Songs that can give you chills (in a good way)

[LostinVA]

There's lots of them, but I'll nominate:

Bonnie Raitt, "I Can't Make You Love Me."

[buddhamama]

1. Visions of Johanna - Bob Dylan

[buddhamama]

2. Not A Pretty Girl- Ani DiFranco

[idgiehkt]

43. 'so put me down punk...'

amen to that. :hi:

[Drum]

3. "Liebestod" (literally "love and death") from Tristan und Isolde...

a really sublime piece of music, this coincides with Isolde's death at the end of the opera. Very good chills....

Here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLdebXaM4OA (5 minutes)

:)

EDIT: here's a better link, Herbert von Karajan conducting with the stellar Jessye Norman singing, 9 minutes, complete concert version. ****
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNHcZiveu5Q

:D

[CTyankee]

46. A good example of the "Tristan chord" just going up and up.

Anybody know what the hell Isolde died from?

[Guava Jelly]

4. a few

Butterfly ..weezer
steele train .. sublime
Don't think twice its alright ..dylan
golden slumbers.. the Beatles
I'll stand by you .. the pretenders

I could sit here all day typing

[LynzM]

5. Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley's version

Chills, for sure.

[buddhamama]

14. the song gives me the chills too,

either version works for me. Cohen is the Man. :)

[driver8]

27. The Rufus Wainwright version gave me chills the first time I heard it.

That is such an amazing song...no matter who sings it!!

[Left Is Write]

47. Me too.

[MysticalChicken]

45. Chills?...

I will have tears flowing down my face for the duration of that song. I WILL cry, every time I hear it. The other day I watched a nine-plus minute live version on YouTube--twice in a row--and I was crying for nearly twenty minutes. Hell, I saw a commercial for ER the other night with like two lines of that song in it, and I was crying during that. It is my number-one ultimate tear-jerker song.

[Left Is Write]

48. Well, if we're talking ER...

I cried on the episode when Abby's baby was born.

[REDKING]

6. Salisbury Hill...Peter Gabriel

Always makes me feel theres a place to go,a great feeling...Peace Rk:7

[Ptah]

7. Endless Waterfall - Chris Williamson

Sometimes it takes a rainy day
just to let you know
everything gonna be alright

[astral]

56. Waterfall is one of my favorite songs of ALL TIME

I've been dreaming in the sun
won't you wake me up someone
I need a little peace of mind

wake me from this dream
that I have dreamed so many times
I neeed a little peace of mind

Woah - woah, I need a little peace of mind

When you open up your life to the limit
All things start
spilling in on you

And you're flowing like a dreamer
The changer and the changed

You've got to spill some over
spill some over
spill some over

over all

Filling up and spilling over it's an endless waterfall
Filling up and spilling over over all

Filling up and spilling over it's an endless waterfall
Filling up and spilling over over all

Like the rain
falling on the ground

[hellbound-liberal]

8. Abraham, Martin and John!

Swede posted the video in the Video forum the other day and I sent it to everyone that I know.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

9. "Drive" by Melissa Ferrick

Those are definitely chills in a good way.

[leftofthedial]

10. "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro

See the tree how big it's grown . . .

:sigh:

[jonnyblitz]

11. !!!

:rofl:

thanks for the earworm.

[auntAgonist]

12. Don't Give Up: Peter Gabriel n/t

[buddhamama]

13. Biko by Gabriel

gives me the chills. He is quality.

[bridgit]

16. Red Rain...

Red rain is coming down
Red rain
Red rain is pouring down
Pouring down all over me

I am standing up at the waters edge in my dream
I cannot make a single sound as you scream
It cant be that cold, the ground is still warm to touch
This place is so quiet, sensing that storm

Red rain is coming down
Red rain
Red rain is pouring down
Pouring down all over me

Well Ive seen them buried in a sheltered place in this town
They tell you that this rain can sting, and look down
There is no blood around see no sign of pain
Hay ay ay no pain
Seeing no red at all, see no rain

Red rain is coming down
Red rain
Red rain is pouring down
Pouring down all over me

Red rain-
Putting the pressure on much harder now
To return again and again
Just let the red rain splash you
Let the rain fall on your skin
I come to you defences down
With the trust of a child

Red rain is coming down
Red rain
Red rain is pouring down
Pouring down all over me
And I cant watch any more
No more denial
Its so hard to lay down in all of this
Red rain is coming down
Red rain is pouring down
Red rain is coming down all over me
I see it
Red rain is coming down
Red rain is pouring down
Red rain is coming down all over me
Im bathing in it
Red rain coming down
Red rain is coming down
Red rain is coming down all over me
Im begging you
Red rain coming down
Red rain coming down
Red rain coming down
Red rain coming down
Over me in the red red sea
Over me
Over me
Red rain

[MissHoneychurch]

15. The Rose by Bette Midler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYWAYLZWZBg

[bridgit]

17. To Ramona - B Dylan...

Bob Dylan - To Ramona III -1965

[bertha katzenengel]

18. "Look What Love Has Done" Suzy Bogguss n/t

[Fountain79]

19. Go rest high on that mountain....

Vince Gill

[VespertineIconoclast]

20. Almost anything by Ursula Rucker.

She's a spoken word artist and her voice is perfect for what she does.

[acmavm]

21. Forever Young - Joan Baez

[Haole Girl]

22. Here are just a few:

It's a wonderful world - Louis Armstrong

Pacing the cage - Jimmy Buffett

If you could read my mind - Gordon Lightfoot

Song For A Winter's Night - Gordon Lightfoot

Concerto in E Minor for Violin - Mendelssohn

...ther are so many more...the list goes on.....

[musette_sf]

38. Bruce Cockburn's "Pacing The Cage"

is far better...

[Haole Girl]

50. Thank you...

..that was nice, too (found part of the song at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=FgFpjB1m6Z8).

Still, there is something in the story-telling...and the way Jimmy Buffett can sing about clouds, I guess, that draws me in. While Buffett may not have the better voice, I still like his version...even more. Does that make me a Parrothead? ;-)

Either way, it's a song with a lot of feeling, isn't it?

:hi:

[Tikki]

23. "Somewhere" from (West Side Story)...by Ms. Barbra Streisand....n/t

[flamingyouth]

24. "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out," by The Smiths

I love that song.

[LeftCoast]

30. I'll 2nd that one!

Great song!

[flamingyouth]

34. Hey you!

How are you doing? :hi:

[LeftCoast]

35. Doing good. I graduate Dec 15th!

I'll be a stress-monkey till then.

Hope you're feeling less stressed than I am. :)

[flamingyouth]

37. I'm so proud of you! That's awesome!

I'm going to send you a PM. :hug:

[Fenris]

42. ...

:loveya:

[Patiod]

25. "Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohn (not the Cher version...)

and the first time I heard Izzy's version of "Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" on All Things Considered on NPR, about a year before his death. And when they played it again when he died.

[qnr]

26. Quite a few. Two not mentioned yet: "Highwayman" and "Nightshift" (video links)

Highwayman - The Highwaymen
Nightshift - The Commodores

[speedoo]

28. Bob Dylan - 'The Times They Are A' Changin' (1964 video)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x7377

[Schema Thing]

29. This Woman's Work / Kate Bush

And yeah, "I can't make you love me" gets me too.

I was two weeks into the split that led to divorce; we'd already bought Bonnie Raitt tickets, and I found 3 friends who wanted to go. It was going great, I thought, "hey, I'm having a good time, I can survive this". Then she started into I Can't Make You Love Me... gaaah! I lost it.

[LostinVA]

31. Yeah -- that's a good one, too!

I didn't think of that one.

[tinfoil tiaras]

32. "When the President Talks to God" by Bright Eyes

"Drive" by R.E.M.
"Lubbock or Leave it" by The Dixie Chicks
"Venus in Furs" by The Velvet Underground
"Land Locked Blues" by Bright Eyes

[hippywife]

33. Man of God by Eliza Gilkyson

Really lets Bush and the neocons have it with that little tune. Gives me chills up the back of my neck *every* time I hear it.

[Coventina]

36. Two that are totally different:

Ray of Light - Madonna

Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain - Willie Nelson

[Evoman]

39. This may seem really weird...but anything by the 80s band New Order. I don't even like them that

much, but True Faith and even Bizarre Love Triangle gives me tingles.

[Evoman]

40. Oh crap...also The Unforgiven by Metallica nt

[WannaBeGrumpy]

41. Feelings without weight by Chris Trapper!

I loveit! it makes me remember summer!

[idgiehkt]

44. "Glycerine" by Bush, and "Lightning Crashes" by Live

Glycerine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbWB55l_Emg&mode=related&search=

Lightning Crashes live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dS7NGpPrqQ (great performance on unplugged)

video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVtdIeQw3Hs


Live - Lightning Crashes Lyrics

Lightning crashes, a new mother cries
her placenta falls to the floor
the angel opens her eyes
the confusion sets in
before the doctor can even close the door

lightning crashes, an old mother dies
her intentions fall to the floor
the angel closes her eyes
the confusion that was hers
belongs now, to the baby down the hall

oh now feel it comin' back again
like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind
forces pullin' from the center of the earth again
I can feel it.

lightning crashes, a new mother cries
this moment she's been waiting for
the angel opens her eyes
pale blue colored iris,
presents the circle
and puts the glory out to hide, hide

[Left Is Write]

49. Oh yeah. Lightning Crashes does it for me too.

[idgiehkt]

54. I have to be careful with that one

If I'm in a sad mood it can make it worse, but it is one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs I've ever heard.

[Burma Jones]

51. Puff The Magic Dragon - And......

Comfortably Numb
Hello - by Dan Zanes
City of New Orleans as done by Arlo Guthrie
Mistletoe Waltz - Diordan
Na Laetha Geal M'oige - Enya
Nessun Dorma - as performed by Luciano Pavarotti
Chunks of Beethoven's Ninth (no matter how many times I hear or perform it)
And, also from Beethoven, the second movement of the Emperor Concerto


And a few of the ones already listed and probably some I haven't listed and probably a lot I haven't heard yet...........

[mentalsolstice]

52. "I Will Never Be the Same" by Melissa Etheridge n/t

[mentalsolstice]

53. "Call to Heaven" by Patty Smyth

You'll be for peace at all costs after listening to this one.

[Generic Brad]

55. "I'm Not In Love" by 10cc

[astral]

57. The Circle Game

as sung by Joni Mitchell, although right now I can't remember if she or Buffie Sainte Marie wrote it . . .

[gkdmaths]

58. O fortuna,

Beethoven's 9th symphony, Dear God (McLachlan cover) and Nessun Dorma

[Jean Louise Finch]

59. Nightswimming by R.E.M.

Gets me right in the gut every time:

Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
The photograph on the dashboard, taken years ago,
Turned around backwards so the windshield shows
Every streetlight reveals the picture in reverse
Still, it's so much clearer
I forgot my shirt at the water's edge
The moon is low tonight

Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
I'm not sure all these people understand
It's not like years ago,
The fear of getting caught,
Of recklessness and water
They cannot see me naked
These things, they go away,
Replaced by everyday

Nightswimming, remembering that night
September's coming soon
I'm pining for the moon
And what if there were two
Side by side in orbit
Around the fairest sun?
That bright, tight forever drum
Could not describe nightswimming

You, I thought I knew you
You, I cannot judge
You, I thought you knew me,
This one laughing quietly underneath my breath
Nightswimming

The photograph reflects,
Every streetlight a reminder
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night, deserves a quiet night


And also "I See A Darkness" by Will Oldham, whose own version I've never heard. Johnny Cash's on his Solitary Man album is incredibly powerful.

[Lethe]

60. Olsen Olsen by Sigur Ros

don't know what he's saying, but i like