[Closed] First tune to send a shiver up your spine

Ooh good one. Who Wants To Live Forever by Queen. The real gamechanger was Enter Sandman though- first track at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert and I basically lost my mind.

peter and the wolf.

Kings of the Wild Frontier by Adam and the Ants.

All through my childhood previously, music had just been background noise.

Then those drums kicked in and I wanted to spend my pocket money on something that wasn't sweeties.

* John Williams Imperial March was the first music that really sent a chill up my spine but that doesn't count. Star Wars was the very first film I ever saw at the pictures. I am a sucker for movie music to this day.

I may have been "influenced" at the time but One I vividly remember was in progress, Dave seaman played "that's the way it is" by Bruce Hornsby, that piano!!!

Purple Rain

Eighth Day - Hazel o' Connor

Thunderchild from the war of the worlds (original version)

It was a nice afternoon with cooling breeze on an island at around 5pm, the sun was setting, when my youngest aunt was driving us (me and all my cousins) to town with to buy bread. 😀

Then the voice of Karen Carpenters appeared on radio ... her voice stays with me ever since ... what a singing voice ... 😯

Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun

The Eton rifles, or going underground, both by the Jam. Can't remember which of them I heard first but they both did and still do it for me.

Donna Summer, I feel love...

I associate it with light show in the Coconut Grove, Tuebrook, Liverpool in the early 80's 😀

"Bridge over troubled Water"

My mother played the album on rotation, every time Dad was away for his 3 month stints this would go on for the first month or so.

Still sends shivers down my arms to this day.

Visage - fade to grey. Bunch of students partying at end of their exams and I was a child watching hoping I'd be at parties like this one day.

So difficult to remember that far back, my first real memory is of a song on the radio; it was released in 1958 when I was four!
As to actual shivers, I really can't say, there are a lot of candidates that give me shivers now, that I first heard back in the 60's-70's.

Wish You Were Here

Really hard to remember but looking back at how my musical tastes were moving in the 70s it was probably Pink Floyd's Astronomy Domine off the Ummagumma album. Well that or Careful with that axe, Eugene.

Aqualung - Jethro Tull

Now I was in two minds whether to pick Aqualung, but I had Ummagumma first.

Not sure, but this one certainly did it in my teens:

"Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
'Til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving to your isle
And you sang
Sail to me
Sail to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am
Here I am
Waiting to hold you

Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Were you hare when I was fox?
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks,
For you sing,
"Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow:
O my heart, O my heart shies from the sorrow"

I am puzzled as the newborn child
I am riddled as the tide.
Should I stand amid the breakers?
Should I lie with Death my bride?
Hear me sing,
"Swim to me,
Swim to me,
Let me enfold you:
Here I am,
Here I am,
Waiting to hold you"

Jings.

London Calling for me.

That opening bass - like far off Thunder!

Goodbye Blue Sky, Pink Floyd, The Wall

Paint it Black. The Stones

Not entirely sure, but I suspect it would have been one of...

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Gary Moore - Empty Rooms
Metallica - Fade to Black

Good question.

The track that springs to mind straight away is Windpower by Thomas Dolby. Not because of any emotional content, but I'd just never heard anything quite like it before.

Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit

I wasn't sure what album it was on - guy in Andy's Records knew exactly what is was the moment I described it. Very happy when I got that CD home.

Love will tear us apart left an indellible mark on my soul.
This charming man made me fall in love with jangly guitars.
Teenage kicks for the pure joy of being 18, I definitely was one of the 10+ million listening to Peel when he played it twice.

Jimi Hendrix. Foxy Lady. Ooof!

some more recent ones here: http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/friday-music-listening-thread-goosebumps

There aren't many that have ever genuinely sent a shiver through me, but the last one I recall would be the first time I heard Anthony & the Johnsons 'Hope There's Someone'. Just his voice, more than anything else. Gets a bit weird at the end, but all the same.

Exodus - Bob Marley. I was a metal fan , I heard this and realised there was a lot more to music than I knew then. Opened up a whole world to me

Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden I think, it was a while ago, maybe No Good (Start the Dance) by the Prodigy.

I was a bit late getting into music, I was 17 by 94 but I remember that was the time I understood why people liked it.

From my youth

Tell me about it,......stud....

Tired of you by the Foo fighters.

I was a real pop princess, then this...oh my days.

Giorgio Moroder & Donna Summer - I Feel Love (original 12" mix) 1977

8:15 of pure unadulterated bliss from the start to finish, It is incredible. Growing up with the Carpenters from the parents and Jethro Tull and Floyd from my brother the sound Giorgio & Donna put out was like something from outer space. The driving baseline and angelic vocals took me to a place I didn't know music could. My first taste of true electronic music and from that day I was hooked. It still sounds as fresh today and that's now 40 years later.
True musical genius. 😛

Good question. First one is hard to remember.

It was either

The jam - Elton rifles
Prince - glam slam 12"

Quite a range there!

Latest one though is "kid" by the pretenders. What a song

Jean Michel Jarre, Oxygene 4.
Aged 5 just moved here, and listening to it on the road between Ambleside and Elterwater.
Dad stopped the car at the cattle grid at The top of Elterwater Common, got us out of the car, said nothing, but pointed to The Langdale Pikes..
It all then made sense.
I'll never forget him, or the view.

Full version (I.e parts 1 and 2) of The Box by Orbital, listening on headphones, on radio 1 late at night mid-90's

Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit

To be honest, I think it was 'Down Under' by Men at Work, or else 'Six Months in a Leaky Boat' by Split Enz.

But I can say more certainly that the one I really remember was '11 O'clock Tick Tock' by U2.

I think it would have been [i]Nights in White Satin [/i]by the Moody Blues. That got me into [i]Days of Future Passed[/i] and the whole concept of modern music that wasn't just "pop".

I think maybe some of you are missing the true 'shiver up your spine' moment from your song. Watch this, preferably with head phones or at least semi loud and when all the pipes come in at 58 seconds that's a shiver up your spine.

There were probably others but the one I can remember was 'the road to hell' by Chris Rea. I can still remember all the lyrics.

Joy Division - Atmosphere on the John Peel show - still gets me today - as does David Bowie - Heroes.

Many since but I think it was probably fake plastic trees by radiohead

Great question, and I can't be 100% sure but probably this when I was a nipper...

And definitely this as a teenager...

I'd like to say it was one of my T Rex records, but I think it was Sing a Rainbow by Cilla Black. Or maybe Zanadu by Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Titch. Could've been Ghost Riders in the Sky when my Dad sang it wearing a cowboy hat at the holiday camp. Bloody hard to remember that far back. It certainly wasn't Heart! 😆

This thread is excellent.

My brother is ten years older than me and had his own turntable and stereo in a spare room, so I grew up listening to all sorts of things from Punk to New Wave, via disco. There's a great many tracks that stand out from the likes of D-Train, Blondie, Divine, Bowie, Michael Jackson, Visage, Soft Cell etc.

However, nothing comes close to the time I was working at a well known opera venue in London (no, not that. The other one) and I was stood right outside a window of a rehearsal room while a trained soprano was practising. Utterly mesmerising.

OOOoooooooo.

In no particular order

Fade to Grey - Visage

Are Friends Electric - Gary Numan

Bluebeard - Cocteau Twins

14 years of age and that opening guitar part...

Followed a few years later by:

Nessun dorma when it was used for Italia '90, if it can be classed as 'a tune'.

Joy Division - Atmosphere on the John Peel show - still gets me today - as does David Bowie - Heroes.

Agreed on Atmosphere but Heroes has suffered by being put on every montage going - though that's not the songs fault of course.