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I'm not sure prog ever made me cry but I'm sure some music has.  Maybe more simplistic pop music, and I'm not
sure its in any way a sad, hopeless type of crying but some other kind of other state.  "God if I Saw Her Now" on Anthony Phillips' "Geese and the Ghost" is one of the most emotional songs for me in Prog.   "Castaways" by Hammill on "The Future Now" is another.   "As Close As This" is his album that I relate most to the emotions. 
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Originally posted by fudgenuts64 fudgenuts64 wrote:

Once, I think. The Gates of Delirium, you know the part.
Soon, oh soon...
 
Indeed ! Cry
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The breathtaking finale to Starless by KC drew some tears from me;
 
Being a Rush fanboy, when they came back with Vapor Trails, knowing what Neil Peart went through, to hear the album's intro, in which Neil's incredible strength of character just exploded, I cried with joy and awe.
 
And other moments...
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A few times. OK, maybe more than a few:
 
Pink Floyd
- the "cloudless every day"...verse of Echoes and the final slow jam after that
- Time, Us and Them and Eclipse from DSOTM
- the very end funeral march part of SOYCD
- Nobody Home, Vera, Comfortably Numb
- virtually all of The Final Cut
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- the buildup and climax in I've Seen All Good People
- the "Eclipse" part of And You And I, especially the little Leslie-speakered Hammond organ bit just before the main vocals - also The Preacher The Teacher, especially when Steve joins Jon on the main vocal refrain
- the final chanting vocals on Revealing Science of God "and you and you..."
- Leaves of Green's vocals "along without you..."
- the final 5 minutes or so of Ritual
- "I have seen the dream..that's in your heart..that's in your eyes" from Homeworld/The Ladder
 
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- the start of Song w/in a Song: "the sun has left the sky...now you can close your eyes"
- the end of Air Born "and if the world keeps spinning 'round..."
- the intro to First Light
- all of Tell Me
 
-and no doubt many more.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFgZU6h4vYI
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The Seventh House by IQ always chokes me up.
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The first time I experienced the Dark Side of the Rainbow, during the tornado / Great Gig in the Sky sequence. Come to think of it the second time too.
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Once, I think. The Gates of Delirium, you know the part.
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Has prog made me cry? Yes, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Asia. 'Nough said.
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The first time prog made me cry was when I saw Jethro Tull in 1976.  I'd just turned 16 and it was my 3rd concert.  When Ian Anderson came out onstage and joined Martin Barre I got all teary...I couldn't believe I was actually seeing one of my musical heroes!  Funny, concert 1 (The Tubes) and concert 2 (Yes with Gentle Giant) didn't affect me like that.  

The only other time was in 2007...I was in the process of going through a divorce after 27 years of marriage and hadn't listened to any music for about 6 weeks.  I was in my car driving to a clients house (I ran a tax prep business) and I put on an IQ best-of tape I'd made.  The song "The Enemy Smacks" came on.  When the line, "so weary of waiting and hoping for this, the two of us alone, no one else to see, I promise not to miss you and no more jealousy" came on I lost it Cry   
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Originally posted by Elastic Murray Elastic Murray wrote:


It is also worth mentioning Zappa(!) doing Watermelon in Easter Hay. For a guy with tunes like "The Jazz Discharge Party Hats" he really puts a lot of magic into that Watermelon

Agreed. I don't think I've heard a more emotional guitar solo, actually. 
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The Lamia, from Hackett's Revisited II. I'm not sure why but the song never had that effect on me in it's original form. It took me by surprise. I figured it was a fluke but then I listened to it again at work and I had to turn the darn thing off.

Some Kate Bush songs get to me. Wuthering Heights and parts of The 9th Wave.
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The solo Shawn Lane plays on Let It Be towards the end is absolutely stunning. He also does some stirring stuff on his cover of "Once Upon a Time in the West" composed by Ennio Morricone and a few other tunes.

It is also worth mentioning Zappa(!) doing Watermelon in Easter Hay. For a guy with tunes like "The Jazz Discharge Party Hats" he really puts a lot of magic into that Watermelon, the one provoking the strongest reaction from me being the version he plays here...   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUQEVc3h91E

The classic Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings, and also some hot Johann Sebastian Bach come up.

None of this is really prog, so feel free to beat me up violently with sticks.
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The end of Anesthetize by Porcupine Tree gets to me.  Also, not necessarily prog, but Tori Amos' 'Winter' is the saddest song I can recall.
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Absolutely.  Most of the time it isn't related to the lyrics or anything, it's about the emotional impact of the music itself, on a sonic level.  This is kind of a hard thing to explain, but sometimes when listening to certain songs I remember the moments when I realized that I really LOVED the song, and that chokes me up (Happens with Caravan's "And I Wish I Were Stoned" and "The Dog, the Dog, He's at it Again").  Sometimes it's when I realize how universal some things are, and that I feel songs were written for everyone who will open the hearts/minds and listen (Floyd's "Echoes", much of DSOTM).  Yes stuff can get to me sometimes, as they are my favorite band.
Sometimes music is just SO GOOD that it makes me choke up when I'm feeling particularly introspective or vulnerable, especially if I've never seen it performed live ("Starship Trooper" hit me pretty hard when I saw them play).
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^Like this poster said, sometimes it's circumstantial to the mood I'm in, but there are a couple that are guaranteed to have that effect. 

The first section of Starless by King Crimson

In the Rapids by Genesis

The first movement of A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers by VDGG

The beginning and end of A Louse is Not a Home by Peter Hammill

Isolation Years by Opeth

The end of Close to the Edge by Yes

The Raven that Refused to Sing by Steven Wilson, especially with the video.

There are probably a few more out there, but these are the ones that come to my mind immediately, so they're likely the ones that have the greatest impact on me.



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Depends on the mood I'm in and it could be any number of songs that bring up that depth of emotion ......but I want to take the time to thank the 2 members who posted  the Thibault track and the Liberman track; 2 things I had not heard before and they are both exquisite.
So much music so little time............that brings a tear to me eye.
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There are a number of tunes that reduce me to tears every time, firstly, 'Big Ship' by Cardiacs, 'Stoneage Dinasours', also by Cardiacs and the last section of 'The Lake' from Mike Oldfield's 'Discovery' album.

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Points: 18061 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2013 at 20:30
Originally posted by jazzmaniac jazzmaniac wrote:

this one is a beautiful, emotional crierCry


Very nice indeed ... almost a thanks to Return to Forever but very well done ... very well indeed!
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Points: 9226 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 20 2013 at 18:28
This one brings to memory a lot of things... see if you can restrain yourself, has to be one of the albums of the year

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