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SandCastleVirtue 
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 Topic: Melancholic sounding prog?Posted: May 21 2012 at 11:24 |
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Could anyone recommend melancholic sounding prog albums and ones that may also transition from sad to uplifting atmospheres?
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Ambient Hurricanes
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 11:29 |
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye Those are a few pretty bleak ones to get started off with, I'll post some more later. Oh, two of the ballads (Far From Heaven and Beneath the Suface) from DT's newest are quite sad and very beautiful.
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progresssaurus
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 11:56 |
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For me is very nice melancholic Syd Barrett's The Madcap Laughs for example
And transition from sad to uplifting atmospheres? Maybe ... Mike Oldfield's Incantations
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HolyMoly
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 11:58 |
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
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sleeper
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 12:09 |
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White Willow- all of them but particualrly Terminal Twilight and Storm Season
I'll second the Kayo Dot album as well. |
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colorofmoney91
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 12:42 |
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Pretty much anything by Kayo Dot.
Comus - First Utterance Dead Can Dance - Serpent's Egg Espers first two albums. Fates Warning - Disconnected |
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Anthony H.
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 12:52 |
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Pretty much any post-rock works:
Also, some Opeth: Kayo Dot's Choirs of the Eye is one of the greatest albums ever recorded, but "melancholic" is a rather simplistic label for it. |
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Lima96
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 12:56 |
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White Willow - Storm Season
Iona - Open Sky |
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Dayvenkirq
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Quite a lot of ambient (Eno and Harold Budd) and Floyd's "space"-rock albums could fit the former description, particularly 'Absolutely Curtains' on "Obscured by Clouds" and "Shine On" (6-9) on "WYWH", that could fit the latter.
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sagichim
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 13:23 |
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When i think melancholy I immediately remember Radiohead.
Aren't they the world's most melancholic band? |
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Ambient Hurricanes
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JS19
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Seconded. Also two words: Steven. Wilson.
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Fox On The Rocks
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I second that. May I also recommend: Tangerine Dream - Zeit Kayo Dot - Choirs Of The Eye Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place 65daysofstatic - One Time For All Time |
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Green Shield Stamp
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 15:48 |
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I would say pretty much any album by Anathema
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 18:36 |
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Perhaps something from "Le Orme"... who knows what they are singing about (well, the italians do), but it sure sound melancholic.
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rogerthat
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 19:16 |
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The second Quella Vecchia Locanda album.
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m2thek
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 20:27 |
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Big Big Train - The Difference Machine
King Crimson - A Scarcity of Miracles Though I'm not in love with either
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Posted: May 21 2012 at 20:38 |
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Univers Zero - Heresie
Present - Certitudes Shub Niggurath - Les Mort Von Vite |
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Lima96
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Gerinski
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I do not have The Difference Machine but Big Big Train's The Underfall Yard is also pretty melancholic and excellent.
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