I don't know what you mean by shivers.... But Leonard Cohen "Opus Collection" definitely sends shivers down my spine. And Morphine "Cure for Pain".... Both of these recordings.
What sends shivers down your spine when you play it on your system?
“The Ecstasy of Gold” orchestral intro on Metallica’s “S&M” CD.
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1) Almost any cut from Aaron Neville's 'Warm Your Heart' OK, "Feels Like Rain'. 2) Jewel channeling Janis Joplin while singing 'Have a Little Faith in Me' from the Phenomenon movie soundtrack. It sneaks up on you, then wham, It's Janis with BB&THC. 3) Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks "Where's The Money" Live at the Troubadour. Pick a cut. 4) Stevie Wonder sub-bass synth line on "I Believe When I fall in Love ..." from the Talking Book album. Most speakers can't even make those notes, let alone capture the pitch definition and texture that's there on vinyl. And finally, 5) Paul Galbraith 'Bach Sonatas and Partitas (arr. for guitar)' Galbraith had to conceive of, design, build, and master a custom 8-string, 2-body guitar (think guitar with subwoofer under the chair, connected by a steel rod. Seriously) so these otherwise unplayable-on-guitar pieces could be played. Next, he had to transcribe and arrange these pieces for this instrument. And then, learn to play them flawlessly for this recording. Any one of those would be noteworthy, To do all of them is truly an Olympian feat. Did I mention that it's a 2-hour double album? As a guitarist, and guitar tinkerer, as well as audiophile, hands down my favorite classical guitar album. |
You are so passionate, i cannot resist to recommend this one.... Very interesting meeting for many trumpeters, some not well known in america but : https://philharmoniedeparis.fr/en/activity/jazz-philharmonie/15285-trumpet-summit |
@justmetoo I just had a listen to several cuts from Allan Taylor's "Hotels & Dreamers" and completely concur. Very nice! @steviewunda And if I haven't lowered the tone enough, try this :-0 Can't understand anything he's singing, but love the music, the beat and the scenery is really nice too. Make that 7 billion and 5 views, I couldn't stop at just 1 :-) A few others I thought of that give me shivers: Just about anything from Amos Lee's album of Mission Bell especially "El Camino" first cut and again, last cut with Willie Nelson; about everything on Ray LaMontagne's "Gossip in The Grain" and (on the classic side) the 45 RPM Reference Recording of Tafelmusik, "Popular Masterworks of the Baroque" Jim |
Mahler 1-5 symphonies Moussorgsky/Ravel - Pictures at an Exhibition, Chicago/Giulini Vaughn Williams - Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis, ASMF/Marriner Huey Lewis and the News - The Heart of Rock n Roll Handel - Messiah, Hallelujah chorus Barber - Adagio for Strings Cherubini - Requiem Beatles - Abbey Road Satie - Gnossiennes, Gymnopiedes Pentatonix - Mary Did You Know? Stravinsky - Rite of Spring Big Phat Band - Sing, Sang, Sung on Swinging for the Fences Bach Cello Suites - Janos Starker Off the top of my head ... :) |
Beatles- Nowhere Man (the combination of harmony vocals, soaring fluid bass lines and dual guitar solo played by John & George just blows me away every time) John Denver- Back Home Again Led Zeppelin- When The Levee Breaks David Bowie- Suffragette City Rush- Entre Nous Uriah Heep- The Wizard Deep Purple- Burn Lynyrd Skynyrd- Gimme Back My Bullets |
Steely Dan - Almost Gothic Joni Mitchell - Blue hotel room Jonas Stark Bach - Suites for Solo Cello; Sonatas in G & D Major the Philips Mercury Living Presence recordings. It sounds holographic and hypnothic you hear Jonas working.to get it this intimate. Used gear NAD C370 - Vandersteen model1c - Topping D10 DAC - silverwire interlink & Mathaudio room eq. |
There are many, but these are some that stand out: Just about everything on MFSL's 1972 Original Master Recording of Neil Diamond's "Hot August Night" Live at the Greek; Van Morrison's "Avalon Sunset" especially the last track "These are the Days"; everything of Eva Cassidy, especially "Songbird". Jim |
Almost anything gives me shivers.... Almost anything i liked or will like if it is a good recorded music for sure and created by geniuses in any style... When your audio system is able to reproduce a natural instrument timbre any great musician will give you shivers.... But when i owned only a mediocre audio system a decade ago for example, ONLY the music which was already known and loved by me gives me shivers...i was not able to discover many new sounds qualities at full speed on the same level of ectasy that i already feel with Bach for example.... Bach is sublime on any medium anyway.... In a good audio systen any new great musician in any style gives shivers.... I love music, and always loved it, but with a very low grade audio system the discovery of something out of our known horizon is less appealing that what is our natal musical turf.... For me for example : Bach and some few others composers or singers.... With my new audio system anything great gives me shivers.... For example try gong music on a very ordinary audio system or a bad one..... No shivers here..... And no way to compare gong music with Bach.... But with the fullness of sound which is given by a good audio system , a theremin music or gong music can rival Chopin piano....WHY? Because music is not only melody, harmony and rythm, it is also the fullness and complex depth and variable densities of timbre, and the holographic spatialisation of these sounds in relation with one another.... There is more images in a music piece than in a cinematographic film or at least the same numbers, with also the colors and geometrical varieties.... But to taste that we need a good reproduction audio system....If not i will listen only Bach well temprered Klavier on my Edison cylinder or from my smartphone.... One of my absolute favorite opus in all music..... :) « Music is sounds seeing»- Groucho Marx «Music is sounds tasting» Harpo Marx « It is all cenesthesia turtles, way up or down brothers» Chico Marx « Bach is not one of your turtles brother, it is all mathematic way up and down» -Gummo Marx «But mathematic can also be perceived cinesthesically brother»- Zeppo Marx « Music is numbers and numbers are music»- Pythagoras « Music is poetic language traveling near silence» -Anonymus |
Something different - the sound of a Saturn V rocket. Works for me every time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwn4LVVvAUQ |
and this by Amy Winehouse, never heard it anywhere other than on the computer, still moving on a couple different levels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuanbnnzXQ4 |
Hello - Everything sounds AWESOME on my system because I've been working at "searching for the sound" now for 40+ years and I think I've finally nailed it (yay)! I was listening to Pink Floyd's Wish you were Here (just the basic pressed CD, not the Mobile Fidelity version) and I heard things during that session that I've never heard on the CD before and I've been listening to that CD/album since I discovered it in the early 1980's!! And to ensure I hadn't ingested something by accident prior to listening, a week or so later I invited a friend over and had the same experience in addition to watching my friend experience it for the first time. First things first. The pre-amp (preamplifier if you will) is THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR SOUND SYSTEM!! The pre-amp is the brain and if your brain cannot process a signal correctly and/or accurately, what do you think the end result will be? Inaccurate and/or poor sound recreation of what the artist/band/symphony/sound engineer/producer intended you to hear. I'm a firm believer in not being able to hear the person sitting next to you talking when I listen to music. Besides, it's also the only way I can listen to music without having to hear the ringing sounds caused by the bilateral tinnitus I experience (which really stinks to begin with!). So I use a Mark Levinson #38 as my pre-amp (which was at '52' for the "Wish you were Here" event). And from there, the signal runs via Cardas XLR to a pair of self-powered Meyer Sound MTS-4's (yes - google them). Each cabinet contain an 18-inch woofer; a 15-inch woofer; a 12-inch woofer and a 2-inch throat (4-inch diaphragm) horn. And each driver/horn has it's own 620-watt amplifier to draw from (2480-watts per cabinet and each cabinet retailed for $17,000), not to mention they're made to travel. I grew up with a pair of Bozak 410b Concert Grands that were way under powered by a McIntosh 2200, but hey, this was my dad's stereo, not mine (although I inherited and still have both the 410b Bozak Concert Grands [which I would love to update and tweak with new drivers and crossovers not to mention some sound deadening materials] and the McIntosh 2200 - although I now have a McIntosh MC-2300 driving the Bozak's and they're much happier but they are all original and all from the 1970's). And I have a PS Audio Perfect-Wave CD Transport going into a Mark Levinson #36 (which also receives a signal from a BlueSound Node II - and that sounds great as well!). I'd put this system up against anything costing $100,000 or less! I also own a pair of Merlin International Excalibur's (and prior to that, a pair of Signature 4's that I sent back to Bobby P., to have bi-wired - although I did not care much for the TSM/VSM era, they did sound incredible for what they were. Bobby P., is like a Jedi Master in the audio industry - at least to myself and many others his genius electrical/sound engineering skills touched!). And there it is. The system that has the ability to send shivers down my spine! It's as if I'm getting the opportunity to listen to every thing I own for the first time! It's beyond my vocabulary to articulate any further how good my system sounds. You just have to experience it to believe it.
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Another vote for "The Lark Ascending", that is what I thought of when I read the post. It's rural England in late spring, set to music. Other Classical offerings: Albinoni's "Adagio" Richard Strauss's "Metamorphosen" That is his response to the end of World War 2 and I believe, finding out about the Nazi Camps. For non classical: Sara K, "Water Falls" Mark Murphy, "Love is what it Says" The last two are both beautiful music and the best quality recordings I think I have. |
Take Five - Dave Brubeck You and Your Friend - Dire Straits What it's like - Everclear A Thousand Kisses Deep - Leonard Cohen Ode to the Glimmer Twin (acoustic live) - Nils Lofgren Bolero - Ravel Sleeping Sun - Nightwish Nutcracker suite - Tchaikovsky It has been great visiting or revisiting the wonderful music suggested by everyone above. I love these kinds of threads. It almost always leads to the discovery of a musical treasure. Mark |
