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Conor Fynes 
Prog Reviewer 
Joined: February 11 2009 Location: Vancouver, CA Status: Offline Points: 3196 |
 Posted: October 21 2010 at 18:23 |
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There are so many... but try 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' by Yes... a collection of epics.
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Soul Dreamer
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Joined: October 17 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 997 |
Posted: October 21 2010 at 18:20 |
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To be the one who seeks so I may find .. (Metallica)
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unclemeat69
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Joined: April 14 2007 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 362 |
Posted: October 21 2010 at 17:55 |
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I don't consider all songs longer than 20 minutes epics, to me it seems that a song should sound almost like a journey with a BIG finale (such as most of the Yes epics) ending with a big bang (Man-Erg by VDGG) or just fade away (All Of The Above by Transatlantic).
But several of the old bands had at least one of those and Yes did only epics for a few years. And many of the new bands try to have one on each of their cd's. One exception that comes to mind is Gentle Giant, their longest songs are 8 minutes long (not counting live-medleys) and some of those were in 2 minutes distinctly different parts (Glass House, Peel The Paint etc). |
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Follow your bliss
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Nathaniel607
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Joined: June 28 2010 Status: Offline Points: 374 |
Posted: October 21 2010 at 17:31 |
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Here are some (that haven't been mentioned)
George Bellas - Step into the Future (1:15:22) (I consider this prog metal) Echolyn - Mei (50:21) (It's the live version from Jersey Tomato Vol. 2) Buckethead - Track 1 (A.K.A "The Butcher's Last Dance") (45:02( (not really prog...) Ephemeral Sun - Harvest Aorta (41:56) Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (41:34) (Live "Score" version) Edge of Sanity - Crimson (40:01) Can - Colchester Finale (37:23) Beardfish - Sleeping in Traffic (35:45) Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Karn Evil 9 (35:19) (Welcome Back... vers.) Shadow Gallery - First Light (34:19) Moon Safari - Other Half of the Sky (31:14) Transatlantic - All of the Above (31:02) (Roine Stolt mix version) The Flower Kings - The Truth Will Set You Free (31:02) Transatlantic - All of the Above (30:59) Transatlantic - Suite Charlotte Pike Medley (30:55) (Here I skipped a bunch of Transatlantic Live versions) George Bellas - Orchestral Suite (30:07) Transatlantic - Stranger in your Soul (30:00) Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Karn Evil 9 (29:38) Neal Morse - The Door (29:14) Japan X - Art of Life (29:00) Perennial Quest - A Perennial Quest (27:58) Return to Forever - Musicmagic (27:26) (The Complete Concert) Spock's Beard - The Great Nothing (27:02) Frost* - Milliontown (26:35) Ritual - Dangerous Journey (26:32) Can't be bothered to get more, but yeah. There are LOADS of them. |
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Agentorange
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Joined: January 15 2009 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 18 |
Posted: October 21 2010 at 17:02 |
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looks like there's more than I thought !
 I'll just have to buy more CD's I guess....keep 'em coming
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musicbandit
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Joined: April 17 2007 Location: UK, London Status: Offline Points: 40 |
Posted: October 21 2010 at 16:59 |
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Colosseum - Valentine Suite
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn, Hergest Ridge
Plus many more...
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mark4art
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Joined: July 13 2010 Location: Lowestoft Status: Offline Points: 56 |
Posted: October 21 2010 at 16:39 |
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True epics are the various artist albums by Musea Records. Several come to mind.
The Spaghetti Epic The Spaghetti Epic 2 The Spaghetti Epic 3 The Colossus Of Rhodes Odyssey - The Greatest Tale (The) 7 Samurai Treasure Island All of these are made up of 20-26min themed tracks, really excellant hence the good ratings they get. |
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richardh
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Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 28059 |
Posted: October 21 2010 at 16:31 |
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Glass Hammer - Behind The Great Beyond (20.27)
Mike Oldfield - Amarok (1 hr and 2 seconds!)
Par Lindh Project - Mundus Incompertus (26.43)
IQ really messed up with The Last Human Gateway (19.57)
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sleeper
Prog Reviewer
Joined: October 09 2005 Location: Entropia Status: Offline Points: 16449 |
Posted: October 21 2010 at 16:06 |
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According to my WMP, all these tracks are over 20 minutes, from longest to shortest.
Green Carnation- Light of Day, Day of Darkness
Edge of Sanity- Crimson
Beardfish- Sleeping in Traffic
Porcupine Tree- The Sky Moves Sideways (Alternate version)
Salem's Hill- Sweet Hope Suite
The Flower Kings- The Truth Will Set You Free
Transatlantic- All of the Above
Transatlantic- Stranger in Your Soul
Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Providence
The Gathering- How to Measure a Planet?
Wobbler- Hinterland
Spock's Beard- The Great Nothing
Transatlantic- Duel with the Devil
Ritual- A Dangerous Journey
Nemo- Barbares
IQ- Harvest of Souls
The Flower Kings- Devil's Playground
Univers Zero- Le Faulx
The Tangent- A Place in teh Queue
The Flower Kings- Stardust We Are
Lesbian- Loadbath
Renaissance- Song of Scheherazade
Symphony X- The Odyssey
Dream Theater- Octavarium
Jethro Tull- A Passion Play (side 2)
Pink Floyd- Echoes
King Crimson- Lizard
Van der Graaf Generator- A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
Spock's Beard- The Water
Dream Theater- A Change of Seasons
Magenta- Metamorphosis
Genesis- Suppers Ready
Caravan- Nine Feet Underground
The Tangent- The Full Gamut
Jethro Tull- Thick as a Brick (side 1)
Discipline- Into the Dream
Yes- The Gates of Delerium
Magma- Rïah Sahïltaahk
Magma- KA III
Jethro Tull- A Passion Play (side 1)
Osana- Animale Senzo Respira
Grayceon- Sleep
The Tangent- Four Ego's, One War
Jethro Tull- Thick as a Brick (side 2)
Giant Squid- Metridium Fields
Thieve's Kitchen- The Long Fianchetto
Roine Stolt- Humanizzimo
Krobak- The Fried Bull's Blues
Van der Graaf Generator- Meurglys III
Symphony X- The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Magenta- The Ballad of Samuel Layne
Rush- 2112
Hatfield and the North- Mumps
Noekk- Codex Deserta
Opeth- Black Rose Immortal
Zaar- Sefire
The Tangent- In Earnest
IQ- The Narrow Margin
Thats not including the tracks that some idiot decided to break into their seperat parts like Echolyn's Mei and Sieges Even's Tangerine Windows of Solace.
As you can see there's quite a lot, and thats just from my collection. I still think most prog songs fall into the 7-10 minute region.
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Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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Ixirn
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Joined: May 18 2010 Location: Norway Status: Offline Points: 31 |
Posted: October 21 2010 at 16:02 |
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The ones I managed to find in my itunes library:
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juandhaltrich
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Joined: April 14 2010 Location: Buenos Aires Status: Offline Points: 78 |
Posted: October 21 2010 at 15:54 |
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close to the edge is a nearly 19 minute long EPIC. that's right kids, with caps!
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Gerinski
Prog Reviewer
Joined: February 10 2010 Location: Barcelona Spain Status: Offline Points: 5154 |
Posted: October 21 2010 at 15:48 |
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Certainly you don't need 20 min to have an epic, there's no official dividing line but more than one 12 min songs feel already like an epic to me.
Mike Oldfield's pieces such as TB, Ommadawn or Amarok may not be considered as epics but they exceed the 20 min mark too.
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Billy Pilgrim
Forum Senior Member
Joined: September 28 2010 Location: Austin Status: Offline Points: 1505 |
Posted: October 21 2010 at 15:37 |
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The Revealing Science of God-Yes
Ritual-Yes A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers-VDGG Echoes-Pink Floyd The Sky Moves Sideways-Porcupine Tree Nine Feet Underground-Caravan Tarkus-Emerson, Lake and Palmer Lizard-King Crimson A Passion Play-Jethro Tull and theres plenty of songs I'd consider epics that are under twenty minutes. Like dogs, Grendel, Anesthetize and so on. |
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Jörgemeister
Forum Senior Member
Joined: February 10 2008 Location: Nauticus Status: Offline Points: 2296 |
Posted: October 21 2010 at 15:37 |
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he Flower Kings, The truth willset you free and a damn lot more but Ill list them later whne i get home and have access to my digital misicbrary
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Agentorange
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Joined: January 15 2009 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 18 |
Posted: October 21 2010 at 15:26 |
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I was listening to The Gates of Delirium by Yes in the car today and was sort of musing on how prog ( whatever it may be ) has this rather cliched reputation of being all about 20 minute long epics when really the number of epics compared to the total amount of prog output isn't really all that high. Which led me to think...just how many prog epics are there ? So I wondered if we might rustle up a quick list. Picking an arbitary starting point of 20 minutes ( sorry 19 minute songs, you're just long songs that need to try harder ) what actually is out there ? Here's a few to start things off.....
2112 - Rush
Chupacabras - Phideaux
Gates of Delirium - Yes
Thick as a Brick ( both parts ) - Jethro Tull
Suppers Ready - Genesis
Stardust We Are - The Flower Kings
Hamburger Concerto - Focus
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