A list of prog love songs
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Topic: A list of prog love songs
Posted By: Lamneth
Subject: A list of prog love songs
Date Posted: January 30 2018 at 14:05
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Here's a song list of progrock and metal songs that have had meaning to
me over the years about love and relationships. They are mostly
positive and upbeat. Maybe other people here will have a use for them,
too. A Beautiful Feeling, Colin Tench Project A Complex Work of Art, Kaipa A Dream Goes on Forever, Todd Rundgren A Giant Leap of Faith, Subsignal A habit worth forming, Echolyn A Night on the Town, The Dear Hunter A Place in the Sun, Blind Ego A Song for You, Mystery A Sun of Your Own, Moon Safari A Tale of Magic, Rhapsody Of Fire Above the Blue, Mostly Autumn According to Plan, Magic Pie Acronym Love, Riverside Act Of Faythe, Dream Theater After Me, Marillion After the Rain, Karnataka All That Matters, Section A All That We Are, Panic Room All Things You Are, Eric Johnson And Here's to Many More, Sithu Aye And When the War Is Over…, Mostly Autumn And You and I, Yes Anything I Can Dream, IZZ Arrival of Love, Circus Maximus Baby, What A Big Surprise, Chicago Back to Myself, Part 1, Millenium Be the One, Yes Believe in Your Dreams, Mystery Believe Me Now, Electric Light Orchestra Between You And Me, Marillion Blessing in Disguise, Semantic Saturation Blood and Passion, Suspyre Bond, The Pineapple Thief Borders and Days, Headspace Bound by Gravity, Haken Brickwork II (This Heart of Mine T5), Pain of Salvation Bridges of Grace, Tiles Bringin' it On, Presto Ballet Burning Like Fire, Iona Can I Find It, Little Atlas Candlelight Fantasia, Symphony X Can't Get It out of My Head, Electric Light Orchestra Carpet Of The Sun, Renaissance Change, Threshold Close Your Eyes, Roine Stolt Closer To Heaven, D Closer to You, Sound Of Contact Collapse The Light Into Earth, Porcupine Tree Colors, Shadow Gallery Come Back to Me, Uriah Heep Come On Young Love, Magnum Come Sail Away, Styx Comfort Me, Shadow Gallery Could Have Been Yesterday, Comedy of Errors Courteous Love, Knight Area Curator of Butterflies, Big Big Train Dance, Little Atlas Day Eleven: Love, Ayreon Destination Unknown, Shadow Gallery Don't Let It End, Styx Dreaming Light, Anathema Endless Ways, Anathema Entering New Lands, Disperse Eternally, Karmakanic Eternity, Allen Lande Eternity, Secret Sphere Even In The Quietest Moments, Supertramp Ever Dream, Nightwish Eyes Wide Open, Sieges Even Falling Home, Pain of Salvation Fantastic Place, Marillion Farewell to Old Friends, Pt. 4, Sylvan Feels Like Home, Karnataka Fireworks, Angra First Time, Styx Flesh, Moongarden Fly From Here, Yes Follow the Sun, Enchant Following the Signs, John Wesley For You, Stream of Passion Forever, IZZ Forever, Queen Forever, Stratovarius Found (The Unexpected Flaw of Searching), Riverside Free As A Bird, Supertramp Gentle Change, Angra Give Love Each Day, Yes Glacier, Little Atlas God If I Saw Her Now, Anthony Phillips Harvest, Opeth Havin' A Ball, Styx He Touched My Soul, Dream Aria Hold On My Heart, Genesis Hold On, Triumph Hold Out Your Hand, Chris Squire Hold The Sun, Mostly Autumn I Believe In You, Lana Lane I Believe, Riverside I Know You're Out There Somewhere, The Moody Blues I Walk Beside You, Dream Theater I Want to Believe, Dark Moor I Was Born To Love You, Queen If That's What You Need, Genesis Ih-Ah!, Devin Townsend Project I'm In You, Vanden Plas I'm Sorry, Evergrey In My Dreams, Mystery In The End, Rush In the Heart of Her Own Magic Field, Kaipa Incident on a Bridge, Kansas Internal Landscapes, Anathema Invisible Touch, Genesis It Can Happen, Yes It Matters so Much, Audioplastik It Takes a Woman's Love (To Make a Man), Kansas It's You, Kansas It's you, Moongarden Jennifer, Styx Just You and Me, Cannata Land of the Miracle, Edguy Lavender, Marillion Lay All Your Love On Me, Avantasia Learning To Live, Dream Theater Let It Grow, Nektar Let Us Now Make Love, Anthony Phillips Letter To Dana, Sonata Arctica Life By Light, Glass Hammer Light From Your Eyes, IZZ Light of the Ages, Yes Lightning Song, Anathema Livin' Thing, Electric Light Orchestra Living Tree Part 1, Jon Anderson & Rick Wakeman Locked Inside, 3rdegree Lost (Why Should I Be Frightened by a Hat?), Riverside Love Beach, Emerson Lake & Palmer Love Is On The Run, The Moody Blues Love Never Lost, Man on Fire Love Of My Life, Queen Loved Ones, Circus Maximus Lovelorn, Threshold Lover Arrive, Ambrosia Loving Sea, Steve Hackett Made Again, Marillion Magical World, Blackmore's Night May You, Everon Melpomene, The Dear Hunter Memories, Knight Area More Than A Dream, Unitopia Morning Star, Jon Anderson & Rick Wakeman Motions of Desire, Magic Pie Mountain Time, Gentle Giant My Everafter, Enchant Mystery Act I, Shadow Gallery Need Her Love, Electric Light Orchestra New York City Summergirl, Moon Safari Not Only Love, Ice Nothing Else Matters, Apocalyptica Oceans of Time, Daniel Cavanagh Once in a Lifetime, Gazpacho Once In A Lifetime, Kansas One Love Forever, Flying Colors One Step Beyond, Sylvan One, Fates Warning Only the Brave, Mostly Autumn Opportunity, Tiles Our New World, Dream Theater Peace At Last, Rick Wakeman Perfect Remedy, Everon Photonic Reunion, The Aurora Project Pilot In The Sky Of Dreams, Threshold Play On, Kansas Power Of Love, King's X Reach for the Sun, RPWL Reborn, Magnum Remote View, Sound Of Contact Run Through The Light, Yes Running Love, Apocalyptica Savor Every Moment, Rocket Scientists Secret Touch, Rush Seek To Find, Lost In Thought Share the World with Me, Sylvan She Is Everything, Spock's Beard Shine a Little Love, Electric Light Orchestra Shining Star, Spock's Beard Skin on Skin, Mostly Autumn Smoke From a Secret Source, Kaipa So Close, Jon McLaughlin So Much More, Sylvan Soon, Yes Soulmates, Hemina Spoken Words Act II, Shadow Gallery Stardust, Rocket Scientists Stay, ArcAngel Cannata Steer by the Stars, Karmakanic Still... You Turn Me On, Emerson Lake & Palmer Strange Magic, Electric Light Orchestra Strong, Place Vendome Suite Madame Blue, Styx Summer Always Comes Again, Voyager Sunlight, Anathema Sunshine, Panic Room Surrender To Reason, Dream Theater Surrender to Win, Moonrise Sweet Dream, Jethro Tull Sweet Is the Night, Electric Light Orchestra Sweetness, Yes Tears, Rush Telephone Line, Electric Light Orchestra The Awakening, Mystery The Best Of Times, Styx The Fury Of My Love, Flying Colors The Gift of Music, Theocracy The Great Reward, Unitopia The Lost Song, Pt. 2, Anathema The Lost Song, Pt. 3, Anathema The Love, The Dear Hunter The Meeting, Jon Anderson & Rick Wakeman The Millionaire Waltz, Queen The More We Live, Let Go, Yes The Most Beautiful Place, Edenbridge The Outermost Bounds, Clepsydra The Sailor and the Mermaid, Mystery The Smile, Galahad There Was A Time, Spock's Beard This Heart of Mine (I Pledge), Pain of Salvation Through My Words, Dream Theater Tides of Time, Epica Time And A Word, Yes Time, The Alan Parsons Project Together alive, Carptree Trust, Wolverine Trying to Kiss the Sun, RPWL Turn Of The Century, Yes Turning Point, Magellan Two of a Kind, Knight Area Unbreakable, Stratovarius Union, Secret Sphere United Alliance, Pagan's Mind Until The End Of Time, Edenbridge Us, Riverside Waiting Just for You, Blackmore's Night Warm Touch, Galahad We'll Never Be Apart, Blackfield What You Want To Know, Rare Bird When I Live My Dream, David Bowie When It's Love, Cannata While Your Lips Are Still Red, Nightwish Who Wants To Live Forever, Queen Wings of Destiny, Rhapsody With This Heart, Kansas With You, Cosmos You And Me Against A World Of Pain, Phideaux You Broke The Sun, Abydos You By My Side, Chris Squire You Need Love, Styx You Only Live Twice, Lana Lane Your Eyes, Frameshift Your Own Special Way, Genesis You're My Best Friend, Queen You're The Inspiration, Chicago |
Replies:
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: January 30 2018 at 15:17
You old romantic, you!  Clearly a labour of love (if you pardon the pun!) Some great songs in there - wouldn't know where to start - but might be a interesting project over the next few months. Who says prog rockers don't appreciate songs about love, rather than black holes?!  ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: January 30 2018 at 16:12
| Amazing list Lamneth! |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: January 30 2018 at 17:12
| Tai Phong - For Years and Years |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: January 30 2018 at 17:15
And you and I is not a love song. 
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Posted By: Walkscore
Date Posted: January 30 2018 at 18:39
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Thanks so much for this list. I really like such lists, as they give me clues to things I haven't heard yet. As for love songs among the music here on PA, one of my favourite songs, and it was written as a love song, is Robert Wyatt's "Alifib". Both the version on 'Rock Bottom', and the solo-with-piano demo version on "Solar Flares Burn for You", are amazing.
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: January 30 2018 at 21:39
I really think it is a love song. Actually, it sounds to me like it is a marriage song, or a commitment for life song (with that special person). I mean "All in sight of seeds of Life with you". |
AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 30 2018 at 21:44
You could say that about a lot of songs in this list (e.g. Dance on a Volcano), depends on your interpretation I guess.
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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: January 30 2018 at 22:48
| I think most of Yes songs are love songs. Jon Anderson is just a messenger of love. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: January 31 2018 at 01:53
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That list is pretty thorough, OP! ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: January 31 2018 at 03:07
| Anyone mentioned Todd Rundgren?? His tune ‘The Verb, ‘To Love’’ . Unreal ballad, especially live Utopia versions when Roger Powell includes his Mini-Moog solo in the middle. Probably my favourite ballad, ever. |
Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: January 31 2018 at 03:49
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Pick a song |
Posted By: Frankh
Date Posted: January 31 2018 at 04:16
Porquoi? ------------- Perhaps finding the happy medium is harder than we know. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: January 31 2018 at 04:58
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The tune ‘Stay’ by Pink Floyd (Obscured By Clouds). Dunno if it’s Prog per se, but it’s a lovely tune. Devo have done a few. but they are so skewed that they’re unrecognisable as ballads..... |
Posted By: Lamneth
Date Posted: January 31 2018 at 06:36
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I think songs have the best lyrics when they're a bit ambiguous and left open to interpretation. The same song several months or a year later will have a completely different meaning to be based on my frame of mind at the time. It's like there are many facets buried within the words that will only reveal themselves to you at the right moment. That's powerful. So this isn't a 'this is a love song' list, so much as it's a 'this is a song about love that had a very deep meaning to me at the time that I heard it' list. Also there's quite a few that aren't love songs at all, but are to me about some of the growing pains that I had to go through. Is this relationship going to work out? why did we just hurt the other person?, why did we have that fight?, or whatever. All are meaningful whether painful or not, and part of the growth of love but not necessarily a love song. Incidentally I also have a couple of prog song lists going that I could also post here. One is called 'criers' and the other is called 'raw truth' - I think they're both pretty self-explanatory. |
Posted By: Lamneth
Date Posted: January 31 2018 at 09:34
| Here's a link to (most of) the playlist that I have on Spotify, in case anyone is interested: https://open.spotify.com/user/progulus/playlist/5cwykJwMEsDoX1OuUa2pRE?si=Aa2EYx_SRJeiakF7VE7mOA |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: January 31 2018 at 10:10
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Where's "Trilogy" by E.L.P.? Rush's "Tom Sawyer" is a love song?????
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Posted By: Lamneth
Date Posted: January 31 2018 at 10:45
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I'm not sure how Tom Sawyer got in there to be honest. There's probably going to a few other outliers in the bunch, as I've been throwing songs in the playlist for some time and I never really intended to share the list publicly. For me, Trilogy is a breakup song not a love song. Incidentally, I just made the Spotify playlist collaborative, so feel free to add any songs that you feel are missing. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: January 31 2018 at 18:45
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I am surprised "I'm Not in Love" by 10cc is not on the list. one of the first songs that comes to my mind when thinking of love songs. and then there is a song that is not really a love song, more a song about craving for love, but nevertheless I always think of it as a love song. sounds a bit strange, doesn't it? I am talking about this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNn9nUGyqRk" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNn9nUGyqRk -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: January 31 2018 at 20:46
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Interesting list ....though imho many of those are not what I call 'love songs'....... 'Wish You Were Here' by Floyd..? So would that be Waters writing a love song to Barrett,,,? ;) ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: February 01 2018 at 10:42
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King Crimson are not on the list, but they have Heartbeat. |
Posted By: 3RDegree
Date Posted: May 10 2018 at 02:59
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Wow! "Locked Inside"!? Thanks! ------------- www.3RDegreeONLINE.com www.facebook.com/3RDegree "Defiling Perfectly Good Songs With Prog Since 1990" |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: May 10 2018 at 06:30
How much of your time did you spend compiling that list??  Against all Odds isn't prog rock, or metal by any stretch of the imagination. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: May 10 2018 at 07:17
Maybe the "not" part of the song title has something to do with it.
Then again half of the others don't seem to be love songs so why not put it in there.  |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 11 2018 at 07:46
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Hi, Peter Hammill -- A Way Out .... magnificent piece ... and if you get bored listening, no wonder you missed the last words on it! Very with it! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: February 14 2022 at 10:28
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Jon said it himself a number of times: it's a protest song against our lack of empathy and help for the poor. Just like Jethro Tull's Flyng Dutchman and Pink Floyd's On the turning away.
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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: February 14 2022 at 10:29
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My favourite is happy and a proper love song, A way out is about losing love.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 14 2022 at 11:10
What is, And You And I?
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Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: February 14 2022 at 11:23
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My fave prog love song is "Blue Angel," by Dave Cousins. Not on the list, but the original is pretty epic. ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |