Songs that give you goosebumps

kcult said:
I haven't read every word of the responses, so I'm not sure if any of the songs listed gave goosebumps from adrenaline dumps, but one song that did it for me, I'm almost ashamed to admit, was Nickelback's "Animals."

Wait! Hear me out.

This was back in day when I was deep into MotoGP, as well as the leagues stateside. The Doctor, The Texas Tornado, The Kentucky Kid, etc.

I was going down a YouTube rabbit hole and someone had put together a video with "Animals" as the background music. It was an awesome, really well done video.

If I hear that choon today and I don't have something else distracting me, I can get a little pimply.

Sorry, the video was from several, several years ago and I haven't been successful finding it.

Flame on!
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Reminds me of a funny quote...

Dave Grohl was once quoted as saying, "If you play a Nickleback song backwards you'll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you'll hear Nickleback."

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This guy was the musical director for my wife's church when we were dating. Other people sing this song, but I have never heard it sound as good as it did when he did it. The louder it is the better he sang it. People asked for him to sing it almost every Sunday and every funeral in the church. Sadly he was killed in a car wreck several years ago, and someone put this song on YouTube.

 
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This has been a few years ago but still gets me...



click on "watch on YouTube". It won't load correctly for some reason.
 
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Forget goosebumps. This one will flat out make you cry. Still hits me hard. Isbell has a frightening relationship with other peoples pain and an unreal ability to express it in songs.


 
Cats Cradle, by Harry Chapin.

Ever had children and watched them grow up? May be going through that now? Ever lost a child though divorce, maybe reconnected many years later?

Son or daughter, makes no difference. They wanna be like you when they're little. Sometimes they go though a painful rebellious stage at various time and you maybe question yourself or wonder what will become of them. Then they become adults and damned if you don't look at them and see yourself in so many little ways.

 
Alter Bridge Blackbird. Possibly the greatest guitar solo of all time...or tied with Hotel California and Comfortably Numb.
 
"Something About You" by Level 42 and "Waterfalls" by TLC.

The second one is a memory hole to my childhood during the 90s and the first is just a dang good song.
 
many of mine are already mentioned here.

Amazing Grace, Taps, Star Spangled Banner, Sound of Silence, God Bless the USA.

How great thou art hits home because i've heard it at 3 of my grandparent's funerals. My distant cousin in his 70s sang it at my paternal grandfather's funeral and i've never heard it like that again. He sang "How great Thou" in his mid range, and really got down in the bass to belt out the "Art" every time.


"Like A Stone" is another good one. Also "In Color" by Jamey Jonnson.

And the vocals of this one are powerful if you've never heard it.
 
I was going to post a cover of Landslide, but then youtube sent me to a different video of In the Air Tonight with the same vocalist.

The vibe of this song always got me. I remember first hearing it as a kid while watching Miami Vice, during a typical stylisticly moody scene after someone was killed.

 
Someone posted something by Haley earlier, but this is the one of hers that stands out for me. From 2:09-3:12 or so is just one unexpected amazing thing after another, and then 4:05 to the end is full on crazy.

 
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One more, can't help it. Love the piano towards the end. Shows how you don't have to do anything flashy to get it done. I believe it's Benmont Tench from the Heartbreakers. Whole record is about death in one way or another. It ends with "We'll Meet Again," though, because Johnny Cash knew it doesn't end here.

 
I know it's probably not the kind of goosebumps most folks are talkin about.

But I get em every time I hear Jerry Reed sing that line and laugh: "Well, I wonder where the Louisiana sheriff went to....."

Country boy libertarian goosebumps count?


Well the sheriff caught wind that Amos
Was in the swamp trapping alligator skin
So he snuck in the swamp to gon' and get the boy
But he never come out again
Well, I wonder where the Louisiana sheriff went to
Well, you can sure get lost in the Louisiana bayou




 
This wont be short, you likely wont read this. But if you do, you might think, "yeah, THAT'LL give someone goosebumps." Or tears. Or both.
And I dont have a video to post as only two people on Earth have this song. One is me, the other is the artist who wrote it for me as my grandfather was dying.

Let me explain...

There's a musician I like, Bob Nanna, he's been in some emo/indie bands I like and I was able to meet him when I saw him (and the band) on an anniversary tour up in Boston. Nice guy!

Well, he owns a site called DownWrite - you can pay people to write you a song. Most of the folks on there wouldnt be known to many on here, punk/indie artists, mostly.
Just over five years ago he posted on his IG that that day only, any song by him for $1. There is a service charge of 4 bucks or 5, but he said that if you requested he'd even refund that amount too...again, NICE GUY.

I was up at App State with the high school for a Model UN conference when I saw this and instantly ordered up a son. There are lots of things to click and input in, I just put, "Whatever you want" basically and was excited about 'my' song.

Then the next day I found out crushing news - my grandfather had decided to refuse all food and he was ready to go.
I had just bought my house, I missed a day in the hospital with him when I was moving in, then another waiting on a new washer to arrive, and then I was up in Boone...I just didnt know. We just thought he'd pull through.

I went straight to the hospital and decided I wasnt leaving, didnt want to miss anymore time with him.
It was basically too late, he was so high on morphine to kill the pain that we only had a couple very brief conversations, and I use that term liberally. It was mostly me crying and him telling me he loved me.

Anyway, that night I decided to write Bob, saying that I had ordered a song and that as I typed this I was in a chair beside of my grandfather dying, but his music helped, just helped relax my mind a bit. Off it went, I didnt think Id hear back.
But at a very early hour he replied. We went back and forth, I even sent a pic of me and him, and my best friend, from up in Boston.

He had a bunch of songs to do, but did mine last.
"How much light is left"

He wrote a song about me and my situation, being there as my grandfather was passing.
Ive only heard it once. It's saved on multiple harddrives, but I dont want to listen to it.

I miss my grandfather very freaking much. I hope I am making him proud.
I hate he never got to come into my home. And, now, he'll never have met my fiance/future wife.
Freaking sucks.
 
“This ain’t nothin” by Craig Morgan
 
HMP said:
This wont be short, you likely wont read this. But if you do, you might think, "yeah, THAT'LL give someone goosebumps." Or tears. Or both.
And I dont have a video to post as only two people on Earth have this song. One is me, the other is the artist who wrote it for me as my grandfather was dying.

Let me explain...

There's a musician I like, Bob Nanna, he's been in some emo/indie bands I like and I was able to meet him when I saw him (and the band) on an anniversary tour up in Boston. Nice guy!

Well, he owns a site called DownWrite - you can pay people to write you a song. Most of the folks on there wouldnt be known to many on here, punk/indie artists, mostly.
Just over five years ago he posted on his IG that that day only, any song by him for $1. There is a service charge of 4 bucks or 5, but he said that if you requested he'd even refund that amount too...again, NICE GUY.

I was up at App State with the high school for a Model UN conference when I saw this and instantly ordered up a son. There are lots of things to click and input in, I just put, "Whatever you want" basically and was excited about 'my' song.

Then the next day I found out crushing news - my grandfather had decided to refuse all food and he was ready to go.
I had just bought my house, I missed a day in the hospital with him when I was moving in, then another waiting on a new washer to arrive, and then I was up in Boone...I just didnt know. We just thought he'd pull through.

I went straight to the hospital and decided I wasnt leaving, didnt want to miss anymore time with him.
It was basically too late, he was so high on morphine to kill the pain that we only had a couple very brief conversations, and I use that term liberally. It was mostly me crying and him telling me he loved me.

Anyway, that night I decided to write Bob, saying that I had ordered a song and that as I typed this I was in a chair beside of my grandfather dying, but his music helped, just helped relax my mind a bit. Off it went, I didnt think Id hear back.
But at a very early hour he replied. We went back and forth, I even sent a pic of me and him, and my best friend, from up in Boston.

He had a bunch of songs to do, but did mine last.
"How much light is left"

He wrote a song about me and my situation, being there as my grandfather was passing.
Ive only heard it once. It's saved on multiple harddrives, but I dont want to listen to it.

I miss my grandfather very freaking much. I hope I am making him proud.
I hate he never got to come into my home. And, now, he'll never have met my fiance/future wife.
Freaking sucks.
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I probably cried the first dozen times I heard this song thinking about my Papaw.


 
HMP said:
This wont be short, you likely wont read this. But if you do, you might think, "yeah, THAT'LL give someone goosebumps." Or tears. Or both.
And I dont have a video to post as only two people on Earth have this song. One is me, the other is the artist who wrote it for me as my grandfather was dying.

Let me explain...

There's a musician I like, Bob Nanna, he's been in some emo/indie bands I like and I was able to meet him when I saw him (and the band) on an anniversary tour up in Boston. Nice guy!

Well, he owns a site called DownWrite - you can pay people to write you a song. Most of the folks on there wouldnt be known to many on here, punk/indie artists, mostly.
Just over five years ago he posted on his IG that that day only, any song by him for $1. There is a service charge of 4 bucks or 5, but he said that if you requested he'd even refund that amount too...again, NICE GUY.

I was up at App State with the high school for a Model UN conference when I saw this and instantly ordered up a son. There are lots of things to click and input in, I just put, "Whatever you want" basically and was excited about 'my' song.

Then the next day I found out crushing news - my grandfather had decided to refuse all food and he was ready to go.
I had just bought my house, I missed a day in the hospital with him when I was moving in, then another waiting on a new washer to arrive, and then I was up in Boone...I just didnt know. We just thought he'd pull through.

I went straight to the hospital and decided I wasnt leaving, didnt want to miss anymore time with him.
It was basically too late, he was so high on morphine to kill the pain that we only had a couple very brief conversations, and I use that term liberally. It was mostly me crying and him telling me he loved me.

Anyway, that night I decided to write Bob, saying that I had ordered a song and that as I typed this I was in a chair beside of my grandfather dying, but his music helped, just helped relax my mind a bit. Off it went, I didnt think Id hear back.
But at a very early hour he replied. We went back and forth, I even sent a pic of me and him, and my best friend, from up in Boston.

He had a bunch of songs to do, but did mine last.
"How much light is left"

He wrote a song about me and my situation, being there as my grandfather was passing.
Ive only heard it once. It's saved on multiple harddrives, but I dont want to listen to it.

I miss my grandfather very freaking much. I hope I am making him proud.
I hate he never got to come into my home. And, now, he'll never have met my fiance/future wife.
Freaking sucks.
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Play the song at your wedding, and perhaps she'll get to know him a little.
 
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