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Poll Question: Best Epic?
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    Posted: January 29 2006 at 16:13
Best epic, I define Epic as a song over 15 minuets long.
I picked Supper's Ready, just brilliant
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As always, I choose the epic that I loved over thirty years ago - Supper's Ready. But if the question was which band are the Kings of the epics, I would have to choose - The Flower Kings. I love all their epics, and they have had more even than Yes. (although I love theirs too!)
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Atom Heart Mother, since The Ritual is not up there.
We got to pump the stuff to make us tough
from the heart
Its astart
What we need is awareness we cant get careless
Mental self defensive fitness
Make everybody see in order to fight the powers that be
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Points: 46838 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2006 at 16:37
Zarathrustra... shame it isn't an option.


since it isn't Gates of Delirium... the true king of epics.  None of the those options come close to it IMO of course.. .when talking in an 'epic' context.
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One of the reasons why i gave the "other" option.
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Originally posted by Cygnus X-1 Cygnus X-1 wrote:

One of the reasons why i gave the "other" option.



yeah, can't name them all can you hahahah. 
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Supper's Ready is the first epic t hat I've heard (The second's out version), and to me, it's still the best!
What happened to this song we once knew so well???
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Close To The Edge in my opinion is the most well composed rock song ever.
If anyone knows where I can get a copy of some Flute and Voice (Indo-Prog/Raga Rock) albums please PM me! Many thanks!
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I went with Close to the Edge, my second

Preference would be The Remembering.

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Gates of Delirium live is incomparable. in-- var SymRealOnLoad; var SymRealOnUnload; function SymOnUnload() { window.open = SymWinOpen; if(SymRealOnUnload != null) SymRealOnUnload(); } function SymOnLoad() { if(SymRealOnLoad != null) SymRealOnLoad(); window.open = SymRealWinOpen; SymRealOnUnload = window.onunload; window.onunload = SymOnUnload; } SymRealOnLoad = window.onload; window.onload = SymOnLoad; //-->
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hey everybody.  I just registered here.  ANyway, I voted for Dogs because it's awesome and it has... NO VOTES?!  anyway,  I like Gates of Delirium and Thick as a Brick a lot too, maybe more than Dogs, but anyway.  These are all great songs, except (IMO) Lizard, I can't really get into it, and Atom Heart Mother, which I have never heard. 
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CLOSE TO THE EDGE
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  1. Supper’s Ready
  2. Close To The Edge
  3. Gates Of Delirium
  4. Thick As A Brick
  5. 2112
  6. Dogs
  7. Atom Heart Mother
  8. Lizard
  9. Hemispheres
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Eruption by Focus (side 2 of Moving Waves) or their Hamburger Concerto. Or Nine Feet Underground by Caravan. Or Echoes by Floyd. Or Midnight Mushrumps by Gryphon. All better than most tracks on the list.

Of those on it, I pick Suppers Ready.


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Originally posted by Tony Fisher Tony Fisher wrote:

Eruption by Focus (side 2 of Moving Waves) or their Hamburger Concerto. Or Nine Feet Underground by Caravan. Or Echoes by Floyd. Or Midnight Mushrumps by Gryphon. All better than most tracks on the list.

Of those on it, I pick Suppers Ready.


hahaha, that's why we have the others option I guess.....
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I'll take Supper's Ready.  I would rather have seen Tarkus up there.  I believe it's worthy of taking a spot alongside such other great Progressive epics.

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Supper's Ready.  A genius of a song/composition/epic.
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Magma - Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh

(on the original album, it's split up into several "songs", but it is really one piece, as shown by the other releases on which it appears)
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^I love that one too
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