Recommend "EPICS" for me...
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Topic: Recommend "EPICS" for me...
Posted By: M.L.KNIGHT
Subject: Recommend "EPICS" for me...
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 15:18
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I have always liked the 25 minute epics. You know the ones....5
suites...silly bit in the middle....church organ....choir....crescendo.
Can anyone recommend some to me in the vein of..... SPOCK'S BEARD GENESIS YES RUSH THE FLOWER KINGS TRANSATLANTIC MAGENTA I.Q. ------------- HAROLD THE BARREL He knows the price of eveything and the value of nothing!! |
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 15:25
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you already covered most of the bands that I would have mentioned ... so please excuse the prog metal nature of my recommendations.
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 15:29
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A passion play by Jethro Tull ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Fantômas
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 15:29
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Surgical Sound Specimens From The Museum Of Skin
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Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 15:30
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Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - L'Evoluzione Best symphonic epic that isn't by Yes. |
Posted By: Cluster One
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 15:35
+1 (Highly recommended) ------------- Marmalade...I like marmalade. |
el böthy wrote:Posted By: M.L.KNIGHT
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 15:37
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NICE ONE. I've got some DREAM THEATER,JETHRO TULL, PORCUPINE TREE and NEAL MORSE is GOD!! (no pun intended) To be honest, I've not heard of FATES WARNING or REDEMPTION so I'll check them out. Not fussed about SYMPHONY X....CHEERS! ------------- HAROLD THE BARREL He knows the price of eveything and the value of nothing!! |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 15:38
...What about Banco?! 
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Posted By: Axis
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 16:42
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My favourite 'epic' is a mere 16 minutes or so ........ Awaken by YES -
what a classic! Perfection. Instrumental, how about Liquid Tension Experiment - When the water breaks |
Posted By: omri
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 16:57
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1. ELP - Tarkus 2. Renaissance - Sheherezade 3. Jethro Tull - Thick as a brick 4. King crimson - Lizard 5. Aphrodite's child - All the seats were occupied (this one is bizarre but great IMO. If you do'nt like bizarre ignore it). ------------- omri |
Posted By: silvertree
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 17:14
How about Il Giardino del Mago by Banco (1st album). It's "only" 18 minutes long... 
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 17:15
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Try both of The Tangent cds "The Music That Died Alone" and "The World That We Drive Through". Also Echolyn's "Mei" -------------  |
Posted By: silvertree
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 17:17
| Murple - Io Sono Murple (whole album epic). |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 17:22
 HELL YEAH!!! |
Posted By: Shryker
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 17:32
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Pink Floyd - Echoes
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Posted By: M. B. Zapelini
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 17:33
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Some recommendations: - Salisbury (URIAH HEEP) - 16+ minutes - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (IRON BUTTERFLY) - 17+ minutes - Eruption (FOCUS) - 20+ minutes - Hamburger Concerto (FOCUS) - 22+ minutes - Lizard (KING CRIMSON) - 21+ minutes - In Held Twas In I (PROCOL HARUM) - 17+ minutes - Remember the Future Parts 1 & 2 (NEKTAR) - 35+ minutes - The Valentyne Suite (COLOSSEUM) - 17+ minutes - Baker Street Muse (JETHRO TULL) - 16+ minutes - Parthenogenesis (CANNED HEAT) - 20+ minutes (progressive boogie! Have fun! |
Posted By: sstarless
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 17:56
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ELP - Tarkus (you need an album incerts to fully enjoy it) Renaissance - Sheherezade (great one, but otherwise week album) Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons Symphony X - The Odyssey ( my favorite progmetal epic) ------------- Io sono nato libero |
Posted By: Yanns
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 18:16
| Karn Evil 9 - Emerson, Lake and Palmer |
Posted By: Tiresias
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 20:42
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To actually answer your question: SPOCK'S BEARD: The Light, The Water, The Great Nothing, Flow, Time Has Come THE FLOWER KINGS: Stardust we Are, Humanizzmo, Silent Inferno, Garden of Dreams, The Truth Will Set You Free, Devils Playground, Drivers Seat, Love Supreme, etc Not sure about the other ones, though.... Take your Pick ------------- Wh'ghal ng'fth mglw'y Ry'leh, Cthulhu fhtagn... 
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Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 20:47
| Gates of Delrium, from Relayer |
Posted By: alan_pfeifer
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 21:28
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I second Gates of Delerium. |
Posted By: JedHead
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 21:41
I was going to say 'Any song from TransAtlantic, except 'we all need some light' because that is the only song under a half hour, haha'. ------------- The good cop and the bad cop left for the day. I'm a different kind of cop. |
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 08:22
| Cassandra gemmini-The mars volta best prog epic ever... |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 08:30
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Incorrect. Have another guess. |
Posted By: undefinability
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 08:38
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My all-time epic, to be honest, has always been A Change of Seasons by Dream Theater. However, that takes nothing away from these other great ones (I'll try and recommend songs others have not yet): First Light by Shadow Gallery, from their Legacy record, Gargoyles, Angels Of Darkness by Rhapsody, off Power of the Dragonflame, and The Last Human Gateway, and Harvester of Souls by IQ.
These songs are in no way better than, say, The Odyssey or The Divine Wings of Tragedy by Symphony X, or any of the Tranatlantic/Neal Morse/Spock's Beard epics, but they are nevertheless some of my favorite epics. ------------- "Don't listen to me." |
Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 08:49
| Tomas Bodin - I AM. 3 Songs one epic cd |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 09:19
First Light is awesome ... but the last 10 minutes are filler, and that kind of spoils it for me. But that still leaves 25 minutes of pure excellence ... ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to:
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Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 09:26
"Henry" from "Hard'n'horny" by WIGWAM! 
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Posted By: riversdancing
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 09:54
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Magellan - The Great Goodnight In The Woods - Omnio? Sieges Even - Tangerine Windows of Solace and some more if you are brave enough to listen to: Voivod - Jack Luminous and a real killer (in hiding)  :··························· Mekong Delta - Dances of Death ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 10:57
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Mother Gong - Wassilissa 22:28 (from their album Fairy Tales) Clearlight - Clearlight Symphony (Part 1 and 2, 20:40 and 20:37) the 2nd side of Steve Hillage's "Green" album can be taken as one piece of music, since all tracks flow into each other to form the long track "Om Rock" with the parts: Unidentified (Flying Being) (4:30) U.F.O. Over Paris (3:11) Leylines to Glassdom (4:06) Crystal City (3:36) Activation Meditation (1:03) The Glorious Om Riff (7:46) together 24:05 of course a lot of Krautrock too. Ash Ra Tempel's "Join Inn" has the two tracks "Freak'n Roll" (19:15) and "Jenseits" (24:08). the first self-titled album of the Cosmic Jokers has the two tracks "Galactic Joke" 22:38 and "Cosmic Joy" 19:24, their 2nd album "Galactic Supermarket" has "Kinder des Alls" 18:54 and "Galactic Supermarket" 19:24. Popol Vuh's "Affenstunde" has the two tracks "Ich mache einen Spiegel" 21:05 and "Affenstunde" 18:57. to mention just a few -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: jitu
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 11:40
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transatlantic-duel with the devil ------------- 
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Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 12:06
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Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - L'Evoluzione
Caravan - Nine Feet Underground Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons Emerson Lake Palmer - Tarkus Fantômas - Surgical Sound Specimens from the Museum of Skin Genesis - Supper's Ready IQ - Harvest of Souls Mars Volta - Cassandra Geminni Pink Floyd - Dogs Pink Floyd - Echoes Rush - 2112 Transatlantic - All of the Above Triumvirat - Across the Waters Van der Graaf Generator - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers Yes - Awaken Yes - Close to the Edge Yes - Ritual Änglagård - Kung Bore Just a few that I consider essential. And there certainly is a difference between an epic and a long song, so I didn't include for example any Schulze or TD stuff! |
Posted By: Fervetopus
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 12:14
| Kalevala, colossus of rhodes, etc. (from finnish site) |
Posted By: undefinability
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 12:29
That seems to be Shadow Gallery's worst area, I've noticed, when they're too plenteous. ------------- "Don't listen to me." |
Posted By: Progger
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 12:32
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Is it any good? |
Posted By: Sir Hogweed
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 14:21
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Great epic indeed! Also recommended, as mentioned before by severals
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Posted By: Sir Hogweed
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 14:30
Better than that. Highly recommenced for TFK epic lovers |
Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 17:05
| I Am by Tomas Bodin is absolutely recommended. Probably the best work from the Flower Kings family (although I have to admit The Tangent and Kaipa are right up there). It's even better IMO than any of the FK's discs. Buy it now... you won't regret it! |
Posted By: pepolo
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 17:43
maybe this would help :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_over_fifteen_min utes_in_length (not limited to prog)
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Posted By: pepolo
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 17:48
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_over_fifteen_minutes_in_length - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_over_fifteen_minu tes_in_length |
Posted By: Kipper
Date Posted: August 16 2005 at 17:23
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Supper's Ready and Ommadawn (part one) are two that spring to mind ------------- Master of images, songs cast a light on you... |
Posted By: Olympus
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 18:29
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I Suggest you listen to Tubular bells by Mike oldfield it is a classic epic and its great. ------------- "Let's get the hell away from this Eerie-ass piece of work so we can get on with the rest of our eerie-ass day" |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: August 20 2005 at 08:29
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Uriah Heep's 'Salisbury' is a huge favourite of mine- it's the longest song they ever did and also the most progressive.
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Posted By: Richardw
Date Posted: August 20 2005 at 08:48
| CIRCUS - Movin' On (The title track is a classic) |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 20 2005 at 09:22
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Peter Hammill - Flight 19:38 (from the album "A Black Box", also a live version on "The Margin +") ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: fender101
Date Posted: August 21 2005 at 01:31
One of the best of all time. (although I am extreamly bias) Also by the floyd Dogs off animals. |
Posted By: italprogfan
Date Posted: August 21 2005 at 03:25
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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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Posted By: Sam Fire
Date Posted: August 21 2005 at 16:20
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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" 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... |
Posted By: gok22us
Date Posted: August 24 2005 at 20:25
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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 |
Posted By: Dan Yaron
Date Posted: August 26 2005 at 10:15
| Grobschnitt - Rockpommel's Land can be considered an epic IMO. |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: August 26 2005 at 11:40
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Echolyn: Mei
49+ minutes of prog bliss.
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Posted By: richeym
Date Posted: August 26 2005 at 12:28
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anything by DEVIL DOLL
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Posted By: Murdoch
Date Posted: August 26 2005 at 16:08
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Kate Bush- the Ninth Wave (Hounds of Love CD) |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: August 27 2005 at 11:11
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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. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: bobthesalesman
Date Posted: August 27 2005 at 19:40
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Herbie Hancock - Wandering Spirit Song
Not prog but its rather epic. And damn good(kinda wierd). ------------- www.myspace.com/thepianowar |
Posted By: tanis573
Date Posted: August 27 2005 at 19:55
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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
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Posted By: morpheusdraven
Date Posted: August 29 2005 at 16:30
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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. |
Posted By: fender101
Date Posted: August 29 2005 at 22:07
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. ------------- Well McGarnical Billy is dead! They slit his throat from ear to ear! |
Posted By: con safo
Date Posted: August 29 2005 at 22:15
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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 ------------- 
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