Album/releases that have deeply moved you
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Topic: Album/releases that have deeply moved you
Posted By: Logan
Subject: Album/releases that have deeply moved you
Date Posted: May 04 2025 at 12:35
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I am very passionate about music, an emotional person, and some albums have especially moved me. What are some of the albums that have most moved you, and why? Being in the Prog lounge, I would expect the emphasis to be on albums included in PA' database, but I can moved it to General Music Discussions if it has legs and goes that way. You also can mention individual songs. Not that it should or likely does need saying, but please let's be respectful of how others feel and not negate or invalidate those feelings. This topic is about how it emotionally affects an individual and I want to keep that focus. Each person's experience is rather unique. But feel free to share how you it makes you "feel" in a thoughtful manner (your emotional response that may differ from others). Three immediately stand out to me at this moment (it's not a topic I put thought into beforehand). Each of these releases not only touches me deeply in some way but evokes broad range of emotions. There is an air of tragedy to all of these and certain regrets (Wyatt was a wonderful drummer and the fall forever changed his life, the others had singer/songwriters who died). By the way, Wyatt has thanked the fall for maybe saving his life as he was so deep into bad vices (heavy, heavy drinker...). David Bowie - Blackstar. To me this album is a masterpiece, an incredible swansong, a culmination of not just career, but a life. Both the music and circumstances can touch me deeply, and it brings out so many emotions in me. A song like "Dollar Days" and others can give me a lump in my throat. Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom. After Wyatt's fall and subsequent paralysis, he truly had hit Rock Bottom, but he came out of that (with some help from friends) with his most defining and acclaimed album. Again, I find it so touching, but also it evokes a strong range of emotions in me, from joy to melancholy, wistfulness... Fishmans - 98.12.28 Otokotachi no wakare. This was Fishmans last performance with the original bandmembers. It was meant to be a farewell to bassist Yuzuru Kashiwabara, but ended up being a farewell to the frontman, lead singer, guitarist and main songwriter Shinji Sato who died less than three months later. Sadly the great Honzi who wonderfully contributed violin and keys died way too young too, not many years later. Not only does the music move me, and I loved it before I know about any tragedy, but when Sato speaks to the audience his words can take on a more profound and prophetic meaning (seen in hindsight). And tragedy or not Peter Hammill solo albums also deeply move me, there is a melancholy to his music that touched me, and I will mention the Silent Corner and the Empty Stage as a favourite that provokes an emotional reaction. Also Cardiacs music can me all the more-so because of the loss of Tim Smith. When he gets angry (faux angry but I think he had a temper) in a performance, say on All That Glitters is a Mares Nest. I want to tell him to calm down. That kind of thing can cause a stroke, and I speak from personal experience. Not in PA: Various Nick Drake music. Of course he tragically died and a song like "River Man" and especially "Fruit Tree" becomes all the more poignant. I especially love his Five Leaves Left and Pink Moon albums. There is a melancholy to his music that deeply affects me and having depression and going through some similar issues it resonate all the more with me (I empathise). 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. And an album like The Antlers' Hospice: Such a sad album that I can relate to, especially with my experience with my parents. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
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Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: May 04 2025 at 12:56
| I would say Kate Bush Hounds of Love and Tori Amos Little Earthquakes and Michael Hedges Aerial Boundaries and King’s X Gretchen Goes to Nebraska would be among them |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: May 04 2025 at 13:28
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Logos - Sadako e le Mille Gru di Carta Maybe because my daughter was about the same age of Sadako when the album was released, and she plays her same sport. There's a huge number of songs able to move me, anyway. Being Italian I can appreciate the poetry of Fabrizio De Andre'. Out of Italy, the last video of Obiymy Doschu is quite moving ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: ThyroidGlands
Date Posted: May 04 2025 at 14:00
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Bubu - Anabelas King Crimson - ITCOTCK Daal - Decalogue of Darkness Cardiacs - OLAITS and A Little Man... The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour Death - Human ------------- ⋆la faulx⋆ |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 04 2025 at 18:56
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^^ Thanks for sharing the relation with your daughter, Luca. I have certain things that really resonate all the more with me due to time spent with my children listening to them, watching them, or because it reminds me of them. With my young daughter, I was listening to lot of Italian music, and especially Le Orme brings me back to the preschool times. And then when she was in grade one with me sitting on the lawn with me listening to Henry Cow's Western Culture (that was the time the album clicked for me) as she played in the school playground. The Wiggles is special to me due to the time I spent watching that with her, and the concert was very good (but I preferred The Wiggles with Greg and he had left due to health reasons). Lots of nice memories... Other than that, I would watch Doctor Who with her, and that was special. ^ And Lau, those Cardiacs albums and Anabelas are a few of my favourite albums. Like and know all of those well other than Death. Those resonate strongly with me, and so does that KC, especially "Epitaph" which is so wonderful. And The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour may be my favourite Beatles album, and in my case brings me back to my childhood as I loved it then (I was not born yet when it was made). It makes me feel nostalgic. While I discovered it much later, an album like Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson (which I falsely remembered adding to PA) also makes me feel nostalgic and yearn for a time and place that I did not experience even though the questionable subject matter (young girls) is not what I yearn for. I'm happy with, relative to me, younger girls.  A joke if my wife reads this (she's a little older than me, but looks younger).An album that touches me more because it was what I was listening to a lot during a certain time is Khan's Space Shanty. On another note, while I am happy for people to like what they like and dislike what they dislike (with various exceptions) sometimes I have been quite defensive when people have been dismissive of albums I find poignant and emotionally resonant and where I think it insensitive to casually pooh-pooh/ dismiss/ give a thumbs down to the albums given circumstances surrounding the release. David Bowie's Blackstar and Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom have elicited a strong reaction from me when people have called the albums weak/ bad or whatever (usually done very nonchalantly). To me that has seemed lacking in empathy, lacking in humanity, and lacking in perspective often given context. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 00:06
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Hi, Not a lot has moved me, as much since the days of CARCARA, by Maria Betania ... and seeing the song raped silly by a COPPOLA film was more than I could ever enjoy ... and since then, a lot of my ability to like/dislike anything has gone away. It's as if, it is what it is, and we are powerless to make it live or die! And as an old man, I more want to see the wonderful smile, than the hatred elsewhere! And sometimes all the goop attached to it ... I better not quote Our Lady Of Flowers! ------------- 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: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 00:41
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Let me implement this as an AP poll ... just kidding (maybe later). Two albums that come to my mind: * Kevin Gilbert - The Shaming of the True. Kevin died way too soon, and the album is a masterpiece. Listening to it, knowing that it was posthumously completed, always makes me sad and glad at the same time, by its sheer brilliance. * Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane. Almost by the same token, a concept album about a terrible loss and at the same time musically probably PoS's crowning achievement. This reaction sums up the emotional depth: 642_zFYE0tE" rel="nofollow - 642_zFYE0tE (watch from 5:00) ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to: 
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 08:55
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The very first one that comes to my mind right now isn't prog. It's Nuevo Tango: Hora Zero by Astor Piazzolla. I first heard two of its tracks on the radio and couldn't believe my ears how great this was. Needless to say, the whole album is highlight after highlight after highlight. Seeing you mention Peter Hammill, apparently his Patience album isn't super popular, but it is full of songs that relate to me like little else (of what he does, or what anyone does), so it also belongs here. |
Posted By: DoobieBrother6
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 09:42
| Side 2 Carmen. "Dancing On A Cold Wind" |
Posted By: Criswell
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 12:48
| Klaus Schultze's "Deus Arrakis" - his (first) posthumous release has an incredibly moving sadness to its sound...impossible not to be taken by it... |
Posted By: lawnmower
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 13:23
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King Crimson's gorgeous debut album - particularly I Talk To The Wind. Fairport Convention's Who Knows Where The Time Goes. Traffic's Don't Be Sad was introduced to me shortly after a friend's passing. In the wake of grief, I still hold on to this track. ------------- Me, I'm just a lawnmower - you can tell me by the way I walk! |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 06 2025 at 02:15
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Pink Floyd - The Wall IQ - The Wake doesn't really happen to me much with albums. I'm not a 'folky' and that's mainly where I suspect you are going to find more personal introspective music. Music is not just about emotion or spirituality in my personal experience but there are songs that matter a lot to me (ie Dust In The Wind), but whole albums are more about not being boring and doing something interesting. There is only one crime any musician can commit and that is making dull generic stuff that follows fashion. |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: May 06 2025 at 02:44
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Kraftwerk - The Man Machine David Bowie - Low Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge Of Time |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 06 2025 at 04:40
Thanks all, and especially to those who shared their reasons, which in some cases can be difficult... I grew up trying to keep a stiff upper lip, but now I just settle for a stiff...
Music can resonate with me, or interest me, for any number of reasons. Different music can evoke different emotions in me and music is not just about many, many things to me including emotionality or spirituality. I am a folky more than a rocker I would say, and I tend to gravitate to the more introspective than ballsy music (I certainly can love very bombastic music as well as delicate music and I tend to appreciate contrast). But I can enjoy both folk and rock and a blend of the two, and a fairly wide range of expression. Classical music (to use the term broadly) and related can be some of the strongest music in evoking strong emotions in me and sense of the numinous. Tallis' Spem in alium, Beethoven's 7th second movement, Miaskovsky.... Or it could be music like Joe Hisaishi for Ghibli or Koji Kondo with Zelda music. A lot of soundtrack music moves me. Krautrock often moves me, like Popol Vuh... Music can deeply move us of course for many reasons. It could be specific lyrics, it could be the general subject matter/ theme, it could be instrumental and the beauty is intense to us, it could be because of what we associate it with, a time in our lives, circumstances surrounding the album, something to do with the artists themselves. I often associate being deeply moved with beauty and melancholy, and with mortality in various cases. In the case of Khan's Space Shanty, that was music that I listened to regularly as I would travel to visit my dad when he was dying and so the music deeply moves me more through association. With Bowie's Blackstar, it is the circumstances surrounding the album with Bowie, subject matter and that the music touches me. There can be a myriad of reasons and associations, but some music resonates much deeper than others and evokes stronger emotions/ moves me more than others. Some keys and key changes can affect me stronger than others... Often it is our associations and association will vary. As for crimes that musicians can commit, Bobby Beausoleil (love Lucifer Rising) came straight to my mind, but that's a different kind of crime and idea. I expect that I could find and think of quite lot of generic stuff that followed fashion that would be dull to others but not to me depending on the fashion and genre. And I've had people call music that I find wonderful dull. Of course I have heard tons of music that I do find dull, generic and follows fashion that would be easy to identify. I hear such things with pop played in doctor's offices, coming out of car speakers, and in Prog I have heard some really boring to me "Prog-by-numbers" music. I do value originality and innovation, but I can also like generic by-numbers music (and I love some retro music that is very imitative). Excitement will vary and a fresher to me experience is more likely to excite me. Of course some acts may start out sounding fresh and then repeat the same formula again and again, and that I find can get very tedious. I appreciate the more eclectic artists commonly who try different things, working in different styles, expanding their music palettes... I would be reluctant to say so, but one proverbial crime could be said to stagnate both as an artist and as an individual. I value trying new-to-oneself things as long as they are not harmful to oneself and others. I also can respect artists who just do their own thing and follow their bliss regardless of how others feel. They can keep plowing that furrow and hopefully it beings them some satisfaction and joy and/or satisfaction from others. Being true to yourself can have value even if the result ends up being dull generic music from an other's standpoint. I value artistic freedom (within limits of course), and I value individuality, and I value not pandering to others when it comes to a vision commonly. I can value lots of approaches, and I value bringing value to oneself and others. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
richardh wrote:Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 06:11
Dang fine list of albums. Dark Side of the Moon is one that has surely moved me and helped me through some rough patches in my youth. So has I Robot by The Alan Parsons Project. Quite a lot of Bowie has really touched me. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 06:30
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.  |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 06:38
Love those composers myself and also have been moved by all three. Morricone and Barry in particular are two of my very favourite composers -- so evocative. In fact, those might be two of my three of big names in film scores, the other big name being Jerry Goldsmith. And also Giorgio Moroder for Midnight Express and Cat People (the music moves me partially because the films did) and much the same with Dolidinger and Das Boot (das boot ist on die other foot). And Wendy Carlos' Clockwork orange theme also has this very strong, immediate effect on my mood every time I hear it or think of it. Morricone "Una Donna da Ricordare"  ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: ThyroidGlands
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 06:54
Those albums are truly very important to me. I honestly have no idea what it is, but it goes beyond the musical. It's something in the production, in the concepts, in the lyrics, and in the album covers. I also forgot to mention Io Sono Nato Libero. And I’d say Zëss, but the version that really moves me is the live one, not the studio album (even though I love that one too).
Yes. That is probably the greatest album in the history of Argentinian music. ------------- ⋆la faulx⋆ |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 07:05
| Allan Holdsworth - I.O.U. The most unique and groundbreaking guitarist releases his first official solo release. Could not stop listening, and to this day, I am still amazed at his talent. The way he plays chords and his compositional skills are from a magic musical universe that is beyond anything we will ever hear again. And he was very humble about his playing. |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 12:31
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"To Be Over" by Yes....I first heard it about the same time that my dear Grandmother died. After all....your soul will still surrender.... After all....don't doubt your part, be ready to be loved.... ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 12:55
| Marillion: Brave. |
Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 13:53
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Bruce Dickinson - Balls to Picasso Even shaped my personality to a notable extent. Ah, I see that this is the Prog Music Lounge... Then, Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite, it is. I listened to Dream Theater - Awake in or around the year 1997, first... I can say that it is sort of the progenitor of my prog metal fandom. However, Symphony X - V have had a massively greater impact on me. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 14:09
I find Carrie and Lowell very moving. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 17:34
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Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 21:03
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 |
Posted By: rdtprog
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 21:37
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Does moving deeply albums mean anything more than my favorite albums? That Morricone soundtrack would be in my top 5 all music styles. If it's move me it has to be my favorite. ------------- Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. Emile M. Cioran |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 21:52
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"Turn of the Century" by Yes always gets me. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 09 2025 at 07:48
Hi, His soundtracks stand out a lot, and are very distinctive, and the nice thing is that you remember a lot of moments because of it, even though you might not realize that until someone mentions it. If you see the special on his work, which has a lot of him in it, and how he decided to do what he did, there was a part of it that is special, and only a handful of soundtrack composers EVER got that touch and taste. The telling moment is when he eft a film because he thought it would go better if the director did it this way or that, and the director refused ... and it didn't work, and the director finally said that he decided to take a look at what Ennio had done or thought of. The idea/fact, is, and it is clear in the fine special, Ennio was a "visual" composer, and we can see that in a lot of the films when the director allows the music to live ... and at that moment, there is no film that you and I will ever not enjoy because it has moments that you almost cry when you hear it and see it. Vangelis got it done several times, Maurice Jarre did as well, though David Lean was not exactly very good at using music, but he realized that he had something great and he better use it, and he did which made some films really far out, specially Dr. Zhivago. But there are others. Bernardo Bertolucci does not exactly open up his films to Ryuichi Sakamoto, but when he did, Ryuichi created special moments in the films. You first saw this in "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" and while Bertolucci was not a good music director, the combination of the visual with Vittorio Storaro, creating images in color, helped make the music better. You (likely) won't see this until you watch VISIONS OF LIGHT, a film about cinematographers that shows how some directors are not exactly as good as we all think/thought. But even the albums by these folks are excellent. Riuichi's soundtrack for the Buddha film is fantastic, though some of it is in the background of the film, and that is really sad. One would wish that it was better used, but I think it might have added something to the film that we can not explain well, or help the child and the film at all. The best album, of all, as a soundtrack, is obviously Vangelis release of the BLADE RUNNER film ... it is moving just as it is, and you can not help thinking that you want the words with the music, and how it was done in the film. Because there are some outstanding things that a director can only dream of when making a film ... and Vangelis added to it magnificently, as he was very good at interpreting the "visual" with music, which says a lot for his music. In many ways, some of these moved me more than a lot of rock music works, though I can not say that for Mysterious Semblance At The Strand of Nightmares, and then it all became a sort of 2001 opening at the Cinerama Dome ... you can't help not only get moved, but your innards sure felt it! Rock music did not, for me, have enough of these moments and a lot of it was dependant on the lyrics ... but I can tell you that listening to Renate, is insane in the piece "MOZAMBIQUE" as the feeling is incredibly strong and capable of inciting a revolution ... it is a fighting song and then some ... but while this is very moving as a very serious and strong intent, it is the philosophy in APOCALIPTYC BORE that is more moving ... after all the dope, nothing mattered anymore and it is hard to not cry at the good moments we all had that not only will be forgotten, they will all be ignored as inconsequential and stupid, which is the case now in many ways when folks ignore the history of things. Every moment in history has some neat things in it ... though the 1960's has been trashed senselessly to the point of it making all the music bad and not worth anything. I can tell you that I love to sing ... the "mf'r" lyric ...everytime I get angry at the politicians and their stupidity and excuses. But, we love our cheap "progrock" and even more the lack of importance in the work altogether, when compared to other arts if you put these on a paper side by side ... a lot of the music today in progressive and progrock, has no chance to go anywhere, and it says it all about its state of the art ... it ain't art ... it's just a song! ------------- 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: Lewian
Date Posted: May 09 2025 at 08:16
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Holger Czukay has moved me very strongly with some of his works where he uses some samples and sounds that seem to touch the deepest layers. Maybe the best example is Mirage from the Good Morning Story album, which I love overall with more moving music even though it needs some time and patience to get going. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_gIdBRpL94" rel="nofollow - Holger Czukay - Mirage |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 09 2025 at 09:09
For me it means more than that. I tried to share and explain some of my emotional connection to the music. I have more Morricone albums that any other artist/act, especially from the 70s and 60s. I have found it nice to see a wide cross-section of people, ones who appreciate different kinds of Prog (be it Prog Metal, Avant Prog, Neo-Prog and Symph Prog lovers etc.), loving Morricone music. The ones for the westerns especially get lots of notice. While I love various 60s ones by him, most of my favourites by him are from the early to mid 70s.
I will check that out later. I really like his Movies, Full Circle with Jah Wobble & Jaki Liebezeit and I have enjoyed Der Osten ist rot (but know/remember that less well than the others I mentioned). I got more into him because of you. Wonderful artist. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: May 09 2025 at 11:39
Yes has a number of them. Your choice, the aforementioned To be Over, And You and I and Awaken. Steven Wilson's Routine, Drive Home and Raven That Refused to Speak are some others. |
Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: May 09 2025 at 13:57
| For this thread, I was thinking more about the album evoking an emotional (touchy-feely) response other than … wow, that’s really cool. More like hits you in the gut or makes you sad or nostalgic or angry or something. Was that the aim? |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 09 2025 at 14:36
I like to leave some latitude for interpretation, but that is how I approached it and what was primarily in my mind. I had hoped that would come across with my experiential examples in the opening post. I was hoping for a touchy-feely kind of topic. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: May 09 2025 at 15:14
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Two songs from Helmut Koellen's solo album You Won't See Me; the song Playin' This Song Together, which is basically about unity and brotherhood with music, is really emotionally stirring and moving, and also another track, a sad song that is moving as well, Helmut's song The Story Of Life, about someone who lives "the high life" and doesn't quite get what it is doing to them, but experiencing that song does illuminate what it means, and therefore is moving, as well as being sad... The very end of the 1975 Banco English lyric album Banco, the track Traccia II, the stirring piano intro is deeply moving to me.... Triumvirat's Mister Ten Percent suite, right when Jurgen Fritz is elaborating on solo piano, just before the vocals begin, I find that deeply moving emotionally every time I hear it.... The middle section for solo piano from Triumvirat's A Day In My Life suite; it gets me every time.... |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: May 09 2025 at 16:12
| Another album that always has a big influence on my mood with many very moving tracks (and that also has Holger on it) is David Sylvian's Brilliant Trees. |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: May 09 2025 at 17:20
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Yes - Topographic: For me, the most emotionally connecting Yes album and one of the most spiritual and beautiful rock albums. Joni Mitchell - Blue Neil Young - Tonight's the Night Grateful Dead - American Beauty Arlo - Hobo's Lullaby Kate - Kick Inside and Lionheart Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily and "Verdi Cries" Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece Fleetwood Mac - Tusk John Frusciante - DC EP Floyd - DSotM Also many songs by Cat Stevens, Elton John, Carpenters (yes, really) "Ten Years Gone" by LZ "Accidentally Like a Martyr" by Zevon I know I didn't get into why as requested, but most of these are simply either beautiful, sad, or tied to deep moments in my life. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQD8uhpWXCw" rel="nofollow - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...Road Rage Edition |
Posted By: DoobieBrother6
Date Posted: May 09 2025 at 20:16
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David Sylvain - Orpheus Czukay - Persian Boy (from Movies lp) Moody Blues - watching and waiting Drake -Northern Sky This track can move mountains. I'm so jealous that I cannot write such perfection. A stroke of genius to have Cale (Velvet Underground) on celeste. This instrument fits perfectly and lifts all to the strata of angels. |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: May 10 2025 at 15:47
In that case, I'd suggest the excellent "For My Lady" by the Moody Blues! Very romantic! ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: May 10 2025 at 17:36
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Well, I would have to drift back to my early teens for albums that "moved" me or, at least, made a decisive mark on my outlook as a wanton delinquent. Wish You Were Here (alienation) Vol. 4 and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (melancholy and...ummm...blackness) Physical Graffiti (Ten Years Gone, In My Time of Dying, In the Light - what an album!) Aqualung (anti-church/religion - and I left the Catholic Church) Days of Future Passed (for out and out beauty and splendor in a miserable world) Love It to Death and Killer (for a rebel without a clue) ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: May 11 2025 at 10:34
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Here's an album that is connected with my longest love story. Also it's very good, so two reasons to be moved: Kante - Zweilicht (First attempt to show a yt video here after having disabled WYSIWYG - hope it works.) |
Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: May 14 2025 at 23:33
------------- Nothing can last there are no second chances. Never give a day away. Always live for today. |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: May 19 2025 at 11:43
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Some of the music of Vangelis has moved me deeper than anything else, but usually not entire albums. Tracks from Heaven and Hell, Opera Sauvage, Mask, and 1492: Conquest of Paradise are the heavy hitters. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: May 20 2025 at 05:08
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Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops The Smiths - A Hatful of Hollow Steven Wilson - Hand.Cannot.Erase ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |