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Poll Question: Pick your favourites
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11 [14.86%]
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    Posted: February 21 2022 at 13:55
During the prog era and beyond, many non prog artists released epics.  I am only listing artists not on PA in any category, even prog related.  Many of these epics could arguably be considered prog, but they aren't on PA.  That's the criterion, that and being lengthy.  You can pick as many as you want from this list.  And please comment or rank if you like.  I limited the list to 1 per artist, and the ones I chose are not necessarily my favourites. If you choose other please list the epic(s) and artist(s).

Edited by kenethlevine - February 21 2022 at 13:56
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if I hadn’t read your post, I would have queried the absence of Bowie.

I can think of some epics I love by Lou Reed and Neil Young more than most on this list, but from this list, it’s hard to look past Elton John.
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I am going with Loreena McKennitt.  I love the way she blended electric with acoustic instruments, esp when she went into a more Middle Eastern realm.  Also, a beautiful melody for this poem by Tennyson.  
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Oh well, Telegraph for a Funeral Wink
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What a great line-up!

1. Derek and the Dominoes - Layla
2. David Gates - Clouds Suite
3. Elton John - Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
4. Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
5. Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well
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CSN. Suite:Judy Blue Eyes.

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Cat Stevens, Al Stewart, Dire Straits. There are many I don't know and should probably check out.
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Great concept for a poll! Voted for Fleetwood Mac, Elton, and David Gates. From outside the list: America - Hat Trick and James Taylor - Suite for 20G.
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Sun Ra    "Atlantis"
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Loreena McKennitt from the list, although if we could choose songs outside the list, I would have gone with Dante's Inferno by Iced Earth
Take me down, to the underground
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And the answer is...not in this poll. Alice Cooper's "Halo of Flies".
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Thanks everyone for the interest.  There are a lot of "others" people have mentioned that I don't know.  For instance, I love America but only know their hits, so it's great to learn that they too had an epic.  Most of my ideas came from my own collection.  I'm really glad to know a lot of people seem to like the David Gates piece, which is a fine blend of the Bread sound and prog.  And Cat Stevens' Foreigner, while a bit draggy in parts, has some stunning passages including reggae and calypso that had barely seeped into popular music outside of the islands at the time

Here are some also rans I could have picked by the listed artists

Chris De Burgh - Revolution (sometimes listed as 3 separate tracks)
Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind, Lily Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
Fleetwood Mac - Sands of Time, Future Games
Garfield - Play it Again Boys
Loreena McKennitt - The Highwayman
Mr Fox - The Gypsy
Runrig - Nothing But the Sun
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Oh Well > Telegraph Road
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First vote for Porrohman. Big Country were pretty awesome for a while. Also voted with many others for Telegraph & Mac.

Since others are throwing additional songs in there too, I’ll suggest “From the Cradle to the Grave”, a 16 minute multi-part punk song by the classic British band Subhumans. A pretty well-constructed and complex (for punk) epic if you’ve got any tolerance for that kinda thing.
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

And the answer is...not in this poll. Alice Cooper's "Halo of Flies".

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Great lp overall......killer track,,,     

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Not an epic per se but one of my favorite longer tracks.....
Ten Years After- 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain

from the poll went with Oh Well.........
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uhh, Cat Stevens from the list ... but actually the Dead, 'Blues for Allah' suite ~
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This one is for Micky....we miss you around  here....best of the best of the best.....ladies and gentlemen the Allman Bothers....
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^ I was just thinking about that hoodlum -
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