Knowing the value of a good cry, sometimes when I'm in pre-cry mode I try to just let it go into a full-on deluge of tears (if I'm alone, especially), but I can't do it. What prog song will release me from the chains of stoicism?
This ethereal Zeuhl classic just might do the trick:
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
I mostly listen to Progressive Metal (hey, I try other things, but I know what I like), so it's rare that this music makes me cry. Actually the one artist that causes tears for me isn't even progressive - David Gray. However, two Progressive Metal songs do come to mind that did make me cry the first time I heard them, both having to do with parenthood. The first, I heard before I was a father - Goodnight Kiss, from Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence by Dream Theater. The second I heard when my son was about nine months old, so it meant a lot more to me then than it would've had I heard it earlier in my life - Keep Breathing by Redemption. One of their guitarists wrote it about his daughter, Parker, who has a degenerative disease that caused her to go blind. He talks about how he hates to see her going through the pain, wishes he could take the pain from her, but can't believe how brave she is and how it inspires him. Man, I had to pull over when I heard that one in the car...
Ooh, I just remembered one more - Seventh Wonder has a concept album called Mercy Falls (which I HIGHLY recommend), the plot of which is very difficult to decipher. We know there was a car accident and the dad is in a coma, and "Tears for a Father" is a scene where the son is by his dad's bedside talking to him about how much he misses him. Man, I hope my kids never have to go through that...
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Posted: April 12 2012 at 13:32
Knowing the value of a good cry, sometimes when I'm in pre-cry mode I try to just let it go into a full-on deluge of tears (if I'm alone, especially), but I can't do it. What prog song will release me from the chains of stoicism?
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Posted: April 12 2012 at 13:25
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More frequently I reach that "pre-cry" stage where I think most men naturally go to, rather than outright shedding tears.
Yeah, I get that too. I never could come up with a name for that state, so I'm glad you finally did. "Pre-cry". Simple, spot on.
Anyhoo, if you count the Moody Blues as prog (some people don't), a lot of Mike Pinder's songs make me "pre-cry". My Song, Lost in a Lost World, Melancholy Man, Dawn is a Feeling... he put the "Moody" in Moody Blues, I think.
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Posted: April 12 2012 at 13:23
Was just a joke, didn't mean to sound disrespectful.
I can't remember any specific case but yes, I know that if I happen to be in some certain intense state of mind, certain songs or passages can surely tie a knot in my throat. Maybe the a cappella begining of Dancing With The Moonlit Knight, indeed Turn of the Century, Queen's Nevermore or You Take My Breath Away, The Lamia...
I mostly listen to Progressive Metal (hey, I try other things, but I know what I like), so it's rare that this music makes me cry. Actually the one artist that causes tears for me isn't even progressive - David Gray. However, two Progressive Metal songs do come to mind that did make me cry the first time I heard them, both having to do with parenthood. The first, I heard before I was a father - Goodnight Kiss, from Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence by Dream Theater. The second I heard when my son was about nine months old, so it meant a lot more to me then than it would've had I heard it earlier in my life - Keep Breathing by Redemption. One of their guitarists wrote it about his daughter, Parker, who has a degenerative disease that caused her to go blind. He talks about how he hates to see her going through the pain, wishes he could take the pain from her, but can't believe how brave she is and how it inspires him. Man, I had to pull over when I heard that one in the car...
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Posted: April 12 2012 at 13:21
Yes, and it still does sometimes. Few examples: Mostly Autumn's The Gap Is Too Wide and Mother Nature, everything of Syd Barrett if I think to his story, and the poetry of the prog-related Fabrizio De Andre' (because I understand the lyrics), just to say the first things that I have in mind.
I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution
A few of the more emotional pieces about life and death have gotten me there; "Turn of the Century" by Yes and "Never the Same" by Echolyn are two that immediately spring to mind.
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Posted: April 12 2012 at 12:57
Before one of my classes some girls asked me and two other guys if we ever cried (one was arguing that men don't cry because their emotions are black and white), I said the last time I cried was when a long term pet had died a little over a year ago, but that music sometimes made me well up. Another girl was shocked, "Music!? What kind of Music!?" These three girls in particular are known for their well-broadcast fondness of Korean pop whose lyrics they could not understand- so I think I understand that they would be bewildered by the suggestion music could move someone. The girls voice was utterly shocked, I wish I could convey it, as if the concept of crying or feeling any deep connection to music was unfathomable. Classic.
Prog for me unleashes very, very deep emotions. I don't listen to my favorite band, Floyd, too much, because it unleashes great forces of introspection and awe at the universe, society and my fate in my mind. I've listened to Floyd since I was a child, and its like a Freudian connection.
I don't cry frequently, or sob or anything, but a tear has dropped a few times over the years. Oddly enough, one song that effects me is Fanfare For The Common Man by ELP, I don't know why, it just conjures up images that I consider beautiful.
More frequently I reach that "pre-cry" stage where I think most men naturally go to, rather than outright shedding tears.
I'm listening to Dark Side Of The Moon as its raining outside.... It's pretty powerful stuff.
Similar experiences, or "no one should take music so seriously."
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