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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2009 at 02:38
A few. I can't remember all of them, but each time probably coincides with me really getting into a band.  Latimer's playing on songs like Ice and Stationary Traveler often come close. Shine on You Crazy Diamond did once around the time of Syd's death, as well as Obscured by Clouds did recently :(. Sigur Ros is great, the vocals can be very emotional if you are "into" the song.
Although I don't often cry because of songs, they are often very emotional to me. GY!BE is breath takingly beautiful. My entire list could include every band I like, so I'll just leave it at that. Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2009 at 07:41
A few times. Particularly Pink Floyd and Genesis.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2009 at 08:11
Few times. The ending to SFAM by Dream Theater is the most memorable. I cry almost every time I listen to that album. Other than that, few songs make me cry. Scenes just has an incredible story, and captivates me like no other.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2009 at 08:12
Oh yeah, and occasionally during Snow...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2009 at 08:55
I remember crying to Borknagar's 'Epic' album, just out of sheer amazement. I was about 13, to be fair. I don't remotely see it as one of my favourite albums now, but back then it was top of my world.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 15 2009 at 17:36
Yes... Camel's "Ice" and Marillion's "The Script For A Jester's Tear"...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 15 2009 at 21:05
Originally posted by A Person A Person wrote:

A few. I can't remember all of them, but each time probably coincides with me really getting into a band.  Latimer's playing on songs like Ice and Stationary Traveler often come close. Shine on You Crazy Diamond did once around the time of Syd's death, as well as Obscured by Clouds did recently :(. Sigur Ros is great, the vocals can be very emotional if you are "into" the song. Although I don't often cry because of songs, they are often very emotional to me. GY!BE is breath takingly beautiful. My entire list could include every band I like, so I'll just leave it at that. Tongue


Amen. Took the words out of my mouth.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2009 at 04:38
No. But I usually feel as though I'm about to during parts of King Crimson's Epitaph and Yes' And You And I.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2009 at 07:21

First time I listened to the whole "Tormato" by Yes, tears just flooded as I thought "I paid a tenner for this crap..." Cry

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2009 at 07:53
Pink Floyd's Shine on You Crazy Diamond, the last few (instrumental) minutes - very moving.  Also Guiding Light from IQ's The Seventh House album, the line "but we passed each other by like seasons out of time" always makes me fill up. Cry
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2009 at 18:12
Some Yes, early Genesis, and a couple of tracks by Esperanto...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 02 2009 at 22:31
Jon Anderson's Song Of Seven... Deep right there. Don't know exactly why, but it did me in.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2009 at 00:06
Usually guitar parts/solos but not the songs themselves:

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (solo - P.U.L.S.E. version especially), On The Turning Away (solo)
Marillion - Easter (solo), Sugar Mice (solo and I guess the song too), The Great Escape (solo)
Genesis - Firth Of Fifth section from Old Meldy (I don't know what it is but it just sounds so powerful and so good I wanna cry)

Musically because I don't normally listen to sings for their lyrics.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2009 at 00:29
On Camel's DVD Coming of Age, Latimer simply wrings out the towel with his sizzling rendition of "Ice"! When it's over, his whole body just sags , incredible! I mean you need to see this to believe it , gets me sniffling very time and if it leaves you cold (Ice , get it?) then you need to return to Nashville and pick up some down home cookin'!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2009 at 02:32
a lot of times when Ilisten to Pink Floyd's - Comfortably Numb, Hey You, Wish You Were Here, Brain Damage and especially Shine on You Crazy Diamond and Atom Heart Mother!CryCryCryCryCryCryCryCryCryCry
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 09:57
I have had tears when seeing prog live...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 12:50
Kevin Gilbert's The Shaming of the True, with 'Starting into nothing' and 'Water under the bridge'... This album has been my favorite for many years, and the only that made me cry once...
This is not my beautiful house...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 13:03
I don't think I've ever actually cried, but the closest I've com is probably with "Hole" by Anekdoten. That one just left me amazed the first time I listened to it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 13:33
One time while liestening to "Jerusalem". There is a synth line right after Lake sings "Bring me my bow".... then the line appears... "of burning gold"  right after that another line bursts from the speakers. It's impressive and highly emotional.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 14:15
Kevin Gilbert's The Shaming of the True, with 'Starting into nothing' and 'Water under the bridge'... This album has been my favorite for many years, and the only that made me cry once...
This is not my beautiful house...
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