Songs to send chills down your spine

**Chris** · 05-26-2010, 10:17 PM

"Song to the Siren" gives me chills no matter who sings it. My favorite version though, is by Sinéad O'Connor:

YouTube - Song To The Siren - Sinead O'Connor

Della's recording of Schubert's "Serenade" is magical:

YouTube - Della Reese - Serenade ("Schubert")

**Cleyra** · 05-27-2010, 01:24 AM

Originally Posted by Inferno

YouTube - The Arcade Fire - Wake Up

You're so awesome.

That song is amazing. Any song by them is, actually.

This is my favorite:

Youtube: Arcade Fire - Crown of Love

**Rye** · 05-27-2010, 01:50 AM

Sia - Breathe Me never fails to brings a few tears to my eyes, also. At the end of Six Feet Under, it was especially powerful.

**Shorty** · 05-27-2010, 02:25 AM

(long list.)
Alkaline Trio - Goodbye Forever
Andrew Bird - Oh Sister
Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies), Tunnels
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
Brand New - Jesus Christ
Bush - Glycerine
Death Cab For Cutie - Title and Registration
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Handsome Furs - The Radio's Hot Sun
K's Choice - Not An Addict
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Native Korean Rock - Body
Placebo - My Sweet Prince, Pure Morning
Portishead - Machine Gun
Radiohead - Talk Show Host
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
Something Corporate - Konstantine
Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Skeletons

On the subject of Gloomy Sunday - Sarah McLaughlan's version is my favorite, but I enjoy Anna von Hausswolff's and Diamanda Galas' versions as well.

**fire_of_avalon** · 05-27-2010, 02:45 AM

YouTube - John Lee Hooker - Serves Me Right To Suffer John Lee Hooker, for me, is the quintessential voice of the blues. This song is at once painful, mournful, longing, and self-deprecating. But, for all of it's gloom, it represents a certain awareness that is magical to me.

YouTube - Coheed and Cambria The Black Rainbow This song gives me chills everytime I hear it, and has on more than one occasion made my eyes sting. For me it represents a few things. I see this song as the ultimate culmination of a long journey. Coheed and Cambria is my favorite band, perhaps of all time, and I've followed them on this musical and fictional journey since 2003. For me, this song mirrors their journey to this point as musicians, but also mirrors my own transition into adulthood. This song is at once haunting and hopeful, final and portentous. The only way I've been able to verbally describe the melody is thusly: it's like watching the love of your life walk away from you and never look back, but you know it's because they have to. It kills you both, but they have to.

Ehem. Well, that was a little dramatic.