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    'Goosebumps' music

    Tracks that are still so good that - even decades later - when you hear them you instantly get goosebumps; you don't know whether to laugh or cry; you have to 'do the Doom Claw', etc, etc.

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    Tracks of my Tears springs to mind.

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      Frankie Teardrop is still a haunting song.

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          Brilliant topic evilC.

          This one never fails:
          The Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith

          "Heroin eyes" always gets me on this:
          The Waterboys - Old England is Dying

          And of course:
          Tom Waits - Martha

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            The way he belts out the first line on this always gets me.

            Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers To Cross

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              Ashford & Simpson Aint That Good Enough

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                #8
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                From A Late Night Train by the Blue Nile:



                Tonight by Richard Hawley:

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                  Connected: Let's Go Out Tonight by Craig Armstrong, with Paul Buchanon on vocals.

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                  Or, just Gorecki's 3rd.
                  Remarkable.

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                    #10
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                    Billy Mackenzie's version of Wild Is The Wind.

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                      Auntie Beryl wrote: Connected: Let's Go Out Tonight by Craig Armstrong, with Paul Buchanon on vocals.

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                      Also connected: Glasgow

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                        Frankie Teardrop frightened the living shit out of me when I heard it for the first (and only) time. I was young and impressionable, and had been advised beforehand by a veteran colleague to listen to it in the dark.

                        I feel a spin-off thread coming on.

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                          Giggler wrote:
                          Originally posted by Auntie Beryl
                          Connected: Let's Go Out Tonight by Craig Armstrong, with Paul Buchanon on vocals.

                          Here
                          Also connected: Glasgow
                          That whole album's incredible. He even took a Des'ree tune and made it spinetingling.

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                            #14
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                            and I asked myself the same question

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                              #15
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                              Frankie Teardrop belongs in a list of songs everybody should hear. Once.

                              As should this which ticks the goosebumps box though perhaps not how the OP intended;

                              German wine anyone?

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                                #16
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                                Because someone has to.

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                                  #17
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                                  A Different Bob wrote: and I asked myself the same question
                                  Innit, though it's the "year after year, their numbers get fewer, some day no one will march there at all", which gets me. Every time.

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                                    Someone else must have some 'happy goosebumpy music', right? That's how I feel with 'Equinoxe pt.1'.

                                    'Boogie Wonderland', anyone?

                                    I've just been looking at some Briton Riviere paintings, so I just want to avoid thinking of the 'weepies' right now, otherwise they'll set me off!

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                                      #19
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                                      The final bit of Yes by McAlmont and Butler

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                                        E10 Rifle wrote:
                                        Originally posted by A Different Bob
                                        Innit, though it's the "year after year, their numbers get fewer, some day no one will march there at all", which gets me. Every time.
                                        Yep, that's another one. I had it on the car stereo recently and was choking up while the rest of the family was obliviously blathering away, and I wanted to yell at them, "How can you talk while this song's playing?" This thread aside, goosebump songs are not for sharing.

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                                          I'll second "Tracks of My Tears," especially when Smokey really starts wailing toward the end. The "baby, baby, baby" and "oooh"s always get me. That might be my favorite song of all time.

                                          Others that come to mind are Booker T. & the M.G.'s "Green Onions," Dawn Penn's "No No No," Galaxie 500's "Fourth of July," New Order's "Cries and Whispers," Tones on Tail's "Rain," AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" (the opening riff especially), The Kinks "Waterloo Sunset," Bob Dylan's "Girl from the North Country," The Reivers' "Star Telegram," David Bowie's "Heroes," Stevie Wonder's "I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)" and "He's Misstra Know-It-All," and The Grateful Dead's "Franklin's Tower."

                                          Trying to pick as eclectically as I can, and I'm sure I've forgotten a few.

                                          EDIT: Must include this one: Scott Walker's "Copenhagen," the part where he stretches out "carousel" forever and the carnival-esque music comes in. Goosebumps every time. My family have been known to ridicule me for the rapture I go into when I play this song.

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                                            evilC wrote: Someone else must have some 'happy goosebumpy music', right? That's how I feel with 'Equinoxe pt.1'.
                                            Most happy goosebumpy music is early stuff, here's a few:

                                            Get Down, Get With It — Little Richard.

                                            One Hand Loose — Charlie Feathers

                                            Summertime Blues — Eddie Cochran

                                            Slightly more recent:

                                            You Set the Scene.

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                                              While I'd I'd heartily endorse This Mortal Coil's version of Song to the Siren, Buckley's live version of it just shreds me. I wish Elektra hadn't fucked around with his studio recordings so much, this beats the Starsailor track hands down.

                                              From The Monkees TV show

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                                                #24
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                                                Wow, that went out on the Monkees' programme? Knockout version, does the trick for me too.

                                                One that springs to mind, because I had to listen to the new Eno album today, was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfKcu_ze-60

                                                Every time, it gets me. I still can't work out why.

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                                                  I heard The Pogues' version of The Band Played Waltzing Matilda recently and that works exceptionally well too.

                                                  Upbeat-wise, Ash's Walking Barefoot can sometimes catch me, as can Georgy Girl by The Seekers (no idea why). Actually their Morningtown Ride can too but that's definitely just toddlerhood lullaby nostalgia at work.

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