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Jack Bruce - Morning Story


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

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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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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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^Ok, as usual, I have been here mostly with the sad music. But naturally I believe Anderson hasn´t put cheerful lyrics into any of his sad songs.
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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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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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Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

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.


Makes me recall Steve Hackett's "Every Day" from Spectral Mornings.

"You became a ghost to me long before you died..."
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An instrumental song, however, I think that The Way It Has to Be by Shawn Lane is a very emotional, sad piece.
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Illusion - Out of the Mist
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Hey, listen to Johnny Bob - you get this Album here:
https://tinyurl.com/JohnnyBob-bandcamp
https://tinyurl.com/JohnnyBob-amazon -
perhaps you will like it
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Some melancholic undercurrents ...
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Opeth - Damnation
Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine
King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon (especially the title track)
Astra - The Weirding
Almost all of PF's discography with emphasis on The Final Cut and the Division Bell.

EDIT: I shouldn't forget all the clean vox tracks sprinkled throughout Opeth's pre-Heritage discography.


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"All the iron turned to rust;
All the proud men turned to dust
And so all things, time will mend
So this song will end"
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I really have trouble thinking of 'sad' prog.. the one though that comes to my mind is the Narrow Way piece from Ummagumma. When going through my rough years and feeling sad, depressed and all that sh*t.. I'd love to put that on just to drive me lower and give me an excuse to drink more I suppose.
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Supertramp - Don't Leave Me Now
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Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

I think both Thick as a Brick and a Passion Play are full of really great, sad melodies.
"So come on all you criminals! I've got to put you straight
Just like I did with my old man twenty years too late" are two lines from Thick' that always strike a nerve with me. Make me think of missed opportunities with my own dad.
"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Losing It - Signals - Rush

The denouement of life and attrition of abilities
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Harmonium's Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
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Turn of the Century - Yes
Ocean Gypsy - Renaissance 
Entangled - Genesis
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Different Strings by Rush (Permanent Waves if memory serves me right) has a sad chord progression, and Geddy's singing is very sincere.
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^Both of those Rush-songs are my big favourites from after Hemispheres-albums.
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