That Tingle Up The Spine

[acidbearboy]

I know a few people will agree with me here, but it's Solu Music - Fade everytime. I just love staring out of my window as the sunsets listening to this. Also (and I hope acidbearboy agrees with me) Gus Gus - David (King Britt Mix) makes me go all funny.

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I'll agree on Solu Music - Fade but david didn't hit me the first or second time I listened to it I'm afriad. A couple that I can think of, off the top of my head:

Grace - Not Over Yet (BT Mix) Waiting 6 minutes for an intro to finish has never been so rewarding

Underworld - Dark Train When those chords drop in = Lush

Daft Punk - Da Funk & Digital Love 2 extremes from the french blokes. I love the throbbing acid phatness that runs through Da Funk and I also think that Digital Love has the best guitar solo ever at the end. I seriously need to stop whatever I'm doing to appreaciate that song.

FC Kahuna - Machine Says Yes (Josh Wink Mix) A steady acid groove for the first few minutes then it breaks down a little, then some more. And the BOOM! It all comes back in, with added lush pads and a sweet bassline. I love it

The Chemical Brothers - The Boxer The newest addition to the list, love that piano, love that vocal and I love the synth lines too.

[Suizid]

Jeff Buckley - Mojo Pin/So Real

Bjork & Thom Yorke - I've seen it all

Various Sigur Ros tracks

Mogwai - Mogwai Fear Satan

Schneider TM - The Light 3000

Mew - Snow Brigade

Interestingly, a lot of songs that do it for me (and quite a few named in this thread!) have a quiet bit in the middle - either a drop out of everything but one instrument/vocal, or a tight mid-band mix (that "trapped in a box" sound), before kicking in again...

[Emp.Man]

the fall - eat yrself fittah

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Prole Art Threat's my favourite Fall song. I reckon Blindness might be up there too, looking forward to hearing how it sounds on the new LP.

[iloverage]

Oh man the peel session version of blindness is 10.0

[Emp.Man]

I've not got around to getting the Peel Sessions thing yet, for shame. I actually keep forgetting about it every time I'm music shopping

[Dapple]

Grace - Not Over Yet (BT Mix) Waiting 6 minutes for an intro to finish has never been so rewarding

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Agreed! Managed to get a copy of this from eBay a few months back...so sweet.

I'd go for:

Depeche Mode - Home (the build up to the guitar solo bit towards the end)

The Sundays - Love (when the strings come in, again towards the end)

[Marzipan Travolta]

Tool - Aenima

The whole song just piles layer upon layer into the sound until it's so heavy you feel like you could collapse. I always do. Right when the millionth odd guitar part comes in on the line "fuck smiley gladrags with hidden agendas, fuck these dysfunctional insecure actresses." It feels like standing against wave after wave of water until finally being knocked over and just gliding along to the songs blissful conclusion.

[paddyo]

best bit of ANY song EVER is lou reeds 'walk on the wild side' near the end when the sax kicks in .... listen to it NOW... its perfect

[Mr Do 71]

Depeche Mode - Sister of Night ...especially for the lovely instrumental ending

Bochum Welt - Vectors ...The tempo and atmosphere are notched down and deep below, expanding effervescent constructions of underwater ambience and sweeping gentle analog beats in a remorseful, reflective way.

The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me ..one of my most loved albums, the best moments being Like Cockatoos, Icing Sugar, One More Time & If Only Tonight We Could Sleep

and of course..

Balil - Norte Route ..emotional electronica at it's very best, and it hits you everytime.

[Guest]

Battery by Metallica. The spanish guitar at the start is mixed very low, and is very gentle, then after what seems like an age, you are finally hit by the full force of thrash!

[moosegrinder]

Battery by Metallica. The spanish guitar at the start is mixed very low, and is very gentle, then after what seems like an age, you are finally hit by the full force of thrash!

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Damage Inc, man

[thingymajig]

At The Drive In- Napoleon Solo

That does it for me!

[Dimahoo]

Balil - Norte Route

You mean mix 4 right?

Thats the one with the fucked up sample of a guy singing - or chanting.

Fucking ace.

Another thing that gets my spine shivering is hearing a filter tweak on a 303.

On some tracks it just bubbles away as the bassline, the other instuments come in and that filter gets tweaked with a full resonace setting.

Theres some great tracks like that. Much of it is formularic acid, but sometimes, just sometimes it can sound so cool.

Laurent Garnier's Acid Effel is a good example and that track on Black Dogs 'Bytes' where theres 3 very small tracks.

The last one (which also features a sample from Star Trek) has a 303 appregiated melody that slowly filters in (only 3 notes) - first time i heard that - great stuff.

[Emp.Man]

oh and schizophrenia, the first song on sonic youths sister-

It's good to have that kind of thing as the start of an album.

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That song was ruined completely for me by a dire band ripping it off almost note-for note (I won't mention which band it was in case curiosity gets the better of you and you end up ruining it for yourself too). Can't listen to it now without thinking about it . Ah well, I always preferred Catholic Block anyways I suppose.

[Mr Do 71]

Balil - Norte Route

You mean mix 4 right?

Thats the one with the fucked up sample of a guy singing - or chanting.

Fucking ace.

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I've only ever heard the original.

[Don Rosco]

DJ Crystl - Warpdrive remix

DJ Crystl - Sweet Dreams

and

DJ Crystl - The Dark Crystl

that guy was a stone cold genius

also

John Coltrane - My Favourite Things (but really McCoy Tyner's piano solo)

Spacemen 3 - Wash away all of my tears

John Holt / King Tubby - Ali Baba (version)

Jimi Hendrix - Manic Depression

It's all stuff that you really want to stop whatever crap you're at and get wrapped up in it. Pure pleasure.

[Metallichick]

Battery by Metallica. The spanish guitar at the start is mixed very low, and is very gentle, then after what seems like an age, you are finally hit by the full force of thrash!

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Definitely. Especially when they open shows with Battery. it starts up and you know EXACTLY whats coming. And it's amazing. Also the Ecstacy of Gold sample they play at the start pf every show, specially when the whole crowd just kinda chants along with it. There are actually quite a few Metallica spine tingling moments, that give me goosebumps. When I first ever saw them at Reading 2003, I was so excited. The atmosphere was so intensely charged, you could feel it. And the first time I saw them play Nothing Else Matters live...did some very strange things to me.

As for listening to them at home, the S&M version of Nothing Else Matters gets me everytime. In fact, S&M is the one show I would give absolutely anything to go back and see. the 9 minute or so long epic instrumental that is Call Of Ktulu. Or the awesome Master Of Puppets, with the instrumental break in the middle...

Other than Metallica, Pretty much all of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon induces those spine-tingling moments. And the song Wish You Were Here, one of my favourites of all time.

[olly]

"Bouncing Apes" by Eyeball Skeleton.

[Silent Runner]

Loads of Spiritualized songs.