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    Posted: May 19 2012 at 06:15
Originally posted by coolerking

I'm not given to overt displays of emotion but there are moments in Ramases' 'Glass Top Coffin' that really strike home.  The album has, to my mind, a unique tone: one I can best describe as defiantly elegiac.  By that I mean it isn't sombre or depressing - it is largely positive in spirit and at times quite upbeat - but it has a sort of resigned fatalism, almost as if Ramases knew it would be the last thing he'd ever record.

And when you learn some of the scant facts about his life, it takes on a poignancy that is extremely moving.  

Interesting.  I would never think of Ramases music as something that would induce tears, but you're right that there is something about his songs that transcend time, age, social norms and even general musical conventions.  At times I think he sounded an awful lot like a (less-talented) Roy Orbison.
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Some of my favourite guitar playing is in the song Selkies: The Endless Obsession by Between The Buried and Me. That solo is Sublime and builds to a Cathartic climax.
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I don't actually begin to cry, but listening to the Soon part of Gates of Delirium gets me pretty darn close.
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though not prog, i always get tears in my eyes when i hear the Moxy song "Easy Come, Easy Go" from their 1978 album Under The Lights
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Just thought of another prog tear jerker: "Elegy" by Jethro Tull. 
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Monsters & Men by Flower Kings as an example of sheer beauty causing shivers down the spine combined with a single tear. Almost too good to be true Cry
 
Where emotion is concerned Edge of the World by Pendragon where Barrett gives an ode to their Polish friends/fans with such deeply moving vocals and acoustic guitar play it's pretty unique and imho unsurpassed
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Originally posted by Gerinski

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Certainly not prog, but  Albinoni's Adagio in G minor always ties my heart into knots. I've shared great heart aches with this beautiful piece of music.
 
 
 
Undoubtedly a masterpiece, as is Barber's Adagio.
 
 

Thank you Gerinski! What a beautiful piece. So much emotion, really vibrates deep down inside.
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I have not cried because of any song, altough some songs just makes my mind go blank and i can on the way of shreeding a tear (but it never comes :() one exempal is the shimmering ending in Transatlantics " All of the Above", after such an epic song and majestic reprise of the main theme, it goes into this sort of ambient style of music and slowly fades away. I was stunned first time I heard it and moved.
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The coda to "Stardust We Are" by The Flowerkings makes me tear up.
 "The Enigmatic Spirit" by Vintersorg makes me tear up
"Black Lake Niostang" by Agalloch. The vocal delivery evokes  overwhelming metaphysical despair.
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Yes..
I really got sad when I listen to Epitaph or In The Wake of Poseidon, Ice (Camel) or Marooned (Pink Floyd).
And cry sometimes..
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Oh excellent!

Epitaph is a tear jerker. I totally agree.
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Supertramp, Crime of the century... The song "Hid in your Shell" makes me cry, it's not the lyrics it's the music, the minor chords... etc...
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No, I rarely cry. But sad music does move me in a special way - it creates that strange feeling inside me that eats my mind, really.

Edited by mister nobody - June 04 2012 at 17:49
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Originally posted by nima1024

Yes..
I really got sad when I listen to Epitaph or In The Wake of Poseidon, Ice (Camel) or Marooned (Pink Floyd).
And cry sometimes..
I forgot about "Ice" by Camel.  That is a very emotional song.
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marillion- misplaced childhood; bitter suite: not sure which 'part' , but when the narrator goes with the streetwalker- 'i can hear your heart'...  the whole album is emotionally true... the tragedy of the average man and woman... impossibility of connection... so many nights...
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Prog-related: Popol Vuh's "Hosianna Mantra", the part that is in the major key where oboe and female vocal lead, has just made my eyes soak up as I was listening to it in my head. I'm feeling nostalgic now.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - June 20 2012 at 02:21
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I have no clue why, but Yes' Circus of Heaven made me come close to crying.
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There are a few prog peices that have uplifted me to the point of feeling flushed and watery eyed, but I don't remember one actually making me cry.
Camel's "Rainbow's End" is pretty touching. Yes's "Turn of the Century" has it's moments as well.
"A Kind of Eden" at the end of "Posthumous Silence" by Sylvan within the context of the rest of the album is incredibly emotional, and blows me away to the point of watering up Embarrassed

With that being said, some of the best tear jerker's I listen to are so far from prog.

Not to get off topic but...

quite possibly the most tear jerking tear jerker of songs Cry

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Some song have something inside that just runs tears into eyes. Brain damage/Eclipse and A Plague OLK are mighty.
It doesn't feel so very bad now,
I think the end is the start.
Begin to feel very glad now.
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