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Songs that gave you a chill the first time you heard them

gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
edited August 2007 in Other Music
I was just listening to my streaming radio here at work and it played Sunday Bloody Sunday from the Live at Red Rocks album. It reminded me of the first time I'd heard it performed and how it gave me chills. So now I'm thinking, what other songs have had that effect on me? Let compile a short list.

Luka - Suzan Vega
Black - PJ
What's the Matter Here - 10,000 Maniacs
Into the Mystic - Van Morrisson
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
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  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    I didn't know anything about the song, or the man, but:
    Hurt - Johnny Cash

    Damn.
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    Black
  • Its Evolution BabyIts Evolution Baby Posts: 849
    Radiohead-Exit Music for a Film
    10/31/2000 (****)
    6/7/2003 (***1/2)
    7/9/2006 (****1/2)
    7/13/2006 (**** )
    4/10/2008 EV Solo (****1/2)
    6/25/2008 MSG II (*****)
    10/1/2009 LA II (****)
    10/6/2009 LA III (***** Cornell!!!)
  • direwolf74direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Nautical Disaster- The Tragically Hip
    Karma Police- Radiohead
    Left and Leaving- The Weakerthans
    Wake Up- Arcade Fire
    One- U2
    Black- Pearl Jam
    Everybody Hurts- R.E.M.
    Hurt- Johnny Cash
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,761
    Untitled 8- Sigur Ros
    Bulletproof...I Wish I Was- Radiohead
    Low Light, Thumbing My Way, Come Back, etc.-Pearl Jam
    Leaving New York- R.E.M.

    I'll stop there, but there are a lot more.
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  • leafs4everleafs4ever Posts: 833
    I have a couple that gave me a chill the 1st time i heard them:

    Cortez the Killer - Neil Young
    Hurt - NIN (johnny cash's version does it aswell)
    Given to Fly - PJ
    Nutshell (unplugged version) - Alice In Chains
    Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
    Heroin - The Velvet Underground
    Street Spirit (Fade Out) - Radiohead
    How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead
    Njósnavélin (Untitled #4) - Sigur Ros (the 1st song i heard of theirs but really you could put any of their songs, especially from their 2nd cd (), so many emotions for the listener to interpret in their own way, pure genius)

    that's about all i can think of off the top of my head
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  • Brain of J.LoBrain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead
    Footsteps - pj

    more...still thinking...
  • bgirl59bgirl59 Posts: 888
    I just heard Ed's Solo "Hard Sun" for the first time--seconds ago---chills?? and then some!!
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  • Its Evolution BabyIts Evolution Baby Posts: 849
    bgirl59 wrote:
    I just heard Ed's Solo "Hard Sun" for the first time--seconds ago---chills?? and then some!!

    I was trying to think of that earlier. I knew I had heard a song yesterday for the first time that gave me chills but I couldn't think of it when I made my post.

    This song is great!
    10/31/2000 (****)
    6/7/2003 (***1/2)
    7/9/2006 (****1/2)
    7/13/2006 (**** )
    4/10/2008 EV Solo (****1/2)
    6/25/2008 MSG II (*****)
    10/1/2009 LA II (****)
    10/6/2009 LA III (***** Cornell!!!)
  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,183
    Fade To Black

    One

    Leper Mesiah

    Welcome Home Sanatarium.....Mettalica
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    Queens Of The Stoneage. Go With The Flow.

    Anything by Amy Winehouse. :D
  • MojopinMojopin Posts: 216
    Day in the Life

    Mojo
    "A consistently good band works all the different elements well. A song has to appeal sentimentally, intellectually, physically, viscerally, and dig deep down into your soul and suck you into it. And after that, of course, it'd be a matter of taste." ~ Kim Thayil from Soundgarden
  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    The Go! Team - Panther Dash. :o
  • FunkdogFunkdog Posts: 85
    muse - stockholm syndrome
    arcade fire - intervention
    white stripes - icky thump
    david bowie - five years

    wish i could think of more right now but can't
    "Trying is the first step towards failure" - H.J.S.

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  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    footsteps - PJ
    drink the water - jack johnson
    there's others but i can't think of them at the moment
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    gabers wrote:
    I was just listening to my streaming radio here at work and it played Sunday Bloody Sunday from the Live at Red Rocks album. It reminded me of the first time I'd heard it performed and how it gave me chills. So now I'm thinking, what other songs have had that effect on me? Let compile a short list.

    Luka - Suzan Vega
    Black - PJ
    What's the Matter Here - 10,000 Maniacs
    Into the Mystic - Van Morrisson
    Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton

    Sunday Bloody Sunday changed my life! I remember the first time I heard it too! :) And the first time I saw them perform it.....well that was just an amazing moment! :)

    PJ's Betterman would also qualify, in that I still remember the first time I heard it and it changed my life. :)
    NOPE!!!

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  • Enume CellEnume Cell Posts: 16
    Guess Im Doing Fine- Beck
    Windowsill- Arcade Fire
    The Black and The White- Alternate Routes
    HURT- Johny Cash
    If I Could- Jack Johnson
    ??!
  • Todd76Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    SARAH HARMER - LODESTAR (I will make a fan out of someone on this board if it kills me ;))
    In my world everyone is a pony,
    and they all eat rainbows and pooh butterflies!
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    Todd76 wrote:
    SARAH HARMER - LODESTAR (I will make a fan out of someone on this board if it kills me ;))

    Just had a listen to it on youtube. :) It's good. I could probably get into her. :)
    NOPE!!!

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    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • direwolf74direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Todd76 wrote:
    SARAH HARMER - LODESTAR (I will make a fan out of someone on this board if it kills me ;))

    I can't believe I forgot to add that one to my list. Truly one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 29,258
    hard sun ....
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • Todd76Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    Jeanie wrote:
    Just had a listen to it on youtube. :) It's good. I could probably get into her. :)

    Thats nice to hear.....you should check her out - you won't regret it

    (PS - the song isnt nearly as good live as the studio version.....its good - just not NEARLY as good)
    In my world everyone is a pony,
    and they all eat rainbows and pooh butterflies!
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    Todd76 wrote:
    Thats nice to hear.....you should check her out - you won't regret it

    (PS - the song isnt nearly as good live as the studio version.....its good - just not NEARLY as good)

    I think someone mentioned her to me a while ago when I was looking for songs to sing at a wedding. And I did have a listen then I think. But yeah, best I be hunting out some albums. Thanks for the heads up. :)
    NOPE!!!

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    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • mdigenakismdigenakis Posts: 1,337
    Alive
    Jimmy's solo in Stairway to Heaven
    Give Peace a Chance
    Smells like Teen Spirit
    When the president talks to God
    Lightning Crashes
    "Don't let the darkness eat you up..."

    -Greg Dulli

  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    the drones doing kev carmody's river of tears.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • MikeMcCreadyJrMikeMcCreadyJr Posts: 9
    Footsteps!!!!!!! and Ledbetter gave me both chills and a semi boner..

    "Emotion Sickness" "Without You" "World Upon Your Shoulders" Silverchair
    "Nutshell" AIC
    "Nothing Man" "Thunder Road" Bruce Springsteen
    "Piano Sonata No. 8" Beethoven
    "Round Here" Counting Crows
    "Angeles" "Somebody That I use To Know" Elliott Smith
    "Dixie Land" Elvis
    "My Way" Frank Sanatra
    "River Of Tears" "Wonderfull Tonight" Eric Clapton
    "Febuary Stars" Foo Fighters
    "Hallelujah" "Morning Theft" Jeff Buckley
    "Day at the Beach" Joe Satriani
    "Jealous Guy" Lennon

    ect....
  • emily18emily18 Posts: 489
    black gave me chills probably about the first 50 times i heard it. :p

    masters of war by bob dylan gave me chills the first time i heard it too.
  • i like matt.ci like matt.c Posts: 1,121
    Black-Pearl Jam
    The Rover-Led Zeppelin
    Under Pressure-Queen
    Cold Day In The Sun-Foo Fighters
    Strawberry Fields Forever-The Beatles
    Say Hello To Heaven-Temple of the Dog
  • run_into_the_rainrun_into_the_rain Posts: 93
    Well as far as PJ goes
    Given to Fly
    Inside Job
    Reign O'er Me
    Footsteps ad some of the similar stuff on lost dogs



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  • yellowled24yellowled24 Posts: 3,118
    anything by Kenny Rogers
    "....and was very surprised to see that he didnt actually have a recipe for anus-ankle soup." - Big Ed
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