tracks that GENUINELY send shivers down your spine without fail

Probably got the wrong end of the stick here, but... the slide into the guitar solo in Can You Dig It? by The Mock Turtles. Euphoric and a half... feels like one of those hermetically sealed moment, you forget that the band probably did nowt worthwhile after this, the singer was an ugly sod whose main claim to fame in later years would be being Steve Coogan's brother - British pop shrugging off the complex, forgetting the self-imposed restrictions and running off free to be as ace as it feels... pretentious, mebbe, but that bit, that second, is so outstanding...

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....

Oh, and the bit at the start of Nina Nastasia's 'I Go With Him', where the cellos (I think) just glide in, underneath the guitars... that's sublime, that.

Hello, I'm finally de-lurking too.

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....

Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsalm (when the final refrain hits, with that high-pithched mewling noise in the background) - Yes yes yes yes! but I've probably listened to it to much.

Also Pavement's 'Trigger Cut', especially early in the song between the words "and" and "lust" when the guitars suddenly switch from tense & rhythmic to sublimely chimey. The grain of distortion is just perfect but at the same time I seem to imagine a heavenly hidden cleaner guitar sound buried under it.

Today I was watching O Brother Where Art Thou and thoroughly enjoying it and started to feel tingly during a song with beautiful female vocal harmonies.

David R.: This Heat "Paper Hats" MY GOD that song is unbelievable!

The live bootleg from Toronto of Radiohead performing Lucky - that gets me every time.

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.

Raekwon: "Rainy Dayz"

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"

"Slush" by Bonzo Dog Band!

I should have thought of (For) Your Precious Love myself, as it's an all-time favourite of mine - I have the song by 14 different acts. My favourites would certainly be the versions by Geater Davis and especially Linda Jones, which would send shivers down anyone's spine.

"Stranger in Moscow", Michael Jackson. The beat-boxing at the start, then the intrumental intro.

Roberta Flack - "The first time ever I saw your face" for the bit when she sings "and the first time ever I lay with you" for being kind of icky and uncomfortable like she's being too personal now

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...

Ash - "Folk Song"
Interpol - "NYC"
Beck - "Guess I'm Doing Fine"
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail Of Dead - "Source Tags & Codes"
Wilco - "Poor Places"
Bjork - "All Is Full Of Love"
Dillinger Escape Plan f/ Mike Patton - "When Good Dogs Do Bad"
Radiohead - "Life In A Glasshouse"
DNTEL - "(This Is) The Dream Of Evan And Chan"

"You Can Live At Home" by Husker Du is the only one I can think of not already mentioned. Good call on "I Was Born On Christmas Day", Saint Etienne are the spine-shivering kings.

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...).

yes i wouldve mentioned 'la femme d'argent' in my original list but it doesnt make me shiver, tho i do find it quite a wondrous and moving piece of music all the same

Don't worry about your omission of Air (geddit?), blueski, your original list is a compilation of the gods.

the freakout in surfin bird especially the split second gasp between 'ah papapapapapapapapapa' and the first 'oo mow mow'; the way hank wms sings 'whipoorwill' in 'i'm so lonesome I could cry'; about minute six of 'i feel love' when the melody is just completely percolating in your bloodstream and you can't remember what life was like before you started listening to this song.

Piss Factory-Patti Smith (When she testifies "and I'm gonna get out of here, I'm gonna get on that train, I'm going to New York City, I'm gonna be a big star and I will never return! Watch me now!"--I'm fifteen again every time I hear it)

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")

Oh, that's "Beauty Queen" by Roxy Music. And it's "Weird on the Avenue" by the Frogs. And "Town Without Pity" by Gene Pitney, duh.

To this day, I'm still ...er.... "spine-tingled" by "Song to the Siren" by This Mortal Coil, "Bachelorette" by Bjork, "Lorelei" by the Cocteau Twins, "Manna Machine" by the Stranglers, "In the Evening" by Led Zeppelin, the opening strains of both "Kennedy" by the Wedding Present and "Eighties" by Killing Joke, Galaxie 500's haunting rendition of "Ceremony" and precisely 1:41 into "Transmission" by Joy Division, when Bernard's guitar wails like a weeping, undead killer whale.

"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.

Ooh! "Dazzle & Delight" by ex-Virgin Prune Gavin Friday (with instrumentalist Maurice "the Man" Seezer) off EACH MAN KILLS THE THING HE LOVES is pretty ace in the spine-tingle department too.

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.

I forgot Danny Williams' "Moon River" and "Where's The Playground, Suzie?" by Glen Campbell.

And "Ambition".

And "Come On Eileen". I wouldn't know where to stop with Dexys' so I'll stop there.

"Whole Again" Atomic Kitten. This is one of my reasons for liking them. Will it do?

No comment.

'frankie teardrop' by suicide. i think it might have something to do with the screaming.

given these:
>Broadcast 'Echo's Answer' (although i prefer 'booklovers')
>Seefeel 'Spangle'
>Cocteau Twins 'Cherry Coloured Funk (Seefeel mix)'

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

and the long version of ultra vivid scene's 'the mercy seat' where it starts being recognisable to everyone who's only previously heard the short version.

andy

*picnic at hanging rock*

now there's a film that GENUINELY sends shivers down your spine.

Surfer Girl - The Beach Boys - (last verse, when it goes up a step)
Coo Coo Bird - (It's off Harry Smith's Anthology, can't remember who did it) - (About 3/4 of the way in, when the banjo hypnotises you)
Heroes - David Bowie - (when he starts screaming)
Angel Interceptor - Ash - (the middle 8 - at all goes quiet and the tune starts!)
Jolene - The White Stripes - (2nd chorus, when the drums come in)
One More Cup Of Coffee - Bob Dylan - (EmmyLou Harris' harmonies do it every time)
Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones - (how do they do it?)
Baby I Love You - The Ramones (just the start, with the best strings part EVER)
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd - (the guitar solo is AMAZING!)
Baby Let Me Follow You Down - Bob Dylan (Live 1966) - (right at the start of the track where the solo harmonica is fighting with the audience)
The Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young - (On my CD, it seems to stutter near the end, as if the song's just too damn emotional for the recording equipment to manage)
Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knigh and the Pips - (I know, I know, but you sing along with the backing vocals, and if it doesn't get you, you've got a heart of stone!)

That'll do for now!

Got two more: "The Great Dominions" by the Teardrop Explodes and "Atmosphere" by Joy Division.

some that do it for me:

portishead- roads (live)
radiohead- fake plastic trees and true love waits
james- out to get you
mission of burma- thats when i reach for my revolver
prince- 7
john martyn- couldnt love you more
beck- halo of gold
wilco- via chicago
...and you will know us by the trail of dead- how near, how far
delta dart- still no sparks
flaming lips- feeling yourself disintegrate and waitin for a superman
grandaddy- dial a view/aim towards the sky
aimee mann- wise up
im sure that there are more.

ok more:

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"

quasi - 'the star you left behind' works for me too

Darklands - JAMC
Babies - Pulp
Chomp Samba - Amon Tobin
A Forest - The Cure
This Charming Man - The Smiths
God Only Knows - Beach Boys
Cowgirl - Underworld
Falling Down The Stairs - Even As We Speak
Monkey Gone To Heaven - Pixies
Thankyou For The Music - Cornelius
Animal Nitrate - Suede
True Faith - New Order
We Came Through - Scott Walker
The Gash - Flaming Lips
Temple Of Love - Sisters Of Mercy
The Universal - Blur
Inner City Life (Roni Size mix) - Goldie
Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Saint Etienne
Lazarus - Boo Radleys
Close To You - Carpenters
This Time Is Now - Moloko
Starfish And Coffee - Prince

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...

hehe . . .(reaches for Giant Steps)

generally sending a shiver up my spine is a prerequisite for records to make my (oft-updated)"top-ten-of-all-time"; so here's the current one:
1)"ain't nobody" rufus & chaka khan.
2)"whoblo" bola.
3)"obselon minos" global communication.
4)"your love" jamie principal.
5)"deep burnt" pepe bradock.
6)"alone" don carlos.
7)"if you go away" scott walker.
8)"wichita lineman" glenn campbell.
9)"slave to the rhythm (blooded)" grace jones.
10)"home entertainment" carl craig.

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