A song that literally gave you chills

[RichardW]

I still get a chill when I hear Steve Howe come in on his guitar solo outro on Starship Trooper (at about 8:20).

 

[iriegnome]

 

[iriegnome]

After posting this I decided to listen to it.. Goose bumps.. Every time. Even when I play it. That 3rd verse is really tough to get through

 

[DeaconBlues09]

Ah,... I almost forgot about this one.

It's a borderline surreal mash-up (I think they call it) where someone took Billie Holiday's original vocals and totally redid the instrumentation. It's kind of like 30's era jazz standard meets Trip-hop. Can't say why I like it as much as I do, but the effect is undeniably haunting to the n-th degree.



True story: packing up my things as I was moving out during the divorce from my first marriage. I had this playing in the background.

We lived in a lovely split level with vaulted ceilings-exposed beams, on an acre of wooded property upstate NY. My soon to be ex left with our 2 adorable kids, aged 2, and 4, to her parents for the evening so I could clear out and move to an apartment I had rented some miles away.

I put this song on repeat and, sitting over piles of my clothes and half-packed suitcases, wept without moving for hours until the sunlight slid from the house and I was left in the dark.

It was the beginning of what was the be the darkest period of my life, yet I managed to derive comfort from this song throughout...

 

[socialleper]

This song gets to me. The lyrics and the heavy content of the video is creepy.


This one has always had something to it too.

 

[Alkali Ike]

This one does it to me every time. Local radio station KRVM plays it once in a while and I always have to stop what I'm doing to savor it.

 

[iriegnome]

 

[Papazita]

In high school in the mid 90's, there were only 2 bands & they had a revolving membership of any one of our little crowd of 20 or so kids, including my first girlfriend, Megan. Awesome person but she had a pretty troubled home life, both parents dead & living in a new state with a step-grandmother she barely knew. She committed suicide the summer before our senior year. I was gone with the family on a week's vacation and didn't find out until we got back. This was before cell phones were common. I even missed the funeral.

Now, 22 years later, I was digging through a box of old cassette tapes I pulled out of the closet. Found one of the band I was in. Gave it a listen, cringed at how bad it was. I remember listening to it in the past, it was the tape we always copied & handed out, but I had never noticed the extra song added to the end. After a minute or so of blank tape after our last song, there was Megan, strumming her acoustic and singing her last sing. I swear I had never heard it before. Never even knew about it.

I needed a moment after that. A long moment.

 

[Bunk McNulty]

Horrripilation is the term of art. Two, from two very different parts of my time on the planet:



Hey Momma,
Folks say Papa never was much on thinking
Spent most of his time chasing women and drinking
Momma I'm depending on you, to tell me the truth



I cried, "My God, I am your child
Send your angels down"
Then feeling with my fingertips
A bottleneck I found

An' I tore that glass across his neck
As fine as any blade
Then I felt his blood pour fast and hot
'Round me where I lay

 

[stgabhas]

 

[Pyrat]

KYUSS~

 

[vmabus]

 

[DeaconBlues09]

In high school in the mid 90's, there were only 2 bands & they had a revolving membership of any one of our little crowd of 20 or so kids, including my first girlfriend, Megan. Awesome person but she had a pretty troubled home life, both parents dead & living in a new state with a step-grandmother she barely knew. She committed suicide the summer before our senior year. I was gone with the family on a week's vacation and didn't find out until we got back. This was before cell phones were common. I even missed the funeral.

Now, 22 years later, I was digging through a box of old cassette tapes I pulled out of the closet. Found one of the band I was in. Gave it a listen, cringed at how bad it was. I remember listening to it in the past, it was the tape we always copied & handed out, but I had never noticed the extra song added to the end. After a minute or so of blank tape after our last song, there was Megan, strumming her acoustic and singing her last sing. I swear I had never heard it before. Never even knew about it.

I needed a moment after that. A long moment.

What an intense anecdote. Thanks for sharing.

 

[jaybones]

This song, living here on Lake Erie I have a respect for the Great Lakes and grew up with some guys who run the freighters.


Between the lyrics telling the chronologic story and the haunting solo, its gets me every time I hear it.

Another haunting one.

 

[DeaconBlues09]

This song, living here on Lake Erie I have a respect for the Great Lakes and grew up with some guys who run the freighters.


Between the lyrics telling the chronologic story and the haunting solo, its gets me every time I hear it.

Another haunting one.

Hey, I grew up not far from Lake Eerie myself! (Cleveland, off of Euclid Ave).

 

[mpm32]

This, the live version. Even better when you see it live in person.

 

[ahc]

 

[Dustin Owens]

First song, she has the coolest singing voice.

 

[ahc]

 

[DeaconBlues09]

First song, she has the coolest singing voice.

Holy Crap! This gave me the chills right from the start.

Thank you for sharing this Dustin.