Album/releases that have deeply moved you

Marillion: Brave.

Logan wrote: And Sufjan Stevens music often moves me., he too has had depression, he lost his partner, relatives, and his health and he sings about personal matters and while his music can be complex, it also can be simple and direct. And there is a sincerity to it. Something like "Fourth of July" touches me as one example. But his music bring on a slew of emotions.

I find Carrie and Lowell very moving.

Psychedelic Paul wrote: I honestly can't think of any prog albums that have passionately moved me, but I've always been deeply moved by film music - especially anything by John Barry, Philip Glass or Ennio Morricone - and I was so moved by Morricone's epic soundtrack to Once Upon a Time in the West that I actually felt like moving out West to see the dramatic vistas for myself, although in reality, I only got as far as the Monument Valley amusement arcade on Derby's outer ring road.

Paul,

Morricone is awesome. One of my favorite scores in any movie was the one he did for The Mission. I did not see it on it's original release in 1986. It was recommended to me by one of my Professors who I was doing a paper for.

That paper was on the War of the Triple Alliance (1864 - 1870) which pitted Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay against Paraguay. It was reported that 90% of the male Paraguayan population was lost during this war. That figure was considered unreliable. A more reliable study based on a 1871 census following the war put the percentage of males lost in that war at 60%. The Female to Male ratio following this census was 4 to 1.

By comparison, the American Civil War which, was fought in that same decade, it is estimated that 22.6% of the Southern male population between the age of 20 and 24 lost their lives in the Civil War in contrast to 60% of the entire male Paraguayan population.

I had gone down the rabbit hole of Paraguayan history. The Mission is based on events in the 1750s when Spain ceded parts of Paraguay to Portugal (Treaty of Madrid). These events led to the Guarani War (1754 - 1756) in which the Jesuits were heavily involved in. The movie is incredible and the film score just remarkable. Link below is just one part to this very moving score.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4iry4ko-zis&list=pl3aded8e9b336b068&index=14&pp=iaqb8aub

"Turn of the Century" by Yes always gets me.