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Kipper

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Posted: August 16 2005 at 17:23

Supper's Ready and Ommadawn (part one) are two that spring to mind

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Olympus

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Posted: August 19 2005 at 18:29

I Suggest you listen to Tubular bells by Mike oldfield it is a classic epic and its great.

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Posted: August 20 2005 at 08:29

Uriah Heep's 'Salisbury' is a huge favourite of mine- it's the longest song they ever did and also the most progressive.

Richardw

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Posted: August 20 2005 at 08:48

CIRCUS - Movin' On (The title track is a classic)

BaldJean

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Posted: August 20 2005 at 09:22

Peter Hammill - Flight 19:38 (from the album "A Black Box", also a live version on "The Margin +")
Peter Hammill - A Headlong Stretch 19:24 (from the album "Roaring Forties")
Peter Hammill - Gog/Magog (In Bromine Chambers) 17:21 (from the album "In Camera")
Van der Graaf Generator - Meurglys III - the Songwriter's Guild 20:47 (from the album "World Record")

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fender101

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Posted: August 21 2005 at 01:31

Shryker wrote:

Pink Floyd - Echoes

One of the best of all time. (although I am extreamly bias)

Also by the floyd Dogs off animals.

italprogfan View Drop Down

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Posted: August 21 2005 at 03:25

some others that may be worth your while - not all are 25 minutes, but are still 'epics':

akritas - s/t (whole album)

apoteosi - prima realta from s/t album

atila - el principo del fin (the beginning of the end) from album of same name or shorter version on 'intencion'

caravan - for richard suite from 'if i could do it all over again, i'd do it all over you'

caravan - nine feet underground from 'in the land of grey and pink' (*!* - sorrry i had to mention this again - it's that good)

grobschnitt - solar music live (or the studio version on 'ballerman')

los jaivas - tarka y ocarina from 'los jaivas (1975) ('el indio')'

los jaivas - la poderosa muerte from 'alturas de macchu picchu'

cem karaca - safinaz from album of same name (a little different turkish psych)

magma - kohntark (parts 1 & 2) from 'hhai' (live)

montefeltro - canto from 'il tempo de la fantasia'

museo rosenbach - the 'uomo' suite from 'zarathustra'

omni - ronda de las dunas from 'el vals de los duendes'

popol vuh - einsjager & siebenjager from album of same name

kostas tournas - aperanta chorafia (whole album)

also, as was noted earlier, murple - io sono murple

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Sam Fire

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Posted: August 21 2005 at 16:20

Yanns wrote:

Karn Evil 9 - Emerson, Lake and Palmer

!!!

Tarkus is also really good, I highly recommend it! I remember the first time that I listened to it all the way through (I was 11 or so, and had the attention span of a squirrel, so I only ever got up to "Stones of Years")... mindblowing...

And then, Rush has some excellent ones, like "2112", "Fountains of Lamneth", "Hemispheres", and then shorter pieces like "By-Tor and the Snow Dog", "The Necromancer", "Xanadu", and "La Villa Strangiato", which are questionable as "epics", but are good, long songs!

And those are all the epics that I listen to frequently, I really need to diversify in my proggish music-listening habits...

gok22us

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Posted: August 24 2005 at 20:25

Yes - Mind Drive, Awaken, The Gates of Delirium, Ritual, The Revealing Science of God, Close to the Edge

Genesis - Suppers Ready

Dream Theater - Octavarium

ELP - Karn Evil 9 (all three parts together)

King Crimson - Starless

Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick

Pink Floyd - Dogs, Shine On Your Crazy Diamond, Echoes

Dan Yaron

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Posted: August 26 2005 at 10:15

Grobschnitt - Rockpommel's Land can be considered an epic IMO.

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Posted: August 26 2005 at 11:40

Echolyn: Mei

49+ minutes of prog bliss.

richeym

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Posted: August 26 2005 at 12:28

anything by DEVIL DOLL

Murdoch

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Posted: August 26 2005 at 16:08

Kate Bush- the Ninth Wave (Hounds of Love CD)

lucas

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Posted: August 27 2005 at 11:11

riversdancing wrote:

Voivod - Jack Luminous

one of the best metal-prog epic actually.

One essential epic is 'bema pamieci - zalobny rapsod' by Czeslaw Niemen, full of organs and great choir and obviously the warm voice of Niemen.

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Posted: August 27 2005 at 19:40

Herbie Hancock - Wandering Spirit Song

Not prog but its rather epic. And damn good(kinda wierd).

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tanis573

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Posted: August 27 2005 at 19:55

I've got a few songs to recommend:

Taurus II - Mike Oldfield

Hergest Ridge, Pt. 1 - Mike Oldfield

Ommadawn, Pt. 1 - Mike Oldfield

Incantation, Pt. 1 - Mike Oldfield

Echoes - Pink Floyd

The Divine Wings of Tragedy - Symphony X

The Odyssey - Symphony X

The Gates of Delirium - Yes

morpheusdraven View Drop Down

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Posted: August 29 2005 at 16:30

there's a live version of Kayo Dot's The Antique available for free d/l from
their website www.kayodot.com (although structurally, it kind of anti-
climaxes in comparison to the way many traditional prog epics work. Still
very worthwhile.

fender101

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Posted: August 29 2005 at 22:07

Sam Fire wrote:

Something I have never understood. Tarkus is an album not a single track so why is it considered an epic. Is it becausae alll the songs blend in together? Dont get me wrong its one of my favourite albums.

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con safo

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Posted: August 29 2005 at 22:15

All the basics .. -

Yes - CTTE, GOD
Genesis - Suppers Ready
Pink Floyd - Echoes, Atom Heart Mother
VdGG - Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers

and some of my other favourites

Caravan - Nine Feet Underground
Uriah Heep - Salisbury
Eloy - Apocolypse
Can - Bel Air
Collosseum - Valentyne Suite
Jethro Tull - TAAB, Passion Play
Nektar - A Tab In The Ocean
Procol Harum - In Held Twas I