To ask what song gives you goosebumps or

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Takes you back to a moment?

Mine is Barcelona by Freddie Mercury and Monsterrat Caballe

I was 6 when the Barcelona Olympics were on and I remember being stunned at how powerful this song was even at age 6. It made me stand and watch. When I hear it I still get goosebumps and can remember the moment I heard it.

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Days - Kirsty MacColl

Wonderful thread... So many great songs already mentioned. Somewhere Over The Rainbow. The version by Eva Cassidy ALWAYS leaves me in floods of tears. I believe she recorded it when she was fighting a battle with cancer that she subsequently lost. I believe you can hear it in her interpretation. That final minute gets me every time.

No-one has mentioned hallelujah yet. I love the Jeff Buckley version.

And Coyotes by Don Edwards always makes me shiver. As does Birdgerhl by Antoni and the Johnsons.

There is a light that never goes out by The Smiths. It was our first dance at our wedding.

Weird one - Trick of the Light by a band called Lonely the Brave. I heard this on the radio when it was released and i just love it. So well written and gives me a shiver every time.

Also anything on Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town because it reminds me of good friendships.

Oh god Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits

When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet....

2 out if 3 ain't bad - Meatloaf
Take me to church
Sound of silence

The Killers version of Romeo and Juliet
Who wants to live forever - Queen

One day like this - Elbow
With or without you - U2
Somebody - Depeche Mode (Dh dedicated these last 2 to me on Radio 1 the day we got engaged)
Pride - U2 again

Liam Bailey - Stun Me

Billie Eilish, Khalid - lovely

Hide in Your Shell by Supertramp gets me everytime.

Don't Say You Love Me by Erasure
Sing to Me by Darren Hayes
Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright
Who Wants to Live Forever by Queen

Give me the shivers

Last kiss - pearl jam
Tears in heaven - Clapton
Hurt - Johnny cash
Somewhere over the rainbow - Eva Cassidy (played at my grandads funeral)

Also 9 crimes - Damien rice

John Martyn - May You Never.

It takes me back to my youth and my first love. He died suddenly and tragically in his early 20s and I thought my heart would be forever broken. We went to lots of gigs together and saw John Martyn live many times, of which I’m glad.

When I heard Danny Baker announce John Martyn's death on the radio, I was driving and burst in to howling sobs driving over Hampton Court bridge. I still love his music today but this song is special.

Somewhere - Runrig
One Day More & Bring him home -Les Mis
Take me home, country road - John Denver
Canaan’s Land & Underneath The Stars - Kate Rusby
Lily’s Eyes - The Secret Garden
Inner Demons - Julia Brennan
You Will Be Found - Dear Evan Hansen
For Good - Wicked

Are you here? Corinne Bailey Rae
Enjoy The Silence. Depeche Mode
Blackbird. The Beatles
Up The Junction. Squeeze
I Sat By The Ocean. Queens of the Stone Age
Oh You Pretty Things. David Bowie

With or without you - U2
Anything by the jam or police
Kingston town - ub40
Holding back the years - simply red
Wonderful life

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I am a funeral Celebrant and will be bookmarking this page - there are some beautiful music choices here, some of which are new to me.

I think music is so important at ceremonies.

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I give up! Flowers are virtual this evening

I'm a recent convert to Elvis. 🕺 The emotional power that man has ...

For me it’s more individual voices as opposed to the song.
Voices that make me tingle include Kerry Ellis, woman the band & Caro Emerald

For unspeakable reasons, Strange Fruit by Nina Simone.

The meaning of the lyrics, NS’s own life story, the historical context. It’s a perfect song to me, you understand why humans make music. Many songs do that, but for me Strange Fruit is inescapable.

On that thread can I ask you all to google Woman the Band ; Woman of the World play it LOUD on headphones and tell me it ain’t da bomb

To echo PPs:

Fast Car (have been obsessed with this lately for some reason)

Soft As Snow - My Bloody Valentine. (I feel like this is an unusual one!)

My own additions:

Something about what happens when we talk, Lucinda Williams:

Heart, All I want to do is make love to you (I have a very specific memory of listening to this in the car with my mother as a rather small child and her explaining the scandalous - to me - meaning)

Come Monday, Jimmy Buffett - reminds me of my father

I feel like this is a weird and highly specific list. Am slightly embarrassed..