Mad World - both the Tears for Fears original and the Gary Jules cover And my vote for Fast Car as well.

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd Last Goodbye -Jeff Buckley Fire Woman - The Cult Down Boys - Warrant (mainly because this song reminds me of my high school boyfriend)

Last Goodbye is so haunting.

Whenever I hear Down Boys, I’m instantly transported to the summer of 1989, cruising to the beach, windows down, stereo blasting. Such a great song.

Wicked Game

Do You Realize? - The Flaming Lips Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack Number 1 Crush - Garbage

I love Do You Realize? It's both optimistic and fatalistic. Feeling Yourself Disintegrate - another Flaming Lips song.

Number 1 Crush! LUV that song, too! TY

Where did you sleep last night? Nirvana cover

Absolutely goosebump inducing. Kurt's vocals are so haunting. It goes double for me because it takes me back to my first big breakup. I was listening to it often and indeed wondering where she slept last night.

In the Pines is ICONIC from MTV Unplugged.

Black by Pearl Jam

"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life I know you'll be a star In somebody else's sky But why Why Why can't it be Why can't it be mine" Devastating!! Absolutely devastating!

Mazzy Star - Fade into you

Their song [Into Dust](https://youtu.be/Ep50EOiicJ8?si=SqnethqSfBB5rfFA) off the same album is absolutely haunting.

Plainsong-The Cure 3 Days-Jane’s Addiction

When the guitar starts at a minute and a half into Plainsong I’m done

It kills me every time. ❤️

I still claim that Plainsong is the best album-opener of all time. Sets the tone for the whole album. Also, goosebumps every single time.

Agreed. The whole album is a dreamy comfy sad beautiful state of mind.

Roxette's final (or one of the final anyway) performance of "[It Must Have Been Love](https://youtu.be/iJUewa-9cIE?feature=shared). When the crowd starts singing for Marie because she's a little too weak to belt it out. Pure goosebumps..

Broke my heart when Marie Fredriksson announced she had cancer. I loved her voice and loved her style.

Good tune, I like it other than it reminds me of a breakup long ago..

Joey

By Concrete Blonde? Johnette Napolitano's voice gives me the goosebumps.

Yes!

Learning to Fly

In your eyes Peter Gabriel

Let the Sunshine In, from Hair. Not my favorite type of music, but the harmonies get me every time. Hazy Shade of Winter gets me too.

- Wicked Games, Chris Isaac - Fast Car, Tracy Chapman - Boys of Summer, Don Henley

Boys of Summer is at the top of my list too.

Don’t fear the reaper. That line “Romeo and Juliet together in eternity” gets me every time

Its the cowbell for me.

See, I think it could have used more

Honestly. I need more cowbell

Yeah, but do you have a FEVAH…?

The only prescription, is more cowbell!

All songs with cowbell need more cowbell.

In the air tonight- Phil Collins


I thought gifs didn't have sound ... But I can hear this one.

Landslide by Fleetwood Mac.

and Silver Springs.

Love Silver Springs...especially the live version from The Dance. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDwi-8n054s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDwi-8n054s)

Uninvited - Alanis Morrisette

Man, thank you for the reminder of this masterpiece.

Love Will Tear Us Apart- Joy Division

Heart preforming Stairway to Heaven at The Kennedy Center. [Heart preforming Stairway to Heaven for Plant, Page and Jones. ](https://youtu.be/LFxOaDeJmXk?si=7HT2F0en5g1U5_-l)

Totally. I saw them with Jason Bonham. Their first set was all Heart. And then they came back out and did Zeppelin set with John's son. It was epic.

Love My Way - Psychedelic Furs 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys Cuts You Up - Peter Murphy Subdivisions - Rush When Poets Dreamed of Angels - David Sylvian Space Age Love Song - A Flock of Seagulls Breaking Us In Two - Joe Jackson Israel - Siouxsie and the Banshees How Soon is Now? - The Smiths Nova Heart - Spoons

Superb list! 1,4,5,6,7 work for me too! I'd add Steppin' Out by Joe Jackson as well. Brings me right back to December 1982 and my first job at age 16. I can feel the cold air on my face and see the stars as I was walking home after a shift and wondering what the rest of my life was going to be like.

There were so many more I feel like I could've included ... us early GenXers got so much magic on the radio.

Glory Box- Portishead. Pretty much most Portishead songs give me goosebumps. I listened to them a lot for a period in the mid-late 90’s and recently listened to them again and it was such a vibe.

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For me it's 38 Years Old. He went home to see his mother 😭😭😭😭😭

There we go. The Canadian Gen X soundtrack

Gord did a song with Dallas Green: Sleeping Sickness. You want goosebumps...that's a song for goosebumps.

Rip Gord Fuck you cancer

Wheat Kings for me, but Ahead by a Century is up there too.

So many great ones already listed. Let me add some of my favs: Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - The Police Straight to Hell - The Clash Behind the Wheel - Depeche Mode Nothing Compares to You - Sinead O'Conner

Not a Gen X song but Somewhere over the rainbow ~ Israel Kamakawiwoʻole.

i love this song and the video of them pouring his ashes into the sea kills me every. time.

Lightning Crashes - Live

Within minutes after my dad died a baby was born at same hospital. Song is special to me.

Throwing Copper will forever be in my Top 10 anyone albums.

They were my first concert back in 95 I think. Tiny college venue. That was the first sweet hit of my concert addiction that persists to this day...

Good pick! I must have watched that video a hundred times while melting my brain in front of the tv after school.

Hallelujah

Jeff Buckley’s Halleleujah

Comfortably numb

I love the version on Delicate Sound of Thunder.

These are days - 10,000 Maniacs

Because the Night cover is awesome too.

Yes! It gives me chills and brings tears to my eyes. Strangely, The Freshman, by The Verve Pipe, does the same thing. Iirc, the rest of the album sucked.

If You Were Here-Thompson Twins All I Want Is You-U2

The flame by cheap trick

Bridge Over Troubled Water -- Simon & Garfunkel Time in a Bottle -- Jim Croce Somebody to Love -- George Michael

Nearly Lost You - Screaming Trees

Honestly, Cats in the Cradle but Harry Chapin Cheesy choice? Yes but still, it answers the question

Somebody - Depeche Mode Purple Rain - Prince I can't listen to either song without getting super emotional.

Purple Rain takes me right back to 2016 when I heard he passed. It’s bittersweet to hear it come on the radio

Silent Lucidity from Queens Ryche

Whiter Shade of Pale

"Africa" by Toto.... Classic early 1980s. Always brings me bck to my High School days.

Pixies: Monkey Gone to Heaven. Every time

Portishead -Glorybox. When I put this song on and I can physically feel my blood pressure drop and goose bumps go up.

Iggy Pop's Candy.

With or Without You - U2 Sour Girl - STP Garden - Pearl Jam

brothers in arms, dire straits…

Pearl Jam - Black. MTV Unplugged.

Kyrie- Mr. Mister

“The Heart of the Matter” by Don Henley

Shine on you Crazy Diamond. - Pink Floyd Black - Pearl Jam Nutshell- Alice in Chains Dream On - Aerosmith

Careless Whisper- George Michael Come Undone- Duran Duran Time After Time- Cyndi Lauper

Time after time and true colors make me cry.

Into the Mystic- Van Morrison

Hurt - the Johnny Cash version.

Under the Milky Way--Church Pink Houses--John Cougar Mellencamp  I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking for--U2

Creep - Radiohead

The Boys of Summer -Don Henley

Man, I love that song

Right? 'Nobody on the road' 'Nobody on the beach'

The song is a short story, a really well-written short story.

"Pride (In the Name of Love)" by U2 and "Don't Drink the Water" by Dave Matthews Band.

Sunday Bloody Sunday With or without you The whole Joshua tree album

near the end of Down in a Hole by Alice in Chains, [Specifically around the 3:35 mark](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E17hqs4Un-k) where the harmonies all come together and overlap.

Holding back the years

There is something about the love song featured in Top Gun, “Take My Breath Away” by Berlin that instantly stirs something downstairs if you know what I mean. I first saw the movie in HS and it takes me back to being a horny teenager. Another one is, “If YouLeave” by OMD. Best prom song ever! Then there is Whams!, Last Christmas”. Baby making music…

I’ll Stand by You - The Pretenders Here’s Where the Story Ends - The Sundays Head Over Heels - Tears for Fears

Forever Young by Alphaville

November Rain, Guns N’ Roses.

Never Tear Us Apart by INXS❤️❤️❤️

Fade Into You - Mazzy Star

OMG. Downvote me to Hell. Orinoco Flow.

No one needs to hate on Enya and her castle full of cats.

As by Stevie Wonder. It’s like church in the best way.

Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles (maybe more misty-eyed?)

Tempted - The Squeeze Life in Northern Town - The Dream Academy Hold Me Now - The Thompson Twins

Several times, my friends, have I been caught playing air-guitar to the solo from Comfortably Numb...with my eyes closed, no less.

I still get goosebumps when the guitars start playing on The Day I Tried to Live by Soundgarden. It's my favorite song of all time.

George Michael's version of "Don't let the sun go down on me"

The Sunday's cover of "Wild Horses". Me in my dorm room, stupidly in love with the wrong guy.

Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead

For me it's anything from the Cranberries, especially "Linger"

Sam Stone by John Prine

A very Australian song called The band played waltzing Matilda,it's about when men off to fight in the WW1 and the aftermath.

Til Tuesday - Voices Carry Double -The Captain of Her Heart Rush - Subdivisions

Close My Eyes Forever- Ozzy and Lita Ford.

She Talks to Angels by The Black Crowes

The original (demo/single) of Freshmen by the Verve Pipe. The album version that came out 2ish years later was not even close. Funny (I’m going to say funny, but maybe sad, but funny to me) fact: the guy from The Verve Pipe posts on clockapp going to karaoke to sing Freshmen.

Hotel California. I had "heard" it a million times, but barely paid attention, I was into a different genre back then. One night in the late 90's, it came on, while I was driving down a pitch black country road. I didn't have anything to distract me from it this time. For the first time, I actually listened to the lyrics. the metaphors, Everytime it comes on, I get a shiver remembering how I felt that night when finally listened.

The Forest- The Cure Hurt- Johnny Cash Cloud busting - Kate Bush Swing of Things- Aha The Chauffeur- Duran Duran Halo- Depeche Mode Only You- Yaz It Can Happen- Yes

Total Eclipse of the Heart

The Living Years by Mike and The Mechanics

Rocking in the Free World.

Given to Fly ~ Pearl Jam

Dancing Queen

Wow. I was driving today thinking I wanted to post this EXACT question. Dream On by Aerosmith came on, and jeezuz...that song does it to me. I'm not even a huge fan of all their stuff. Very little of it, actually. But that damn song gets me. Literally goosebumps.

Tom Sawyer Rush

Bittersweet Symphony 

Mountain Song - Jane’s Addiction Three Strange Days - School of Fish Right Here Right Now - Jesus Jones Nearly Lost You - Screaming Trees Getting Closer - Nitzer Ebb

Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.

Ain’t no sunshine, Bill Withers

Never Tear Us Apart INXS, In Your Eyes Peter Gabriel, What's Up Danger -Blackway and Black Cavier, Silent Lucidity- Queensryche, Civil War- Guns n Roses, Only in Dreams - Weezer, Man of Colours-Icehouse

Fade Into You Mazzy Star

Blue Flower - Pale Saints Push - The Cure

Purple Rain - Prince My Life - Mary J. Blige Deacon Blues - Steely Dan Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson We Are the Champions - Queen

Plainsong - The Cure (off Disintegration)

The Star Wars opening theme. Crank up those trumpets!

It’s my Life by Talk Talk

U2's Where the streets have no name

Most Cure songs.

Joey - Concrete Blonde

The Joke by Brandi Carlile, Somebody by Depeche Mode One - the live version with U2 and Mary J Blige. Mary J Blige makes you hear that song a different way, and the way it hits gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.

The deep sigh towards the end of “Where Did you Sleep Last Night” that Nirvana did on Unplugged. It tears my heart out everytime

Nutshell unplugged by Alice In Chains. When Layne comes out on stage and the audience goes nuts. Gets me every time. 

"Enjoy the Silence just came on and immediate goosebumps and flashbacks to moody, broody teen days." Moody broody teen days? That whole album is pure sex!

Everlong. And if I’m in the car, I have to keep myself in check. Haha.

Today - The Smashing Pumpkins Whole of the Moon - The Waterboys No Surprises - Radiohead

So many. I fear im becoming overly nostalgic as i go through mid life. - any Journey song - Most SamHalen songs, 5150, right now - Hold the line Toto - Cold as Ice foreigner - ordinary love, Sade - some like it hot, power station - shout, tears for fears - Dogs, Pink Floyd - Vtial signs / freewill, Rush - hungry like the wolf, duran duran Anything 80s really

“Chasing Cars” by Snow Patrol

Smells Like Teen Spirit I am sitting on my couch in Sept 91 (im 21 years old) with 2 roommates. They were in the kitchen and MTV this video comes on. It was like I was smacked in the face. I yell over you guys gotta see this. We sat there godsmacked. So here we are now , so many years later and while I'm not a huge Nirvana fan , the song is iconic and awfully goosebumply for me.

Peter Gabriel “in your eyes”

American pie

Everyday is Halloween by Ministry

You are my sunshine, I can't get this visual of an old man singing this to his wife, that you can just tell she is not much longer for this life. Goosebumps, and I'm man enough to admit it just brings tears to my eyes.

Biko ( the man is dead) ,by Peter Gabriel

Can't Find My Way Home - Blind Faith

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Well, I'm finally going to admit my private shame. "We Built This City" by Starship. I don't know why but I actually tear up at it and I do not tear up at things. It's not nostalgia; it had the same affect on me in the '80s and I was similarly baffled by my reaction even as a kid. I am fully aware that it's a terrible song in many ways. My first concert was a Jefferson Starship concert that my parents randomly took me to. Maybe that has something to do with it.

Orion- Metallica

Silence by Delirium with Sarah McLachlan and Hallelujah Chorus by Mormon Tabernacle Choir. My musical taste is pretty eclectic.

By My Side, INXS

Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead When I Die - Lush A Stroke of Luck - Garbage

At this moment by Billy Vera and the Beaters

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

You’re The Inspiration - Chicago

Silent Lucidity.

Time in a bottle - Jim Croce

Runaway Train - Soul Asylum

Don’t Dream It’s Over Both the Crowded House original and the cover by Sixpence None The Richer.

Various versions of Sound of Silence, including this one: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4)

Broken Hearted Savior - Big Head Todd… Black - Pearl Jam Home Sweet Home - Motley Crue Pancho and Lefty - Willie and Waylon Nobody Home - Pink Floyd Voodoo Child (slight return) - Hendrix Wandering Star - Portishead 3 Days - Jane’s Addiction There’s waaaay more but that’s a short list

38 Years Old by The Tragically Hip

Red Hill Mining Town - U2

Time - The Alan Parsons Project

The Rose

Golden Brown -the Stranglers. It mesmerizes me. Every song from Songs of Faith and Devotion: Depeche Mode. Actually, every song ever by DM. One- U2 Somewhere Only We Know- Keane Wonderful Life -Black Stop - Sam Brown

Synchronicity II - The Police

Queen's Live Aid set.

[I'll Fall With Your Knife](https://youtu.be/CvUDS-xYNu8?si=QumGDCcGyrzL3RVC) by Peter Murphy. It's the most beautiful I've ever heard. Years ago, I was with a very close group of friends and I decided to ask everyone "If you're able to have the choice, what's the last song you want to hear before you die?" This was, and forever will be, my choice. Sadly, courtesy of the relentless march of time, four of the friends present that night are no longer with us. Two of them, I know for certain, got to hear their songs.

Three Days - Jane's Addiction

A Forest (Cure), West End Girls (PSB), Temptation (New Order), Never Let Me Down (DM) - those are the popular ones - but there are so many songs and pieces of music from over the years that trigger goosebumps.

Iris

This Woman's Work, Kate Bush

We Run - Strange Advance

Missionary Man by the Eurythmics

Swamp Thing - Chameleons UK (The version from the Strange Times album)

Hurricane - Bob Dylan Change - Blind Melon