Songs that make you hairs stand on end...

Songs that make you hairs stand on end...

Author
Discussion

rupert the dog

Original Poster:

1,433 posts

225 months

Thursday 16th January 2014
quotequote all
Me? "Nothing Compares to You" by Sinead O'Connor, or "Heroes" (Live version on Reality Tour) by Bowie. Or "Jolene" by the White Stripes. Or....no that's enough for starters.

singlecoil

34,257 posts

254 months

Thursday 16th January 2014
quotequote all
Luka Bloom's version of U2's Bad


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjVpLI5c8_U


lazyitus

19,926 posts

274 months

Thursday 16th January 2014
quotequote all
rupert the dog said:
Me? "Nothing Compares to You" by Sinead O'Connor
Yes, for me too.

Also, Adele "Someone like you" does it too. And "Skyfall". IMMENSE songs.

kiteless

11,972 posts

212 months

Thursday 16th January 2014
quotequote all
Does it have to be a "song"?

'cause this is the first thing that sprung to mind : The Thomas Tallis Fantasia by Vaughan-Williams. Live in Gloucester cathedral.

Spine tingling.


GG89

3,596 posts

194 months

matlee

777 posts

159 months

Friday 17th January 2014
quotequote all
Without a shadow of a doubt for me it's Aaron Static's remix of Airwave. Absolutely beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAQgnce8BuY





matlee

777 posts

159 months

Friday 17th January 2014
quotequote all
...a very close 2nd is Scala and Kolacny Bros version of U2's With or Without You.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjec7WZ41s

suthol

2,358 posts

242 months

Friday 17th January 2014
quotequote all
The flute & horn parts in American Trilogy ( Elvis live in Hawaii ) not to mention the glorious vocal arrangements of backing singers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbE1Dg-4fvI

JohnStitch

2,902 posts

179 months

Friday 17th January 2014
quotequote all
45m45s into this video...the climax of this song gets me every time...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6t-5NTjkEk

And here's an electric version of the same song that for me is truly awe inspiring:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2C5la_vVb8

Sorry Kiteless / Funk, beat you to it again smile Been a while since I've had to post this, but probably about the 20th time...


JohnStitch

2,902 posts

179 months

Friday 17th January 2014
quotequote all
And I never thought I'd post an Enya video to PH (or anywhere on the internet for that matter), but the flute on the track Exile at around 2m30s is gorgeous:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AensT8ntoY

Pulse

10,922 posts

226 months

Friday 17th January 2014
quotequote all
Crackie said:
Me too, but for sad reasons. That isn't to say I don't still love the song, but for different reasons - remembering a lost one.

Edited by Pulse on Friday 17th January 21:00

anonymous-user

62 months

mikees

2,786 posts

180 months

Friday 17th January 2014
quotequote all
This, Amy McDonald, I left this body long ago, for personal reasons.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdv6igKBHw0&deskt...


And this, dido, see the sun,again for personal reasons. Sniff, sniff, dust in eyes. Nah, kin sobbing wreck. See "Cancers a fecking fecker"

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Oq6rpKqYT4&deskt...

Ps sorry for the dido track

Madrabbit

218 posts

241 months

Friday 17th January 2014
quotequote all
The guitar riff at the end of 'Home' by Depeche Mode. In the dark with headphones on, gets me every time.

kiteless

11,972 posts

212 months

Friday 17th January 2014
quotequote all

CharlesdeGaulle

26,882 posts

188 months

Friday 17th January 2014
quotequote all
Been recommended many times, but listen to Antony and the Johnsons - Hope there's somebody.

I defy you not to have a re-think.

Ray Luxury-Yacht

8,914 posts

224 months

Friday 17th January 2014
quotequote all
Metallica - No Leaf Clover

Played live as part of their S&M tour, alongside the San Fransisco Symphony Orchestra. This song was written especially to suit being played with the Orchestra, and as such, I think works better than the score arranged for their existing songs.

It is, and will always be, absolutely fan-bloody-tastic...when I dig the album out and play it on my home separates...by the last verse, when the entire orchestra is backing the band, and James Hetfield's vocals are growling away alongside such a beautiful sound and arrangement, it doesn't just make my hairs stand on end, it actually makes me physically shiver.

I know, I know - it sounds a bit weird biggrin

Anyone who loves music should love and appreciate this arrangement. Listen to it, and let me know! biggrin


ETA: Heheh, feckin ell - just watched my own You Tube link and, yep, again - shivers! Ha!





Edited by Ray Luxury-Yacht on Friday 17th January 23:01

duncancallum

857 posts

186 months

Friday 17th January 2014
quotequote all
the intro to Whom the bell tolls by Metallica and the ballard of dwight fry by alice cooper

Ray Luxury-Yacht

8,914 posts

224 months

Friday 17th January 2014
quotequote all
duncancallum said:
the intro to Whom the bell tolls by Metallica
Oh yes, agreed.

You've just reminded me of one of the most seminal, visceral nights of my life actually - Monsters of Rock at Donington in 1995.

Metallica were headlining. It was dark, it was raining - but the power from the stage and the boundless energy of the crowd at the front of that gig, with me in the middle of it, I will never forget. I can't explain it - but people who have been in similar situations will know what I'm talking about biggrin

I remember the intro to this song very well on that night. Dark stage, the feel of the rain, the pent-up excitement of everyone around me, the crush of hot sweaty bodies (yuck smile ) the smell of it all...then the bells tolling.

Dung! Dung! Then the explosion of guitars, noise, blinding lights and pyrotechnics....IN YOUR FACE!!!

We went mental biggrinbiggrinbiggrin