Recommend a song that made you tingle.

[PaulB]

Come on, we've all heard a song in the last year or two that made the hair on our necks stand on end. Don't keeo it to yourself but share it with the world. Has to be recent, though and preferably a hidden gem that caught you by surprise.

I'd like to start with "John saw that number" by Neko Case. Outstanding in every respect, that is.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

"Joe's Waltz" by The Dodos or "Sooty and Sweep" by Invocal.

 

[Kirstie]

Frank and Flo's - Lau (which I just found on you tube. I was at this gig)


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLZqQvya8Pk&feature=related


Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
Nostalgia - David Sylvian
Most things that Julie Fowlis has recorded.

...and loads loads more.

 

[Dayvo]

Three songs by the same band - Madrugada, a Norwegian rock band.

Majesty
The Kids are on High Street
Lift Me

 

[Slowgrind]

One Day Like This-Elbow!

 

[PaulB]

One Day Like This-Elbow!

Cracking song that. Just watched this and loved it
View: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hooPU2mdsH4


So throw those curtains wide...

 

[palinurus]

Sorry about ignoring your request for recent stuff. I heard this a while ago and I almost wept, it's the vocal harmony thing. Probably only works on my brain tho'

Heptones: Cool Rasta


Something recent then,

Mariee Sioux: Buried in Teeth

 

[Lardyboy]

Cracking song that. Just watched this and loved it
View: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hooPU2mdsH4


So throw those curtains wide...

Try this one instead!

Live at Glastonbury.


View: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ILxlVqf2fYU


Quite epic in its way.

 

[Gerry Attrick]

This does it for me every time. Simply breathtaking. To clear up any doubt, it is Barbara Bonney.

View: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aQVz6vuNq7s&feature=related

 

[Lardyboy]

The first record that ever made me believe that music could be something other.


View: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SVUzTZ5dgwQ

 

[mondobongo]

Back in the Day by The Good the Bad and the Queen a real gem of an instrumental tucked away on the B side of Herculean. No doubt it will turn up on a Tarrantino Soundtrack one day.

 

[PaulB]

Sorry about ignoring your request for recent stuff. I heard this a while ago and I almost wept, it's the vocal harmony thing. Probably only works on my brain tho'

Heptones: Cool Rasta

Stupendous! No need at all to apologise about reminding us of the supreme beauty of this song. And what a simple yet effective film clip to go with it. I followed that up by watching their "Book of rules" and it's going to be a You Tube reggae night now!

Isn't it strange That princes and kings,
And clowns that caper In sawdust rings,
And common people Like you and me
Are builders for eternity?

 

[palinurus]

I like to use YouTube as a jukebox, someone had tagged a load of videos as being Kurt Cobain's favourite 50 tracks (or something similar). Ms. P and I enjoyed most of those. Especially The Shaggs.

 

[WindyRob]

I know this will not be cool to admit to but when i heard this on the live lounge i was stunned:


View: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1wxcOwDSwYQ


you'll have to wait a couple of mins to get to the song!

Windy

 

[Maz]

Not a recent song by any means (must be 20 years old by now), but The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby never fails to get me:


View: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=85KCbjxxzTE&feature=related