Nights In White Satin is one of my all-time favorite songs. When Justin Hayward sings the lines…
And I love you
Ohhh how I love you
…it sends chills down my spine. Those words sound like they come right from his heart - like he really means them.
What other songs or lines from songs do you get this feeling from?
I have the same reaction to that song, and those lines. I can remember first hearing it as a hormone-addled teenager, in love with the very idea of a wild, rapturous love like that, and practically had tears in my eyes.
Annie Lennox sings “Into the West” with extraordinary emotive power, I think: - YouTube
Mary J. Blige helps U2 knock “One” out of the park here: Mary J. Blige, U2 - One (Official Music Video) - YouTube
And Patty Griffin gives it her all - and it’s a lot - in this rendition of “Heavenly Day”: - YouTube
Always been a fan of Justin and the Moodies. Another song of his that does it for me is Forever Autumn from War of the Worlds.
Huge Moodies fan here: Justin especially.
Jeff Lynn and ELO also get me the same way.
“Hey, how you feelin’?
Are you still the same, don’t you realize the things we did
We did were all for real, not a dream
I just can’t believe they’ve all faded out
Of view, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, ooh”
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Gordon Lightfoot, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”.
I love “Nights in White Satin” too, and have ever since I was a kid.
I have a lot of other songs that give me “tingle moments,” but probably the biggest one is Peter Gabriel’s “Signal to Noise.” Near the end of the song (past the 5:00 mark) there’s an instrumental bit that slowly builds to a crescendo, ending with the repetition of the line “Receive and transmit” over a pounding drumbeat (at 5:43 in this video).
I’ve mentioned this several times before in similar threads here, but that segment does something to me every time I hear it, no matter how many times I hear it. I have to turn it up. It’s beautiful (and live, it was absolutely amazing).
When I was a kid I thought it was “Knights in White Satin” and I remember thinking “Man, those dudes are totally dead”.
Letters I’ve written
Never meaning to send.
Another fan of “Nights in White Satin” here, but what does it for me is the flute solo. Beautiful and flowing.
Hallelujah
especially the lines I quoted. It represents Delilah’s betrayal of Sampson.
At his lowest possible moment, he cries out Hallelujah. Very moving moment for me.
Not just “Nights in White Satin” but the whole damned album Days of Future Passed really does it for me.
A close second is Al Stewart’s Year of the Cat, especially “Sand in Your Shoes”:
On Remembrance Day the bands all played,
The bells pealed through the park
And you lay there by the “Do Not” signs,
And shamed them with your spark
Now winter moans in old men’s bones
As the day falls into dark
And it’s goodbye to my lady of the islands.
The one that really tugs at my heart is Enya’s “Flora’s Secret,” since it reminds me of the most intense love affair of my life in the summer of 1975:
*Lying in the long grass
In the sunlight
They believe it’s true love
And from all around them
Flora’s secret
Telling them of love
And the way it breathes, and
Looking up from eyes of
Amaranthine …
They can see the sky is blue
Knowing that their love is true
Dreams they never knew
And the sky above is blue. *
(I still love you, Gina! 
)
Jump into my machine so we can cruise on out
I know a little joint where we can jump and shout…
Gives me chills!
“May You Never” by John Martyn
Beautiful melody and sentiment?
History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men
Prescient lyrics for today’s environmentally challenged world
White Satin was pretty poor armor for a Knight. That’s all I gotta say.
White Bird by It’s A Beautiful Day does it too.
*White bird
In a golden cage
On a winter’s day
In the rain.
White bird
In a golden cage
Alone.
The leaves blow
'Cross the long black road
To the darkened sky
In its rage . . .*
A great cover of Knights In White Satin.
One of few albums that you must play all the way though.
OMG! I forgot all about that song. I just added it to my playlist. Thanks!
Same here, and I would picture the knights from Monty Python and the Holy Grail when it came on the radio.