# Goosebump-inspiring music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 16, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goosebump-inspiring-music/308543 "2005-06-16T14:45:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goosebump-inspiring-music/308543/1 "2005-06-16T14:45:51Z")
That’s really the lowest common denominator between the songs to which I react as such. They cross all genres, tempos, some with lyrics, some without…yet they all trigger this physiolgical response. Far from an unique thread idea, but oh well… Coldplay - Politik (the end of the song gets me EVERY time) Loreena McKinnet - Huron Beltane Fire Dance Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit Jennifer Nettles Band - Story of Your Bones David Lynch/Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks soundtrack) - Into the night Indigo Girls - Ghost Aaron Copland - Rodeo ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goosebump-inspiring-music/308543/2 "2005-06-16T16:29:43Z")
Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor, by J.S. Bach ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goosebump-inspiring-music/308543/3 "2005-06-16T16:40:23Z")
“Rhapsody In Blue” by George Gershwin. “Fanfare For the Common Man” by Aaron Copland. “Miserlou” by Dick Dale and the Del-Tones. And I was just telling a friend, you could show me video of two teenage boys repeatedly hitting each other with barbed wire, and as long as you play the theme music from _The West Wing_ over it, it would still fill me with swelling joy and pride in being an American, and a sense of honor and loyalty and humility. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goosebump-inspiring-music/308543/4 "2005-06-16T16:52:26Z")
Goosebumps of the uncomfortable variety: Pink Floyd’s _Echoes_About 14 minutes into the +/-24 minute song; underneath those dolphin FX: That wailing sound reminds me of young children being slaughtered to the point it makes my skin crawl. Goosebumps of the tingly variety:[ul][li]Leonard Bernstein conducting / altering Beethoven’s 9th @ The Brandenberg Gate following the collapse of the Berlin Wall.[_]Any version of Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony / Pathetique[/ul][/li]Goosebumps from recalling past loves[ul][li]Hold On Hold Out - Jackson Brown[_]_Slide_ - Goo Goo Dolls[/ul][/li]Goosebumps for unspecific reasons[ul][_]America - KBC Band[_]_Video Violence_ - Lou Reed_Low Spark of High Heeled Boys_ - Traffic[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goosebump-inspiring-music/308543/5 "2005-06-16T20:21:35Z")
Vivaldi’s _Winter_ \*Siegfried’s Funeral March \* - Wagner ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goosebump-inspiring-music/308543/6 "2005-06-16T20:38:22Z")
_Carmen Burina_ - Carl Orff _Duel of the Fates_ - John Williams _American Trilogy_ - Elvis Presley (sappy, but hey) ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goosebump-inspiring-music/308543/7 "2005-06-16T21:32:12Z")
The opening theme from **Twin Peaks** always did it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goosebump-inspiring-music/308543/8 "2005-06-16T23:21:57Z")
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, specifically The Ode to Joy. In The Music Man, the musical interlude from Marion the Librarian where the kids are dancing on the tables in the library. Just that tiny bit of music in the middle. Gets me every time. The musical swellings in the Beatles A Day in the Life. ---
**Author:** ![Airblairxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Airblairxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airblairxxx)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goosebump-inspiring-music/308543/9 "2005-06-17T17:03:20Z")
[This thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=320664) jogged my memory about a particular piece of music at the end of _Waking Ned Devine_. Five or so of the main characters are hiking with a whiskey bottle to a field atop a cliff, overlooking the Irish Sea. They raise a toast to the title character, who we never see in the movie (aside from his corpse). As the camera pulls back, an Irish drinking song called _The Parting Glass_ fills the soundtrack. It’s a sad song, but instead of an expected dirge-like tone it’s done in an exuberant, energetic style, with a chorus and timpanic crescendo. I believe this version was done by the former lead singer of Hothouse Flowers, whose name I’m too lazy to look up. I agree with one of the reviewers at [Amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000DI1V/qid=1119028427/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_ur_1/002-3917270-4184814?v=glance&s=classical&n=507846): “I can think of no better song to have sung at my funeral.” ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goosebump-inspiring-music/308543/10 "2005-06-17T17:11:36Z")
> [@](#): > > “I can think of no better song to have sung at my funeral.” My choice for my epitaph would be from another goosebumpy Lorenna McKinnett (typo’d her name in the OP) offering, _Dante’s Prayer_. _…Cast your eyes on the ocean Cast your soul to the sea When the dark night seems endless Please remember me…_ ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goosebump-inspiring-music/308543/11 "2005-06-17T17:23:33Z")
Van Morrison Into the Mystic ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goosebump-inspiring-music/308543/12 "2005-06-17T17:33:37Z")
Poe’s album “Haunted” has a number of goose-bump inspiring songs, especially the songs _Haunted_ and _Amazed_. I also really like the Frontier Wives song that goes: Big River, deep river Is gonna set me free If I die in the night don’t you bury me Just drop me in the river and I’ll float out to sea Into the water with me When I’m gone I’ll be gone forever And when I die I’ll be free, forever… I’d love to put all the lyrics here, but I know I mustn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goosebump-inspiring-music/308543/13 "2005-06-18T09:18:55Z")
> [@honeydewgrrl](#): > > That’s really the lowest common denominator between the songs to which I react as such. They cross all genres, tempos, some with lyrics, some without…yet they all trigger this physiolgical response. > > Loreena McKinnet - Huron Beltane Fire Dance > Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit > David Lynch/Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks soundtrack) - Into the night Oh yes! My favorite songs by each person. I don’t know the others you listed yet. Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley (goosebumps along with a lot of tears) Night of the Swallow by Kate Bush (just about anything by her) San Jacinto by Peter Gabriel The Vigil by Jane Siberry [The Chariot](http://wretchawry.com/happy/samples/HappyRhodes_ManyWorldsAreBornTonight03_TheChariot.mp3) by Happy Rhodes (the link goes to an mp3 of the song, which I do have [permission](http://wretchawry.com/happy/samples) to post. The song, which Happy explained at a concert, is from the point of view of a child from an abusive broken home. Her non-custodial mother comes to visit and take the kids out for treats, then takes them back. To the child, the mother driving down the street in a big car is like god in a chariot. The child pleads not to be taken back, and it just gets me every time I hear it. It affected me emotionally before I even understood what it was about, then, after finding out, it causes goosebumps. [Here are the lyrics](http://www.ecto.org/lyrics/mwabt/chariot.html).) ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goosebump-inspiring-music/308543/14 "2005-06-18T10:26:49Z")
Good goosebumps _Promise Me You’ll Remember_, by Harry Connick Jr. _More_, as sung by Frank Sinatra Bad goosebumps _I Am Stretched on Your Grave_, by Dead Can Dance _I Will Wait for You_, by Connie Francis (thanks to that Futurama episode) And I second _Strange Fruit_. I love Billie Holiday, but there’s something about this song that just creeps me out. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goosebump-inspiring-music/308543/15 "2005-06-18T15:49:42Z")
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry–Hank Williams Two “9/11” ones: Try to Remember (that kind of September)–_The Fantastics_ Anthem–_Chess_ ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goosebump-inspiring-music/308543/16 "2005-06-18T16:17:10Z")
> [@honeydewgrrl](#): > > Loreena McKennitt - Huron Beltane Fire Dance Fantastic goosebump song. I also love the piping introduction (“Cé Hé Mise Le Ulaingt”) to “The Two Trees” on _The Mask and Mirror_, and “Santiago” on the same album. Actually, well-played bagpipes often give me goosebumps. I especially like some of the rollicking stuff by folk band The Tannahill Weavers. I know it’s probably a bit cliched, but i still get goosebumps listening to Orff’s _Carmina Burana_. The most obvious candidate is the opening and closing segment, “O Fortuna,” but there are plenty of great bits in between. Another one that never fails in Nina Simone’s “My Man’s Gone Now” from _The Blues_. And Jeff Buckley’s “Last Goodbye,” from _Grace_, also sometimes has the right effect. ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goosebump-inspiring-music/308543/17 "2005-06-18T16:25:49Z")
The full version of She’s a Superstar by Verve. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goosebump-inspiring-music/308543/18 "2005-06-18T17:02:54Z")
**Goodnight Moon** , By Shivaree. It’s the song playing over the end credits on **Kill Bill II**. That voice is aural Viagra. if you know what I mean