Singers that give you goosebumps

[graz126]

the portishead lady.

 

[Dover]

Maybe I'm Amazed. Paul McCartney
Moments That I Have. Kate Bush (Yes. This makes me cry.)
Shipbuilding. Suede
How Long. Ace (Paul Carrack)
Tempted. Squeeze (Paul Carrack)
Ain't No Love In The Heat Of The City. David Coverdale.
Psycobabble. Alan Parsons Project.

 

[SussexSpur]

Maybe I'm Amazed, very underrated song.
Will respectfully pass on the rest (though love Kate Bush's second effort at Wuthering Heights and Tempted is a decent song).

Prefer the backwards version of Maybe I'm Amazed, though, and the excellent recipe for lentil soup. . .

 

[bhaexpress]

Should have mentioned this before.

Johnny Cash - Hurt, a stunning song and video well worthy of the Grammy it won.

 

[El Presidente]

Kurt Cobain on the Unplugged "Jesus don't want me for a sunbeam", prophetic and haunting

 

[k_m]

Anything to do wiv Hip hop. rnb or drum n base so anything really expcet all them oldies

 

[Meade's Ball]

Should have mentioned this before.

Johnny Cash - Hurt, a stunning song and video well worthy of the Grammy it won.

You're very right. I watched it again last week and my insides took an unworldly turn.

 

[Faldo]

Yep - the portishead leady (whose name escapes me) is also very very good.

mmmm ...... alison goldfrapp ........... *drool*

I'm a bit disappointed by some of the names on here - Bryan Adams? Daniel Bed-ridden-field?

 

[bhaexpress]

You're very right. I watched it again last week and my insides took an unworldly turn.

I'm no big Cash fan as he was really Country but he was an interesting man. Hurt was almost biographical even though it's a Nine Inch Nails tune. Cash did several reworkings of modern songs that were light years away from country.

I first heard this about a year ago in Canada and was staggered by how moving it was.

 

[Meade's Ball]

I'm no big Cash fan as he was really Country but he was an interesting man. Hurt was almost biographical even though it's a Nine Inch Nails tune. Cash did several reworkings of modern songs that were light years away from country.

I first heard this about a year ago in Canada and was staggered by how moving it was.

It's a cracking tune.
If you haven't already, listen to his version of I See A Darkness with Bonnie Prince Billie.

 

[Storer68]

Just about anything by Nanci Griffith (except that now overplayed and overdone From a Distance)
Olivia Newton-John - Magic ((just after the instrumental middle eight she does this recessed kind of ahhhhhhhhhhhhh to bring the vocals back in - takes mestraight back to half way up the Droveway on the way home from school)

Lisa Della Casa singing Rickard Strauss' Four Last Songs (gorgeous voice)

 

[On the Left Wing]

Have you heard the Johnny Cash version of 'One' Sam?

Johnny Cash's The Hurt (from his last album) brings tears to the eyes ... very very moving

 

[bhafc99]

Yep - the portishead leady (whose name escapes me) is also very very good.

That's Beth Gibbons.


I'd add (links provide audio samples):

Mary Margaret o'Hara. Miss America - one stunning album, then nothing.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...05055/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_2_1/026-7324123-0240463

Jonsi from Sigur Ros, especially on Svefn-g-englar
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...5143/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_11_2/026-7324123-0240463

Kristin Hersh, from the early days of Throwing Muses (try Hate My Way)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...238/sr=1-15/ref=sr_1_2_15/026-7324123-0240463

This Mortal Coil's version of Big Star's Kangaroo (can't remember who sings it - Dominic somebody).
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...4954/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_11_1/026-7324123-0240463

And the Tanya Donelly/Kim Deal duet of You and Your Sister, done for This Mortal Coil too. (Sadly no sample...)

Some but not all of Jane Siberry, especially Calling All Angels with kd lang and Love is Everything.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...5355/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_11_2/026-7324123-0240463

Gerard Langley (think he was the singer, can't be sure now!) from The Blue Aeroplanes. (Especially Your Ages from Swagger, sorry no sample).

Mark Mulcahy, Fathering. (Sorry no sample).

Dean Wareham, of Galaxie 500, Luna, Cagnee & Lacey and Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips. The guy can't really sing, especially on much of Galaxie 500's stuff, but his voice is great.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...5631/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_11_3/026-7324123-0240463

Robert Forster of The Go-Betweens. (Try Quiet Heart, I think that was him not Grant McLennan...!)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...5688/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_11_2/026-7324123-0240463

Margo Timmins of The Cowboy Junkies, particularly on The Trinity Session. (Sorry, no sample).

Harriet Wheeler of The Sundays. (Sorry, no sample).

Bjork, but ONLY when she sang with The Sugarcubes on their first album, especially Birthday and Delicious Demon. Gone right off her since mind. (Sorry, no sample).


That'll do. I could go on forever really....

 

[Barnet Seagull]

harriet wheeler

top shout

The Sundays were/are? great

 

[SK1NT]

seal- kiss from a rose
fleet wood mac - tell me lies
kate bush - wuthering heights
lionel richie - hello

 

[bhaexpress]

That Portishead woman is Beth Gibbons.

 

[Jason Speaks]

Carole King - Will you still love me tomorrow?

Pete Hamm - Without you.

Maxi Jazz - Insomnia

 

[Wienergull]

Have you heard the Johnny Cash version of 'One' Sam?

I think this version is absolutely incredible, as it strips the song down to its emotional core and, incidentally, reveals that there is probably a fine songwriter lurking under U2’s customary bombast after all. Sorry, I have a prejudice about U2's (in particular Bono's) overblown style.

Other spinetinglers that I forgot to mention yesterday are:

Aaron Neville - Tell like it is
Lucinda Williams - Right in Time - sensual or what

 

[Lush]

Can't believe no-one has mentioned Liz Fraser of The Cocteau Twins yet.

 

[Storer68]

song from the siren is a fantastic song - god knows what's it about