Does Music give you goose bumps?

Not usually. But Gilmour's guitar break in Comfortably Numb does catch me some times. And bizarrely, this does too. I think because I was a kid when this was out and I was a big fan at the time:

 

Polka music really cranks my tractor, the oom pah pah of the tuba in a polka band gives me goose bumps and really gets my blood boiling and it's the only reason I go to the yearly local Octoberfest :rolleyes:.....it's certainly not just because of all the ice cold beer. Yeah Right !


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I was in High School from 1960-64, so the best popular music was from 1960-64. There's something about the teenage brain that latches on to the pop music of the day, and makes it "their" music. I don't pay attention to the lyrics, because I hate singing. I like Classical music, because there's no singing.
 
There are a few that bother me so much that I avoid them whenever possible:

for no apparent reason- the Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody;"

Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"- nearly every morning when I had to get up for school, that song was playing on the radio. Creeped me out then, and still does;

Barry Sadler's "Ballad of the Green Berets."
 
I must have a very special brain, or you could just say I am a cry Baby. Most songs I listen to bring back memories of mine . This particular song is very hard for me to listen to. When I was expecting my 2nd child my friend was also pregnant. I was driving to get a crib for my baby when the news came on the radio and said 3 firemen had been killed in a fire. They mentioned my friends husbands name. After the news this song came on. I cried my eyes out and still do when I hear this song even though it was 40 yrs ago.

 
Marching music gives me goose bumps.

The one in particular? ' On Wisconsin. ' It was on Final Jeopardy and I knew the answer. Next to the Stars and Stripes Forever. Top rated.
 
Camper6 said:
If hearing music gives you goosebumps your brain might be special
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Then my brain must be intensely special...

After I moved the the far North of Alaska and was in town buying supplies for my cabin I noticed an advertisement for a concert by the Fairbanks symphony orchestra which was composed mainly by volunteers and university students. It was Beethoven's 9th, which I last saw preformed by the Philadelphia orchestra 20 years ago. I doubted that here in this small town that the level of the performers would come near to what I had heard in Philly but I purchased a ticket and went.

Needless to say what I witnessed was way beyond my expectations.
The musicians and singers could rightly stand on the same stage as those I witnessed in Philadelphia.
and as the last notes faded into memory
it was not only goose bumps on my arms
but tears in my eyes
that I experienced.

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The 2012 Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra
 
This always brings tears to my eyes
[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lRqaJnz6WgE[/video]
 

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