Your ultimate goose bumps moments in prog?

Bravo. Great idea for a thread

Edited by lightbulb_son - February 16 2007 at 21:49

Good thread! Too many to mention, but here goes..

When Lee's vocals kicks in on 2112.

The beautiful "jam" in Nimrodel by Camel  (7:00).

- The flute and drum break in the middle of Genesis' "The Musical Box".

- The entirety of Van der Graaf Generator's "Refugees", especially the "Toooooooooooooo theeeeeeeeeeee west!" part.

- The chorus of Disillusion's "Dread It" with the swirling effects and subtle choir.

- The pre-chorus and chorus of X-Japan's "Dahlia" with the clean-tone guitar with a delay.

- The intro and piano solo of X-Japan's "Art of Life".

- King Crimson's "I Talk to the Wind".

- The chorus of Pink Floyd's "Time".

- Pretty much every chorus of Pain of Salvation's "Remedy Lane" album.

- The intro of Kayo Dot's "The Manifold Curiosity".

- Marillion's "Script for a Jester's Tear" (the song).

- Steve Hackett's "The Lovers".

- The Flower Kings' "A Vampire's View".

That's all I can think of now, there are probably many more.

--Kayo Dot -The Manifold Curiosity, the clarinet and distortion guitar climax, Aura on Asylum Walls
--Tool-Lateralus, Third Eye, Triad (etc...)
--The Mars Volta- De-loused in the Comatorium...everything, but especially take the veil...; Cassandra Gemini, Cygnus...Vigismund Cygnus; L'Via L'Viaquez; Day of Baphomets(the percussion towards the end)
--Mahavishnu Orchestra-Vital Transformation, Noonward Race
--Sigur Ros- all of ( )..especially Untitled #8, Hoppipola, Saeglopur
--EITS- mostly everything...i never listen to one song without listening to them all(i only own 3 albums) and so i can't distinguish them all that much
--GY!BE-Storm, Static, Yanqui U.X.O., Moya, Blaise Bailey Finnegan III
--Radiohead-Kid A, especially The National Anthem and Idioteque, Pulk/pull revolving doors
--Ephel Duath- Painter's Palette
--Mastodon-Capillarian Crest, most of Leviathen
--Mr. Bungle- Platypus, Desert Search for Techno Allah, Carry Stress in the Jaw

simply too many moments...i give up

Off the top of my head, the climax of Riverside's "Dance with the Shadow".  That part of the song is just amazing, gives me goosebumps almost every time!

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micky wrote: Tony R wrote: I wont bore Mickey with Rush goosebump moments.... why not...  everyone else will   Rush . goosebump moment ...hmmm.. leaving that alone (thinks of a rather inappropriate comment hahahha)

You know what's going to happen to you, don't you?

OK, back IT... Off the top of my head:

- the endings to KC's "Epitaph", "In the Wake of Poseidon" and "Starless";
- the reprise of the initial theme of ELP's "the Barbarian", with Emerson's Hammond going really over the top;
- the moment of transition between "Battlefield" and "Aquatarkus" in ELP's "Tarkus";
- Wakeman's spectacular organ solo at the beginning of CTTE's fourth movement, "Seasons of Man";
- Blackmore's blistering guitar solo in Deep Purple's "Child in Time" (preferably the live version from "Made in Japan);
- Martin Barre's super-heavy guitar riffing at the beginning of Jethro Tull's "My God";
- the intro to Rush's "Test for Echo" (the song);
- the frantic crescendo of the guitar-violin duel in High Tide's "Death Warmed Up".

BaldJean wrote: first of all: I never get any goose bumps. to get goose bumps first of all you have to have hair, and Friede and I painstakingly removed any trace of it from us permanently.but in a figurative sense there are some goose bumps moments. the album that gives me the most goose bumps is Peter Hammill's "The Fall of the House of Usher", especially in the 2nd revised version. act 6 has several goose bump moments which appear in layers, so to speak; if you do have hair it will stand on end when the album finishes. if you like old horror movies, where the heavy doors squeak in their hinges, candles cast flickering shadows everywhere in which rats lurk, cobwebs hang all around and so on, then this album is for you; it is the aural equivalent of it

how does that work? getting rid of all traces of hair? seems a bit unnatural, is it religious or do you just not like hair? I don't think I've heard of anyone doing that.

WOW, half an hour before I went to bed this night I posted this thread because I was thrilled about my goose bumps during R.I.P. by Banco and eager to known the goose bump moments of other progheads here on Prog Archives. And now I am reading all those enthousiastic, funny and inspired reactions, good to share all those positive feelings 

Edited by erik neuteboom - February 17 2007 at 06:43

Some that come to mind right now, in no order:

- The beginning of Univers Zéro's Jack the Ripper. Bassoon has never sounded so evil.
- The mid part of Univers Zéro's Dense, that build-up thing. Beautiful (for lack of a better word)
- The trumpet intro to Art Zoyd's Simulacres.
- The whole of Trio "Lettre d'Automne" by Art Zoyd.
- The beginning of Henry Cow's Half the Sky.
- Moya by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Helicon (New Version) by Mogwai
- Rhayader by Camel
- Prelude: Song of the Gulls by King Crimson
- The beginning of Islands by King Crimson
- Jag Minns Min Gröna Dal by Splash
 

Right now its White Hammer by VdGG and well its not prog i know but still, Dont fear the reaper by blue öyster cult.