Passages that make your hairs stand up

These are guaranteed to give me the vertical hairfactor:

1.The break in Journey To The Center Of The Mind by the Amboy Dukes and the sustained note held during that.

2.The solo Keith Emerson does in 'Mars The Bringer Of War' off of Emerson Lake and Powell.

3.The hyperspeed strumming done by Hacket on 'Dancing Out With The Moonlit Knight' off of Selling England.

4.The opening guitar work to Bridge Of Sighs by Robin Trower.

The entire "Histoire Sans Paroles" - Harmonium

and the end of "A Saucerful Of Secrets (live version)"

First: A great thread!

All what I think about passages, which make stand my hair are allready mentioned, which I won't repeat 'cause it's already written, but there are few more:

The last two minutes of "Three Friends" from GENTLE GIANT - the band choir and the mellotron melodies repeats through the fadeout and always gives me chills, any time I listen to it.

The beginning section, flute solo and chorus of "I Remember" from PSYCHOTIC WALTZ.

Most parts of "Us And Them" by FLOYD.

The whole "The Lamia" and "Cinema Show/Aisle Of Plenty" from GENESIS.

The acoustic guitar intro, lead guitar, verses and chorus of "Guardian" from FATES WARNING.

"A Change Of Seasons" from DREAM THEATER - the part which breaks in after over 13 minutes.

The passage of "Epitaph" by KING CRIMSON, where Greg Lake sings "But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying."

"I Grieve" from PETER GABRIEL.

"Russia On Ice" with it's dark mood - PORCUPINE TREE

Nothing's made my hair stand on end, but I like these very, very much, that should count for something. It does, doesn't it?

-The part in "The Musical Box" right before he begins the "play me my song" bit for the second time (I trust you know what I'm talking about)

-the sax solo in VDGG's "Man-Erg"

-the climactic part in "Kosmos Tours" from "Plague of the Lighthouse Keepers"

-The "Master inner voices" part in GG's "Experience

-The mellotron/haunting acoustic guitar part in Harmonium's "Depuis L'Automne"

-Soon

-The beginning passage of A Passion Play (after the intro)

-The flute at the beginning of "Apocolypse in 9/8" (and the rest of it for that matter)

-The whole of "In the Wake of Poseidon"

-When the middle section is interrupted in "On Reflection with "Look back i's not your game, together just in name"

-The haunting part in "Schooldays"

- "Presence of the Night" from "Plague of etc."

-When the quiet organ comes in in "Picures/Lighthouse"

-The whole of "Lemmings"

-Everything on ITCOTCK (minus a few things)

Amongst others

Hello.

My personal Top 10 goose bumps moments (no particularly order):

Outer Limits: the bombastic final part featuring Mellotron and violin in the titletrack The scene of pale blue

Anekdoten: the Mellotron intro from Karelia on their debut album Vemod

Le Orme: the splendid build-upgrand finale in the titletrack from Felona e sorona

Fantasy: the choir-Mellotron eruptions on the song Alanderie from Beyond the beyond

Pallas: ultra-bombastic choir-Mellotron eruptions in March to Atlantis on their album The Sentinel

Triana: the flamenco guitar runs during the first minutes of the song Abre le puerta in their debut album El Patio

Yes-Yessongs: synthesizer-electric guitar duel from Howe and Wakeman in Wurm (Starship Trooper part 3)

Genesis-Firth of fifth on Seconds Out: grand finale from the very moving electric guitar solo, supported by choir-Mellotron eruptions

King Crimson-Red: halfway Starless the nerve-racking chainsaw electric guitar

Pink Floyd-The Wall: super compelling guitar solo in Comfotably numb

mandrake wrote: the guitar 'solo' on the KC's Starless - first time I heard that was a proper hair-stand-er-up-on-neck-er!

You've just inspired me to throw on some Red.

Also:

the mellotron arrangement in Siberian Khatru is a tear jerker
Adrian Belew's cry/shouts in Dinosaur
Rush's Different Stages version of Animate.
All of Gates of Delirium.

• Comfortably Numb
• Great Gig In Sky
• High Hopes,final part
  
• One Of These Days

• Ricochet,Part One
• Phaedra,middle part,until the climax
• Barbakane,last five minutes

•  ah,so many

• Ommadawn,Part One,finale
• Platinum - Airborne
• Tubular Bells III - Outcast & Far Above The Clouds

• Knife
• Watcher Of The Skies
  
• Firth Of Fifth
• Mama
• Home By The Sea

• the first four guitar notes in "Shine on you crazy diamond"
• the beginning of "Ticks & leeches" by Tool
• "Moonchild" (especially when Lake sings drifting in the echoes of the hour...) and "Sailor's tale" by King Crimson
• when "Strip the soul" [Porcupine Tree] opens up... and most of PT songs, actually *
• the bass solo in "Bourée" and when the whole band joins the piano and Ian's voice in "My God" [Jethro Tull]

I can't think of anything else right now...

• The vacal layer in "Chance" and in "One Child" by Savatage
• Willow Farm in Supper' Ready B
• Several parts in A Passion Play
• The organ intro on Watcher's of the Sky
• And ALways the intro to Tubular Bells at night in a darkened room with head phones on.