus" & Pushit (Any version, but I'm partial to the one on Salival)
Tricky: "Devil's Helper" & "Tonite is a Special Nite"
Massive Attack: "Unfinished Sympathy" & "Protection"
Joy Division: "The Eternal"
― Brenya, Monday, 2 September 2002 17:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― matt riedl (veal), Monday, 2 September 2002 19:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 2 September 2002 20:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Daine, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 04:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
Townes van Zandt - "If I had no place to fall" for the when his voice first comes in with the title line and the ache forces the shiver down
Chopin - Nocturnes - the really painful one towards the end of the first side of the LP - all the way through he's been almost delivering on the melody but never quite and then finally lets it out but in a really uncomfortable way that's still beautiful. Like having your genitals whipped at the point of orgasm or something.
EPMD - "Get off the bandwagon" - when the music stops halfway through and Erick just says "Sucker" in a really pitying way. Ooooh.
Q-Tex - "the power of love" - if you remember the name of the song you probably know why...
― Jacob, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 10:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Simon H., Tuesday, 3 September 2002 12:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
Air's "La Femme D'Argent" doesn't move me emotionally, but it has an incredibly calming physical effect, it must be the equivalent of a recording of my brainwaves (slow, boring, unoriginal...).
― Mike (mratford), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 13:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― blueski, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 16:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mike (mratford), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 17:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 18:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
Nightime-Big Star ("I hate it here I hate it here, get me out of here, I hate it here")
Beauty Queen (the start, mainly..."Valerie please, believe, it never could work out")
Satellite of Love-Lou Reed (the harmonies at the end are just so beautiful)
Why Does Nobody Want You-Kenickie
Together Again-Janet Jackson
You CanÕt Put Your Arms Around a Memory-Johnny Thunders (that melancholy, echo-y solo)
What's Your Name-the Ramones
I'm A Human Being - New York Dolls ( "a riff-raff human being!")
DonÕt Worry Baby-Beach Boys
The Frogs-Weird on the Avenue
Always Crashing in the Same Car-David Bowie
Gene Pitney-Town Without Pity (the way he drags out the "bad" in "people talk about how bad we are")
― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 19:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 19:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
"The Killing Moon" by ye olde Bunnymen used to conjure this same effect (and still can, when the mood and alcohol content is right), but it may get a bit too much airplay to still pack the spine-tingle potency. I guess it's also a bit of a cliche, too.
The theme from "Picnic at Hanging Rock" by ::cough:: ::cough::: er...pan-flute maestro, Zamfir...is quite chilling as well.
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 19:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
Ah, what the hell, so is "Marian" by the Sisters of Mercy off FIRST AND LAST AND ALWAYS, particularly when Andrew starts exhorting in perfrect German at the tail-end of it.
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 19:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
And "Ambition".
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 21:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 21:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 22:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kiwi, Wednesday, 4 September 2002 03:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― angelo (angelo), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 04:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
i'd suggest isan's remix of seefeel's 'When Face Was Face' from the warp 10+3 compilation. couple of other tracks on their with a similar feel too. which reminds me of:
the surgeon remix of 'mogwai fear satan' (on 'kicking a dead pig')
stereolab 'lo boob oscilator'
insides 'clear skin' (formerly earwig, 38 minute ambient piece on 4ad offshoot guernica)
and in a different vein:several melt banana tracks, not sure of names, only heard them on peel.
andy
― koogs, Thursday, 5 September 2002 11:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― koogs, Thursday, 5 September 2002 11:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
now there's a film that GENUINELY sends shivers down your spine.
― michael w., Thursday, 5 September 2002 11:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
That'll do for now!
― john barlow, Thursday, 5 September 2002 12:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 5 September 2002 14:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
portishead- roads (live)radiohead- fake plastic trees and true love waitsjames- out to get youmission of burma- thats when i reach for my revolverprince- 7john martyn- couldnt love you morebeck- halo of goldwilco- via chicago...and you will know us by the trail of dead- how near, how fardelta dart- still no sparksflaming lips- feeling yourself disintegrate and waitin for a supermangrandaddy- dial a view/aim towards the skyaimee mann- wise upim sure that there are more.
― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 5 September 2002 22:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
The live version of 'Silver Springs', when it transitions into the 'Time has cast a spell on you...' section.
The moment in the Scott Walker track on Climate Of Hunter when he sings 'And the ceiling is rising and falling' and the swarm of Evan Parker soprano saxes comes in.
The final section of George Crumb's Music For A Summer Evening
― bit.ly sno cone maker (Jon Lewis), Friday, 27 April 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
fuller list, off the top of my brain:
Parliment - The Silent Boatman (bagpipes)Autechre - Silverside (the ending, where you finally get to hear the entire melody)Soul Coughing - Lazybones (the entire thing is so damn heavy)Devo - Race of Doom (don't know why. something about the way the synths intersect with the rhythm gets me)ELP - From the Beginning (everything about it is gorgeous, but especially Emerson's solo in the end)Faust - No Harm (the scream at the end)Underworld - Most 'Ospitable (the whole thing)Underworld - Jumbo ("Telephone breath between us/there are no borders between us/Only these wires")Happy Mondays - Dennis and Lois ("Honey, how's your breathing/If it stops for good we'll believe it")Kraftwerk - Neon Lights (the onslaught of shimmering major chords that make up the second half)Yellow Magic Orchestra - Gradated Gray (great song with an inexplicably creepy atmosphere)The Books - Getting the Job Done (when the vocals come in)Can - Oh Yeah (when the rhythm section really kicks in, 2 minutes in)Gary Numan - Complex (mostly the intro, but really everything)Neu! - Isi (c'mon, nobody can disagree with this)Michael Jackson - Stranger in Moscow (already mentioned, but holy cow, this is a monster)Boredoms - 7 (from VCN - when the guitar chords finally come in, braaang brooong)Harry Nilsson - Morning Glory Story (gosh the vocals are pretty on this one)Todd Rundgren - When the Shit Hits the Fan ("I think I have to get my ass back to Sunset Boulevard")
#1 tune along these lines (the one that makes me feel funny the whole time) is here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph7sHvMYkIk
― you can expect punches, kicks and even worse (frogbs), Friday, 27 April 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
As we've just had the kinks poll, might as well mention the moment in Shangri-La after the horns do a rall and tando, all grandiose magificience, and Ray comes back: "put on your slippers and sit by the fire..."
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Friday, 27 April 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
kinks - shangri-la (OTM!) sam cooke - a change is gonna comemanics - 4st 7lb (espec last 30 seconds)fall - lay of the land (when the song proper finally kicks in)
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 27 April 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
Cecil Taylor's version of "This Nearly Was Mine."
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 28 April 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
The Dutchman by Steve GoodmanBoulder to Birmingham by Emmylou HarrisTake Pills by Panda BearA Change is Gonna Come by Sam CookeDirty Blvd by Lou ReedDon't Worry Baby by the Beach BoysHot Burrito #1 by the Flying Burrito BrothersWalk the Way the Wind Blows by Hot Rize
― banjoboy, Saturday, 28 April 2012 01:21 (twelve years ago) link