Which Prog Epic...is More Epic?!
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Topic: Which Prog Epic...is More Epic?!
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Subject: Which Prog Epic...is More Epic?!
Date Posted: June 03 2020 at 03:31
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You know the drill. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: June 03 2020 at 03:37
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^ It’s a Ryobi !! 🤣 I’m voting for Supper’s Ready, but I’m certain CTTE will take the prize here. |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: June 03 2020 at 03:37
| Close to The Edge |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: June 03 2020 at 03:39
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A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: June 03 2020 at 04:00
Fair enough!  ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
I prophesy disaster wrote:Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: June 03 2020 at 04:16
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Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: June 03 2020 at 04:58
| As with these seemingly impossible choices, I always go for the one I heard first... but my all time favourite is ELP's Karn Evil 9 |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: June 03 2020 at 05:24
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Supper's Ready, because REASONS! ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: June 03 2020 at 06:17
There are plenty of good reasons to pick Supper's Ready! Six Saintly Shrouded reasons moving across the lawn slowly, even!  ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: June 03 2020 at 06:37
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Suppers Ready from the list. But Salisbury by Uriah Heep and Flight by Rare Bird are epics that I think take a lot of beating (part 1 - As Your Mind Flies By has some of the best keyboards on any album). ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: June 03 2020 at 07:13
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Supper's Ready -> TAAB ->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->-> CTTE |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: June 03 2020 at 07:21
From the list, Supper, but Tarkus beats them all  ------------- We all live in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: June 03 2020 at 07:24
| ending of Suppers Ready is beyond epic--but I love both of these equally --the artistry is fantastic--think they are examples of give 5 genius players the same type of instrumentation and they come up with totally different yet totally original and epic--but voted for Suppers Ready. |
Posted By: DarkTower
Date Posted: June 03 2020 at 07:45
| Supper's Ready is the best epic ever. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 03 2020 at 08:26
| Define "epic". |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: June 03 2020 at 09:14
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Supper's Ready for me. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: June 03 2020 at 10:12
| Supper's Ready is more epic than Close to the Edge, but not necessarily better, so I won't vote. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: June 03 2020 at 10:56
This poll is too Close to the Edge to call, but I'm Going for the One and only YES! 
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: June 03 2020 at 11:23
| Thick as a Brick is more than an epic, is a whole album, so I think it should not be here, but it gets my vote anyways. CTTE and SP are fantastic on themselves, hard to pick one over the other. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 03 2020 at 13:05
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Thicky thick. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: June 03 2020 at 14:23
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: June 04 2020 at 16:17
| 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. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: June 04 2020 at 17:37
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Suppers Ready is more epic than those other epics....... -------------   
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Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: June 04 2020 at 18:48
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Voted Brick but Light of Day Day of Darkness probably takes the prize for me. ------------- Biggles was in rehab last Saturday |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: June 04 2020 at 19:27
By far ------------- "Happiness is real only when shared" |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: June 04 2020 at 22:16
I can't disagree with your logic. I've listened to some 5 minute epics which wouldn't qualify here.
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Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: June 04 2020 at 22:18
If you were voting on how well it all fits together I would vote this one.
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Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: June 05 2020 at 00:06
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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? ------------- Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :) |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: June 05 2020 at 01:59
That entire section has some of Gabriel's best, most descriptive lyrics EVER. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: June 06 2020 at 08:42
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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. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: June 06 2020 at 08:46
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Hi, Tales from Topographic Oceans ... !!!! (with periods!) ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: June 06 2020 at 08:53
| ...to be Thick As A...Brick! |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: June 06 2020 at 09:10
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. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: June 06 2020 at 09:15
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... ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: June 06 2020 at 09:18
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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. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: June 06 2020 at 16:34
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Humanizzimo by Roine Stolt and Brother Where' You Bound by Simon Says are my favorite epics of all time ATM. ------------- Bez pierdolenia sygnał zerwie, to w realia wychodź w hełmie! |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: June 06 2020 at 19:44
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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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Posted By: Enchant X
Date Posted: June 06 2020 at 20:35
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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
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Posted By: richardh
Date 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. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: June 07 2020 at 05:26
I hear you loud and clear. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Boboulo
Date Posted: August 29 2020 at 16:30
| Supper's Ready |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: September 07 2020 at 06:13
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Obviously epic means how long something can be drawn out. Then its John Cage's As Slow As Possible. Next chord change in 18 months. It's 639 years long. https://universes.art/en/specials/john-cage-organ-project-halberstadt I just want to hear the single from the album version, assuming this is the album version. Betcha the B side is Silence We still wait the reviews. By the time it's finished so should Covid19. And I thought a 2 metre long CD compilation of the Bayreuth Festival was epic...
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Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: September 07 2020 at 10:08
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This reminds me of a series of polls I did all called "Which is the (band) epic?". I believe I did them on Rush, Pink Floyd and Yes. Went for the obvious winner... Supper's Ready. ------------- "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence" - Robert Fripp "I am an anti-Christ" - Johnny Rotten |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: September 07 2020 at 15:37
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Supper's Ready is definitely the most epic. However, I think that Close to the Edge is simply the best song on the list. ------------- Bez pierdolenia sygnał zerwie, to w realia wychodź w hełmie! |
Posted By: tempest_77
Date Posted: September 07 2020 at 15:56
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Easily Thick as a Brick. It's twice as long, the composition and arrangement is absolutely incredible, and in general it's an outstanding album. ------------- I use they/them pronouns (feel free to ask me about this!) Check out my music on https://tempestsounds.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - my bandcamp ! |