Favourite Manic Song Goosebumps?

[EmptySoul]

4st 7lb from 3:20 onwards. Simply astounding! Perfect combination of poetry and music.

[Bobafettish]

I suppose the one time I really had manics goosebumps to the point of tears was when they played Solitude Sometimes Is in Wolverhampton 2011. I love the song, and hadn't seen any setlist spoilers so had no idea it was coming and I was just over the moon. I never thought I'd see it really.

[sim]

Originally Posted by Bobafettish

I suppose the one time I really had manics goosebumps to the point of tears was when they played Solitude Sometimes Is in Wolverhampton 2011. I love the song, and hadn't seen any setlist spoilers so had no idea it was coming and I was just over the moon. I never thought I'd see it really.

That was a highlight for me too. I never expected it, so it just hit me.

[Marat Sar]

Ooh! Good thread! There are so many:

The opening chords and the ending a cappellas of If You Tolerate This. (Someone here said the world stops when Tolerate begins. I agree. It remains suspended when it ends too.)

"Most bands have no respect for us at all" in Askew Road
(Tragic, warm like tears on a cheek)

"So drop your bombs on all I see..." in Solitude Sometimes Is.
(The whole verse and then the chorus too. A rapturous, glorious, poetic high-note, expertly built towards)

"Only sixteen years of age, he said" in 1985
(Really drives home that feeling of lost youth in a yearning, boyish detail.)

"Love built around the sandy beaches..." in The Love of Richard Nixon
(Some ominous, warm, otherworldy shit right there.)

"Maybe at the time it felt like dreaming" in All Feeling No Surface
(Positively stratospheric. Just unbelievable HIGH)

"I want the world to see all the love and security, my childhood dreams" in Rewind The Film
(It's almost not fair. No other singer and no other band would get away with that stuff, but James just fucks EVERYTHING up with that line.)

"I will bring the whole edifice down on their unworthy heads" in Ready For Drowning
(Just fury, somehow lends devine justice to the listener. Also, one of the best lines in any movie.)

"Sun breaks and cloudbursts" in Door To The River
(Simply astonishing)

[UEF]

"A situationist sisterhood of Jackie and Joan
Separates us the questions without a home"

Delivered like a jet engine taking off. Awesome.

[hummingbird]

Obvious, and i've tried to think of different songs but nothing gave me goosebumps more than hearing *libraries gave us power, Then work came and made us free* for the first time.

Still get them if i haven't heard the song for a long time

[scoperboy]

I agree with all the above. Also My Guernica when James answers the phone (ring ring, ring ring....'ello) and the massive outro that follows

[Suicide Aldi]

Originally Posted by UEF

"A situationist sisterhood of Jackie and Joan
Separates us the questions without a home"

Delivered like a jet engine taking off. Awesome.

Yes!! I love that bit!

[circle-the-wagons]

this from the whole build up from 2:42 but in particular from 3:02 to 3:09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H26o68ZqA8

i was listening to it on my headphones in bed and it just hit me..JDBs tour de force voice and the way he holds it and keeps it going is phenomenal!!!

[Borderliner]

Awww .... Midnight Sun is so beautiful. Especially when guitar solo begins and I love these lines

It all ends where it all began
In the shadow of the midnight sun


And this one:

Time keeps us beneath, while autumn sheds its leaves

[Lancashire Potter]

Methadone Pretty, especially the "gonna stay a ..." part
Archives Of Pain, the unexpected beautiful "a drained white body ..." part
LBAL - "I don't wanna be a man"
And the best one: the break in I'm Just A Patsy with the sample
"crucifixion is the easy life" in Doors Closing Slowly

[Donkey]

Originally Posted by Symmanine

ia

When the strings in This Joke Sport Severed comes in

THIS. LIVE. IN ROUNDHOUSE MAY 2009.

[Donkey]

Originally Posted by Lancashire Potter

"crucifixion is the easy life" in Doors Closing Slowly

this also. The whole chorus.

The shadow is the cross okkkkkkkkk
the judgement must be willing todayyyy (aaaaawww)
silence is not sacrifice (I prefer the live shorter version)
crucifixion is the.....easy life.

genius

[Donkey]

Originally Posted by AK47

I was listening to Be Natural earlier and when James launches into the second verse, the hairs stood up on the back of my neck and I had a lovely warm feeling. It was momentary but awesome.

What manics songs and bits give you that same feeling?

The bit specificly was Starbright keep me safe, today and tonight
No water tastes like lemonade
Slowly slowly it starts to fade

no offence, but what you call second verse I'd call first chorus

no wonder we have so different opinions then. ;-)

[1982]

SYMM

Especially the solo part from 4:20 to 5:15. My favourite guitar solo by JDB and it fits into the song perfectly.