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what songs give you the chills?

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:18 am
by DaledeSilva
I'll start,
there's more than just one, but a big one is:

All That We Are - Fischerspooner

Re: what songs give you the chills?

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:36 pm
by twinbee
Hmm.. I'd have to go for instrumental music like Moonlight Sonata, and Chopin's Raindrop prelude. And game music such as SNES Secret of Mana ("Spirit of the Night", "Into the Thick of it", "Rose and Ghost", "I Won't Forget"), or the Amiga game Turrican 2 ("Traps" - level 2, and "Secret Dungeons"). Oh, and finally, stuff from the old TV anime "Mysterious Cities of Gold" - particularly "Les Olmèques" and "Le bouclier fumant". Nothing is scarier than those last two ;)

Re: what songs give you the chills?

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:50 pm
by Bex
This one is a master piece and always give me the chills:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUQLSbzBfXE
Blank & Jones, which normally do much harder music, have done an extraordinary good work with the most beautifully singing Sarah McLachlan's Angel.

Archive's 16 minutes version of their monster hit "Again" can never be wrong:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioAkYDi14iw

There are lots more....

Re: what songs give you the chills?

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:52 pm
by nohitter151
This cover song gives me the chills: Alison Krauss and Tom Waite - Missing you
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=nqyWgGgIe8w

Re: what songs give you the chills?

Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:30 am
by Dreadlau
Bex wrote: Archive's 16 minutes version of their monster hit "Again" can never be wrong:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NTfB4kXxUQ
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xks90C717GM

Nice :D

Ok here's mine: Johnny Cash' cover of Hurt

Re: what songs give you the chills?

Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:22 am
by DreadM

Re: what songs give you the chills?

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:51 pm
by Niteblade
I'm voting for Engima & Sarah Brightman in "Eden."
Also, I'd have to say "Katy Song" by the Red House Painters.
In conclusion, I'm going with "Insight" by Depeche Mode.

Add to that "Strangers" from the Anime Wolf's Rain.

Re: what songs give you the chills?

Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 8:21 pm
by Pokeycat
My musical taste is uh, well...

Both tracks take a minute to really warm up. The Suicide track is based on truth and the video is actually two videos superimposed on a screen to nice effect.

Throbbing Gristle - Discipline
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPctNq3W9Uo

Suicide - Frankie Teardrop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YprQnzRfjg

enjoy...

Re: what songs give you the chills?

Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 5:49 am
by rovingcowboy
i have to ask this. since some of the songs listed sound like nice singers and some i like the singers.

so is this to be a thread about scary songs or songs that make you want to cuddle up.

i just don't see which way is the one this thread is to be. thanks for clearing it up?

:o

Re: what songs give you the chills?

Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 11:56 am
by Pokeycat
I assume it refers to a song which, sometimes no matter how much you hear it, makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up for whatever reason, fear, longing, memories. Like the picture of the villager in Vietnam getting shot in the head, or the sailor kissing the nurse after WW2 ended, footsteps on the moon, JFK death footage, etc.

Tom Waits - Alice
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
Golden Earring - Radar Love
Neil Young - Helpless (and After the Gold Rush)
John Denver - Sunshine on my Shoulder
Pedro the Lion - Priests and Paramedics

Re: what songs give you the chills?

Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 3:44 pm
by rovingcowboy
well in that case the song that still gets to me would be ? any song that is near the sad level, one of the most sad i guess would be by george jones. called the wall. or the one called "he stopped loving her today."
and of course the most favorite one is from hank Sr. called Singing waterfall.
the happiest upbeat one would have to go to the monkees and their theme song. hey hey were the monkees.
the crazyiest one would have to be the trashmen and surfin' bird

Re: what songs give you the chills?

Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 8:02 pm
by Solitaire001
For me, the following are some of my chill-inducing songs:

- Goodbye To Love by The Carpenters
- Trying To Get The Feeling Again by The Carpenters
- The Winner Takes It All by ABBA
- If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind by Agentha Faltskog
- Life Is A River by Rie Fu (The closing theme for the first episodes of the series "Bleach")
- Never Gonna Fall In Love Again by Eric Carmen and also by Susan Jacobson
- Gymnopedie #1, a classical piece written by Erik Satie
- I Wish I Could Cry by Gilbert O'Sullivan

Re: what songs give you the chills?

Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 6:23 pm
by KorkyKat
Chills as in tingling down the spine and hairs standing up on the neck.

Judy Collins with the acapella version of Amazing Grace

or

Rebekah Del Rio singing Orbison's Crying (Llorando) from the David Lynch film Mulholland Drive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oddg6dCB7FE

:D

Re: what songs give you the chills?

Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 1:41 pm
by grillmeister7

Re: what songs give you the chills?

Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 4:00 pm
by rovingcowboy
some more.

Erick the awful. by ray stevens.

long black train by josh turner.