Sad prog - Progressive Rock Music Forum

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"?

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Strawbs have a lot of melancholy and sadness at times in their catalogue - going back to The Battle, Oh How She Changed, I Turned My Face into the Wind and Hangman and the Papist etc. Of course they do anger well too! New World is pure anger and all the better for it!

“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”

Höstsonaten does reflective and "lonely" sounding music quite well.

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.

^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.

Edited by Mortte - March 10 2018 at 23:08

Came into my mind that Fairport Convention has made quite many really great, sad songs for example I don´t 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.

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

micky wrote:

verslibre wrote:

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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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

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)