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Schweiz (Deutsch)It Gave Me Chills...
It Gave Me Chills...
Posted: Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 19:48
There have been similar topics as of late... This is a different spin.
What is a moment you've had with the Avetts that gave you chills, or "rattled your cage"? It can be a moment at a show, a song lyric, or anything as subtle as a look...
The one moment that stands out for me is on the recording of "Bella Donna" on the Second Gleam.
After the line that ends "...did I help when I was kissing you?"... After that line, there's a slight pause then if you listen carefully you can hear Seth exhale...
To me, this breate encapuslates the emotion and true feelings behind the song...
I still get chills everytime that part comes up and I've listens to that song hundreds of times...
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I wanted to come up with something like this as well, but couldn't find a catchy name, so nice job!
The moment I got chills was when I saw them for the first time (11/08). I went with my husband to be nice because he wanted to see them. Well, that show was nothing like any show I've ever been too! The energy and emotion behind every song they sang was crazy! The setlist was amazing and I could just continue, but I'll end with they are the only band/music I have listened to since that night. Their music is amazing and I'm totally hooked! Can't wait to see them in Philly with a totally different perspective!
i get chills all the time with their songs and shows because i feel like they wrote the songs bast off my life some time.
i almost choked up when i heard murder in the city during the show in greensboro on 10/07. that was the first time i heard it and it was great.
oh man in chattanooga last weekend seth played the ballad of love and hate solo
it was, in a word, GORGEOUS. it was even better than on the album. his voice is so clear and beautiful and controlled. its on youtube i think but a friend told me it isn't as good as it was in person. still worth a look though.
Many, many times, but one of the most memorable was after the concert on the first time I saw them in Dewey Beach, DE. I had only been listening to them for a couple of months and only had two CDs. A Carolina Jubilee and Emotionalism, so there were a lot of songs played that night that I didn't know. Three stood out immediately....Murder In The City, Laundry Room, and Tear Down The House. I told my daughter who was with me that I had to find out what album they were on.
Anyway, I bought Mignonette that night and popped it in the CD player immediately. When I heard Swept Away, I had chills and got very emotional because I was just blown away by the fact that they were just so great. I was thinking.....just how many great albums can one band have???? The other two weren't flukes. These guys are the best thing I have ever run across. It was like a spiritual kind of experience almost. We listened to the first 4-5 songs over and over the whole way home. Blown away. Total music/Avett high.
I was in awe. Period.
First time I ever listened to "If its the beaches." That climax just really gave me chills, and it still does.
The first few times I heard "Murder In The City" (all live) I cried. I've had too many spiritual moments at TAB shows to count. I always say that music is to me what religion is to others & TAB are definitely the high priests of my religion.
I was at the Chattanooga show too... When he started singing that song my eyes welled up... I didn't expect to see that song live, and it was gorgeous. I'm with you guys on Bella Donna and If It's the Beaches too. They put so much emotion into the songs.
I agree with Stirred, it's very hard to single out a particular moment. But there is a youtube video that I think Chris took of Smoke in Our Lights sometime last year that gives me chills every single time I watch it (and I watch it on a daily basis). The "back and forth sway of the hammock all day..." verse brought me to tears the first couple of times I watched it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwhHUSiaRsw
this is the video, watch at about 3:30, it'll blow you away
thanks lily gal
I agree with WCUavetthead. The first time I hear 'If it's the Beaches" I was speechless. I have probably listened to that song a million times.. and it still has the same impact every time.
Most recently I got chills/teared up when Scott sang "Make sure my daughter knows I loved her" during "Murder in the City" at the Danville show. I don't have kids myself, but it hit me hard for some reason. It was a certainly a beautiful moment.
Yeah he did that in Chattanooga too. It was so very sweet and, it made me sigh and smile.
what gives me the chills is in the greatest sum (electric) when all the music stops and its just scott singing and the kick drum. "No count of gold placed in my hands, the largest find, the greatest sum. Though some would say it'll ease their pain. we both know it can't be done." i repeat that line at least 4 more times when i listen to the song.
Personal Moment...
At the Chattanooga show, they played a new song I'd never heard before as the first encore song. It started, "Money won't do the trick.....but it will help." The frank lyrics grabbed my attention and I was mesmerized.
And then he sang the chorus
"I've never been alive
I've never been alive..."
The words and the cello sounded melancholy. While I listened, I reflected on recent turmoil and decisions in my life. I pondered my frustration that so far I haven't achieved the things I've wanted for myself, and new efforts I've made recently to do so which have often been misses.
"I've never been alive.............like I am now."
I literally got chills. The words struck me deeply....I've never been so alive as I am in turmoil, in these moments where new efforts are made, passes and fails.
A simple thought, but related to me in a very real way!
I always get chills when I hear "always remember there was nothing worth sharing like the love that let us share our name" in Murder in the City, then always during pretty girl at the airport, pretty girl from annapolis and november blue
also..the weight of lies
I have to agree with hgevans.....everytime i hear murder in the city somthing happens to me.....i turn into a little 8 year old girl........one time i was sittin in my Cube at work and a co-worker looked over askin what was wrong with me......i told him..."nothin...just great music" LOL......DAmn....i guess my face told a story i wasn't aware of at work that day.....
i was at the Chattanooga show as well.....the Live performance from that song and The ballad of Love and Hate were both great...learned both on the guitar......freakin love em
after i heard laundry room's "Teach me how to use the love they say you make" did the same thing for me......Wow.....such great lyricist
I agree-their lyrics are so touching and profound! Everytime I listen to them I hear something else in their music that speaks to me
April, 2007 when Scott played Murdered in the City by himslef in Louisville. I have never heard that song and it really touched me.
loolie.bell, that was lovely.
This is a great thread!
The first time I saw them was an afternoon in-store. They had me at "And I gave to you my ugly brown coat, You made it pretty when you put it on."
We saw them do a full show later that night. When they sang, "So if ever someone says to you, Life isn't fair, get used to it, Then you should say, Well it might be If folks like you would let it be", the crowd was singing along. The record had only been out a couple of weeks, but the everyone there seemed to know all the words. I knew something special was going on.
I guess about a year ago a guy I work with brought in Live Vol 2.As soon as I heard Pretty Girl From Annapolis I was hooked.The next day I went out and bought Four Thieves Gone.I was driving along listening in my van with my 2 little girls and just amazed that I had not heard of these guys earlier.I mean every song was so good.Then came track 13 Famous Flower of Manhattan.I was so moved I had to pull over to give the song my full attention. My 6 year old asked me,daddy what song is this,I really like this song daddy.I told her this was a song from daddy's new favorite band.And now every time we go anywhere together the first thing out of her mouth is play the flower song daddy.
These are fantastic stories... just what I wanted out of this thread.
Keep 'em comin'...
"If It's The Beaches" has a definite place in my heart...
"Smoke in Our Lights" at the Dunn Center in Rocky Mt, NC. Rumor is that one girl had an orgasm. I'm not kidding about that. If anyone has the video or has the audio...you can hear when it happens. People who were there can back me up on that one. I only got chills.
The first time I saw them in Oct. 2007... I... I'm pretty sure I had goose bumps the whole time! The encore, though... it seemed like everyone at the show was crying to "If It's the Beaches"
The next time I distinctly remember getting chills was at Soul Kitchen in Mobile, summer '08. It was "Murdered in the City" and I had just visited my family for the first time in months. I guess I don't have to explain the emotions I felt...
I've never heard a band that uses emotion the way do... it's in every song and every word...
Lamar... are you serious????? HAHAHAHA!!!!
so many!
but two early ones are Pretty Girl at the Airport always catches me, that sense of loneness, of leaving, of something/one missing, even sometimes when you have someone to try and fight the lonesome with.
and the last verses in Me and God, well I love the whole song, but i think it really speaks to faith, how so many of us are just hurting bad and afraid, and just looking for some hope, and how we can be so thankful and so doubtful all at the same time, but how even in the midst of that doubt, there's a relationship going on with something good unseen. beautiful.
but yeah, like Gooseneckin said, the emotions are in each word, absolutely soaked in feeling.
Lamar. That made me laugh out loud. Great last line to the story.
trying to think of an answer to this question make me dizzy. I can't even begin to list them, so I'll just talk about the first time:
A live performance of November Blue on youtube...NYC maybe?
it starts out Scott solo, then Seth joins in harmonizing on "...if I had a job now..." sent chills up my spine.
All I could think was "unf-ingbelievable!!!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOCGg21sgsU&feature=related
Edit: Merlefest 2008...not NYC. (that's what happens when I post late at night...)
Hearing Laundry Room for the first time (at my first TAB concert) in Urbana, IL on 9/7/08. Well, the entire concert was amazing...but it was that song in particular that completely blew me away and yes, "gave me chills."
to all ballad of love and hate lovers...
check this out...
in HD!
http://www.vimeo.com/2666925
best version I've seen (having never seen it live)
My latest one was hearing the boys play "I And Love And You" for the first time on New Year's Eve...
"What you were then I am today..."
connects with my life on so many levels...
For me it was the Indy show and "Murder in the City". My brother recently moved to Portland from the Indy area and I miss him like crazy. I stood there and balled my eyes out on the floor of The Vogue. That songs just rips my heart out! I'm getting choked up right now.
At Lincoln Theater, when Joe Kwan had just started playing with the band, not yet an official "member" - Scott had him come up in the middle of a extended version of "If It's the Beaches" and break in with the Cello while Seth kept the acoustic rhythm going.
It was truly beautiful, holds special meaning to me because it's my wife's favorite song by the TAB.
The first time I saw or even heard the Avett Brothers was at Rock the Block in Winston-Salem. It was a free event, I randomly was home from college and my girlfriend (now wife) told me we should check out Rock the Block for the night. My friends had been telling me about the Avett Brothers, but I never listened to them.
Anyways, I had been depressed for some time. I had been seeking help and stuff, but life was just heavy. The boys started playing Left on Laura, Left on Lisa and when they sang, "Knowbody knows it but I am so sad...and that is the saddest of all my friend..." it really hit me like a ton of bricks and I was fairly emotional.
However, I was really comforted by the line "The sky trades the moon for the sun." It gave me hope. It made me realize that I was just going through a season in my life and that everything will be alright.
Although the context of the song was completely unrelated to what I was going through, it really struck a chord in me.
Yeah. I absolutely experienced Left on Laura, Left on Lisa the same way, lockwesmonster. Every verse strikes chord after chord....to me it's an anthem. It's the song I sing when I just wanna sing my heart out out. haha
Thanks Addicted for posting the link.
http://www.vimeo.com/2666925
I get chills at the part "As soon as he sees her, Hope Fills Her Eyes!"
Thats so good.
"I get chills at the part "As soon as he sees her, Hope Fills Her Eyes!""
Even thinking about that part I get all twisty and achey inside. His live version is really just so stunning.
There is no way for me to pick one song either. Truly almost every song does this for me in one way or another which is why I sometimes have to pinch myself in amazement that they exist. I am getting chills reading others' descriptions though!
i get chills every time i listen to laser pants
"You're the smoke in our lights as we sped away
To catch the moonlight on the grave"
Gets me everytime.
henderson- i agree.
"sittin' in my lazyboy wearin' all my laser pants. looked over to my closet, took a laser glance. yeah."
laser tears... every time.
I love this thread. Both of these lyrics are chill-inducing. (Actually the entire lyrics of both songs.)
...you took my hand and held it up and shot my arm full of love....
..tonight I burned they lyrics, 'cause every chorus was your name...
The first time I heard "Murder in the City." It was live, and came out of left field for me... hadn't even heard the title at that point (Atlanta, GA show... Variety Playhouse I think? March 2007 I guess?).
I took my sister, her husband, and my college roommate to the show. They all had not seen them up to that point, and the show did not disappoint. A couple got engaged after "Swept Away," I heard "November Blue" for the first time live, etc. I was on cloud nine.
Then Scott came out and the audience was awesomely quiet as he sang. No one cheered at the beginning b/c everyone was listening to the lyrics... we all laughed at "which brother is better?"
But, at the end, the final lines, everyone hushed and clapped slowly because we all were processing what we had heard. It was intense and incredible!
I know, cheesy post, but all darn true!
**I just found it on youtube, and it's so quiet it sounds like no one's there! I promise, big show, just attentive audience!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpmdaVZx-5I
Lamar speaketh the truth about the Rocky Mount show. You had to be there to believe it.
Still my favorite show.
There are so many lines, in so many songs.
I ordered 4 thieves on CD after hearing some random 30 sec clip. I popped it in the player and as 'Talk on Indolence' started I thought, oh man, this is awful, what a waste of $15! But then:
"I'm a...little...nervous...bout what you'll think....when you...see me..in my..swimming trunks."
My jaw dropped, it's such a silly lyric, but the honesty and vulnerability gave me chills, even though I look tight in my swimming trunks : )
I can testify to the accuracy of Lamar's post. That was a special night from beginning to end. New Jersey Transient was the opening band for goodness sake.
The last chorus ofall my mistakes live at the southgate house...i cant describe what i felt.
every show i got to.... not necessarily just one song all of the time... but i'm bound to get goose bumps or some type of extreme adrenaline rush before, during, or after each of their shows....
i had chills during the ENTIRE cary show @ koka booth!!!
i had chills during the ENTIRE cary show @ koka booth!!!