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arnold stirrup View Drop Down

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Posted: April 21 2006 at 21:54

Stars Die - Porcupine Tree
For Absent Friends - Genesis
The Chequered Flag (Dead Or Alive) - Jethro Tull
Here Comes The Flood - Peter Gabriel (RF's Exposure version)

Edited by arnold stirrup - April 21 2006 at 21:57

So much music. So little time.

Rando

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Posted: April 21 2006 at 22:56

Well, staying within Prog or Proto Prog, I'll pick these sad ones.

EL&P - C'est La Vie - Nice Greg lake song. Melancholic and lovelorn. (From Works Vol. 1)

Genesis - Fading Lights - Nostalgic & reflective song by Tony banks. ( We Can't Dance)

The Moody Blues - Candle Of Life (To Our Children's Children...)

The Beatles - Eleanor rigby

Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up

Anthony Phillips - Which Way The Wind Blows

Mansun - The Chad Who Loved Me

- Music is Life, that's why our hearts have beats -

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Posted: April 21 2006 at 23:05

ALIFIB Robert Wyatt

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Posted: April 21 2006 at 23:18

I Turned You Down - Riverside

"I turned you down so hastily

And it's tearing me apart

In my heart of hearts I'm screaming

In my heart of hearts I cry

And it's cold

So cold"

Just one of the many saaaaad Riverside songs

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Posted: April 22 2006 at 07:35

Squonk1965 wrote:

Chicapah wrote:

"Please don't ask" from Duke -

"Oh, but I miss my boy

I hope he's good as gold..."

Gets me every time.

Great choice. I think that is easily the best song Phil Collins ever wrote in Genesis and on a hugely underrated album! Out of interest, does anyone remember the interview the band gave at the time the album came out in 1979? Phil said that they tried to get EWF Horns on the album but couldn't arrange it in time. Phew - how lucky was that!?

Agreed Please don't ask is an amazing song. At this stage Phil Collins was not the despised figure he was later to become in some sections of the prog community. I think Duke is canned because of MIsunderstanding bur actually a good prog album more proggier than ATTW3.I thought when it came out that Genesis were heading back to their earlier efforts. However hope was blown with Abacab

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Posted: April 22 2006 at 09:20

To me... the saddest of them all :
"Jigsaw" from Marillion's album "Fugazi".

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Marc Baum

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Posted: April 22 2006 at 09:48

Cannibal Corpse: Hammer Smashed Face

So sad

"All you need to do is sit back, and acquire the taste." - GENTLE GIANT

Marc Baum

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Posted: April 22 2006 at 10:00

Now seriously:

Porcupine Tree: Heartattack In A Lay By, Collapse Light Into Earth, Feel So Low, Stop Swimming, Lazarus

Riverside: Conciving You, I Believe, I Turned You Down

Van Der Graaf Generator: House With No Door, Refugees, Lost, Childlike Faith In Childhood's End

Pink Floyd: The Gunner's Dream, The Final Cut, Comfortably Numb, Wish You Were Here

Barclay James Harvest: Poor Man's Moody Blues, Suicide?, Nova Lepidoptera, Berlin

Marillion: The Great Escape, Script For A Jester's Tear

Dream Theater: Disappear, Space-Dye Vest, Through Her Eyes

Manic Street Preachers: Born A Girl, My Little Empire, Nobody Loved You

Only to mention some sad ones

"All you need to do is sit back, and acquire the taste." - GENTLE GIANT

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Posted: April 22 2006 at 10:21

get`m out by friday makes me sad....cause of the truth about how litle man can be made by multicapitalism.... lead by USA

Life is PROGRESSIVE

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Posted: April 22 2006 at 10:28

Robert Wyatt LITTLE CHILD makes me happysad... a lovely litle song!

Life is PROGRESSIVE

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Posted: April 22 2006 at 11:40

Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's "Hurt"....the only song I've ever heard on the radio that has ever made me tear up. Also, "In Loving Memory" by Alter Bridge (about the death of the guitarist's mother) and "Sequent 'C" by Tangerine Dream (it may be just a two-minute flute instrumental but it's one of the saddest things I've ever heard).

Edited by coffeeintheface - April 22 2006 at 11:43

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Posted: April 22 2006 at 12:01

Marc Baum wrote:

Cannibal Corpse: Hammer Smashed Face

So sad

Hahahah you convinced me to look up the lyrics and in all honesty something that stupid would cheer me up in three seconds! LOL

And how'd you get the hammer emoticon anyways? I can think of so many instances to use that in!

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Posted: April 22 2006 at 12:27

heyitsthatguy wrote:

[QUOTE=Marc Baum]Cannibal Corpse: Hammer Smashed Face

So sad

hahaha their entire discography is pretty sad actually, hahah.

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Posted: April 22 2006 at 15:01

Saddest song EVAH: Anathema's One Last Goodbye

Also their best, IMHO.

Jesus never managed to figure out the theremin either

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Posted: April 22 2006 at 15:59

Right now I can't think of a sadder song than ELP's "Daddy":

'It was a cold night in december
The snow lay on the ground
She was coming home from school one night
From the other side of town
It was getting late, there was something wrong
Then I heard the news
A tv flash and by 9 o’clock
They’d found her socks and shoes...'

You can give yourself an idea where this is going...

An old man dying is sad, but a little inocent creature's life being taken away by a mentally challenged b*****d is not only sad, but frustrating and indignating...

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Posted: April 22 2006 at 17:48

Marc Baum wrote:

Cannibal Corpse: Hammer Smashed Face

So sad

i know it gets me every time

i just wish i knew what he was saying!

When the world is sick
Can't no one be well
But I dreamt we were all
beautiful and strong

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Posted: April 22 2006 at 18:05

I love these songs but man are they sad.

Porcupine Tree - Heart Attack In A Layby, Feel So Low, Collapse the Light Into Earth, Lazarus. Feel So Low in particular gets me every time, the lyrics just hit me really deep. If you've ever been in a relationship that didn't end the way you wanted it to this song really hits home.

Godspeed - a lot could fit here. Storm in particular gets me every time. So does Sleep.

A Silver Mt. Zion - God Bless our Dead Marines. especially when he gets to the "lost a friend to..." part.

David Bowie - Space Oddity. "Ground control to Major Tom your circuit's dead there's something wrong. can you hear me major tom?"

The Who - Baba O' Riley and Behind Blue Eyes. Sea and Sand is pretty sad too.

Johnny Cash - Hurt. so so sad. i tear up every time i hear it.

Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven.

Annie Lennox - Into the West. This is the one from the Lord of the Rings movies.

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car.

Susanne Vega - Luka. the saddest child abuse song ive ever heard. its a great song, but to get the sadness you have to pay close attention to the lyrics.

Candlemass - Solitude. The most depressing song I have ever heard in my entire life. I have no idea how people enjoy this music

My Dying Bride - For My Fallen Angel. Again way too dark for me but i still think its a beautiful song.

Edited by lightbulb_son - April 22 2006 at 18:43

When the world is sick
Can't no one be well
But I dreamt we were all
beautiful and strong

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Posted: April 22 2006 at 18:21

oscar wrote:

get`m out by friday makes me sad....cause of the truth about how litle man can be made by multicapitalism.... lead by USA

Interesting, I always took that song to be about raceism.

Sadist songs that I can think of are:

Through Her Eyes- Dream Theater

Dissappear- DT

Nobody Home- Floyd (most of The Wall even)

Wish You Were Here- Floyd

Seasons End- Marillion

Chealse Monday- Marillion

Jigsaw- Marillion

The Invisable Man- Marillion (Stonies right, there not very cheery at times)

Red Dust Shadow- IQ

All of The Perfect Element Part 1- Pain Of Salvation

Iter Impius- PoS

Lamentia- Shadow Gallery

Candlelight Fantasia- Symphony X

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Posted: April 22 2006 at 19:44

One that always makes me tear up would be "After Image" from Rush, I'm sure just about everybody can relate to it...

"Suddenly you gone, from all the lives you left your mark upon".

DEATH TO FALSE PROG!

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Posted: April 22 2006 at 19:50

Sad Songs in Prog. Some of the greatest Progressive songs I've ever heard are sad and emotional (sometimes even dour).

King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black, Epitaph, In The Wake Of Poseidon, Islands.

Camel - Ice, Unevensong, Under The Moon, Whispers In The Rain, Never Let Go.

Jethro Tull - Aqualung.

Henry Cow - Ruins, Solemn Music.

Theres a ton of them and they're all great. I highly recommend Camel's "Unevensong", the song is brilliant.

Edited by Tenth Chaffinch - April 22 2006 at 19:50

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