<p>Elleneast-yes, WSS! For me, the song that most gets me from that is “Somewhere.”</p>
<p>Great topic, way too many to choose from. </p>
<p>Gotta agree with the bagpipes playing Amazing Grace.</p>
<p>Anything live by Springsteen. Go to a concert, for 3-4 hours you will have the chills. Most especially for me is Human Touch.</p>
<p>Hallelujah by KD Lang </p>
<p>I know it’s corny but Pomp and Circumstance but that’s probably more tears than chills.</p>
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<p>Yes, the 10-12 minute “Prove it” was played throughout the Darkness tour. I used to have a few versions of it on cassette. There are actually two official releases of it on DVD (one from Phoenix, one from Houston, both 1978) in Springsteen’s new “The Promise” box set. When the first notes of that guitar solo ring out, I’m toast.</p>
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<p>Another vote for P&C. I get the chills each time I hear it because I think about the challenges and accomplishments that surround the occasion.</p>
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<p>Another -but different - one: The soundtrack to “Cinema Paradiso”</p>
<p>Audio–cool! I don’t have The Promise yet. The one I have on bootleg is from The Capitol Theater in Passaic NJ on September 19th, 1978. I’ve heard other versions, but that one’s my absolute favorite. My copy has a lot of scratches and crackle, but I was overjoyed to find it on Youtube recently, so I can listen to it online.</p>
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<p>Yes. Particularly One Tree Hill, knowing it was recorded in just one take with Bono’s thoughts on his good friend Greg Carroll’s death.</p>
<p>I didn’t actually hear it at the time. I have the bootleg three record set that was called Piece de Resistance, which, even though I grew up in Sprinsteenland in NJ, I actually found out in Ann Arbor a year or so after its release.</p>
<p>Garland:I should be working but I just watched it on Youtube. It was great! Thanks for the heads up!</p>
<p>Richard Kiley as Don Quixote singing “Dulcinea” from the “Man of La Mancha” soundtrack. To me it’s just about perfect.</p>
<p>Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert (a live improvisational piano concert performed at the Köln Opera House, Germany on January 24, 1975) is a work of genius and inspiration… Autumnal in tone and introspective throughout, the work is never sad. Ruefulness turns to notes of acceptance and joy and back. I like to think the music is a life well examined.</p>
<p>I have listened to this work hundreds of times and never tire of it.</p>
<p>ProudNJmom–glad you liked it! :)</p>
<p>Led Zeppelin - Kashmir and any other major hit they had.<br>
Cream-Crossroads opening riff
Stevie Nicks-Landslide and pretty much anything–“I’m getting older too” Yup me too.
Skynyrd–Free Bird of course.</p>
<p>Right now–Adele does it for me. 21 is a near perfect album</p>
<p>Jeff Beck’s guitar solo in People Get Ready.</p>
<p>I agree with the Beethoven’s 7th, particularly the part played during the ending speech in the King’s Speech–after the Oscars, that melody was stuck in my head for two days!
Tchaikovsky’s big three waltzes also do it for me, as well as “Snow” from the Nutcracker.
When I was little, I remember hearing the Mormon Tabernacle Choir doing America the Beautiful right after my grandmother died and I cried every time I heard it for years.
My mother got me into Ezio Pinza’s version of Some Enchanted Evening.</p>
<p>I guess that many of the feelings we get are stirred by events close to us when we first heard different music or heard such music at a critical time in our life. One in particular is when I watched the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace on September 11th, 2001 and for the first time ever instead of God Save the Queen, the Royal Band played the Star Spangled Banner. That one really got me.<br>
As for the bagpipe songs I mentioned, I like when the lone piper, but the chills/goose bumps come on when the entire band kicks in.</p>
<p>Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto #1 and Symphony Pathetique</p>
<p>Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto</p>
<p>Brahms Violin Concerto</p>
<p>Beethoven’s 9th Symphony Ode to Joy</p>
<p>And of course, Handel’s Messiah Hallelujah Chorus.</p>
<p>Gettingridofson, I’m crying just reading your post.</p>
<p>I also needed to add the Hebrew Chorus from Nabucco (used as a patriotic song by the Italians in the 19th Century).</p>
<p>Speaking of Springsteen (kind of), the Nils Lofgren solo in the live version of Youngstown is also breathtaking.</p>
<p>I second Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”.</p>
<p>I’d add “The Impossible Dream” from Man of La Mancha.</p>