tracks that GENUINELY send shivers down your spine without fail

I'm sure someone else has cited this one, but reminded by another thread...."I'm Not in Love" by 10cc......if that doesn't send a shiver down your spine, you'd best check for a pulse!

No '444' by autechre, so I'm rzarecting this thread.

props to nate for his detailed distinctions. I'm in no such form tonight, but from the moment I saw the subject line the only song that really consumes my mind is Phil Ochs' "When I'm Gone"... just thinking about makes my spine weep.

And, I have to confess that every time I hear Eminem's "cleaning out my closet" on the radio (ok, not thaaat many times), it gets me. As much of a jerk as he may be, he gets so damn personal. it creeps me.

Neil Young - old man (cheesy maybe, but a lot of Harvest and Everybody Knows This is Nowhere really get to me).

I'm amazed I haven't seen anyone mention the cure yet. I'm sure there must be something... or some leonard cohen.

I don't know this just makes me think about my angsty high school years. there were plenty of shivering spine soundtracks then.

and, I'm sure I'm ducking, but phil collin's "in the air tonight" gets me...I love the sounds and the echo on his voice and there's the story. I wonder how many folks had for their prom song this ditty 'bout murder and loss.

ooooh... someone mentioned Cuckoo Bird...
I remember buying that volume of the anthology at a tag sale a number of years ago... I would just listen to that song over and over gain. pick up the needle, drop it, again and again....

man.. Doc Boggs was yong at the time, but it sounded like he was already dead...you could hear his skin scraping against his bones.

Oddly enough, I recently picked up the Dock Boggs comp Revenant put out of all that stuff. Mmm. The details of the life he was living in the twenties make most everybody who sings or does anything these days seem mollycoddled.

lately it's been califone's 'bottle and bones (shade and sympathy)'

Moby - "Whispering Wind," "Hymn ('This Is My Dream' mix)," "Inside"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Soma," "Disarm," "Mayonaise"
Kyoji - "Vision" (from mp3.com)
Soundgarden - "Black Hole Sun"
Sense Field - "Save Yourself" (yes, yes, terrible, I know..)
Blue Man Group - "Club Nowhere," "Endless Column"
Nirvana - "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" (from MTV Unplugged)

Lee Perry - Bird in Hand
Aphex Twin - Cliffs
Radiohead - Lucky
John Fahey - In Christ There is No East or West
His Name is Alive - Can't Go Wrong Without You
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Buju Bantone - Murderer
Beatles - Across the Universe
Blade Runner Soundtrak - Rachel's Song
DJ Shadow - Midnite in a Perfect World

Goodbye Horses.

System of a Down's "Prison Song", "Science", "War?", "Revolution"
Fishbone's "Housework", "Get Out of the City", "Demon in Here"
Bjork's "Hyperballad", all of Vespertine, the last song on Selmasongs
Beck's "Novocane", "Nobody's Fault But My Own", "Diamond Bullocks"
Talvin Singh's "Maria", "OK"
Jeff Buckley's "Grace", "Last Goodbye", "Hallelujah"
Blackalicious' "Make You Feel That Way", "Chemical Calisthenics"
Latyrx's "Burnt Pride", "Regions"
DJ Shadow's "You Can Never Go Home Again", "Organ Donor"
Miles Davis' "In a Silent Way", "He Loved Him Madly"
Paul Desmond's "Take Five"
Roland Kirk's "Volunteered Slavery", "Jack the Ripper"
Princess Superstar's "All My Tracks", "Wet, Wet, Wet"
The Roots' "You Got Me" (the live version w/ Jill Scott)
Primus' "Bob's Party Time Lounge", "Ol' Diamondback Sturgeon"
Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit"
Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Breaking the Girl"
Mr. Bungle's "Desert Search for Techno Allah", "Goodbye Sober Day"
Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust"
Killah Priest's "Heavy Mental"
Deltron 3030's "Virus", "3030", "Contact"
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan has yet to make a recording that didn't give me chills.

Led Zeppelin - 'Going to California'
Fairport Convention - 'Farewell, Farewell'
The Verve - 'So It Goes'
Jane's Addiction - 'Then She Did'
Spirit - 'Life Has Just Begun'
Television - 'Venus'
Bob Dylan - 'Angelina' 'One More Cup of Coffee' 'Cold Irons Bound' 'High Water' etc etc
Dead Can Dance - 'The Host of Seraphim'
Willard Grant Conspiracy - 'The Visitor'
Captain Beefheart - 'This is the Day'
Prodigy - 'Break and Enter'
Rolling Stones - 'Gimme Shelter'
Pantera - 'By Demons Be Driven'
Joy Division - 'Dead Souls'
Lamb - 'Softly'
Bert Jansch/The Pentangle - 'A Woman Like You'
Aphrodite's Child - 'The Four Horsemen'

Bangalter and Falcon-So Much Love To Give.

Guano Apes - Living in a Lie

Don't really know why, but that song makes me wanna cry...

I heard "You Know You're Right" (Nirvana) on the radio the other day... when he started screaming during the second verse it almost made me faint

I may have eradicated this ability from my body for whatever reason, because in its place is the urge to clench my entire body. I can half-contrive shivers during a song tho even if i know im not particularly moved. I could start a "Music to Clench Your Body To" thread but im too busy trying to be subversive on this one.

Terry Callier: Cotton-eye Joe (all)
Fairport Convention: Who knows where the time goes? (low bits of vocal)
Bjork: Hyperballad (stings come in)
Bob Dylan: Abandoned love (the word "abandon")
Claudio Villa: Stornelli amorisi (the Big Night thing, when the vocals re-enter)
Pogues: Broad majestic Shannon ("useless to bawl")
Pogues: Body of an American (last verse)
Mingus: Mood indigo (don't have vocabulary to describe)

to me just some of them are spine-and-shiver, some others are much more butterfly-and-belly but ...what the heaven

Greyhound, "Black and White"
(a marvellous reggae gem in its own right, not an MJ cover)

Milton Nascimento, "Panis Angelicus"
(this actually IS a 'cover', of a Cesar Franck song)

Art Ensemble of Chicago, "Charlie M"

Philip Glass' "The Unutterable"

Zep's "Night Flight"
(amongst other enticements, the chorus is pure swing-metal)
&
Sabbath's "Supernaut"
(da monstariff returns after the cod-Caribbean sunset, twice the supanova it was to begin with, etcetcetc)

Beatles, "Because" -- the vox only version

on a Pentangle live record, the short and solemn instrumental theme of John Dowland's ..."The Earl of Salisbury"?? (never quite sure of its title)

and in fact several more whose butterfly-y-shivery buzz hasn't much diminished after innumerable spins:
Nina Simone's "Lilac Wine", Stone Roses's "Fool's Gold", REM's "Perfect Circle", M.Nascimento's & Chico Buaque's "Calice", Wyatt's "Free Will & Testament"

Catherine Deneuve & Serge Gainsbourg - "Dieu Fumeur de Havanes"

World in Motion - New Order esp. John Barnes rap

the poppy family - there's no blood in bone

Check out his glowing golden aura!

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"You've got to hold and give
But do it at the right time
You can be slow or fast
But you must get to the line
They'll always hit you and hurt you
Defend and attack
Theres only one way to beat them
Get round the back
Catch me if you can
Cos' I'm the England man
And what you're looking at
Is the master plan
We ain't no hooligans
This ain't a football song
Three lions on my chest
I know we can't go wrong"

the carter family -- "hello stranger" (esp "weeping like a willow/and mourning like a dove/there's a girl up the country, that i really love")

idaho "alive again" ("late december is what i'm feeling")

tim rogers and the twinset "you've been so good to me so far" (when the accordion comes in)

jeremy enigk "shade and the black hat" (when he starts yelping, "won't you stay tonight!" and the orchestra comes in full blast)

# Record by Big Star - every song. Never fails. It's bliss.

red house painters - mistress(piano version)
beach boys - god only knows, surfer girl, don't worry baby
nick drake - pretty much his whole catalog
simon and garfunkel - most of their catalog as well
sam cooke - a change is gonna come
smokey robinson - bad girl
james and bobby purify - im your puppet, the very end gets me everytime.
radiohead - let down
the cure - most of their catalog

recently Elbow - switching off

a little history: as a small child my favorite toy was this small
radio. at night in bed i'd pretend i was asleep, but really i was
listening to the radio that was hidden in my pillow (it didnt have
a headphone socket). this was in glasgow, and my favorite show was
on either radio clyde or scotland (cant remember) anyway the show
was called 'they sold a million', every track a single that, yes,
sold a million copies. of course most of the tunes they would play
were from the sixties, but one track stood out for me amongst the
rest....i'd wait every week hoping it would come on, and when it
finally did i'd lie there transfixed. compared to all the other songs
it seemed to be in 3D, this huge voice of indeterminate sex and
epic sorrow, and when that weird vibrating keyboard solo came in it
was like i could swim within my body without moving a muscle.
ahem.
anyway after about a month of searching on slsk i've finally
managed to track the song down, its 'sweet dreams' by tommy
mclain, and even though it could never match up to how how i remember
it that keyboard solo and that voice still manage to give me
goosebumps.

the one that's getting me all of a shiver right now (and made me cry on a bus the other day, too) is "do it" on dizzee rascal's boy in da corner, specifically the lines: "don't really ask much/so i don't owe much/don't receive a lot of love/so i don't show much... does it every time

Yer choices are all poo

Mine are:

The Cheeky Girls - Touch my Bum
Harry - Imagination
Mr Blobby - Blobby Song
Meatloaf - Anything for Love
Bloodhound Gang - The Ballad of Chasey Lain
Shamen - Ebneezer Good

Shook Ones. From the first note, without fail.

well, spine-shiver-senders...:

Yes - On the Silent Wings of Freedom
Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks
Blur - Oily Water, Slow Down (the instrumental outro), Wear Me Down, For Tomorrow, etc
Manic Street Preachers - La Tristessa Durera
Smashing Pumpkins - Thru the Eyes of Ruby, Starla, Rhinoceros, etc

Off the top of my head:

Many Cure tracks, but especially "Prayers For Rain", "The Same Deep Water As You", "Lament", "New Day", "This Twilight Garden", "Like Cockatoos", "Another Day", "Wailing Wall", "Shake Dog Shake", "Fear Of Ghosts", "All Cats Are Grey" and "Siamese Twins"

Many Prince tracks, but especially "Adore", "Mountains", "Sometimes It Snows In April", "Tambourine", "Housequake", "Annie Christian", "Another Lonely Christmas", "Shy", "The Human Body", "Kiss", "Sexy MF", "Alphabet Street" and "All The Critics Love U In New York".

The entire second half of _Ritual de lo Habitual_.

Every Orbital album except for the green album.

Every Prodigy track I've heard EXCEPT for "Serial Thrilla", "Funky Shit" and "Ruff In The Jungle Bizniz"

Every Lamb track I've heard.

"David" and "Believe" by Gus Gus.

"Get Busy" and "Like Glue" by Sean Paul.

"Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See" by Busta Rhymes.

"Scenario", "Butter" and "Excursions" by A Tribe Called Quest.

The second movement of the Brahms Requiem.

The mezzo solos in the Verdi Requiem.

The Lacrymosa from the Mozart Requiem.

Frank Martin's "Mass for Double Chorus".

Radiohead - "Like Spinning Plates"
Lycia - "Pray"
Jandek - "Only Lover"

Joy Division-Atmosphere
Bruce Springsteen-Thunder Road
Baba O'Riley-The Who
Jeff Buckley-Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen-Avalanche
Husker Du-Celebrated Summer
Bob DYlan-Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
Velvet Underground-All TOmorrow's Parties
Rainy Day-Flying on the Ground is Wrong

radiohead-fake plastic trees, we suck young blood, true love waits (live version w/ keyboard), big ideas (w/organ)
smashing pumpkins-to forgive (really all of MCIS+siamese dream), medellia of the grey skies
MBV-to here knows when
coil-cardinal points, hellraiser theme, Musick...(vol.1+2), the time machines
cranberries-dreams
NIN-my favourite dreams are nightmares
spiritualized-LAGWAFIS, broken heart
jeff buckley-hallelujah
anything by atari teenage riot(the adrenaline causes the shivers)
the cure-letter to elise (my eyes are watering up just thinking about it right now)

Ralph Stanley's a capella version of "Oh Death"

I second sean paul 'like glue'. You should also check out the TOK and the Spragga Benz versions of the 'buy out' riddim for spine-shiver inducing duttiness

MBV -- Come in Alone
Slowdive -- Machine Gun
Husker Du -- Diane, First of the Last Call
Joy Division -- Love Will Tear Us Apart
New Order -- Regret, Ceremony, Your Silent Face, Age of Consent
Mercury Rev -- Blue & Black->Sweet Oddysee
AC/DC -- Let There Be Rock
James Brown -- Mother Popcorn
Rufus Thomas -- Walkin' the Dog
Eddie Folkes -- Knock on Wood
Yo La Tengo -- Deeper Into Movies
Replacemets -- Answering Machine
Ride -- Dreams Burn Down
Sugar -- Tilted
Descendents -- Bikage

what? what about me?

second "starla" by the pumpkins

the remix that cLOUDDEAD did of boom bip's "closed shoulders" (it's on the left to right EP) sends shivers down my spine right at the part near the beginning where the layers of drawn out vocals come in, it's so warm i feel like i can wrap myself up in that one little spot and be quite ok for a some time, completely enveloped in it.

sigur ros- salka
radiohead- let down
neko case- furnace room lullaby
magnetic fields- no one will ever love you
nina nastasia- ocean
shannon wright- capsule of you
ABBA- cassandra
bjork- gloomy sunday
kate bush- hello earth
leonard cohen- joan of arc

"In the air tonight" isn't about murder!

soooo many.... The feeling that your skin is about to ripple right off your shoulder-blades is exactly why I listen to music....

To name but a few...

Jeff Buckley - 'Last Goodbye': "Kiss me out of desire baby/ Not consolation"

Kate Bush - 'Hounds of Love', 'Cloudbusting'..."I still dream...."

Abba - 'Dancing Queen' Obvious choice but then you're not really human if you don't include this.

Slint - 'Good Morning Captain' Towards the end when the blank sheets of noise mutate into something more muscular

Spiderbait - 'Horschack Army'... More thrilling noise. See also...

Swans - 'Love Will Save You', 'Power and Sacrifice'

Lamb - 'Gorecki' When the beats come in....

*It's sort of cheating to name dance music, cos they've been lab-produced precisely to induce these effects. But still, while we're about it, here are some tracks that are all about bringing the beat back...

Chemical Brothers - 'Sunshine Underground'
Underworld - 'Cowgirl'
Leftfield - 'Song Of Life' Christ.....

and sundry others that aren't leaping to mind right now*

Coldplay - 'Daylight' (The chorus crashing in), 'Amsterdam'

Radiohead - er, almost everything. For know, 'A Reminder ("The night that we kissed and I really meant it")

Beethoven - 9th Symphony. Crashingly obvious. Sue me

Lauryn Hill - 'Ex-Factor' "Why won't you live for me?"

Bjork - 'Unison'

Doves - 'Pounding' Towards the end, the Marr guitar.

Smiths. Too many. How about 'Well I Wonder'? "Gasping, dying, but somehow still alive"

Air - 'La Femme D'Argent'. The floating synth melodies towards the end.

Aimee Mann - 'Wise up' Played by friend on return from club, high as. Damn near thought my head would come off.

er... N-Sync - 'Girlfriend' The Neps are frikkin brilliant at bridges. cf Justin Timberlake - 'Rock Your Body'

The first time I heart the beats on 'Smack Your Bitch Up'

And that's more than enough for now....

<<"The Killing Moon" by ye olde Bunnymen used to conjure this same effect >>

Donnie Darko is the best movie I've seen in years. And that song rules!

Tori Amos "Baker baker," Luna "City Kitty," Pet Shop Boys "Rent," Nick Cave "Jack's Shadow" (is the title right? not sure), Bowie "Ashes to Ashes," Low "Lazy," Throwing Muses "Bright Yellow Gun.."

Depeche Mode "Lie to Me," Cat Power "Cross bones style," Helium "Ghost Car," PJ Harvey "Sweeter than anything," Palace "tonight's decision (and hereafter)", Mary J Blige "No more drama," Radiohead "Black Star" and "Idiotheque."

John Coltrane - "Alabama"
Billy Idol - "Dancing with Myself"

Well the end of A Northern Chorus - "Louder than Love" is devastatingly gorgeous and just gave me the chills.

"johnny too bad" from the harder they come soundtrack (heard it in a manhattan starbucks the other day, hadn't heard it in years and it sent shivers down my spine)

the way Ray Davies sings "you can't go ANYWHERE" in "Shangri-La," and the way the perfect drifting serenity of the verse suddenly stumbles into near-drunken glee: "And all the houses in the street have got a name..."

REM: The live "Maps and Legends" at the end of Fables, when Stipey's voice cracks as he sings "Is he to be reached?" That kills me every time.

The Man with the Child in His Eyes - those descending piano chords before the chorus. Actually, the whole song is one long shiver.

Coolio's I'll See You When You Get There makes me teary-eyed for reasons which I don't understand.

John Coltrane's live version of Naima for poignancy, and My Favourite Things for the other kind of spine-tingle.