What Music makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up?

Disco Free..

Lots of music, in different ways. Listened to David Gilmour's Faces of Stone this morning and that qualifies. Same goes for K.D. Lang's cover version of A Case of You from her - great - album Hymns of the 49th Parallel, which I listened to yesterday.

Every time I've seen GJ live.

Lohengrin Act 1 prelude

Emmylou Harris Mr Sandman from Evangeline album.  When I had an early Naim system the light bell tones from the guitar were popping all over in the room.  I played it over and over.  She also recorded it with Parton and Ronstadt, 3 incredible voices.

Morton posted:

Brangäne‘s Warning from Act Two of Tristan.

 

The opening of the Tristan chord, still haunts me everytime I hear it.

The end of Tristan is pretty good as well, Wagner does seem to have a disproportionately large number of these sort of moments, the first notes of the Liebestod for instance, always does it for me.
At the end of the Liebestod, after three acts & four hours of tension, the music at last resolves on what Richard Strauss described as the ‘the most beautifully orchestrated B major chord in the history of music’.
Here is a wonderful performance, with a few minutes of lead up for context, the Liebestod starts at 7:50.

kuma posted:

 

Stravinsky conducting his own Firebird. This finale always gets me. wish I could have been there.

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I love his conducting technique!

Allegri - Miserere [The Tallis Scholars version, must be in Latin]

Rachmaninov’s 2nd Piano Concerto [Vladimir Ashkenazy - London Symphony Orchestra]

Cocteau Twins - almost everything esp Ivo, Eperdu (and Elizabeth Fraser’s version of Song To The Siren)

John Grant - Glacier

Arvo Pärt - Spiegel Im Spiegel

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms

(Part 2)

Radiohead - Airbag (for the top guitar part, you know the one)

Joy Division - Atmosphere

Leonard Cohen - Anthem

David Bowie - Lady Grinning Soul

Dexys Midnight Runners - The Celtic Soul Brothers [from 02.06 to 02.26 is complete unmitigated musical perfection. true]

Will Oldham aka Bonnie Prince Billy - I gave you

Tom Waits - The Briar and the Rose

Actually the two records, Superwolf and The Black Rider, are great. I could have chosen nearly every single song from either one.

Paul Robeson - Nobody Knows The Troubles I've Seen

Aretha Franklin in full flight.

All of the Famous Blue Raincoat by Jennifer Warnes.

The Strat (Fender) posted:

All of the Famous Blue Raincoat by Jennifer Warnes.

Oh aye.

'A wedding dress or something white, to wear upon my swollen appetite'. Sublime lyrics.

'Cello Song' by Nick Drake for me.

John.

Hans Zimmer - Stay

Radiohead - like spinning plates

Joy divison - Novelty

The Police - King of pain

Andrea Boceli - L'ultimo Re

Led Zeppelin -  Thank You

Pear Jam - Release

(there are so many more)

• Miserere mei Deus (Psalm 51).          voiced for a full choir sung in a Cathedral... it’s simply awe inspiring.
• Ceremony of Carols, Op 28. Procession.     Sung by a great Cathedral boy soprano choir in a Cathedral.
• Agnus Dei .. by Barber.    Sung by a full choir in a Cathedral

Clearly my time as a chorister in my youth had a big impact on me.

• The North Star Grassman and the Ravens... by Sandy Denny sung live in the Paris Theatre in London 16/3/72

Finally floor singing with a folk group is out of this world, especially with The Grace Notes ...two songs are particularly hair tingling

• Rue
• Northern Tide 

Jussi Bjorling / Robert Merrill - Pearl Fishers Duet

The Jeff Beck performing this week at Ronnies.   Compelling album.  

Richter's Mussorgsky 'Pictures at an exhibition'. Finale when he goes all out.

Not for audiophiles but this is the best performance I have heard. Making Richter's *official* US debut LP tame in comparison. ( with a capable cartridge, it's spooky I am transported to the venue feeling the hall vibes ) I bought several copies before I finally picked up a pristine early original pressing.

After I have herd this one, now I see this was originally intended for a solo piano.

The Healer JL Hooker

Muddy Walters - Folk Singer - played the Analogue productions re issue last night with my shiney new cart and it did make the hairs stand up!

Hairs on the neck hmmm... rather an instant indescribable chill-thrill, sending shivers up and down my spine - but I identify two different triggers and feelings, though the same spine tingling sensation:-

1) a triggering of expectation, e.g. the opening bar of O Fortuna from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana (I can't explain why, but it invariably  has that effect, and this of all examples is by far the strongest), or the hearbeat at the start of Pink Flouyd's Dark Side of the Moon, or the sound of rain at the beginning of Black Sabbath's first album...

2) the chill-thrill can be from the outpouring of emotion in the music, as when listening to Puccini's Turandot, (particularly Liu's final song Tu che di gel sei cinta - and my tears always run from that point to the end of the opera. Much the same for several of his operas, e.g La Boheme.  Or in a completely different style Twelfth Night's Sequences culminating with the whistle marking the start of the charge into battle, or Marillion's Forgotten Sons, especially at the challenge "stop! Who goes there?".

I started this thinking there were only a few, but every one reminded me of another!

Bob the Builder posted:

Muddy Walters - Folk Singer - played the Analogue productions re issue last night with my shiney new cart and it did make the hairs stand up!

Cue to drop that on the platter. 

Listening to the Pretender by Jackson Browne. What a record.