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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 28 2009 at 11:46

Saddest prog songs? 'Soon' by Yes off 'Relayer' has brought me to tears a few times, but the most chillingly sad in many ways is probably Roger Waters' 'Perfect Sense'. Come to think of it, so is the vast majority of Roger Waters' work with and without Pink Floyd. Let's face it, most people have probably had a good cry to 'Wish You Were Here' at some point over the years...(I know I did!) Other prog songs for having a good cry to are 'Biko' by Peter Gabriel, 'Trains' by Porcupine Tree (and depending on if or how much you regard them to be prog) 'Pyramid Song' by Radiohead.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 28 2009 at 11:50
Piles of candidates, but the three that come to mind at this moment in time are:

1. Turn of the Century - Yes
2. It's a Miracle - Roger Waters
3. Invisible Man - Marillion
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 28 2009 at 12:07

The funeral dirge Before A Word Is Said by Miller, Sinclair, Tomkins & Gowen. 

Alan Gowen was dying of cancer and indeed died some weeks after the recording of this song. Alan Gowen was one of the most influential musicans in the Canterbury Scene and he died only 33 years young. The funeral dirge, which is his epitaph, is heartbreaking. I doubt if you will find any sadder piece of music within the prog scene.  

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 28 2009 at 13:14
"To Be Over" by Yes....

After all, your soul will still surrender...
After all, don't doubt your part be ready to be loved!  

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 28 2009 at 13:23
It wopuld take me too long to come up with the 3 but I know that Mother Russia by Renaissance would be one of them
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 28 2009 at 15:57
how cool that floyd's 'the final cut' has been mentioned a couple of times.  this is far and away my favorite floyd album, though many have called it a solo waters LP ... whatever.

'the gunner's dream', if you know anything about the perspective waters always writes from (can't he get some therapy? geez...), is just gut wrenching.

night after night - goin' round and round my brain
this dream is driving me insane


and, for me personally, 'the final cut' song hits tremendously close to home.

thought i oughta bare my naked feelings
thought i oughta tear the curtain down
i held the blade in trembling hands prepared to make it
but just then the phone rang
i never had the nerve to make the final cut


wow.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 29 2009 at 00:50
here are some different selections
 
 
chamber of 32 doors    genesis
melancholy man           the moody blues
isn't life strange            the moody blues
eleanor rigby                 the beatles
she's leaving home     the beatles
Maccarthur's Park           Richard Harris
vera lynne                       Pink Floyd
 
How wonderful to be so profound
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 29 2009 at 16:50
Just remembered a couple of classics!  How about "Epitaph" from ITCOOCK, and "Lucky Man" by ELP?

Either one is weepy enough to drive a prog fan to have a stiff drink (or pipefull of pipe-weed)!   
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 29 2009 at 18:09
Many of you voted for Pink Floyd but nobody mentioned the ultimate depression album, The Wall, in particular. Man, it's chock full of sad songs, like Vera Lynn, Good Bye Blue Skye, Good Bye Cruel World, Hey You, the first part of One Of My Turns, Nobody Home, etc., but above all, the one that never fails to bring tears in my eyes is Don't Leave Me Now. This tune is full of pain and despair, sung by none other, of course, than Roger Waters whose voice is like he carries all the pain of the world.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2009 at 00:18
Someone mentioned Pain of Salvation's "Trace of Blood", kudos.

Also, the song "Finland" by Cult of Luna off of Somewhere Along the Highway.  As well as a ton of other stuff off that album.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2009 at 00:46
Anything by Throbbing Gristle
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2009 at 02:18

Dream Theater - certain (non metal) parts of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Dream Theater - The Spirit Carries On
Porcupine Tree - Feeling So Low

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2009 at 15:23
the saddest song evah is THE CURE's "Homesick" for me. KARATE's "This Day Next Year" and STEVE VON TILL's "To the Field" are pretty close too

Except for the already mentioned ones I'd add:

MARILLION "Chelsea Monday", "She Chameleon", "Seasons End"
A SILVER MT ZION "God Bless Our Dead Marines", "Mountains Made of Steam", "Ring Them Bells", lots of their and GY!BE instrumentals as well
TALK TALK's last two albums
BRIAN BORCHERDT's "Coyotes" EP, THE SMITHS, PORTISHEAD, though it's all not Prog

I like sad songs
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2009 at 15:33
recent favourite - SWANS "Blood Promise" from "Swans Are Dead" live 2CD
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2009 at 17:48
Hi,
 
I think that sometimes we take things way too literally ...  I will not, in any way, shape or form, say that Pink Floyd, Peter Hammill should not be listed in this list ... they should ...
 
But sadly ... the saddest one of them all is not listed here ...
 
Catch Fairport Convention's album "Rising for the Moon" ... and the last cut ... called One More Chance ... and then if you have the guts, then check the piano version on the remix ... and then open your eyes and realize that she died 2 weeks after this, falling down the stairs pregnant and hit her head ... she didn't get another chance, if you will ... and the haunting nature of her voice and song ... is scary ... and we're not talking lyrics here or just some let's pretend I care universe or ... this is real ... and yes it was real for Roger too, but this is much sadder ... Roger had a chance to improve his lot in life ... and even become famous for it and rich beyond all reason ... the weight of Sandy Denny's voice is a hundred times more than anything mnentioned here ... specially when most of the things listed here are just ... songs ... just songs!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 04 2010 at 06:11
two deeply sad songs from Anathema:
One Last Goodbye
Inner Silence
hunger for more prog can never be quenched.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 04 2010 at 06:58
well...
Comfortably Numb, all "The Final Cut" album, except "Not Now John" , "Poles Apart" and "High Hopes"  by Pink Floyd.
"Exiles", "Starless"  and "Epitaph" by King Crimson

"Afterglow" by Genesis is very touching, too.

maybe "Ripples", too, (always by Genesis)

ah and of course "Every Stranger's Eyes" by Roger Waters.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 04 2010 at 12:53
A lot of Anekdoten's work falls into this category; "Sad Rain" is a good example. They are heavily into a sad instrument, the mellotron, with a little cello thrown in, and bonus points for being from meloncholy Sweden.
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