Album/releases that have deeply moved you

Bruce Dickinson - Balls to Picasso

Even shaped my personality to a notable extent.


Ah, I see that this is the Prog Music Lounge...

Then, Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite, it is.


I listened to Dream Theater - Awake in or around the year 1997, first... I can say that it is sort of the progenitor of my prog metal fandom. However, Symphony X - V have had a massively greater impact on me.

Edited by Archisorcerus - May 08 2025 at 13:54

Archisorcerus wrote: Even shaped my personality to a notable Ah, I see that this is the Prog Music Lounge... Then, Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite, it is. I listened to Dream Theater - Awake in or around the year 1997, first... I can say that it is sort of the progenitor of my prog metal fandom. However, Symphony X - V have had a massively greater impact on me.

Great album and welcome back.

Does moving deeply albums mean anything more than my favorite albums? That Morricone soundtrack would be in my top 5 all music styles. If it's move me it has to be my favorite.

Big Sky wrote: ... Morricone is awesome. One of my favorite scores in any movie was the one he did for The Mission. I did not see it on it's original release in 1986. It was recommended to me by one of my Professors who I was doing a paper for. ...

Hi,

His soundtracks stand out a lot, and are very distinctive, and the nice thing is that you remember a lot of moments because of it, even though you might not realize that until someone mentions it.

If you see the special on his work, which has a lot of him in it, and how he decided to do what he did, there was a part of it that is special, and only a handful of soundtrack composers EVER got that touch and taste. The telling moment is when he eft a film because he thought it would go better if the director did it this way or that, and the director refused ... and it didn't work, and the director finally said that he decided to take a look at what Ennio had done or thought of.

The idea/fact, is, and it is clear in the fine special, Ennio was a "visual" composer, and we can see that in a lot of the films when the director allows the music to live ... and at that moment, there is no film that you and I will ever not enjoy because it has moments that you almost cry when you hear it and see it.

Vangelis got it done several times, Maurice Jarre did as well, though David Lean was not exactly very good at using music, but he realized that he had something great and he better use it, and he did which made some films really far out, specially Dr. Zhivago.

But there are others. Bernardo Bertolucci does not exactly open up his films to Ryuichi Sakamoto, but when he did, Ryuichi created special moments in the films. You first saw this in "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" and while Bertolucci was not a good music director, the combination of the visual with Vittorio Storaro, creating images in color, helped make the music better. You (likely) won't see this until you watch VISIONS OF LIGHT, a film about cinematographers that shows how some directors are not exactly as good as we all think/thought.

But even the albums by these folks are excellent. Riuichi's soundtrack for the Buddha film is fantastic, though some of it is in the background of the film, and that is really sad. One would wish that it was better used, but I think it might have added something to the film that we can not explain well, or help the child and the film at all.

The best album, of all, as a soundtrack, is obviously Vangelis release of the BLADE RUNNER film ... it is moving just as it is, and you can not help thinking that you want the words with the music, and how it was done in the film. Because there are some outstanding things that a director can only dream of when making a film ... and Vangelis added to it magnificently, as he was very good at interpreting the "visual" with music, which says a lot for his music.

In many ways, some of these moved me more than a lot of rock music works, though I can not say that for Mysterious Semblance At The Strand of Nightmares, and then it all became a sort of 2001 opening at the Cinerama Dome ... you can't help not only get moved, but your innards sure felt it!

Rock music did not, for me, have enough of these moments and a lot of it was dependant on the lyrics ... but I can tell you that listening to Renate, is insane in the piece "MOZAMBIQUE" as the feeling is incredibly strong and capable of inciting a revolution ... it is a fighting song and then some ... but while this is very moving as a very serious and strong intent, it is the philosophy in APOCALIPTYC BORE that is more moving ... after all the dope, nothing mattered anymore and it is hard to not cry at the good moments we all had that not only will be forgotten, they will all be ignored as inconsequential and stupid, which is the case now in many ways when folks ignore the history of things.

Every moment in history has some neat things in it ... though the 1960's has been trashed senselessly to the point of it making all the music bad and not worth anything. I can tell you that I love to sing ... the "mf'r" lyric ...everytime I get angry at the politicians and their stupidity and excuses. But, we love our cheap "progrock" and even more the lack of importance in the work altogether, when compared to other arts if you put these on a paper side by side ... a lot of the music today in progressive and progrock, has no chance to go anywhere, and it says it all about its state of the art ... it ain't art ... it's just a song!

Edited by moshkito - Yesterday at 08:00

rdtprog wrote: Does moving deeply albums mean anything more than my favorite albums? That Morricone soundtrack would be in my top 5 all music styles. If it's move me it has to be my favorite.

For me it means more than that. I tried to share and explain some of my emotional connection to the music. I have more Morricone albums that any other artist/act, especially from the 70s and 60s. I have found it nice to see a wide cross-section of people, ones who appreciate different kinds of Prog (be it Prog Metal, Avant Prog, Neo-Prog and Symph Prog lovers etc.), loving Morricone music. The ones for the westerns especially get lots of notice. While I love various 60s ones by him, most of my favourites by him are from the early to mid 70s.

Lewian wrote: Holger Czukay has moved me very strongly with some of his works where he uses some samples and sounds that seem to touch the deepest layers. Maybe the best example is Mirage from the Good Morning Story album, which I love overall with more moving music even though it needs some time and patience to get going. Holger Czukay - Mirage

I will check that out later. I really like his Movies, Full Circle with Jah Wobble & Jaki Liebezeit and I have enjoyed Der Osten ist rot (but know/remember that less well than the others I mentioned). I got more into him because of you. Wonderful artist.

For this thread, I was thinking more about the album evoking an emotional (touchy-feely) response other than … wow, that’s really cool. More like hits you in the gut or makes you sad or nostalgic or angry or something. Was that the aim?

Two songs from Helmut Koellen's solo album You Won't See Me; the song Playin' This Song Together, which is basically about unity and brotherhood with music, is really emotionally stirring and moving, and also another track, a sad song that is moving as well, Helmut's song The Story Of Life, about someone who lives "the high life" and doesn't quite get what it is doing to them, but experiencing that song does illuminate what it means, and therefore is moving, as well as being sad...

The very end of the 1975 Banco English lyric album Banco, the track Traccia II, the stirring piano intro is deeply moving to me....

Triumvirat's Mister Ten Percent suite, right when Jurgen Fritz is elaborating on solo piano, just before the vocals begin, I find that deeply moving emotionally every time I hear it....

The middle section for solo piano from Triumvirat's A Day In My Life suite; it gets me every time....

Edited by presdoug - Yesterday at 15:17

Yes - Topographic: For me, the most emotionally connecting Yes album and one of the most spiritual and beautiful rock albums.

Joni Mitchell - Blue
Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Arlo - Hobo's Lullaby
Kate - Kick Inside and Lionheart
Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily and "Verdi Cries"
Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
John Frusciante - DC EP
Floyd - DSotM

Also many songs by Cat Stevens, Elton John, Carpenters (yes, really)
"Ten Years Gone" by LZ
"Accidentally Like a Martyr" by Zevon

I know I didn't get into why as requested, but most of these are simply either beautiful, sad, or tied to deep moments in my life.

Jaketejas wrote: For this thread, I was thinking more about the album evoking an emotional (touchy-feely) response other than … wow, that’s really cool. More like hits you in the gut or makes you sad or nostalgic or angry or something. Was that the aim?

In that case, I'd suggest the excellent "For My Lady" by the Moody Blues! Very romantic!