What are your favorite songs that give you goosebumps because of the sheer power of it? You know, songs that build up until the final climax that makes you just go "wow". I love music like that.

I would song the bands Elliott and The Burning Paris make the most powerful music. The way they incorporate strings into their music is amazing, and really hits home.

A Perfect Circle - The Package

^^^ - nice

"Wisdom of the Kings" and "Holy Thunderforce" by Rhapsody
"Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits. Live 10 minute version, with the piano interlude. The solo just takes me away every time.

Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower

Track 8 from the album ( ) by Sigur Rós.

Godspeed You Black Emperor - bbf3

Corrupted - Bloodscape

Amsterdam - Coldplay

It may not seem like a very powerful song, but when those drums kick in it just sets everything off and makes me feel all tingly. If I listen to it when I'm being moody it brings me close to tears.

"Thy Resurrection", a Ukrainian sacred chant.
Choral slavic music is so dramatic.

Seconded.

Also:
Coldplay - Shiver (and you it's see, but you dont see me)
Jump, Little Children - Say Goodnight (entire last chorus)
Muse - Blackout (Dont (right after the 'solo'))
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees (she looks like the real thing, she tastes like the real thing)
Snow Patrol - Somewhere a Clock is Ticking (the entire song is just one big build-up)

I agree with Fake Plastic Trees. Also, High and Dry. Especially when it gets to that guitar solo. It's so easy to play, and yet so wonderful.

Elliott Smith- Between the Bars
Velvet Underground- Heroin
Tom Waits- (a lot of his songs)
The Pixies- Head On (Jesus and Mary Chain cover)
Peter Murphy- Cuts you Up
Peter Murphy- I'll Fall With Your Knife
Chris Bell- I Am the Cosmos
Toad the Wet Sprocket- Know Me
Toad the Wet Sprocket- One Wind Blows
Toad the Wet Sprocket- When We Recovered
Toad the Wet Sprocket- Pale Blue
Toad the Wet Sprocket- Covered in Roses
Toad the Wet Sprocket- Always Changing Probably
Toad the Wet Sprocket- Come Back Down
Toad the Wet Sprocket- Don't Go Away
Toad the Wet Sprocket- High on a Riverbed
Toad the Wet Sprocket- Nothing is Alone
Toad the Wet Sprocket- I Think About
Toad the Wet Sprocket- Pray Your Gods
Toad the Wet Sprocket- I Will Not Take These Things for Granted
Toad the Wet Sprocket- Stories I Tell
Toad the Wet Sprocket- Fly From Heaven
Toad the Wet Sprocket- Crowing
Toad the Wet Sprocket- Windmills
Toad the Wet Sprocket- Begin
Toad the Wet Sprocket- Are We Afraid?
Toad the Wet Sprocket- All She Said
Toad the Wet Sprocket- Don't Fade
Toad the Wet Sprocket- Silo Lullabye


Some free legal mp3's of some powerful songs...
Glen Phillips- Easier
Glen Phillips- Chapel Perilous
Toad the Wet Sprocket- She Cried This one gets really powerful near the end. The link is to a live version.

Yeah... I think you can all guess who my favorite band is...

radiohead - creep

"Your so ****ing special... I wish i was special..."

Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love
Dream Evil - Children of the Night
Nightwish - Swanheart
Lacuna Coil - Daylight Dancer

Kiss - god gave rock and roll to you
and others that i dont know the names of

The score to LucasArt's "The Dig," if you can believe it.

Paul van Dyk - Another Way
16B Feat. Morel - Escape (Driving To Heaven)
BT - Shame
Pole Folder & CP - Apollo Vibes
Gloat - Wuarp
Christian West - Eterna
Bedrock - Heaven Scent
Bedrock - Set In Stone
Disco Droids - Interspace (Original Tremelo Mix)
Greece 2000 - 3 Drives On Vinyl
The Realm - This Is Not A Breakdown

and #1 on my list:

Amoebaassassin - Piledriver (Grayed Out Summer Mix)

Not that I expect most of you to have heard of any of these songs. :p

I totally agree. I always thought it would be interesting to hear a Nirvana cover of it too.


I see your Temple of Love and I raise you by 1959.


The atmosphere was the best part about that game. I don't remember the music, but I know it was great.

Immortal Technique - Dance with The Devil

This song, is so disturbing that I find it hard to even listen to it... My heart races and I start to get all sweaty. This song tells one of the most grusome true stories I've ever heard. Shall I admit it, and say this song has scary lyrics?

"a broken jaw mumbled for god but they weren't concerned"

Dream Theater - Home

and also, Dream Theater - Fatal Tragedy

but Home seriously blows me away each time.

Stan Rogers - Witch of the Westmorland

Eve by Dream Theater takes me away

The theme to Band of Brothers always gets me

All right, another mp3, even though I doubt anyone cares. Here is a cover of Toad the Wet Sprocket's song Crowing, and this version is just as powerful as the original.

Listen to it!!!!

Add:

A Perfect Circle - The Noose
Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack
Breaking Benjiman - Break My Fall (Kinda pushing it)
Bare Naked Ladies - Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel
Muse - Butterflies and Hurricanes(How did I miss that one!)

Oh yeah, and Radiohead - "How to Completly Disappear" always gets me for some reason.

Dream Theater - The Spirit Carries On (Live)
Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons

Rammstein-Mutter
Rammstein-Spiel Mit Mir
Fear Factory-Archetype
Lostprophets-Hello Again
Deftones-Change
Primus-Mary the Ice Cube

I already had a 10 minute version, but without a [piano] solo. So I found that one, and I think the first one I had is better... so if you can, find the other version; it's even better!

[edit: Forgot the key bit... - Matt]

I've got four different live versions I like the televised 10 minute solo version, with the piano interlude. There's a live mp3, played the same way, 'cept much to fast, and with all the people screaming, it's just not the same. Look for Dire Straits live videos, you might come across it.

Mudvayne - Goodbye
Deftones - Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event
Deftones - Digital Bath
Johnny Cash - Hurt (I feel this is better than the NIN original)
Sevendust - Angel's Son
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
Tosca - 11 Ballade 4, Pt. 2

Of course, a change of seasons. but I was so certain someone else would name it that i didn't.

smashing pumpkins - silver****

gladiator

the theme to A beautiful mind.

Meat Beat Manifesto - Fear Version

I don't think that's what the idea was, but if GothiX can post Children of the Night then I can post this. :p

The Gone Jackals - Legacy
Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell
John Williams - Imperial March
Iron Maiden - Die with Your boots On

hmmm.... wouldnt exactly call it powerful....

Jean-Michel Jarre: Ethnicolor
At least after the opening part, then it's pure powerful synth madness. And f***ing great.

John Williams: The Battle of Yavin
Found this greatness after watching the movie again, it's so... so... powerful. Yeah. I guess that's what this thread is about. Powerful songs.

John Williams: The Imperial March
Duh.

Vangelis - End Titles of Blade Runner
More powerful synth madness. Especially the one on the early bootleg version of the Blade Runner OST... yes.

Frank Klepacki - Hell March
Every war would be better with this one playing...

Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Tetsuo
Maybe gets a little long and boring on some parts, but there are some parts with power flowing through it. Yes...

I read the lyrics to that. It is pretty disturbing.


Holy carp... then what would you call powerful? Thanks for listening to it, all the same.

"Get over regrets
While you were sleeping with the angels
he was under the bed
And the more skin you shed
The more that the air in the throat would linger when you call him your friend"

That last line gets me every time. And then there's

"Staring at a cold little hand
Reading fault lines
Of a shell of a man
You were waiting for a word from above
Wouldn't you know it
No answer ever did come"

Children of Bodom - Black Widow
Sonata Arctica - San Sebastian
Sonata Arctica - The Cage
Sonata Arctica - Victoria's Secret (this song is awesome)

In fact, any Sonata Arctica really

Most Stratovarius too.

Yes! <3 Dream Theater.

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Iron Maiden - Paschendale
Iron Maiden - Be Quick or Be Dead
Flaw - Whole
Fear Factory - Zero Signal
Godsmack - Make Me Believe
Fuel - Quarter
Disturbed - Voices

The song was just really bland apart from the lyrics. It was really lacking a hook. For me, a powerful song makes me want to cry, kick something, or shout (in a good way). Sad. Mad. Super Happy. If a song doesnt make me feel one of those 3 ways then it's not really powerful.

Here's more of mine:

Starsailor - Born Again
Keane - Bedshaped
Snow Patrol - Run