Musical moments that raise the hair on your neck!

[Mr. Grill]

What are some musical moments/songs/albums that give you chills when you hear them?

For me, in Amon Amarth's "Runes to My Memory," the chorus, where the guitarist plays the higher notes over the chords (I wouldn't call it a solo), it just fits together so well. Definition of epic.

How bout you guys?

[Eliminator]

maudlin of the Well - "Birth Pains of Astral Projection"

Second guitar solo.

[Riva]

Clichéd, I know, but the climax of the second solo in Comfortably Numb always gets me. Also, when the tubular bells come in halfway through Far Above The Clouds, my neck hairs are well and truly galvanised.

[Faggor]

The whole Dredg - El Cielo cd

[oceansized]

maudlin of the Well - "Birth Pains of Astral Projection"

Second guitar solo.

Oh god yes. Also lots of Kayo Dot. Like the Wayfarer climax.

[gasmaskman]

Whenever Isis hits a climax.

And the 8:30 mark on Tool's Rosetta Stoned. A few parts on Mastodon's Siberian Divide.

[Eliminator]

The "Always object, never subject" part of "Backlit" is the best thing Isis have done.

[Little Android Man]

Like whenever there is a brief break in any song, and it just all comes back suddenly with all intensity.

Seriously that stuff just get's me.

Example:
Intro to Descending- LoG (one of my favorites)
On the new BTBAM album 3:13 into Decade of Statues

[Mr. Grill]

Whenever Isis hits a climax.

And the 8:30 mark on Tool's Rosetta Stoned. A few parts on Mastodon's Siberian Divide.
Yes, that moment in Rosetta Stoned gets me too.

[oceansized]

Whenever Isis hits a climax.



Yeah! Nailed it there.

[margin0walker]

New Dawn Fades - Joy Division
the whole song

[antihippy]

envy-a cradle of arguments.

when they hit the climax. soooooo good.

[Danger Bird]

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!"
-Roger Daltrey, Won't Get Fooled Again

Also the part in 2001: A Space Oddity where he sings "Ground control to Major Tom, your circuit's dead, there something wrong, can you hear me Major Tom?"

[MrConeman]

Pink Floyd - Echoes. After the whale noises and the keyboard comes in with that truly wonderful melody, then that crazy echoey guitar riff really raises the hairs.

[Krabsworth]

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!"
-Roger Daltrey, Won't Get Fooled Again

Also the part in 2001: A Space Oddity where he sings "Ground control to Major Tom, your circuit's dead, there something wrong, can you hear me Major Tom?"

i like the part in space oddity when his voice projects really full or whatever, when he sings, "tell my wife i love her, SHE KNOWWS"

Take a Walk on the Wild Side when the saxophone solo jumps in

[NemesisDivina]

Lord Worm's first scream on Crown of Horns

[Shattered_Future]

Ghost Love Score by Nightwish. Sweetness.

[3FingeredHoek]

The soft section after the chorus of Helloween's The Invisible Man always has me on the verge of tears.

[playguitar]

Nutshell by AIC
The solo always just...does something for me.

[StreetlightRock]

Pretty much the whole of Pg.99 - Document #5, and Circle takes the Square - As the Roots Undo. Existence by Aghora as well. Couple of moments when listening to Persefone - The Truth Inside the Shades. Oh and Jeff Buckely's Grace.

also the part in 2001: A Space Oddity where he sings "Ground control to Major Tom, your circuit's dead, there something wrong, can you hear me Major Tom?"

that too.

[Shadius]

I havn't had one for a while.

Jeff Buckley's Last Goodbye used to give me it when his voice goes really high just before "Did you say, oh this can't happen to me"

Pretty much any Buckley voice climax is amazing.

um

Radiohead used to give me loads, various albums.

The end of Citizen Erased by Muse used to give me it.

oh, quite recently trains to brazil by guillemots gave me it when I listened to the lyrics.

[StreetlightRock]

omgomg yes. Radiohead's High and Dry.

[Apocalyptic Raids]

The buildup on Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film)

also the intro to Raekwon's Rainy Dayz. so good.

[Meatplow]

I'm name some particular songs & albumswhich do this to me as a whole.

Jeff Buckley - Lilac Wine, So Real
Duke Ellington - Tourist Point of View, Depk, Blue Pepper (Far East of The Blues)
Faith No More - Faster Disco, Anne's Song, Epic, Falling to Pieces, Zombie Eaters, Land of Sunshine, Midlife Crisis, Evidence, Gentle Art of Making Enemies, Stripsearch, **** me too many to name
Soundgarden - Flower, My Wave, Superunknown, Spoonman, Dusty
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures album
The Pogues - Dirty Old Town, Sick Bed of Cuchulainn, The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Chick Corea & Return to Forever -Captain Marvel, Spain, Tumba Island, Majestic Dance
Pantera - CFH & VDOP albums
Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP, Slim Shady LP
Tom Waits - Dirt in The Ground, Everything Goes To Hell, Misery is The River of the World, Small Change + Swordfishtrombones album, hell most of his stuff
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality album, so much of their earlier stuff
Radiohead - OK Computer, Kid A, miscellaneous song
2pac- Thug Life album

Goddamn i been here too long already. These songs & albums give me a genuine chill up my spine for different reasons, mostly nostalgia.

[Virus278]

Radiohead used to give me loads, various albums.

The end of Citizen Erased by Muse used to give me it.


yes


also:
Children of Bodom - Northern Comfort
- that part 2:17-2:38...so awesome.

[Wish]

Cynic - How Could I.

[antihippy]

the ending of sigur ros- glisoli is increadibly epic.

[margin0walker]

the breakdown in the middle of "Shut The Door'' by Fugazi
and "Steam Engine" by My Morning Jacket

[christoph123]

Muse ~ Ruled by Secrecy

[Apocalyptic Raids]

Also, I forgot this the first time. The last half of Thaw by Converge. So amazing.

[Inkstar]

Dream Theater - ending of Octavarium
Dream Theater - ending of Learning To Live
Dream Theater - ending of In The Name Of God
Dream Theater - ending of Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

...yeah.

[Dimmu Burger]

I love the solos in November Rain and Weezer's Say It Aint So. They give me jollies.

[Apocalyptic Raids]

yeah that Weezer one is fantastic.

[blueyxd]

Anathema - Alternative 4 .. starting about 3:35 when it goes quiet, but especially when words are spoken during that bit, creeps me the **** out.

Peccatum - Stillness .. the creepy bits, which is most of it

Arcturus - For To End Yet Again 6:25 when the quiet is smashed by the sudden return of the drums and guitars

The Streets - Blinded By The Lights .. about 2:50, after he takes the 2nd pill and feels it starting to work, this synth wave passes over, then the ride cymbals a few seconds later.. brilliant

The Dresden Dolls - Slide .. 3:20 to the massive buildup

Rumors Of The Big Wave - Burning Times .. the chanting at 2:13

[Bartender]

oh, quite recently trains to brazil by guillemots gave me it when I listened to the lyrics.

Yes, very much so. Especially towards the end, the bit which ends "..when they could never have persuaded me that lives like yours were in the hands of these erroneous fools."

Very good song. I'm too slow to think of any myself right now.

[RetiredAt21]

This one part in "Epidemic" by His Hero Is Gone always raises the hair on my neck.

[MrConeman]

Oh, the first solo in Mr.Crowley, the outro to Revelation Mother Earth, and the middle section of Diary of a Madman. All by Ozzy Osbourne with Randy Rhoads.

[Nostalgia]

Nostatus - Sanan Synty
Candlemass - At the Gallow's End

[Dr. Jake Destructo]

The chorus of Stem/Longstem where the distorted drums enter.

[MBS]

The breath and the opening note/dyad on Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley.

In Grace (the song) where Jeff goes "My fading voice sings of lo-o-o-o-ove". That part always gave me the chills.

[Mr. Grill]

Hm, in "The Eruption" by Emperor, theres a quiet part in the middle of the song, and then everything comes back full force into another verse... the line Ihsahn says is ****in powerful, just fits the mood so well.

"Suddenly, the walls around him cracked wide open..."

Anyone else know what I'm talkin about?

[blueyxd]

I just thought of another

Pain Of Salvation - Latericius Vaete
If you've been taking notice in the first song and Nihil Morari, "2060 AD, 1.2 million people" hits pretty hard.

[Virus278]

the ending of sigur ros- glisoli is increadibly epic.

What album is that from?

EDIT: I just found out it's the second song on Takk.... That song is missing from my iTunes. I have all the other 10 songs from that album...wierd.

[heavy metal kid]

Cynic - How Could I.

This, especially the ending solo.

The outro of Scarred by Dream Theater.
The scream near the end of A Corpse Without Soul by Mercyful Fate.
Hurt by NIN.
The intro of Insect and Spinning by Spiral Architect.

[Faggor]

Pearl Jam - Black ending
At the Drive-In - One Armed Scissors chorus.

[SugarCoatedSour]

New Dawn Fades - Joy Division
the whole song

Yep, this^

[Lunch]

Stephen breakout in October 83
Second solo in Sugaree, most notably 10/9/77
Solo in Loser
Dark Star breakouts in 89
Opening chord of Shakedown Street
Anytime I hear a great transition I didn't know was coming, eg Miracle>Shakedown

[Shadows Within]

the one that really stands out for me is Nevermores Sentient 6, right after the first chorus starts up that breakdown in between the chorus and the first solo has succeded twice in giving me bad shivers.

it's flat out creepy.

alot of Arcturus material does that to me too.

EDIT: and mainly all the song Empty by Emperor, more specifically the classical breakdowns with the blast beats in the back.

[Anglachel]

Amon Amarth - Under the Northern Star

that solo

the motW is 3rd+'d

[Angmar]

Vocal return after the first solo on "I troldskog Farenvild" off Bergtatt by Ulver

Ending guiter melodies/solos in "Key to the Gate" by Burzum on Det Some Engang Var.

[rattlehead42147]

over the rainbow on the album crash landing by jimi hendrix, also a part in ghost of perdition by opeth around 4-6 minutes, too lazy to find the time.

[-Listy-]

6:41 into Bleak by Opeth, that little sorta bluesy part.

Purple Rain solo, one of my favourite solos ever, love playing it.

the solo in Soma by the Smashing Pumpkins.

the middle of No love lost by Joy Division - the spoken word part, pretty eerie.

dont really listen to them much anymore but the solo in Tornado of souls by Megadeth.

[Riva]

The part after the bridge in TV Tan by The Wildhearts, when Ginger builds up the vocals. Not so much a "whoa" neck hair raising moment, more of a "yeah!" neck hair raising moment.

[blueyxd]

The jazzy guitar solo in Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here

[stupid dream]

Yearning by Mono, the entire song really.

edit: maudlin of the Well - "Birth Pains of Astral Projection"

Second guitar solo. This too.

[jrowa001]

Symphony X - Wicked. when it cuts to just Russell Allen's vocals near the end

[Txus]

Agalloch - Tomorrow Will Never Come

[Skyler]

The string symphony at the end of Sleep Together by Porcupine Tree, 6:20 mark or so.

[CatfishJones]

mars volta - de-loused in the comatarium

that whole album pretty much.

[ekajsk8er]

The intro to Nerdy by Poison the Well, the whole solo to Selkies by btbam, from 3:21 on in Shevanel Cut A Flip by btbam, the first 30 seconds to Broke Dick Dog by Architect, and the intro to Your Spirits Alive by Dropkick Murphys, because live it is absolutely amazing.

[Lunch]

lol I love how ITT no one has any idea what I'm talking about

[heavy metal kid]

^^pretty much about Grateful Dead :thumb:

[Dark_Hero]

Isis - So Did We
Protest the Hero - The Divine Suicide of K, towards the end of the song.

[Dr. Jake Destructo]

lol I love how ITT no one has any idea what I'm talking about

The ****ing dead, duh.

Novacane - Beck

The rap verse is the most ill white-boy shi' ever.

[Lunch]

lol you know what band, you don't KNOW what I'm talking about

[Eliminator]

I don't think anyone cares either

[Dr. Jake Destructo]

dude I have so heard Darkstar.

Well like, one or three of the gajillion incarnations

[Lunch]

also very true

[Poet]

When Marco Hietala sings anything. Especially High Hopes and Follow the Blind (the laughing just gives me chills).

In Flames guitar work (old stuff) gets to me too, songs like Resin, Jotun, Jester Script Transfigured, Swim, I could go on and on.

Lastly Nightwish's Poet and the Pendulum, especially the about 1.20 mark when the orchestra kicks in, until the part where Annete starts singing. That orchestration is the definition of epic right there.

[raz0r]

Meshuggah - Sum
The part around 1:10 with the sounds just building up with all the higher pitched effects.

Meshuggah - Straws Pulled At Random
The guitar solo, and the parts leading up to it. Really ethereal sounding, and manages to sound emotional even with all the distorted guitars and china riding behind it.

Mogwai - The whole Happy Songs for Happy People album.

Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto De Aranjuez.
Damn that's a good piece of music.

[Pastorius]

Symphony X - The Odyssey

The Champion of Ithica section. Slays every time.

[Shattered_Future]

When Marco Hietala sings anything. Especially High Hopes and Follow the Blind (the laughing just gives me chills).

In Flames guitar work (old stuff) gets to me too, songs like Resin, Jotun, Jester Script Transfigured, Swim, I could go on and on.

Lastly Nightwish's Poet and the Pendulum, especially the about 1.20 mark when the orchestra kicks in, until the part where Annete starts singing. That orchestration is the definition of epic right there.

You're my new favorite person on these forums.

[i am the robots]

The metal-esque portion of Non-Objective Portrait Of Karma by Circle Takes The Square is awesome.

Also, Wormwood Radiation, by Ampere:
But there is life here, you can hear it in the soil
You can see it in the shadows, etched into stone
I swear that there is life here, i can hear it in the soil
I can feel it in the shadows, etched in the stone: there is life here!

That part's real cool.

Also, the very last portion of Admission: Regret by As Cities Burn is pretty ballin'.

[knuckleduster]

Ahab - Old Thunder when he's just chanting Ahab...Ahab...Ahab.
Shape Of Despair - ...To Live For My Death... the female vocals on this song are ace.
Vintersorg - Isjungfrun great female vocals with a great groove or whatever.
In Flames - Everlost Part 2 awesome female singing.
Blakagir - Noc (cz. II) this song scares me with its awesomeness.
Summoning - Land Of The Dead the chorus at the end.
Arcturus - My Angel another scary song.
Disembowelment - Nightside Of Eden beautiful.
YOB - Quantum Mystic when he screams QUANTUM!
Autumn Tears - Battle Act LL the child's spoken part.
Empyrium - Many Moons Ago the entire song is eargasm to the max.
Any Dargaard song really.

[DJTeeLay]

One particular part of a song that comes to mind is the concluding rift from Between the Buried and Me's, "Selkies: The Endless Obsession."

[Angmar]

Agreed with a lot of that, especially Land of the Dead since thats my favorite song ever.

[Moses]

The two big crescendos in the second part of the Daphni Et Chloe Suite by Maurice Ravel, are just beautifully chilling.

[i am the robots]

I forgot, a ton of Orchid.

[Angmar]

I forgot, a ton of Agalloch.

[i am the robots]

This gets me hard:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OTdt-PbcYZY

[knuckleduster]

Agreed with a lot of that, especially Land of the Dead since thats my favorite song ever.

I like The Passing Of The Grey Company a lot too, though it doesnt have the melancholic mood that makes Land Of The Dead so awesome.

[mistertich_]

these four lines in XTC - "Dying"

"What sticks in my mind is the sweet jar
On the sideboard. And your multicolored tea cosy
What sticks in my mind is the dew-drop hanging off your nose
Shrivelled up and blue"

just gets to me for some reason

all of Lauren's Lullaby by Tin Hat Trio :')

[Virus278]

This gets me hard:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OTdt-PbcYZY

Whatever gets it up for you pal.

[RATM9017]

the build in
White walls
"get out of this closed off CIRCLE"
total goosebumps

[Poet]

You're my new favorite person on these forums.

haha. If you would've gotten me two years ago, I would've said that anything Sully Erna from Godsmack sings, I've definitely progressed since then. It's sad that I had been listening to Nightwish since about October 2005 and I never realized how god like Marco Hietala was until I heard about his band Tarot. It's nice that his voice fits how he looks, that is a postitive.

[Shattered_Future]

Yeah, he does give off that vibe quite well.

[Jude]

In Echoes right around 15 minutes when the "ping" sound starts again and then that echoey guitar riff comes in. One of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.

[Turkish]

the end of The Odyssey by Symphony X when he starts singing "Triumphant, Champion of Ithica", that entire part gives me goosebumps.

Dangit Pastorius, you beat me to it.

[Mother]

Demons and wizards - Blood on my hands, beginning bit
persuader - Judas Immortal, ending chorus
Intro of L'ombre et la lumière By Manigance

[Mother]

the end of The Odyssey by Symphony X when he starts singing "Triumphant, Champion of Ithica", that entire part gives me goosebumps.

Dangit Pastorius, you beat me to it.

yeh thats cool

[Shattered_Future]

the end of The Odyssey by Symphony X when he starts singing "Triumphant, Champion of Ithica", that entire part gives me goosebumps.

Dangit Pastorius, you beat me to it.

Watching that live was immense. They have the cool beginning, and then all the downtime in the middle, and then that part. The whole venue was singing that part.

[EightMilesHigh]

Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead

At 2:48, Peter Murphy's vocals come in and it gives me chills. He's just so deadpan and scary it's great.

[Turkish]

Watching that live was immense. They have the cool beginning, and then all the downtime in the middle, and then that part. The whole venue was singing that part.

That would be so incredible to see.

[Pastorius]

Hopefully they'll play it when I see them, I doubt it though, they're supporting Dream Theater. I really want them to headline a Europe tour.

[Turkish]

Parts of The Odyssey (the song) remind me a lot of Dream Theater, that would be an awesome lineup.

[devergondee]

Bleak by Opeth. mainly where steve wilson is singing,Poco Allegretto by Johannes Brahms,Living Dead Beat by COB...

[alurny]

Opeth-The Moor

When the double kick kicks in for the first time.

[Poet]

the end of The Odyssey by Symphony X when he starts singing "Triumphant, Champion of Ithica", that entire part gives me goosebumps.

Dangit Pastorius, you beat me to it.

ok, I just heard this song for the first time today, and yeah, that part you mention is the best part of the song IMO.

[fluki]

Many songs by Pink Floyd, in particular One Of These Days and On The Turning Away played at high volume, gets me everytime!

[i am the robots]

Whatever gets it up for you pal.

:confused:

Is there something weird about my arousal?

[Dr. Jake Destructo]

Well, I don't know many guys who bust a nut whenever Anthony Gunnels performs an excellent bree, so yes.

[i am the robots]

Gunnells doesn't bree. :)

But goddamn, that is a sexy Jew.

[Riva]

Many songs by Pink Floyd, in particular One Of These Days and On The Turning Away played at high volume, gets me everytime!

If you mean the Delicate Sound Of Thunder versions I can agree, but the album versions of those two are terrible production-wise. Which is odd considering that DSOT is the live album.

[lak89]

Dream Theater's Octavarium, Razor's edge solo, best thing i've heard in a long time

[meep17]

Nearly all of AIC's "Jar of Flies" EP, but ESPECIALLY the song "Rotten Apple". Beautiful and haunting.

[Kurrpt]

I had one this morning while listening to Jethro Tulls "A Christmas Song". It was mostly the lyrics, but I think the music itself made them that much more "real", for a lack of a better term