Most epic of epics
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Topic: Most epic of epics
Posted By: Octamarium
Subject: Most epic of epics
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 12:55
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Well.....You know that the highest ambition of prog musicians is to compose an epic ("the epichest") track I'm sure I forgot someone.....Remind me what ------------- Look in the mirror...my friend! |
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Posted By: matti meikäläin
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 12:56
| cassandra gemini !!!!!! |
Posted By: Atomic_Rooster
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 13:01
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You forgot Zaratustra by Museo Rosenbach
------------- I am but a servant of the mighty Fripp, the sound of whose loins shall forever be upon the tongues of his followers. |
Posted By: Octamarium
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 13:03
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Oh....god.......Yes I forgot (damn me ------------- Look in the mirror...my friend! |
Atomic_Rooster wrote:Posted By: troy
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 13:07
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fates warning - a pleasant shade of gray ------------- SUNSET IS AN ANGEL WEEPING HOLDING OUT A BLOODY SWORD NO MATTER HOW I SQUINT I CANNOT MAKE OUT WHAT IT IS POINTING TOWARD |
Posted By: Octamarium
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 13:10
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Well...but Apsog by Fates warning is not a song...is an album!!! It's too epic to be here ------------- Look in the mirror...my friend! |
Posted By: Atomic_Rooster
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 13:12
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also... "Karn Evil 9" - ELP and "Thick as a Brick" - Jethro Tull - can be classified under both concept album and epic ------------- I am but a servant of the mighty Fripp, the sound of whose loins shall forever be upon the tongues of his followers. |
Posted By: Octamarium
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 13:14
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I don't like karn evil 9 and which part of TaaB do you mean? I think it's the same problem of A pleasant shade of gray.....it's not a song....it's an album! ------------- Look in the mirror...my friend! |
Posted By: troy
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 13:16
 ------------- SUNSET IS AN ANGEL WEEPING HOLDING OUT A BLOODY SWORD NO MATTER HOW I SQUINT I CANNOT MAKE OUT WHAT IT IS POINTING TOWARD |
Posted By: Ty1020
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 13:21
Thick as a Brick is one big song... it also happens to take up an entire album, but that doesn't change its status. And just because you don't like KE9 doesn't mean the rest of us don't...  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Ty1020/"> 
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Posted By: Octamarium
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 13:25
No...it's simply my opinion!!!there are so many things thant I like and no one likes ------------- Look in the mirror...my friend! |
Posted By: pirkka
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 13:28
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How about Pink Floyd's Shine on you crazy diamond? Or Colosseums Valentine suite? These are epic too. Pirkka |
Posted By: Space Dimentia
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 13:29
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Change of seasons simply because Octavarium isn't there ------------- Prog is music for the mind Hear your Orphaned child! Check out my bands myspace site: www.myspace.com/equinox17 |
Posted By: Octamarium
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 13:33
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My God.....I forgot also Atom heart mother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My mind is really fu**ed up today!!!!! @space dementia: I also like so much Octavarium!!!! ------------- Look in the mirror...my friend! |
Posted By: zabriskiepoint
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 13:36
| From those Close to the edge, because it manages to keep a theme and a mood through 18 minutes; but form the ultimate epic is Echoes. |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 13:38
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Toss up between 2112 and Supper's Ready but I will go with 2112.Some epics I like that don't get talked about too much are:
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Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 13:45
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There are a lot of good ones missing, but from this list, I choose Dream Theater. ------------- www.last.fm/user/ThisCenotaph  
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 14:21
controvertially, I've gone for Transatlantic on this one... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 14:26
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Symphony X - Divine Wings of Tragedy But since that one isn't on the list, I voted Genesis - Supper's Ready ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 17:27
Supper's ready... the greatest prog song ever! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Ty1020
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 17:31
Heh, yeah, I'm one of the few people who really likes that song. Some other notable missing pieces from the poll are Cassandra Geminni (which would have been my vote), Gates of Delirium (which would have been my runner up), Tarkus, and all of the 20 minute + songs from Spock's Beard and The Flower Kings. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Ty1020/">
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Posted By: raindance
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 17:34
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KARN EVIL 9 WOULD HAVE GOT MY VOTE BUT SEEING AT IT ISN'T THERE I VOTED CLOSE TO THE EDGE BTW. WHAT IS CYNUS BOOK 11 DOING IN A GREATEST EPICS POLL? |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 18:10
| Supper's ready for me. |
Posted By: muffley_mirkin
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 18:33
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Voted for Suppers Ready. I love the live version on Seconds Out, i know, but
i think Collins fills in for Gabriel very well. |
Posted By: Gentle Tull
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 18:57
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Supper's Ready. Where is Thick as a Brick? ------------- 
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Posted By: FragileDT
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 19:00
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Supper's Ready is my favorite. Cassandra Gemini is pretty damn good
though. EDIT: Yeah that's right where is thick as a brick? ------------- One likes to believe In the freedom of music But glittering prizes And endless Compromises Shatter the illusion Of integrity |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 19:38
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Wondering where the epic of epics is... Thick as a Brick? but nice to Osanna up there, so I voted for it.
------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Marty
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 19:45
I'd say Octavarium by Dream Theater. It has a nice build-up, with a
very bombastic, orchestrated, and soulful end that sums up everything
that happened before in the song... a great piece. |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 19:52
I haven't heard the Banco, so out of those it's the Genesis. But one of the TMV ones would probably win if they were on it. Also Starless, despite not being all that long, manages to cram more epicness into 12 minutes than most people do in twenty 
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Posted By: Paulieg
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 19:54
| I just had to vote for Rush tonight!!!!! |
Posted By: Tommy
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 19:54
| Some of those are amongst the worst epics out there but CLOSE TO THE EDGE would always get my vote as the best ever. |
Posted By: A'swepe
Date Posted: December 27 2005 at 09:03
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I'm gonna depart from form here & vote for TransAtlantic. Another one of those "Which of these is best" sort of things where all the choices are correct. ------------- David - Never doubt in the dark that which you believe to be true in the light. http://www.myspace.com/aardvarktxusa - Instrumental rock http://www.soundclick.com/aardvarktxusa |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: December 27 2005 at 09:08
It's not Book 11,it's Book II,and why shouldn't Cygnus X-1 Book II be in a greatest epics poll? It's a great epic track(nearly 20 minutes)taking up one whole side of Hemispheres.Plus it's a great tune. ------------- |
Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: December 27 2005 at 10:30
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Yes - CttE don't forget MO - Amarok! |
Posted By: SuppersReady
Date Posted: December 27 2005 at 11:11
| Supper's Ready, i love that song, it really is amazing. |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 27 2005 at 13:25
| CTTE from these, but Awaken (also Yes) is my top favourite. |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: December 27 2005 at 13:32
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2112
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Posted By: fantasyes
Date Posted: December 27 2005 at 13:51
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close the gates awaken ritual
------------- loved by the sun |
Posted By: zachfive
Date Posted: December 27 2005 at 15:04
| I agree, someone brought up The Fountain of Lamneth, that is what i belive to be the best epic Rush has ever done, and its always overlooked. I suggest listening to it if you have not heard it, its a goodin'. |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: December 27 2005 at 15:25
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Van Der Graaf Generator ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: December 28 2005 at 07:28
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A plague of lighthouse keepers, its the epic's epic! Karn evil 9 is probobly #2. Close to the edge and Supper's ready is ofcourse 2 great epics, but im preety tierd of thos 2, have heard em like a 1000 times so... the rest i have not heard and some i yust dont like very much. ------------- 
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Posted By: transend
Date Posted: December 28 2005 at 23:41
| I LOVE 'Close to the edge' but for me 'Suppers ready' is simply a better song, its final section is the end that inspired most of the epics out there now. |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: December 29 2005 at 02:39
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i think the epic of the epics is mike oldfield's AMAROK! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Olympus
Date Posted: December 29 2005 at 03:33
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Close to the edge is the most epic and Emotional. ------------- "Let's get the hell away from this Eerie-ass piece of work so we can get on with the rest of our eerie-ass day" |
Posted By: Losendos
Date Posted: December 29 2005 at 05:00
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The gates of delirium is the best epic imho . At 20 minutes it is not dragged out like close to the edge nor is it bits and pieces thrown together like Supper's ready. ------------- How wonderful to be so profound |
Posted By: Marwin
Date Posted: December 29 2005 at 05:02
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2112, suppers ready and A Change of Seasons are my favourites. ACOS gets my vote this time |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: December 29 2005 at 05:19
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One might call the 2nd side of Steve Hillage's "Green" an epic too, named "Om Rock", although it is divided into 6 different tracks. The 6 tracks are played as one piece of music. The same is true for the 2nd side of Gong's "You", except for the first track of it, "Perfect Mystery"". Still it leaves an epic of 21:45 minutes, consisting of the two tracks "Isle of Everywhere" and "You never Blow yr Trip forever", that are played as one piece of music.
-------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: December 29 2005 at 06:48
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ECHOES ------------- Bigger on the inside. |