What music........

[Gerry Attrick]

genuinely makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck?

I have a number of tracks, but this is one of my favourites:

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt8p5AxJn18&feature=related

 

[Kirstie]

Not posting you tube links cos I don't think there will be any but a few spring to mind:

Ravel piano concerto no 2 in G - second movement
Music for a large ensemble - Steve Reich
Different trains - Steve Reich
Salty Boys - Lau

All has to be in-your-face live

 

[Aperitif]

This does it for me. - total joy compressed into a short space.
Brilliant music to raise the spirit.

 

[Gerry Attrick]

Wow Kirstie, I'm not familiar with the Ravel piano concerto, but I'm listening to it now......it is gorgeous. It is going on my playlist.

 

[Melvil]

Warren Zevon singing 'Your sh*ts f*cked up' on Letterman after he revealed he was suffering from terminal cancer was pretty much a 'gulp'...not sure if it's what you're asking for, though.

Link:

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHDdqubE7zQ&feature=related

 

[Gerry Attrick]

Melvil........whatever raises those hairs. Your choice does it for me too.

 

[longers]

This.

The hairs have stood up on my neck, my eyes are watering and my scalp has gone prickly.

 

[derall]

This does it for me. - total joy compressed into a short space.
Brilliant music to raise the spirit.

That's pretty good, but for me it's the Alternate Italian National Anthem: Va, Pensiero

 

[Speicher]

The Things I didn't Say

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSZIpeB1MKU&playnext_from=PL&feature=PlayList&p=3134890D4C002956&playnext=1&index=7



Or on a more classical note, Bach's Mass in B Minor

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Thomas Tallis - 'Spem in Allium' ('Hope in Everything'). So beautiful and complex, it is almost overwhelming. I can't help crying when I listen to it. It might be the most perfect use of the human voice. (Technically, it's a motet, for 40 voices in eight separate choirs of five, who interweave their voices before coming to a perfect harmony).

Competely different, but just a pure explosion of hope - Curtis Mayfield - 'Move on Up!'

And for other reasons again, Billie Holiday - 'Im a fool to want you' from Lady in Satin, when her voice was almost entirely gone and she had nothing left at all except all her bitter experience.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Nina Simone's Sinner Man. What a voice.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Nina Simone's Sinner Man. What a voice.

Ah. Yes. It is one of my lasting regrets that I never went to see her play live when I had the chance.

 

[Aperitif]

That's pretty good, but for me it's the Alternate Italian National Anthem: Va, Pensiero

Hebrew Slaves...ALWAYS been one of my favourites. ALWAYS. Very good. Playing the link now

 

[Speicher]

Aperitif, I would have thought your favourite composers would be Bach, Offenbach and Depussy.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I heard this on Desert Island Discs a while ago. Kirsty Young was struggling to contain herself after the clip finished, and I can understand why. I think it was the Nina Simone version I heard, but Billie Holliday's original is just as good.