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anael

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Posted: January 18 2006 at 00:18

i think is gotta be one of New Trolls Concerto Grosso I

or Vaka by Sigur Rós

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Posted: January 18 2006 at 00:21

"The Bed" by Lou Reed from his Berlin album.Come to think of it probably most tracks from that album.

The Lamia is pretty sad too prog wise.

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Posted: January 18 2006 at 07:38

Winter Wine wrote:

SORROW by Pink Floyd, that song just rocks, if that brought tears to your eyes you were dropped on your head as a child.

I can't think of a sadder thing tan a pointless life with no reason to live. A life whose only positive thing is a memory you're not sure if it's true. It's better to lost someone and keep its memory than non having met anyone special in your whole life.

By th way, my head was fine last time I checked. Thanks for your interest.

Pd.: I know, my english is awful

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Posted: January 18 2006 at 08:20

Phil Collins, any of Dream Theater's ballad's (ie. Space-dye vest, Disappear, Through her eyes), and any of Sonata Arctica's ballads (like Tallulah xD)

"I'm sorry, this illusion, has caused you a lot of pain. And I have no solution, I'll try to never be back again."
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Posted: January 18 2006 at 08:29

justin wrote:

Anything by Anathema in particular a song called "Lost Control"

So true..... Alternative 4 is the album i put when i am depressed. Songs like feel and fragile dreams make me wanna cry .When they come in greece and play those live u can see three groups of people. One singing as loud as they can, the other crying and the third one calling their girlfriends telling them how much they love them.....

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Posted: January 18 2006 at 09:03

Saddest prog songs:

King Crimson - Epitaph
Renaissance - Island
Genesis - Ripples...

Saddest non-prog songs:

The Band - Whispering Pines
Led Zeppelin - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
John Lennon - Jealous Guy

These songs make me cry

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Posted: January 18 2006 at 09:13

Howabout - Spirit of the water by Camel, this was written by the late Pete Bardens and was performed at their last ever gig in Sheffield. Andy Latimer dedicated it to Pete. It's a very melancholy song, certainly Camel's saddest song.

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Posted: January 18 2006 at 09:40

Saddest prog song for me is Porcupine Tree - Stop Swimming.

Maybe it's time to stop swimming Maybe it's time to find out where I'm at What I should do and where I should be But no-one will give me a map

This part of the lyrics gets me every time I listen to it, it's just a perfect description of my life.
Pink Floyd - Nobody Home is also an extremely sad song.

The two saddest non-prog songs imo are both Blind Melon-songs, Soul One and Mouthful of Cavities. Shannon Hoon sings with this rough, almost painful edge in his voice that helps make these two songs masterpieces.

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With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D. and you still have the frog you started with.

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Posted: January 18 2006 at 10:30

Genesis- seven stones

Shadow gallery- hope for us?

Dream theter- space dye vest

Marillion- Angelina, Fantastic place

Look in the mirror...my friend!

Peter

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Posted: January 18 2006 at 12:03

I can name many, many sad songs, in many genres.

There is no "saddest song ever," as the response to a song will always be an individual thing that is coloured by the listener's individual life experiences and associations. Stern Smile

Let's say two people look at a painting of a clown: The first starts to laugh, the second to cry.

For #1, clowns are funny, and one of the best days of his childhood was when his parents took him to the circus, where he had a really great time.

For #2, clowns are sad, because during the drive home from the circus, there was a terrible car accident, and both his parents were killed.

Both are "valid" responses.

(An extreme example, I know, but hopefully making my point.)

Song X was couple A's wedding theme -- they are still happily married.

Song X was also couple B's wedding theme, but she died of cancer six months after they were wed.

Our reactions to art are always coloured by our unique personalities and life experiences. We are each different, and so are our tastes.

On a related note, I have seen teen boys (encouraged by our society to be "tough" and to not express sensitivity) laugh callously at a painful scene in a movie, and cheer deaths, while some of the girls (encouraged more by society to express emotion) weep quietly.

I like the girls' reaction much better. Stern Smile

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O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
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Posted: January 18 2006 at 13:02

No doubt it is all subjective Peter, yet it is fun so :

I think "My room" by VDGG is sadder than "A house with no door" (waiting for them to be broken ...).

I think "The letters" by KC is a nice choice but for me the saddest crimson must be the end of "The battle of glass tears" (the end of Lizard) where I can hear via the music that the battlefield is full of corps of another useless war.

Rock bottom is an album, not a song. I support that it is a very sad album and my choice goes to "Alifib" which is the saddest song for me (yet, one of the few songs I will never get tired of hearing) . For me, "Rock bottom" will allways be one of my desert island albums.

omri

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Posted: January 18 2006 at 13:10

Vauxdvihl - Separate Ends

IQ - Zero Hour

The Church - Under the Milkyway Tonight

GY!BE - The Dead Flag Blues

those are the ones that always get me

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Posted: January 18 2006 at 14:30

god has failed / RPWL

you'll never be forgotten
you've always on my mind
i look into the mirror
a good friend is hard to find
could anyone please tell me
if all was fixed before
this year spring comes to early
cause god has failed once more
the pictures i've found
your face looks still the same
whenever i'm a sleep
my heart will call your name
to tell about your life
is all about your life
is all i can do for you
your end has come to early
cause god has failed once more

Heroes Never Die / Mostly Autumn Live with the screen movies of all you favourite heroes passing by... sad....

The ways, the ins and outs of haven still elude us to the end
The tears, the sun the rain, I feel them on my face against my skin
We love you then, we love you still
And don't you know, don't you know that heroes never die,
They sail forever

Slow the rain falls, the memories blowing through
I stand with arms outstretched to catch the warmth of you
Eyes to the heavens, screaming at the skies,
Trying to send you messages, still choking on goodbyes
And I wonder why.

Gold November, yellow brown and green
I try to picture you somewhere in between
Cold the night falls, shadows drawing in,
The glimpse I had of you is torn in the wind
And I wonder why, tracing paths, we search the stormy sky.
The ways, the ins and outs of heaven still elude us to the end.
The tears, the sun the rain, I feel them on my face against my skin.
We loved you then, we love you still and don't you know, don't you know
That heroes never die, they sail forever.

Close my eyes now, and focus on the light.
You are more beautiful and never out of sight,
And tears that fall are blood from the heart, from the moment we part.
May I offer those tears for the love of the years
For the love

The ways the ins and outs of heaven still elude us to the end
The tears, the sun and rain, I feel them on my face and on my skin
We loved you then, we love you still and don't you know, don't you know
The ways the ins and outs of heaven still elude us to the end
If he's the sun the rain, I feel him on my face against my skin,
And when I open up that door and think of where we used to roam
And laugh and smile and drink with friends with all the love you know we have.
Don't you know, that heroes never die, they sail forever.

Nick
from the lovely South of the Netherlands

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Posted: January 18 2006 at 14:48

Hmmm... I think one of the saddest songs I know, 'prog' or not, would be
Stop Swimming, by Porcupine Tree, from Stupid Dream.

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Posted: January 18 2006 at 14:51

oh, and to omri: Rock Bottom is one of my top ten albums of all time,
certainly a desert island album. I just discovered this website today, and
it's nice to see other folks who share my love of this exquisite music.

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Posted: January 18 2006 at 15:46

salmacis wrote:

Forgot 'The Wall' by Kansas; one of the most beautifully sad songs in prog that also has one of the finest vocal performances I've ever heard.

'Les Morts Dansant' by Magnum is really tear-jerking; the live versions particularly have real power and Bob Catley's vocal is a true stunner.

I almost forgot about "Les Morts Dansant". As a tribute to just how powerful the song is, Patty Smyth did a cover of it that was pretty damn good. In fact, that was how I came to know the song.

As someone else mentioned, the notion of how song a sad is can only be subjective to the listener. Reading over this list, I've seen a good number of songs that some consider sad that I find hopeful or uplifting.

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