songs that give you chills

[StephenHero]

"Glosoli" is my favorite stand-alone Sigur Ros track. That's a really powerful song. "Let Down" is another Radiohead song worth mentioning in this topic.

 

[Risque]

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TIP: to embed Youtube clips, put only the encoded part of the Youtube URL, e.g. eBGIQ7ZuuiU between the tags. Brings a tear to my eye every time I listen to it. Couldn't recommend highly enough the entire Hazards of Love album. In context, it would rank amongst the saddest love songs I've come across.

 

[minus]

Originally Posted by judges76

Kansas - Dust in the Wind

Originally Posted by Master-Classter

Johnny Cash, hurt.


+1 x 2

Also:

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[BrettChaotix]

Aubrey Debauchery - Love Song for No One

(only video I could find of the song)

 

[StephenHero]

Anybody mentioned "Sinnerman"?

 

[denimdestroyedmylife]

subway song - the cure
dream song - ministry

pretty much every song by the swans
and all of coil's back catalog

 

[MrG]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

The End -- The Doors
Jeremy -- PJ
A few Boards of C songs
Angel -- Massive Attack
Glory Box -- Portis Head
Wondering Outloud -- Jethro Tull
Mercy Street -- Peter Gabriel
Man in the Box -- AIC (such a dark sound)
When Dolphins Cry -- Live

The most heart wrenching of all songs I have ever heard:

Lament for the Death King George V

I am not kidding. It is on iTunes, search John Turner artist, Wanderer's Lament album. At least listen to the preview. If that doesn't give you a chill, you're not human.

Great list. Live has a penchant for writing songs that give me chills, as did AIC. Bleed the Freak is a massively underrated song.

Originally Posted by gnatty8

Geez, I guess there's more..

Pogues, Pair of Brown Eyes
Peter Gabriel, Solsbury Hill
Pogues, Thousands are Sailing
Luckenbach Texas, Waylon Jennings

Probably my favorite WJ song.

Originally Posted by Master-Classter

Johnny Cash, hurt.

I loved the Nails version, but Cash completely stole that song and made it his own.

 

[denimdestroyedmylife]

^ i can't listen to cash's last album. it makes me really sad. if i were considering suicide, that's all it would take to convince me to go ahead with it already. really affecting album. it's too much, actually. i should destroy it.

 

[fredfred]

Love "Midnight Train to Georgia"
"Candy's Room" Springsteen works well.

Surprised nobody has mentioned any classical pieces. But then again, no.

 

[Egdon Heath]

Stop posting those YouTube links: I've got dial-up and can't get that crap. Just say the name of the tune. And say something I've heard of 'cause I haven't heard of anything mentioned so far except the Beatles and the Beatles don't give no chills, even when I saw them live in Cleveland in '66. And no, I don't wanna be called Pops.​

 

[MrG]

My entry:

R.E.M. - Nightswimming
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The oboe part in particular gets me. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a studio version on YouTube, and this one sounds like it uses a synth for that part. Still an amazing song.

 

[MrG]

Originally Posted by denimdestroyedmylife

^ i can't listen to cash's last album. it makes me really sad. if i were considering suicide, that's all it would take to convince me to go ahead with it already. really affecting album. it's too much, actually. i should destroy it.

It's the sound of a man dying. It can be hard to listen to, but some of it is just so brilliant I can't pass it up.

 

[fredfred]

Originally Posted by MrG

I loved the Nails version, but Cash completely stole that song and made it his own.

The video is literally the best music video ever made. Justin Timberlake even said so when he won video of the year instead of "Hurt".

 

[Egdon Heath]

Originally Posted by fredfred

Love "Midnight Train to Georgia"
Okay, so I've heard of that. But, chills? C'mon. (The part where Gladys goes, I got to go, I got to go, near the end is pretty good though)​

 

[Egdon Heath]

Chills is Leonard Cohen, everything.​