im getting on now..just turned 50.

Musical monents in my life..those wonderfull spine tingling moments.

Led Zeppelin 'Heartbreaker' the opening riff that laid down the foundations for metal, along with the thrash rock middle eight.

Deep Purple. 'Higway Star' Richie Blackmores incredible triplets during the guitar solo..

Black Sabbath. 'War pigs' taking a cue from Led zep as above, and turned rock into heavy metal.

Status Quo. The guitar solo in 'Backwater junction'..a joyous musical moment. amazing melody.

The Beatles 'she loves you' I was 10 when I first heard this, never heard anything like it before and was the first record I every brought. played it to death.

Oasis. 'Dont look back in anger'. the sorta song I could imagine John Lennon doing,a wonderfully melodic rock song.

The Sex pistols. 'Anarchy in the uk'. powerhouse rythm section, Jonny spitting out the lyrics...great lyrics as well.

Pink Floyd 'Echoes'. I still listen to this now, a wonderfully constructed example of music.

Jimi Hendrix. 'The star spangled banner..woodstock version'. best guitarist ever, how he controlled that feed back in this solo I dont know...sheer genius.

Abba. 'The winner takes it all'. Id always dismiised Abba before this song. I first heard it in 1980 after splitting up with a girl I was very much in love with..this song musicall and lyrically just got that .'my partners left me..boo hoo' type vibe spot on.

Maybe its my age, but in the nineties and so far this decade only Oasis have 'done it' for me.

Off the top of my head:

Led Zeplin - The Rain Song

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (the guitar solo when performed live.. specifically off the PULSE album, but after seeing Roger Waters play live, that as well)

Pink Floyd - Shine On Your Crazy Diamond (the entire song is quite moving (mainly due to its topic, Syd Barret) but obviously those 4 famous notes are particulary haunting.)

The Doors - The End

Pink Floyd - Fat Old Sun (considering Floyd are famous for their epics, this is such a nice short song.)

I'm sure there are plenty more but I can't think of them at the moment.

* I keep on editing this list and adding to it.. must think of some music other than Floyd though!

I Couldn't agree more on Floyd's Echoes, Crazy Diamond, Great Gig in The Sky, etc, etc, they are still without doubt the BEST live band I have EVER seen!

I must admit some Classical music has that effect too in particular Elgar and Mozart.

Rocket by Herbie Hancock and White Lines by the Grandmaster are two faves from early hip-hop - reminds me of my break-dancing career - my first fully fledged youth movement at 11 - never lost a burn mind

was B-Boy until...

Fools Gold - Stone Roses
Wrote For Luck - Happy Mondays
Come Home - James
The Only One - Charlatans

...turned me belatedly into a indie kid at 18!


then branching out from there BuzzCocks, Sex Pistols and PIL did it for me in punk

and -

Too Much Too Young - Specials
Mirror in The Bathroom and Cant Get Used To Losing You - The Beat
Tears of a Clown
Prince Buster - Madness

....did it for me in Ska

Si &Garf, Carpenters, Julia (White Album) and Wuthering Heights have made me :'( the most in my Easy Listening moments

elliottm
enjoyed that

edit - guess I'd better add Smells Like Teen Spirit cos of the teeth Ive lost moshing too it altho Territorial P*ssings and Plateau were my faves

When U2 perform Where The Streets Have No Name live.

I experienced that feeling four times last year and it was just simply f**king incredible.

Dan

Thought of a few more,

London Calling - The Clash

Golden Brown - The Stranglers

All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

You spin me rite round baby, rite round, like a record baby, rite rite round.....YOU TURN ME ON!

Robbie - Angels.

espesh in gay clubs

Doves - Pounding.
Doves - Caught By The River
My Life Story - Angel
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Suede - Stay Together
Deus - Instant Streets

just a few off top of me head!

March/Dance of the Capulets from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet
Uninvited by Alanis Morisette
Stairway to Heaven by LedZeppelin
Teen Spirit by Nirvana (I've heard it so often but whenever it starts it still stops me in my tracks )
Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield

Dammit! I forgot Going Underground by The Jam.

Gangsters - Specials

you won't be down at the tube station at midnight during the fireperson's strike either

In no particular order.......


Tin Soldier - Small Faces

Labelled With Love - Squeeze

Down in the Seine - The Style Council

Carnation and Tales from the river bank - The Jam

There She Goes - The La's

Ever Fallen in Love - The Buzzcocks

Clues and Bullrushes - Paul Weller

One Better Day - Madness

How about you - Ocean Colour Scene

Hey peps, you just selected some of my fave bands there!

I've been listening to Universal by The Small Faces quite a bit lately, and also have a horrible knack of doing Itchycoo Park on Karaoke (nothing against the song, rather my singing).. last time I did it was Sunday. I can in all honesty say that I was so drunk I can't remember doing it.

Which is nice.

Listening to Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody off The A Night At The Opera Album on DVD-A. It sounds weird, especially the middle bit. The voices bounce around the speakers a bit, but I've got use to it.

Bob Dylan doing Joey, from the Desire album. Not usually a Dylan fan (bores me silly to be honest), but this is magnificent.

hey..my thread made it onto Google!.

do all ds forum threads get put on google automatically?.

Well the musical moment that made my hair stand on end was Radiohead playing Creep at the southpark gig last year.

Intro's to the following always send a shiver down my spine cos I love em so much

Made of Stone - Stone Roses
Out of Control - Chemical Brothers
Thats Entertainment - The Jam
Bank Robber - The Clash
Boys From the County Hell - The Pogues

Nice choice elliottm btw - Wrote for Luck...Havent heard that for ages.

and yrs is exemplary as usual

altho I would have had Guns of Brixton for Clash

Could have chosen loads by all the bands I listed...... what about Janie Jones by the Clash?

And one Ive only just thought of.....

Inspiral Carpets - This is how it feels

Could go on and on and on.....Just like in the bedroom

The Inspirals, of course! This is how it feels was also an anthem that made me grow my hair

Monkey on My Back - was my fave off the album (and I'd guess is also a bit like hh in the bedroom)