The "Tingle" Factor

There are certain records which are so good and so atmospheric that when you here them they make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up . As somebody on the radio once said:- " you have to just lie down in a darkened room and listen to them " .
My nominations for these records are :- " The Folks Who Live on the Hill " by Peggy Lee , " Stardust " by Nat Cole and " When I was Seventeen " By Sinatra . As you can see by this selection I am of a “certain age”. I should welcome other people’s choices.

“Celluloid Heroes” by the Kinks almost always does that for me. Even though I first came across it in a commercial for something like AMC. For some reason it hits especially around the bit about Mickey Rooney.

Cyndi Lauper’s Time After Time
kd lang’s Constant Craving
various by Bjork: Bachelorette, for instance
Madonna’s Live to Tell

Too many to say but here are a few:

Certain bits in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto #2

Ditto for Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto and his 9th Symphony.

The “Maria” part in Joshua Bell’s version of Bernstein’s West Side Story Suite is truly breathtaking.

“The Kiss” from the soundtrack of Last of the Mohicans.

“So Long Ago, So Clear” from Heaven and Hell by Vangelis

“Main Titles” from Bladerunner (also Vangelis)

“Moviola” by John Barry

(Rayne Man: I too, like Sinatra’s “It Was A Very Good Year” -can’t say it makes me all squirmy, but it’s the reason I bought the album.)

“With or Without You” by U2

I can only think of two off of the top of my head… the first being Tocata and Fugue in D Minor by Johannes Sebastian Bach and the second being Parabol and Parabola by Tool.

Adagio for Strings does it for me.

Rayne Man, I suspect that we are in the same generation. Nat King Cole’s “Stardust” was on the first album I ever owned.

“Shenandoah” (as sung by the Mornon Tabernacle Choir) You can hear the notes and words echoing against the hills)

“Beneath the Southern Cross” from Victory at Sea (by Richard Rodgers)

“Rhapsody in Blue” and “An American in Paris” – Gershwin

“Intermezzo” from Cavaleria Rusticana

“Londonderry Aire” (traditional)

“The Humming Chorus” from Madame Butterfly (I think)

**Octavia{/b], I like so many on your list that I may have to get the ones I don’t know. I just assume that I would like them.

Tchaikovsky’s Symphonie Pathetique, first movement, and his Fifth Symphony, second movement both have seem to have that effect on me.

Tocata and Fugue in D Minor
Brandenberg Concerto
Moonlight Sonata
Claudia Christian’s Taboo CD

Tori Amos - benefit for rainn
Crowded House - best of

“Can you Hear the People Sing” off Les Mis

THESE DREAMS by Heart

the “Turn Arounds” and the seldom heard 3rd verse of Bonnie Tyler’s TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART

Magic Fire Music from Wagner’s DIE WALKURE (Odin is imprisoning his beloved daughter Brunhilde on a flame-encircled rock for defying his
order tho following his true will)

Siegfried’s Rhine Journey & Funeral March from Wagner’s GOTTERDAMMERUNG

opening of Tschaikovsky’s SWAN LAKE- because of its use in the Universal films THE MUMMY & DRACULA (I cannot forgive the revised Philip Glass soundtrack for not incorporating it).

FOR MY LADY, WATCHING AND WAITING, AND THE TIDE RUSHES IN, ARE YOU SITTING QUIETLY, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN by The Moody Blues.

I can’t recall the singer but…
“Heavenly shades of night are falling,
it’s Twilight Time…”

I rarely get the “tingle” feeling while listening to something good. I only get it when I hear something that sucks. There must be something wrong with me.

Boundaries of Imagination by Armin van Buuren

“Closer” by NIN :smiley: :wink:

“Winds of Change” by Scorpions
Growing up during the cold war, I never imagined it would end in my lifetime - this song makes me feel that ANYTHING - anything at all - is possible.

“Rather Die (than be your slave)” by Pokerface (downloadable at www.pokerface.com)
A haunting song about America’s past and what may well be our future.

Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring is, to me, the most beautiful, moving piece of music I’ve ever heard. I get more than tingly during the second movement (simply called “Fast”). It is so very majestic.

The finale, based on the Quaker Hymn “Simple Gifts,” also has the same effect on me.

Ralph Vaughn-Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis;

& another vote for Nat King Cole’s Stardust as I have, in fact, said before;

Second Movement of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony;

Jean Berger’s Magnificat (retire the Bach, the Schubert, and that of everone else who ever attempted it);

Side One of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.

I second Appalachian Spring, especially the “Simple Gifts” part, but I have very specific good memories attached to that, so perhaps it doesn’t count.

Enya’s “Far and Away” and Metallica’s “Wherever I May Roam” both do it for me - I swear both songs make me remember having wings . . .