Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by the Eurythmics.
Almost anything by this groups is chill-inducing.
About half of these have already been mentioned, so just consider them seconded:
Something Vague - Bright Eyes
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
Hurt - Johnny Cash version of the NIN song
Any version of Tainted Love
St Swithen’s Day - Ben Gibbard cover of the Billy Bragg song
Zombie - The Cranberries
The ultimate winner: O Holy Night - sung by the local Tongan Choir (despite being agnostic and all). A woman with the most amazing voice ever does the “fall on your knees” bit on her own, and wow. Everyone gets teary.
Reflections of My Mind - Marmalade
Without you I’m nothing - Placebo
Play Dead - Bjork
Time - Tori Amos
Roads - Portishead
Winners - K’s Choice
And theres a song on the “To the Faithful Departed” album by the Cranberries, the name has escaped me right now but it sounds like a corousel or merry-go-round.
And seconds to Roxanne (Moulin Rouge), Songbird by Eva Cassidy and nothing compares to you by Sinead O Conner, but more so the video that the song. It’s not even an interesting video, but for some reason she draws you in and doesn’t let you go right til the end.
“Genesis Hall” by Fairport Convention (Richard Thompson’s acoustic version is nearly as good).
“Anakie Gordon” by Mary Black
“Before the Deluge” by Jackson Browne
“Lovely on the Water” by Steeleye Span
“Banks of the Nile” by Fotheringay
South City Midnight Lady - Doobie Brothers
The Temples of Syrinx - Rush
Recently found this one:
http://www.west-of-the-moon.net/servlet/ReadGenPoetry?poetryID=46
And it’s made me weep more than once, especially when I think about how well the Frodo-Samwise bond was presented in the recent films.
Wild by Poe. Actually, most of the songs from that album give me the chills, as do the eerie recordings of her father’s voice and whoever did the voice of the little girl. Her voice reminds me of little Carol Anne from Poltergeist.
Winchester Cathedral. Good pick.
My choices:
The Town I Loved So Well - The Dubliners
Johnny Come Lately - Steve Earle
New York City - as covered by They Might Be Giants (mostly because I saw them in concert about a week after 9/11 and when they introduced it they said “This next song is about New York (pause) because that’s where we’re from.” They didn’t really have to say anything else.)
Seal’s “Kiss From A Rose” makes my boyfriend cry everytime it plays. Like snivelling crying. I play it when I am mad at him.
My mother chimes in with Smokey Robinson’s “Quiet Storm.” I would add “Bad Girl” with him and the Miracles.
My brother’s nominates “Komm Susser Tod” on the Evangelion soundtrack. I produces an odd feeling of dissonance with me. The song has a pretty upbeat sound but the lyrics…
Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” gives me the chills like no other song, except for…
the 4th movement in Beethoven’s Ninth. For the best emphasis play it about 10 minutes before dawn, get a nice view, a comfy chair and enjoy.
Little Wing by SRV and Double Trouble. I can’t listen to it alone. I start tearing up, don’t know why.
Anytime I watch or listen to the soundtrack of Jesus Christ, Superstar, when Jesus throws the moneychangers out of the temple, and sings the line “My temple should be a house of prayer…”, big time chills. Major goosebumps every time.
Cheers,
Vega
Kind of (undeservedly) obscure, but ohhhh my, Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar (w/ Jagjit Singh) did a ghazal called “Dard Se Mera Daaman Bharde.” It starts with Lata reaching these unreal, slow, soaring high notes starting with the words “Ya Allah” that are just ELECTRIC. It’ll turn you Sufi, I swear.
Ripple - Grateful Dead. Hell, even when Garrison Keillor did it a month or so ago on APHC.
I Stand Alone - Godsmack
Ne Me Quite Pas - Edith Piaff
Israel Kamakawawo’ole - Somwhere Over the Rainbow. Even though it’s been used abundantly in TV ads. It was MY song before those ad execs knew it, dammit.
Pretty ecclectic…
Vega - I’m with you on JCSS, except for me it’s when Jesus sings while praying in the garden, “Alright, I’ll die!” And I’m not a religious man.
Severance by Dead Can Dance ,
Hollow Hills by Bauhaus ,
1959 by The Sisters of Mercy ,
Sand by Einstuzende Neubauten
and
A Rainy Night in SoHo by The Pogues
are mine
“In My Life” == The Beatles
“The Luckiest” Ben Folds
[QUOTE=ArrMatey!The Thunder Rolls, not the radio version one normally hears, but the live version with the ‘extra’ verse. The crowd goes wild as he goes into the last verse, the one that makes the song, to me, a lot more poigniant. Doesn’t hurt that I love the sound of thunderstorms.[/QUOTE]
I vote here for Garth’s The River. I heard this song not long after my Uncle (who loved fishing) died. It gets me everytime.
Some other Country songs to consider:
Brad Paisley/Alison Krauss: Whiskey Lullaby
Martina McBride: Concrete Angel
Toby Keith: New Orleans
John Michael Montgomery: The Little Girl
Randy Travis: Three Wooden Crosses
Some great choices! Here are my picks that haven’t (I think) been mentioned yet:
Older by They Might Be Giants. A great little creepy song about time, beginning:
The Wind that Shakes the Barley by Dead Can Dance. A pretty typical my-love-gets-killed song, but beautifully performed.
Black Wings by Tom Waits. There’s a specific lyric in it that sends chills through me:
And one more Tom Waits pick (though really, he’s got quite a few): Kentucky Avenue, off of Blue Valentine. Again, it’s a particular lyric that gets me: at the end of a slow, quiet love song sung by one delinquent boy to another, during which he’s described plans to slash schoolbus tires, spit on ronnie arnold, kill some rattlesnakes, and so forth, there’s the following:
Daniel
Oh, one more I wanted to mention: Kronos Quartet’s performance of Shostakovich’s Quartet #8 is deeply, deeply powerful, ominous, and chilling. (The piece is a dirge for the millions dead at Stalin’s hands, I believe).
Daniel