This pro-Trump fascist song performed by kids gives me chills all right. Very bad chills.
I just discovered “D.O.A.” by Bloodrock (made in 1971) the other day. The gist of it is that the singer was in a plane crash and realizes he is dying. It is perhaps the creepiest song I’ve ever heard. Here is the final verse:
Life is flowing out my body
Pain is flowing out with my blood
The sheets are red and moist where I’m lying
God in Heaven, teach me how to die
The wikipedia page explains the inspiration for the song: one of the band members watched his friend die in a plane crash!
At the sight of something like this, only a Douglas Adams quote will do: “Zaphod’s skin was crawling all over his body as if it was trying to get off.”
It is a great song, and it survives Sonic Youth putting their, somewhat dark, spin on it.
I’m not much of a one for musicals, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard a version of “Do you hear the people sing?” from Les Miserables that I haven’t liked. This one is by the cast of a school production, via the medium of flash-mob, in a Walmart.
I’ll Take Care of You by Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa will make the hair on the back of your neck stand up.
Alison Krauss always gives me chills but this give me CHILLS (good ones) Ghost in This House
Thank you for the Disturbed cover of Sound of Silence and for reminding me of DOA!
Brandi Carlile’s cover of Sixty Years on
I love that pairing.
Two from Lord of the Rings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgcoBKWTW14Anything ever sung by Liz Fraser, from the earliest Cocteau Twins to much later collabos. Although Song To The Siren is possibly the most chilling.
Gorgeous!
I heard “Do You Hear the People Sing?” yesterday and thought of this thread. And the reprise at Valjean’s death.
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Sad and creepy, yet lovely, chills from “Bad Blood” (heard in The Walking Dead) by Alison Mosshart and Eric Arjes:
Although I love Johnny Cash, this absolutely blew me away. I’ll have to own this. Thanks so much for sharing.
My own contribution is not the original, but Limp Biscuit’s cover of Behind Blue Eyes. Makes my tummy flutter just thinking about it.
A buddy said he was on its last voyage but missed it by being in jail for being drunk and disorderly. That detail made it believable because he was normally drunk and disorderly.
that’s where my money is, though I probably got it from the same book as you. 
You bastard! Glad I checked the title before it loaded. Lost a former roomie when the rental Cessna he and his dad were in lost a wing at 10000. Haven’t been able to listen to it since.
Been parts of my life that coulda been my theme song, along with "Take it to the Limit (One more time).
Yes. Better than the original.
Pink Floyd, Anisina
Billy Joel – Goodnight Saigon
“Conversation 16,” by the National, is simultaneously beautiful, tragic, and just a tad creepy.
I actually dreamed about this song a while back. In the dream, I was lip-syncing the song with, of all people, Elton John. At one point, I stopped and told him, “This is one of the saddest songs I’ve ever heard.”
He replied, “I agree with you.”
Hard not to get a chill when David Bowie hits “Gasoline” in ‘Cat People’.