Top 5 epics and why?

1. Supper's Ready by Genesis

Rocktopus wrote: Tangerine Dream: Fly And Collision Of Comas Sola (16:27) Klaus Schulze: Voices of Syn (22:27)

Oh, If you like long "electronicals" I could recommend these:

ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/music/groups/thinner/%5Bthn005%5D-02-spaces_in_spaces.mp3

ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/music/groups/thinner/%5Bthn005%5D-05-a_walk_on_deep_snow.mp3

and also the other tracks of the album:

http://www.autoplate.org/releases.php?r=thn005


You mustn't be generally allergic against 4-to-the-floor Bassdrums, although.

Lizard by King Crimson because .... it's KC
The Gates of Delirium by Yes because of the incredible instrumental part in the middle
Echoes by Pink Floyd because it's the first one I've listened to
Atom Heart Mother by Pink Floyd because it's soo trippy
Halleluwah by Can because I can

Honourable mention: Magma's Riah Sahiltaak because it's different from all the rest.

I forgot some other great ones!

• Caravan - Nine Feet Underground
• Mike Oldfield - Amarok
• Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
• Transatlantic - Stranger in your Soul
• Jethro Tull - Baker St. Muse
• Camel - Lady Fantasy

Edited by Abstrakt - May 06 2007 at 04:16

I could also add John Coltrane's Ascension   and Frank Zappa's "The Grand Wazoo". 

Edited by EinTon - May 06 2007 at 10:45

Hard choice!

Edited by EpicKeyboardist - May 10 2007 at 14:49

Ahhh, this is very hard! I can't arrange them by numbers. But I enjoy these:

"Grendel" by Marillion - Such a badass song from beginning to end, and the Megaman-esqe middle section is the peak of prog badassity.

"You Enjoy Myself" by Phish - These guys are so underrated in the prog community. They took a composition that was 9 minutes on the album and developed it into a 25 minute live masterpiece, featuring a groovy Yes-like opening, a rockin' middle section, a funky bass solo, and closing with a crazy ever changing vocal jam.

"Cassandra Gemini" by The Mars Volta - This song bombards the listener with aggressive melodies from beginning to end, and rarely slows down, except for a short ambient section. It's filled with so many great hooks and vocal lines that are so fun to sing along to.

"Close To The Edge" by Yes - Not much to say about this one, although I will say that the Yessymphonic version is probably the strongest.

"The Truth Will Set You Free" by The Flower Kings - This was the first Flower Kings song I heard and I fell in love instantly. I've only heard it once or twice since then, but I'm listening to it again right now and remembering how great it made me feel on the first listen.

ahhh... back to it.. now that the pit has been sated.

having covered the top epic song and top epic 'cut and paste'

the epic album.....  and should be no surprise

3. Tales from Topographic Oceans.

an grand epic across 2 LP's of a grand symphony in 4 movements.  Before anyone who bothers to care flames me... listen to the album... closely.  The 4 'epics'  are acutally parts of a larger epic.  They are all related.  I never caught it until someone a hell of a lot smarter than I pointed it out hahah.

Next up... epic instrumental

4. A Saucerful of Secrets...

forget the instrumental w**kfests that say nothing. This one does.. an instrumental epic that predates the theme  that Yes did with Gates of Delirium by YEARS.  More subtle.. and thus...  once you strip away the chrome  and all the bells and whistles.  A far more interesting epic.

last up....  simply personal preference here... for shear quality....

No surprise to any who know me....

5.Ys -  forget the track listing.... and find Andreas translation of it here at PA's.   What's more epic than the retelling of a man's journeys and encounters with death.   Simply an incredbile epic that flows with the same brutal intensity throughout the whole album.  Completely different that anything that comes to mind from the so called masters of prog. 


Edited by micky - May 23 2007 at 18:38

EinTon wrote: micky wrote: Thing is, though, none of these tracks had really been "20-minute songs" in the truest sense. ALL of them essentially were several "conventional" pop and rock songs strung together with instrumental breaks instead of pauses, with a couple of reprises here and there to provide a proper feeling of "completion" at the end. Now, one may argue that that is actually the preferred way to approach a side-long track, and I of course love all of these to death (er, except Lizard. Lizard annoys me). But still, all of these tracks could easily be split into different songs and listened to separately (er, if you had that capability with your listening device). Do you know Aksak Maboul's "cinema" (RIO-style) ? It's  also very  cohesive musical piece, not a "suite" of different pieces -  although not a conventional "pop song" with verse and refrain. It's characterized by several musical "themes" which reappear in many parts of the piece, but always  a bit different arranged and in a different mood. The "main theme" is even played forward and backward at the beginning and the end of the piece. You

hahah.. I don't.... but I will... thanks!