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https://www.futilitycloset.com/2019/04/11/spine-tinglers/ In a 2009 study of responses to music, neuroscientist Valorie Salimpoor and her colleagues asked participants to bring in 3 to 5 pieces of “intensely pleasurable instrumental music to which they experience chills.” Then they measured their physiological response as they listened. They found that the “chills” effect is real — when the subjects reported that their pleasure at the music was highest, so was their sympathetic nervous system activity, a measure of emotional arousal.

One byproduct of the study is a list of more than 200 chills-inducing moments in music of various genres, with precise timestamps of the crucial points:
Composer/Artist Title Chills

Beethoven 		Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor (“The Tempest”) 5:33
MahlerSymphony No. 1 – Movement 4 5:42, 9:57, 15:15
Charles Mingus Fables of Faubus 0:20, 7:10

Stan Getz 		Round Midnight 1:26

Pink Floyd 		Shine on You Crazy Diamond 5:00

Phish 		You Enjoy Myself 10:50

Cannonball Adderley 		One for Daddy-O 0:40

Los Angeles Guitar Quartet 		Congan 2:09

Crowfoot 		Larks in May 0:10, 2:00

Howard Shore 		The Breaking of the Fellowship (film score) 0:10, 0:55

Dave Matthews Band 		#34 1:40

The Dissociatives 		Paris Circa 2007 Slash 08 1:30

Brad Mehldau 		Knives Out 4:45, 7:25

Explosions in the Sky 		First Breath After Coma 2:25, 3:30, 8:10


The full list is here (Table_S1). (Note too that the timestamps relate to a particular recording, so consider them approximate in e.g. classical music.)

(Valorie N. Salimpoor, et al., “The Rewarding Aspects of Music Listening Are Related to Degree of Emotional Arousal,” PloS One 4:10 [2009], e7487.)
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I kind of thought the research project might have been to rate the relative intensity of the rush for a top ten spine tinglers

full list - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/435833 you'll know a few
 
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I've been skeptical of this phenomenon for a while now. seems like a very superficial response to music. Woebot posted some study on his blog where the researcher was bragging about being able to get chills like 20 times in a song or something--and obviously this wasn't a guy who was all that into music. which to me says it all.

pacing your room in a state of amazement >>>> "chills"
 
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mvuent said:
... the researcher was bragging about being able to get chills like 20 times in a song or something--and obviously this wasn't a guy who was all that into music
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You mean he experienced chills himself or that he could come up with a piece of music that would trigger chills in other people?
 
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It won't be long before someone cracks the pattern for triggering them tbh, the musical equivalent of ASMR.
 
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A pop song mapped to the human brain, specific trigger points littered throughout. You could do it with audiobooks too.
 
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I remember reading a Reddit thread on who the worst fans to deal with when working at an outdoor festival/concert are and more than one person brought up Dave Matthews Band.
 
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