Last song that gave you a shiver down your spine?

nobodythere

What's the last song that sent a shiver down your spine? For me it was Jeff Buckley doing a live video of Mojo pin.

I believe that the purpose of music is unclear to a lot of people because it doesn't speak english -- it's hidden in every note of every song that has ever sent that shiver down your spine.

Someone put that in a book of quotes.

Eoin Madsen

You better fix this typo first...

grasshopa wrote:

because they it doesn't speak english

Last song that gave me a shiver was a new song by the Frames that they played live last year but decided not to put on their (rather disappointing) new album.

"Take this sinking boat and point it home, you've still got time..."

ferdi

i got a shiver down my spine just there while listening to Now Its's On by Grandaddy, i think it might just be this flu i have tho...

I am MAN

The really high part at the end of Where did you sleep last night covered by Nirvana on live in new york always makes the hairs on my neck stand up.

Silent Grape

pj harvey, 'is this desire' actually any of pj's music apart from the 'stories' album...

portishead 'only you'

Waltons

Radiohead - You and Whose Army? The bit near the end from where it goes
"You forget so easy"

And both the original NIN Hurt and the Cash cover

445279.ie

Cannonball by Damien Rice

nobodythere

Make that rabbit in your headlights by Radiohead and DJ shadow. The climatic "awwwaaaay" bit... wonderful.

oneofakind32

Red Hot Chili Peppers- Venice Queen. A six minute masterpiece in every sence of the word. It was writen as a tribute to a drugs councellor who was a friend of the band. She died of cancer. The song is very fitting tribute

Baggio

Well..no surprise here...:)
...has to be Rush and their last studio album Vapour Trails, the first song "One Little Victory"..the way it kicks off with the mighty Neil Peart doing a double bass slam under some flashy snare to remote hi hats , and the sheer power of the man thundering away,,,it simply states.."he's backKK!!!".... shiver down the spine??>.how about an earth quake down the spine!!?............great stuff...
ciao' amigos,,,Baggio.........

John

Right now I'm listening to a live version of Persuasion by Throbbing Gristle. The shiver is one from feeling unnerved. Such a creepy creepy song by a truly unsettling band.

ubu

dance with the devil - Immortal Technique
when he finds out its his mother - scary

Penfolds

I'd have to say Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt".

radiospan

Nine Inch Nails, the broken down version of "Something I Can Never Have" on the Still EP. Especially when he almost starts to shout at the end, and you can "hear the room". That gets kinda intense I think.

And Sigur Rós - Untitled #3 when the piano gets louder at around 4:45.

ShriekingSheet

The Killers - All these things that I've done

- the bit at the start on the album version where it goes from slow to up beat with the little guitar riff

Also obviously the the outro - 'i've got soul but i'm not a soldier'

yeah

Mr. CooL ICE

The middle of the solo of The Immortal by Arch Enemy, or even the intro of Enemy Within. War Ensemble or Raining Blood (intro) by Slayer, and maybe Hallowed Be Thy Name by Iron Maiden

NotMe

Meat Means Murder by Conflict. Makes you think...

Pet

It's gotta be the live version of "Pu****" by Tool...tis deadly.

Doper Than U

I Can Be by Aaliyah, and a cover of We're only making plans for Nigel, by some guy called Marc Collin on his album Nouvelle Vague.. I always thought that song was kinda sad..

Only Human

Michael Jackson - Will you be there

tj-music.com

Never had a real good shiver down my spine since the "Highlander" Hymn: Who wants to live forever (Queen).

Perhaps "The things we handed down" from Art Garfunkel but that´s about it.

Chardee MacDennis

i would have to say "I Hung My Head" on American IV by Johnny Cash

mwoah

'satisfied mind' by jeff buckley, considering...

also: 'i will' by radiohead - what a song

deirdre dearg

i'd say, '2+2=5" by radiohead. gave me shivers this afternoon

Beerbreath

Prefab Sprout....'Desire As' from the wonderful and rather beautiful 'Steve McQueen' album...............................

lampsie

Halcyon Days - Orbital

(was used for the intro tune to the movie "Hackers")

flyinfishmonkey

HYSTERIA by Muse. Had heard nothing off theirs before but when I heard that I went out and bought all four albums... CLASS!!!

abaddon1666

lampsie wrote:

Halcyon Days - Orbital

(was used for the intro tune to the movie "Hackers")

...and it was used as the music towards the end of mortal kombat.
(and as the theme tune of me partyin last weekend. Gr8 song!)

abaddon1666

flyinfishmonkey wrote:

HYSTERIA by Muse. Had heard nothing off theirs before but when I heard that I went out and bought all four albums... CLASS!!!

Muse played Wittness (soz Oxegen, gotta stay pc) this year. they were incredible!

Scuba_Scoper

u2 - Where The Streets Have No Name.

Must be LIVE, when the opening bars are played on synthesiser, and the
crowd recognises the song.

</shivers just thinking about it>

HashSlinging

atlantis by LTJ Bukem

roundcrisis

just now, caribou by the pixies and Son of a Preacher Man by Aetha Franklin

irlirishkev

"River" By Joni Mitchell.

I just got a shiver down my spine just thinking of the line 'I wish I had a river, I would skate away'...

Check it out.

Kevin.

rubberduckey

Beerbreath wrote:

Prefab Sprout....'Desire As' from the wonderful and rather beautiful 'Steve McQueen' album...............................

Excellent choice beer breath. Speaking of Prefab Sprout songs, "Johnny Johnny" and "Bonny" have the effect on me.

Beerbreath

well...most of that album really gets me...but 'desire as' just has that little extra 'something'. but then, paddy mcaloon could probably gargle the alphabet and i'd still think it sounded great.........

princess penny

jeff buckley- your flesh is so nice
mad season- river of deceit

Shewhomustbe...

Josh Groban - To where you are http://www.joshgroban.com/main_photos_frame.html

Pearl Jam - Black (pretty much all the versions I've ever heard but most recently the one from Live at Benaroyal Hall, esp. the bit where Eddie gets the audience to sing, wow)

Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin (some may consider it crap foreplay music but I love it!)

A Perfect Circle - Imagine (from their new Emotive album)

ishnid

Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother
Rory Gallagher - Walk on Hot Coals (esp the intro)

Recently:
Snow Patrol - Somewhere a clock is ticking
The Frames - Keepsake (esp instrumental at the end)

Jungle Boogie

lampsie wrote:

Halcyon Days - Orbital

(was used for the intro tune to the movie "Hackers")

Its called halycon+on+on ya big tit, I have to say remind by orbital, shivers from head to toe

gary the great

hang on to your iq, (the slow version) by Placebo

tendofan

'You made me forget my dreams' by Belle & Sebastian and 'Child is Father of the Man' on Brian Wilson's Smile.

Tendofan.

Tzetze

Just reading this thread has made the hairs stand up on my neck, back and arms when recognising lines from many great songs... especially the "awaaaaay" bit from "rabbit in your headlights". There goes another shiver just thinking about it again.

It's a very interesting phenomenon, the hairs standing on end to music. Think of a cat, and how it reacts to something it deems to be overpowering... all the hairs on its back stand on end to make itself appear bigger than it is. Apparently that's exactly what's happening to us when listening to music. Those parts that make our hairs stand on end, are overwhelming and this is our inate reaction to it - even though we know for a fact that no harm is going to come to us whatever. Interesting, huh?

But anyway, last piece of music that did this to me was listening to John Coltrane's - My favorite things, this morning.

legofsalmon

Blur - Tender

They did it a good while ago live with a load of these brilliant backing singers on jools holland it was I think. Many many moons ago. It was just brilliant.

Otherwise anyone who has seen "U2 Rattle and Hum" the version of " I still havn't found what i'm looking for" with the harlem gospel choir is absolutely amazing. It really is ......just.... amazing. I'm getting goosebumps just thinking of it.

Otherwise "Mojo Pin" "Grace" "Lover you should haev come over" "Satisfied Mind" and most others by Jeff Buckley

"Just" by Radiohead, most brilliant intro to a song of the 90s. And then most of "Kid A" "Amnesiac" and "Hail to the Thief" great haunting albums.

"Le femme d'argent" by Air, it is just sooo smooth it does something to you.

"Masquerade" by the Frames, strange one, but I remember seeing the video of it, and it was down the country so was all still, and just caught me, that violin bit keeps ripping through me. Also "in this boat together", "Red Chord", "Monument" ( the live version glen did in NY 99 was the best by far ), "What happens when the heart just stops", "Headlong" ( single version ), "Friends and Foe", "Mighty Sword" "Santa Maria" "Star Star" "Fitzcarraldo".... yeah most of fitzcarraldo and free the birds.

I havn't read the thread yet, so these are probably mentioned.

Raam

Badly Drawn Boy - Silent Sigh

Tellox

Muse - House of the rising sun