Sad/Emotional Prog Suggestions

I am really in need of some suggestions. Lately, I have been really enjoying emotional, sad sounding songs like Nights In White Satin, In The Court Of The Crimson King & Epitaph, and a lot of Kingston Wall. I find that a lot of progressive music just seems happy (I'm mostly referring to what I've heard from the 60s and 70s). I really like it, but very rarely do I feel like hearing uplifting happier music. I often want to hear something either extremely beautiful and sort of mysterious/sad (Ummagumma by Pink Floyd fits the mysterious I'm talking about, but really anything unique or strange fits) or really emotionally sad and beautiful. I really feel like I can't find much Prog that fits this. I don't really have any guidance in finding it though. All of the well known music I find tends to be too "poppy" (for lack of a better term) and very uplifting, happy sounds. I just need more emotion and beauty and whatnot in my life. Also, please don't suggest Opeth, Porcupine Tree, or Riverside. I absolutely love all three, but I'm really looking for older music. If it's modern, I'll take the suggestion too, but I'm really trying to find older.

As a note, I'm pretty picky.. I find that a lot of the "sad" Prog I've found out about online doesn't fit what I'm looking for. But I will take any suggestions.

In short - looking for suggestions of 60s and 70s Prog that is sad, emotional, mysterious, intense, beautiful, slow, NOT uplifting or happy.

Edited by Xiadz - August 01 2016 at 02:27

I'll also add a few pieces that you might just find appealing to your tastes.

• Egg - A Visit to Newport Hospital
• Camel - Never Let Go
• Van Der Graaf Generator - Plague of the Lighthouse Keepers
• Van Der Graaf Generator - Lemmings (this is probably one of the most emotional prog pieces for me, along with the first one I suggested)
• Renaissance - Cold is Being
• Niemen - Bema Pamięci Żałobny - Rapsod
• Gentle Giant - Nothing At All

I aim to please.

Univers Zero - Heresie has a reputation as the darkest album out there. Also check out Shub Niggurath 

Robert Wyatt - Sea Song
Comus' The Herald
Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms

Vashti Bunyan is listed in prog Folk, and some beautiful, sad songs. A favourite of mine is Winter is Blue, though it isn't a Prog song.

All of Brave by Marillion, but especially Brave followed by The Great Escape/The Last of You/Falling from the Moon.

Guaranteed to have you blubbing with sheer emotion even before you get to Rothery's signature guitar solo, which will have you crossing to another dimension.

I would also recommend VDGG The Wave, which, if it took mogodon, would aspire to the merely depressing

It is, of course, possible to be emotional without falling into a bleak pit of despair. Whilst I absolutely hold with my good friend Charles' recommendation of To Be Over, a beautiful song, I would also recommend that you try Turn of the Century by the very same Yes, albeit with Waleman replacing Moraz back on keys. This is a love song based upon a man's such utter love for his dead wife, he mounds a sculpture of her, which comes to life and they spend joyous times "laughing as we danced". I first heard this song some 40 years ago now, and, to this day, it fills my heart with joy as to the potential love and beauty which is within us all.

Hence today's Lazland recommendation to curing the world's many ills. Just get each and every government to blast out Yes, and particularly this track, on each and every radio and to station. Make love, not war

One For the Vine by Genesis is really emotional too

You are in need of some Banco del Mutuo Soccorso my friend. Well, the thing is that their singer can be one of the most powerfully emotional ones you could find, but their music isn't always particularly emotional... they often have very... proggy sections that are more crazy than emotional. However, there's the second half of the song "RIP", the last minutes from "Metamorfosi", parts of "Il Giardino del Mago", "750 000 ani fa... l'amore", a good portion of the album "Come in un 'ultima cena" (my favourite song here would be the rather short "La notte e' piena", the song "Niente".
There's also Harmonium (the band), with the last few minutes of their song "Harmonium". Rick Wakeman's "Judas Iscariot", Van Der Graaf Generator's "Darkness" (and I guess, at least parts of the song "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers"), Steve Hacket's "Shadow of the Hierophant", Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter", perhaps Rainbow's "Stargazer", oh yeah, and Pink Floyd's Ummagumma live version of "A Saucerful of Secrets"... the last sections (3 & 4, Storm Sygnal and Celestial voices, that would make the last 6:20 min of the song)... and if we are with Pink Floyd, we might at least add "The Great Gig in the Sky".

From newer bands, I found Edison's Children second album "The Last Breath before November" very emotional... though not for strong vocals (not at all), but the whole atmosphere of the album.

My Room by Van der Graaf Generator

Beautiful and immensely sad...

A Way Out by Hammill

Collapse the Light into Earth is one of the first that come to mind. Supper's Ready has some very emotional parts, too (especially at the end).

ATOMIC ROOSTER - Debut album.....................just perfect for slashing your wrists.................