What sends shivers down your spine when you play it on your system?

Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield! 

Malia and Boris Blank collaboration on the album “Convergence”. One of my reference albums to test sound.. many songs that would fit the bill. Celestial Echo for example.. 

And if I haven't lowered the tone enough, try this (although with over 7 billion views there's a good chance you already have ;-)My partner tells me it's nothing more than sex-on-a-stick, but if that's not going to provoke shivers........what is?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJQP7kiw5Fk&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=101

These are all Youtube  performances, but I love every last one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya9lvA1POfQ&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTMm4NEQc1Q&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGEjbJkxFhs&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=71
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9jwGansp1E&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=89
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaWkvqah9W8&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=91
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWaljXUiCaE&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=95
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cid4_9PnEZY&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=102
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ferZnZ0_rSM&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=103
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcUeothSPyc&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=118
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubqXv5Ir5n8&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=125
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRGuFM4DR2Y&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=133
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=135
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzDUi_L6MzA&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=142
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDsqpeiTqg8&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=147
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt7Akjzkc54&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=148
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXBXlJYKTNI&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=124
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UskkwKmccGU&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=183
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pp6hniAKHw&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=194
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE2uEl_aB9E&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=196
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS9U75YC-jA&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=198
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NpxTWbovE&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=200
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NZ7LnkCl7w&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=202
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJtE-MHzKYY&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=212
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLx4xJdCcZ4&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=222
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZt1xKtPbUQ&list=FLDZswku4mKJJBxF_GDrFs8g&index=226

Allan Taylor's "Hotels & Dreamers". 

Goosebumps galore, for at least half the songs on this 2003, Stockfisch Records SFR 357.6028.2 CD. 
M. 🇿🇦 

Great suggestions. Always love to stream something I haven’t heard before. 

@julie_priest, I am aware but, no one ever mentions it.

@rafevw, sure - the debut album is stunning.

Rhiannon Gidden's Freedom Highway is also a stunning album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVrTf5yOW5s

DJ Krush and Toshinori Kondo - Mu Getsu:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaYy-ldpIXc

Air France - June Evenings:
https://youtu.be/a7CAm4bCwYg?t=171

Right now,what I’m currently listening to: the whole Morning Phase album by Beck.

In My Time of Dying - Zep

Big Log- Robert Plant. Lots of memories attached to that one.

Brahms’ 4th - Szell

Agree with Mahler’s 5th

Beethoven’s 9th - also Szell

Astral Weeks, the whole album - Van Morrision

@nitewulf , thanks for the James Blake tip. I had never heard any of his music before. He gives a Jeff Buckley vibe with more soul. I like him.

@nitewulf  James Blake "Limit to your Love" is on most audiophile testing lists. Great song especially in its bass line. Nicolar Jaar has a few good tunes too, not quite al album-wide person for me though.  

Another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIrdTi7Bzt8

Buy all his albums, they are available on vinyl. Space is Only Noise is the best starting point.

There's a lot but this is something most of you guys probably don't know:

turn it up - then go ahead and buy the hi res version from a site:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOT2-OTebx0

Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna and O Magnum Mysterium.

Agree with anything Ava Cassidy. When she sings "I'm getting ready..." Water works every time.

ZZ Top - Bluejean Blues 

Chet Baker Sings. It's amazing how much music heroin has given us and how much music it's taken from us.

Any death metal song with Hillary Clinton singing lead vocals sends shivers down my spine.

Casta Diva - Maria Callas

I don't know what it means (nor want to know), it just sounds other worldly.

Plainsong, Like Cockatoos and This Twilight Garden (all by The Cure) and Dazzle by Siouxsie and the Banshees.  All very atmospheric. 

Arvo Part: “Tabula Rasa: I. Ludus”. There is a portion towards the end where there is a cacophony of bells that sound like Shinto temple bells or something. I love the whole piece, but that is a very holy crap  moment.

@mapman 
i know the Iona Brown with Sir Neville Marriner (the “first” one) recording of “The Lark Ascending” on Argo the best. Maybe it was love at first sight, but that’s a great performance. I like the “Fantasia on a Theme By Thomas Tallis”, same recoding, even better. 

The accapella section Heart Like a Wheel sung by McGarrigle Sisters.

The Who; “Who’s Next”

David Bowie; “The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”

Bachman Turner Overdrive; “Not Fragile”

Chrissie Hynde singing "There's a Thin Line Between Love and Hate" on the Pretenders Learning to Crawl LP. Gets me every time. Check it out.

John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme"

Aretha Franklin's heartfelt "Angel" written by her sister, off the Hey, Hey (The Other Side of the Sky) album. Of all Aretha's great albums,  this one song off one of later lesser records is so personal it always grabs me.

Mike

@wsrrsw   Who is "John Coletrain"?

+1 No Yoko Ono.. I just broke out in cold sweat!!

Highwayman, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson. I love that song.

Rainmaker - Strunz & Farah (One of the BEST)

3. BIG fan of Pop music
4. Latin Jazz/Rock Carlos is just fine

I like Bali music. I know nothing about it. I just like to turn it up a bit.. I get the looks alright..

Bali
Country western
Jazz
Pop
Island music
No! Yoko Ono

That's close.. not in that order.. LOL

Regards

Yoko Ono...Shivers ? I’d bloody cry ! Lol

Cheers 

Duane and Dickey swapping solos on "Stormy Monday" on Live at Fillmore East.

Never heard two live back-to-back solos that were so amazing.  Those guys could sure play like they were inspired by something other-worldly.  Then again, most all music is pretty cool, so...

Cheers!

The Man That Got Away - Judy Garland
To Bobby - Joan Baez
Ben - Marti Webb
Born Free - Matt Monro
Yesterday When I Was Young - Roy Clark
Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
2nd movement PC2 - Rachmaninoff


Since most of these are about loss (as well as being great performances) I'm not sure what to make of this list but none of them ever bring me down or lower my mood.

It might also seem sacrilegious to some, but I prefer the 5 min edit of Shine.

Maybe I like to think of them as occasionally necessary reminders of the sheer beauty of life. 

Oooops, how did I forget Santana’s Samba Pa Ti and Europa? Heaven's smile.

barts -- I truly like my original Broadway Cast West Side Story, too.  The CD doesn't mention the conductor but I figure it's got to be Lenny.  Compelling score, performed with no end of compassion and energy.  Surprisingly good fidelity on my CD.

Of course there many, but a real standout is

West Side Story/Prologue (from the original) 

Lots of hard rock (noisy stuff for some ;-)) or straight up classical.. adding a mix from other kinds of sound:

- Rakim - Dead Can Dance
- Obvious People - Twin Shadow
- Future - Adam Beyer
- Safe From Harm - Massive Attack
- God’s Chariots - Oklou
- Bird of Paradise - Snowy White
- Hotel California - Eagles (the acoustic Unplugged version...that opening guitar solo!)
- Sonnet 138 - Ane Brun (Shakespeare put to gorgeous tune by Swedish Philharmonic)

Roxy music/ avalon
jeff Buckley/ grace
pil/ album
bruce cockburn/ stealing fire
the cult/ love 
the church/ starfish. 

Nothing really sends shivers, but I think Grateful Dead's Ship of Fools comes close. Mostly because of the guitar solo at the end.

I am not a Grateful Dead fan. In fact, I find them boring and am baffled why people like them so much. This Ship of Fools must be some revenge of the Universe.

+1 for Telegraph Road of Dire Straits (live). The guitar solo on this song (at about 4 min of the song) moves me like almost nothing else. It's a piece of art. Pure adrenaline.

Also the final guitar solo on Tunnel of love from them too. Incredible!

The final movement of the Copland Third Symphony.

Telegraph Road - Dire Straights
La Villa Strangiato - RUSH
No Pussyfooting - Fripp & Eno
Dream Brother - Jeff Buckley
Genesis - Undertow
Blow at High Dough - The the Tragically Hip

To name a few

1812 Overture - London Symphony Orchestra - possibly the most emotional piece of music ever written.

Oh, there’s a bunch... but stand outs:

White Rabbit: Jefferson Airplane original vinyl
Time Out: mono version. (Whole album)
Camera Eye: Rush
Pretty much anything Pink Floyd

Lot’s of EDM gets it too. Many others...

First one that comes to mind is the saxophone on Morphine's 'All Your Way' 

Oxygène.   the sound just swirls all around me, like i am a mote in the eddies.

Art Pepper “Patricia” long version
Brubdck Quartet “Blue Rhondo” carnigie hall version 
John Coletrain “Summertime”
Sonny Stitt “Cleveland Blues”
Dr Lonnie Smith  “Backtrack”
...............

@dweller Totally agree - those chimes are amazing.@schubert Yes, such a beautiful tone poem. Absolutely sublime.

Agree on “Musical Box”.  The finale of Suppers Ready is another. 

The 1st movement of Mahler 9.
Rachmaninoff “The Bells” 1st and 2nd movements (I have about 20 different versions of the piece.)
Brahms Cello Sonata #2, 4th movement.
Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb. D.960. (And much other Schubert.)
Anything by Eva Cassidy (Can’t help but tear up when she sings.)

Star Wars Main theme Performed by the London Symphony orchestra & conducted by John Williams.

Dream Brother - Jeff Buckley
Satellites Lost - Delays
Musical Box - Genesis
Ana - Pixies
Black Flame - Renaissance
Two Step - Throwing Muses

+1 Balled of Dwight Fry

mapman,
My first choice is Hugh Beam with Boult, the original conductor ." The Essential Vaughan Williams" on Warner classic

Very close is the great Scottish violinist  (never mind her name} Nicola Benedetti with Andrew Litton - forget the label but easy to find .

Iona Brown with Neville Marriner on Argo is also a heart breaker .

Horrors!  Yes, typo, Mahler 5.  Must proof-read more carefully...
@newbee  If you don't already have it, the 2CD expanded version of Live at Blues Alley entitled Nightbird, to me sounds even better than the original release, plus there's a bunch of additional material. 

Btw people often ponder if you need a good hifi to enjoy music.  Probably not but definitely helps when in search of  shiver down your spine moments.