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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 09 2013 at 19:34
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The solo Shawn Lane plays on Let It Be towards the end is absolutely stunning. He also does some stirring stuff on his cover of "Once Upon a Time in the West" composed by Ennio Morricone and a few other tunes.

It is also worth mentioning Zappa(!) doing Watermelon in Easter Hay. For a guy with tunes like "The Jazz Discharge Party Hats" he really puts a lot of magic into that Watermelon, the one provoking the strongest reaction from me being the version he plays here...   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUQEVc3h91E

The classic Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings, and also some hot Johann Sebastian Bach come up.

None of this is really prog, so feel free to beat me up violently with sticks.




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 09 2013 at 20:50
The Lamia, from Hackett's Revisited II. I'm not sure why but the song never had that effect on me in it's original form. It took me by surprise. I figured it was a fluke but then I listened to it again at work and I had to turn the darn thing off.

Some Kate Bush songs get to me. Wuthering Heights and parts of The 9th Wave.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2013 at 04:09
Originally posted by Elastic Murray Elastic Murray wrote:


It is also worth mentioning Zappa(!) doing Watermelon in Easter Hay. For a guy with tunes like "The Jazz Discharge Party Hats" he really puts a lot of magic into that Watermelon

Agreed. I don't think I've heard a more emotional guitar solo, actually. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2013 at 02:32
The first time prog made me cry was when I saw Jethro Tull in 1976.  I'd just turned 16 and it was my 3rd concert.  When Ian Anderson came out onstage and joined Martin Barre I got all teary...I couldn't believe I was actually seeing one of my musical heroes!  Funny, concert 1 (The Tubes) and concert 2 (Yes with Gentle Giant) didn't affect me like that.  

The only other time was in 2007...I was in the process of going through a divorce after 27 years of marriage and hadn't listened to any music for about 6 weeks.  I was in my car driving to a clients house (I ran a tax prep business) and I put on an IQ best-of tape I'd made.  The song "The Enemy Smacks" came on.  When the line, "so weary of waiting and hoping for this, the two of us alone, no one else to see, I promise not to miss you and no more jealousy" came on I lost it Cry   
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2013 at 14:37
Has prog made me cry? Yes, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Asia. 'Nough said.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2013 at 16:06
Once, I think. The Gates of Delirium, you know the part.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2013 at 16:20
The first time I experienced the Dark Side of the Rainbow, during the tornado / Great Gig in the Sky sequence. Come to think of it the second time too.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2013 at 19:38
The Seventh House by IQ always chokes me up.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2013 at 04:56
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFgZU6h4vYI
Dubious "Prog Folk" the guilty party per usual. Best i can do as i know not how to embed youtube here.
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Edited by libertycaps - April 19 2013 at 04:58
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2013 at 08:22
A few times. OK, maybe more than a few:
 
Pink Floyd
- the "cloudless every day"...verse of Echoes and the final slow jam after that
- Time, Us and Them and Eclipse from DSOTM
- the very end funeral march part of SOYCD
- Nobody Home, Vera, Comfortably Numb
- virtually all of The Final Cut
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Yes
- the buildup and climax in I've Seen All Good People
- the "Eclipse" part of And You And I, especially the little Leslie-speakered Hammond organ bit just before the main vocals - also The Preacher The Teacher, especially when Steve joins Jon on the main vocal refrain
- the final chanting vocals on Revealing Science of God "and you and you..."
- Leaves of Green's vocals "along without you..."
- the final 5 minutes or so of Ritual
- "I have seen the dream..that's in your heart..that's in your eyes" from Homeworld/The Ladder
 
Camel
- the start of Song w/in a Song: "the sun has left the sky...now you can close your eyes"
- the end of Air Born "and if the world keeps spinning 'round..."
- the intro to First Light
- all of Tell Me
 
-and no doubt many more.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2013 at 08:29
Many times
 
The breathtaking finale to Starless by KC drew some tears from me;
 
Being a Rush fanboy, when they came back with Vapor Trails, knowing what Neil Peart went through, to hear the album's intro, in which Neil's incredible strength of character just exploded, I cried with joy and awe.
 
And other moments...
"One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2013 at 08:36
Originally posted by fudgenuts64 fudgenuts64 wrote:

Once, I think. The Gates of Delirium, you know the part.
Soon, oh soon...
 
Indeed ! Cry
"One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2013 at 08:36
I'm not sure prog ever made me cry but I'm sure some music has.  Maybe more simplistic pop music, and I'm not
sure its in any way a sad, hopeless type of crying but some other kind of other state.  "God if I Saw Her Now" on Anthony Phillips' "Geese and the Ghost" is one of the most emotional songs for me in Prog.   "Castaways" by Hammill on "The Future Now" is another.   "As Close As This" is his album that I relate most to the emotions. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2013 at 13:08
Nessum Dorma Giacomo Puccini with Luciano Pavarotti










Edited by markosherrera - April 21 2013 at 13:10
Hi progmaniacs of all the world
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2013 at 16:39
Clap^^^^^^Cry
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2013 at 17:12
I didn't know he was prog.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2013 at 17:48
Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

I didn't know he was prog.

well he's wearing a cape.LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2013 at 17:50
Well noted.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - April 21 2013 at 18:01
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 24 2013 at 12:30
^^^^ Big influence for likes of JUDAS PREIST's ROB HALFORD. :)
Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2013 at 01:40
Saw "The Pass" by Rush live on the Clockwork Angels tour and lost it.
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