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BaldJean 
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 Topic: Top 10 Most "Touching" Prog Songs
Posted: December 28 2007 at 15:48 |
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VdGG have been mentioned several times, but I wonder why no-one named "House with No Door" yet.
Peter Hammill's "This side of the Looking Glass"
one that always touches me is "Pharaoh" from the Amon Düül 2 album "Only Human" (which on the whole is better than its average rating, in my opinion, though it is not really a typical Amon Düül 2 album. but it is a good symphonic prog album which I would give 3 stars)
Robert Calvert`s "Hero With One Wing" is a touching song too, in my opinion
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 A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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Posted: December 28 2007 at 15:34 |
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Not very easy to find ten, but I'll try...
1. Veteran of the Psychic Wars - Blue Oyster Cult
2. Starless - KC
3. Epitaph - KC
4. Take a Pebble - ELP
5. Pull Out the Pin - Kate Bush
6. San Jacinto - Peter Gabriel
7. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
8. The Trees They Do Grow High - Pentangle
9. My God - Jethro Tull
10. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Edited by Ghost Rider - December 28 2007 at 15:36
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paolo.beenees
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Posted: December 28 2007 at 15:18 |
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^I love that band... If it weren't for my intention not to include suites, I would have put "Birth of Liquid Plejades"
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micky
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Posted: December 28 2007 at 14:51 |
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10 - Tangerine Dream Sequent C [/QUOTE wrote:
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I don't listen to that album enough... but put that on yesterday for sh*ts and grins and man alive is it a great one.
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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paolo.beenees
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Posted: December 28 2007 at 14:44 |
Emotional prog... there are so many emotional tracks out there so...
1 - Le Orme "Un Angelo"
2 - King Crimson "Island" (the song)
3 - Gila "In a Sacred Manner"
4 - Moody Blues "Watching and waiting"
5 - New Trolls "Una Miniera"
6 - Popol Vuh "Abschied"
7 - Pavlov's Dog "Late November" (I missed n. 7 out... I cannot count!!!  ) 8 - Roxy Music "2HB"
9 - Riccardo Zappa "Frammenti"
the last one, very difficult (I'd leave it blank for any suggestions, but I won't)
10 - Tangerine Dream "Sequent C"
Edited by paolo.beenees - December 28 2007 at 15:17
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ProgBagel
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Posted: December 28 2007 at 14:13 |
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A bunch of Pain of Salvation and Porcupine Tree songs. Very touching music indeed.
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micky
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Posted: December 28 2007 at 14:06 |
crimhead wrote:
kenmartree wrote:
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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! |
A great song off of a great album. Most understated and one of the least played songs off that album on the radio.
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very true....
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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crimhead
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Posted: December 28 2007 at 14:03 |
kenmartree wrote:
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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! |
A great song off of a great album. Most understated and one of the least played songs off that album on the radio.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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YesFan72
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Posted: December 21 2007 at 17:17 |
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Harmonium - Depuis l'Automne
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