<p>I’ve been interested in the topic of musical chills for some time now. Who gets them? Why? Live music? Recorded music? And which pieces? There seem to be some pieces that affect many people in this way, such as Barber’s Adagio for Strings and Pavarotti singing Nessun Dorma. Those works do it for me. A couple of others from different musical genres are Etta James singing At Last and As If We Never Said Goodbye, sung by Kurt on Glee last week. So what gives you chills?</p>
<p>George Winston playing “VAriations on the Canon”.</p>
<p>Step 1 - type this into youtube: us national anthem by the academy choir
Step 2 - get chills</p>
<p>Even though I am not religious or a Christian I think a good rendition of “Amazing Grace” (say Joan Baez) or “How can I keep from Singing” (Enya) can be prettying chilling.</p>
<p>But then Apocalyptica gives me a very different kind of chill. 4 cellos - metal sound. Check out their youtube video “path” (I love the video as well as the music) - or if you prefer to start from a classical base (you won’t finish up there!) check out their version of “Hall of the Mountain King”.</p>
<p>When a stadium full of rock fans sings the lyrics a cappella to one of Pearl Jam’s songs.
Especially * Better Man* or * Black* </p>
<p>mathmom I love Amazing Grace too.</p>
<p>Bryn Terfel could sing the phone book and give me chills. Check out he and Cecilia Bartoli singing La Ci Darem on youtube. WISH I could have heard him singe Wotan in Die Walkure</p>
<p>Very strange thread as I just got them a few minutes ago “I Want To Know What Love Is” Foreigner. Listening to YouTube and lurking here. I get them from many different songs/types of music. The bagpipes playing Amazing Grace or Going Home. I guess that’s because I’ve been to way too many Police and Fire funerals. Listening to Eric Clapton and Baby Face “Change The World” did it for me when I originally saw Phenomenon, another one that made me misty eyed. (I saw it again the other day). I was brought to tears once when I was a a HS concert and two girls performed. One sang and the other played the violin and it was beautiful. I could go on, but you’re probably getting the rope ready by now.
(This is coming from a “tough” former Marine)</p>
<p>First and last songs from Adele’s ‘21’ album</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Adele - Rolling In The Deep (LIVE AOL Sessions HQ)](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Adele Someone like you (LIVE AOL Sessions HQ)](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>OMG, gettingridofson. “I Want to Know What Love Is” kills me every time. It is so over the top, but it is thrilling. I love singing it really loud, with feeling, to the great consternation of my child (she is in favor of on-key singing and vocal control). There was a day when I would have called Foreigner a guilty pleasure, but now it’s all just unadulterated pleasure for me (too old to apologize). Other transcendent numbers: Sammy Davis, Jr., singing “Begin the Beguine” (mostly just Sam and some bongo drums); Van Morrison, “Madame George”; Merle Haggard, “I Started Loving You Again”; Al Green, “Simply Beautiful”; Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson, “April in Paris.” On this last: Just try to listen without shivering. It’s amazing.</p>
<p>I’m enjoying listening to these; several caused a chill. Soccerguy, that version of the Star Spangled Banner is beautiful. When the sopranos come in, wow, what a tingle!</p>
<p>So do any of you see common connections between the works that cause this sensation?</p>
<p>Selena Gomez- Who Says, definitely</p>
<p>[Weeping</a> Winds](<a href=“Whistling winds by Bobby Sands - YouTube”>Whistling winds by Bobby Sands - YouTube), penned by a tortured man in a prison cell, sung by his comrades in later years. Someone decided to misname the song on YouTube, though.</p>
<p>That gives me the chills more than any other music.</p>
<p>YES! to Bryn Terfel in anything. I listen to his CD of Rodgers and Hammerstein all the time - chills galore, especially “Some Enchanted Evening.” And Pavarotti, of course, with those 9 high Cs ringing like bells in “Ah, mes amis.” More chills from Luciano - “Que gelida manina,” “Una furtiva lagrima,” “Nessun dorma” … There are a lot of tenors I love, but he will always be my favorite.</p>
<p>The Finale in Les Miserables</p>
<p>Wow. Bryn Terfel doing Rodgers and Hammerstein. Must give that a listen.</p>
<p>there’s a bootleg live version of “Prove it All Night” (SPringsteen) from about 1978 that has this long haunting piano-guitar intro which always gives me chills.</p>
<p>Most of U2’s Joshua Tree album.</p>
<p>Classically–Beethoven’s 7th
“Great Gates of Kiev” from Pictures at an Exhibition. (Mussorgorsky (sp?)).</p>
<p>Any rendition of “Oh Holy Night” but especially a version by Irma Thomas.</p>
<p>There are so many. I recently watched West Side Story again. One hand, one heart gets me every time.</p>
<p>The one that does goosebumps without fail for me is Elsa’s Procession To The Cathedral, from Lohengrin, by Wagner. Especially the last two minutes.</p>
<p>Half the time tears spring into my eyes. </p>
<p>Just typed in Elsa’s Process To The Cathedral into YouTube and played the first one that came up. Goosebumps and tears.</p>
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<p>Make that Elsa’s Procession To The Cathedral.</p>
<p>Alfred Reed’s “Russian Christmas Music” - best piece for symphonic band ever written. Hard to hold back emotions when listening, even harder when playing…</p>
<p>Also, Liebestod from Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, the orchestral version gives me chills</p>