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Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

OPETH - Damnation

I'll second that, and add "IN the Mist of Morning" by NORDAGUST
and the Finnish group TENHI, with a preference for the first 3 albums
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Dream Theater's song "Space Dye Vest" should work wonderfully.
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I think people are forgetting what the OP is asking for, which is sad/emotional prog from the 60s and 70s.
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Van der Graaf Generator - House With No Door
Peter Hammill - This Side of the Looking Glass
Amon Düül 2 - Jalousie
Robert Calvert - Hero With a Wing
Robert Calvert - Catch a Falling Starfighter

the Robert Calvert songs are a double-edged sword though; the music is certainly very sad but the lyrics are quite satirical



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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

I think people are forgetting what the OP is asking for, which is sad/emotional prog from the 60s and 70s.


Oh yeah, I had forgotten that. On my previous post I did inculde mostly 70's prog though. Still, Space Dye Vest might be worth checking out.
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Sylvan's Posthumous Silence is one of the saddest and emotional prog concept albums I have heard with a bit of despair and hope thrown in.
(OK not 60/70's but it is 10 years old).
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Renaissance's Novella album.  Turn of the Cards too, for that matter.
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Two more suggestions. 

The Italian band Quella Vecchia Locanda.  VERY emotional and I don't know Italian.

Barclay James Harvest.  Not frightfully prog but definitely very sad and emotional again.  Esp the song Mocking Bird.
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Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:


The Italian band Quella Vecchia Locanda.  VERY emotional and I don't know Italian.


I second this. Their self-titled debut is very moving, and their second album, Il Tempo Della Gioia has some melancholy stuff on it, too.
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Mouth of the Architect - Pine Boxes
Jethro Tull - Wond'ring Aloud, Grace, Nursie, Lifeis a Long Song, Jack-A-Lynn
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Originally posted by HemispheresOfXanadu HemispheresOfXanadu wrote:

Mouth of the Architect - Pine Boxes
Jethro Tull - Wond'ring Aloud, Grace, Nursie, Lifeis a Long Song, Jack-A-Lynn

We can certainly add Look into the Sun to the Tull list of sad songs.


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David Sylvian-How Little We Need to be Happy

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ABWH-the Meeting
Yes - onward (possibly)
Jethro Tull - Look Into the Sun
Genesis - For Absent Friends
Genesis - Stagnation (again, possibly, not necessarily sad but emotional)
Peter Gabriel - Mercy Street
Pink Floyd- Wish you were here
And I'm sorry to all who hate Love Beach... But ELP's Memoirs of anOfficer and a Gentleman
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^Nice list there (the ELP rec I can forgiveTongue).

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Some other suggestions I have are After The Flood by Van Der Graff. Prog songs about floods are usually good.

A bit strange but I also suggest most of Ramases' Glass Top Coffin. It has that 50's/60's filmscore vibe on Golden Landing (parts 1 & 2). Sweet Reason and Only the Loneliest Feeling are good too. Probably one of the few prog albums to make me feel emotional. 
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Maybe not 'prog' but Changes by Black Sabbath works well too. 
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Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

OPETH - Damnation
PETER HAMMILL - Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night
Two, incredibly emotional albums.........

Silent Corner and the Empty Stage ... is specially emotional and brutal ... and excellent at the same time. And still stands as one of my favorite PH albums!

In general, I do not like to characterize albums this way, since it is all an individual perception. I mean, PH is strong, but that's like saying that Bob Dylan's cynicism is not a sharp knife! The real question is, how it translates into a piece of music.

In general, I do not like to consider things "sad" ... because many times they are an anthem/hymn to that person and a true prayer in the best intention of the word. Otherwise, Fairport Convention's 
One More Chance (Rising for the Moon album), will be the saddest things ever recorded, since Sandy Denny did not have one more chance and passed away shortly after. And if you hear the remastered version of her doing this song on piano, it is the scariest thing ever. It was almost like she knew already and was hoping to get a 2nd chance! 

Not only sad, but also scary!


Edited by moshkito - August 12 2016 at 06:31
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