Top 5 epics and why?

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Close to the Edge - Yes
Eruption - Focus
Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
Echoes - Pink Floyd
SOYCD - Pink Floyd

All for the same reason - those pieces all hold you spellbound from start to finish, and I never tire of hearing them.

Edited by Floydoid - December 09 2008 at 13:46

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Floydoid Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: April 02 2007 Location: Planet Prog Status: Offline Points: 1488	Posted: December 09 2008 at 13:43
	Close to the Edge - Yes Eruption - Focus Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull Echoes - Pink Floyd SOYCD - Pink Floyd All for the same reason - those pieces all hold you spellbound from start to finish, and I never tire of hearing them. Edited by Floydoid - December 09 2008 at 13:46
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acelxpro Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 17 2007 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 103	Posted: December 09 2008 at 16:09
	Amarok - Mike Oldfield Hamburger Concerto - Focus A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers - VDGG Nine Feet Underground - Caravan Theusz Hamtaahk - Magma

The Pessimist Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: June 13 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 3834	Posted: December 09 2008 at 17:32
	In no order: Cassandra Gemini - The Mars Volta Black Rose Immortal - Opeth Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers - VDGG Rubycon - Tangerine Dream Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness - Green Carnation I'd also like to mention: The Ikon - Utopia Crimson - The Edge Of Sanity I - Meshuggah TAAB - Jethro Tull Of course, that is super-epics. If I were to list all my favourite epics (i.e. 10 minutes +) I would be here all day deciding.
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SilverEclipse Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: September 19 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 123	Posted: January 10 2009 at 17:37
	What are we considering to be epics? I consider epics to be 15 mins+, so..... Coheed & Cambria - The Willing Well Coheed & Cambria - The End Complete Emerson, Lake, & Palmer - Tarkus Emerson, Lake, & Palmer - Karn Evil 9 Genesis - Supper's Ready Pink Floyd - Dogs Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon (originally conceived as a single piece) Pink Floyd - Echoes Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond Yes - Close To The Edge Yes - Awaken Yes - The Gates Of Delirium Yes - The Revealing Science Of God (Dance Of The Dawn) Yes - The Remembering (High The Memory) Yes - Ritual (Nu Sommes du Soliel) ...but if were going by around 10 minutes... Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth:3 (it's a stretch at around 8 mins, but it's VERY epic) Coheed & Cambria - The Light & The Glass Coheed & Cambria - 21:13 Emerson, Lake, & Palmer - The Endless Enigma Genesis - The Musical Box Genesis - Firth Of Fifth King Crimson - Epitaph King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets (Pompeii version) Pink Floyd - Pigs (Three Different Ones) Pink Floyd - Sheep Queen - The Prophet's Song Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace Yes - Starship Trooper Yes - Heart Of The Sunrise Yes - And You And I Yes - Sound Chaser
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A Person Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 10 2008 Location: __ Status: Offline Points: 65760	Posted: January 10 2009 at 19:08
	1. Pink Floyd - Echoes( a masterpiece ) 2. Genesis - Suppers Ready 3. Van der Graaf Generator - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers/Sleepwalkers(I couldn't pick one or the other) 4. Camel White Rider/Lady Fantasy(same as above) 5. Rush - 2112 I would have put all the other PF songs but I tried to include more than one band. These aren't necessarily the best but at the moment I like them better than the others in their respective sub-genres.

ghost_of_morphy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: March 08 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2755	Posted: January 10 2009 at 22:37
	I couldn't get the list any shorter than twenty. Supper's Ready -- Genesis Amarok -- Mike Oldfield Journey to the Center of the Earth -- Rick Wakeman Awaken -- Yes Duel With The Devil -- Transatlantic Karn Evil 9 (all impressions) -- Emerson, Lake and Palmer 2112 -- Rush Echoes -- Pink Floyd World of Adventures -- The Flower Kings L'isola di Niente -- PFM Kohntarkosz -- Magma And You And I -- Yes Voyage 34 -- Porcupine Tree Halloween -- Pulsar I Am The Sun -- The Flower Kings Sun Symphonica -- Jan Dukes de Grey Lament -- Gryphon Silently Falling -- Chris Squire K. A. -- Magma I Could Never Be A Soldier -- Gnidrilog

LinusW Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 27 2007 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 10665	Posted: January 10 2009 at 23:11
	Supper's Ready - Genesis Chupacabras - Phideaux Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield Gates Of Delirium - Yes Sequenze E Frequenze - Franco Battiato Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull Cante Nomade Per Un Prigionero Politico - Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso Karn Evil 9 - ELP Osanna - Palepoli Tenemos Roads - National Health Limited to one/band and the longer ones...and a top 5 is out of question. I don't have the guts. Will probably be back for more when I remember them. Edited by LinusW - January 10 2009 at 23:22

ExittheLemming Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Penal Colony Status: Offline Points: 11415	Posted: January 11 2009 at 10:16
	Karn Evil 9 - ELP A trio at the very peak of their creative powers aided and abetted by the sort of technology that was 20 years ahead of the rest of the game Close to the Edge - Yes The whole is way, way greater than the sum of it's parts. The view from inside Anderson's backside was not yet a tourist destination called Gullible's Travels. Tarkus - ELP Created the template or blueprint for so many of the subsequent prog epic suites. Suppers Ready - Genesis Although really just a collection of song segments, the seamless arrangement is masterly A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers - VDGG Which illustrates you can write very long compositions without recourse to space filling virtuosity. A rare feat. Edited by ExittheLemming - January 11 2009 at 10:17

Deus_Nova Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: May 04 2007 Location: Chile Status: Offline Points: 39	Posted: January 12 2009 at 22:05
	1. Octavarium - Dream Theater i'm a DT fan a long time ago now, i love all of their epics, but definitly i think that Octavarium is the most well structured, complex song... with all of their influences gathered in there, powerful and in crecendo 2. Rush - 2112 one of the best classical albums inside prog... nuff said 3. Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond a masterpiece!! 4. Yes - Close To The Edge beautiful piece of prog, i listened for the first time in this website on their beginnigs, and it was quite a revelation to me, i entered into another world of music xD 5. Queen - The Prophet's Song i never listened such a complex vocal work like this one... May making his best work ever, love this one


rpe9p Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 31 2008 Location: Charlottesville Status: Offline Points: 485	Posted: January 12 2009 at 22:49
	1. Thick as a Brick 2. Close to the Edge 3. Suppers Ready 4. The Gates of Delirium 5. Tarkus Honorable mention: A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers IMO 10+ minutes does not make an epic, way too many songs would fall under that distinction which shouldnt.

ColonelClaypool Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 22 2005 Location: Bergen, Norway Status: Offline Points: 747	Posted: January 13 2009 at 14:02
	Tarkus - ELP Echoes - Floyd Thick As A Brick - Tull For Richard - Caravan Halleluwah - Can All Of The Above and Duel With The Devil, both Transatlantic Close To The Edge and Gates of Delirium - Yes The Great Nothing - Spock's Beard The Sky Moves Sideways alternative version - Porcupine Tree Cassandra Gemini - Mars Volta Rush - 2112 Etc. ad infinitum....
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