Partly because it came out exactly when I needed it to help me get through some heavy life stuff, and partly because I'm still angrily sad about Chadwick Boseman passing away.
For happy chills up the spine, the bit at the end of Prince's '3 Chains of Gold', where he just starts going completely mental on his guitar, gets me every time. (I'm also still shaking my fist at the sky over his death, too)
I had a friend who purchased Meat Puppets II because of those covers. He hated it, was going to literally throw the cassette away so I took it… I ended up in our rec room letting it play while I played asteroids on one of those little Macintosh computers with the small screen built into the pc body… first pass - wtf am I hearing? …Second pass - oh I see, it’s like country punk, that’s what I’m hearing… third pass - every song feels like velvet rubbing against my soul… it honestly changed my world as much or more than Nirvana did, in the end.
I saw Hole and Marilyn Manson open up for NIN in Chicago in 1994, and Courtney Love ended their set with this song, literally screaming at the end like all of pain in the world was flying out of her, then jumped onto the crowd, surfed for a second, bounced off my shoulder, all while people grabbed at her and tore her dress. She got back on stage holding the torn top of her dress up over her boobs, flipped us off, spit on the stage, and stormed off... it was fucking incredible.
That song helped me grieve my father's death. I remember days when my mother wasn't home, I'd blast it loud on the huge old speakers she and dad had bought in Japan during the Vietnam War. I'd sob while singing the lyrics. That song means everything to me. Even though it was made for Highlander, I didn't know that as a kid, so I assumed it was Freddy's way of coping with his diagnosis.
It's not only the music, but Freddie's ethereal voice. He could make anything sound haunting, silly, fun, epic, or relaxing just by singing. I used to dream of singing like him when I was a kid/teen.
I love everything by Queen. I was raised on them, along with other rock/metal legends of the 70s and 80s. When my sister was a toddler (she was born in 88), we taught her how to headbang (safely, of course) to Bohemian Rapsody just like in Wayne's World. Mom and I were devastated when Freddie died. I kid you not, my father died on the exact same day and year Freddie did. Trippy as hell.
Tbh, I don't have many memories of my dad, unfortunately. I wish I did. He was diagnosed when I was 9, so my brain only latched onto those few years of him slowly dying. Before then, he was mainly at work, so I didn't get to know him well. But I do remember him being extremely kind, funny, and sensitive. I'm eternally grateful that I had him as a father, no matter how short of a time that ended up being. Just wish I'd gotten to know him into my teen and adult years. I still miss him terribly. Thank you for your condolences.
Haha, mom and I had fun doing so. We still have an old family video of mom, my sister, and I coming home from somewhere. Mom's got Bohemian Rapsody on in the car, and she tells my sister to headbang at the right moment. 😆 We taught her well, lol.
It sounds like you were lucky to have your dad, for however short a time.
When Freddie died, I was devastated. It was only the second celeb death that had really impacted me (the first was Jim Henson), and while I recall being relieved to know he didn’t have to suffer any more, I just felt like he was taken from us far too soon. We missed out on Freddie getting to be his glorious self well into old age and any additional music Queen may have created. I like to imagine Freddie aging as delightfully as Ian McKellen has…
Same here. I still get incredibly sad whenever I think about Jim Henson. He meant a lot to me. I was also gutted when Fred Rogers died. He was a safe space for me as a kid in a rather chaotic household. We need people like him the world.
Freddie would've aged like a legit queen. Sucks he didn't live long enough to see a more accepting (though not by much) world. I think he'd have been proud to have Adam Lambert take up the mantle. He's amazing.
I knew it from Highlander but it still gave/gives me that effect.
Was already raised a Queen fan, my mother had A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races on vinyl, so I grew up on those. She personally never saw Highlander or got into those albums as far as I know, but I was primed for it.
Just because WWtLF was written for Highlander doesn't mask what Freddie was going through. That man held nothing back and pulled from every fibre of his being to perform.
See also: Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya, "I want my father back you son of a bitch." He's "just playing a character" but he was as much or more talking to the cancer that took his father, as he was to Count Rugen.
Outshined does it for me… “I just looked in the mirror, and things are looking so good. I’m looking California, but feeling Minnesota.” Such a perfect metaphor for depression. Hits like a wrecking ball every time.
If you’ve ever spent any time in Minnesota or the upper Midwest in general it’s hard to read it that way…. Inherently close knit, happy places for the most part.
RIP to, IMO, the greatest vocalist of our generation.
Absolutely. I think it was Henry Rollins that described his voice as peeling the paint off the walls. So much emotion comes thru his songs. Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Audioslave and his solo stuff. Absolutely phenomenal body of work
A couple of years ago I lost a good friend to depression. He was an amazing guitarist and influenced heavily by Cornell.
As I was leaving the funeral this song came on right at “Heaven send Hell away no one sings like you anymore….” And I just bawled in my truck for a few minutes. Love you Phil.
Yessss to the no volume loud enough….I skip if it comes on in the presence of anyone else because I can’t have a soul see how loudly I need to scream, “I hope I never get sober.”
I don't know what the song was called, but I once attended a funeral for a friend's mom, and the family was predominantly Ukrainian. During the service, a couple late-middle-aged Ukrainian folks sang what I can only presume was a funeral dirge or similar; I didn't understand a word of it, and there was no accompanying music; only their soaring grief, reverberating around the room. Suffice to say that I didn't need to understand their language, to understand their message. I felt every sorrowful note in my bones, and the realtime recognition of music's power to transcend cultural barriers like that, gave me those chills.
But all that aside, my most common triggers are righteously-triumphant guitar riffs, or a dancefloor-murdering buildups/drops. 😆
Black.
"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky, but why, why
Why can't it be, oh, can't it be mine?"
You know I didn’t even consider this song at first, then I read your comment the thought of the song gave me that feeling. I guess it is this song. Thanks .
I was just thinking of babe I'm gonna leave you, tangerine, going to California, Kashmir, d'yer mak'er, rocknroll, whole lotta love, immigrant song, ramble on...
Teach Your Children always gets me in the feels. Never fails. Our House is a close second. I just transport back to being a child with my lovely family and old creaky wooden house, the breeze thru the open windows, the feeling of a good day before the internet existed was something you just can’t recreate anymore. I’m grieving the existence of peace & quiet.
Creature - Jelly Roll
Home - Blue October
Chalk Outline - Three Days Grace
Lost - Dermot Kennedy (ESPECIALLY the opening where he's singing unaccompanied)
I learned today actually that she had a miscarriage the following day after recording this. She also recorded with Coldplay (decades later) a week after being released from the hospital where she lost her legs in an accident. Wow… (Guardian article excerpt below:
“It was (husband Curtis) Amy who took the call from the (Gimme Shelter) producer Jack Nitzsche, ringing late one night in 1969 and hoping that Clayton would sing on a track being recorded by the Rolling Stones. Still in her pyjamas, hair in rollers and four months pregnant, she arrived at Sunset Sound Studios in Hollywood minutes later, cementing her place in rock history with her ferocious “it’s just a shot away” vocal line on Gimme Shelter. “I called Curtis: ‘These boys want me to sing about rape and murder.’ I wanted them to hear me, talking real loud to my husband on the phone. But we got the gist – that it was part of the song and not something just flying out of the sky. I was tired, it was cold and my voice cracked. We listened back and they said: ‘Oh that’s bloody fabulous. Can you do it again?’”
“The day after the session with the Stones, Clayton suffered a miscarriage. She attributes it to the strain she put on her body pushing the heavy studio doors and reaching to hit the vocal peaks. “We lost a little girl. It took me years and years and years to get over that. You had all this success with Gimme Shelter and you had the heartbreak with this song.” Although she recorded her own version of the song for her 1970 studio album (itself entitled Gimme Shelter), it took her a long time to listen to the Stones’ song because she so closely associated it with losing her child. “It left a dark taste in my mouth. It was a rough, rough time.”
Joanna Newsom - almost all of Milk Eyed Mender. There’s something about the intimacy of the music in contrast with her archaic lyrical imagery that equal parts ancient mystical fable and nureey rhyme, yet somehow conveys a depth of emotion that few musician’s ever approach. The album just continues to fascinate me and touch me no matter how many times I listen to it.
The last few years of my active addiction, that song and Type O Negatives 'World Coming Down' appeared in my dreams frequently. The one I remember most is floating in a void surrounded by random items just like one of those 'I Spy' picture book photos. Another, I was running through my yard trying to find everyone and it was cold and a dark blue-gray outside.
When my sister died almost 5 years ago there were only two things I was worried about absolutely breaking me. Hearing Hurt by NIN and being alone for the first time after she passed. Guess what? The first time I was finally alone in my car NIN Hurt played. I waited to get home to bawl my eyes out.
I was very happy to see NIN at the top of this thread. I came here to write The Great Below, although Right Where It Belongs and All That Could Have Been have this effect as well.
Winter by Tori Amos always gives me chills. Especially heart breaking to listen to after losing my dad. I was lucky enough to hear her in concert years ago and her voice is even more incredible in person than recorded imo.
Ohhhh man. I saw him ages ago in Duluth and he played this. I could barely hold it together. He was old even then but the combination of his own mortality and this song did me in.
I was born and raised and still live in Atlanta but both of my parents and most of my extended family are originally from Detroit/Michigan. I knew more about this song and the ship as a kid than most people do and spent last night night watching several Edmund Fitzgerald documentaries. 💔
My husband and I just took a vacation to the UP a few months ago too. Such a beautiful place but you can really feel the power of that water.
We Belong by Pat Benetar. I get chills just thinking about it!!!! I was 6 when that album was released, my aunt introduced me to her. What a timeless song.
Chuck Mangoone-Hill Where the Lord Hides. Listened to it while candy flipping when I was in college and legit had actual eargasms that I did not know were possible.
James - Ring The Bells (Alt NRG Greenpeace Live) It was on a mixtape a boy gave me in 1995 in a terrible Lutheran boarding school. The boy has dreamy eyes and the school was a nightmare.
After I was cornered by a few of the pastors kids in a bathroom, kicked around and raped, they broke my walkman. So I sat there and fixed it with my cheap eyeglasses repair kit and glue. Ring the Bells was the first song cued up and I just sat on the stairs and cried.
Huh. Not sure if I've ever told anyone that before.
It destroys me every time. The last Christmas my mom was alive, everyone was doing the "quick goodbye" at the door, and they sent me to get something. When I got back everyone had left without saying goodby to me or even noticing I was gone. That song was playing, and the feeling of crushing loneliness just overwhelmed me.
Hah, funny enough, the Freshman by The Verve Pipe kinda does this for me. I remember the literal moment I first heard it on the radio in HS, during driver's ed.
Mine are kinda dumb lol. Porcelain - Moby, Not An Addict - K’s Choice, Crazy Mary - Pearl Jam, Down - Mad Season, Breathe - Pink Floyd, All At Once - Jack Johnson
I listened to this song out of curiosity; it’s stomp clappy indie slop. The youngest Xennials would have been 32ish when this song came out, so it’s suspicious to see it close to the top. Get out of here with your astroturf horse shit.
Because our generation has to stagnate in the 90s and never embrace new things or we lose our Xennial card? Get out of there with that bullshit. Our lives didn't end after 1999.
Oh my gosh, YES! I listen to this, and I feel like I’ve been through a breakup. I’ve been married almost 24 years. I tell my husband every once in a while that if something ever happens to us, that I’ll be Stevie singing to him like she sang to Lindsey in The Dance video.
It’s funny you replied just then. I literally had the video up on my screen bc it’s how I first expected it. I think it was on PBS of all things and I was sitting alone in my apartment in college after a really rough break up. It was on in the background but when that song came on I felt drawn to look. I didn’t even know about all the relationship drama at that time but I could feel the intensity of Stevie and Lindsey.
And you’re absolutely right. I mentioned that line bc it’s the one that lets me know the one you mentioned is coming. I don’t know what they call that kind of flowing harmony that comes from two different ends and meets but it moves me deeply.
Now I gotta go watch the other breakup video that drives me wild - Mark Knopfler singing “Romeo and Juliet” live with an orchestra backing him. I think he was feeling it that night.
This is surprising to me, but as I've gotten older as a father of four kids, Everclear's Father of mine chokes me up every time I hear it. I was raised by a great dad and have no trauma whatsoever. And I am a great dad too. I think it's understanding the sorrow of having a bad dad. Never thought twice about that song as a kid but now it hits me in the feels every single time
That song feels like it was deliberately made for Shatner to cover, Joe Jackson on backup vocals certainly takes the song to new heights. I also love this song way more than it deserves.
That part in “Black” by Pearl Jam where Eddie sings “I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life, I know you’ll be a star, in somebody else’s sky but why, why, why can’t it be mine?”
We can all relate but growing up struggling in NYC this song hits hard so often. "The World I know". Collective Soul. If you don't look in the right places, the world and humanity can be a total let down that you wonder what's the point.
I have to put in a vote for their song Needs from the album Dosage. The end part of the song after the pause and the violins play is the goosebumps part for sure.
That Song, Big Wreck, summer of 1997. I knew it the moment I heard it. 3rd year university across the river from the UofA adjacent to the Alberta legislature, 6:30am on the radio. I said to myself, "I'll remember this."
...And I'm haunted
By the lives that I have loved
And actions I have hated
I'm haunted
By the promises I've made
And others I have broken
I... I'm haunted
By the lies that wove the web
Inside my haunted head
Downeaster Alexa by Billy Joel. Ain’t no island left for islanders like me … sniper shot to my emotions (grew up on eastern Long Island, could never afford to move back)
I hadn't really noticed the song when it came out. If I heard it on the radio it just kind of blew past me. But later that year my dad died. It was after the memorial and i was back home driving to work. I was trying not to think about him and then that song came on the radio.
I ended up having to pull over to the side of the road I was crying too hard. For a long time I'd never seek out the song but every time I heard it on the radio I would freeze.
The criminally unknown Gavin Castleton the most compelling and impactful version of this song I’ve ever heard. Give this a watch if you like this song. https://vimeo.com/2762672
His version is better to me. I was never a big Soundgarden fan, like I knew their music on the rail and liked it but didn't seek it out, but for some reason his death hit me so hard. I don't get it. The video for his cover of Patience. Jesus.
I’m still not a Chris Cornell fan. I know ill be downvoted to holy hell for this, but something about him just gives me the icks. But I do really appreciate Something Compares and A Day in the Life by him. They’re so good they make me wish I understood what I am missing.
Into the mystic van Morrison. My husband is a sailor and I hated it when he was gone all those years and for some reason that song hits the super sadness right on the head. I can't even think about that song, my eyes are wet now
I, I can remember (I remember)
Standing, by the wall (by the wall)
And the guns, shot above our heads (over our heads)
And we kissed, as though nothing could fall (nothing could fall)
And the shame, was on the other side
Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever
Then we could be Heroes, just for one day
Southern Cross - CSNY “…she is all that I have left, and music is her name.”
Harvest Moon - Neil Young
Operator - Jim Croce
You’re So Vain - Carly Simon
Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
Pinch Me - Barenaked Ladies “take a drink right from the hose, change into some drier clothes. Climb the stairs up to my room, sleep away the afternoon”
Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold - goosebumps and internal pain compounded by a cancer research uk advertisement from years ago called "Mirrors" - https://youtu.be/kFZWTQ_kFAw
Sarah McLaughlin - Angel
Chris Stapleton - Maggie's Song / Fire Away
Offspring - Behind your walls / Kristy are you doing ok?
Cody Jinks - Loud and Heavy
Five Finger Death Punch - Wrong Side of Heaven "I spoke to god today and she said that she's ashamed 'who have I become, what have I done' " - the line gives me shivers due to my ptsd....speaks a bit too deeply due to the guilt that attends with the PTSD
Linkin Park - New Divide "I remember black skies and lightning all around me, I remember each flash as time began to burn" "your voice was all I heard, that i'd get what I deserve"
Elizabeth Mitchell - Little Bird - but not for the futurama reference either...
One last caress. Misfits. When Glen belts out the last line without backing instruments…and then it all kicks in. Pure pop pushed through baroque gothic punk. Ha.
"Chandelier" by Sia. There's something in the power of her voice, the way she conveys desperation and shame layered beneath near-toxic positivity.. and she has one of the most piercing belts I've ever heard.
Plenty of songs get to me when I'm in the right mood; this one puts me in that mood.
Free Bird... About 9 minutes in when all three guitars are screaming and suddenly drop out for a beat and come back in with a face melter!!! I can't help but visualize jets in a dogfight!
These days Zombie starts with chills, but brings me to tears every godamn time. Tears start way earlier if I'm actually watching the video. Back in 6th grade I just thought that video looked cool.
Optimistic & Everything in its Right Place - Radiohead
The Way Out is Through - NIN
It's About That Time - Miles Davis
Nessun Dorma - Pavarotti
Fecit Potential - Trondheim Solistene
Umi Says - Mos Def
My first time hearing Landslide was the Pumpkins version. Hole doing a raucous Gold Dust Woman was also my first time hearing that song. Of course, the Fleetwood Mac originals are basically untouchable, I still love those two covers for introducing me to those songs.
Those are legit good covers, though. No shame in finding it first and even liking it a little more because of that. Music when you’re young becomes a part of you forever, so the Pumpkins Landslide is at least equal in my heart to the original.
All Mine by Portishead and Like Suicide—specifically Chris Cornell’s acoustic version on the SFW soundtrack (an Ethan Hawke movie I never saw but somehow had the soundtrack to).
Easy. Opeth's Deliverance, the song, specially starting around 8:15 and running to 8:45. When the band cuts out for a couple bars and the solo does the run down is my favorite transition into a new movement in music
Painkiller by Judas Priest.
the unmatched metal comeback album 20 years into their career with insane drums, dual soloing guitarists and epic poem storytelling
Honestly? I get severe goosebumps when I watch someone performing on American Idol or Americas Got Talent or whatever “talent” show for the first time and they are KILLING it. Hearing them and seeing them realize “holy shit, I might have just pulled this off”. Between their killer performance and knowing that their life is about to change…..I can only imagine the feeling. It makes me so insanely happy for them.
I can’t explain it - mainly because I’m not a huge fan of all their music, just this one - but the live version of Knights of Cydonia by Muse always give me goosebumps.
Seeing Will do his thing in real life leaves you in a state of belief. I’ve never been more amazed and enthralled by any musician like I have with him.
Madness by Muse. Especially the part near the end when it builds up to the extended high note. Definitely a song made for good headphones. The bass line throughout is top notch.
Fade in / Fade out by Nothing More is another. Watch the music video that goes with it, and if you have a good relationship with your aging father or your father has unfortunately passed... It'll hit pretty damn hard.
Grouchy-Reflection97@reddit
'All the Stars' - Kendrick Lamar & SZA
https://i.redd.it/h4aqr03ub70g1.gif
Partly because it came out exactly when I needed it to help me get through some heavy life stuff, and partly because I'm still angrily sad about Chadwick Boseman passing away.
For happy chills up the spine, the bit at the end of Prince's '3 Chains of Gold', where he just starts going completely mental on his guitar, gets me every time. (I'm also still shaking my fist at the sky over his death, too)
mojohd3@reddit
Mad world by Gary Jules
MrGrim421@reddit
Srv cover of little wing, the first three chords hit me like a brick.
p4ulp0wers@reddit
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
My mum is a Pink Floyd fan and there's a few songs which are just works of art but Wish you were here is on a different level
S_A_R_K@reddit
Nirvana Unplugged Where Did You Sleep Last Night
That part where Kurt pauses and then his eyes pop open and he continues
bluefunksta@reddit
Cover of In the Pines by 🤷♂️Song was at least 100 years old when they covered it. Fantastic.
Nymeria31@reddit
This plays a lot in the new(ish?) miniseries on Netflix - Wayward. Brought on so many emotions
S_A_R_K@reddit
By Lead Belly. Unplugged is an absolutely perfect album and every cover they did on it is a fucking masterpiece
Olelander@reddit
I had a friend who purchased Meat Puppets II because of those covers. He hated it, was going to literally throw the cassette away so I took it… I ended up in our rec room letting it play while I played asteroids on one of those little Macintosh computers with the small screen built into the pc body… first pass - wtf am I hearing? …Second pass - oh I see, it’s like country punk, that’s what I’m hearing… third pass - every song feels like velvet rubbing against my soul… it honestly changed my world as much or more than Nirvana did, in the end.
OkBiscotti1140@reddit
It’s literally the only music I listened to from April-August 1994.
AbeFromanSassageKing@reddit
I saw Hole and Marilyn Manson open up for NIN in Chicago in 1994, and Courtney Love ended their set with this song, literally screaming at the end like all of pain in the world was flying out of her, then jumped onto the crowd, surfed for a second, bounced off my shoulder, all while people grabbed at her and tore her dress. She got back on stage holding the torn top of her dress up over her boobs, flipped us off, spit on the stage, and stormed off... it was fucking incredible.
thejaytheory@reddit
For me The Man Who Sold The World, chills all the way through
Thatonegirl_79@reddit
That whole album is pure gold.
ohmeursault@reddit
That scream at the end - my GOD
UnhappyEquivalent400@reddit
Got goosebumps just reading this.
mackelnuts@reddit
It gets me. I tear up every goddamn time.
Simple-Pudding7281@reddit
All by myself - Green Day
Golden_Enby@reddit
Who Wants To Live Forever - Queen
That song helped me grieve my father's death. I remember days when my mother wasn't home, I'd blast it loud on the huge old speakers she and dad had bought in Japan during the Vietnam War. I'd sob while singing the lyrics. That song means everything to me. Even though it was made for Highlander, I didn't know that as a kid, so I assumed it was Freddy's way of coping with his diagnosis.
Twitchmonky@reddit
Yes, but also, The Show Must Go On, I'm also getting shivers thinking about it.
Golden_Enby@reddit
It's not only the music, but Freddie's ethereal voice. He could make anything sound haunting, silly, fun, epic, or relaxing just by singing. I used to dream of singing like him when I was a kid/teen.
Apprehensive-Stay196@reddit
Ugh. What an amazing song.
CycloneIce31@reddit
Such a great song. Great choice!
lellywest@reddit
This is a solid shout.
For me, Under Pressure gives me the “chicken skin” too. It’s such a beautifully rendered song.
Golden_Enby@reddit
I love everything by Queen. I was raised on them, along with other rock/metal legends of the 70s and 80s. When my sister was a toddler (she was born in 88), we taught her how to headbang (safely, of course) to Bohemian Rapsody just like in Wayne's World. Mom and I were devastated when Freddie died. I kid you not, my father died on the exact same day and year Freddie did. Trippy as hell.
lellywest@reddit
Oh, gosh! No wonder his music means so much to you. I’m sorry you lost him so young, but I’m glad you have fond memories.
Also, LOL at the idea of you teaching your kid did to headbang like Wayne & Garth 😆
Golden_Enby@reddit
Tbh, I don't have many memories of my dad, unfortunately. I wish I did. He was diagnosed when I was 9, so my brain only latched onto those few years of him slowly dying. Before then, he was mainly at work, so I didn't get to know him well. But I do remember him being extremely kind, funny, and sensitive. I'm eternally grateful that I had him as a father, no matter how short of a time that ended up being. Just wish I'd gotten to know him into my teen and adult years. I still miss him terribly. Thank you for your condolences.
Haha, mom and I had fun doing so. We still have an old family video of mom, my sister, and I coming home from somewhere. Mom's got Bohemian Rapsody on in the car, and she tells my sister to headbang at the right moment. 😆 We taught her well, lol.
lellywest@reddit
It sounds like you were lucky to have your dad, for however short a time.
When Freddie died, I was devastated. It was only the second celeb death that had really impacted me (the first was Jim Henson), and while I recall being relieved to know he didn’t have to suffer any more, I just felt like he was taken from us far too soon. We missed out on Freddie getting to be his glorious self well into old age and any additional music Queen may have created. I like to imagine Freddie aging as delightfully as Ian McKellen has…
Golden_Enby@reddit
Same here. I still get incredibly sad whenever I think about Jim Henson. He meant a lot to me. I was also gutted when Fred Rogers died. He was a safe space for me as a kid in a rather chaotic household. We need people like him the world.
Freddie would've aged like a legit queen. Sucks he didn't live long enough to see a more accepting (though not by much) world. I think he'd have been proud to have Adam Lambert take up the mantle. He's amazing.
macroeconprod@reddit
Why can't we give love that one more chance?
AnticitizenPrime@reddit
I knew it from Highlander but it still gave/gives me that effect.
Was already raised a Queen fan, my mother had A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races on vinyl, so I grew up on those. She personally never saw Highlander or got into those albums as far as I know, but I was primed for it.
FaceRockerMD@reddit
They used an arrangement of it for the Stranger Things 5 trailer and it's super Badass.
Golden_Enby@reddit
I still need to watch that show. I keep forgetting, even though I hear nothing but good things.
gaarkat@reddit
Agreed
Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit
Just because WWtLF was written for Highlander doesn't mask what Freddie was going through. That man held nothing back and pulled from every fibre of his being to perform.
See also: Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya, "I want my father back you son of a bitch." He's "just playing a character" but he was as much or more talking to the cancer that took his father, as he was to Count Rugen.
sunkistandsudafed3@reddit
Many Tool, NIN and Linkin park songs.
noonesaidityet@reddit
When Chris Cornell gets to the line "Hang my head, drown my fear till you all just disappear".
xUrNewDadx@reddit
Black hole sun. Won't you come? And wash away the rain?
lifegoodis@reddit
Pretty Noose is pretty rough now too.
Neither-Principle139@reddit
Outshined does it for me… “I just looked in the mirror, and things are looking so good. I’m looking California, but feeling Minnesota.” Such a perfect metaphor for depression. Hits like a wrecking ball every time.
Olelander@reddit
If you’ve ever spent any time in Minnesota or the upper Midwest in general it’s hard to read it that way…. Inherently close knit, happy places for the most part.
Due-Principle9112@reddit
Love love love that my Chris made the first comment on this thread. Ever listened to isolated vocals of his? If not, you need to 🤌
Floyd_Bourbon@reddit
Fucking hell. I got the neck-down full body goosebumps just reading this.
lanakickstail@reddit
Can confirm
RobertBDwyer@reddit
What a time to be alive.
RobertBDwyer@reddit
“No one sings like you anymore”
sweet_pickles12@reddit
“Kill your health and kill yourself And kill everything you love”
This song is the sonic version of sitting on the edge of a couch with that thousand yard stare…
Azuras_Star8@reddit
I enjoyed that whole CD. And Superunknown.
-piso_mojado-@reddit
That meant nothing to me until his demise. Now? Fuck! and “Soma” smashing pumpkins is has and was always done that for me.
Party_Taco_Plz@reddit
Especially in the acoustic version… absolutely haunting.
RIP to, IMO, the greatest vocalist of our generation.
KudosOfTheFroond@reddit
Absolutely 100% the greatest vocalist of our generation. It crushes me because he had decades still to make beautiful music and it’s all over. 😓😭
S_A_R_K@reddit
Absolutely. I think it was Henry Rollins that described his voice as peeling the paint off the walls. So much emotion comes thru his songs. Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Audioslave and his solo stuff. Absolutely phenomenal body of work
intensenerd@reddit
A couple of years ago I lost a good friend to depression. He was an amazing guitarist and influenced heavily by Cornell.
As I was leaving the funeral this song came on right at “Heaven send Hell away no one sings like you anymore….” And I just bawled in my truck for a few minutes. Love you Phil.
vondoom616@reddit
“Nothing will do me in before I do myself”
PastPotatoes@reddit
Right there.
dasphinx27@reddit
Pearl Jam’s black live performance. The dude got possessed during the performance.
BentleyTock@reddit
When the violins start for Radiohead’s burn the witch…
Accomplished_Pen980@reddit
"No children" by The Mountain Goats
carcer_a@reddit
I’m so touched to see this here. ❤️ You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand…
Accomplished_Pen980@reddit
Every line is divine and the whole disastrous thing is set to such a cheery tune. There aren't loud enough speakers to play this song
carcer_a@reddit
Yessss to the no volume loud enough….I skip if it comes on in the presence of anyone else because I can’t have a soul see how loudly I need to scream, “I hope I never get sober.”
SecondSaintsSonInLaw@reddit
“Angels” by Robbie Williams
Nervous_Document2217@reddit
"Mother Love" it was freddy mercury's last song
djsynrgy@reddit
I don't know what the song was called, but I once attended a funeral for a friend's mom, and the family was predominantly Ukrainian. During the service, a couple late-middle-aged Ukrainian folks sang what I can only presume was a funeral dirge or similar; I didn't understand a word of it, and there was no accompanying music; only their soaring grief, reverberating around the room. Suffice to say that I didn't need to understand their language, to understand their message. I felt every sorrowful note in my bones, and the realtime recognition of music's power to transcend cultural barriers like that, gave me those chills.
But all that aside, my most common triggers are righteously-triumphant guitar riffs, or a dancefloor-murdering buildups/drops. 😆
Intelligent-Snow3300@reddit
Black. "I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star In somebody else's sky, but why, why Why can't it be, oh, can't it be mine?"
1-2-3RightMeow@reddit
My high school crush wrote that in my yearbook and my brain basically exploded. To answer your question, yes, yes we did
throwawayzsc972@reddit
Stains live version of this.
thejaytheory@reddit
Dooo dooo dooooo dooo dooo doooo
fromthedarqwaves@reddit
Fade into you. Mazzy Star
thisisallme@reddit
It’s Halah for me
Olay_Biscuit-Barrel@reddit
Halah never gets enough love. Overall better album for me, too, but never seemed to catch on as much.
OvenFriendly1818@reddit
This song is so powerful for me. It's really hard to listen to it but it's one of my favorites.
idleat1100@reddit
You know I didn’t even consider this song at first, then I read your comment the thought of the song gave me that feeling. I guess it is this song. Thanks .
RoncoSnackWeasel@reddit
Fuckin good answer!
VayGray@reddit
This one
BoyznGirlznBabes@reddit
Winter_Dimension8107@reddit
Damn, you got it.
liesierre@reddit
this one at the break with the acoustic guitar coming in
https://vernianprocess.bandcamp.com/track/la-solitude
DirtRight9309@reddit
Phish, beginning of YEM. just brings me back to the happiest of times of my late teens which weren’t very happy otherwise
YEMBOTT@reddit
Successful-Winter237@reddit
In this Shirt Irreplaceables
https://youtu.be/db3B3ItcsQk?si=XWw_TwO6PkgzG0U5
LCD soundsystem Oh baby baby
https://youtu.be/5gIhrPGyu6U?si=jKEtADSEao0tDuv8
Bronski Beat Small town boy
https://youtu.be/88sARuFu-tc?si=4G1hXNr8K90GRdcM
YEMBOTT@reddit
When someone great is gone
This one evokes emotion (sigh). I love James Murphy
theflush1980@reddit
propdragon@reddit
Over the hills and far away - led zeppelin
YEMBOTT@reddit
I was just thinking of babe I'm gonna leave you, tangerine, going to California, Kashmir, d'yer mak'er, rocknroll, whole lotta love, immigrant song, ramble on...
But if I had to pick one I think it would be
That's the way, cuz mama said
TheBigJaybowski@reddit
Type O Negative - Wolf Moon
PhoebeMonster1066@reddit
Everything Dies.
Steele_Soul@reddit
Haunted and World Coming Down.
CobblerNo8518@reddit
Christian Woman, too
131774@reddit
Black No. 1
Anony765@reddit
Summer breeze
Danno99999@reddit
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes. CSNY.
PhoebeMonster1066@reddit
Southern Cross. CSN.
echochilde@reddit
Ohio always does it for me.
KudosOfTheFroond@reddit
Teach Your Children always gets me in the feels. Never fails. Our House is a close second. I just transport back to being a child with my lovely family and old creaky wooden house, the breeze thru the open windows, the feeling of a good day before the internet existed was something you just can’t recreate anymore. I’m grieving the existence of peace & quiet.
GrolarBear69@reddit
My last words. Megadeth
YEMBOTT@reddit
U2 - where the streets have no name
Van Halen - Right Now
Phil Collins - In the air tonight
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird (right around the 4:08 mark)
Correct-Cricket3355@reddit
Tori Amos - China
MyNameIsntFlower@reddit
For me: Bells for Her
AjaxInsane@reddit
The live version from Venus and Back is my favorite Tori track, period.
Vast-Pizza-7581@reddit
The haunting, off-key piano.
OyWThaPoodlesAlready@reddit
Liquid Diamonds
bananniebanana@reddit
OMG I know every word and every note ❤️
Bunnybuttons@reddit
Iieee - the live version from her 1998 tour
russandollie@reddit
Winter for me.
sweetbirthdaybaby333@reddit
I was just listening to Silent All These Years today and feeling very 15 again.
jenesia-CakeEatnNPC-@reddit
Creature - Jelly Roll Home - Blue October Chalk Outline - Three Days Grace Lost - Dermot Kennedy (ESPECIALLY the opening where he's singing unaccompanied)
CHILLS
clergymen19@reddit
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
(Sorry.. to lazy to scroll down and see if someone else posted it)
C_est_la_vie9707@reddit
Into Dust.
clergymen19@reddit
Yes!
TheRealCOCOViper@reddit
The Lighting of the Beacons from lord of the rings return of the king
TheRealCOCOViper@reddit
The Lighting of the Beacons from lord of the rings
RandomPrecision01@reddit
Winter When He Goes - Tracy Grammer
Listen to this song and try not to get goosebumps when the bridge comes.
USUgoody@reddit
Smile by Pearl Jam
Artistic_Potato_1840@reddit
Gimme Shelter, when Mary Clayton is belting so hard her voice breaks
Washingtonpinot@reddit
I learned today actually that she had a miscarriage the following day after recording this. She also recorded with Coldplay (decades later) a week after being released from the hospital where she lost her legs in an accident. Wow… (Guardian article excerpt below:
“It was (husband Curtis) Amy who took the call from the (Gimme Shelter) producer Jack Nitzsche, ringing late one night in 1969 and hoping that Clayton would sing on a track being recorded by the Rolling Stones. Still in her pyjamas, hair in rollers and four months pregnant, she arrived at Sunset Sound Studios in Hollywood minutes later, cementing her place in rock history with her ferocious “it’s just a shot away” vocal line on Gimme Shelter. “I called Curtis: ‘These boys want me to sing about rape and murder.’ I wanted them to hear me, talking real loud to my husband on the phone. But we got the gist – that it was part of the song and not something just flying out of the sky. I was tired, it was cold and my voice cracked. We listened back and they said: ‘Oh that’s bloody fabulous. Can you do it again?’”
“The day after the session with the Stones, Clayton suffered a miscarriage. She attributes it to the strain she put on her body pushing the heavy studio doors and reaching to hit the vocal peaks. “We lost a little girl. It took me years and years and years to get over that. You had all this success with Gimme Shelter and you had the heartbreak with this song.” Although she recorded her own version of the song for her 1970 studio album (itself entitled Gimme Shelter), it took her a long time to listen to the Stones’ song because she so closely associated it with losing her child. “It left a dark taste in my mouth. It was a rough, rough time.”
colo_kelly@reddit
They woke her up in the middle of the night to record it! Check out the doc 20 Feet From Stardom, she’s so incredible
areyouokeddie@reddit
She said she lost her baby that night too 😞
HotTubSexVirgin22@reddit
She got to record her own version too. Couldn’t possibly have the same energy but it does have a horns section.
sleepwalkfromsherdog@reddit
Henry Hill coked out and going against the cosa nostra rules, spiraling into paranoia.
voujon85@reddit
Marty knows how to use a Stones song
sleepwalkfromsherdog@reddit
Specifically that one. He's 3-for-3 with it.
mcg_090@reddit
Yes exactly
lythy2016@reddit
The Sisters of Mercy’s cover is amazing, too.
echochilde@reddit
Yes! By far my favorite RS song. And my god, her voice.
TransportationOk657@reddit
I love that part. You can hear Mick Jagger yell "woo" in the background.
Next_Journalist_8075@reddit
Night swimming -REM
carcer_a@reddit
That piano!
church-basement-lady@reddit
👆🏻
branst1513@reddit
I used to love it. I still do love it but I used to also.
Thatonegirl_79@reddit
That was my favorite song on the album. It's 🤌
carcer_a@reddit
Leave the City by Magnolia Electric Company
throwawayzsc972@reddit
-Gentlemen.... it has been a privilege playing with you tonight.
5erif@reddit
Hide And Seek by Imogen Heap
Gullible-Courage4665@reddit
The Romeo and Juliet movie when the song Kissing You by Des’ree comes on. So beautiful.
6ohm@reddit
The Imperial March
socialmakerx@reddit
Necrophagia - Cannibal Holocaust, that riff is too amazing
Olelander@reddit
So fucking many… but
Joanna Newsom - almost all of Milk Eyed Mender. There’s something about the intimacy of the music in contrast with her archaic lyrical imagery that equal parts ancient mystical fable and nureey rhyme, yet somehow conveys a depth of emotion that few musician’s ever approach. The album just continues to fascinate me and touch me no matter how many times I listen to it.
phoenixfromsyd@reddit
Sadly "Just a song. Just a song! A song about ping pong!!"
What an awful earworm.
OG_Cryptkeeper@reddit
Hurt - NIN or Johnny Cash
Comfortable-Pea-1312@reddit
Something I can never Have (quiet)
OG_Cryptkeeper@reddit
Right Where It Belongs does it to me too.
Rin_thepixie@reddit
Especially if it's v2
Steele_Soul@reddit
The last few years of my active addiction, that song and Type O Negatives 'World Coming Down' appeared in my dreams frequently. The one I remember most is floating in a void surrounded by random items just like one of those 'I Spy' picture book photos. Another, I was running through my yard trying to find everyone and it was cold and a dark blue-gray outside.
sharmas13@reddit
SAME. And on this latest tour they opened with this and o was completely sobbing, shaking, unable to breathe, it was so good.
OG_Cryptkeeper@reddit
It was DEAD silent when he started playing this song to open our Peel It Back show. I was in awe.
Minotaar@reddit
A warm place
Burnt0utMi11enia1@reddit
Excellent pick. I’m partial to “The Day The World Went Away” from that album.
thyleullar@reddit
NIИ has long been “my band”… the Tron Ares soundtrack with NIИ’s Who Wants to Live Forever was released the week my wife passed. 😭
K_Wolfenstien@reddit
When my sister died almost 5 years ago there were only two things I was worried about absolutely breaking me. Hearing Hurt by NIN and being alone for the first time after she passed. Guess what? The first time I was finally alone in my car NIN Hurt played. I waited to get home to bawl my eyes out.
HalfFrozenSpeedos@reddit
Johnny Cash for sure, the video when it came out and Cash's voice....wow
Neither-Principle139@reddit
Both are amazing
mcjangus@reddit
I was very happy to see NIN at the top of this thread. I came here to write The Great Below, although Right Where It Belongs and All That Could Have Been have this effect as well.
OG_Cryptkeeper@reddit
Right Where It Belongs grabs my heart. I’m a sucker for a good piano song.
mcjangus@reddit
Same! Watching Trent open the show on their most recent tour by sitting at the piano playing Right Where It Belongs was truly awe inspiring!
Accomplished_Ad_4216@reddit
Went to the NIN show this summer and cried my eyes out when they played Hurt
OG_Cryptkeeper@reddit
I was at a show in August
mcjangus@reddit
Same! Seattle show for me.
Accomplished_Ad_4216@reddit
Me too! MN
OG_Cryptkeeper@reddit
Detroit
S_A_R_K@reddit
The music video for the Johnny Cash video
LakesideScrotumPole@reddit
This is the correct answer.
catsoncrack420@reddit
Johnny Cash all day baby.
revd_blue_jeans@reddit
The Smiths - Never Had No One Ever. "I had a bad dream..."
nzungu69@reddit
portishead - roads
tricky - aftermath
the raah project - funeral wedding
i kinda have a thing for triphop.. 🤷♂️
imHere4kpop@reddit
Was looking for some Portishead love on here.
nzungu69@reddit
nothing compares. beth gibbon's voice just does things to me.. 🙃
Rhiannon1307@reddit
King of Pride Rock from the original Lion King movie soundtrack.
Dire_Morphology@reddit
The Hollow by A Perfect Circle, gives me a frisson every time I hear it.
imHere4kpop@reddit
It's so elegant. I just close my eyes and sway back and forth when I hear it. Favorite APC song.
zielawolfsong@reddit
Winter by Tori Amos always gives me chills. Especially heart breaking to listen to after losing my dad. I was lucky enough to hear her in concert years ago and her voice is even more incredible in person than recorded imo.
big_angery@reddit
I dont talk, jon barber
Slow_Lion7849@reddit
When you were young- The Killers
XennialEyeRoll@reddit
Nightswimming, REM
Possibility Days, Counting Crows
Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand, Primitive Radio Gods
Twitchmonky@reddit
The middle part of No More Tears, almost every damn time.
Tunic85@reddit
Look at this photograph every time I do, it makes me laugh. How did our eyes get so red? And what the hell is on Joey’s head?
Man, it gets me every time.
jRok57@reddit
🎶 The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake, they called Gitche Gumee. 🎶
heidingout28@reddit
Ohhhh man. I saw him ages ago in Duluth and he played this. I could barely hold it together. He was old even then but the combination of his own mortality and this song did me in.
Para_Para@reddit
I was born and raised and still live in Atlanta but both of my parents and most of my extended family are originally from Detroit/Michigan. I knew more about this song and the ship as a kid than most people do and spent last night night watching several Edmund Fitzgerald documentaries. 💔
My husband and I just took a vacation to the UP a few months ago too. Such a beautiful place but you can really feel the power of that water.
prodspecandrew@reddit
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
Just gut wretching to think about...
yayoffbalance@reddit
Soooooo much!!! And If you could read my mind... oh god. Kills me so hard.
IronbAllsmcginty78@reddit
Yeah I change the station when this shit comes on. No thank you
One_Issue885@reddit
The lake it is said never gives up her dead... chills
DirtRight9309@reddit
found my Great Lakes people!
Brass_Bonanza@reddit
“Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?”
NeptuneConsidered@reddit
Eric Clapton's "Layla" and "Tears in Heaven".
PastPotatoes@reddit
Disarm: Pumpkins First one to come mind of many.
Bald_Nightmare@reddit
Mayonnaise, is mine.
ZeroSkill_Sorry@reddit
Shut my mouth and strike the demons.
That cursed you and your reasons.
gnutz4eva@reddit
Yes, also Soma. My 2 fav smashing pumpkins songs
sweet_pickles12@reddit
Spaceboy, I miss you…
poe_etic7@reddit
You might like the cover of Disarm by The Civil Wars.
PastPotatoes@reddit
Ill check it out.
_dangling_participle@reddit
"Tonight Tonight" or "Ava Adore" for me.
PastPotatoes@reddit
Think its safe to say that they have alot of goosebump songs.
protonbeam@reddit
Right here
Floyd_Bourbon@reddit
I'm putting Siamese Dream on when I get home. Thank you.
PastPotatoes@reddit
Remember following along turning the lyric pictures with each song. Got a metallic sharpey to make my own.e
VampireOnHoyt@reddit
Tag on the end of the second chorus, as the strings start playing the harmony line.
PastPotatoes@reddit
Great build up.
RyeNHOnTheRocks@reddit
I will possess your heart - death cab
adoradear@reddit
For me it’s What Sarah Said. So vivid (I’ve worked in the ICU)
Uhohtallyho@reddit
Every. Damn. Time.
lunatocracy@reddit
Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) from the musical Hamilton.
BoboTurkey@reddit
THANK YOU!!!!! I had to scroll too far to find this. I love my rock/alternative, but this just hits, especially now.
Yestie@reddit
Angelica by Lamb Came out later ('79 xennial) but hit me in all the spots
hyzerKite@reddit
“Say Hello to Heaven” Temple of the Dog.
“I Can’t Make You Love Me” Bonnie Raitt
“Deathwish” Jason Isbell
Apprehensive-Stay196@reddit
We Belong by Pat Benetar. I get chills just thinking about it!!!! I was 6 when that album was released, my aunt introduced me to her. What a timeless song.
here you go.
cjwi@reddit
Chuck Mangoone-Hill Where the Lord Hides. Listened to it while candy flipping when I was in college and legit had actual eargasms that I did not know were possible.
AFWolverine@reddit
Everlong- Foo Fighters
Nutshell- Alice In Chains
The Impression That I Get - Mighty Mighty Bosstones
1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
This list could get long.
digitaldingo75@reddit
Rain when I die, AIC
AbeFromanSassageKing@reddit
Fuck, that's perfect. That whole album is a gut punch....
From Dirt:
I want to taste dirty a stinging pistol In my mouth, on my tongue I want you to scrape me from the walls And go crazy like you've made me
I wish I could go back as 18-year-old me and give that poor son of a bitch a hug.
Cool_Atmosphere_9038@reddit
The acoustic version of Everlong is one of the best songs of our generation.
ronnieberries@reddit
I listened to an acoustic version of this song on Amazon Prime a couple weeks ago and was floored. What a masterpiece.
Hellament@reddit
If we’re doing AiC, I’d throw in another one from Jar of Flies: Don’t Follow.
Throwaway10123456@reddit
Blues Traveler-run around
seafox77@reddit
James - Ring The Bells (Alt NRG Greenpeace Live) It was on a mixtape a boy gave me in 1995 in a terrible Lutheran boarding school. The boy has dreamy eyes and the school was a nightmare.
After I was cornered by a few of the pastors kids in a bathroom, kicked around and raped, they broke my walkman. So I sat there and fixed it with my cheap eyeglasses repair kit and glue. Ring the Bells was the first song cued up and I just sat on the stairs and cried.
Huh. Not sure if I've ever told anyone that before.
StargasmSargasm@reddit
Time by Pink Floyd
SensitiveArtist@reddit
The Arsonist's Lullabye by Hozier
Jameson-Mc@reddit
Mama I’m Coming Home
KntTwist@reddit
That hits even harder since Ozzy passed.
thejaytheory@reddit
Yesss
Schmitty300@reddit
The entirety of Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog
knowone1313@reddit
Frission is the name of the emotional and physical response.
NurkleTurkey@reddit
Orbital - Halcyon and on and on
The_Stolarchos@reddit
Brick - Ben Folds Five
DraftyElectrolyte@reddit
This is such a great and painful song.
_dangling_participle@reddit
Also "Still Fighting It" and "Not the Same" by Ben Folds.
The_Stolarchos@reddit
I’d add “The Luckiest” to that list as well
_dangling_participle@reddit
Yes 😢
Oye_Oso@reddit
Omg, yes!!
stjomi92@reddit
The year this dropped, I woke up at 6am, the day after Christmas and turned on the my favorite radio station, they did not disappoint.
REDDITSHITLORD@reddit
Creep.
It destroys me every time. The last Christmas my mom was alive, everyone was doing the "quick goodbye" at the door, and they sent me to get something. When I got back everyone had left without saying goodby to me or even noticing I was gone. That song was playing, and the feeling of crushing loneliness just overwhelmed me.
Due-Principle9112@reddit
Listen to the cover by Postmodern Jukebox and fall in love all over again. Hugs, friend.
strippersandcocaine@reddit
Oh I’m so sorry. hug
curmudgeonchief@reddit
The opening bars to Where the Streets Have no Name
DraftyElectrolyte@reddit
Bob Seger - Hollywood Nights “See some old friends, good for the soul.”
Bob Dylan- Tangled Up in Blue “We always did feel the same we just saw it from a different point of view.”
Radiohead- Fake Plastic Trees “And if I could be who you wanted If I could be who you wanted All the time All the time”
cheribom@reddit
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town (Pearl Jam)
AKEsquire@reddit
Every time. 💜
Throwaway10123456@reddit
3 Libras or Breña from A Perfect Circle
yayoffbalance@reddit
Magdelena, too!! My god. Freshman year in college, an abusive relationship, and fucking just growing up into an adult.
kteerin@reddit
3 Libras is a masterpiece.
thejaytheory@reddit
Judith for me or The Outsider
NotSoTenaciousD@reddit
Nick Cave, Where the Wild Roses Grow
Bourbon-No-Ice@reddit
Sia - breathe, first one that came to mind, it has to be loud though
StandardAd239@reddit
Pardon Me - Incubus
Especially the Alive at Red Rocks version.
TransportationOk657@reddit
Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve (primarily the opening stringed instruments)
Megaminisima@reddit
One of the best songs applied to cinema, too
StandardAd239@reddit
Cruel Intentions is a guilty pleasure, this song probably has something to do with it.
Emdubs@reddit
This was my first thought too!
illwill79@reddit
Hah, funny enough, the Freshman by The Verve Pipe kinda does this for me. I remember the literal moment I first heard it on the radio in HS, during driver's ed.
mackelnuts@reddit
I saw the Verve Pipe in concert in like 1996
Son_of_Atreus@reddit
Many others, it happens a bit but I’ve never tracked them.
ApexAzimuth@reddit
Bjork - Headphones
Exemplifies this feeling for me.
TraditionalAd2179@reddit
Forever Young by Alphaville.
Alternative-Light514@reddit
Mine are kinda dumb lol. Porcelain - Moby, Not An Addict - K’s Choice, Crazy Mary - Pearl Jam, Down - Mad Season, Breathe - Pink Floyd, All At Once - Jack Johnson
q120@reddit
Not dumb at all! Those are good
Rough-Boot9086@reddit
Uninvited Alanis Morrisette
kteerin@reddit
Brandi Carlisle covered this at one of her concerts this year, and I got goosebumps from her cover as well. This song, man.
magster823@reddit
Alanis gives me chills to rival all chills.
thejaytheory@reddit
She had sooo many chilling songs
“How about getting off of these antibiotics?”
DogReasonable7277@reddit
Lovage- Stroker ace https://youtu.be/cKiXYveusc0?si=Qq1mPZ8SvY8oUEfz
q120@reddit
Stroke that shiny coat
ButtSluts9@reddit
The Night We Met by Lord Huron.
kteerin@reddit
Ohhhh, my HEART.
Jenaaaaaay@reddit
This song OMG
thetakingtree2@reddit
I listened to this song out of curiosity; it’s stomp clappy indie slop. The youngest Xennials would have been 32ish when this song came out, so it’s suspicious to see it close to the top. Get out of here with your astroturf horse shit.
jojocookiedough@reddit
Because our generation has to stagnate in the 90s and never embrace new things or we lose our Xennial card? Get out of there with that bullshit. Our lives didn't end after 1999.
thkie@reddit
Who hurt you?
thetakingtree2@reddit
The government
HotTubSexVirgin22@reddit
That whole fucking album. But yeah, that song as the closer is just a dagger.
mccrackened@reddit
Oh my LORD THIS SONG
sweetbirthdaybaby333@reddit
Silver Springs (1997 live version) - Fleetwood Mac
kteerin@reddit
Oh my gosh, YES! I listen to this, and I feel like I’ve been through a breakup. I’ve been married almost 24 years. I tell my husband every once in a while that if something ever happens to us, that I’ll be Stevie singing to him like she sang to Lindsey in The Dance video.
“I know kteerin, I know.” 😂
Satellight_of_Love@reddit
That building harmony…”was I just a fool??”
thejaytheory@reddit
“You’ll never get away”, bring it all back to me
Satellight_of_Love@reddit
It’s funny you replied just then. I literally had the video up on my screen bc it’s how I first expected it. I think it was on PBS of all things and I was sitting alone in my apartment in college after a really rough break up. It was on in the background but when that song came on I felt drawn to look. I didn’t even know about all the relationship drama at that time but I could feel the intensity of Stevie and Lindsey.
And you’re absolutely right. I mentioned that line bc it’s the one that lets me know the one you mentioned is coming. I don’t know what they call that kind of flowing harmony that comes from two different ends and meets but it moves me deeply.
Now I gotta go watch the other breakup video that drives me wild - Mark Knopfler singing “Romeo and Juliet” live with an orchestra backing him. I think he was feeling it that night.
sweetbirthdaybaby333@reddit
Yep. Heard it hundreds of times, and it still gets me.
werdnurd@reddit
Better than the original, I don’t know how they did that!
sweetbirthdaybaby333@reddit
They got older, they got bolder!
but_does_she_reddit@reddit
Way better. I will die on this hill.
nathanimal_d@reddit
This is surprising to me, but as I've gotten older as a father of four kids, Everclear's Father of mine chokes me up every time I hear it. I was raised by a great dad and have no trauma whatsoever. And I am a great dad too. I think it's understanding the sorrow of having a bad dad. Never thought twice about that song as a kid but now it hits me in the feels every single time
q120@reddit
Now I’m a grown man
With a child of my own
And I swear I’m not going to let her know
All the pain I have known
unsolicitedreview@reddit
I will never be safe / I will never be sane / I will always be weird inside ... that just perfectly sums up surviving a dysfunctional childhood.
source: survived a dysfunctional childhood.
Suspended-Again@reddit
That’s a really good one
DirtRight9309@reddit
same but Weezer Say It Ain’t So
RedDawnWlvrines@reddit
Pulp - Common People The Smiths - How Soon is Now
marypants1977@reddit
Pulp - Babies
RedDawnWlvrines@reddit
I know you won’t believe it’s true I only went with her ‘cause she looks like you
Such a great line
RedDawnWlvrines@reddit
Love that song
WrenchNRatchet@reddit
William Shatner - Common People. Not trolling, I unironically love it
RoncoSnackWeasel@reddit
There are literally dozens of us!
PhysicsStock2247@reddit
The Shatner version of Common People never fails to get my adrenaline pumping.
darkartbootleg@reddit
That song feels like it was deliberately made for Shatner to cover, Joe Jackson on backup vocals certainly takes the song to new heights. I also love this song way more than it deserves.
frumperbell@reddit
I honestly love it more than the original
Successful-Winter237@reddit
Love pulp
walkshadow@reddit
Saw them a couple months ago in Detroit and it was an awesome show!
RedDawnWlvrines@reddit
I hope to catch them someday
Alternative-Light514@reddit
How Soon is Now, what a great call!
therealRustyZA@reddit
Pearl Jam - Black.
kteerin@reddit
Every single time.
thejaytheory@reddit
Absolutely, the build up to the ending, ahhhhh
intensenerd@reddit
I know you’ll be a star…. 🫥
thejaytheory@reddit
Buy whyyyyyyyyy
12Whiskey@reddit
For me it’s Big Hard Sun. Eddie Vedder’s voice just gives me chills in that song.
S_A_R_K@reddit
Also Last Kiss
_hi_plains_drifter_@reddit
Any song on the Nirvana or Alice and Chains unplugged albums.
Also any music from Skyrim 🤓
thejaytheory@reddit
Down In A Hole ahhh
jomesx@reddit
NIN Even Deeper.
"I hear them call, I cannot stay The voice inviting me away"
kteerin@reddit
Crush by DMB
That part in “Black” by Pearl Jam where Eddie sings “I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life, I know you’ll be a star, in somebody else’s sky but why, why, why can’t it be mine?”
“Possession” by Sarah McLachlan
moejike@reddit
23 - Jimmy Eat World
thejaytheory@reddit
Amazing still it seems, I’ll be 23
little_bird_vagabond@reddit
Silent Lucidity and Enjoy the Silence...many more but those two gave me my first experiences with frisson as a child
thejaytheory@reddit
Yesss especially Silent Lucidity, it was comforting to listen to as a child, the build up through out, I can just hear it now.
WrenchNRatchet@reddit
Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
Tame Impala - Let It Happen
thejaytheory@reddit
It’s always around me, all that noise
Thatonegirl_79@reddit
Both great songs 👌
RoncoSnackWeasel@reddit
Lightning Crashes by Live
thejaytheory@reddit
Heard that on the radio going home yesterday and was just belting it out
RoncoSnackWeasel@reddit
Best way to do it, friend!
EnvironmentalSound25@reddit
This is the one song that i have no personal attachment or special meaning associated with yet still hits me in the gut every time.
RoncoSnackWeasel@reddit
I absolutely agree. I’ve never gone through what he’s singing about, but the emotion he uses to tell the story is gut wrenching and lasting.
elissa24@reddit
Overcome by Live still gets me
Annhl8rX@reddit
Zombie—Cranberries
Drift Away—Dobie Gray
The Chain—Fleetwood Mac
Notorious Thugs—BTH/Biggie
17–Cross Canadian Ragweed
thejaytheory@reddit
+1 for Notorious Thugs
PitDweller84@reddit
Zombie not being higher is fuckin criminal
catsoncrack420@reddit
We can all relate but growing up struggling in NYC this song hits hard so often. "The World I know". Collective Soul. If you don't look in the right places, the world and humanity can be a total let down that you wonder what's the point.
cheribom@reddit
Yessss and the video for it, too
thejaytheory@reddit
Yesss, standing off the edge, chills for it all
Thatonegirl_79@reddit
I have to put in a vote for their song Needs from the album Dosage. The end part of the song after the pause and the violins play is the goosebumps part for sure.
gogoescargot1@reddit
This was my first thought when I saw this post!
Thatonegirl_79@reddit
I feel like it's one of their underrated songs for sure!
irelandm77@reddit
That Song, Big Wreck, summer of 1997. I knew it the moment I heard it. 3rd year university across the river from the UofA adjacent to the Alberta legislature, 6:30am on the radio. I said to myself, "I'll remember this."
I did.
Met my wife the following spring.
r_sarvas@reddit
Poe - Haunted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgyRQheHgaU
...And I'm haunted
By the lives that I have loved
And actions I have hated
I'm haunted
By the promises I've made
And others I have broken
I... I'm haunted
By the lies that wove the web
Inside my haunted head
ScreenTricky4257@reddit
17 Again - Eurythmics
SteampunkyBrewster@reddit
The guitar solo from "Comfortably Numb."
ScreenTricky4257@reddit
Which one?
wn0991@reddit
Same for me and Time
xeroid051@reddit
Saint Etienne - only love can break your heart
BreakDue2000@reddit
I would do anything for love. - Meatloaf but when the girl sings.
ScreenTricky4257@reddit
You want to hear the girl, you sit through ten minutes of Meat.
thejaytheory@reddit
Pearl Jam - Black
GeneralLeeCurious@reddit
Chris Cornell - Like a Stone, Unplugged at AOL
https://youtu.be/qpLQv5xL9Dc?si=7qKPHgNzcRPh5fWk
Azuras_Star8@reddit
Chris Cornell - Sunshower.
One of the most hauntingly beautiful songs.
RIP Chris Cornell 😢.
gnutz4eva@reddit
Soma - Smashing Pumpkins
12_years_a_Jenk@reddit
Lightning Crashes for Live
CobblerNo8518@reddit
Radiohead - Exit Music For A Film
aitch79@reddit
This or letdown
fyrefly_faerie@reddit
Oh yea, the "Where you aaaarre" part especially
Crumpetland@reddit
It physically pains me that Teardrop by Massive Attack has more upvotes than this.
Dildo_Shw4ggins@reddit
I know which part of that song does it for me — “And now, we are one..”
ohmeursault@reddit
just got goosebumps just thinking about it
CobblerNo8518@reddit
So good.
Dildo_Shw4ggins@reddit
One of the greatest crescendos in modern music history IMO
CobblerNo8518@reddit
I just listened again
PastPotatoes@reddit
Id put in a vote for fake plastic trees too.
Satellight_of_Love@reddit
That one and “Nice Dream” for me.
CobblerNo8518@reddit
Another one that gets me
fromthedarqwaves@reddit
One of my favs. One of a few songs I’ll regular sing to myself.
CobblerNo8518@reddit
Street Spirit is another one
Klutzy-Delivery-5792@reddit
If talking strictly Radiohead, then this is definitely my vote, too. "House of Cards" in a close second.
VampireOnHoyt@reddit
Right when the drums come in
burgundyblue@reddit
My wife and I just saw The Decemberists with the Oregon Symphony and it was definitely Crane Wife 1 & 2
riotactor10@reddit
Stephen Wilson Jr - I’m a Song
Sal_Paradise81@reddit
Lover You Should’ve Come Over, Jeff Buckley
DameKitty@reddit
Who wants to live forever from queen.
smoothops85@reddit
.New Radicals - You Get What You Give
Perfect song AND music video to bring me back to my teen years.
clueclubkitty@reddit
Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows
BikerScoutTrooperDad@reddit
U2, Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Audioslave
Y2K_Blackout@reddit
Hans Zimmer - Cornfield Chase
poe_etic7@reddit
Wicked Game - Chris Isaak
aprilmayjune_77@reddit
Stars by Hum. Heard today and was transported back to when life wasn't so hard.
LocutusOfBeard@reddit
Bittersweet Symphony
DannyPantsgasm@reddit
The Decline - NOFX Especially now.
S_A_R_K@reddit
Damn, need to relisten to that one now. The idiots have definitely taken over
MattDubh@reddit
Spangle Call Lilli Line - Nano
jackfaire@reddit
I'm Already There - Lonestar
I hadn't really noticed the song when it came out. If I heard it on the radio it just kind of blew past me. But later that year my dad died. It was after the memorial and i was back home driving to work. I was trying not to think about him and then that song came on the radio.
I ended up having to pull over to the side of the road I was crying too hard. For a long time I'd never seek out the song but every time I heard it on the radio I would freeze.
bmoneycat@reddit
Nothing Compares to You: Sinead O’Conner
Dayvallenphotography@reddit
The criminally unknown Gavin Castleton the most compelling and impactful version of this song I’ve ever heard. Give this a watch if you like this song. https://vimeo.com/2762672
Barnitch@reddit
The Last Day of our Acquaintance is a good one too. I’ve been listening to it a lot lately.
zackks@reddit
Chris Cornell’s version i cannot hear enough and it does this to me every time.
C_est_la_vie9707@reddit
His version is better to me. I was never a big Soundgarden fan, like I knew their music on the rail and liked it but didn't seek it out, but for some reason his death hit me so hard. I don't get it. The video for his cover of Patience. Jesus.
abbydabbydo@reddit
I’m still not a Chris Cornell fan. I know ill be downvoted to holy hell for this, but something about him just gives me the icks. But I do really appreciate Something Compares and A Day in the Life by him. They’re so good they make me wish I understood what I am missing.
macroeconprod@reddit
All the flowers that you planted mama...
Gets me. Every. Damn. Time.
CrotalusHorridus@reddit
I’m quite fond of the Chris Cornell version too
Charliemac4242@reddit
Killing in the Name. RATM
djmagicio@reddit
Tool “The Pot”. Opening line gets me.
modsguzzlehivekum@reddit
Who are you to wave your finger
PinkBoxDestroyer@reddit
Unchained Melody still goes hard after all these years
Jigsaw417@reddit
When Radiohead’s Let Down peaks. Every. Single. Time.
isabellus_rex@reddit
I’m saving this thread and making a playlist
sounds_like_kong@reddit
The Joke - Brandi Carlile.
She’s a Xennial
wmubronco03@reddit
What Sara said - Death Cab for Cutie
kinda_fellin@reddit
Nutshell - Alice In Chains MTV Unplugged.
goddamn_leeteracola@reddit
Live versions of songs usually get me going
IronbAllsmcginty78@reddit
Into the mystic van Morrison. My husband is a sailor and I hated it when he was gone all those years and for some reason that song hits the super sadness right on the head. I can't even think about that song, my eyes are wet now
intensenerd@reddit
The opening bars of the Home Alone theme
lemonheadlock@reddit
Teardrop by Massive Attack
_dangling_participle@reddit
100%! "Paradise Circus" by Massive Attack, too.
Maxence Cyrin's piano cover of "Where is my Mind?"
"Ademius", "Caribbean Blue", and "Storms in Africa" by Enya
"Halcyon and On and On" by Orbital
"Porcelain" and "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" by Moby, get about 1:40 in, and then again at the 3:00 mark...chef's kiss
The DH orchestral version of "Young and Beautiful" by Lana del Ray
"Breathe Me" and "My Love" by Sia
"Here With Me" by Dido
"To Build a Home" by the Cinematic Orchestra
"Fix You" by Coldplay
Throwaway10123456@reddit
Especially for those Dr House fans.
kheret@reddit
I, I can remember (I remember) Standing, by the wall (by the wall) And the guns, shot above our heads (over our heads) And we kissed, as though nothing could fall (nothing could fall) And the shame, was on the other side Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever Then we could be Heroes, just for one day
walkshadow@reddit
Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley
magster823@reddit
I get chills from about a million songs, but this was the first one I thought of. It's so beautiful.
12Whiskey@reddit
I came here to say this. But I honestly like KD Lang’s version equally as well.
BStern23@reddit
KD Lang’s is the best version imho. https://www.cbc.ca/music/leonard-cohen-hallelujah-k-d-lang-jeff-buckley-john-cale-1.7371301
Hot_Balance_4089@reddit
Kate McKinnon’s version of Hallelujah
DirtRight9309@reddit
😭
ammodramussavannarum@reddit
Anything by Jeff Buckley, really.
lellywest@reddit
Almost any Loreena McKennit song. That woman’s voice is haunting.
Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit
It's all beautiful, but I get chills when
demarisco@reddit
For me, it is Dante's Prayer that always does it.
lellywest@reddit
Omg, I was legit thinking of the Lady of Shalott when I made this comment!
Verbull710@reddit
I'm the pious guy the little Amlettes wanna be like
HildeFrankie@reddit
Pretty much every song. It doesn't matter. Music does this to me.
Dry_Inspection_4583@reddit
Are You Okay?
-- Thomas Reid & Rxeboy
---------------
Demons and Monsters
-- 347Aidan
I know they aren't oldies, but they still fit the bill for me.
Iamstu@reddit
Wonder wall
poe_etic7@reddit
Same, but for me it's the Ryan Adams cover vs. the original.
Captain3leg-s@reddit
Colin Hay - Acoustic Overkill
Few-Temperature7219@reddit
Greenday “good riddance”
ThaNotoriousBLG@reddit
Mosquito Song. Queens of the Stone Age
doctordavemd@reddit
Good riddance - Green Day
detourne@reddit
TOOL - Sober
Putrid-Art-1559@reddit (OP)
Moby-My Weakness
Thatonegirl_79@reddit
Disturbed's version of The Sound of Silence
Lord_Puppy1445@reddit
"Take It With Me When I Go." Tom Waits.
Taanistat@reddit
So, the first two of these are old songs, definitely not Xennial, but they fit the bill. In each song it's the masterful vocals that do it for me.
Eddy Arnold - Make the world go away
Jay and the Americans - Cara Mia
Mad Season - Wake Up
wellsortofbut@reddit
Only in dreams, we see what it means.
sed2017@reddit
The part in Mother by Pink Floyd where the guitar solo happens… every time.
davwad2@reddit
Juvenile. Back That Thang Up sends me back to my high school senior year.
BreakDue2000@reddit
Uninvited -Alanis Morissette
Tootie1911@reddit
So many great songs listed! Some of my personal goosebump-inducing ones are -
Glittering-Station78@reddit
“I never thought I’d need so many people” - Bowie
Chadthemark@reddit
God of Wine-Third Eye Blind
Tootie1911@reddit
Love 3eb!! Motorcycle Drive-by is the one by them that gets me in the feels.
DoucheyMcBagBag@reddit
Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode.
Neither-Principle139@reddit
Home. Saw them live several years ago and Martin Gore did the song solo and acoustic. Weeped like a baby.
bohiti@reddit
Sorry I just really love music
Suspended-Again@reddit
I loved this portlandia skit where they’re like “I don’t want my kid stealing bread” https://youtu.be/WdEPgB2yizw?si=nr2npM2b8PrCynLQ
shrikelet@reddit
Broken Social Scene - "KC Accidental"
HalfFrozenSpeedos@reddit
Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold - goosebumps and internal pain compounded by a cancer research uk advertisement from years ago called "Mirrors" - https://youtu.be/kFZWTQ_kFAw
Sarah McLaughlin - Angel
Chris Stapleton - Maggie's Song / Fire Away
Offspring - Behind your walls / Kristy are you doing ok?
Cody Jinks - Loud and Heavy
Five Finger Death Punch - Wrong Side of Heaven "I spoke to god today and she said that she's ashamed 'who have I become, what have I done' " - the line gives me shivers due to my ptsd....speaks a bit too deeply due to the guilt that attends with the PTSD
Linkin Park - New Divide "I remember black skies and lightning all around me, I remember each flash as time began to burn" "your voice was all I heard, that i'd get what I deserve"
Elizabeth Mitchell - Little Bird - but not for the futurama reference either...
szalow@reddit
Smashing pumpkins try try try
szalow@reddit
Tori Amos cornflake girl
ChristyLovesGuitars@reddit
Is it too weird to say “Make Me Lose Control” by Eric Carmen? Every time, even today. Just so many great associations from being a kid.
digitaldingo75@reddit
Dead souls. Joy Division or NIN
kristospherein@reddit
Everything in its right place when that first chord hits.
idleat1100@reddit
One last caress. Misfits. When Glen belts out the last line without backing instruments…and then it all kicks in. Pure pop pushed through baroque gothic punk. Ha.
StevieV61080@reddit
Ashokan Farewell from Ken Burns' Civil War
Or
Baba Yetu from the Civilization IV intro
LongLostStorybook@reddit
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NyzTQOBAzI4&si=v74yj7d8yEpbMia1
cats_n_tats11@reddit
For me it's her version of Higher Love with the gospel choir. But really, she could've sung the phone book and I'd have goosebumps.
Dimplefrom-YA@reddit
none
mikemikemike9711@reddit
Warriors of the World, MANOWAR
bullgoose1@reddit
The last three songs on Nirvana unplugged
Ralliman320@reddit
"Chandelier" by Sia. There's something in the power of her voice, the way she conveys desperation and shame layered beneath near-toxic positivity.. and she has one of the most piercing belts I've ever heard.
Plenty of songs get to me when I'm in the right mood; this one puts me in that mood.
gaarkat@reddit
It can't rain all the time - jane siberry
Putrid-Art-1559@reddit (OP)
Disturbed- Sound of Silence. Especially the Covid video. https://youtu.be/JJViT8BKq9k?si=slxT1Xtq493Zg35A
Fantastic_Grape3104@reddit
Yes! This was my immediate thought. Goosebumps every single time
Knickholeass@reddit
The outro to floods by Pantera.
No_One7894@reddit
Tyler by The Toadies
col_clipspringer@reddit
“She pulls her covers tighter”
stoofy@reddit
Don't Follow - Alice in Chains or Yellow Ledbetter (lyrics of your choice lol) - Pearl Jam
I heard Don't Follow for the first time right after one of my best friends died suddenly when we were teens. It hit so hard.
lellywest@reddit
Plainsong by The Cure
ObscuraRegina@reddit
Burn, as well
lellywest@reddit
Honestly, I have whole list…
ObscuraRegina@reddit
Same :) Have you ever seen them live?
Satellight_of_Love@reddit
That whole album.
Flow-tentate@reddit
Untitled by D'Angelo
TheLastBoat@reddit
The Verve Pipe - The Freshmen
Next_Distribution683@reddit
Free Bird... About 9 minutes in when all three guitars are screaming and suddenly drop out for a beat and come back in with a face melter!!! I can't help but visualize jets in a dogfight!
terententen@reddit
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (post interlude) Pearl Jam - Jeremy (Live) State College, PA 5/3/03
pick_up_a_brick@reddit
Pearl Jam - Release
Dildo_Shw4ggins@reddit
Gideon by My Morning Jacket
Wise-Living-850@reddit
It's Golden by MMJ that does it for me.
bluefunksta@reddit
Circuital or Off the Record for me but damn does that band know how to bring it
Suspended-Again@reddit
Great live show
DirtRight9309@reddit
It Beats For You for me
fyrefly_faerie@reddit
Mayonaise by Smashing Pumpkins
Zombie by The Cranberries
Floyd_Bourbon@reddit
Yes to both
These days Zombie starts with chills, but brings me to tears every godamn time. Tears start way earlier if I'm actually watching the video. Back in 6th grade I just thought that video looked cool.
cutreamthread@reddit
Absolutely!
symonym7@reddit
Tool - Pushit [live on Salival].
0D2kv7wwmd@reddit
Amy Mann - Save Me
TurtleToast2@reddit
Last Kiss - Pearl Jam
Croused@reddit
Big Wreck's The Oaf
jake03583@reddit
Holy Roller by Spiritbox
syentifiq@reddit
Optimistic & Everything in its Right Place - Radiohead The Way Out is Through - NIN It's About That Time - Miles Davis Nessun Dorma - Pavarotti Fecit Potential - Trondheim Solistene Umi Says - Mos Def
FaceRockerMD@reddit
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
Merzbenzmike@reddit
Nutshell by Alice In Chains. Specifically, the MYV unplugged performance.
Opening guitar, Layne carefully walking in.. He sits down and quite literally sings his own eulogy.
BehemothJr@reddit
Gotye/Kimbra- Somebody That I Used to Know
mountednoble99@reddit
Dreams by The Cranberries
smaked_by_the_pods@reddit
Pokémon i em the very best
PsionicKitten@reddit
Surprisingly none from my teenage years:
Epica - The Essence of Silence
Within Temptation featuring Tarja - Paradise (What about us?)
Nightwish - Wish I had an Angel
I was into musicals in my younger years and moved into metal, so moving into symphonic metal, which was much more popular from European artists.
6thBornSOB@reddit
Oh, Aenima by Tool, for sure!
Hey…hey…hey…hey…
denzien@reddit
Kiss from a Rose by Seal
Cool_Atmosphere_9038@reddit
Smashing pumpkins Landslide. Everytime.
LadyStardust79@reddit
My first time hearing Landslide was the Pumpkins version. Hole doing a raucous Gold Dust Woman was also my first time hearing that song. Of course, the Fleetwood Mac originals are basically untouchable, I still love those two covers for introducing me to those songs.
werdnurd@reddit
Those are legit good covers, though. No shame in finding it first and even liking it a little more because of that. Music when you’re young becomes a part of you forever, so the Pumpkins Landslide is at least equal in my heart to the original.
Do_it_My_Way-79@reddit
Beth Hart singing “I’d Rather Go Blind” with Joe Bonamassa on guitar. I have watched the live video so many times & it gives me goosebumps every time.
impeesa75@reddit
That’s called frisson.
dmbream@reddit
Lately, Tove Lo’s cover of Robyn’s “Dancing On My Own”
Waterworks, every time.
https://youtu.be/khPfEwiZlMI
ammodramussavannarum@reddit
Circles by Sunny Day Real Estate.
dreadthripper@reddit
No answer, but these are some great songs! Thanks.
nothingnatural@reddit
Age of Innocence - Enigma
Dreams - Cranberries
Ride - Twisterella
Candid_Term6960@reddit
Coming in From the Cold - Bob Marley Why Must I Cry - Peter Tosh Mama Africa - Midnite
theelephantupstream@reddit
All Mine by Portishead and Like Suicide—specifically Chris Cornell’s acoustic version on the SFW soundtrack (an Ethan Hawke movie I never saw but somehow had the soundtrack to).
PerformanceSevere821@reddit
My Billy Joel Holy Trinity: Until the Night, Summer Highland Falls, All About Soul
PitDweller84@reddit
Easy. Opeth's Deliverance, the song, specially starting around 8:15 and running to 8:45. When the band cuts out for a couple bars and the solo does the run down is my favorite transition into a new movement in music
juicefarm@reddit
James Blake - Lindisfarne I & II
sobernyc@reddit
Shinedown Simple Man. I had that song on repeat when my mom died
CantaloupeAsleep502@reddit
Steal My Sunshine - Len
Tyraid@reddit
Moonlight - Rameses B
I have a genuine emotional response to these sounds.
Less_Likely@reddit
Fade into You - Mazzy Star
Stunningresults@reddit
In the Air Tonight
Afreon@reddit
Mayonnaise; when the song fully kicks in (about 50 seconds through). As a boy it was transcendent, now it's just agonisingly nostalgic
SirScoaf@reddit
Soma - Smashing Pumpkins Black - Pearl Jam Talk Show Host - Radiohead
Alternative-Light514@reddit
Top tier list
insufficientfacts27@reddit
Black gets me everytime.
ItComeAFlood@reddit
++ Soma ++
Chet_Phoney@reddit
I dont think any song gives me a females legs
reapersritehand@reddit
Alot of great songs in here but one i haven't seen named
"She talks to angels " black crows
manicpixiepuke@reddit
Not an Addict - K’s Choice
Kan1s_Mort1s@reddit
Zombie by the Cranberries
StringAndPaperclips@reddit
Son of Sam by Elliott Smith
olduglysweater@reddit
Anything For You by Miami Sound Machine. Gloria's voice is just like a warm hug to me, and the guitar and trumpets at the end, just 😙🤌🏿
iphoenixrising@reddit
Iris. Goo Goo Dolls. Still gets me all these years later.
I’m not Jesus, Apocalyptica and Corey Taylor of Slipknot.
Beth, Kiss.
Hate me, Blue October.
Not a song but I still listen to Baz Lurhmann’s Everybody’s Free (to wear sunscreen) as the lost soundtrack to my youth.
Muella@reddit
Crawling - Linkin Park
AnguryLittleMan@reddit
Tool - Invincible (you have to be an old man to understand I think).
ModerndayMrsRobinson@reddit
Goodbye Horses
Nearby-Amphibian7874@reddit
Bridge over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
How Great Thou Art - Elvis Presley
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Freddo9900@reddit
The Cars - Drive
iphoenixrising@reddit
Absolutely 💯
Rob_LeMatic@reddit
Listener - Wooden Heart
BulkyPole@reddit
Painkiller by Judas Priest. the unmatched metal comeback album 20 years into their career with insane drums, dual soloing guitarists and epic poem storytelling
LadyStardust79@reddit
Edge of Night/Pippin’s Song - Billy Boyd Into the West - Annie Lennox
fritofootedfriend@reddit
Honestly? I get severe goosebumps when I watch someone performing on American Idol or Americas Got Talent or whatever “talent” show for the first time and they are KILLING it. Hearing them and seeing them realize “holy shit, I might have just pulled this off”. Between their killer performance and knowing that their life is about to change…..I can only imagine the feeling. It makes me so insanely happy for them.
WhiskyStandard@reddit
“Your Hand in Mine” by Explosions in the Sky
C_est_la_vie9707@reddit
Because FNL is the best show ever.
Opening-Reaction-511@reddit
This picture is giving me the creeps to the max.
GhostChips42@reddit
I can’t explain it - mainly because I’m not a huge fan of all their music, just this one - but the live version of Knights of Cydonia by Muse always give me goosebumps.
Healthy-Neat-2989@reddit
Laid by James
Substantial-Art-482@reddit
Happy chills! Such a joyous and fun song to sing at the top of your lungs 😍
Sheridacdude@reddit
The Walkmen - The Rat "you've got a nerve to be askin' a favour"
Never_Rule1608@reddit
Cozy prisons; A-Ha
Klutzy-Delivery-5792@reddit
"Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" from Nirvana Unplugged
SirHillaryPushemoff@reddit
Nirvana Unplugged in New York, Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Misfit_Aquaintance@reddit
Whenever I hear Dani Filth scream and whenever I hear Will Ramos growl
GustavSnapper@reddit
Seeing Will do his thing in real life leaves you in a state of belief. I’ve never been more amazed and enthralled by any musician like I have with him.
Absolute gem of a dude too.
Misfit_Aquaintance@reddit
I missed them on their last tour and haunts me every day 😭 I definitely won't miss them when they come back. Will is an incredible talent
ItComeAFlood@reddit
Band of Horses - The Funeral
spicy_ramn@reddit
Suzanne sundfor, white foxes
timothypjr@reddit
Rats, by Ghost. Or anything else by Ghost.
FatReverend@reddit
Korn Daddy. If you get to the end of that without ugly crying yourself, I don't want to meet you.
Mashed_Tater_Tots@reddit
Cosmic Love - live version on KEXP.
StormyStenafie@reddit
Roads by Portishead
HotTubSexVirgin22@reddit
Fake Empire - The National Californication- RHCP (in high school) Meet Me In The Woods - Lord Huron
NavierIsStoked@reddit
Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode
akaphayte@reddit
Home: Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros
triplee711@reddit
Fred Jones Part 2 - Ben Folds
The harmonies always gave me chills but it hits different after 20 years at a company who wouldn't care if you never came back.
K1NDOFAB1GDEAL@reddit
Moby - Memory Gospel
GustavSnapper@reddit
It’s a trilogy that’s 25 minutes of this but Pain Remains 1,2,3 Lorna Shore.
Alarmed_Drop7162@reddit
Refrigerator Prison
Alien_Nicole@reddit
Alter Bridge - Blackbird
Resistiane@reddit
"Evil" by Interpol
"Evil" by Interpol
IceColdNeech@reddit
A song so nice it needed to be mentioned twice!
Trixie1143@reddit
Third Eye by Tool
I came back to watch you play. Why are you running away?
solexioso@reddit
H - Tool
Kellzy1212@reddit
Bang Gang-Inside.
thehousewright@reddit
Chemical Brothers - Alive Alone
VampireOnHoyt@reddit
Jane's Addiction, "Three Days." Specifically the solos during the B section.
PoopyMcpants@reddit
Careful with that axe eugene
OffThread@reddit
Passenger by Deftones
Putrid-Art-1559@reddit (OP)
Great pick. Deftones and MJK together is chef’s kiss.
OffThread@reddit
💯
PuppyJakeKhakiCollar@reddit
Madness by Muse. Especially the part near the end when it builds up to the extended high note. Definitely a song made for good headphones. The bass line throughout is top notch.
Mr-Brown-Is-A-Wonder@reddit
Basket Ball by Skin
birdsword@reddit
Strange Currencies, R.E.M.
irate_alien@reddit
Mogwai - My Father My King
JPMoney81@reddit
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot
Vash_85@reddit
Hi Ren by Ren.
There have been others, but that's the more recent one that I can think of.
Vash_85@reddit
Fade in / Fade out by Nothing More is another. Watch the music video that goes with it, and if you have a good relationship with your aging father or your father has unfortunately passed... It'll hit pretty damn hard.
Tinyhulk27@reddit
Red water by Rehab.
Maybe it's "too new" but eveyone knows them for the fun Sittin at the bar hit song from the year 2000
Think red water came out in 2005. But it's a much more poignant song for sure.
MaraScout@reddit
Uninvited by Alanis Morrisette.
Ok_Education_5095@reddit
Late At Night- Buffalo Tom. Like a true xennial.
platypus_farmer42@reddit
Homage by Alien Ant Farm. Gets me in the feels every time.
Staggerlee024@reddit
I don't know what "it's just a song" means
lemonheadlock@reddit
It's sarcastic. Like, "oh, it's just a song, no big deal" but it has a huge effect on you, gives you goosebumps.
_buffy_summers@reddit
For this post, it's a song that you feel really strongly about.
ericscottf@reddit
Pink Floyd, Sheep, from the Animals album, when the sheep break free and overrun the dogs.
"When cometh the day we lowly ones, Through quiet reflection, and great dedication...."
Hans_Wermhat666@reddit
There are a bunch.
Earlier it happened a few times to the following songs:
Bane - Ali Vs Frazier Bane - Ante Up Have Heart - Watch Me Rise Modern Life is War - By The Sea
nodakfisherman@reddit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5kcBxL7-qI
DeadpoolAndFriends@reddit
Star Wars Open Theme and closing theme.
Totally_Botanical@reddit
Darude - Sandstorm
Difficult_Tangelo188@reddit
😅
Hlodvigovich915@reddit
Alphawave - Timeless Dream
CarlSpackler22@reddit
Murder In The Red Barn - Tom Waits
fatbuddha66@reddit
My Curse, by the Afghan Whigs.
DiaDeLosMuebles@reddit
One headlight. Wallflowers.
Uhh_JustADude@reddit
Until it sleeps - Metallica
pepperstems@reddit
Untitled #3 (Samskeyti) by Sigur Ros. Just...transcendent.
Barnitch@reddit
This Mess We’re In by PJ Harvey and Thom Yorke.
murleytbag@reddit
The Battle Hymn of Bulldawg Nation
https://youtu.be/xOMdrh8lIZM?si=dxqe4fllBiTS-wQR
RGVHound@reddit
Theme from Jurassic Park
TiEmEnTi@reddit
White Stripes - Death Letter
larryb78@reddit
You keep me hangin’ on by Vanilla Fudge. No disrespect to Diana Ross but this version is the gold standard
Vladstanpinople@reddit
Creed - Higher
DogReasonable7277@reddit
Soundgarden-Slaves and Bulldozers
https://youtu.be/wgqLAlFKtXA?si=vHP4Oxi6zBy9-_3M
xRVAx@reddit
The hand eye key change part of that Whitney Houston song.
PizzaDork732@reddit
Legs either by ZZ Top or Kid Rock
Holmes221bBSt@reddit
The Ivory Tower theme when Atreyu thinks all is lost and the tower appears
Jifeeb@reddit
Face to Face - A OK
Designer-Bid-3155@reddit
This was me watching David Gilmour last year at MSG.
Inevitable-While-577@reddit
Insomnia by Faithless