Goosebumps inducing playing?

[Jarmake]

Hi guys. I hope this subject hasn't been discussed to death already, but here we go anyways:

You know the feeling of getting goosebumps (or goose pimples or goose flesh, whatever.) because of music? The moment that the playing or melody or anything is just so fvckin good, that you get shivers and want to hear that again. This is the place to post them up for others to see. It can be anything, be it guitar, singing, piano, accordion, bass, pan flute or whatever. I would like to have a bit of description (the exact moment on a song, what instrument and so on.) with sound/youtube clips.

I'll start!

The first one is Steve Morse's soloing in the song called "sometimes I feel like screaming". It's just so freaking good and he is a god amongst men when it comes to guitar playing. Incredible tapped harmonies and he's even better live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x8lk0EG11A

Second one is by none other than Devin Townsend, it's a little song called "deep peace". Incredible ambience on that song. Everything just works so wonderfully together and that solo may be one of the best solos that's ever written. And god damn he pulls it off every time when playing live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq-S9FzmcyI


darn, how do I embed the videos? Mods, could you do it?

 

[Defi]

It's pretty cold in my studio right now so everything I play is awesome

 

[wankerness]

A ton of stuff gives me goosebumps but 99% of the time it's due to the composition and not the playing. By far the most goosebumps inducing solo of all time is Donny McCaslin's tenor solo on Maria Schneider's "Bulea, Solea, y Rumba," which goes from 5:10 to 11:00 or so if you can find the track (it's not on youtube). It's like one gigantic crescendo with the full force of a big band and an extended percussion section and vocals behind it, it starts out relatively calm but eventually turns into a huge storm that sounds like Debussy's "La Mer" or something and the soloing is absolutely insane.

A very close second is the same player's solo on Hang Gliding, which is easily one of my favorite songs of all time and has the most beautiful chordal stuff I've ever heard in jazz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdIW_AoTi_4#t=502

It's like a 4 minute crescendo, by the 11:20 mark it's REALLY starting to cause goosebumps and by 11:45 it's almost too much to handle. 11:54 especially.

I've heard them play it live (back in 2012) and it was the most jawdropping thing I've ever heard, it was like a 4 minute orgasm, this is the only live recording I can find of it with the right sax player on it and it's from 2005 unfortunately. Since he's a jazz guy it's never the same every time. The studio recording unfortunately has their previous sax player on it who's nowhere near Donny McCaslin.

The only rock music I can think of where solos gave me goosebumps are a few Pain of Salvation songs on their first few albums where the song was built around the solo in such a way that it feels like a climax. Second Love, Water, This Heart of Mine, Used, Idioglossia, King of Loss, and Beyond the Pale in particular stand out in my mind. It's hard to say if it's cause of the soloing or cause of the composition, though.

Second Love:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1LqrRc32YQ#t=132

Beyond the Pale (5:58 is where it really gives me the goosebumps):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP0EX1xRH-A#t=330

Idioglossia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9F6eImhR5Q#t=328

Cynic has a few on Traced in Air that come close, they're just so clean and neat and fit so well with the compositions. The couple short ones in "King of Those Who Know" in particular.

 

[JamesM]

Jeff Beck

 

[Ikiharmaa]

The first time I heard Seventh Wonder's Mercy Falls in it's entirety, especially after the (first) guitar solo in Unbreakable, but it's really the whole album.

Slice The Cake's Kow Otani's Castle In The Sky starts to become awesome around the middle of the song, usually get some shivers at the end.

Also, the main themes in Laputa and Mononoke Hime.

 

[ayytist]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw5DAGbfrx8

this

 

[will_shred]

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[InfestedRabite]

often the structure of the album contributes to this a lot
you get these big moments at the end of a good album more often than somewhere else imo

Devin Townsend - Ki - the last quarter or so i think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gmLplFmUns

Cormorant - Unearthly Dreamings - last verse / solo, in the last 2-3 mins i think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n_xpxKLeas

Opeth - Karma - the ending screams. ungh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TisMSbLRI-s

 

[InfestedRabite]

or it could be for something bigger than the music, like the literal last time Richard Wright and David Gilmour played "Echoes" live before Wright's death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMrhRqK4iig

 

[Alberto7]

Dream Theater's A Change of Seasons. That whole acoustic passage that begins at the 6:55 mark, all the way into the climax of that section right at 9:27 where the lyrics go "... preparing for her flight..." and then when he goes "... she looked me in the eye. I said I love you... goodbye" then the pause, and then the badass super intense little riff begins. Aaaggghhh I get chills just typing it out. One of my favorite moments in music.

Dream Theater - A Change Of Seasons - YouTube

 

[FretsOnFyre]

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came here to post this.

 

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[isispelican]

every time :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXb1eRBlbt0

 

[Nlelith]

Rock/Metal:
Strata - When it's all burning Especially after the buildup starting at 2.40

Deadlock - Awakened By Sirens Especially towards the end (4.02). That vocals...

Fightstar - Amethyst After melancholic verse, chorus is crushing...

Bury Tomorrow - A Curse Great solo!

Omnium Gatherum - Greeneyes When line "There's nothing wrong" changes to "Is there something wrong?"... Crushing!

After Midnight Project - Take Me Home That chorus...

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Kiss Kiss Just a badass song.

TOKiO - Кто Я Без Тебя Really great song... if you know Russian

Dazzle Vision - Kirari This band from Japan has better ones, but not on youtube


Sad/Passionate piano/pop rock:
LiViD - In The Moment (Reprise)

The Fray - How to Save a Life

Coldplay - Fix You


Other:
Bear McCreary - Something Dark Is Coming Battlestar Galactica OST

The Limousines - Bedbugs Killer song...

The Knife - Heartbeats Badass.

t.A.T.u. - Perfect Enemy Yeah, even these girls...

 

[knet370]

lines in the sand solo by john petrucci

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5t_b9xOY-I

never fails

 

[Spaceman_Spiff]

3:30 on.

 

[-DTP-]

@Nlelith Awesome list dude thats a bunch of shit I would have never listened to otherwise. That song by Tatu was actually sick

Also this isn't really "playing" but this is my most goosebump inducing musical moment of all time :

Swedish House Mafia playing Thomas Gold's remix of Judas - Lady Gaga at EDC 2011 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvBT0NXoYPY#t=148

 

[Nlelith]

-DTP-, thanks!

 

[Nlelith]

 

[Andromalia]