I don't know if there are many but here is my favorite. Never played live by the band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC11SkI3rd8
Renaissance - Kindness (in the end)
I don't know if there are many but here is my favorite. Never played live by the band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC11SkI3rd8
Renaissance - Kindness (in the end)
Last edited by Camelogue; 02-28-2018 at 10:13 AM.
Marillion's "Script for a Jester's Tear" is the first to come to mind.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
Marillion has a lot of them! House, Throw Me Out, A Legacy, These Chains, probably more...
Peter Hammill's "Over" is not just a song, but a complete album on this subject.
Most of the Novella album too.Originally Posted by Camelogue
Much of Phil Collins's work...
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
Enchant-Break
Eric: "What the hell Hutch, it's all Rush, what if we wanted a little variety?"
Hutch: "Rush is variety, Bitch! Rule number one: in my van, its Rush! All Rush, all the time...no exceptions."
From "Fanboys" 2009.
gentle giant think of me with kindness would probably be my top pick.
Not exactly prog, but rather experimental rock by one of my favorite Russian bands, and a break-up song to end all break-up songs IMO – certainly, part of the appeal is in the lyrics, which I'd never dare to translate into (my largely imperfect) English because of their high poetic quality, but hopefully Leonid Fedorov's desperation transcends the language barrier:
The title of the song can be loosely translated as "You Left Me", this is a performance by the rare short-lived Auktyon line-up with actual solo electric guitar (which kinda makes me sad they did not pursue this sound, as good as most of their albums are anyway).
Not from a romantic relationship--per se--but Solsbury Hill.
"So it goes."
-Kurt Vonnegut
How about Gentle Giant's "On Reflection"? Sounds like a good Prog break-up song to me.
The ultimate Prog breakup song has got to be The Full Gamut by The Tangent.
Not only is it 23 minutes long, but it's about the breakup of 2 members of the band (one of them was obviously not in the band anymore at the time of recording).
Not just a Genesis fanboy.
and follow that up with free hand
This one actually makes me kinda miss that heartbreak feeling. The lyrics capture it perfectly...
STRAWBS
"Absent Friend (How I Need You)"
(Cousins)
My ashtray's flowing over and the phone's left off the hook
I've been staring for three hours at the first page of a book
Day and night I keep the curtains drawn and curse the very day that I was born
And get to thinking how I need you now.
I keep staring at my wristwatch until its ticking fills the room
And the hollow sound reminds me of the silence of a tomb
And as the ceiling and the walls close in and the furniture begins to spin
I get to thinking how I need you now.
And as the days go passing by and I never get a letter
How I need you, how I need you
Days turn into weeks and it doesn't get much better
How I need you.
The gaslit streets lean slowly as I reel against the wall
And my musty head is aching as I stagger down the hall
Then I fill the broken glass once more and fling the empty bottle to the floor
And get to thinking how I need you.
Spock's Beard's "JUNE" is about Spock's Beard breaking up.
Really, that is interesting. I have never heard that before, especially since they put out three studio albums after that song was written. I always thought it was about life on the road during a particular time of the year.
Another one that came to mind
RPWL-Roses
Eric: "What the hell Hutch, it's all Rush, what if we wanted a little variety?"
Hutch: "Rush is variety, Bitch! Rule number one: in my van, its Rush! All Rush, all the time...no exceptions."
From "Fanboys" 2009.
Ty Tabor's (Kings X guitarist) solo albums...
You say Mega Ultra Deluxe Special Limited Edition Extended Autographed 5-LP, 3-CD, 4-DVD, 2-BlueRay, 4-Cassette, five 8-Track, MP4 Download plus Demos, Outtakes, Booklet, T-Shirt and Guitar Pick Gold-Leafed Box Set Version like it's a bad thing...
It's All Over Now by Nektar
works for couples, individuals or groups, actually
Man, I love that song. They should have brought Ray Wilson on full-time to sing.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
Argent - Where are we going wrong?
Little Deceiver - Flower Kings
XTC Apple Venus vol 1 , Your Dictionary, vol2 ( Wasp Star ) Wounded Horse
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
Yogi "The Ending" -- one of my all-time favorite songs. Very haunting and atmospheric. Yogi (aka Shawn Farley) may not be a name you know, but you should! He comes from the Bryan Beller/Mike Keneally camp.
From Yogi:
This one is the song that I hear the most about on "Salve", believe it or not. More people have told me this is their favorite song of mine than I can remember.
This song is based on a very weird alternate tuning, that I found when I was trying to play a specific melody with open-string natural harmonics, so I just tuned the strings until I had all of the notes I needed (I think I was making a demo of the song that became "Breathe" on the Funhouse album).
lyrics:
And so we’ve reached the ending
Here we are and there it goes
I lie alone in this our house
Feel the stillness pound my breath from me
Change my name now?
Cut my hair, become as new
Won’t you tell me what I should do now
As I leave today
As I leave today
Here we are… it is ending
credits:
from Yogi: Salve, released June 17, 2003
Words and music by Shawn Farley
Vocals, Guitars: Shawn Farley
Bass: Bryan Beller
Drums: Chris Gorczyca
https://twitter.com/shawnfarley
With your nickname I would have thought you would pick Camel's Rainbow's End about the break up of Bardens and Latimer:
Kate Bush - Get Out of My House
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