Okay, wiggum (I think)'s thread inspired me.
You know those songs where there's something much deeper than just the words, its just the way the whole song happens, where you're singing along and you realize your screaming, or its something quiet and dark and you heart just swallows itself.
Anyone of those, where it gives you fullbody (or just back, mine stay in my back) goosebumps when you listen to it and mean it. Just post it here.
I've got a few:
Dondante, right at yoooou had me wooooorrrrrieeeeeed. That always gets me.
Also, Steve Burns, the old Blues Clues guy (if you havent heard his album Songs for Dustmites, you should) has a song called "Stick Around". Right at 3:06 the cellos in it do some insane thing that just feels like my heart just bobbed. I can't explain it, but you really ought to hear it.
Also, Iron and Wine's "Each Coming Night" will give me a lump in the throat everynow and then. Not really a spine tingler, but still good stuff.
Post on!
Mmmmm hmmmmmmm. I love full out body buzz. Here are ones that I can remember:
Dondante for sure. Every single time I've heard it. I think I've mentioned that it makes me cry.
Alabama.
It Aint Easy. First time I heard that I was walking home from the record store and I'd just put it on. When that damn chorus crashed in, I got dizzy and I couldn't breathe.
The Wanderer - U2 with Johnny Cash. Totally fucked me up the first time I heard it.
Helicopter - M Ward. Most of his stuff gives me the shivers, actually.
Oh there're a lot more, but those are the ones I think of right now...
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you mean, like this?
Haha, Sufjan Steven's "Chicago" is doin it to me right now.
And yes, just like that John.
like the first time I heard "I will sing you songs" live. oh man.
First time I heard 'The Bear' live my spine was a-tingling through the last two minutes of the song. I was blown away!
Yeah, "The Bear" from the acoustic EP did that to me the other day. I fucking love that version of that song.
I'm not making a joke, you know me
I take everything so seriously
If we wait for the time till our souls get it right
Then at least I know there'll be no nuclear annihilation
In my lifetime I'm still not right
-Indigo Girls
Well, all those headlines, they just bore me now
I'm deep inside myself, but I'll get out somehow,
And I'll stand before you, and I'll bring a smile to your eyes.
Neil Young - Motion Pictures
This part always gets to me
Also Mellow My Mind
And all live versions of Wilco's Misunderstood
Oh yeah, the entire Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. I will never forget how I felt when I first put that record on.
QuoteOh yeah, the entire Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. I will never forget how I felt when I first put that record on.
Tall buildings shake
Voices escape singing sad sad songs
Tuned to chords strung down your cheeks
Bitter melodies turning your orbit around
Voices whine
Skyscrapers are scraping together
Your voice is smoking
Last cigarettes are all you can get
Turning your orbit around
I like that part.
QuoteI like that part.
Me, too. :)
when i first hear "into the mystic" by van morrison come on, i stop and listen. it grabs my attentions and gets me everytime.
my wife and I played "into the mystic" over the speakers as people were being seated at our wedding... well, it was one of the songs.
the decemberists "eli, the barrow boy" - it's the entire song, but especially when the chorus kicks in.
"Would I could afford to buy my love a fine robe
Made of gold and silk Arabian thread
She is dead and gone and lying in a pine grove
And I must push my barrow all the day
And I must push my barrow all the day"
its one of those moments, like a jim moment, where it may not look good on paper the emotion of the vocals whill shred you, and then it makes more sense.
good question...
And wilco does it for me, too: that part on "radio cure" when tweedy's voice cracks (oh, distance has no way of making love under-STAND-able!)
and this one's gonna get me labelled as a hippie, but, back in the day (1999?2000?) I was at a Ben Harper show in Cincy, and they start playing "manic depression" in their second encore. Well, jaded as I am, I scowled and thought - you don't fucking cover hendrix, dumbass.
But good god, it rocked. It seemed like everyone was totally into it, a very spiritual experience. THe solo was so freaking loud on that weissenborn, and I just yelled. Not sure why, but other people were doing it, too. People just yelling.
It was amazing.
and I know there are more, but those are the first 2 that stand out
Quotemy wife and I played "into the mystic" over the speakers as people were being seated at our wedding... well, it was one of the songs.
sweet!! good wedding choice, for sure.
van really does it for me.
Jeff Buckley's version of The Way Young Lover's Do does it for me too.
and some zep
"will the mighty arms fo Atlas
hold the heavens from the earth..."
Great subject. Love seeing what Still Moves y'all.
Yesterday on the drive home, I heard a cover of Street Fighting Man. I forgot whose version it was, but even though it wasn't as good as the Stones version, it still gave me shivers.
I like the Rollng Stones, but they'd be hard pressed to make my top 10 artists list. But, jeez, Street Fighting Man is absolutely inspirational and their pinnacle in my book. It also has the most perfect shout along lyric in Rock n Roll history:
"What can a poor boy do, 'cept to sing for a Rock n Roll band!"
QuoteGreat subject. Love seeing what Still Moves y'all.
Yesterday on the drive home, I heard a cover of Street Fighting Man. I forgot whose version it was, but even though it wasn't as good as the Stones version, it still gave me shivers.
I like the Rollng Stones, but they'd be hard pressed to make my top 10 artists list. But, jeez, Street Fighting Man is absolutely inspirational and their pinnacle in my book. It also has the most perfect shout along lyric in Rock n Roll history:
"What can a poor boy do, 'cept to sing for a Rock n Roll band!"
Cool! Check out Exile On Main Street if you haven't yet. It's the reason why they make my top 10 artists list.
I'm stealing what Jim said about M Ward from the article that bigbang posted, because it's highly topical:
Quote'Finally,' I thought, 'I'll give this a listen.' But right then we stopped at a rest area so I got out to get some chocolate and to take a pee. Afterwards I got back
in my little cozy bunk and pulled the blankets up around my neck and I put it on: M. Ward's The Transfiguration of Vincent. I was instantly transported to a beautiful swamp upon hearing the first seconds of 'Transfiguration No.1'. 'Jesus,' I thought. Then came 'Vincent O'Brien.' 'Holy Christ,' I thought. Then came 'Outta My Head'. 'Sweet Mary, mother of all things righteous,' I thought, and I kept feeling the chills all the way through 'Transfiguration No. 2'. Then I put it on again and M. sang me sweetly to sleep, right there in my cozy little bunk.
:)
Buckely's Lover, You should Have Come Over...did it to me for sure! I was doing some work and I heard "She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.." and I just stopped dead in my tracks, mouth open and chills goin'on!
Golden, I remember I was ironing (how domestic :)) and I heard the opening chords of Golden, then the voice, then the chills!! I saw them several months later and & well, you all know the rest, an addict is an understatement!!
Cursed Diamond by the Black Crowes....the line "So baby open me up wide now, so I can show this to you....I want to shine for you, I want sparkle too..."
I love this thread brought back some great moments! :D
i could have written that about transfiguration as well. except the pee part.
there are a lot of songs that give me petit mort in the heart.
here are a couple, off the top:
iron & wine
"but when that southern anthem rings
she will buckle to the sound
when that southern anthem sings
it will lay her burdens down"
m.ward
"I'm not your Chesnutt,
I'm not your Mould,
I'm not your DJ on late night radio,
I'll be the first one to ask where you were,
I'll be your bird.
Then when there's no one to care, I could protect like I've always been there,
I'll become your bear."
hope for a golden summer
"and it turns out, instead of blood
you got love songs travelin through your veins
and what i found was all the words you ever sang
trapped beneath the bones of your rib cage
and i wept when i heard deep inside your chest
beat not one but all the hearts of all the friends that you loved best
all the lovers and the fighters
underground or on this pyre
and we all looked to the blue
and stopped wondering where our hearts had disappeared to"
oh, and the memory of jb looking over at a sick mikey and the two of them smiling while singing
"pretty soon i met a friend who played guitar
sitting on the steps at school, we dreamed about being stars"
kay, i'm gonna go have a little cry in the bathroom now.
Quotei could have written that about transfiguration as well. except the pee part.
Me, too. Except I put it on right away. And within five seconds, I turned to my friend and said "holy shit".
The Beautiful Ones from the movie Purple Rain.
To scream with Prince towards the end of that song:
I want you...yes I do.....listen to me.
You may not know what I'm going through.
You may not know what I need.
But one thing, one thing's for certain babe,
I know what I want.
And if it please ya baby, please ya baby.
I'll beg you down on my knees, I want you.
That one does it to me.
Saw this thread a while back, just got the chills listening to "Caught by the River" by Doves for the 1st time.
What a fucking incredible song!!!
Every time it finishes I play it again. My whole body has goose-bumps!
Man oh Man I feel so alive right now!
& this is why we all love music SO much, right?
first time i heard neil's cortez the killer live i felt like i was transported to an alternate universe where everything tasted like chocolate and there were baskets of puppies everywhere.
also, neil and emmylou harris doing wrecking ball... tingles...
I get that feeling on just about every Mars Volta song, especially on "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt" during the last 45 seconds when Cedric starts singing "Who brought me here."
The last minute of Interpol's "Not Even Jail."
The part in "One In the Same" where Jim sings "it wasn't till I woke up... that I could hold down a joke or a job or a dream but then all three are one in the same."
the chorus in John Prine's "Spanish Pipedream."
The Who's "See Me Feel Me/Listening to You"
Quote
The part in "One In the Same" where Jim sings "it wasn't till I woke up... that I could hold down a joke or a job or a dream but then all three are one in the same."
jeez, just reading that line did it to me...
QuoteThe part in "One In the Same" where Jim sings "it wasn't till I woke up... that I could hold down a joke or a job or a dream but then all three are one in the same."
That part runs through my mind constantly. As soon as I figured out what he was saying (way back when), it just stuck in my head and never went away.
"the fact that my heart's beatin, is all the proof you neeeeeeeeeeeeed."
also, the ends of Wordless Chorus and Gideon are really getting to me these days. quickly becoming two of my favorites
Quotefirst time i heard neil's cortez the killer live i felt like i was transported to an alternate universe where everything tasted like chocolate and there were baskets of puppies everywhere.
also, neil and emmylou harris doing wrecking ball... tingles...
Emmy Lou singing Steve Earle's Goodbye does it for me. A beautiful song that has reduced me to tears on more than one occasion.
Fade Into You by Mazzy Star is another one. Hope Sandoval has the voice of an Angel!
QuoteFade Into You by Mazzy Star is another one. Hope Sandoval has the voice of an Angel!
An old boyfriend put that on a mixed tape years ago, and I just about lost it. That song definitely makes me shiver. :)
Just got that feeling ALL OVER listening to Where to Begin on the Elizabethen Town web-site - thanks Mr. Baxter!