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    Posted: May 21 2012 at 11:24
Could anyone recommend melancholic sounding prog albums and ones that may also transition from sad to uplifting atmospheres?

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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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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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Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
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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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Pretty much anything by Kayo Dot.
Comus - First Utterance
Dead Can Dance - Serpent's Egg
Espers first two albums.
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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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White Willow - Storm Season
Iona - Open Sky
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Dayvenkirq Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2012 at 13:05
Originally posted by SandCastleVirtue

Could anyone recommend melancholic sounding prog albums and ones that may also transition from sad to uplifting atmospheres?

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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When i think melancholy I immediately remember Radiohead.

Aren't they the world's most melancholic band?
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Originally posted by Lima96


Iona - Open Sky

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Post Options Post Options   Quote JS19 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2012 at 14:52
Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes

Originally posted by Lima96


Iona - Open Sky

wut

Seconded.

Also two words: Steven. Wilson.
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Originally posted by HolyMoly

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

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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I would say pretty much any album by Anathema 
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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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The second Quella Vecchia Locanda album.
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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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Univers Zero - Heresie
Present - Certitudes
Shub Niggurath - Les Mort Von Vite
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Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes

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Iona - Open Sky

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Originally posted by m2thek

Big Big Train - The Difference Machine
King Crimson - A Scarcity of Miracles

Though I'm not in love with either
 
 
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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