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Joined: May 31 2012
Location: Missouri
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Posted: May 31 2012 at 21:53
The coda to "Stardust We Are" by The Flowerkings makes me tear up. "The Enigmatic Spirit" by Vintersorg makes me tear up "Black Lake Niostang" by Agalloch. The vocal delivery evokes overwhelming metaphysical despair.
I have not cried because of any song, altough some songs just makes my mind go blank and i can on the way of shreeding a tear (but it never comes :() one exempal is the shimmering ending in Transatlantics " All of the Above", after such an epic song and majestic reprise of the main theme, it goes into this sort of ambient style of music and slowly fades away. I was stunned first time I heard it and moved.
Joined: August 15 2011
Location: Los Lunas
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Posted: May 24 2012 at 22:42
Gerinski wrote:
EchoeWho? wrote:
Certainly not prog, but Albinoni's Adagio in G minor always ties my heart into knots. I've shared great heart aches with this beautiful piece of music.
Undoubtedly a masterpiece, as is Barber's Adagio.
Thank you Gerinski! What a beautiful piece. So much emotion, really vibrates deep down inside.
Joined: September 14 2007
Location: Netherlands
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Posted: May 23 2012 at 04:54
Monsters & Men by Flower Kings as an example of sheer beauty causing shivers down the spine combined with a single tear. Almost too good to be true
Where emotion is concerned Edge of the World by Pendragon where Barrett gives an ode to their Polish friends/fans with such deeply moving vocals and acoustic guitar play it's pretty unique and imho unsurpassed
Some of my favourite guitar playing is in the song Selkies: The Endless Obsession by Between The Buried and Me. That solo is Sublime and builds to a Cathartic climax.
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Posted: May 19 2012 at 06:15
coolerking wrote:
I'm not given to overt displays of emotion but there are moments in Ramases' 'Glass Top Coffin' that really strike home. The album has, to my mind, a unique tone: one I can best describe as defiantly elegiac. By that I mean it isn't sombre or depressing - it is largely positive in spirit and at times quite upbeat - but it has a sort of resigned fatalism, almost as if Ramases knew it would be the last thing he'd ever record.
And when you learn some of the scant facts about his life, it takes on a poignancy that is extremely moving.
Interesting. I would never think of Ramases music as something that would induce tears, but you're right that there is something about his songs that transcend time, age, social norms and even general musical conventions. At times I think he sounded an awful lot like a (less-talented) Roy Orbison.
I'm not given to overt displays of emotion but there are moments in Ramases' 'Glass Top Coffin' that really strike home. The album has, to my mind, a unique tone: one I can best describe as defiantly elegiac. By that I mean it isn't sombre or depressing - it is largely positive in spirit and at times quite upbeat - but it has a sort of resigned fatalism, almost as if Ramases knew it would be the last thing he'd ever record.
And when you learn some of the scant facts about his life, it takes on a poignancy that is extremely moving.
Joined: January 11 2011
Location: Rio de Janeiro
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Posted: May 15 2012 at 21:45
Prog has made me cry on various moments... Well, perhaps the "pre-cry", but, anwyay:
- The guitar solo on Marillion's "Ocean Cloud" - From Marillion's "Runaway" ... the part where H sings "So you cower in the town's forgotten places......." - The guitar solo from "High Hopes" - The keyboard madness at Transatlantic's "Is It Really Happening?", towards the end - Sax solo on Phideaux's "Snowtorch" - From "And You and I" .... towards the end "Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid!!....." - Also from "And You And I" ... the slide guitar solo that Howe plays live - From "In The Presence Of" ... "And you'll understand why .... you'll understand whyyyyy <guitar solo>" - Tull's "Black Sunday" ... really love this song altogether
I'll stop now, else I'll be seen as a lady! lol !!
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