What songs give you goosebumps?

St. John, The Gambler by Townes Van Zandt

grundlestiltskin wrote:Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mine. This whole song is just one long goosebump-inducing piece of music. It's instrumental, yet they manage to convey more emotion just with music than most artists can do with lyrics

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Also:

Titus Andronicus- Four Score and Seven. Actually the entire album The Monitor.

He'll yeah, anything by Townes does the trick.

My top choice would be Machine Gun by Band of Gyspies.

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Justin91 wrote:

The theme song for "Cheers", when they hit the chorus:

Where everybody knows your name

And there always glad you came

Instant goosebumps, every time.

Yawn.

1. Taking Back Sunday (I know this band isn't received well but dammit this song is good)- Everything Must Go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uyMqOjV0Qg

2. Led Zeppelin- Stairway to Heaven

Have heard it a million times but it still does it

3. Ryan Adams- Wonderwall

Excellent cover. Better than the the original song and more.

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

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I gotta add

4. The Who- Baba O' Riley

'Hide and Seek' by Imogen Heap has a pretty cool build/swell

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

Live version of 'I Remember' by Damien Rice from about 5:30 to 8:00 same thing

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

It's been used in too many trailers to have the same effect as when it came out, but 'Lux Aeterna' by Clint Mansell (probably the best film composer ever) has to be an all-time best.

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

'Death is the Road to Awe' another Mansell tune

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihF_aXi-Huk

'February Stars' by Foo Fighters, another great buildup

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZG7PqE7Sds

'Hallelujah' by Jeff Buckley already mentioned

Feelings - various artists

Fitzwell wrote:

He'll yeah, anything by Townes does the trick.

My top choice would be Machine Gun by Band of Gyspies.

I was also going to put Machine Gun by Hendrix / Band of Gypsies.

The whole thing gives me goosebumps. Check out the haunting stuff he does on guitar starting at 10:45 right before the final explosions.

Gangnam Style

"Sometimes you can't make it on your own," - U2

"Waltzing Matilda," - Tom Waits

"Little plastic castles," - Ani Difranco

"The kiss," The Cure

"Do you realize?" - The Flaming Lips

"Fisherman's Blues," The Waterboys

"Philadelphia," - Neil Young

"Up the beach," Jane's Addiction

"In spite of me," - Morphine

"Breath," - Pearl Jam

"Come talk to me," - Peter Gabriel

"The drugs don't work," - Ben Harper (written by the Verve)

"Running to stand still," - U2

Almost forgot-

The guitar solo by Prince in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live version of "While my guitar gently weeps."

Just ridiculous.

"2012"-The Word Alive

"Just Keep Breathing"-We Came As Romans

"Gaia Bleeds (Make Way For Man)"-Set Your Goals

"Wreckage" and "Home Is For The Heartless"-Parkway Drive

"O.G. Loko"-Of Mice & Men

"Engine 45" and "Dark Horse"-The Ghost Inside

"The Downfall Of Us All"-A Day To Remember (sickest concert opener ever)

Love or hate the movie but Duel of Fates in the Phantom Menace does it for me too

New order--Temptation

Deadmau5 --Strobe, Brazil 2nd edition to name but a few.

in fact the entire trainspotting soundtrack is unreal.

drake---over

you need a certain intelligence though to agree!

"Ocean Size"-Janes Addiction

"Goodbye Blue Sky"-The Pink Floyd Experience

"Running on Empty"-Jackson Browne

Intro by The XX

"Bad Touch" by the Bloodhound Gang

"New Age Girl" Dead Eye Dick

"Dirty Rap Song" Afroman

"Hot Dog" Limp Bizkit

Sleep Walk by Santo & Johnny

Samba Pa Ti by Santana

I'll Be Here In The Morning by Townes Van Zandt