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Posted: April 13 2012 at 22:31
Riuku wrote:
I think it hits me more because if I recall that collection he wrote it with his daughter, or for her or something, and then she died.
^Yes, he wrote it about watching meteor showers and such with his daughter. It's one of my favorites from "Presto," which is one of my favorite Rush albums.
It strikes me as paradoxical that a critter as avowedly intellectual, unsentimental and cerebral as Fripp, that his achingly poignant guitar lead on Starless from 'Red' always has me on the verge of tears (maybe this says more about me than Fripp?)
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Posted: April 13 2012 at 23:21
Both had given everything they had. A-a-aa-a-a-aa-a-a-aa-a-a-... A lover's dream had been fulfilled at last, Forever still beneath the lake.
And Hackett's guitar (1:54-2:10), for some reason. Not that I shedded a tear, but I was about to. I don't know why since this song conceptually doesn't sound like a tear-jerker.
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Posted: April 13 2012 at 23:31
There is so much music that is achingly beautiful and quite often can make me tear up. There are so many songs and parts of songs- even solos, that can do this to me. I second the mention of Echolyn's "Never The Same". Marillion has probably done it to me more than anyone though. "Beautiful", "Waiting To Happen", "Neverland", "Easter", "The Invisible Man", "When I Meet God".... on and on. Then, of course, there are guitar solos. Many of Hackett's- especially the second solo he does in the song "Muttersprache" on Gordian Knot's "Emergent" album. It's truly sublime. I'm also moved by Bill Nelson's solo In "Crying To The Sky" and the one he does for "Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape" on the "Live- In the Air Age" album. And then, well you get the idea- it just goes on and on. Honestly, it's these moments I listen to this music for. It's profoundly personal and very satisfying.
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Posted: April 14 2012 at 11:27
"Good Morning Captain" by the band Slint (not prog; but very early math/post-rock band). When you realize what the song is about, it hits you like a train. It might be one of the saddest songs I've ever heard. Kicks butt, too.
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The other day I cried listening to Atom Heart Mother, which I've been listening to for almost forty years without crying. I cried because I was hit by the sudden realisation that I want it played at my funeral.
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Posted: April 14 2012 at 14:32
La Princesse Perdue from The Snow Goose does it every time.
The Snow Goose flying back from Dunkirk after Rhayader's death to say farewell to Fritha before leaving forever for her home in the North is extremely emotional and Camel's interpretation is perfect.
Disappear and Space-Dye Vest by Dream Theater get me depressed but don't really make me cry - Although I may have once or twice. I think that Lizard by King Crimson was pretty close once. I'm missing several other songs, but for most of them I just shed tears for Nostalgic purposes.
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Posted: April 14 2012 at 23:51
The end of Close to the Edge pretty much always gets me close to tears whenever I give it a good listen. I think it might be the impact that that work had on my life and the connection I'll always feel with it. Like you with Pink Floyd, something about the universal connection and introspective nature of the lyrics, how it relates to life, I'm almost always taken to the pre-cry stage, as you call it.
I've more often been moved in that way while listening to opera though, which is funny since I don't listen to it as often as I should. Who knows how or why music affects us like that. :P
The human heart instrinsically longs for that which is true, good, and beautiful. This is why timeless music is never without these qualities.
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Posted: April 15 2012 at 00:30
Guldbamsen wrote:
cstack3 wrote:
Yes' "To Be Over" helped me through the ordeal of the death of my grandmother, it was a perfect song for that.
When my mom died a few years ago, I couldn't get the Pink Floyd song "Comfortably Numb" out of my mind. Comfortably numb is exactly how I felt.
The songs themselves didn't bring tears, but they were part of the grief experience, and for this I am grateful.
Great post monsieur stack.
Very forthright and something I can relate to.
I truly treasure when PA gets "real" and "tangible", and your words just did that for me.
Thank you for that! They were two of the most traumatic, yet amazing, moments of my life, and I was glad to have this music with me. I'm sure others on PA have similar experiences, it would be nice to hear them as well!
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