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-two years ago) link
― matt riedl (veal), Monday, 2 September 2002 19:03 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 2 September 2002 20:22 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Daine, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 04:59 (twenty-two 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-two years ago) link
― Simon H., Tuesday, 3 September 2002 12:56 (twenty-two 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-two years ago) link
― blueski, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 16:24 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mike (mratford), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 17:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 18:58 (twenty-two 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-two years ago) link
― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 19:14 (twenty-two 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-two 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-two years ago) link
And "Ambition".
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 21:18 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 21:19 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 22:05 (twenty-two years ago) link
― kiwi, Wednesday, 4 September 2002 03:37 (twenty-two years ago) link
― angelo (angelo), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 04:52 (twenty-two 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-two years ago) link
― koogs, Thursday, 5 September 2002 11:38 (twenty-two years ago) link
now there's a film that GENUINELY sends shivers down your spine.
― michael w., Thursday, 5 September 2002 11:40 (twenty-two years ago) link
That'll do for now!
― john barlow, Thursday, 5 September 2002 12:02 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 5 September 2002 14:41 (twenty-two 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-two years ago) link
beta band - "B+A": the part where the loud crashing drums crash in. then again when the bass kicks in.
bjork - "pagan poetry": 'he makes me want to hurt myself'
bjork - "joga": 'emotional landscape'
strokes - "the modern age": 'don't want you here right now LET ME GO!! WHOOOOOOO!!!!!'
basement jaxx - "romeo"
verve - "weeping willow": the part where he goes 'beside me' over and over
and ditto ditto DITTO to "soma" and "alberto balsalm"
― justin, Friday, 6 September 2002 03:49 (twenty-two years ago) link
― ron (ron), Friday, 6 September 2002 04:02 (twenty-two years ago) link
and that's just off the top of my head...gimme a bit more time and i could go on for weeks, frankly. but i won't. you'll be happy to hear...
― Charlie, Friday, 6 September 2002 04:34 (twenty-two years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Friday, 6 September 2002 04:41 (twenty-two years ago) link
― michael w., Friday, 6 September 2002 06:13 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 6 September 2002 12:43 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Leee (Leee), Saturday, 16 November 2002 01:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― nick ring, Saturday, 16 November 2002 05:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― nick ring (nick ring), Saturday, 16 November 2002 18:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 November 2002 19:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jack, Sunday, 17 November 2002 00:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curtis Stephens, Sunday, 17 November 2002 01:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ejad, Sunday, 17 November 2002 05:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 17 November 2002 05:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious, Monday, 18 November 2002 16:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Monday, 18 November 2002 17:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 18 November 2002 22:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
Don't really know why, but that song makes me wanna cry...
― Bruno Batista, Tuesday, 19 November 2002 00:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curtis Stephens, Tuesday, 19 November 2002 02:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― naked as sin (naked as sin), Monday, 9 December 2002 19:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alan Connor (alanconnor), Monday, 9 December 2002 20:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
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"
― t\'\'t (t''t), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 02:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Monday, 17 March 2003 00:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nik (Nik), Monday, 17 March 2003 00:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― your null fame (yournullfame), Monday, 17 March 2003 04:25 (twenty-one years ago) link