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Peter 
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 Posted: December 18 2007 at 23:36 |
Most "touching," eh? 
What about Genesis - The Musical Box? Consider:
"Why dont you touch me, touch me,
Why dont you touch me, touch me,
Touch me now, now, now, now, now..."
Damn that "extreme sex test' thread -- now I'm thinking of __ again (first time in at least five minutes)! 
Edited by Peter - December 18 2007 at 23:37
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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rushfan4
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 23:38 |
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Add that with Invisible Touch and Genesis are quite the touching band.
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micky
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 23:39 |
 Peter wrote:
Most "touching," eh?
What about Genesis - The Musical Box? Consider:
"Why dont you touch me, touch me,
Why dont you touch me, touch me,
Touch me now, now, now, now, now..."
Damn that "extreme sex test' thread -- now I'm thinking of __ again (first time in at least five minutes)! |
hahahhahahha
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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The Whistler
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Posted: December 19 2007 at 00:11 |
Well, let's try and be fair about this...that is, let's try and not make everything Tull...
(Warning: compiled on the spot, not responsible for errors or omissions, may contain "Nights in White Satin.")
10) "Thick as a Brick" OR "Where the Hell Was Biggles?" Two movements from the "Thick as a Brick" suite. The whole "death of innocence" thing is really, really emotionally charged, particularly in the "the love that you feel" and the "you but your bet on number one" images. Well, it's three if you count "The Poet and the Painter;" that's both beautiful AND it rocks. Hell, the whole thing's great anyways.
9) "Tea For One" Crap. I'm sure that Led Zeppelin instills some deep, dark emotion in some of us, but somehow wailing about how Gollum stole yo babay never quite cut it for me. This though, this is so strained and pained, it's gorgeous.
8) "Fallen Angel" Everyone's saying "Starless," what about "Angel?" It's pretty gosh darn sweet. Dripping with emotion, and it also rocks. What more do you want?
7) "Can You Give Me Sanctuary?" The opening movement of "The Soft Parade"...suite. Thingy. Damn that thing hurts though.
6) "Processions" Family at their most gorgeous. It seems fast and throwaway, but it's really not.
5) "Dedicated to Lydia" I don't even know why, but I adore this song (it's by Carmen, by the way).
4) "Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day (Live)" Specifically from the Slipstream DVD. The song as a whole holds a somewhat personal resonance, but it's this version that really gets me.
3) "Don't Leave Me Now" It was hard to choose a Pink Floyd favorite, but "Wish" and "Pigs inna Wing" must fall to the side for this one. Is the sentiment more sentimental elsewhere? Perhaps...but it's HERE that I really, really feel Rog.
2) "Washing of the Water" Couldn't escape with Pete, could we now? The whole album hurts, but gosh, this one...these are all sad, aren't they?
1) "Cheap Day Return" Is it about a minute long? Yes. Is it gorgeous? Oh yes. Hell yes. In every way, shape and form. Never has sadness been so simply expressed. It HURTS.
Honorable mentions include "Under Wraps #2," "Moths," "Elegy (LIVE!)"...
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"There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson
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Astrodomine
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Posted: December 20 2007 at 08:50 |
Evans wrote:
VDGG - Childlike faith in childhood's End
VDGG - La Rossa
VDGG - Pilgrims
VDGG - Arrow
Harmonium - Histoires Sans Paroles
Pink Floyd - Gunner's Dream
Marillion - Jigsaw
Marillion - Incubus
Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear
Marillion - Kayleigh
Marillion - Childhood's End?
King Crimson - Starless
Tool - 10.000 Days
Porcupine Tree - Lazarus
Porcupine Tree - Collapse the light into earth
There. Take your pick, i seriously can't do it.
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You forgot VDGG - A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers! 
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Nucleus
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Posted: December 20 2007 at 16:47 |
This'll be another tough one... No particular order
Moody Blues- Question
Moody Blues- The Dawn (Dawn is a Feeling)
Moody Blues- New Horizons
Yes- Awaken
Yes- Mood For A Day
Yes- The Revealing Science Of God
Yes- Ritual
Yes- And You and I
Yes- Close to the Edge
The Alan Parsons Project- Nucleus/Day After Day/Total Eclipse/Genesis Ch.1. V.32
The Alan Parsons Project- Old and Wise
Explosions in the Sky- First Breath After Coma
Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Dead Flag Blues
Pink Floyd- Great Gig in the Sky
Pink Floyd- Echoes
Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb
Porcupine Tree- Fadeaway
Radiohead- Paranoid Android
Radiohead- Lucky
Supertramp- Take the Long Way Home
Supertramp- Crime of the Century
Supertramp- Even in the Quietest Moments
Supertramp- Downstream
Tangerine Dream- Rubycon
that was WAY more than ten, and that was just spontaneously...
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Melomaniac
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Posted: December 20 2007 at 17:25 |
There are quite a few, but the first that springs to mind is Tears from Rush on 2112.
High Hopes from Pink Floyd also.
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"One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio
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efoman
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Posted: December 20 2007 at 23:27 |
Spydrfish wrote:
| And dream of sheep - Kate Bush |
Kate bush? Prog? |
Beyond prog.
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YesFan72
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Posted: December 21 2007 at 17:17 |
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Harmonium - Depuis l'Automne
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Philéas
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Posted: December 21 2007 at 18:29 |
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1. VdGG - Lost
some other ones. Can't decide.
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herring
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Posted: December 22 2007 at 05:51 |
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A Plague of Lighthouse keepers (goes straight to my heart)
Moonchild (and when the drums come in at Court of the Crimson King... magic)
Breathe (pink floyd)
Musical Box (the end is so majestic, when the organ carefully joins... magic as well tony is a genius along with peter and steve)
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Anonymous
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Posted: December 22 2007 at 22:49 |
most already mentioned:
VdGG - Refugees
Peter Hammill - Wilhelmina, A Louse Is Not A Home
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Genesis - it, The Musical Box (touch me...)
Explosions In the Sky - Your Hand In Mine
Mogwai - Cody (or is it CODY?)
GY!BE - Moya
King Crimson - Starless
Interpol - Public Pervert (not prog? whatever.)
Pink Floyd - Brain Damage, Eclipse
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In my town, there is a raincoat under a tree
In the sky there is a cloud containing the sea
In the sea there is a whale without any eyes
In the whale there is a man without his raincoat.
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Anonymous
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Posted: December 22 2007 at 22:54 |
How could I forget?
Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry (live)
Supertramp - Don't Leave Me Now
both can (and have) brought me to tears on many occasions
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In my town, there is a raincoat under a tree
In the sky there is a cloud containing the sea
In the sea there is a whale without any eyes
In the whale there is a man without his raincoat.
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JROCHA
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Posted: December 23 2007 at 00:37 |
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Not in any order
Starless-King Crimson
10,000 days-TOOL
Garden of Light-Isis
Anesthetize-Porcupine Tree
Echoes-Pink Floyd
Transfigure-Jesu
The Musical Box-Genesis
Heart of the Sunrise-Yes
Scorched Earth-VDGG
The Birth and Death of a Day-Explosions in the sky
Travel is Dangerous-mogwai
Mission-Rush
Televators-The Mars Volta
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superprog
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Posted: December 23 2007 at 02:58 |
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Starless - KC
'Soon' segment from Gates of Delirium - Yes
Glass Museum - Tortoise
Lazarus - PT
Lucky - Radiohead
One Time - KC
Along The Banks of Rivers - Tortoise
Exit Musik For a Film - Radiohead
Last track off the 7 dvd - Supersilent
I Can See You - Neurosis
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superprog
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Posted: December 23 2007 at 03:09 |
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and these are the 'prog-related' ones hehehe:
Biko - Peter Gabriel
This Woman's Work - Kate Bush
Against All Odds - Phil Collins (!!!)
In Too Deep - Genesis (!!!)
Blood of Eden - Peter Gabriel
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dholl
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Posted: December 24 2007 at 19:47 |
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Great topic! I'll try not to overdo the Floyd:
Pink Floyd - Nobody Home ("I got a strong urge to fly!")
Goldfrapp - Deer Stop (her wail at the end sends shivers down me everytime)
note: Goldfrapp's certainly not prog but this song is.
Harmonia - Ahoi! (the end section takes me to a place where all is...touchingly harmonious)
Radiohead - Street Spirit ("Immerse your soul in love!")
The Doors - The Crystal Ship ("Before you slip into unconsciousness I'd like to have another kiss"...aw, how touching)
Gong - Tried So Hard ("And you tried so hard to get there"...well, I didn't try so hard actually, which is probably why I didn't get there...but I still feel the sentiment)
Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You (I really feel this song if I myself am in, some kind of, love - otherwise you just feel like telling him to get over it.)
Vangelis - Ask The Mountains (so lovely, the message seems to make you want to save the Earth)
Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky (I so want to touch and be touched when this song is playing, if only we had an extended version)
Mansun - Cancer (not just for the piano section in the middle, nor for when the signature Mansun sound comes in after the piano, but also for the heart-wrenching emotional vocal delivery from our Paul)
note: a progressive indie band for sure, but this song is so epic prog rock Pink Floyd would happily replace Have A Cigar with it...thus making Wish You Here Here the perfect album.
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kenmartree
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Posted: December 25 2007 at 00:51 |
[QUOTE= Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky (I so want to touch and be touched when this song is playing, if only we had an extended version)
No doubt, I believe I left it off my list, so just move it to the top!
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Deus_Nova
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Posted: December 26 2007 at 13:31 |
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Porcupine Tree - Fadeaway
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Porcupine Tree - Trains
Tool - Schism
Pain Of Salvation - Dedication
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TGM: Orb
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Posted: December 28 2007 at 13:49 |
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If it's based on sheer emotion, then probably the following.
In no particular order, with adrenaline placed beside tragedy.
1. 21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson
2. Echoes - Pink Floyd
3. Islands - King Crimson
4. And You And I - Yes
5. Lady Fantasy - Camel
6. Lizard - King Crimson (particularly Prince Rupert's Lament)
7. Wond'ring Aloud - Jethro Tull
8. Starless - King Crimson
9. Epitaph - King Crimson
10. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight - Genesis
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