Has prog ever made you cry?

Pink Floyd, for sure. Echoes and WYWH in particular, kinda gets me a little teary-eyed just thinking about their impact on me...

It was a really strange time in my life, I was basically in love with this girl. I heard a rumor about her with another guy.... the cut version of Echoes was playing (the one from the Greatest Hits compilation), and it got to the second verse. When the chorus kicked in, I just absolutely lost it. Like... bad. About a year earlier, this other girl (I was in love with her too, bad stuff man) got me into Pink Floyd. We hit a really rough patch a few months into our relationship (we didn't really date, it was weird.) It turns out that she never liked me as more than a friend during the six months we were "together". This revelation came to me while I was listening to Wish You Were Here's title track, which is her favorite PF track. Once again, tears just came flowing. A few days after this incident, I was listening to the Wall album and Nobody Home came on. Cried at that too. Anyways...

As for other prog, Dream Theater's "The Count of Tuscany" always manages to hit a major chord with my feels. Same with Dire Straits's amazing track "Telegraph Road" and Supertramp's "Crime of the Century". I also recently discovered how BEAUTIFUL VdGG's track "Refugees" is. Quite a powerhouse. Radiohead's "OK Computer" and "Kid A" are also just emotional rollercoasters...  A lot of PT/SW material makes me emotional too. But this is why I really listen to prog. The emotions are just... inexplainable. It's beautiful.


Edited by RedNightmareKing - September 16 2012 at 22:11

Only one time recently, "The Garden" by The little "unknown" band Rush... It's probably the song in itself, his sadness and the recent events in my life and a good dose of my imagination...

Not sure, maybe while drunk listening to something but I can't remember.

Edited by menawati - September 19 2012 at 03:07

I would have to say the closest a prog song came to making me cry would be:

Tamlin by Current 93 had me in tears. 

Tonight I almost cried with some Stardust We Are passages. Some of the best music ever written.

once.

I've never cried to any music... Goosebumps seems to be most frequently occuring when listening to prog rock, though. Jethro Tulls 'Orion' gets me everytime.

Hi, new to the board. Lovely site. Just wanted to add that one song in particular almost always or nearly always gets me going and that is "And You and I" by Yes. Anybody know that one?  It isn't that it's a "sad" song necessarily but it is so emotional, joyous, and intense, overwhelming...