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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 15 2010 at 02:13
Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

 
         
           Birth Control-We All Thought We Knew You-this was written in memory of the deceased Helmut Koellen-a very sad and difficult thing to deal with, but it is dealt with in a sensitive and understanding way-RIP Helmut!

I'll look up the song, I really like BC's Operation and Triumvirat aswell, so...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 15 2010 at 00:43
Dream Theater's "Disappear" and "The Spirit Carries On" are quite sad.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2010 at 16:44
I hope someone has mentioned Starless by the mighty Crim.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2010 at 13:40
Tim Buckley is here so...
This gets to me.
 
 
 
Help me I'm falling!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2010 at 13:19
Need to add one now, Black Moth by Bigelf.

Oh, and In the Void too.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2010 at 19:33

Supertramp - Don't Leave me Now ("don't leave me now, when I'm old and cold and gray and time is gone...")
In The Labyrinth - Farewell Little Brother (a song about the death of the artist's young brother)
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Kansas - Nobody's Home (at least the violin solo)
Faun Fables - Pictures (makes me bawl like Brett Favre at a retirement press conference)
non-prog:
Val Stöecklein - I'll Make it Up to You (do yourself a favor and find his Grey Life CD)
Alina Simone - From Great Knowledge
Nick Drake - just about everything


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2010 at 17:09
  I can really only think of two-
           Quatermass-Good Lord Knows
         
           Birth Control-We All Thought We Knew You-this was written in memory of the deceased Helmut Koellen-a very sad and difficult thing to deal with, but it is dealt with in a sensitive and understanding way-RIP Helmut!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2010 at 11:35

Nobody Home, Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)

It's All I Can Do (Neal Morse) my favorite ballad ever Heart

Torn (Shadow Gallery)

Solitary Soul, Freak Boy Pt. 2, The Distance to the Sun (Spock's Beard)


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2010 at 05:21
lucky man : ELP
epitaph : KING CRIMSON
Pleasure and Pain : MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND
filal cut : PINK FLOYD
mama : GENESIS
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''For All You Happy People'' - Jaga Jazzist

''Collapse The Light Into Earth'' - Porcupine Tree

''Soon'' - Yes (Yeah, I know it's a piece of a much larger song, but it was played as a single on the radio, so that's good enough for me. LOL)

''High Hopes'' - Pink Floyd 

''Right In Two'' - Tool

''Atonement'' - Opeth

''Year Without a Summer'' - Casualties of Applied Metaphysics 

''Low Light'' - Peter Gabriel (Well, it's sad to my ears, anyway; but still hopeful and beautiful)

''Of The Room'' - Dredg

Those constantly change, and of course that barely scratches the surface, but I can't think of any more currently.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2010 at 20:50
Originally posted by JROCHA JROCHA wrote:

Ghost Rider and Afterimage by Rush
 
I guess you mean lyrically? Cuz neither of these songs (which are some of my favorites) have a musical feel that isn't excactly sad
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2010 at 16:56
One Last Goodbye (Anathema)
Irish Air, Stationary Traveller and Ice (Camel)
Cliche (Fish)
Living In The Moonlight (Collage)
and many more
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 02 2010 at 12:42
 
- I Talk To The Wind: King Crimson
- My Room (Waiting For Wonderland): Van der Graaf Generator
- Embryo: Pink Floyd
- Heavy Horses: Jethro Tull  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 02 2010 at 01:45
I'm can name a couple of Moody Blues songs which pull at the heart strings:

1. Watching & Waiting (To Our Children Children's Children)
2. The Actor (In Search of A Lost Chord)
3. Nights in White Satin

Epitaph -  King Crimson
Survival - Yes

There are others but can't recall at the moment :)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 01 2010 at 23:16
Ghost Rider and Afterimage by Rush
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 01 2010 at 21:57
Can't nail it down to just one song, since the album IMO must be considered as a whole:  Sylvan's Posthumous Silence. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 01 2010 at 08:26
Originally posted by pfptmvandkc pfptmvandkc wrote:

1.  The Final Cut - Pink Floyd

2.  Smile - David Gilmour
 
3.  Amuse to Death - Roger Waters

Sorry they're all Floyd related, but David and Roger are the best satirists on earth.
 
Comfortably Numb......Great title and sad and beautiful tune.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 01 2010 at 08:22
Originally posted by darksideof darksideof wrote:

Prog? Many! I think many early prog music was very sad and depressing and that is why I love it.
Pink Floyd The Final cut  and the wall almost the both whole albums super sad music. love them both.
Genesis Ripples, Man on the Corner, Carpet crawlers live and from the lamb, Visions Of Angels.
Gentle Giants Friends.
YES and you and I the melody are so melancholic sad, Turn of the century this songs makes cry.
King Crimson In the court of the crimson king, I talk to the wind, Heart beat, Neal Jack and Me,  cascade, ect,,
Kansas Dust In The Wind
ELP : From the Beginning, Still you turn me on.
Supertramp Oh lord this is mine
Focus Silvia
Jethro Tull: sosity you are a woman, Up to Me, Life Is a Long Song,

I won't finish if I continue!
Not Prog?
Black Sabbath: Changes.
Zep : Stairway to heaven.
Scorpions Still loving you
Tears for Fears Women I chain
U2 With or without you, Bad, One.
Depeche Mode: Home


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If you are opening up not-prog, the entirety of Disintegration by the Cure was so bleak I really could not continue to listen to it: the only music ever to have that effect. I am surprised by your ELP and Tull choices....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2010 at 08:06
Originally posted by pfptmvandkc pfptmvandkc wrote:

1.  The Final Cut - Pink Floyd

2.  Smile - David Gilmour
 
3.  Amuse to Death - Roger Waters

Sorry they're all Floyd related, but David and Roger are the best satirists on earth.
Cry I agree with you 100 percent Floyd is my top band and this band always me be cry so f**king beautiful..Cry
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2010 at 08:05
Prog? Many! I think many early prog music was very sad and depressing and that is why I love it.
Pink Floyd The Final cut  and the wall almost the both whole albums super sad music. love them both.
Genesis Ripples, Man on the Corner, Carpet crawlers live and from the lamb, Visions Of Angels.
Gentle Giants Friends.
YES and you and I the melody are so melancholic sad, Turn of the century this songs makes cry.
King Crimson In the court of the crimson king, I talk to the wind, Heart beat, Neal Jack and Me,  cascade, ect,,
Kansas Dust In The Wind
ELP : From the Beginning, Still you turn me on.
Supertramp Oh lord this is mine
Focus Silvia
Jethro Tull: sosity you are a woman, Up to Me, Life Is a Long Song,

I won't finish if I continue!
Not Prog?
Black Sabbath: Changes.
Zep : Stairway to heaven.
Scorpions Still loving you
Tears for Fears Women I chain
U2 With or without you, Bad, One.
Depeche Mode: Home


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