Gives ya the chills

Also, I'm not a big fan of Gene, but the lines "I was having the time of my life/So why did you have to die?/I'm lost/again" from "London, Can You Wait" really hit home in an unnerving way.

Ahhh...so - you haven't got their original version of Ladies And Gentlemen Wet al? They sing Elvis Presley songs and feature a big choir finale. It sounds awesome and I have included it on practically every compilation tape I have made.

The coda to "Awaken" after that huge, overblown climax. Gets me every time.

The moment towards the end of "Get It On", where most of the instruments drop out and you're just left with the guitar riff we heard at the start, and then Marc(?) makes that cluck sound...

Shostakovich's 11th, second movement - same sort of idea as with Yes above: super-loud climax followed by pianissimo strings/celeste, playing the theme of the first movement. Also, the very end of the symphony: when the music just cuts off suddenly.

The entry of the guitar in MBV's "Soon". Especially in the context of "Loveless", where it comes as a breath of air.

I do, however, have a soft spot in my heart for the ending of Ride's "Vapour Trail" when all the strings kick in. "Cool Water" by Spiritualized is similar, but it doesn't give me the chills so much as the Ride tune.

I also find mu-ziq's "The Fear" gives me shivers up and down my spine and makes me want to turn up the volume and lie down in front of my speakers.

"Heaven,Youth, Hell" by Tricky. Towards the end of the song he starts chanting "You thnk you're in Heaven, but you're really in Hell...", add that to one of the most menacing bass lines put to tape and you've really got something. He don't make 'em like that no more!

"...I PUT MY TRUST IN YOU" - eerie.

The "Sha la la" section of Pavement's Trigger Cut
The "He only wanted more time" section of The Clash's The Card Cheat
The "Blow away" section of Springsteen's The Promised Land
and quite possibly the winner...

the "See your face dancing in the flames" section of The Rolling Stones' Loving Cup

the whole song actually
gives me the chills

also when tim buckley yells "I did all my best to smile" near the start of "song to the siren"

"Are We Here" by Orbital - the big big breakdown when Alison's vocals really soar and the synth line is to die for.

"Pink Orange Red" by Cocteau Twins - pretty much the whole song.

"Lazy Calm" by Cocteau Twins - when the bass and vocals kick in after that long silky intro.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/pghrt4

Stravinsky--"Firebird Suite"

Hendrix--"House Burning Down"

Jay-Z f/Biggie--"Brooklyn's Finest"

Blind Willie McTell--"Cooling Board Blues"

Also the entirety of Unison. Seeing her on that tour felt very much like diving into a vat of static charged balloons.

Most anything by Patsy Cline. I want to find the grandson of the guy who broke Patsy's heart and kick his ass..or express my disappointment in his progenitors

Talk Talk "New Grass"...near the end...high chimey guitar line. The whole song actually...

most recently it has been Antony and the Johnson's "Hope There's Someone"

too many of these to write.

otm. Also "Ascension Day," when the guitar solo cuts off abruptly and gives way to two seconds of silence, followed by the spare, echoey piano notes that begin "After the Flood."

So does the part of "Say Yes" when Elliott sings, "See how it is? They want you or they don't" and the guitar hits that little chord and then he says "say yes."

In Oh Comely by NMH:
I know that they buried her body with others
Her sister and mother and 500 families
And will she remember me 50 years later?
I wished I could save her in some sort of time machine -

Know all your enemies.
We know who our enemies are...

and then the horns come in. That gives me the chills, along with various other moments of that album.

There are probably several other songs I'm forgetting.

i agree...they almost sound like strings until they break from that original sustained note...otm

This thread needs some more stalkerish Jeff Mangum hero worship.

Cause duh.

I have to add the opening of "stellar regions" (the song, not the album) by coltrane

the second guitar solo in "powderfinger" off live rust

the bass notes at the start of "lonely woman"

"on the floating shipless oceans... I DID ALL MY BEST TO SMILE" off the original "song to the siren"

when the tremolo picking starts in "schizophrenia" by sonic youth

the guitar solo at the start of "gimme shelter"

when the synth chords come back in after the big buildup in "born slippy NUXX"

(a) Low -- Silver Rider: Just as the wordless chorus kicks in;
(b) The New Pornographers -- Sing Me Spanish Techno: Again, when the infectious chorus kicks in;
(c) Sufjan Stevens -- Casmir Pulaski Day: When Stevens' verse about his teenage romance with his woman gives way to the verse when he acknowledges her death;
(d) Sufjan Stevens -- Romulus: All of it;
(e) Iron & Wine -- Bird Stealing Bread: When Sam Beam sings softly about either a new man holding Beam's fictional ex-love or God holding Beam's fictional dead child (I can never tell which Beam means);
(f) TV On The Radio -- Wolf Like Me: When the singer moans ''My heart's aflame'';
(g) Iron & Wine -- The Trapeze Swinger: When Beam recites the graffiti scrawled on The Pearly Gates (''Tell my mother not to worry'');
(h) The New Pornograhers -- The Bleeding Heart Show: When the drum rolls into the ''ohhs'' and ''ahhs'' harmonies at the end of the song;
(i) Neil Young -- America The Beautiful: Rousing and chilling (especially because of its placement at the end of Young's antiwar album);
(j) Beck -- ''Strange Apparition'': When the piano riff comes in at the beginning of the song;
(j) Morrissey -- The Youngest Was The Most Loved : When the children's choir sings ''There is no such thing as normal.''

I'm forgetting a lot, but I've already gone on too long.

The beginning of Bryan Ferry's "Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" when the strings come sawing in so ungainly.

Geesh, John Wiese totally seconded. It just unhinges me.

Mott the Hoople's "Saturday Gigs", I don't know why but the hairs on my arms won't stay down.

The strings on "Dirt" by Phish, the entirely of the song "Too Much Sleep" by Bongwater. "Dime Operation", "Danny Says", when the whole band/backing vocals come BACK in on the Raspberries "Overnight Sensation", the weird little guitar noises and coda on Jefferson Airplane's "My Best Friend", The part where just the organ and vocals are on Atomic Rooster's "Nobody Else", "Hello Earth, Hello Earth", the end of the Thorns album, "Golden Boys" by Twisted Roots, "Are You Crazy, Wendell?", Diamanda Galas roaring and hissing "Unclean, unclean, unclean", the bass at the beginning of "How Do You Think It Feels", "Reuters" by Wire, the guitar solo on "Reflections of my Life", the rainy/weird feeling when "Slit My Wrists" by Loud Family starts, that last acapella song from XO...

Honestly, like xave said: too many to list, THIS IS WHY I LISTEN TO MUSIC. Without these moments it would all be empty and dead to me.

total omg awe.

The one that popped into my head is at the end of the Standing in the Shadows of Motown film, during "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" when Chaka Khan and Montell Jordan drop out, the band builds to a key change, and then the choir comes in. It never fails to bring tears to my eyes. Such unabashed joy.

couldn't have been more OTM, unless you mention an orchestra doing rodrigo, when the clarinet comes in over the guitar...

it melts you. good call.

the cure - siamese twins

"i don't need you anymore
you're nothing"

the live version of day of the lords on 'les bains douches', particularly when the song climaxes in the final verse

bob dylan's 'sara' if i'm in a particular frame of mind

pink floyd - another brick in the wall part I
"dad, what'd'ya leave behind for me?"

elliott smith - 2:45 am

"you're gonna say shit
now you say it out loud"

both song and band are quite far removed from the kind of thing that would normally appeal to me, and yet when amanda plamer's voice cracks during the line 'won't you hold me?'...

...it makes my flesh shudder with...something. not sure what. sadness? lust? sympathy? joy?

other honourable mentions:

- the vocal choir/call to prayer section of mr bungle's 'goodbye sober day'
- the polyrhythmic sections in several ruins tunes on tzomborgha
- the intro to 'the bit' by the melvins
- the opening flurry of 'a love supreme'
- bjork's high note in 'bachelorette'
- the transition from sun choir-to-MASSIVE two-note sliding riff-to eYe yell-to ramshackle krauty chaos in boredoms' 'super are'
- the initial guitar twang of scott walker's cossacks 'are'
- the explosive led-zeppelin-gone-wrong riff in oxbow's '...and the stick'
- jennifer charles

One of my top 5 moments of any music, ever.

There are at least 15 of these moments, I'm just gonna say the first time he hits the high note in "In A Silent Way".

every Mark Hollis' guitar solo on the last two Talk Talk records.

the stuttering voice cut-ups on David Sylvian's "The Only Daughter".

the chord changes on The Blue Nile's "Happiness".

all of Chic's "Good Times".

the long, rhapsodic instrumental passages in Julian Cope's "Feels Like A Crying Shame".

the arrangement of Penguin Cafe Orchestra's "Cage Dead".

choirs: the Efé Pygmies on ellipsis arts' 'Harvest Song' compilation, the male choir on Kate Bush's "Hello Earth", the male choir on Hector Zazou's 'Lights in the Dark' album.

all of Stereolab's "Infinity Girl" and "Brakhage".

and then, usually the changes (chordal or otherwise) that come up in a song unannounced (e.g. with no crash cymbal), bordering on small epiphanies. some examples:
- lots of David Sylvian songs in the '80s (especially on 'Gone To Earth')
- the entrance of the strings + chord change in The High Llamas' "The Sun Beats Down"
- The High Llamas again: the sudden chorus in "Bach Ze".

Evergreens I've been reminded of over the past 24 hours:

The second iteration of the chorus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8LMeOZg5cM

When the horns kick in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZCMD-H2ubI

I think I must have literally hundreds of these moments stockpiled in my brane.

revive

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0007487

i'd poll these but there's like 200, inspired to link it because i actually like that dissociatives album, doesn't give me chills though

i can't remember all the songs that have given me that reaction. probably pink floyd's "echoes" has at some point. right now the ones that come to mind are horowitz doing chopin's op. 52 no. 4 and richter doing ravel's "miroirs" live