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Does anyone else get the shivers when they listen to a song? Not just any song, but one with meaning or a great guitar or just a great singer...

Is it just me?

It's one of those strange things that you don't know if other people do..

For me, the song is The General by Dispatch. I love it so much, I get the shivers whenever I listen to it. The meaning is just so.. *sigh*. I love it.

There are certain songs that will have a serious effect on me, so you're not alone.

Yes, I get that sometimes, some songs can just give me a big emotional feeling also. Don't play a sad or actionlike song around me.

Does anyone else get the shivers when they listen to a song? Not just any song, but one with meaning or a great guitar or just a great singer...

Is it just me?

It's one of those strange things that you don't know if other people do..

For me, the song is The General by Dispatch. I love it so much, I get the shivers whenever I listen to it. The meaning is just so.. *sigh*. I love it.

Does anyone not get the shivers when listening to really, really good music?

I remember when my (very good) choir was rehearsing Mozart's Requiem some years ago, and by the end of the Lacrimosa, at least 10 or 15 of the 80 of us had tears in our eyes....

Most anything suitably epic.

Tetsuo, in the Akira OST
Dies Irae, from Mozarts Requiem
Lacrimosa, from Mozarts Requiem
Foundations of stone from the LOTR: TT soundtrack: Howard Shore
The End of All things from the LOTR: RotK soundtrack:
Flight to the Ford/Knife in the Dark/The Prophecy from the LOTR: FotR soundtrack
Carmina Burana, by Carl Orff
Montagues and Capulets for Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev
Duel of the Fates by John Williams
Agnus Dei by Barber

Lacrymosa-can't remember the composer but it was on Kronos Quartet's Night Prayers

Lonely Woman by Ornette Coleman.

Where Flamingo's Fly arranged by Gil Evans (the original version is cool, kinda, but much more chilling when done on a bass trombone, apparently)

A few others that aren't coming to my head right now.

Blue Room by Chet Baker.

Most anything suitably epic.

Tetsuo, in the Akira OST
Dies Irae, from Mozarts Requiem
Lacrimosa, from Mozarts Requiem
Foundations of stone from the LOTR: TT soundtrack: Howard Shore
The End of All things from the LOTR: RotK soundtrack:
Flight to the Ford/Knife in the Dark/The Prophecy from the LOTR: FotR soundtrack
Carmina Burana, by Carl Orff
Montagues and Capulets for Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev
Duel of the Fates by John Williams
Agnus Dei by Barber

Mmm...all good choices. A different choir I was in performed Shore's LOTR Symphony about a year ago (which was a very cool thing to be a part of - seeing a giant symphonic concert hall full to the brim with people of ALL ages warmed the cockles of my little heart), and every time the orchestra played the Rohan motif I most definitely got the shivers.

Mmm...all good choices. A different choir I was in performed Shore's LOTR Symphony about a year ago (which was a very cool thing to be a part of - seeing a giant symphonic concert hall full to the brim with people of ALL ages warmed the cockles of my little heart), and every time the orchestra played the Rohan motif I most definitely got the shivers.

ooooooh.... yeah, I was in a concert/choir performance when I was a lot younger. Very good fun, and it crtainly impacted. I have to say.... I more prefer the Ringwraith theme to the Rohan motif, but then I love choral music. Did you perform any of the.... darker music, or was it all the Rohan/fellowship/gondorian themes?

I almost always respond emotionally to music. I'm an emotional person and blah. I'm not big on things that bring me down though. really emotional music tend to annoy me.

However, stuff like Warriors by The Blitz instantly boosts my ego.
A song like Was war gestern los by Verlorne Youngs is almost guaranteed to make me dance, regardless of where I am. At the very least, it'll bring a huge smile to my face.

Gotta love that Oi! Oi! Music :D

I get the shivers when I ever see or listen to anything emotional. Music/movies/television/etc

I reask another question from earlier in the thread:
Does anyone not get the shivers? :p

ooooooh.... yeah, I was in a concert/choir performance when I was a lot younger. Very good fun, and it crtainly impacted. I have to say.... I more prefer the Ringwraith theme to the Rohan motif, but then I love choral music. Did you perform any of the.... darker music, or was it all the Rohan/fellowship/gondorian themes?

Yup. The symphony is basically all of the best stuff from the movies, reorganized and slimmed down to about two hours running time. It was an amazingly fun piece to do, since musically it's very good, very varied, uses a lot of crazy instruments (including a stripped-down piano which is hit with a 40-pound chain. I kid you not), and has some killer choral lines. And getting to chat with Howard Shore afterwards was rather neat.

(Plus, as the biggest LOTR nerd in the choir, I was made the "official" language advisor to the group, and was responsible for explaining to everyone how to pronounce Quenya, Sindarin, Adunaic, Rohirric, the Black Speech, and so forth...) :p

The Internationale, the first anthem of the soviet Union and of Socialists in general. it was replaced with the awful Hymn to the Soviet Union. I listened to the English version and had shivers as listening to it.

Thats the one I was really surprised at.

Most anything suitably epic.

Tetsuo, in the Akira OSTHoly crap, yes!

Hmm... of course, lots of strange things will send a chill down my spine.

The Fugue part of Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor,

Anything that crescendos. :)

Agent Orange by Depeche Mode (I'm weird).

How about books? Any part of your favorite books do this to you? In the (novel) Return of the King, during the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, the whole scene where the Rohirrim appear on the battlefield, and most especially the part where the Riders are all chanting 'Death!' in unison... that always makes the hair on my neck stand up. :D

But that's what songs do! If they don't send shivers down your spine, it's the song's fault - if you're in the song's target market.

If the song's good enough, I'll get shivers. If it's *really* good (like the first time I listened to Husker Du's "Celebrated Summer"), I'll get one of those full-body spine chillers.

I can feel the guitar solo ending Comfortably Numb. Kind of disturbing really.

Many of Sarah Brightman's songs give me the shivers, especially opera and classical stuff. And the soundtrack to Ghost in the Shell, too.

I can feel the guitar solo ending Comfortably Numb. Kind of disturbing really.

The original version sung by Roger Walters is much better, some of the instrumets used in this midway through the song as he is singing, leave me in tears.

Orchestrated or classical romantic music has always had a draw for me.

Concerto in E by Mendelssohn
Concerto In A by Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg
Sonata Pathetique by Beethoven
1812 Oveture by Tchaikovsky
Light of the Force theme by John Williams
Imperial March by John Williams
Main Theme from Jurrassic Park by John Williams
Scotland theme from Braveheart by James Horner
Hedwig's Theme by John Williams

Plus some silly but true ones:
CBS News theme
Monday Night Football theme
Celebration of Man (played during the U.S. Golf Open)
News Hour Theme

The worst thing about the best news organization in the world (BBC) is that stupid beeping theme that they play during the news.

Serious guitar and drums do it for me.

Anything by Disturbed or System of a Down gets my blood pumping.

"Seven Swans" by Sufjan Stevens popped into my head. It is very sparse at the beginning but it builds and builds. The music, combined with a oddly ominous religious theme makes an extremely powerful song. Please download if you get the chance, I would like to hear what others think about it.

Does anyone else get the shivers when they listen to a song? Not just any song, but one with meaning or a great guitar or just a great singer...

Is it just me?

It's one of those strange things that you don't know if other people do..

For me, the song is The General by Dispatch. I love it so much, I get the shivers whenever I listen to it. The meaning is just so.. *sigh*. I love it.

There is a version of Street Fighting Man by the Rolling Stones done just after Brian Jones death (in rememberance)... I had a bootleg of it.. it is just very strange... the recording was very strange... it sent shivers up my spine.

And the soundtrack to Ghost in the Shell, too.

You too? Well, I only have Inner Universe and Lithium Flower on my computer, but Inner Universe gets me all the time.

Björk's "Hunter," the vocal improvisation between the lines "I thought I could organise freedom, how Scandinavian of me." and "You sussed it out, didn't you?" leaves me breathless.

Her voice is like no other, and the eeriness of the soft "oooh's" in the background with the cellos is just reinforced by the percussion. If you haven't heard this song, you've really missed out. "Joga" is also really good.

Yes..... but only when I'm cold.

I find that any really REALLY good music, when I am warm and curled up will make a great impact on me. Usually the first thought that comes to mind is "I could lead a revolution around this song" Because that is just me...

Whenever I hear "Pride and Joy" by Stevie Ray Vaughn.
The opening riff especially. I saw it live many times and each time was the same but in different way. The jam just went on and on. Everyone giving it their best. It was indescribable. The energy between them all was great. When SRV and DT played that song they played their best stuff-pulled out all of their tricks.
But the first time I heard it blew me away and got me into the blues scene in Austin at that time. Keep in mind this was the early 80's and the Top 40 was comprised of The Cars and Michael Jackson. The best alternative was Pink Floyd and Clapton (both were great but nothing new had come along). So when I heard SRV&DT, it was mind blowing.
The thing that seals it for me was that I was trying to buy beer at a market and I got in line behind Stevie Ray (I was underage) and there he was in front of me-THE MAN! I had been listening to him before I got out of the car. But it wasn't cool to make a big deal about famous people (I went to school with Willie Nelson's daughter) so I played it off. But Stevie looked back at me and saw that I was very young looking (I'm 37 now and I still get carded-so you can imagine what I looked like then.) and he grabbed my beer from me and I slipped him the dough and he bought the beer for me.

Yawn

The guitar solo in the middle of 'Mother' by Pink Floyd, both of them in 'Comfortably Numb', the very end of 'In the Flesh?', all of 'One of These Days', anything by Pink Floyd, really; the end of 'Bohemian Rhapsody'; 'Dust in the Wind' by Kansas; and Amazing Grace when played on bagpipes.

As far as shivers and outbursts are concerned I love the Orchestral works of the Romantic Period. Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz and the most powerful composition of the 20th century The Rite of Spring and the Fire Bird Suite by Igor Stravinsky!

Of course System of a Down can do it for me too... :P

"Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen does it for me...

Songs that really fit what I'm thinking about will give me the shivers (Tourniquet by Evanescence will do it when I'm depressed)

yah that happes to me alot. especially songs by modest mouse. the most recent example is rocket boy by jets to brazil. escpecialy sinse i just finished read that very book by homer hickman... but the song is amazing too.

Yes, lots of songs... I can't think of any titles right now though...

The South African anthem, well most anthems actually, always send shivers down my spine, but it's aching all the time. Oooh Mama, life has just began...

I can't stop doing that. Whenever I hear the words shivers and spine it leads me to Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.

The SA anthem and the Liverpool anthem (You'll Never Walk Alone) are probably on top of my list.

Very rarely, I'll hear a song that does this. It's only ever a slight tingle, but again. I think it happens when the song is exactly what I'm thinking or feeling.

Yeah, def. There are loads of songs that do that. I heard one a few months ago and it just left shivers down my spine. It was like a tiny part of my life on song, the singer had an amazing voice, which prob added to the spine tingling.

Who doesn't with bohemian rhapsody?

I would've thought I was the last person to say this...but the German National Anthem does it sometimes! Especially in big Football Games.

Plus there was one time when they were playing the Volga song in a documentary...

Other songs, well there are a few, but I really can't remember names or artists very well.

songs can really screw me up, a sad song played at the right time can feck me up for the rest of the day and make me very depressed for a while.
but a happy song at the right time can cheer me up like you wouldn't believe

Yeah all Jingaling,Ethnic,Tribal or music aimed at Ghetto Blacks(And others :) ) hurts my soul.
-Rap/Hip Hop
Good Example Switch by Will Smith.

Breathing You In - The Whitlams
Charlie Number 2 - The Whitlams
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Magic - Ben Folds 5
Evaporated - Ben Folds 5
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
Vincent - Don McLean

Who doesn't with bohemian rhapsody?

i dont!

i do with fake plastic trees by radiohead though.

there are a lot of really good songs that sends shivers down my spine. 'back to life, back to reality' by soul II soul especially springs to mind.

Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah (I admit I haven't heard the original), Christ knows how many songs by Radiohead and Elliott Smith, Elbow's Newborn, Ed Harcourt's Watching the Sun Come Up, Beth Gibbon's voice, the opening bars of Schubert's Death and the Maiden, Feel to Believe by Beth orton.

I'm quite soppy, I guess.

There are very few classical greats that shouldn't get a shiver. As for modern, try finding a band called "Streetlight Manifesto" There's only one album by them. Listen intensely to the lyrics, and I dare anyone not to shiver, not to mention the music is awesome.

Streetlight manifesto is made up of a bunch of old Catch 22 guys right? I don't know if they give me shivers but I will agree they did a great job with the album.

Mozart's serenades, the Polovtsian Dances, Borodin's Nocturne, Chopin's Polonaises and The Planets by Holst.

A short selection of such numbers:-

Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones
Gorecki - Lamb
One Love - Massive Attack
Alone Again Or - Love
St Dominics Preview - Van Morrisson
As - Stevie Wonder
Stone on the Water - Badly Drawn Boy
Coming Second - Elbow
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
Whole Wide World - Wreckless Eric
Lazarus - The Boo Radleys
True Faith - New Order
When the Tigers Broke Free - Pink Floyd
And a Bang on the Ear - The Waterboys
True Happiness This Way Lies - The The
A Light So Dim - BlackHeart Procession
Sleep Murray Ostril - Godspeed You! Black Emperor (specifically the bit where the cellos go MENTAL)
Safesurfer - Julian Cope
The Future - Leonard Cohen
This is Hardcore - Pulp
Big Time Sensuality - Bjork
So What - Miles Davis
Here comes your man - The Pixies
The Sweetest Embrace - Nick Cave and Barry Adamson
Deus - Little Arithmetics
Love will tear us apart - Joy Division
The Boys are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
The Bewlay Brothers - David Bowie

I have too many records, and way too much time on my hands...

*edit* "Another Girl, Another Planet" - every single time i hear that song, when the opening guitar comes in, a shiver runs up my spine and the hairs on the back of my neck rise. Understand, every single compilation cd i make, it's on. Every single computer playlist i make, it's on. Every single jukebox, i search to see it's on there. I must have heard that song about 10,000 goddamn times by now, at least 500 times a year since my early teens. And every single time, the same effect.

God knows why, i can see musically that it's not a brilliant song, it's quite simple, but it just gets me, right there.

Breathing You In - The Whitlams
Charlie Number 2 - The Whitlams
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Magic - Ben Folds 5
Evaporated - Ben Folds 5
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
Vincent - Don McLean

Oh man, for the Verve, "This is Music". Every time.

When I listen to 'Shakin' All Over' by the Guess Who, I get shivers down my backbone.

PHEAR MY BAD JOKES!

Yeah, anything by the classical composer Grieg, or System of a Down - Chop Suey. I also get shivers with John Williams movie soundtracks - my two recent favourites are the War of the Worlds and the Harry Potter ones.

Jerusalem by Emerson Lake and Palmer is awesome

'Hawa Dolo' by Ali Farkar Toure and Toumani Diabetes just floors me every time.

Jerusalem by Emerson Lake and Palmer is awesome
Wow, I was just gonna post 'Lucky Man'! My new favorite anti-war song. Last verse just gives me chills everytime.

"A bullet, had found him.
No money, could save him.
His blood ran, as he cried.
So he laid down, and he died."

The live version is so much more emotional than the studio one.

Bloodhoung gang - bad touch.
Oh yes.
:cool:

Various soundgarden songs and audioslave - I am the highway are neat-o.

"A Change is Gonna Come"- Sam Cooke
"Crown of Love" - Arcade Fire
"Everlong" - Foo Fighters
"Sweet Thing" - Van Morrison

"Now It's Done" by Straylight Run comes immediately to mind.

Nightwish - Ghost Love Score

every single time i listen to it, when the chorus kicks off for the first time i shudder, its the most wonderful piece of music i have ever listened to.

"My fall will be for you, My love will be in you, If you'll be the one to cut me, I'll bleed forever.."

Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin. Song is so awesome. I don't get the shivers, but I always feel good when it's playing.

Katy Rose - Vacation.

There's a bit where she screams like a banshee, but it's a meaningful ... 'song'.

But otherwise, no, I don't get the shivers from a meaningful actual good song. I get them from really crappy ones though

another song which gives me shudders

Nightwish - Oceansoul

i cant explain why, if you listened to or looked up the lyrics you would understand

They never play this song live because it means alot to Thoumas (The producer/songwriter/keyboard)

Does anyone else get the shivers when they listen to a song? Not just any song, but one with meaning or a great guitar or just a great singer...

Is it just me?

It's one of those strange things that you don't know if other people do..

For me, the song is The General by Dispatch. I love it so much, I get the shivers whenever I listen to it. The meaning is just so.. *sigh*. I love it.

Blowin' in the Wind by Bob Dylan.

I don't get shivers when I listen to Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven, but in the part where it goes

"There's a feeling I get when I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking "

I always get goosebumps, it's just an awesome song.

"hurt” I willingly say I cried like a baby when I heard that (and still do) it is just so powerful and moving with the slow, depressing notes as an elderly man knowing he is not long for this Earth sings about "the end"

(I am listening to it now.....tears running down my face if you have not heard this song listen to it now everything else really isn’t that important)

yea it happens to me too. sometimes even a tear in my eye lol. because it reminds me of a certain someone i love very much and there are lots of songs that do so lol yea happens all the time

Most of the ones I would have posted have been mentioned already, so I'll add one that hasn't been mentioned yet (I think).

"untitled #1" [a.k.a. vaka] by Sigur Rós.

I have many songs that give me "the buzz" if you will. As a musician I feel it is part of quest to find the ultimate musical experience. I know a song is good if it makes me feel so good I want to throw up...

Most of the ones I would have posted have been mentioned already, so I'll add one that hasn't been mentioned yet (I think).

"untitled #1" [a.k.a. vaka] by Sigur Rós.


Kinda partial to "untitled #4"

and also...

Double Negative by the Jim Yoshii Pile Up
Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
That Song by Big Wreck

and too many others to list...

Most of the ones I would have posted have been mentioned already, so I'll add one that hasn't been mentioned yet (I think).

"untitled #1" [a.k.a. vaka] by Sigur Rós.

Man, all Sigur Ros. Yes.

Most anything suitably epic.

Tetsuo, in the Akira OST
Dies Irae, from Mozarts Requiem
Lacrimosa, from Mozarts Requiem
Foundations of stone from the LOTR: TT soundtrack: Howard Shore
The End of All things from the LOTR: RotK soundtrack:
Flight to the Ford/Knife in the Dark/The Prophecy from the LOTR: FotR soundtrack
Carmina Burana, by Carl Orff
Montagues and Capulets for Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev
Duel of the Fates by John Williams
Agnus Dei by Barber
Who let you into my music collection?

Among other things, and near the to of the list I would add Carol of the Bells by Arcanta... Etherial Goth Xmas music... (sigh!)

Now, I'm not religious at all, and was raised more or less Jewish, so I really don't understand this, but Amazing Grace gets me every time. That and Salvation is Created (them Russians know how to work a timpani)

Other than that, I don't think there is any one song that does it every time except maybe Tonight Reprise - Smashing Pumpkins. But certain songs will catch me at the right moment and just say everything.