jackmlt wrote:Let's talk about your top goosebumps songs?
Many years ago, I was given a VHS tape of Harry Chapin's final concert in Hamilton, Ontario; he was killed on his way home from that performance. I had never seen - maybe I hadn't even heard of - him before, but I was sleepless one night and decided to put it in the player. I was enthralled; I would play a song, then rewind it, turn the volume up, and play it again. From "Cat's in the Cradle" to "Taxi", to the lesser-known (but even better, in my opinion) "Remember When the Music", 'I want to Learn a Love Song", and, my personal favorite, "A Better Place to Be"... I was up for hours. Literally, I was up until dawn - with goosebumps.
I have since really enjoyed other great songs - many, like Dan Fogelberg's "Same Old Lang Syne" and the impeccable "Leader of the Band" - are more than songs; they are stories of a life. I started to see a pattern in my tastes. And they all were great.
But one other stands out. The one song I can't ever get over; the one song I can't get enough of; the one song I have demanded be played at my funeral... K.D. Lang's haunting rendition of Hallelujah. Her iconic version from the Canadian Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, with Leonard Cohen himself in the audience is fantastic, but I think her more distinctive, emotional version from the Juno Awards is even better. Like those Chapin songs, I have to back up, turn the volume up, and play it again - over and over. I never fail to get goosebumps. I can't imagine anyone failing to get goosebumps.
Listen. Then tell me I am wrong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NpxTWbovE