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Topic: Prog Rock Epics ?
Posted By: Agentorange
Subject: Prog Rock Epics ?
Date Posted: October 21 2010 at 15:26
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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Posted By: Jörgemeister
Date Posted: October 21 2010 at 15:37
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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Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Date Posted: October 21 2010 at 15:37
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.


Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: October 21 2010 at 15:48
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.


Posted By: juandhaltrich
Date Posted: October 21 2010 at 15:54
close to the edge is a nearly 19 minute long EPIC. that's right kids, with caps!


Posted By: Ixirn
Date Posted: October 21 2010 at 16:02

The ones I managed to find in my itunes library:

  1. Light of Day, Day of Darkness - Green Carnation
  2. All of The Above - Transatlantic
  3. Stranger In Your Soul - Transatlantic
  4. The Whirlwind - Transatlantic
  5. Duel With The Devil - Transatlantic
  6. Karn Evil 9 - ELP
  7. The Door - Neal Morse
  8. So Many Roads - Neal Morse
  9. The Conflict - Neal Morse
  10. The Great Nothing - Spocks Beard
  11. The Water - Spocks Beard
  12. The Healing Colors of  Sound - Spocks Beard
  13. Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd
  14. Mindrevolutions - Kaipa
  15. Harvest of Souls - IQ
  16. Octavarium - Dream Theater
  17. A Change of Seasons - Dream Theater
  18. Humanizzimo - The Flower Kings
  19. Monsters And Men - The Flower Kings
  20. A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers - Van der Graaf Generator
  21. The Underfall Yard - Big Big Train
  22. Black Rose Immortal - Opeth


Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: October 21 2010 at 16:06
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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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 21 2010 at 16:31
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) Tongue
 


Posted By: mark4art
Date Posted: October 21 2010 at 16:39
True epics are the various artist albums by Musea Records. Several come to mind.

../album.asp?id=15243 - The Spaghetti Epic
../album.asp?id=7724 -
../album.asp?id=7724 - ../album.asp?id=7724 - The Colossus Of Rhodes
../album.asp?id=10592 - Odyssey - The Greatest Tale
../album.asp?id=13717 - (The) 7 Samurai
../album.asp?id=16402 - Treasure Island


All of these are made up of 20-26min themed tracks, really excellant hence the good ratings they get.


Posted By: musicbandit
Date Posted: October 21 2010 at 16:59
Colosseum - Valentine Suite
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn, Hergest Ridge
Plus many more...
 


Posted By: Agentorange
Date Posted: October 21 2010 at 17:02
looks like there's more than I thought ! LOL I'll just have to buy more CD's I guess....keep 'em coming


Posted By: Nathaniel607
Date Posted: October 21 2010 at 17:31
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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Posted By: unclemeat69
Date Posted: October 21 2010 at 17:55
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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Posted By: Soul Dreamer
Date Posted: October 21 2010 at 18:20
There are hundreds...try this list

http://www.dprp.net/longsongs/longsongs.php - http://www.dprp.net/longsongs/longsongs.php


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Posted By: Conor Fynes
Date Posted: October 21 2010 at 18:23
There are so many... but try 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' by Yes... a collection of epics.


Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: October 21 2010 at 19:30
Dream Theater- A Change of Seasons, Octavarium, SDoIT, In the Name of God, ItPoE, The Count of Tuscany, A Mind Beside Itself (Eroto../Voices/Silent Man)

Flower Kings- Garden of Dreams, TTWSYF, Devil's Playground

Yes- Gates of Delirium, TALES (all of it, every savory second), Close to the Edge,  Mind Drive

VDGG- A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers

Transatlantic- The Whirlwind, DUEL, Stranger in Your Soul

Tesseract- Concealing Fate

Symph X- The Divine Wings of Tragedy, the Odyssey

Spock's Beard: The Light, The Water, At the End of the Day, The Great Nothing, The Jaws of Heaven

Sky Architect: Deep Chasm

Rush: CYGNUS, 2112

Rhapsody: Gargoyles, Angels of Darkness

Porcupine Tree: The Incident

Explorer's Club: Age of Impact

Magellan: The Great Goodnight

ELP: TARKUSSS

Camel: Lady Fantasy

Periphery: Racecar

Miles Davis: Bitches Brew, Spanish Key, Pharaoh's Dance

Haken: Celestial Elixir

Genesis: SUPPER'S READY, Firth of Fifth, The Musical Box, Cinema Show

Harmonium: Histories sans Paroles

Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick

King Crimson: Lark Tongues in Aspic, 1 & 2, The Red Duo (Red/One More Red Nightmare)

LTE: When the Water Breaks

Marillion: OCEAN CLOUD

Mars Volta: Cassandra Gemini, the ENTIRE De-Loused in the Comatorium album

Meshuggah: Catch 33, I

Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells, Ommadawn, Amorak 

Neal Morse: The Door

Floyd: Echoes, Dogs

And probably some more i can't think of. LONG LIVE THE LONG AND EPIC SONG Rawks





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Posted By: Jörgemeister
Date Posted: October 21 2010 at 20:18
copypaste from my foo

Green Carnation - [Light of Day, Day of Darkness  #01] Light of Day, Day of Darkness
echolyn - [Echolyn Live CD1 #01] Mei
echolyn - [Jersey Tomato, Volume 2 CD1 #01] Mei
Dream Theater - [Score #09] Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Beardfish - [Sleeping in Traffic: Part Two CD1 #07] Sleeping In Traffic
Incredible Expanding Mindf**k - [Have Come For Your Children #01] Untitled 01
Magma - [Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh #08] M.D.K.
Shadow Gallery - [Legacy #06] First Light
The Flower Kings - [Live In Nurnberg @ Hirsch CD1 #04] The Truth Will Set You Free
Marillion - [Brave (Bonus Disc) #11] The Great Escape (Sprial Remake)
Transatlantic - [Mike's Silver Hammer CD1 #03] Suite Charlotte Pike medley
Moon Safari - [Blomljud CD2 #04] Other Half Of The Sky
The Flower Kings - [Meet the Flower Kings CD1 #01] The Truth Will Set You Free
The Flower Kings - [Unfold The Future #01] The Truth Will Set You Free
Transatlantic - [SMPTe - The Roine Stolt Mixes CD1 #01] All Of The Above
Transatlantic - [SMPT:E CD1 #01] All Of The Above
Transatlantic - [Live In Europe CD1 #04] Suite Charlotte Pike Medley
Transatlantic - [Live in America CD1 #01] All Of The Above
Transatlantic - [Live In Europe CD1 #05] Stranger In Your Soul
Transatlantic - [Back In NYC CD1 #01] All of the Above
Marillion - [This Strange Engine #08] This Strange Engine
Transatlantic - [Live In Europe #06] All Of The Above
Magma - [Live At The BBC #02] Theusz Hamtaahk
Magma - [Köhntarkösz #04] Köhntarkösz Version 2
Transatlantic - [Bridge Across Forever CD1 #04] Stranger In Your Soul
Transatlantic - [Mike's Silver Hammer CD1 #05] All Of The Above
Transatlantic - [Mike's Silver Hammer CD1 #04] Stranger In Your Soul
Neal Morse - [Sola scriptura #01] The door
Neal Morse - [Lifeline CD1 #06] So Many Roads
Dmitri Shostakovich - [Shostakovich: The Complete Sym CD04 #01] Symphony No. 4 in C major, Op. 43, I. Allegretto poco moderato - Presto
Rick Wakeman - [No Earthly Connection  CD1 #01] Music Reincarnate
Bondage Fruit - [Recit #05] R-it
Transatlantic - [Mike's Silver Hammer CD1 #01] Duel With The Devil
Parallel or 90 Degrees - [A Can of Worms #01] AfterLifecycle Sequence
Pineapple Thief - [What We Have Sown #06] What Have We Sown
Dream Theater - [Score #13] Octavarium
Magma - [Live At The BBC #01] Köhntarkösz
Yes - [Songs from Tsongas, 35th Anniversary Concert CD2 #11] Ritual (Nous Sommes Du Soleil)
Deep Purple - [Turn Around, Live Long Beach CD1 #04] Mandrake Root
Dmitri Shostakovich - [Shostakovich: The Complete Sym CD04 #03] Symphony No. 4 in C major, Op. 43, III. Largo - Allegro
The Flower Kings - [Meet the Flower Kings #02] Garden of Dreams, Pt. 1
Spock's Beard - [V #06] The Great Nothing
Miles Davis - [The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (disc 1) CD1 #02] Bitches Brew
Miles Davis - [Bitches Brew (disc 1) #02] Bitches Brew
Deluge Grander - [August in the Urals CD1 #01] Inaugural Bash
Transatlantic - [Bridge Across Forever CD1 #01] Duel With The Devil
Frost* - [Milliontown CD1 #06] Milliontown
Simon Says - [Tardigrade #09] Brother Where You Bound
Dmitri Shostakovich - [Shostakovich: The Complete Sym CD07 #01] Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 'Leningrad', I. Allegretto
The Flower Kings - [Meet the Flower Kings #07] Stardust We Are
Transatlantic - [Live In Europe CD1 #01] Duel With The Devil
Guy Manning - [Ragged Curtain #08] Ragged Curtains: Flow/Sea/Waves/Stone/Tides/Sand/Undertow/Ebb
Kaipa - [Mindrevolutions #05] Mindrevolutions
Dmitri Shostakovich - [Shostakovich: The Complete Sym CD10 #01] Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93, I. Moderato
Mike Oldfield - [Tubular Bells CD1 #01] Tubular Bells (Part One)
David Gilmour - [Live In Gdansk Shipyard CD1 #05] Echoes
Led Zeppelin - [How The West Was Won  (Disc 2) CD1 #01] Dazed And Confused/Walter's Walk/The Crunge
Pi2 - [The Endless Journey #04] The Endless Journey
Deep Purple - [California Jamming CD1 #06] Spacetruckin'
The Tangent - [A Place in the Queue #07] A Place in the Queue
Parallel or 90 Degrees - [UNBRANDED: Music From the E.E. Surplus CD1 #06] An Autopsy In Artificial Light
The Flower Kings - [Stardust We Are CD01 #20] Stardust We Are
Neal Morse - [Sola scriptura #02] The conflict
Moon Safari - [A doorway to summer #04] We spin the world
Frank Zappa - [Just another band from LA #01] Billy the mountain
The Flower Kings - [Unfold The Future #16] Devil's Playground
Renaissance - [Scheherazade and other stories #04] Song Of Scheherazade (Parts I - IX)
Genesis - [Seconds Out CD2 #01] Supper's Ready
Shadow Gallery - [Room V #05] Floydian Memories
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - [Symphony # 2 CD1] [2] - 07 - Francesca da Rimini
Dream Theater - [Live Scenes From New York CD3 #05] A Change Of Seasons
The Flower Kings - [The Sum of No Evil #02] Love is the Only Answer
Deep Purple - [Final Truckin', Live Osaka CD1 #06] Space Truckin
Nuova Era - [Io E Il Tempo #02] Domani Io Vecchio
Dream Theater - [Octavarium #08] Octavarium
Deep Purple - [Live In Denmark Cd 2 CD1 #02] Space Truckin'
Pink Floyd - [Atom Heart Mother CD1 #01] Atom Heart Mother
Noir Desir - [des visages des figures #12] l'europe
Yes - [Tales From Topographic Oceans CD1 #02] Dance Of The Dawn (studio run-
Pink Floyd - [Meddle #06] Echoes
Jethro Tull - [A Passion Play CD1 #01] A Passion Play
King Crimson - [Lizard #05] Lizard
Mike Oldfield - [Tubular Bells #02] Tubular Bells (Part Two)
Van Der Graaf Generator - [The Lost Live Tapes CD1 #02] Lost
Tomas Bodin - [I AM CD1 #01] I
Spock's Beard - [The Beard Is Out There - Live CD1 #04] The Water
The Flower Kings - [Meet the Flower Kings #04] Humanizzimo
Spock's Beard - [The Light #03] The Water
Dream Theater - [A Change Of Seasons CD1 #01] A Change Of Seasons
Led Zeppelin - [How The West Was Won (Disc 3) CD1 #01] Whole Lotta Love/Boogie Chillun/Let's Have A Party/Hello Marylou/Going
Van Der Graaf Generator - [Pawn Hearts #03] Plague Of A Lighthouse Keeper
Focus - [Moving Waves #06] Eruption
Magenta - [Metamorphosis #03] Metamorphosis
Camel - [Harbour Of Tears #13] The Hour Candle
Dmitri Shostakovich - [Shostakovich: The Complete Sym CD08 #01] Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65 'Stalingrad', I. Adagio - Allegro non troppo
Genesis - [Foxtrot #06] Supper's Ready
Jordan Rudess - [The Road Home #06] Tarkus
Caravan - [In The Land Of Grey And Pink #05] Nine Feet Underground
The Tangent - [Not As Good As The Book CD2 #02] The Full Gamut
Jethro Tull - [Thick As A Brick #01] Thick as a Brick (part 1)
Yes - [Tales From Topographic Oceans CD1 #01] The Revealing Science of God (
Transatlantic - [The Transatlantic Demos by Neal Morse #07] Full Moon Rising
Unitopia - [The Garden #102] The garden
Parallel or 90 Degrees - [The Time Capsule #08] The Time Capsule
Marillion - [Popular Music CD2 #05] This Strange Engine
The Tangent - [Going Off On One CD1 #03] In Earnest
Daimonji - [Improg CD1 #04] Ombre Moned
Hansson & Karlsson - [Rex CD1 #04] Chateau Plaisance-68
Yes - [Relayer CD1 #01] The Gates Of Delirium
Yes - [Tales From Topographic Oceans CD1 #01] Ritual (Nous Sommes du Soleil)
Deep Purple - [In Concert 1970 1972 Cd 2 CD1 #06] Space Truckin'
Dmitri Shostakovich - [Shostakovich: The Complete Sym CD11 #02] Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 'The Year 1905', II. The Ninth of January
Magma - [K.A #03] Part III
Magma - [1001° Centigrades CD1 #01] Riah Sahiltaahk
Kaipa - [Inget nytt under solen CD1 #01] Skenet bedrar
Osanna - [Palepoli CD1 #03] Animale Senza Respiro
IZZ - [My River Flows #08] Deafening Silence
Jethro Tull - [A Passion Play CD1 #02] A Passion Play
Tomas Bodin - [I AM #02] A
Mike Oldfield - [Hergest Ridge CD1 #01] Hergest Ridge (Part One)
Mr. Sirius - [Dirge #06] The Nile For A While
Daimonji - [Improg CD1 #03] Night Dust (Monosyllabic Sex)
Tomas Bodin - [You Are CD1 #07] Silicone Bimbo Run
Mahavishnu Orchestra - [Between Nothingness & Eternity CD1 #03] Dream
Deep Purple - [La Dernière Séance, Live In Paris CD1 #01] Space Trucking
The Flower Kings - [Paradox Hotel CD01 #02] Monsters & Men
Yes - [Relayer CD1 #06] The Gates Of Delirium (studio
The Tangent - [Not As Good As The Book CD2 #01] Four Egos, One War
Rick Wakeman - [Journey to the Centre of the Earth #01] Journey / Recollection
Miles Davis - [The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (disc 3) CD3 #05] Lonely Fire
Miles Davis - [The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (disc 3) CD3 #06] Guinnevere
Jethro Tull - [Thick As A Brick #02] Thick as a Brick (part 2)
Spock's Beard - [Don't Try This At Home #06] The Healing Colors Of Sound
Maneige - [Maneige CD1 #01] le rafiot
Fates Warning - [Still Life CD2 #01] The Ivory Gate of Dreams
Roine Stolt - [The Flower King CD1 #07] Humanizzimo
Harmonium - [En Tournée CD1 #04] Le Premier Ciel
Yes - [Tales From Topographic Oceans CD1 #02] The Remembering (High the Memo
Frank Zappa - [Studio tan CD1 #01] The adventures of Greggery Peccary
Van Der Graaf Generator - [World Record #04] Meurglys III (The Songwriter's Guild)
Phideaux - [Chupacabras #02] Chupacabras
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - [Tarkus CD1 #01] Tarkus
The Tangent - [Pyramids and Stars #06] In Darkest Dreams
Magenta - [Metamorphosis CD1 #01] The Ballad Of Samuel Layne
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - [Live In Montreux #13] Tarkus/Pictures at an Exhibition
Yes - [Keys To Ascension #02] The Revealing Science Of God
Hatfield and the North - [The Rotters' Club #09] Mumps
Focus - [Hamburger Concerto #05] Hamburger Concerto
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - [Symphony # 5 CD1] [5] - 05 - Romeo and Juliet Fa
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - [Piano Concerto No.2 in G, Op.44 #01] Piano Concerto No.2 in G, Op.44, I. Allegro brillante
Opeth - [Morningrise CD1 #04] Black Rose Immortal
Incredible Expanding Mindf**k - [Arcadia Son #07] Shadow of a Twisted Hand Across My House
Sylvan - [Artificial Paradise #09] Artificial Paradise
Daimonji - [Into A Blind Alley #01] Starstruck
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - [Symphony # 5 CD1] [5] - 01 - Symphony No. 6 in B
Pär Lindh & Björn Johansson - [Discus Ursi #06] Discus Ursi's Rapsody
Spock's Beard - [Live at the Whisky and NEARfest CD2 #02] The Light
Deep Purple - [Turn Around, Live Long Beach CD1 #03] Child In Time
Miles Davis - [The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (disc 1) CD1 #01] Pharaoh's Dance
Miles Davis - [Bitches Brew (disc 1) #01] Pharaoh's Dance
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - [Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor, Op.23 #01] Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor, Op.23, I. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso - Allegro con spirito
The Tangent - [A Place in the Queue #01] In Earnest
Andy Tillison Diskdrive - [Fog CD1 #05] Ersatzgebäude
Fromuz - [Seventh Story CD1 #02] Parallels
Parallel or 90 Degrees - [A Can of Worms #02] Four Egos, One War
Deep Purple - [Made In Japan Cd 1 CD1 #07] Space Truckin'


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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: October 21 2010 at 22:58
Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

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.

Well said. Close to the Edge and Awaken from yes don't reach the 20 min. mark, Baker St. Muse and Budapest from Jethro Tull are two more that don't meet the mark, but they are true epics, for which, by the way, we don't have a real definition,  even we use the term quite often. 


Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: October 21 2010 at 23:36
Not sure if this excellent one has been mentioned
 
Citizen Cain - Somewhere But Yesterday (25:40)


Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 06:01
Didn't see Nektar's Remember the Future-both sides. Excellent one.


Posted By: Lozlan
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 10:53
Some really seminal tracks missing here (although I'm very glad to see that someone finally mentioned Nektar)!

Circumstances by Capability Brown
Nova Solis and What Is - Is What by Morgan
Embryonic Fusion by Catapilla
The Disgusting Story of Captain Bloom by Substratum
The Tain by The Decemberists
Live and Return by Dillinger
Kalahen by Dragon
Super Nova by Gracious
In Held 'Twas In I by Procol Harum
Flight by Rare Bird
Credo by Refugee
Illusions On a Double Dimple by Triumvirat
Sunrise by Sahara



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Posted By: Agentorange
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 17:07
Originally posted by Soul Dreamer Soul Dreamer wrote:

There are hundreds...try this list

http://www.dprp.net/longsongs/longsongs.php - http://www.dprp.net/longsongs/longsongs.php
Good heavens...that's a lot of of long songs !


Posted By: Agentorange
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 17:12
Originally posted by Conor Fynes Conor Fynes wrote:

There are so many... but try 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' by Yes... a collection of epics.
It's odd, but I've never got on with Tales. I dig it out every so often and give it a listen, but.....it just doesn't grab me . I say it's odd because the albums either side of it ie: Close to the edge and Relayer are my two favourite Yes albums. Gates of Delirium ( Relayer ) is my favourite piece of Yes music and I never tire of listening to it. Yet, Tales.....


Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: October 23 2010 at 02:31

King Crimson - Lizard,  Yes - Gates Of Delirium,  ELP- Tarkus, Pink Floyd - Atom Heart  Mother, Jethro Tull - Baker St. Muse, Genesis - The Cinema Show, Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells, Rush - 2112, VDGG - Meurglys III, Smak - Put Od Balona

Smak's Put Od Balona, part one----
part two--
 


Posted By: fullofprog
Date Posted: October 24 2010 at 09:16
Moonsorrow - Tulimyrsky

Cliche confirmed. Thumbs Up


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As I get older, I like my songs to last longer.


Posted By: progger7
Date Posted: October 24 2010 at 10:37
OSI - The Thing That Never Was
Symphony X - The Edge Of Forever
Arena - Solomon
Arena - Sirens
Arena - Moviedrome
Arena - Opera Fanatica
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element
Riverside - the Same River
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
Riverside - Ultimate Trip
TOOL - Third Eye
Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize 


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Posted By: progger7
Date Posted: October 24 2010 at 11:01
Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34  Phases 1-4

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Posted By: krishna29990
Date Posted: October 24 2010 at 13:04
Lonesome crow by scorpions.....


Posted By: AbrahamSapien
Date Posted: October 24 2010 at 13:59
I'm wondering if you guys consider long improvised tunes epics? I mean like Miles Davis' Pharaoh's Dance, which is not really as structured as CTTE for example. Or maybe LedZep's Whole Lotta Love&Dazed and Confused from The Song remains the same. (I Don't.)


Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: June 02 2013 at 18:19
hey where's Rush's The Fountain of Lamneth on here?


Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: June 02 2013 at 21:46
Mandalaband: Om Mani Padme Hum
Omega: Suite (fr. 2000 Years After the Last War)
Sky: Fifo (suite)
Mike Rutherford: Smallcreep's Day
Jade Warrior: Waves Parts 1 & 2

Since this topic title doesn't specify 20-or-so-minute tracks, I'll add a few in the 10-15 minute range:

Mahavishnu Orchestra: Vision Is a Naked Sword
Curved Air: Piece of Mind
Incredible String Band: A Very Cellular Song
PFM: The Mountain
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso: L'Evoluzione
Chris Squire: Safe (Canon Song)
Refugee: Grand Canyon Suite


Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: June 03 2013 at 00:05
Rogue by Discipline. Looking at the post dates, I guarantee it hasn't been mentioned yet as the album it's on was only released in 2011.


Posted By: humor4u1959
Date Posted: June 03 2013 at 04:17
Originally posted by Agentorange Agentorange wrote:

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


Yes, you are a newbie. Under 20 minutes is just a long song where they weren't trying? C'mon. To me, there are NO epic prog songs that go over 20 minutes. I may have thought so back in the day, but now? They all sound terribly dated. This is why prog rock is dead. R.I.P. Shorter is often better. But, if I had to pick a long song that truly is an epic it would be 'In Held 'Twas In I' by Procol Harum. Sure, I'm partial.

Also, I'd rather listen to Thick As A Brick edit #1 than the whole album. Music must stand the test of time. That's the real judge. And, sadly, most really long songs don't, in my opinion.


Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: June 03 2013 at 07:29
I'l say it one more time: length alone is not what makes an epic in my book, it needs to 'sound epic'. A psychedelic or space-rock trip of 20 min can be great but it's not an epic IMO.


Posted By: Led_Rush_Floyd_2
Date Posted: November 14 2013 at 18:18
1. Pink Floyd- "Echoes"
2. Yes- "Close to the Edge"
3. Genesis- "Supper's Ready"
4. Rush- "2112"
5. Jethro Tull- "Thick as a Brick"
6. Pink Floyd- "Dogs"
7. Pink Floyd- "Shine on You Crazy Diamond"
8. Pink Floyd- "Atom "Heart Mother"
9. Rush- "Cygnus X-1" (both parts)
10. Focus- "Eruption"
Yeah, I really do love Floyd.



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