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snowsnow
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Posted: December 09 2012 at 04:08 |
Voted for Island from this selection
My top epics this year (with no rules):
Marillion - Gaza
Echolyn - Island
Presto Ballet - Relic of the modern world (back on form for me)
Landmarq - Calm before the storm
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Slaughternalia
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Posted: December 09 2012 at 10:49 |
BTBAM for sure. I'm a bit of a fanboy
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I'm so mad that you enjoy a certain combination of noises that I don't
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Gandalff
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Posted: December 09 2012 at 11:00 |
BrufordFreak wrote:
I have to say that I am quite surprised at the glaringly missing "epics" from this list: I AND THOU's "And I Awaken," KOTEBEL's "Concerto for Piano and Electric Ensemble," THE TEA CLUB's "Firebears," MYSTERY's "Another Day," BATTLESTATION's "Prologue: Nature's Morte/You're Not Welcome Here," and NO ANGLAGARD, ASTRA, DIAGONAL or THINKING PLAGUE! These are from 2012! They are incredible!
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Please read properly my criteria. Some of your suggestions are instrumentals, not Epics - e.g. Kotebel or Anglagard. Some of them didn't get sufficient average rating value (4.00).
I didn't want to exclude purposely any track. But if I would haven't set any criteria, I would have to create a multi-round voting. And I just didn't want to do it.
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon!
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Fox On The Rocks
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Posted: December 09 2012 at 11:01 |
BTBAM! The new album is fantastic.
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Fox On The Rocks
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Posted: December 09 2012 at 11:01 |
Slaughternalia wrote:
BTBAM for sure. I'm a bit of a fanboy |
Amen.
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: December 09 2012 at 16:39 |
Gandalff wrote:
Some of your suggestions are instrumentals, not Epics - e.g. Kotebel or Anglagard. |
An instrumental can't be epic?
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dtguitarfan
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Posted: December 09 2012 at 16:58 |
"Daddy F***ing Loves You" by Headspace. After reading what it was about in an interview, it makes me tear up now. But I loved it even before then.
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Gandalff
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Posted: December 10 2012 at 11:03 |
Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:
Gandalff wrote:
Some of your suggestions are instrumentals, not Epics - e.g. Kotebel or Anglagard. | An instrumental can't be epic?
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Absolutely not! The word "Epic" in music is derived from the traditional genre of poetry created since antiquity. It has a storyline, story, destination, time and causality. Thus, a musical Epic has contain a lyrics to could tell any story... Which, as you can surely admit, Instrumental ever cannot!
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon!
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richardh
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Posted: December 10 2012 at 14:30 |
Good job that Mike Oldfield stopped wasting his time churning out those non epic works..
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Eria Tarka
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Posted: December 10 2012 at 23:21 |
Echolyn - Island
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Gandalff
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Posted: December 11 2012 at 01:43 |
richardh wrote:
Good job that Mike Oldfield stopped wasting his time churning out those non epic works.. |
If you really believe that Oldfield ever made some Epics, then believe. For others, let it be instrumental compositions.
Edited by Gandalff - December 11 2012 at 01:43
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon!
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Kati
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Posted: January 09 2013 at 05:59 |
Gandalff wrote:
richardh wrote:
Good job that Mike Oldfield stopped wasting his time churning out those non epic works.. |
If you really believe that Oldfield ever made some Epics, then believe. For others, let it be instrumental compositions. |
Gandalf, your perception of Epic is quite right in terms of meaning something historic, special, most memorable and written inc. poetry, however I believe other members above are right too, it depends on the context I suppose because EPIC is derived from the Latin word Epicus and Greek word Epikos which means speech, written, song/music. Epic is something remarkable, highlight/ happening, instrumentals too can take us back in time, become most memorable, sometimes even more so than lyrics.
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richardh
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Posted: January 09 2013 at 14:25 |
Kati wrote:
Gandalff wrote:
richardh wrote:
Good job that Mike Oldfield stopped wasting his time churning out those non epic works.. |
If you really believe that Oldfield ever made some Epics, then believe. For others, let it be instrumental compositions. |
Gandalf, your perception of Epic is quite right in terms of meaning something historic, special, most memorable and written inc. poetry, however I believe other members above are right too, it depends on the context I suppose because EPIC is derived from the Latin word Epicus and Greek word Epikos which means speech, written, song/music. Epic is something remarkable, highlight/ happening, instrumentals too can take us back in time, become most memorable, sometimes even more so than lyrics.
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