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rick gryphon 
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 Topic: real epics
Posted: June 17 2008 at 04:37 |
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hello there i love prog rock with a story what are the longest tracks telling a story i have galleon land on ocean it is 52 mins long what are the best others they must be over 20 mins long....
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BaldFriede
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Posted: June 17 2008 at 07:32 |
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One of my favourites is "Wassilissa" by Mother Gong from their album "Fairy Tales". It is a 22:28 track. The other two tracks on that album are shorter than twenty minutes but by no means short (12:41 and 14:38). And all three tracks definitely tell a story; that's what the whole album is about. The two shorter stories are connected, by the way; the hero in both is the same. So one could see them as one story in two parts.
Edited by BaldFriede - June 17 2008 at 07:35
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ian picken
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Posted: June 18 2008 at 08:13 |
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Transatlantic have some of the best epic long tracks ever. Most early Rush albums have long tracks on them and of course they are stunning.
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chopper
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Posted: June 18 2008 at 09:07 |
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Most early Rush albums? I can only think of side 2 of Caress of Steel, which is really separate songs and Hemispheres, which may be less than 20 minutes.
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Abstrakt
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Posted: June 18 2008 at 10:23 |
The Flower Kings - Garden of Dreams (59:57) (But i see it as a number of songs, and it consists of 18 "parts" or songs)The Flower Kings - Stardust we Are (25:02) The Flower Kings - I am the Sun (both parts) (25:51) The Flower Kings - The Truth will set you free (30:40)The Flower Kings - Devils Playground (24:30) The Flower Kings - Monsters & Men (21:21) The Flower Kings - Love is the Only Answer (25:50) (Put together pretty bad. It feels like a shorter epic with some additional song(s) at the end) 
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DJPuffyLemon
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Posted: June 18 2008 at 11:18 |
while i really love epics, there are a lot of bad ones because they put together random instrumental parts in between verses in order to make their songs longer. either that, or the epics are actually different songs (like Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, which doesn't have any flow between its parts [aka you can tell that they're different tracks]).
in fact, I will also ask for some real epics which don't have cut and paste instrumentals (aka, songs which sound like one complete composition that doesn't sound as though they were running out of ideas).
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preqT0THEseq7
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Posted: June 18 2008 at 22:55 |
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Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Dream Theater - AA Suite (not yet finished)
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Idk, My BFF Steve.
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Statutory-Mike
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Posted: June 18 2008 at 23:03 |
 preqT0THEseq7 wrote:
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Dream Theater - AA Suite (not yet finished)
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Nice to see you around the neighborhood my good friend 
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Statutory-Mike
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Posted: June 18 2008 at 23:05 |
DT:
-ITPOE
-6 Degrees of Inner Turbulance
-A Mind Beside Itself : Erotomani, Voices, Silent Man
-Metropolis (pt 1 + SFAM)
-AA Suite
BTBAM : Colors
Genesis : Suppers Ready
many others. many many others.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: June 18 2008 at 23:06 |
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^Ah yes, Colors as a whole album is just epic IMO too.
One up for SFAM too and the AA suite.
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preqT0THEseq7
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Posted: June 18 2008 at 23:07 |
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Nice to see you too my aquaintence
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Idk, My BFF Steve.
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Padraic
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Posted: June 18 2008 at 23:07 |
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"Deafening Silence" by IZZ
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The Pessimist
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Posted: June 24 2008 at 17:36 |
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Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers - VDGG
Cassandra Gemini - The Mars Volta
The Great Nothing - Spock's Beard
All TFKs ones mentioned above
All Of The Above - Transatlantic
TAAB - Jethro Tull
They don't all have a story to tell, but they are all quality listens.
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"Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value."
Arnold Schoenberg
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The Quiet One
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Posted: June 24 2008 at 18:21 |
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Gates of Delirium - Yes (21 min)
The Revealing Science of God - Yes (20 min)
The Remembering - Yes (20 min)
Nous Sommes Du Solei - Yes (21 min)
TAAB - Jethro Tull (22 min)
APP - Jethro Tull (22 min)
Supper's Ready - Genesis (21 min)
Tarkus - ELP (20 min)
though dunno if these all have the requisites you're asking.
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febus
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Posted: June 24 2008 at 20:27 |
My favorite one: SOLAR MUSIC  from german band GROBSCHNITT with many live recordings going from 50mns to 80 mns. no less......wonderful space/rock with great musicianship .
Don't believe me?? just read the different reviews of this album on PA! ..a fantastic experience!
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SilverEclipse
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Posted: June 25 2008 at 11:29 |
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They are all destroyed by
The Second Stage Turbine Blade - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World For Tomorrow - Coheed & Cambria
...coming in at 4 hours, 10 minutes, 1 seconds
as a new-prog-head, I had to do it : P
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"and if the band your in starts playing different tunes, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon"
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Zargus
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Posted: June 30 2008 at 04:16 |
Story or not Nine feet underground is the best epic song ever made. And A plague of lighthouse keepers is not far behind and that one even got a story. 
Edited by Zargus - June 30 2008 at 04:17
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Abstrakt
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Posted: June 30 2008 at 04:40 |
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While i really LOVE "Nine Feet Underground", i don't see it as a real "epic", but as a long song with several parts.
Just as Caravan's other long songs, like "With an Ear to the ground you can make it / Martininan / Only Cox / Reprise" and "Can't be long now / Francoise / For Richard / Warlock".
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Dim
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Posted: June 30 2008 at 23:03 |
Meridian-Dirge
Troy landmammal- Confer
psychoparasite-Silence kit
Hyracotherium-Equus
March into the sea-Pelican
East Hastings-GY!BE
Storm-GY!BE
Rockets fall on rockets fall-GY!BE
Ghost soldiers-Johnny twentythree
Suppers ready-Genesis
All songs twenty mintes long by Yes.
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Statutory-Mike
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Posted: June 30 2008 at 23:23 |
chopper wrote:
Most early Rush albums? I can only think of side 2 of Caress of Steel, which is really separate songs and Hemispheres, which may be less than 20 minutes. |
2112?!?!?!?!? n00b
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