Your ultimate goose bumps moments in prog?

In "Finally Free" from Scenes of a Memory when the music turns dark in the middle and the gunshots are fired.  

- Jon Anderson singing "Turning Round and you were standing close to me": Awaken's closing moments (Yes)

Edited by Moogtron III - March 08 2007 at 15:51

Mickey, if you would tell us what "schooldays" means, we could "goose bump" with you.

Conciseness is the only thing worth living for - in communication. Otherwise it is boring.

Cheers

erik neuteboom wrote: Impressive list Marcel  By the way, already 'out of Africa?'

Way too many goosebump moments for me to list, but I have to mention Supertwister by Camel, with Andrew Latimer's slow flute solo in the middle. I don't know what is it about it that always fills me with a sense of calm and joy. INTENSE GOOSEBUMPS.   

The part in Robert Wyatt - Sea Song where the mellotron comes in.. Epic!!!

The Most Chilling Passages in the Halls of Progressive Music.

1. The opening of "Phaedra", by Tangerine Dream. The sequencer line climbs out of the dark abyss, feeling as if it is whirling upwards in some hellish spiral. The entire piece flows from here on, until a psychedelic section of synthesizer yelps segues into Mellotron strains. Once the Mellotron ends at 16:34, another minute of children playing and screaming on a playground puts massive chills down my spine. Froese, Baumann, and Franke were genuises all the way through. "Sequent C'" and "Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares" are quintiessentially otherworldly and downright creepy. The former is simple echoed flutes, which lends a "soundtrack to the end of the world" feel, whereas "Mysterious..." is intensely beautiful/melancholic. The whole album of Phaedra (1974) by Tangerine Dream is just a big chilling journey into darkness.

2. See above, but for 1975's Rubycon (Tangerine Dream as well). Utterly creepy, sad, and redeeming journey through waves of mellotron, forests of synthesizers, and warped pianos.

3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: The feeling of apocalypse during "Mother****er=Redeemer" on 2002's Yanqui U.X.O. is amazingly chilling and saddening. Most pieces by GY!BE are actually played in this immensely depressing minor tune, or are simply ironic. The "where are you going..." section of "Providence" is the stuff that makes people lose sleep.

4. I get intense goosebumps when I hear the mellotron introduction Genesis' "Watcher of the Skies". It seems so epic and far reaching, while at the same time a funeral dirge for whatever spacefaring race is destroying itself.

5. The lyrics AND vocals from The Tangent's "A Place in the Queue"... so prophetic of dictatorships and ultimate order. 1984, anyone?

6. "In Dark Trees", "The Big Ship", and "Spirits Drifting" from Brian Eno's Another Green World. There are such excellent feelings of journies through forests, frozen oceans, and the halls of the dead.

So many more...

I don't know why... but Mike Oldfield's Amarok did really odd things to my body... first time listening to that I had tears in my eyes plus the most insane goose bumps I ever had... and Im not that crazy about that piece, today... but back then... wooh... that was crazy...

 

Starless...when it begins, when the lead guitar comes in, when Wetton starts singing, all through the build-up, when the theme reappears, the final refrain, and the devastating final chord. Kills me every time, and it's been a lot of times.