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Gerinski View Drop Down
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Points: 5154 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 29 2010 at 03:29
Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

It should convey some sense of adventure, or journey, sound mythical, majestic... I don't know.  Mike Oldfield's Amarok is 60 minutes long and yet I do not perceive it as an epic. Do you? 
 
Are you kidding me?
 
It's his best and most fun work! And the most experimental of them all and creative.
I love Amarok !
I just said that I don't perceive it as an Epic.  But it's a great album. Sure enough I like so many things other than Epics and Amarok is but one of them.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 29 2010 at 03:47
For me epic's need to have a sense of drama: (tension and release) that affects me on an emotional level, which is why constructing one by numbers or formula doesn't always work and why overly long can be an epic fail. PFM had that knack of creating short epics. Daniel Gildenlöw (Pain Of Salvation) can create big epics by writing short connected mini epics (typified by the triptic-structured albums)

Edited by Dean - May 29 2010 at 03:47
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