Parts that make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end

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  • I'll start off with a guitar-related one - the solo in Queensryche's Breaking the Silence, in particular the part that starts at 3:10. It's not particularly flashy, but the combination of the attack, the tone and the note choice just gives me the shivers, and it works perfectly with the theme of the song.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReuWlABb8FQ

    However, lately it's mostly been Floor Jansen's astonishing vocals that have been giving me those "wow" moments. That said, while there are countless moments of insane vocal gymnastics from her, the one that really gets me is the whole last section of The Poet And The Pendulum. It's just...perfect.

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

    10:00 onwards.

    Also, a very cool bit of composition nerdery - at 7:00, the narrator says he has three minutes to live. The sword comes down exactly three minutes later in the song.
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  • Tool - Prison Sex. 3:40 onwards always hits the spot.


    Tool - Parabola. 6:10 the vocals there really hit the spot too.


    Delerium - Silence (Tiesto Remix). 2:40 onwards. The vocals there always make my hairs go (what little I have left!) - epic vocal trance anthem!

    Bye!

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  • ZoolooterZoolooter Frets: 886
    Chet Baker’s solo in Costello’s version of Shipbuilding is sublime.
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  • BidleyBidley Frets: 2912
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSgzBJWYVso

    1:38 - that solo.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDyyMG0iQsw

    1:20 - oh man that solo

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bDVPLDppvE

    1:10 - I could spend a week detailing a thousand Blind Guardian moments that make my hair stand on end, but I'll settle for this one. The whole second verse right through to the chorus is a great showcase for Hansi's vocals.
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  • tone1tone1 Frets: 5112
    edited January 2020
    First one that sprang to mind for me was Gerry Rafferty’s ‘Get it right next time’ at about the 50 second mark.... it’s not much but I love how it builds into the song.....

    https://youtu.be/4HEwUwNRnlo
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 71951
    tone1 said:
    First one that sprang to mind for me was Gerry Rafferty’s ‘Get it right next time’ at about the 50 second mark.... it’s not much but I love how it builds into the song.....
    Exactly the same with Shipyard Town where the song itself kicks in at just past the minute mark.


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  • LittlejonnyLittlejonny Frets: 125
    Some great suggestions here - looking forward to hearing the Rachmaninov!

    Here’s some that give me goosebumps:

    Ziggy Stardust the motion picture (live at Hammersmith) when Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud segues into All The Young Dudes.

    Arcade Fire - Everything Now, the bit where he sings ‘Daddy, how come you’re never around?’

    Leonard Cohen - Going Home from the album Old Ideas. Just the whole thing I get goosebumps all the way through. Same with You Want it Darker (title track).

    Kate Bush - ‘take my shoes off, and throoow then in a lake’ from Hounds of Love.

    Neil Young - the Guitar intro to Alabama.

    Bon Iver - 8 Circle when he sings ‘I’m standing in the street now and I’ll carry his guitar’
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  • zepp76zepp76 Frets: 2534
    Here’s a couple that gives me the chills, Peter Greens guitar playing and Paul Rodgers voice, just amazing talent.
    https://youtu.be/IxgY9eEFiYM

    https://youtu.be/fOr1stg9lds
    Tomorrow will be a good day.
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  • LastMantraLastMantra Frets: 3822
    I always loved maiden's rhyme of the ancient mariner on the live after death album when it goes from intro to main tune. 
    Much more powerful than the studio version imo. 
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  • proggyproggy Frets: 5827

    Those four notes (Bb, F, G, E) in the intro of Shine On You Crazy Diamond.

    Gets me every time.

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  • not_the_djnot_the_dj Frets: 7306
    Springsteen's "Drive all night", especially this live performance, with Jake Clemons on Sax, taking the place of his late uncle Clarence (The Big Man). It's an emotional song anyway, and didn't regularly feature in the set list on that tour so this was a really special performance.

    Sax solo starts around 3:45 and the kid nails it.

    They played it at Coventry on The River Tour in 2016, the only UK date of that trip to get this song, and I was in tears for the whole thing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8qpTL1wxGQ



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  • steven70steven70 Frets: 1262
    edited September 2023
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  • axisusaxisus Frets: 28280
    edited March 2020
    My favourite band, Pendragon, playing The Shadow. The musical break from 5.30 for about 1 minute is sublime to my ears, especially early on when the guitar first comes in...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruW6DpktLdM
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  • andy_kandy_k Frets: 818
    edited March 2020
    Back in 1985, when I was 20, and was obviously into the Van Halen thing, I used to buy the American Guitar Player mag, which sometimes came with flexi discs, featuring the latest 'hot new thing', Yngwie, Vai and many others were first exposed by these discs-Holdsworth was a highlight.
    Anyhoo, one issue featured this- the only version recorded, specially for the magazine article.
    I still have my original version, and it is such a crappy format that I thank whoever put this on YT, with all my heart.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMcLuRd9Cwo


    In the article, Bill discusses his greatest influence at the time-as I recall, Clapton, and the recording was his re-imagining of Layla. Just hearing it today sends chills down my spine, and nearly brings me to tears.
    You can hear him building up to something that starts around 2-30, and at the 3 minute mark, I still cant understand what he is doing.
    In the interview he explains that he reaches a point, where it is pointless to continue-and it ends with a single sustained note which is the essence of what he was trying to achieve.
    I would pay a lot of money to hear more from this recording session, but there is none out there.
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  • andy_kandy_k Frets: 818
    Pt 2
    Some years later, the Chinese democracy stuff got leaked, and Buckethead was on my radar by now,
    this chap has made a valiant effort to learn this part-very close, but still missing some of the subtlety, I think the leaked demo has more of the solo intact-but it is still an amazing thing.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMGWqekCj1c

    And this blew my mind when it was uploaded a couple of days after the last Tool album was leaked a week early--
    truly incredible---
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYVvHhEoK9M

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  • blobbblobb Frets: 2914
     Caravan: Nine Feet Underground (Ah - You already know where I'm going with this, great stuff)

    10:45 - the bit where it all calms down and builds up to the famous (if slightly cliched in these enlightened times) gunshot (11:53), signaling the Sinclair cousins to launch the defining sound of the Canterbury scene. Hammond + fretless bass starting slowly but these are probably two of the most creative, melodic, rip roaring instrumentalists to come out of the English scene. And they go full on at 12:44.

    It calms down a bit (14:10) but they aren't finished yet. Oh No, because at 16:10 Richard S steps forward to deliver the best spine tingler of them all. Now, I've seen them do this live several times but only once with Richard doing it. I've never seen so many people start crying in one place at the same time. My missus at the time was in floods...


    Altogether now

    "There's a place where I can go-oh............"




    Feelin' Reelin' & Squeelin'
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  • The end bit of Neil Young’s southern man sort of one note solo,but it’s the timing.So it began after listening to this while my brother was out.(his LP).
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