Musically what was the last thing that made the hair on the back of your neck stand up?

For me music isn't just a listening experience. I'm that weird, nerdy, anti-social guy in the halls that has headphones on 24/7 at work. When I listen to music I see sights, images, memories come back to me. Some are vastly more powerful than others. And the sounds that strike a chord with me are so eclectic. Folk here, bluegrass there, techno over there, rock, rap, old school Texas country, opera, classical, orchestral.

Adagio for Strings is still powerful for me.

And O ... M ... Fing ... G ... if you can listen to Miserere Mei Deus and not have a spiritual experience then you were born with no soul, I’m so sorry.

I have a long list, but some of the more spine tingling moments in a song occur not during the entire song, but at precise moments in those songs. Those seem to have the most impact on me, and what’s funny is it seems like it’s not the sound at that moment, but the absence of sound at those precise moments that made my mind race.

Listening to Electronaut by VNV nation for the first time was just one such moment. During the song at minute markers 3:54 & 4:48 I felt my whole body flush beginning at the tail bone and traveling up over my head to my eyebrows. This song conjures up a scene in my mind ... one, I might add, that would make a pretty bad@$$ scene in an action movie. And then I re-experienced it when I saw a video of the song in concert over in the UK; I wish that travel from Texas to the UK wasn't so pricey :)

OH!! ... and Dayvan Cowboy by the Boards of Canada! I downloaded that one because I heard part of it on Adult Swim (I think), and took it to work with me. Minute marker 2:19 ... sent absolutely ridiculous shivers up my spine. I became helplessly lost in this music. I like stopped doing everything and I think I just stared at the wall. A whole event from the past I wish I had played out in my mind. It was a completely visceral world with sight, sound, smell, touch, & yes even taste (you had to be there) ... a world that was completely shattered when my a**hole boss interrupted me with some stupid f@#$ing thing about TPS reports (yes, we actually have those at my job) ... luckily that's why MP3 players have back buttons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrBZeWjGjl8

I also have to admit that I saw this Marie Digby chick on YouTube singing an acoustic version of Linkin Park’s What I’ve Done that got to me, and Linkin Park’s version actually hit me fairly good too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otdEhyGrujQ&feature...

I was defining myself as metal head once, but as time goes on people change:)

Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid

have always a different place in my mind (translation: for all time)

Steel heart - She's Gone

this makes me feel weird even i need to change that SHE into HE :)

Pink Martini - La Soledad

If you translate the lyrics you can see a beautifully written emotional song

Beseech - Lost / Blackmore's Night - Wish You Were Here

these are great ones as well

The classics like Pink Floyd's Echoes, Led Zeppelin's Babe and few more others are good as well :)

watching Brian Wilson sing "Midnight's another day" live in concert last fall ( from his last cd That Lucky Old Sun 2008)

I was smiling and crying at the same time all through the show- great music from a True Survivor

i substitute into defining myself as metallic head as quickly as, yet as time is going on human beings substitute:) Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid have consistently a distinctive place in my suggestions (translation: consistently) metallic coronary heart - She's long previous this makes me sense weird and wonderful even i ought to alter that SHE into HE :) purple Martini - l. a. Soledad in case you translate the lyrics you may locate a superbly written emotional music Beseech - lost / Blackmore's nighttime - wish You have been right here those are super ones besides The classics like purple Floyd's Echoes, Led Zeppelin's Babe and few extra others are good besides :)

Birth (From "Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Begining" Soundtrack)

The Discovery of the Band Porcupine Tree =)

Listenning to this cover of All Along The WAtchtower by Michael Hedges

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MdgMm7Ey9A

Brings me to tears everytime

well closer to the heart by rush is amazing

listen to the whole song but listen closely from 1:55 till the ending

I was about to say exactly what Music is a Religion said. They are a really cool band.

Seeing Starseed for the first time - http://www.planetstarseed.com/

epic soaring hard rock music that filled the room, it was amazing