Prog Love Songs?

[gojikranz]

feel like this may have come up before so sorry if I am repeating territory but wasn't able to find something on a quick search.

was wondering what peoples favorite prog love songs were I'll use the term prog here lightly knowing that sometimes a love song isn't really prog style but maybe a love song by a prog group that you like a lot(in other words lets avoid is it prog arguments).

I'll throw mine out there.

Yes has plenty of good ones I tend to like Onward the best of the bunch.

how about you?

[Paulrus]

I always thought "Supper's Ready" was pretty romantic.

[JKL2000]

Of course, what constitutes a love song is subjective too.

I like Marillion's "Whatever Is Wrong With You."

[Rulo]

Yes - Turn of the Century

[Mister Triscuits]

Robert Wyatt - Alife, Sea Song
Anthony Phillips - God If I Saw Her Now
Peter Hammill - Just Good Friends, Vision

[jazz2896]

La Rossa by Van der Graaf Generator is the first love themed prog song that comes to my mind, although it's more of a lust song. I'm sure there are more romantic and subtle ones out there.

[flowerking]

Lady Fantasy - Camel
Ballet for a Girl from Buchanan - Chicago

[SongForAmerica]

Sadly, love songs in this genre are much too rare, but the best of them are stunning:

"Autumn" by the Strawbs
"Nights in White Satin" by the Moody Blues.

I also like the last four minutes of Yes's Tales from Topographic Oceans and "Your Own Special Way" by Genesis. And I suppose "Lamplight Symphony" by Kansas is kind of a love song, too; "Turn of the Century" by Yes has a similar theme.

[aith01]

Does Magma's "Dondai (To An Eternal Love)" count?

[Baribrotzer]

FZ's "Village of the Sun" is a love song in a way, not to a person but to a place near where Frank grew up, and where many of his early friends came from.

[progman1975]

Rush - Tears

[3LockBox]

Marillion - Pour My Love, kinda their stab at a Simply Red style song. My wife likes it and she has no truck with prog.

Yes - In The Presence Of

[Progbear]

Kayak: “My Heart Never Changed,” “Nothingness”

[Farpoint Kevin]

Yes - Turn of the Century

There ya go.

[thedunno]

Robert Wyatt - Alife, Sea Song
Anthony Phillips - God If I Saw Her Now
Peter Hammill - Just Good Friends, Vision

Just good friends is NOT a love song. It appears to be but is in fact about his relationship with the music industry.

[MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER]

Lady Fantasy - Camel
Ballet for a Girl from Buchanan - Chicago

those are 2 of the best in my book!

[Halmyre]

Strong deja vu with this thread, although like the OP I can't find a previous one. 'Turn of the Century' sparked a memory, but searching on that doesn't help either.

Jethro Tull must have a couple, surely.

Ladies of the Road? Maybe more lust than love.

Afterglow.

[thedunno]

Strong deja vu with this thread, although like the OP I can't find a previous one. 'Turn of the Century' sparked a memory, but searching on that doesn't help either.

Jethro Tull must have a couple, surely.

Ladies of the Road? Maybe more lust than love.

Afterglow.

Fire at midnight is a great one.

[iguana]

“follow you follow me”, anyone?

[Rarebird]

Well, though I suppose Joe Jackson wouldn't be considered prog, but I still want to mention Be my number two. Perhaps a bit quirky lyric-wise, but I love the arrangement, with the instrumental ending with piano, sax and violin and some percussion-like drums. (I mean, drums aren't playing rhythm, but add something.)

[Trane]

Robert Wyatt - Alife, Sea Song

Caroline from the same Wyatt (and Matching Mole)

Golf Girl from Caravan

[Crawford Glissadevil]

Quartet- ABWH
Wond'ring Aloud....Inside- Jethro Tull

[groon]

Book of Saturday

[starless and bible black]

How about these:

"From The Beginning" - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
"Still...You Turn Me On" - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
"Sweetness" - Yes
"Yesterday & Today" - Yes
"More Fool Me" - Genesis

[tormato]

Yes has had a few that I used to get my wife used to prog:

"Where Will You Be?"
"Hearts"
"Turn of the Century"
"Onward"

"Ghost of a Chance" from Rush was always a favorite.