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"Epic" songs?

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    #62
    Nailz
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    The Mondays - Step On
    Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection
    Black Grape - Reverend Black Grape
    Joy Division - Atmosphere
    Inspiral Carpets - This is How it Feels
    New Order - Blue Monday
    Faith No More - Epic :D
    James - Sit Down
    808 State - Pacific State
    Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
    Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea
    Moby - Go!
    Charlatans - Only One I Know
    Ian Brown - F.E.A.R

    Rave On MADCHESTER!!!


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    #63
    JæKæ
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    Marquee Moon - Television
    Christmas Steps - Mogwai


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    #64
    Stompbox
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    Gimme Shelter as an epic?! Absolute masterpiece but hardly an epic!

    Most recent epic I've heard is Uniform by Bloc Party which is just over 5 minutes.

    Again,song length is a factor but not a huge one, I think the main factor would be that of instrumentation, many epics begin quite softly and end in a huge crescendo followed by soft coda?


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    #65
    Tabnabs
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    Sabbath; 'War Pigs', an epic worthy of Milton!


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    #66
    galwayrush
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    Dyflin wrote: »
    Sabbath; 'War Pigs', an epic worthy of Milton!

    Ahh, how could i have forgotten that classic.


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    #67
    JæKæ
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    B + A - The Beta Band


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    #68
    Bren_M.Records
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    Nailz wrote: »
    The Mondays - Step On
    Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection
    Black Grape - Reverend Black Grape
    Joy Division - Atmosphere
    Inspiral Carpets - This is How it Feels
    New Order - Blue Monday
    Faith No More - Epic :D
    James - Sit Down
    808 State - Pacific State
    Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
    Moby - Go!
    Charlatans - Only One I Know
    Ian Brown - F.E.A.R

    Rave On MADCHESTER!!!

    Adore pretty much all those tracks and Pacific State by 808 State would be on my list of "epic tracks".
    Id also have:
    New Order - Blue Monday
    FSOL - Papua New Guinnea (original 12")
    Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid
    and of course 808 State - Pacific State.

    Those are the four that changed my life, on a musical level anyway :)

    Keep it hip hop!


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    #69
    Beanstalk
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    Led Zeppelin - Kashmir and No Quarter
    Rory Gallagher - Walk on Hot Coals (Irish tour 74 version)
    and you will know us by the trail of dead - would you smile again for me
    Mogwai - Christmas Steps
    Dinosaur Jr - Sludgefeast (esp the 'live in the middle east' version)
    At the Drive In - Cosmonaut

    ah theres just too many to list really....of course Freebird deserves an honourable mention....:)


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    #70
    Nailz
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    Bren_M.Records wrote: »
    Adore pretty much all those tracks and Pacific State by 808 State would be on my list of "epic tracks".
    Id also have:
    New Order - Blue Monday
    FSOL - Papua New Guinnea (original 12")
    Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid
    and of course 808 State - Pacific State.

    Those are the four that changed my life, on a musical level anyway :)

    Keep it hip hop!
    Aw fùck! Forgot about Future Sound Of London! Oh well, I'll just have to edit... ;)


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    #71
    quickbeam
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    Neil Young - Cortez the Killer, Powderfinger and Like a Hurricane already mentioned, but I'd also include Thrasher - was the first song that came to mind when I saw the thread title.

    The Doors - The End definitely. And The Soft Parade

    The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

    Dire Straits - Telegraph Road

    Led Zep - Stairway of course.


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    #72
    machiavellianme
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    The Wildhearts - Sky babies

    Any song clocking in at over 13.5 minutes with no fewer than 8 time signature changes, accounting for a journey through the stars with young alien invaders travelling across the universe to impregnate our wimmins and then go home again, while crescendoing on the same riff as it started, must surely epitomise the word "Epic"?

    Tis easily fit to rival any Stairway to heaven, Freebird or Estranged.
    Actually, has the latter been mentioned? It may not have been GnRs finest hour but damn, does it personify Axles quest for pomp.


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    #73
    X-Calibre
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    Guns n roses November Rain
    BT - The Antikythera Mechanism ( Give it a full listen, EPIC ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-duqsCFXxc


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    #74
    kerash
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    Beatles: A day in the life, its got what every epic should have, an awesome crescendo!


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    #75
    IanCurtis
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    +1


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    #76
    Shryke
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    House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
    Auto Rock - Mogwai
    Living is a Problem Because Everything Dies - Biffy Clyro
    The Mercy Seat (Nick Cave Live Version)
    Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones
    New Born - Muse
    Orion - Metallica
    Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
    Worlds Collide - Apocalyptica
    Hey Jude - The Beatles
    Through the Fire and the Flames - Dragonforce
    Layla - Eric Clapton
    The Man Comes Round - Johnny Cash
    Carvel - John Frusciante
    All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
    Hallelujah - whichever verision you prefer...

    Thats all I can think of right now.


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    #77
    Nailz
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    Sandor wrote: »
    Hallelujah - whichever verision you prefer...
    Happy Mondays... :D


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    #78
    Bren_M.Records
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    Nailz wrote: »
    Happy Mondays... :D

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eY5Gq2ckEM

    This is the version used in 24 Hour Party People, right?
    the screen saver pic would seem to suggest it is. :)


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    #79
    Borneo Fnctn
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    The entire repertoire of the Beastie boys.



    No seriously,

    Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
    November Rain - Guns n' Roses
    Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf

    They've all been mentioned already but they have the "epic" quality in spades.


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    #80
    Brendygg
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    IMO:

    60's The Velvet Underground - Heroin. #1 epic song.

    70's John Lennon - Imagine.

    80's The Smith's - The Queen is Dead.

    90's Oasis - Live Forever.

    00's Interpol - Not Even Jail.


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    #81
    Insect Overlord
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    Sympathy For the Devil - Rolling Stones (but I personally prefer the GnR cover...)

    Butterflies & Hurricanes - Muse

    Don't Stop Believing - Journey ;):D

    All Along the Watchtower- Hendrix

    Bad Penny - Rory Gallagher http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LSzsDWTc4mY

    Carmina Burana - Carl Orf


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    #82
    gordon_gekko
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    i cant believe after several pages , no one has mentioned

    anything by MEATLOAF

    there all pretty much the same song and all equally awful

    that said , hes king of the epics


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    #83
    Oink
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    Does anybody else here want to shout 'DreamTheater, People! DreamTheater!!' or is it just me? Oh. Right then.

    Seriously, how much more epic can you get, short of declaiming an Icelandic saga while burning and pillaging ? EDIT: OK, it's not quite Carmina Burana, which would be the mother of them all I suppose.


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    Karl Hungus wrote: »
    I'm wondering on what basis people here call songs epic? I'm looking at some of the replies, and I think to myself, that's epic?

    Hear hear. Let's not confuse epic and pompous.


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    #84
    Beanstalk
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    Oink wrote: »
    Seriously, how much more epic can you get, short of declaiming an Icelandic saga while burning and pillaging ?

    What, like Immigrant Song?


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    Borneo Fnctn
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    gordon_gekko wrote: »
    i cant believe after several pages , no one has mentioned

    anything by MEATLOAF

    there all pretty much the same song and all equally awful

    that said , hes king of the epics

    Meatloaf has been mentioned more than once.


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    #86
    Karl Hungus
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    Oink wrote: »
    Does anybody else here want to shout 'DreamTheater, People! DreamTheater!!' or is it just me? Oh. Right then.

    No, it's not just you. Dream Theater certainly have their epics.


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    #87
    galwayrush
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    Karl Hungus wrote: »
    No, it's not just you. Dream Theater certainly have their epics.

    Dream Theatre have some Classics.
    They also did a top version of 2112.:cool:


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    #88
    cashback
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    Some possible 'epics' I've recently been listening to:

    DJ Shadow - Stem/Long stem
    Doves - The Cedar Room


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    #89
    kerash
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    CCR's version of Heard it through the Grapevine, definitely fits the epic tag, round 11minutes long,the best version IMO:)


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    #90
    Kold
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    humberklog wrote: »
    Joy Division? Radiohead? Perhaps 'epoch making' on a personal level but not Epic.

    Paranoid Android? Possibly the most epic song mentioned in this thread tbh.


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    #91
    big b
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    A few I don't think have been mentioned yet:

    Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride

    Led Zep - Kashmir

    ELP - Karn Evil 9

    Yes - Close to the edge & The Gates of Delirium

    Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick

    The Doors - Riders on the Storm


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