"But you'd better love (LOVE), find some love, you'd better love me, Jesus Christ"
― jsk baby (jsk baby), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 08:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 08:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 2 January 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― davelus (davelus), Saturday, 15 April 2006 05:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Saturday, 15 April 2006 05:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Rufus Wainwright's Oh What a World and In My Arms. Michael Jackson - Billie JeanFugazi - Do You Like Me?, or Full DisclosureMission of Burma - MicaUnderworld - Dirty EpicNeutral Milk Hotel - Oh ComelySufjan Stevens - Come On Feel the Illinoise, or Casimir Pulaski DayAretha Franklin - Chain of FoolsFour Tet - UnspokenDJ Shadow - Building Steam With a Grain of SaltTori 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).
― Emily B (Emily B), Saturday, 15 April 2006 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link
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"
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 16 April 2006 03:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 16 April 2006 03:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― nervous (cochere), Monday, 17 April 2006 02:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― nervous (cochere), Monday, 17 April 2006 02:07 (eighteen years ago) link
A lot of Neutral Milk Hotel.
I guess they're my "artists that consistently send shivers down your spine)
― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Monday, 17 April 2006 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― I.M. (I.M.), Monday, 17 April 2006 03:27 (eighteen years ago) link
-- 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.
― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: Ambassador With Training In Righteousness (latebloomer), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:15 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kali (Kali), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jarrod Doern, Friday, 5 May 2006 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Kate Bush -- Pull Out The Pin
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link
you like kate bush??
― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
hush you
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
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."
― wmlynch, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
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...
― Savannah Smiles, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link
"I LOVE LIFE, I LOVE LIFE"
― cutty, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I need to get high to get shivers down my spine.
― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― snoball, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link
those martial drum breaks that come right after
"cameras ready prepare to flash"
― henry s, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I heard twin peaks theme track last night and this happened I don't even like the song that much!
― uh oh I'm having a fantasy, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Fer Ark, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Wu-Tang Clan "Protect Ya Neck" (It also makes me pump my fist) Minutemen "Little Man With a Gun in His Hand" The Mountain Goats "Snow Owl"/"Family Happiness" (two distinct flavors of intense desperation) Talking Heads "Crosseyed and Painless" Al Green "La La For You" Funkadelic "Can You Get To That" (yes, I certainly can) Issac Hayes "Walk On By" They Might Be Giants "She's An Angel" (mainly just the pre-chorus w/ the slide guitar) Sambomaster "Futari Bochi No Sekai" Can "Oh Yeah" (I intend to play this at the apocalypse)
― telepathy_rock!, Thursday, 21 August 2008 03:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Electric Wizard "Barbarian" ("THE WIZAARRD"--RIFF) Boredoms "Synthesizer Guide Book On Fire" (whoa) The theme music from Cowboy Bebop David Bowie "Five Years" (especially the line about the girl in the ice cream parlor not knowing that she's in this song) The part of "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celest" by Bela Bartok that Kubrick used in The Shining (eerie as all hell) John Fahey "Desperate Man Blues"/"On The Sunny Side of the Ocean"
Man I could keep doing this forever
― telepathy_rock!, Thursday, 21 August 2008 03:45 (fifteen years ago) link
ESG "UFO" Stereolab "Jenny Ondioline" Number Girl "Omoide In My Head" CCR "Born On The Bayou" REM "Radio Free Europe" Radiohead "Everything In It's Right Place" The intro to Metroid 2
it's a wonder my spine isn't perpetually shivering
― telepathy_rock!, Thursday, 21 August 2008 03:51 (fifteen years ago) link
fake plastic trees does it for me. For the song itself and for the memories attached to it.
― Moka, Thursday, 21 August 2008 06:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Big Star - Thirteenth My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes Elvis - Blue moon Peggy Lee- Is that all there is Rick Nelson - Lonesome town Robert Wyatt- Sea song Scott Walker - Farmer in the city Low - If you were born today
too many to mention
― Marco Damiani, Thursday, 21 August 2008 07:13 (fifteen years ago) link
War, "There Must Be a Reason"
― The Reverend, Thursday, 21 August 2008 07:30 (fifteen years ago) link
This song triggers some really hard realizations for me, In a lot of ways I see myself as that "Lookin' Boy".
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 21 August 2008 07:33 (fifteen years ago) link
someone else needs to pick up that meme, to take a load off your back, if nothing else
― The Reverend, Thursday, 21 August 2008 07:42 (fifteen years ago) link
How about Ooberman's "Shorley Wall", particularly the end poem?
― Mark G, Thursday, 21 August 2008 08:11 (fifteen years ago) link
First thing that comes to mind is Billy Bragg's "St. Swithin's Day"
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Thursday, 21 August 2008 08:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Doin' it alone lookin' boy
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 21 August 2008 08:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
― Discordian, Thursday, 21 August 2008 11:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Great topic. I'm sure I am only echoing a lot of these choices, but:
The Beach Boys -- God Only Knows Iron & Wine -- Bird Stealing Bread The Clientele -- Losing Haringey The Clientele -- Dreams Of Leaving Chris Bell -- You And Your Sister Dennis Wilson -- Carry Me Home Dennis Wilson -- It's Not Too Late Jimmy Cliff -- Many Rivers To Cross Grant Hart -- You Don't Have To Tell Me Now Bruce Springsteen -- One Step Up Low -- Silver Rider Miles Davis -- In A Silent Way Neil Young -- See The Sky About To Rain Wilco -- Jesus, etc. William Basinski -- The Disintegration Loop 1.1
. . . among others.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 21 August 2008 13:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Off the top of my head: Zombies - Leave Me Be Badfinger - Baby Blue Lefty Frizzell - Mom and Dad's Waltz George Jones - Color of the Blues Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand the Rain (pretty much the entire album) Gram Parsons - Streets of Baltimore Joe Tex - Skip a Rope
― asthmatic american, Thursday, 21 August 2008 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link
It's always higher frequency sounds that do this to me, so it's usually guitar solos or backing strings. Typically a chord change involved too. And the effect is incredible if I haven't heard the track for a good while. I'd love to know the neuroscience behind it! If somebody could map the parts of my brain that are affected mid-shiver and then artificially/electronically recreate the stimulation, I'd probably collapse, comatose with pleasure.
Isaac Hayes - Walk on By Think it's the first string swell with chord change.
Pearls Before Swine - Ballad to an Amber Lady
Budgie - Hot as a Docker's Arm Pit (No shit!!) The long run of notes toward the end of the main solo.
Blue Oyster Cult - Harvester of Eyes Again, the guitar solo
― gnarly sceptre, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
"An Ending (Ascent)" by Brian Eno. Every. Fucking. Time. I am reduced to an amoeba-like pile of amorphous goo.
― Poliopolice, Friday, 27 April 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
anything by O.A.R., bro
― caulk the wagon and float it, Friday, 27 April 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
the Eno one that does it for me is "Everything Merges with the Night", I feel funny just thinking about it
― you can expect punches, kicks and even worse (frogbs), Friday, 27 April 2012 18:25 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link