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Certif1ed 
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 Posted: September 03 2004 at 05:10 |
Good call on "Alice's Restaurant" - I'll add "Motorcycle Song" (Significance of the pickle version, not the shorter one where he runs into Mike, who no longer has a motorcycle, but the one where he drives off a cliff playing his guitar and lands on the policeman with a ten foot ticket...).
"Time Table" by Genesis.
"Grendel" by Marillion
"Iron Horse - Born to Lose" by Motorhead
"Let There Be Rock" by AC/DC
...for starters 
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Reed Lover
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Posted: September 03 2004 at 09:17 |
My favourite epic is Xanadu by Rush.
Honourable mentions to
Close To The Edge
Hemispheres
Suppers Ready.
Most overrated: Grendel.
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Dick Heath
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Posted: September 03 2004 at 09:32 |
 Reed Lover wrote:
My favourite epic is Xanadu by Rush. |
I really like Rush's Cygnus X-1 Book II. Over ten years ago I recorded for myself Cygnus X-1 ( A Farewell To Kings) and Cygnus X-1 Book II ( Hemispheres), back to back on cassette - recommend trying it, it works very well as an extended musical piece.
But for a muscial epic with a good narrative I have to go for Townshend/Who's Quadraphenia. BTW anybody heard the play with incidental music of Townshend's The Lifehouse (broadcast by BBC Radio 3, the recording of which is found on Townshend's 6 CD set The Lifehouse Project)?
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Certif1ed
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Posted: September 03 2004 at 09:57 |
Reed Lover wrote:
Most overrated: Grendel.
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Go back to your pink oboe 
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Reed Lover
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Posted: September 03 2004 at 13:02 |
Certif1ed wrote:
Reed Lover wrote:
Most overrated: Grendel.
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Go back to your pink oboe
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I'd have to pull it out of my sock first!!!
Grendel is soooo derivative of Suppers Ready that it cant be considered a classic although,obviously, it is entitled to appear as a favourite.
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Crow
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Posted: September 03 2004 at 14:03 |
The Microphones: Glow pt 2
The Microphones: Mt Eerie
Both quite proggy albums and on K records.
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diddy
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Posted: September 03 2004 at 14:40 |
Hmmm...not easy but I'll try...I guess it will be a long list (in no particular order):
- A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers - VdGG
- Devil's Playground - The Flower Kings
- Salisbury - Uriah Heep
- The Game - Roy Harper
- Echoes - Pink Floyd
- Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd
- Nine Feet Underground - Caravan
- Pictures - Island
- Höstsejd - Anglagard
- Barbituricus - Taal
- Lizard - King Crimson
- Symphonic Holocaust - Morte Macabre
- Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
- and many more I forgot...
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Easy Livin
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Posted: September 03 2004 at 14:46 |
Going very much on the story telling ticket:
- One for the vine-_Genesis
- Driving the last spike - Genesis
- Camouflage – Stan Ridgeway
- Corey’s coming, A better place to be, and many many others – Harry Chapin (Legendary performer, and great guy, RIP)
- The magician’s birthday – Uriah Heep
- The vision of the lady of the lake – Strawbs
- Moviedrome - Arena
- Space Oddity – David Bowie
- Song of Sheherezade – Renaissance
- Aquila suite – Aquila
- Suicide – Barclay James Harvest
- Stargazer - Rainbow
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gdub411
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Posted: September 03 2004 at 16:06 |
I thought they defined an epic as a story....you know...The Devil Went Down to Georgia.....with that in mind how can Atom Heart Mother be defined as a story?
Also with that in mind Grendel fits better than Supper's Ready. I am not altogether sure if Supper's Ready is a story
I think Suppers Ready is a bettter song than Grendel but with this particular thread I don't think Suppers Ready is appropriate
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Certif1ed
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Posted: September 03 2004 at 16:08 |
Reed Lover wrote:
Certif1ed wrote:
Reed Lover wrote:
Most overrated: Grendel.
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Go back to your pink oboe
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I'd have to pull it out of my sock first!!!
Grendel is soooo derivative of Suppers Ready that it cant be considered a classic although,obviously, it is entitled to appear as a favourite.
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No - it's only the section that is an almost direct take-off of "Apocalypse in 9/8", in a kind of tributary gesture that comes from Supper's Ready - there's nothing else about "Grendel" that comes from that other epic!
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Reed Lover
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Posted: September 03 2004 at 20:00 |
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No - it's only the section that is an almost direct take-off of "Apocalypse in 9/8", in a kind of tributary gesture that comes from Supper's Ready - there's nothing else about "Grendel" that comes from that other epic!
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Then you try to place the killer's blade in my hand
You call for justice and distort the truth
Well I've had enough of all your pretty pretty speeches
Receive your punishment, Expose your throats to my righteous claws
And let the blood flow, and let the blood flow, flow, flow, flow.
There I've said it!
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Posted: September 04 2004 at 01:51 |
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Although not many of you guys are familiar with the Hungarian band Omega Iwill have to go with White Magic Stone which can be found on their first English album produced by Peter Hawke. It is also on two Hungarian language albums.
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: September 04 2004 at 01:52 |
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I can't even believe Mariah hsn't been mentioned on this thread.
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Carlos
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Posted: September 08 2004 at 15:11 |
I can't really decide between two of my favorites Epic songs, but I cast my vote to Supper's Ready, this song comprises all the moods, all the rythms that in every chapter or movement fit with the lyrics... A weird vision of the constant fight between the good and the evil, really... Karn Evil 9 ( my other contender ) is more serious with really clever lyrics written in part by Pete Sinfield (former KC). I guess I made a right choice...Supper's really rules!!!
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Posted: September 08 2004 at 16:07 |
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2112 by Rush, Supper's Ready by Genesis, Close to the Edge by Yes, Gates of Delirium by Yes, and Xanadu by Rush.
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Rain
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Posted: September 08 2004 at 17:45 |
I think I'll have to agree with gdub411, I don't know what you are smoking but I cant find the narrative part about Atom Heatr Mother, althogh i stil have to listen to it backwards, maybe theres something there, eheh, no just kidding, butheres no story in AHM, nor in echoes.
I cant belive I forgot the two song that keep me from leaving this boring world!!
XANADU & CONFORTABLY NUMB (not to strong in story, but the hole song as a final product!!!!) maybe the best peices of music Ever!
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And the meek shall inheret the earth - Niel Peart
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Reed Lover
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Posted: September 08 2004 at 18:08 |
Rain wrote:
I cant belive I forgot the two song that keep me from leaving this boring world!!
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There are a lots more ways your life could be worse, so dont leave just yet.
Imagine there are actually people out there who havent heard Rush or Genesis or Yes and will never, ever have the opportunity!
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Rain
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Posted: September 08 2004 at 18:19 |
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Thanx for meaking my life meaningfull Reed Lover, I can't really belive there is people that will never hear tom saywer
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And the meek shall inheret the earth - Niel Peart
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gdub411
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Posted: September 08 2004 at 20:48 |
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Worse than that....there are a whole lot of sorry saps out there who'll never hear Classic Genesis, and other prog bands because they are too caught up in the pop scene...I have lots of friends who think Abacab and Duke is early Genesis and stretching the bounds to them is liking Dream Weaver from Gary Wright
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Reed Lover
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Posted: September 10 2004 at 14:01 |
gdub411 wrote:
Worse than that....there are a whole lot of sorry saps out there who'll never hear Classic Genesis, and other prog bands because they are too caught up in the pop scene...I have lots of friends who think Abacab and Duke is early Genesis and stretching the bounds to them is liking Dream Weaver from Gary Wright |
Well said Gdub! Phil Collins should be tried by The Prog Court for robbery, assault and battery of an institution!
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