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What Was the Last Piece of Music that Gave You the Chills?

Grant Brissey
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Curtis Mayfield, "Move On Up" played in its entirety by Jessica Hopper at the Pop Con. Something about the vocals set against the tempo of the syncopation in the first five minutes of the song.
Estey on May 2, 2014 at 12:23 PM Report this
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The theme from The History Channel's episodic series "Vikings"
Will in Seattle on May 2, 2014 at 12:28 PM Report this
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Beethoven's Fifth at the Sydney Opera House
on May 2, 2014 at 12:30 PM Report this
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Carl Orff's Carmina Burana always gives me the chills when 'O Fortuna' starts up.

Hearing a full, live chorus sing it is incredible.
Urgutha Forka on May 2, 2014 at 12:34 PM Report this
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Appropriately, the Cold Song ("What power art thou who from below...") from Purcell's King Arthur. Not the Klaus Nomi version, though. That song is meant for a bass voice.
MacCrocodile on May 2, 2014 at 12:41 PM Report this
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Youth Lagoon - July
jilligan on May 2, 2014 at 12:44 PM Report this
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Spiritualized - Stay with me
http://youtu.be/wk14D6Wkrvs
on May 2, 2014 at 12:45 PM Report this
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"Where was you?"

That's silly. Sitting in front of my computer. Watching and listening to all the YouTube music videos of Slog. I get chills every time with the songs you pick. Sitting in front of the computer is the best place to listen to music.
dnt trust me on May 2, 2014 at 12:46 PM Report this
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Beethoven's Fifth for me too (Jinx at 3).

Pavarotti singing anything, but especially La Bohème and La Traviata.

Any performance in the Gospel tent at the New Orleans Jazz fest.
Sandiai on May 2, 2014 at 12:53 PM Report this
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"So here is my love song, not fancy or fine..."

"Lida Rose" from The Music Man. Gets me every damn time.
Transient Gadfly on May 2, 2014 at 12:54 PM Report this
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I can't remember the most recent time, but some classics that do it to me every time:

Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker Pas de Deux
Carlos Santana "Samba Pa Ti"
That key change in Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror"
JenV on May 2, 2014 at 1:00 PM Report this
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Either "Dawg After Dark" by David Grisman and Tony Rice, or the Pokemon Reorchestrated arrangement of the Lavender Town theme by Braxton Burks and Eric Buchholz, whichever I listened to more recently. BRB, listening to both.
venomlash on May 2, 2014 at 1:23 PM Report this
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I got chills from seeing A Perfect Circle cover John Lennon's "Imagine" in concert. They do it really well, albeit a bit more dark and brooding. The lyrics are so powerful and it was great to hear a well-done, modern rendition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKJY55ff…
Scooterness on May 2, 2014 at 1:25 PM Report this
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Yo La Tengo's "Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind." Ira Kaplan is the master of distortion and feedback. God I love that stuff.
Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In on May 2, 2014 at 1:34 PM Report this
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Unfurling the hippie banner.....

Phish, 10/31/1994 Reba, from 11:05 to 13:51 always gets me.

Also, Sigur Ros, Untitled 8 (popplagio/pop song), from ().
California on May 2, 2014 at 1:35 PM Report this
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"Si Tu Vois Ma Mère" by Sidney Bechet.
Living room: 9:24 am, Friday 2 May.
on May 2, 2014 at 1:37 PM Report this
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The chord change about 6 minutes into Nils Frahm's "Says" can pretty reliably get me all chill'd up.
murray chatauqua on May 2, 2014 at 1:53 PM Report this
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Shit Robot's "Feels Real" with Luke Jenner on vocals.
on May 2, 2014 at 2:04 PM Report this
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The opening bars of Phantogram's "Mouthful of Diamonds" came on the iPod as the plane I was on started powering up for takeoff a few days ago. Stare out the window and watch the ground disappear while listening to that. Brrrrrr. (Okay, so the rest of the song is about drugs. I get it.)
bitethemailman on May 2, 2014 at 2:16 PM Report this
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Yungchen Lhamo's "Happiness Is..."
Arvo Pärt's "Alina"
treacle on May 2, 2014 at 2:25 PM Report this
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"Rhapsody in Blue." The moment when it changes to the "United Airlines" theme. I have the Leonard Bernstein/NY Philharmonic version.
Pope Buck I on May 2, 2014 at 2:30 PM Report this
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Just watched American Hustle, Jeep's Blues by Duke Ellington.
biffp on May 2, 2014 at 2:36 PM Report this
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The Man by Aloe Blacc. After I heard it, raced home to look it up on YouTube.
Patricia Kayden on May 2, 2014 at 3:20 PM Report this
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Amazing Grace, a couple weeks ago, by the Celtic Women, live, and accompanied by a bagpipe. One or more of the above will come close, and combining the three made it certain.
on May 2, 2014 at 3:22 PM Report this
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5:21 PM on Sunday, April 16th of this year. I played a cover of Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come" by The Gits, immediately Mia's voiced caused the goose bumps to rise.
on May 2, 2014 at 3:40 PM Report this
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

Almost every time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZwQeZh6r…

Ignatz Mouse on May 2, 2014 at 3:46 PM Report this
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Lots of chilly spine-tingling moments in Ligeti's Violin Concerto:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLy26ZZDR…

And Grisey's Les Espaces Acoustiques:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX77MC5oX…
john t on May 2, 2014 at 5:02 PM Report this
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Last December, seeing Andrew Bird at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago. He opened up "Headsoak" with a borrowed verse from the Staples Singers' "Too Close" that is possibly the single most perfect moment I will ever experience.
Sweeney Agonistes on May 2, 2014 at 5:36 PM Report this
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The Mt. St. Helens Symphony by Hovhaness, early in the third movement when the peace of that May morning is shattered by the sudden timpani note that begins the eruption sequence. It never fails to give me chills. Go hear it live if you can - a full symphony orchestra producing a wall of sound is something to experience in person.
Dr. Z on May 2, 2014 at 5:46 PM Report this
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Oslo Philharmonic doing Strauss Kuss-Walzer... 2005 or 06. Not the last time, but the most memorable.
julie russell on May 2, 2014 at 6:09 PM Report this
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Playing Frank Ticheli's arrangement of Shenandoah with my Rainbow City Band at our spring concert last month:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN1ZV2oa…
Bloke on May 2, 2014 at 6:43 PM Report this
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A couple of months ago I attended a performance of Bach's Cantata 106 "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit" (God's time is the best time). It's perhaps the closest Bach got to writing a Requiem. It opens with plaintive recorders playing a mournful duet, it has a soprano aria trailing off into ambiguity, it's all about how we know not the time nor the hour of our death. Bach writes as a Lutheran concerned about us accepting Jesus as our Savior, but in truth, he reminds us that regardless of religious belief, we do not know the span of our lives, hence it behooves us to live them as best we can.
Courgette on May 2, 2014 at 7:32 PM Report this
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@32 - Beautiful. I've also heard the Seattle Men's Chorus sing that song, and it is chilling.

It always reminds me of the spontaneous singing of Pokarekare Ana when New Zealand legalized same-sex marriage. No matter how many times I watch it, I cry every damn time.
MacCrocodile on May 3, 2014 at 11:04 AM Report this
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More than 25 years ago watching late night TV and David Sanborn played "The Dream".... it was hypnotic....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsq5eWCR…
lee harris on May 3, 2014 at 11:33 AM Report this
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Last 10 minutes of Der Rosenkavalier.
this guy I know in Spokane on May 3, 2014 at 1:30 PM Report this
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Scott Walker's "Get Behind Me."
Dave Segal on May 3, 2014 at 4:19 PM Stranger Staff
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PWEI - englands finest
on May 3, 2014 at 6:28 PM Report this
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A couple weeks ago, I was sampling some music that Spotify had suggested to me, and I heard Brolle's "Handen på hjärtat" for the first time. The song gave me chills, especially the bridge and the final repetition of the chorus. My Swedish is pretty terrible, but the guy's got pipes, and the overall sound is very... emotive.
brendan on May 4, 2014 at 6:33 PM Report this
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Chanticleer singing Franz Biebl's "Ave Maria".

The final chorus of Mahler's 8th Symphony.

The Love Duet/Dream sequence from Act III of Massenet's "Cendrillon" at a performance at Central City Opera some years ago.
YoungbloodG on May 15, 2014 at 4:59 AM Report this

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