"come back home!"

for me:

stooges... "and now i'm ready to take your hand/and lose my heart on the burning sand" (from 'i wanna be your dog', mainly the 'burning sand' bit - it's like a nerve image)

marvin gaye..."please" (from the live version of 'distant lover' that turns up on best of cds. so ragged and desperate, connects straight to yr gut.)

"a song is a beautiful lie" in Idlewild's "self-healer" always gives me a visceral thrill. that's a great song to yell along to.

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Bauhaus, live version of "Hair of the Dog," after the first chorus -- quick moment of silence then Peter Murphy just plain exorcising centuries' worth of demons as the band kicks in again.

And I need you more than want you/And I want you for all time. Wicheta Lineman, Glen campbell.

"Is he running low on affection
and beer and dope
and an ironing board
and an unpaid analyst who shags?"

The Bevis Frond, "He'd Be A Diamond"

"even though you're only three" Brotherhood of Man. PERV THRILLS!

"It was us baby way before them, and we're still together. and i meant every word I said...when i said that i love you, I meant that i love you forever..."

"I WANT TO FUCK YOU LIKE AN ANIMAL". Explains itself really.

"ROCK OF GIBRALTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA'"-Everlasting Life by Jon Carter.

I could go on all day giving dance examples but non dance examples must be given too......

"CALLING FROM THE FUN HOUSE......WITH MY SOOOOOONG, WE'VE BEEN SEPARATED BABY........FAR TOO LONG" Iggy Pop.

"IT TOOK EIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN AND FOUR WOMEN" James Brown.

I'll think of more yet.

"Get away from me/Get your fingers out of my face!": The Cure - "Give Me It"

"but the longer I remember...your the hardest to forget...did you ever look so nice...and if we make it through these changes to find that nothing was in stone...but the plans of our exchanges...did they ever look so nice..." - The Samples. This was playing in the background the night in college where the "love of my life" broke my heart.

I think there are varying concepts of the "visceral thrill" at work here.

I think there are varying concepts of the "visceral thrill" at work here

hmm... the ways the thrill is obtained are very different from eachother, yes. but the actual physical thrill is the same, i'd say. pow! uncontrollable shakey/fuzzy sensation in gut/chest region. and i get it in my hands too.

i was thinking of "Dread the passage to Jesus, for he will not return" from that Nick Cave & Dirty Three song but that probably wouldn't come under an adequate definition of 'visceral'...

but just plain ANYTHING by The Birthday Party.

I'm going to come across as a really sad loser for this one, but there's a live version of "Cloud babies" by Blueboy that was on a Sarah flexidisc where Keith the singer whispers "I've seen" just as the music dies away before the second chorus and it's utterly heartstopping, a hairs on the back of the neck moment, a true visceral thrill for me.

I also love the bit in "Vapour trail" by Ride after all the singing's done, there's just the one guitar part playing and then these big drums come crashing in about ten seconds before the bass and I feel compelled to push the volume levels up loads... a great moment.

"fast food so dangerous that I'm cracking my rim / like "why Taco Bell drive-thru so damn slim?"" Tim and Magoo, "Rollout"

That's what you call verisimilitude right there.......first time I heard that song it hit home so acutely that my neck hairs stood up and I started sweating bullets.....real bullets, ones I caught when I used to work the ill-fated Hammacher Schlemmer boutique on Crenshaw.......shit kid, I got bullets in me so old that underground forensic ballistics heads walk up to me and say, "Rammy Rams, I been digging crates since all day trying to find that shit........look, I got these burgers man.....they double cheese????"

Willie Nelson's I Never Cared For You starts with a very long, slow, desolate guitar intro, so long and miserably lovely that you think you're listening to an instrumental. Then that heartbroken, clear, high Texas voice comes in with "And the sun is filled with ice and gives no warmth at all...". It's an astonishingly potent, almost terrifying moment.

The exchange at the end of the Shangri-Las' Give Him A Great Big Kiss: girls: "Is he a good dancer?" Mary Ann Ganser, indignant: "Waddaya mean, is he a good dancer?" Girls: "Well how does he dance?" Mary Ann, breathily, in the sexiest moment in pop: "Close. Very, very close."

In the Buzzcocks' Boredom: "Badum badum."

In Tammy Wynette's 'I Don't Want To Play House'. It's the bit where she opens her throat on the awful line "And then the teardrops made my eyes grow dim." Horrible, but the hairs always stand up.

It's all in the delivery. The bit where the song stops and Levi Stubbs cries "Bernadette!". The breath Micky Dolenz exhales after the second (?) chorus of I'm A Believer - singing can't be reduced any more than that. No lyric, barely a transcribable sound, but it moves me every time, without fail.

Rob M you are so not a sad loser, you are in fact OTM and I agree with both your choices. There is more than one Blueboy song that has that effect on me.

That's what she says, she says "it's great gettin' high"/I want everyone but me & my girl to close their eyes and now/think about what you got/compare it to what I got and ask yourself/ whaddaya think my girl wants?

from Lifter Puller; also, from the same source, the line "Woke up in the grass with the assless chaps.

Also the words "miles away" in Suede's "Modern Boys"

*dodges flying vegetables*

That's what she says, she says "it's great gettin' high"/I want everyone but me & my girl to close their eyes and now/think about what you got/compare it to what I got and ask yourself/ whaddaya think my girl wants?

from Lifter Puller; also, from the same source, the line "Woke up in the grass with the assless chaps"

Also the words "miles away" in Suede's "Modern Boys"

*dodges flying vegetables*