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progfannick1991 
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 Topic: Recommendations on 20+ minute epic songsPosted: May 17 2011 at 01:30 |
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Hello. I've been listening to prog for quite a while, and have grown to love the epic songs (I love looking for albums with songs over 10 minutes long). However, I want my progressive library to grow and I want more 20 minute epics to listen to. So what are your favorite 20 minute songs and what would you recommend for me? I want to listen to more epics outside of the ones by the favorites such as Yes, Genesis, etc. The more obscure the better.
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fuxi
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 02:14 |
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THE WAY UP by the Pat Metheny Group. One hour long, almost 100% instrumental, totally epic and undeniably prog. The Live DVD version is even better than the CD.
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Harry Hood
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 02:38 |
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You really can't go wrong with any epics by The Tangent, Transatlantic, IQ, or the Flower Kings. Goddamn those guys know how to write epics. I could list many reccomendations but I don't want to see this thread turned into some kind of list war, so instead, I'll give you one by each:
"In Darkest Dreams" by The Tangent" "Duel With The Devil" Transatlantic "Harvest Of Souls" by IQ "Love Is The Only Answer" by The Flower Kings There are probably more obscure ones (also don't want this thread to turn into an "obscurity" war), but I feel these bands write more consistently awesome epics than their 70's counterparts.Honestly epics in the 70's were kind of hit or miss, but these guys deliver in a big way. |
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octopus-4
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 02:48 |
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Without knowing what you have already...
Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall (the disc 2 has two side-long epics) Colosseum - Live Tangerine Dream - First four albums if you have enough patience for space music otherwise from Phaedra to Sorcerer Collegium Musicum - Konvergencie (The shortest track is over 10 minutes) Mostly Autumn - The Gap is Too Wide (from The Spirit Of Autimn Past) Mother Nature (from The Last Bright Light) Let me suggest Ayreon - The Human Equation. It's a long concept album. If you like epics you may like this too. If you like very long epics try Neal Morse or Transatlantic (their last live is a triple CD with only 6 songs and all excellent!!!) This is just what comes to my mind, but if you give us an example of the epics that you like I think we can suggest tons of things. |
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Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 02:59 |
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You could do worse than check out The Flower Kings album Unfold The Future... there's a couple of good ones there (in a double CD with no filler - cracking album
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 04:21 |
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Pretty much everything Transatlantic does is an epic,so you might want to try them.
I have been listening to Focus quite a bit lately and they have some good 20+ minute epics.Anonymous II on Focus III,Eruption on Moving Waves and of course Hamburger Concerto on the album of the same name.
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Kotro
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 05:09 |
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My favorite epic is the 19-minutes Les Porches de Notre-Dame, by Maneige.
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Bigger on the inside.
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octopus-4
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 05:24 |
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Another one...Harmonium S'on Avait Besoin....
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Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half.
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yanch
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 06:10 |
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German neo-prog band Martigan's cd-Vision-has 2 epics that are very good.
Also, Nektar's Remember the Future and A Tab in the Ocean. Spock's Beard cd-V- has 2 great epics, At the End of the Day and The Great Nothing. Their debut cd also has 2 very good epics, The Water and The Light.
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sleeper
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 06:40 |
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Time for another long list.
Devil Doll- The Girl who was... Death Green Carnation- Light of Day, Day of Darkness Edge of Sanity- Crimson Transatlantic- All of the Above Todd Rundgren's Utopia- The Ikon Transatlantic- Stranger in Yourn Soul Wobbler- Hinterland Spock's Bear- The Great Nothing Transatlantic- Duel with the Devil Deluge Grander- Inaugural Bash Nemo- Barbares Universe Zero- Le Faulx The Tangent- A Place in the Queue Lesbian- Loadbath Renaissance- Song of Scheherazade IQ- Harvest of Souls Pink Floyd- Atom Heart Mother Spock's Beard- The Water Dream Theater- A Change of Seasons Magenta- Metamorphosis Lesbian- Black Stygian The Tangent- In Earnest Discipline- Into the Dream Osanna- Animale Senza Respiro Grayceon- Sleep Giant Squid- Metridium Fields Thieves Kitchen- The Long Fianchetto Symphony X- The Divine Wings of Tragedy The Tangent- In Darkest Dreams Museo Rosenbach- Zarathustra Hattfield and the North- Mumps Focus- Hamburger Concerto Noekk- Codex Deserta Opeth- Black Rose Imortal Zaar- Sefir That should keep you busy for a while. |
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rdtprog
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 07:13 |
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here's a big list, but you don't know what are the best ones :
http://www.dprp.net/longsongs/longsongs.php |
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Garden of Dreams
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 09:02 |
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Brother Where You Bound?-Simon Says
The Door-Neal Morse The Underfall Yard-Big Big Train Chupacabras-Phideaux The Cathedral-Par Lindh Project Any of the long songs from The Flower Kings
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rdtprog
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 09:31 |
I was thinking of that same one from Simon Says (a hommage to Yes Relayer's cd) There is 2 recents epic on the same cd from Sean Filkins that is great, also, here http://www.seanfilkinsmusic.co.uk/ |
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Epignosis
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 09:35 |
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Ritual- "A Dangerous Journey"
Spock's Beard- "The Great Nothing" |
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hobocamp
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 09:40 |
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Lizard by King Crimson. Not really an obscure band by any means, but not well regarded here. Ditto A Passion Play and The Revealing Science of God.
Edited by hobocamp - May 17 2011 at 09:41 |
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 10:00 |
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Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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PhideauxFan
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 10:03 |
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PhideauxFan
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 10:08 |
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Lizzy
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 10:16 |
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Far East Family Band - Parallel World
Magna Carta - Seasons |
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Property of Queen Productions...
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The Truth
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 10:24 |
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Sleeping In Traffic - Beardfish
Mei - Echolyn
Static - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
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