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A good portion of IQ's The Wake perhaps
A Salty Dog - Procol Harum
Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles (that's hard to beat!)
Fallen Angel - King Crimson



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I really like Edison's Childrens' In the Last Waking Moments when I'm feeling melancholy. Somehow their second album didn't impress me, but the first one is excellent. 

Peter Hammill of course has a big bunch of great sad songs on his albums: just to name a few, one could check out Again, Shingle song, Too Many of My Yesterdays, Empire of Delight, Four Pails, A Way Out, The Top of The World Club, Milked... (and many many others)
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^Ok, as usual, I have been here mostly with the sad music. But naturally I believe Anderson hasnīt put cheerful lyrics into any of his sad songs.
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Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

^Well, in Jethro`s discography there are much more sad songs than happy songs. I think both Thick as a Brick and a Passion Play are full of really great, sad melodies. And on the other hand, Aqualung starts much more powerful, also maybe little more angry music than sad music and just in the middle comes that beautiful sad part.

Nothing to Say has also always been one of my sad faves from Jethro.


I was thinking more of the lyrics than the sound of the music, though indeed that middle sad part is remarkable. However, the song being about a homeless man and his pains at life... well, it just can't get any sadder than someone who, somehow, has lost everything.
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Not sure if this qualifies, but its mood is certainly not uppity. No vocals for the first 4 minutes, btw.
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Jack Bruce - Morning Story


I'm actually starting to like his solo stuff more than Cream

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In Lisbon - you can't miss

http://casanostra.pt/info.html

(and everything's cholesterol free, of course hahaha - or at least it's the Mediterranean variety, much lighter and tastier)
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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

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sad prog?...   nah... no idea for prog is the last type of music I think to reach for when I've got the blues man.


Now if you had asked for Horny Prog... or Angry Prog..  or Drunken Prog... now we'd be talking..  lots of great stuff there man.

What would fall under Hungry Prog? "Cat Food"? 

ahh... RPI man.. every band sounds like a f**king dish at the Olive Garden... sh*t makes me hungry everytime I listen to it.

Olive Garden?! That's not even Italian. That's frozen food, salads and bread sticks. 

good God man.. rough crowd here.  I thought naming my favorite Italian resturants which probably few here have ever heard of would be a joke killer. Shows what I know hahah.. good thing I didn't quit my day job to be a stand up prog comedian.

This thread needs a good rerail anyway.. so what are everyone's favorites. Here are my two

god I love their pizza and Saltimbocca


and my absolute favorite... oh the salchicha...   so great I said the hell with my Chorestoral levels and just ate to my heart's content.. of course I paid for it later hahah
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Storm Corrosion (a collab between Steven Wilson and Akerfeldt) has beautiful song called Drag Ropes. Sadly most of the other songs in the album don't live up to the same level.

some other stuff: 
Van Der Graaf - Pilgrims - the band has these very melancholic and manic shifts, makes for really dark songs
Genesis - For Absent Friends - a bit of an intermission in the album, not really proggy
Pretend - Those Luminous Noises are God - in case you like postrock, simple guitar noodling and vocals, but stacked for a very heavy and complex song
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Justice for Saint Mary
SW himself, both at his solo work and at PT, liked composing sad stuff
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Neal Morse's new song is poppy as hell but He Died At Home is an extremely sad song.
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

sad prog?...   nah... no idea for prog is the last type of music I think to reach for when I've got the blues man.


Now if you had asked for Horny Prog... or Angry Prog..  or Drunken Prog... now we'd be talking..  lots of great stuff there man.

What would fall under Hungry Prog? "Cat Food"? 

ahh... RPI man.. every band sounds like a f**king dish at the Olive Garden... sh*t makes me hungry everytime I listen to it.

Olive Garden?! That's not even Italian. That's frozen food, salads and bread sticks. 
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Peter Gabriel has many, more so from his solo career:

Here Comes the Flood
Wallflower
Don't Give Up
Biko
Digging in the Dirt
San Jacinto

et cetera


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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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One that readily comes to mind (although it's poppy - sorry) is Steve Hackett's Give It Away off Highly Strung. It's observations about love's labors lost are too right and leave me feeling rather somber.
"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Well...in the prog area one of the saddest has to be Starless by Crimson....the lyrics and music are about as down as you can get.

"But my eyes turned within only see.. starless and bible black..."
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Came into my mind that Fairport Convention has made quite many really great, sad songs for example I donīt Know Where I Stand, Fotheringay, Genesis Hall, Tam Lin, Sloth & Doctor of Physick. Naturally also Fotheringay, Sandy Denny & Judy Dyble have made many great sad songs.
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^Well, in Jethro`s discography there are much more sad songs than happy songs. I think both Thick as a Brick and a Passion Play are full of really great, sad melodies. And on the other hand, Aqualung starts much more powerful, also maybe little more angry music than sad music and just in the middle comes that beautiful sad part.

Nothing to Say has also always been one of my sad faves from Jethro.


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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Ian Anderson has written some very sad songs:

Pibroch (Cap in Hand)
Crash Barrier Waltzer
Farm on the Freeway
We Used to Know
Orion
Sossity, Your a Woman
From a Deadbeat to an Old Greaser
Flying Dutchman


How can you mention sad songs from Jethro Tull and not include "Aqualung"?
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Ian Anderson has written some very sad songs:

Pibroch (Cap in Hand)
Crash Barrier Waltzer
Farm on the Freeway
We Used to Know
Orion
Sossity, Your a Woman
From a Deadbeat to an Old Greaser
Flying Dutchman


"Farm on the Freeway" gets me every time - probably because it touches a nerve. Great song, one of Tull's best, both musically and lyrically. There are also a lot of very sad RPI songs, though you would have to know Italian to appreciate them fully. Banco's "750.000.000 anni fa... l'amore" is heartbreakingly beautiful, but the English translation available online does not do justice to the lyrics.
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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

sad prog?...   nah... no idea for prog is the last type of music I think to reach for when I've got the blues man.


Now if you had asked for Horny Prog... or Angry Prog..  or Drunken Prog... now we'd be talking..  lots of great stuff there man.

What would fall under Hungry Prog? "Cat Food"? 

ahh... RPI man.. every band sounds like a f**king dish at the Olive Garden... sh*t makes me hungry everytime I listen to it.
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