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Poll Question: Which Prog Epic...is More Epic?!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote JD Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2020 at 14:23
Originally posted by Rick1 Rick1 wrote:

... but my all time favourite is ELP's Karn Evil 9
Ditto. For this poll, Supper's Ready.
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How can CTTE or SR be more epic than a 45 minute track?!! I don't like TAAB better than the other two but by sheer length alone it's more epic.
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Suppers Ready is more epic than those other epics.......
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote johnobvious Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2020 at 18:48
Voted Brick but Light of Day Day of Darkness probably takes the prize for me.
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Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers
 

By far
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote iluvmarillion Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2020 at 22:16
Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

How can CTTE or SR be more epic than a 45 minute track?!! I don't like TAAB better than the other two but by sheer length alone it's more epic.

I can't disagree with your logic. I've listened to some 5 minute epics which wouldn't qualify here.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote iluvmarillion Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2020 at 22:18
Originally posted by jamesbaldwin jamesbaldwin wrote:

Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers
 

By far

If you were voting on how well it all fits together I would vote this one.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sacro_Porgo Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 05 2020 at 00:06
Thick As A Brick should take this for length alone, but nothing is more epic than Apocalypse in 9/8. Close To The Edge is very epic as well, but then it's...

Hey babe, your supper's waiting for you,
Hey my baby, don't you know our love is true?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Frenetic Zetetic Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 05 2020 at 01:59
Originally posted by Sacro_Porgo Sacro_Porgo wrote:

Thick As A Brick should take this for length alone, but nothing is more epic than Apocalypse in 9/8. Close To The Edge is very epic as well, but then it's...

Hey babe, your supper's waiting for you,
Hey my baby, don't you know our love is true?

That entire section has some of Gabriel's best, most descriptive lyrics EVER.

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Actually, I'm going to throw a much maligned epic into the mix, which I think is the most epic of all.
Grendel - (and please - no "it's a Suppers Ready clone" because it is patently completely different in mood).
It's based on the greatest Old English epic poem of all, and wonderfully interpreted.
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Hi,

Tales from Topographic Oceans ... !!!! (with periods!)
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...to be Thick As A...Brick!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote I prophesy disaster Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2020 at 09:10
Originally posted by jamesbaldwin jamesbaldwin wrote:

Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers
By far
 
Even if one doesn't like the music, its epicness can't be denied. For example, the dynamics of the music ranges from almost silence to a sonic density that is quite impenetrable.
 
 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote M27Barney Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2020 at 09:15
Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi,

Tales from Topographic Oceans ... !!!! (with periods!)

Aye...but not an option...
You could also have...
Garden of Dreams
Gates of Delerium
All of the above
Stardust we Are
Monsters and Men
Six degrees of inner turbulence...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote I prophesy disaster Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2020 at 09:18
I find it interesting that Close To The Edge has far fewer votes than it would get in a poll about preferences. Evidently, voters are voting on the basis of epicness, and in particular that Close To The Edge is not regarded as particularly epic, in spite of its greatness.
 
 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Hrychu Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2020 at 16:34
Humanizzimo by Roine Stolt and Brother Where' You Bound by Simon Says are my favorite epics of all time ATM.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Dellinger Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2020 at 19:44
The I get Up, I get Down section of CttE is very epic too, specially in it's Symphonic version. I was thinking about throwing Zarathustra from Museo Rosenback into the mix too
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Enchant X Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2020 at 20:35
I thought about this and with consideration of what epic means .. meaning constant replay value and a timeless state of epic proportions I voted for Close to The Edge, for me that is so well arranged without any awkward moments the other two do have a few awkward moments, Close to The Edge is the clear winner here , I love all three but if I was showing somebody new to prog a timeless epic Close to The Edge is the one I'd select to play for them. Close to The Edge feels organic where as the other two seem to be a little forced in style, its man made verses nature really and nature wins every time for me. Genesis will win this poll I`m not expecting other people to agree with my point of view, however it is my honest feelings  Smile

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote richardh Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 07 2020 at 00:38
Ignoring the poll choices, Gates Of Delirium and Karn Evil are about tied for me and then comes Suppers Ready. TAAB never fees that epic to me and neither does CTTE. They are too episodic and lack the fantastic finale that Suppers Ready has. Other ones I like include IQ - The Last Human Gateway and all of the second disc of Dream Theater's Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence. The Knight Of The North by Glass Hammer and Par Lindh Project - Mundus Incompertus also deserve a mention.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Frenetic Zetetic Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 07 2020 at 05:26
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Ignoring the poll choices, Gates Of Delirium and Karn Evil are about tied for me and then comes Suppers Ready. TAAB never fees that epic to me and neither does CTTE. They are too episodic and lack the fantastic finale that Suppers Ready has. Other ones I like include IQ - The Last Human Gateway and all of the second disc of Dream Theater's Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence. The Knight Of The North by Glass Hammer and Par Lindh Project - Mundus Incompertus also deserve a mention.

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