your favorite 5 epics
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Topic: your favorite 5 epics
Posted By: romanm
Subject: your favorite 5 epics
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 03:23
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Hi, i am looking for some epics, i love long and complex tracks with glorious or anthemic endings"finales",individual showcases and great lyrics, but i just know about 10 Supper´s ready - Genesis
Close to the edge - Yes
Stardust we are - Flower kings
Duel with the devil - Transatlantic
Song of scharazade - Reinassance
please help me, post your top 5.
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and definitly my top 5 is.Replies:
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 03:29
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Genesis - Suppers Ready
  Eloy - Land Of No Body
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Eloy - Light From Deep Darkness
Yes - Close To The Edge
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Posted By: Australian
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 03:34
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Tarkus -ElP
Starless King Crimson
The Gates of Delerium - Yes
Edit:
Phaedra Tangerine Dream
Shine on youy crazy diamond - PF ------------- 
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 03:39
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To the risk of sounding repetitive, I'd also like to mention "Tarkus" (even better than KE9, IMHO), CTTE and "The Gates...". However, I don't know if the superb "Starless" - considerably shorter than the above titles - would qualify as an epic. However, outside the realms of symphonic prog, I'd put forward two particular favourites of mine: Caravan's "Disassociation 100%" and Hatfield and the North's "Mumps". |
Posted By: Open-Mind
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 03:58
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Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond Porcupine Tree - Russia On Ice King Crimson - The Court Of The Crimson Dream Theater - A Change Of Seasons ------------- "I'm on a roll, I'm on a roll this time, I feel my luck could change.. " |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 04:03
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VdGG - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers Banco - L'Evoluzione KC - Starless Peter Hammill - A Louse is Not a Home Curved Air - Piece of Mind Not sure if it qualifies: Gentle Giant - Mr. Class and Quality/Three Friends. (And I just discovered Discipline: Unfolded like Staircase from '97. Right now Into The Dream and Before the Storm I & II sonds like two of the greatest long epics of the last 30 years. I have to wait and see if it lasts though. Edit: It didn't last. Its still good, but not in the same league as the ones above ) ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Cheesecakemouse
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 04:04
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Suppers Ready- Genesis
Tales from Topographic Oceans -Yes
Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd
Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
Awaken - Yes
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
if more than five I'd also include MDK by Magma, Bel air and Yoo Doo Right by Can and Echoes by Pink Floyd ------------- |
Posted By: dagrush
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 04:07
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Genesis - Supper's Ready Dream Theater - ACOS ELP - KE9 Mike Oldfield - Amarok Rush - 2112 ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/omgwtfdagrush/"> 
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Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 04:07
I think of Starless as an epic, just like the 9.22 min long In the Court..., while Nine Feet Underground and Mumps more as very long (and very good) tracks. But I'm no expert. ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Ghost Rider wrote:Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 04:12
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Kohntarkohz, CTTE, Ommadawn, Delirium Cordia.. and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. ;)
substitute in Fracture and l'Isola di Niente for anything if they count; they're only eleven minutes but I find them incredibly epic, and besides they're two of the best songs in the world. |
Posted By: transend
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 04:13
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The gates of delirum Suppers Ready All of the above - Transatlantic Grendel - Marillion Smallcreeps day - Mike Rutherford |
Posted By: Frasse
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 04:20
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Genesis - Supper's Ready Yes - The Gates of Delirium Camel - Lady Fantasy Rhapsody - Symphony of Enchanted Lands (I'm a bit  about it)Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of Earth |
Posted By: Ounamahl
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 05:00
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a touuugh one, but: Supper's Ready CTTE Shine on you... 2112 and maybe Singring And The Glass Guitar from Utopia, but it's hard to say ------------- This is an electrified fairytale |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 05:19
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1. Rush - The Fountain of Lamneth 2. Nemo - Le Monde a l'Envers 3. King Crimson - Lizard 4. Nemo - La Dernière Vague 5. Genesis - Supper's Ready |
Posted By: Dirk
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 06:02
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Just a selection: I am the sun - The Flower Kings (Or Garden of Dreams if allowed) Starless - King Crimson Natural selection - Lands end Histoire sans parole - Harmonium Moonloop (Coma divine version) - Porcupine Tree |
Posted By: proglil49
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 09:15
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It goes like this for me: 1. Genesis - Supper's Ready
2. Yes - Close To The Edge
3. Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons
4. Yes - Gates of Delirium
5. Pink Floyd - Shine On Your Crazy Diamonds ------------- I want to be an astronaut |
Posted By: Deadwing12
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 09:37
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Some of my favorites: 1.) The Truth Will Set You Free - The Flower Kings 2.) The Sky Moves Sideways (full 34-minute version) - Porcupine Tree 3.) The Gates of Delerium - Yes 4.) The Odyssey - Symphony X 5.) Cassandra Geminii - The Mars Volta A few honorable mentions: In Earnest - The Tangent Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Deadwing008/?chartstyle=Basquiat"> 
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 10:30
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Something like this:
Magellan - Magna Carta
Frank Zappa - The Adventures of Greggary Peccary
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9 or Tarkus
Supertramp - Brother Where You Bound
Jean-Michel Jarre - Magnetic Fields Part 1 ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: theytsejamer
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 11:33
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Rush - 2112
DT - Octavarium
Tool - Disposition/Reflection/Triad
Genesis - Supper's Ready
Yes - The Gates of Delirium ------------- SMR.... |
Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 12:00
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Genesis - Supper's Ready Marillion - Grendel Arena - Solomon Pendragon - The Last Man On Earth Pink Floyd - Pigs (Three Different Ones) Too name but a few of my favourites. |
Posted By: Tony Fisher
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 12:02
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Supper's Ready - Genesis Echoes - Floyd Lady Fantasy - Camel Eruption - Focus Midnight Mushrumps - Gryphon in no particular order. |
Posted By: Lofcaudio
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 14:23
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Posted By: Baggiesfaninuk
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 15:29
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1. Yes - Gates of Delerium 2. ELP - Karn Evil 9 3. It Bites - Once Around the World 4. Genesis - Firth of Fifth 5. King Crimson - Fracture ------------- My father was a beekeeper before me; his father was a beekeeper. I want to follow in their footsteps. And their footsteps were like this. (Runs screaming) "AAAAAAAH! I'm covered in beeeeees!" - Izzard |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 18:30
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Hi
My top five is
Echoes-PF
Child in time-Deep Purple
Metropolis-Dream Theater
Lady Fantasy-Camel
Super Ready-Genesis
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Posted By: chessman
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 18:40
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My favourite of all time has to be Supper's Ready, but seeing as you already named that one: Try:
Garden Of Dreams - Flower Kings
Gates Of Delirium - Yes
Devil's Playground - Flower Kings
Awaken - Yes
Echoes - Pink Floyd
But there are many, many more!
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Posted By: Losendos
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 20:19
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1 Gates of Delirium ( this is a big winner imho)
2 Supper's Ready
3 Echoes
4 Thick as a Brick
5 Hamburger Concerto
Honourable mention to Karnevil 9 ,Tarkus, Tubular Bells, Crises ,Starship Trooper,Awaken, Get em out by Friday ,Cinema Show,Shine on you Crazy Diamond, Close to the Edge
------------- How wonderful to be so profound |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 23:54
Mmmm... maybe I´ll avoid the obvious, and go for less known epics...
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: AtLossForWords
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 00:09
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1. Devil's Playground- The Flower Kings
2. The Truth Will Set You Free- The Flower Kings
3. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence- Dream Theater
4. A Place in the Queue- The Tangent
5. The Great Nothing- Spock's Beard -------------  
"Mastodon sucks giant monkey balls." |
Posted By: transend
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 00:13
Oooh, thank you very much! Glad you like it. |
Posted By: kebjourman
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 00:27
hey man i agree with the tangerine dream
and AWESOME SIGNATURE
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Posted By: Cinema
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 00:33
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The Gates of Delirium - Yes Forgiving Eden - A Triggering Myth Mei - Echolyn Behind The Great Beyond - Glass Hammer Love Supreme - The Flower Kings |
Posted By: N Ellingworth
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 03:51
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I really stuggled to limit my list to five.
Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans (I can't really choose just one song from the album) Pink Floyd - Echoes, Shine on you Crazy Diamond Porcupine Tree - Sky Moves Sideways (34 min version) Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers Honourable mentions go to: ELP - Karn Evil 9, Tarkus Yes - CTTE, Gates of Delirium |
Posted By: stewe
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 18:01
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Yes - Close to the Edge Yes - Ritual Yes - Gates of Delirium Yes - Awaken Yes - Endless Dream  |
Posted By: pepo
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 18:29
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plague of lighthouse keepers
tarkus
supper's ready
dogs
close to the edge
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Posted By: ProggyWog
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 20:07
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gong - i am your egg amon duul - s/t faust - iv neu! - Gold Regen (Gold Rain) can - ege bamyasi ___________________________________________________ Listen to Baby by Faust : http://www.napster.com/player/tracks/15088208 |
Posted By: Asyte2c00
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 22:08
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"Dogs" Pink Floyd
"Supper's Ready" Genesis
"Close to the Edge" Yes
"La Villa Strangiato: An Exercise in Self-Indulgence" Rush (this songs actually has parts and stages to it even though it s only nine minutes long)
"Tarkus" ELP
"Lady Fantasy" Camel
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Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: July 05 2006 at 01:59
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Apart from the more obvious ones:
Yes: Mind Drive
That, that is
VDGG: Meurglys III.
Fates Warning: A Pleasant Shade of Gray
Ivory Gate of Dreams
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: July 05 2006 at 02:07
Both excellent epics.  A few of my favorites are (in no particular order): The Invisible Man- Marillion Plague of Ghosts- Fish The Fountain of Lamneth- Rush The Sky Moves Sideways (both parts)- Porcupine Tree The Great Nothing- Spock's Beard These are only a few, and there a lot more epics that I like. ------------- 
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Posted By: YesForSure
Date Posted: July 05 2006 at 03:27
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#1 Amarok - Mike Oldfield #1 Tales From Topographic Oceans - Yes #1 Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield #2 Thick as a Brick/A Passion Play #3 Supper's Ready |
Posted By: DualXP
Date Posted: July 05 2006 at 21:26
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Genesis - Supper's Ready
Rush - The Necromancer
Tool - D/R/T
Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond
The Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini ------------- If I had a puppy I would name it Tessa so it would cooperate well. |
Posted By: Mujina
Date Posted: July 05 2006 at 21:29
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OK, I just couldn't do 5 (as was the case for many others), so I did 10, in order, no "honorable mentions", just a top 10 epics. You can always ignore 6-10.
1. The Remembering – Yes (side 2, "Tales from TO") 2. Yes Anastasia – Tori Amos 3. In the Black Room – Peter Hammill 4. A Louse is not a Home – Peter Hammill 5. Midnight Mushrumps – Gryphon 6. The Revealing Science of God – Yes (side 1, "Tales") 7. Thick as a Brick – Jethro Tull 8. Supper’s Ready – Genesis 9. Passion Play – Jethro Tull 10. Close to the Edge – Yes #1 is about the most stirring, anthemesque epic I know; I still get goosebumps near the end when they sing "Surely, Surely" and the instruments (Howe/Squire) take over the melodying. Similarly, #2-4 get their place in large part because of the emotional range displayed along with the musical virtuosity. In contrast, #5 is perhaps a bit of a stiff, but it's definitely a unique piece of music and for a song without lyrics or traditional rock instrumentation it does move nicely, has some great melodic moments, and commands an impressive dynamic range. #6-10 we all pretty much know about and have appeared before here. The Tull and the Genesis didn't get higher for me even though they are all magnificent pieces because they are more pastiches than epics in the way they're put together, even though the cumulative effect is undeniably powerful. And as for #10, I have to say that I've never been all that impressed with the "I Get Up I Get Down" portion of the piece (can't wait for the return of the main theme), and without that, CTTE is basically a very nice longish song -- one of Yes' very best on every front, to be sure -- but not quite an "epic" anymore. I know, nobody asked for all this annotation, but I couldn't resist providing my rationale(s). And oh, I'm trying to remember, did anyone else list an epic written/performed by a female vocalist? |
Posted By: 2112
Date Posted: July 05 2006 at 21:37
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1. 2112 - Rush
2. The Necromancer - Rush
3. Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
4. Echoes - Pink FLoyd
5. Heart of The Sunrise - Yes ------------- 
I can't wait to share this new wonder...The people will all see its light! |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: July 05 2006 at 21:43
Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: July 05 2006 at 22:37
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1.Yes - CTTE
2.Yes - GOD 3.Focus - Hamburger Concerto 4.Utopia - The Ikon 5.ELP - Tarkus Seen all but the Ikon performed live. |
Posted By: Fassbinder
Date Posted: July 07 2006 at 00:41
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King Crimson -- Lizard
Van der Graaf Generator -- Meurglys III
Peter Hammill -- Flight
Caravan -- Nine feet underground
Czesław Niemen -- Bema pamięci żałobny - rapsod
"Substitute": Colosseum -- Valentyne suite
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Posted By: Erpland316
Date Posted: July 07 2006 at 01:02
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1. Pink Floyd- Shine on You Crazy Diamond
2. Tangerine Dream- Phaedra
3. Van Der Graaf Generator- A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
4. Steve Hillage- Aftaglid
5. Amon Duul II- Phallus Dei ------------- "Science is all metaphor"-Timothy Leary [IMG]http://freespace.virgin.net/martin.jones10/amonpic.jpg">[IMG]http://imagegen.last.fm/red/artists/Yeti316.gif"> |
Posted By: panamaredone
Date Posted: July 07 2006 at 01:41
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Yes-Gates of Delirium, The Remembering, CTTE ELP-Karn 9 Evil Pink Floyd-Echoes |
Posted By: omri
Date Posted: July 11 2006 at 16:51
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Few comments :
1. Lizard is not an epic. It is a half aconcept album (the old ones satill remember the record). One can claim that "The battle of glass tears" is an epic (I will support that).
2. I dear to say many of us think epic is long. I think epic is a track that has a story and the music changes from one chapter to another (it can end like it started but it does'nt have to).
I will write down some great unmentioned yet :
* Halleluwah - Can
* De futura - Magma
* La rossa - VDGG
* Lark's tongue's in aspic - King crimson
* Canutility & the coastliners - Genesys
* My god - Jethro Tull
and to my 5 favorites :
5. "Cheyene anthem" - Kansas
4. "Song of Scheherezade" - Renaissance
3. "The battle of glass tears" - King crimson
2. "Tarkus" - ELP
1. "The letters" - King crimson (only 4.5 minutes yet that all it needs to blow your mind). ------------- omri |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: July 11 2006 at 16:59
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Off the top o' me head:
Okay, so the last one is basically lots of tiny tracks, but they add up to a side of vinyl, flow beautifully and have repeated themes. I SAY IT COUNTS, DAMMIT! |
Posted By: Negru Voda
Date Posted: July 11 2006 at 17:04
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Pink Floyd - Echoes Rush - 2112 Jethro Tull - A Passion Play Jethro Tull - Thick As Brick Genesis - Supper's Ready EDIT: have to add The Necromancer by Rush aswell |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: July 12 2006 at 04:14
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Mother Gong - Wassilissa (an epic that is probably little known, but absolutely deserves being listened to) VdGG - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers Amon Düül 2 - Phallus Dei King Cimson - Lizard (and it IS an epic, whatever OMRI says) Steve Hillage - Solar Music Suite I actually consider the first album of Hatfield and the North to be an epic too, since the tracks all blend into each other as one piece of music, so I name that one as well. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: M. B. Zapelini
Date Posted: July 12 2006 at 08:19
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My Top 5, in no particular order: - Hamburger Concerto - FOCUS
- Suppers Ready - GENESIS
- Atom Heart Mother - PINK FLOYD
- Karn Evil 9 - ELP
- The Gates of Delirium - YES
I once put these five songs on a MP3 disc, along with other epics - it's great! ------------- "He's a man of the past and one of the present" PETER HAMMILL |