It's not an easy thing to quantify, but it's a feeling upon hearing certain music for the first time and thinking, "yes, this is EXACTLY the kind of music I've been waiting for..." Albums that come to mind - Humble Pie's "Smokin'"... the first 6 Yes albums with Steve Howe... certain parts of Thick as a Brick... all of these, if I make the listening a special experience, i.e. not while I'm driving the car, not while I'm working around the house with the music as background noise... if I make it a special occasion to just sit with a cup of tea and focus on the music, that's when it hits me again, that sense of wonder and awe....
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Alice Cooper -Love it to Death thru Billion Dollar Babies gets me every time.
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
Love seeing Humble Pie and Alice Cooper mentioned along with the prog classics. The classic 7 Mott The Hoople albums do the same for me, as do James Gang Rides Again, Close To The Edge, Deep Purple Fireball, the 4 Mountain albums, Traffic's John Barleycorn and Low Spark, etc., etc., etc. And IZZ 's I Move is another one....
I'm guilty as well. But Fragile is the only Yes album that's evergreen for my ears. The production is superb. After that, the high frequency shrill creeped in. I can't seem to get through CTTE anymore, but I do adore Steve Howe's beautiful melody playing just before the vocals come in.
Some other choice tracks that always give me a thrill are:
Brand X-Disco Suicide
Bruford-Hell's Bells
Genesis-Cinema Show from "Seconds Out" Tony Banks's playing on this is superb!
Gary Green's solo on Peel The Paint
Most of Santana's Moonflower
2nd movement from Bartok's Concerto For Orchestra
Eric Dolphy's alto sax solo on Oliver Nelson's tune, Three Seconds
Jaco's Teen Town
Mike Keneally-Voyage To Manhood, such a wacky rockin' tune with a killer instrumental break.
Lots of Zappa, but the intro to The Black Page (New Age Version) when FZ walks onstage is the pinnacle.
OK, that's enough prog geek gushing for one weekend...
Three songs come to mind: Firth of Fifth, awaken, and PT's Lazarus.
Hendrix.
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
Musical Box for me. Chills every time!
Jeff Beck's - Cause we ended as Lovers on blow by Blow
David Sancious and Tone - True Stories, Ever The Same - all of the beautiful vocal passages get me every time.
Toto - 09 - A Thousand Years from the 7th One
Donald Fagen - IGY from The Nightfly
Yellowjackets - 1981 - s-t, this whole album is stunning.
Frank Zappa - Black Napkins from zoot allures
Phil Keaggy - his Beyond Nature and The Wind and the Wheat are both moving.
Gino Vannelli - 1978 - Brother to Brother
The first 2 Ambrosia albums
Yes, Heart of the sunrise, To Be Over, And You and I, I've Seen All Good People, We have heaven, Long Distance Runaround, etc/.
Jethro Tull - Elegy from Stormwatch, Conundrum from bursting Out, And Further On from "A"
ELP - Still...You Turn Me On
UK - Mental Medication from UK/ Carrying No Cross from Danger Money
Both original 70's HTM
Nova - The Princess and the Frog from Vimana
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Really this happens from too ofter around here. Too many to mention.
Elton John - Ticking
I forgot to mention Rush - "Farewell to Kings" album.
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The Beatles did one song that does this for me: Eleanor Rigby.
I was just listening to Dissonata from The Flower King. Chills every time.
Sitting on the field at Progday hearing Oblivion Sun play some old Happy The Man tunes chills and a rush of memories from the 70's
CTTE and Relayer
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
For me:
Kohntarokosz- Magma Every single time I hear it, no matter which version, it slays me.
Transition- John Coltrane This is the composition where jazz finally made sense to me.
Good call on Annie Haslam at the end of Scheherezade I saw it live and it seemed she held that note for hours. When she released it, the crowd went nuts.
Somebody to Love- Jefferson Airplane It was Jack Casady that did it.
I'm not lazy. I just work so fast I'm always done.
I get that feeling everytime I play The Notorious Byrd Brothers and that's often. Listening to almost anything by Clarence White does the same thing. The only other band that does that for me is the Strawbs, particularly the Bursting at the Seams LP.
I once said to my daughter, "I almost can't wait to get Alzhiemer's because then my entire music collection will be brand new to me, and I'll thrill over discovering the Strawbs for the second time." She retorted, "Yeah, but what if you don't like it and you prefer disco?"
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
Hairless Heart.
In my case these are a few of the ones that still give me "chills" (when in the mood).
Genesis / Firth of Fifth (the Steve Hackett's memorable guitar playing in this one)
Genesis / Cinema Show (Tony Banks most beautiful keyboaord solo ever)
Genesis / Can Utility (the whole song)
Yes / And You and I
Yes / Wakeman's amazing keybord solos in the Remembering
Yes - Awaken
Rick Wakeman's Knight of the round table (The Last Battle)
Kayak's "Niniane"
ELP - Ces't La Vie
Camel - A Boys life
Camel - Coming of Age
Abba - Like an Angel Passing Trough My Room
ELO - Shangri La
CSN - Carried Away
Alan Parsons Project - Sience and I
Alan Parsons Project - Shadow Of A Lonely Man
Blackfield - Rising Of The Tide
Elton John - Shoot Down the Moon
Elton John - Cry to Heaven
Elton John - Blessed
Gazpacho - Will to Leave
The Moody Blues - The Day We Meet Again
The Moody Blues - Watching and Waiting
Jon Anderson - Change We Must
Jon and Vangelis - So Long Ago, So Clear
Klaatu - The Loneliest of Creatures
These are jsut a few form top of my head. I'm sure there are many more.
IQ - Leap of Faith
KC - Starless
Anglagard - Sista Somrar (more raw emotion than "chills" per se)
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood (mostly side 2 for emotional effect)
flute juice
To go back to my mid-teens:
La Belle Epoque - Black is Black
Scott Fitzgerald & Yvonne Keeley - If I Had Words
Marshall Hain - Dancing in the City
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
ELO - Mr Blue Sky
Althea and Donna - Uptown Top Ranking
Rose Royce - Wishing on a star
ELP - Karn Evil 9 - First Impression (I must have played this every morning before school for about a year)
Genesis - And then there were three (first prog album, also played to death)
Roy Harper - One of those days in England
Pink Floyd - Us and Them through Eclipse
Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride
Led Zeppelin - Custard Pie
Jethro Tull - Cold Wind to Valhalla
Rainbow - Stargazer
Genesis - Supper's Ready from Seconds Out
Oh yeah!
Tons of stuff.
But for me, it has nothing to do with nostalgia, and everything to do with the pure quality of the music. I hardly ever get taken back to a certain time period when listening to something that I discovered in my youth.
Either the music holds up based purely on it's quality, or it does not, I don't care how great of a period of my life it was when I discovered some band or piece of music, if the music does not hold up, I could care less if it brings me back to some happy time.
The first 4 PFM albums have quite a few chill inducing moments.
Terje Rypdal - Whenever I Seem to be Far Away
Genesis - Lamia, the last half of Suppers Ready, most of side 4 of The Lamb.
Yes - Gates of Delirium, Awaken, Close to the edge.
Zappa - Inca Roads, too many others.
National Health - almost all.
Stravinsky - Firebird, Rite of Spring (that opening bassoon!)
Bartok - Music for Strings, percussion and Celesta, Concerto for Orchestra,
Magma - KA, MDK
UK - 'Presto Vivace' section
So many others...
RtF, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Keith Jarrett, Elliot Carter, Pain of Salvation, Samuel Barber (1st piano concerto!) , Penderecki, Camel, Happy the Man, KC
And if there were a god, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Russell
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