Top prog-rock love songs
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Topic: Top prog-rock love songs
Posted By: Grycek
Subject: Top prog-rock love songs
Date Posted: January 24 2010 at 14:11
| What are your favourite love songs made by prog-rock bands? |
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: January 24 2010 at 14:28
I don't remember enough prog love songs to arrange them into a top 3  I'd say The Cinema Show is a meditation on love, not really a "love song" but close. And it's also one my all time favourite songs. And, incidentally, I'm listening to it right now.  |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: January 24 2010 at 14:30
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I can't think of many, but at least these come to mind: Yes - Turn of the Century UK - Rendezvous 6:02 Caravan - Golf Girl |
Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: January 24 2010 at 14:36
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And You And I ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: January 24 2010 at 14:51
Love songs? Ok, at last we're in Moody Blues territory. 
Nights in White Satin... sorry, I had to!
Never Comes The Day.
New Horizons.
Your Wildest Dreams.
I Know You're Out There Somewhere.
... and so on.
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: January 24 2010 at 14:54
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I really would struggle to think of ten, but I would definitely go for: Yes - Turn of the Century. This still remains, to me, the ultimate expression of love ever committed to any form of musical recording. Barclay James Harvest - Waiting for the Right Time. An eloquent expression of the pain involved with love. Fish - Arc of the Curve. Exceptional from the big man, expressing his pain at the breakup of the relationship with Heather Findlay. Marillion - Kayleigh. A great old fashioned love song, that also sold shedloads  Jon & Vangelis - I Hear You Know. Utterly beautiful expression of love. Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes. That last, almost desperate, attempt to reconstruct the reason why you fell in love with the women who you are about to leave Peter Gabriel - I Grive. Just how much your love for a friend can cause you to write such an incredible eulogy. There are just a few. I might think of more when I get a bit more time.. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: January 24 2010 at 14:59
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Actually a modern one I like is Coming Like Light by IZZ. Some of the most heart felt lyrics:
So I start to feel creative in my mind
and I'm uninhibited for the first time in a long time
then she speaks to me and stares into my eyes
and suddenly aware I am alive, there's no more lies
So I reach for her and she moves closer to me
Whispering a secret faithfully
She Says "To love someone is to learn the song that is inside their heart
and sing it back to them when they can't remember how it starts"
I will sing your song
when you need it, my love
I will sing your song
be sure with me you do belong
All this in a 12 minute prog song!
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Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: January 24 2010 at 19:00
Great call on the Fish song. That is a fantastic album in general that gets very little mention. "You / I" by Riverside also comes to mind "Space Dye Vest" by Dream Theater also is a great one, in my mind it's all about breaking up. "The Meeting" by Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe however gets the award for most beautiful love song. ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
lazland wrote:Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: January 24 2010 at 19:54
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Where in the world is even more poignant on that Fish album, you can actyally hear his adam's apple trembling!!!!!! Gut Wrenching!
"My Only Love" by Roxy Music
"Miss U" by Blackfield
"Calore Umano" by Il Volo
"Envy" by Magenta ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: jplanet
Date Posted: January 24 2010 at 20:19
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Good call on Yes' Turn of the Century - that is a spectacular choice! ELP had some great ones: Still...You Turn Me On, C'est La Vie, and the first part of Trilogy. ------------- https://www.facebook.com/ShadowCircus/" rel="nofollow - ..::welcome to the shadow circus::.. |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: January 24 2010 at 20:32
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Also, feel free to ignore the video on the second one ------------- 
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Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: January 24 2010 at 20:39
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Aren't Suppers Ready and Metropolis Pt. 1 about love? ------------- 
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: January 24 2010 at 21:07
| One of the things I like about prog is that it doesn't have Love lyrics all the time, but as far as I'm concerned, the few Love songs around prog artists have a more interesting aproach than the tyipical pop love ballads. The first one that came to my mind had been And you And I from Yes, but Turn of the Century is really beautiful too, and the one not mentioned yet that I love is Be the One (well, parts of the song sound like a love song, and other parts I just don't know what they're talking about). Ofcourse, as I read mentioned here, Time and a Word is a lovely love song, which talks just about Love in general, not the love between two people. Another one I love is Pink Floyd's Coming Back to Life. Ofcourse, ELP has many love songs, as well as Collins led Genesis. |
Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: January 25 2010 at 06:49
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Onward by Yes is another nice one, and so is Fire at Midnight by Jethro Tull.
------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems; I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: January 25 2010 at 06:52
Great call, Thomas - I love that song to bits, though some people might object that Roxy are not prog !I also forgot to mention my favourite Greg Lake ballad, "From the Beginning". |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: January 25 2010 at 07:04
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Jethro Tull - Fire at Midnight I love the self-referential lyric "me, I'll sit and write this love song/as I all too seldom do". I suspect many many people can relate to that sentiment.
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Posted By: antonyus
Date Posted: January 25 2010 at 07:46
| Yes - Turn of the Century.... no question !!!! |
Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: January 25 2010 at 08:20
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Peter Hammill: Lost, Out Of My Book, Again, This Side Of The Looking Glass, Vision, If I Could... all quite incredible. And Matching Mole's Signed Curtain (I think that's the name). --- And for those mentioning Peter Gabriel, I personally think his best love songs are mostly off Us (I mean, Come Talk To Me, Blood Of Eden, Secret World... as far as the first two qualify as love songs) |
Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: January 25 2010 at 10:37
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^ Not to mention My Room (Waiting for Wonderland) and Don’t Tell Me, though they are rather sad (after all, it’s Hammill, so they’re supposed to be sad).
------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems; I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: January 25 2010 at 10:44
Indeed... it's about to be in love of a girl in a magazine... "Love is an act of love I'm bleeding a pool in a shape of a heart..." "and I have no more dreams to defend, and I'll never be open again..." yes... a love song indeed... deppressive love song but who cares...?? ------------- |
Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: January 25 2010 at 15:25
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If only you knew / Yes -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: January 25 2010 at 15:46
Oh, what a choice, and how could I forget to put this on my list?  When I first met my wife nearly ten years ago, I did her a tape of some prog which I thought she would like to listen to on the Eurostar train journey to a wedding she was attending in France. She hates being underground, so I thought that the music might help. She fell in love with this song, and it might even have persuaded her to completely fall for me. A big  for this choice and a big  to myself for even daring to forget!------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: sydneyprog
Date Posted: January 25 2010 at 17:27
| "Lover" by Caravan "Cunning Stunts" album 1975 |
Posted By: American Khatru
Date Posted: January 25 2010 at 18:21
I know enough prog to choke a brontosaurus. True love songs are rare, but I have my vote. Kate Bush's "Houdini" off The Dreaming. A desperate, dying kind of love. Perfect. Few songs get me like this one. -------------  Why must my spell-checker continually underline the word "prog"? |
Posted By: sean
Date Posted: January 25 2010 at 21:14
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foremost, "I Have Been In You" by Frank Zappa.
"Lost" by Van der Graaf Generator, "Onward" by Yes, "Vision" by Peter Hammill.
Explosions in the Sky call the album "The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place" their attempt at love songs. So, while an instrumental album, it does definitely have that feeling.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: January 25 2010 at 21:39
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both 'Entre Nous' and 'Different Strings' are nice, certainly the kind of love songs I could get behind when I was younger |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 25 2010 at 22:25
That is a good one, I also like Caravan's "Love Song with Flute" considerably. Another Canterbury one I really like, and I know many don't like it much, is Matching Mole's "O Caroline". ------------- 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: Manuel
Date Posted: January 26 2010 at 06:23
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Jethro Tull - Wondrin' Aloud Genesis - Your own special way Anthony Phillips - I want your love |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: January 26 2010 at 07:10
That's a wonderful song from one of Kate's best albums - not to mention one of the best releases of the Eighties . |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: January 26 2010 at 07:42
Isn't Musical Box a love song? Gets my vote if so. Ocean Gypsy is great though it's really more of a padded pop song. I don't think I can quite call She Chameleon a love song  else I might pick that over these for the vocal performance.
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Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: January 26 2010 at 10:36
Declaring Musical Box as a love song might be why so many people don't like prog. Our love songs are about ghosts emerging from musical boxes to profess their love to the little girl who beheaded them ... :P
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Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: January 26 2010 at 10:40
Well, then, in a certain sense it is.
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Posted By: Rasvamakkara
Date Posted: January 26 2010 at 11:53
| The Tangent - The Full Gamut. Obviously not the happiest song about love (and the end of it), but certainly one of the most moving songs I've heard. |
Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: January 26 2010 at 13:19
Thanks :-) Really love The Ladder ! ------------- One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: January 26 2010 at 16:59
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Yesterday and Today - Yes
Never Comes The Day - Moody Blues
Pigs on the Wing, Part 2 - Pink Floyd
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: January 26 2010 at 21:13
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And what about Sweetness from Yes's debut.
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Posted By: American Khatru
Date Posted: January 27 2010 at 06:44
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^ good one.
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: January 27 2010 at 10:59
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I guess Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush also could pass as a love song. It’s played too much, perhaps, but it’s still a fantastic song (and quite creepy, knowing that Cathy is dead).
------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems; I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
Posted By: American Khatru
Date Posted: January 27 2010 at 11:53
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Posted By: Geizao
Date Posted: January 27 2010 at 14:40
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What about (I like): Beside (Jon & Vangelis) Lady of Dreams (Kitaro with Jon Anderson) Summer '68 (Pink Floyd) |
Posted By: Geizao
Date Posted: January 27 2010 at 14:43
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What about (I like): Beside (Jon & Vangelis) Lady of Dreams (Kitaro with Jon Anderson) Summer '68 (Pink Floyd) |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: January 27 2010 at 14:44
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I don't think anything can top "And You And I" and "Turn of the Century" by Yes. I mean, I love a lot of music here, but those are beyond perfection.
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Posted By: American Khatru
Date Posted: January 27 2010 at 14:50
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: January 27 2010 at 14:52
The whole "Wet Dream" by Rick Wright 
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: January 27 2010 at 16:51
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"Again" - David Sancious
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Posted By: BaronVonCruzer
Date Posted: January 27 2010 at 17:14
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My dream wedding song would be "Time And A Word" sung by Jon Anderson with Acoustic Guitar and String Quartet. My favorite version on record would be from the ABWH Live album. Other favorites: Flower Of The Orient • Artension Mirage • After The Fall (not a love song but romantic in imagery) Rose Of Sharon • Camel (Andy Latimer has an ugly voice, but the emotion is priceless) This Time, This Way • James LaBrie/Lisa Bouchelle/Trent Gardner (a duet between Leonardo DaVinci and Mona Lisa with a beautiful trombone solo) Saving My Heart • Yes (makes me visualize meeting a beautiful lady in the Caribbean) ------------- THE PROG REPORT The Progressive Rock Fan's Guide To The iPod Revolution www.theprogreport.com |
Posted By: pfptmvandkc
Date Posted: January 29 2010 at 21:47
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1. A Pillow of Winds - Pink Floyd
2. The Final Cut - Pink Floyd
3. Lady of the Dancing Water - King Crimson ------------- "There is no dark side of the moon.. It's all dark really" |
Posted By: LoneCentrist
Date Posted: March 22 2010 at 11:50
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More Fool Me by Genesis is another great one.
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