Author Topic: Songs that give you chills  (Read 17967 times)

IanDG

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Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #50 on: 14 February, 2009, 11:15:42 pm »
Rev Hammer - Drunkards Waltz
Oyster Band - Coal not Dole
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Nirvana - Where did you sleep last night

Torslanda

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Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #51 on: 15 February, 2009, 07:56:39 am »
Two songs from 'Cars'

'Find Yourself' from the closing titles and James Taylor singing 'Our Town'

 :'(

J
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Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #52 on: 15 February, 2009, 12:01:14 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/euuCiSY0qYs&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/euuCiSY0qYs&rel=1</a>

Damon.

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Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #53 on: 15 February, 2009, 05:36:22 pm »
Don't laugh.

Black - Sweetest Smile
George Michael - A Different Corner
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #54 on: 15 February, 2009, 05:42:57 pm »
I won't if you won't:

Macarena - Los del Rio
Haggerty F, Haggerty R, Tomkins, Noble, Carrick, Robson, Crapper, Dewhurst, Macintyre, Treadmore, Davitt.

rogerzilla

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Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #55 on: 15 February, 2009, 05:45:14 pm »
Care to explain that one?
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #56 on: 15 February, 2009, 05:48:24 pm »
Care to explain that one?

I was in Seville with a gorgeous Spanish ex, Ana, and it was sort of anthemic during our all too brief fling. We passed through Dos Hermanas in Andalucia where the two guys are from and it just stuck...

Your turn  :)
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Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #57 on: 15 February, 2009, 06:47:09 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/p0mtEuHbkpc&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/p0mtEuHbkpc&rel=1</a>

The lyrics say one thing, the guitar solo says another.

Damon.

rogerzilla

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Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #58 on: 15 February, 2009, 07:07:39 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/p0mtEuHbkpc&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/p0mtEuHbkpc&rel=1</a>

The lyrics say one thing, the guitar solo says another.

Damon.

Serendipitously, I was about to start a Carpenters thread.
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

amg

Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #59 on: 16 February, 2009, 11:09:29 pm »

Elvis Costello - Good year for the roses
Jim Steinman - Left in the dark
Abba - The winner takes it all
Elgar's Nimrod

and a couple that prompt a reaction by association from their use in TV
The Cars - Drive
Jim Croce - Time in a bottle

Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #60 on: 17 February, 2009, 05:52:00 pm »
Seasons in the Sun
Nuns, no sense of humour

Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #61 on: 19 February, 2009, 04:14:02 pm »
Hurt- Johny Cash (again)
Better Things- Massive Attack
River- Natalie Merchant
To Miss Someone- Maria McKee
The untitled song on the end of Green- REM
Electrolite- REM
Ivo- Cocteau Twins
Ohio- Crosby, Stills, Hash and Young
Running Up That Hill-Kate Bush
Army Dreamers-Kate Bush
This House is on Fire- Natalie Merchant
House of Cards- Radiohead

Plus lots more.......




m100

Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #62 on: 20 February, 2009, 02:04:16 am »
Atmosphere - Joy Division
Drive - The Cars
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
Pandora's Box - OMD
These Are The Days of Our Lives - Queen
No Regrets - Midge Ure
Vienna - Ultravox


Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #63 on: 20 February, 2009, 03:22:09 am »
Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (from Unplugged In New York) YouTube - Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Live - Unplugged

Good call...

Aimee Mann - 4th Of July.

...and that one.




Can I add the Lemonheads Ride with Me
Noir Désir Des Armes (not that I have a clue what's being said as I don't speak French, but the vocal structure and passion in which their stuff is performed makes these guys one of my favourite bands. I really should learn a bit of French).
Air Traffic Empty Space (not a particularly great band, but I've got a soft spot for this song).

Martin

Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #64 on: 19 May, 2009, 09:51:28 pm »
The music in Excalibur, especially Oh Fortuna and Death of Siegfried    <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/v_Eya3_IqOQ&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/v_Eya3_IqOQ&rel=1</a>

anybody who thinks Carmina Burana is just the "Old Spice/ Omen / X Factor" chorus with an load of Gregorian chants should get hold of the cd and play it a few times preferably whilst painting and decorating; it is a masterpiece

Just got tickets to see it live again  :) (having won a pair for the Albert Hall a couple of years ago)

this is one of the better solos;

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/sIE07hvajwY&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/sIE07hvajwY&rel=1</a>

Flying_Monkey

Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #65 on: 20 May, 2009, 08:03:40 am »
This thread reminds me once again, just how personal these things are - some do the same for, but some of the songs here give me hives or the heebyjeeebies...

There are a few 'pop' songs that do it for me:

Nina Simone singing Strange Fruit;
Glenn Campbell's Wichita Lineman;
anything by Billie Holiday when she was coming to the end of her life when her cracked voice is just so full of sadness;
Peter Gabriel's Mercy Street;
Curtis Mayfield, Move On Up - the most joyful thing ever committed to vinyl?
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Carry On;
and more recently Fleet Foxes' White Winter Hymnal.

But mostly it is really choral work (NOT opera!) that does it (there is something always effective about human voices together, which is probably why I like the Fleet Foxes track above and CSN etc.):
Mozart's Requiem (in fact most requiems do it for me);
Bach, St Matthew Passion;
Allegri's Misere;
and almost everything that Thomas Tallis every composed, but particularly the pinnacle of choral work (IMHO), Spem in Alium.

Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #66 on: 20 May, 2009, 10:18:52 am »
Khachaturian's Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia.
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Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #67 on: 20 May, 2009, 10:59:57 am »

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Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #68 on: 20 May, 2009, 01:31:35 pm »
Nina Simone - Don't smoke in bed
Verdi's Requiem (although am with Flying Monkey, St Matthews Passion also thrilling)
There are a couple of tracks on the Battlestar Gallactica soundtrack that send shivers down my spine, because they are so spectacularly beautiful.
Soundtrack from Aliens is fabulous, was great to hear it on Bill Baileys Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra.

fuzzy

Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #69 on: 20 May, 2009, 01:46:15 pm »
I don't know what it is called or who composed it but, the music from the scene in Hannibal where Lector, Inspector and Mrs Pazzi are at the opera is particularly haunting.

Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #70 on: 20 May, 2009, 02:17:59 pm »
I don't know what it is called or who composed it but, the music from the scene in Hannibal where Lector, Inspector and Mrs Pazzi are at the opera is particularly haunting.

That's composed by Patrick Cassidy: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/KN5AG14x8mQ&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/KN5AG14x8mQ&rel=1</a>

I've got that in my collection, sung by Sarah Brightman.
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Really Ancien

Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #71 on: 21 May, 2009, 11:41:06 am »
Difficult to choose between these two songs.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/2Wpof8s5ZTg&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/2Wpof8s5ZTg&rel=1</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/tIdIqbv7SPo&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/tIdIqbv7SPo&rel=1</a>

Damon.

Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #72 on: 22 May, 2009, 03:30:58 pm »
Wilco: I hate it here

https://youtu.be/D1XXv4lsZsw

I try to stay busy
I do the dishes, I mow the lawn
I try to keep myself occupied
Even though I know you're not coming home

I try to keep the house nice and neat
I make my bed I change the sheets
I even learned how to use the washing machine
But keeping things clean doesn't change anything

What am I gonna do when I run out of shirts to fold?
What am I gonna do when I run out of lawn to mow?
What am I gonna do if you never come home?
Tell me, what am I gonna do?

I hate it
I hate it here
When you're gone

I caught myself thinking
I caught myself thinking once again
Have to try to keep my mind out of this
Try not to pretend

I'll check the phone
I'll check the mail
I'll check the phone again and I call your mom
She says you're not there and I should take care

I hate it here
When you're gone
I hate it
I hate it here
When you're gone

I try to stay busy
I take out the trash, I sweep the floor
Try to keep myself occupied
Cause I know you don't live here anymore
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Legs

Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #73 on: 01 June, 2009, 02:22:37 pm »
If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot or Johnny Cash
Operator - Jim Croce

Re: Songs that give you chills
« Reply #74 on: 29 March, 2017, 01:14:27 am »
Thread resurrection time. (I stumbled on this while looking for something else.)

There's a song-writer who lives in Aus called Eric Bogle. He wrote this one years ago and it was played at my father's funeral. My dad spent ten years at sea with the Merchant Navy, sailed to the day he died, and was financially cleaned out by the criminal bastards at Lloyds in the latter years of his life, so these words have particular resonance. It does all sorts of odd things to me when I hear this.


Have you stood by the ocean on a diamond-hard morning
And felt the horizon stir deep in your soul?
Watched the wake of a steamer as it cut thru blue water
And been gripped by a fever you just can't control?
O to throw off the shackles and fly with the seagulls
To where green waves tumble before a driving sea wind
Or to lie on the decking on a warm summer evening
Watch the red sun fall burning beneath the earth's rim

Chorus:
But to every sailor comes time to drop anchor
Haul in the sails and make the lines fast
You deep water dreamer, your journey is over
You're safe in the harbor at last (2x)

Some men are sailors, but most are just dreamers
Held fast by the anchors they forge in their minds
Who in their hearts know they'll never sail over deep water
To search for a treasure they're afraid they won't find
So in sheltered harbours they cling to their anchors
Bank down their boilers & shut down their steam
And wait for the sailors to return with the bright treasures
That will fan the dull embers & fire up their dreams

Chorus

And some men are schemers who laugh at the dreamers
Take the gold from the sailors & turn it to dross
They're men in a prison, they're men without vision
Whose only horizon is profit and loss
So when storm clouds come sailing across your blue ocean
Hold fast to your dreaming for all that you're worth
For as long as there's dreamers, there will always be sailors
Bringing back their bright treasures from the corners of earth


Rust never sleeps