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Trickster F. ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() Joined: February 10 2006 Location: Belize Status: Offline Points: 5308 |
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I'll update it when I'm done with the 300-500 ratings addition (it should be substantial to say the least). Just need to get over procrastinating about adding the rest of the Klaus Schulze repertoire that fits the criteria. ![]() I also wanted at least one other person to chime in wrt the extra Zappa you said I shouldn't have added. It seems avant enough to be on the list if you ask me! If it doesn't qualify, I'm not sure what that says about the Tangerine and Klaus stuff. ![]() Anywho, I'd consult the Spotify list for a full list of the epics that's currently relevant.
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siLLy puPPy ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() PSIKE, JRF/Canterbury, P Metal, Eclectic Joined: October 05 2013 Location: SFcaUsA Status: Offline Points: 15453 |
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Who rates prog by tracks? For me it's albums only. Epic tracks contribute to great albums. A while back i made a list on RYM that featured every album with 20 minute prog tracks. Not meant to be rating system but a handy reference Since it's impossible for one person to keep up with all the epic prog these days Any suggestions would be appreciated :) |
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Cristi ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Crossover / Prog Metal Teams Joined: July 27 2006 Location: wonderland Status: Offline Points: 46773 |
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More Marillion
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Stressed Cheese ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 16 2022 Location: The Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 540 |
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Am I the only one who's annoyed that the Zappa stuff isn't corrected in the OP yet?
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Trickster F. ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() Joined: February 10 2006 Location: Belize Status: Offline Points: 5308 |
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Nice, but they need to have a high enough number of ratings to fit the criteria for being added first. ![]() ![]() Having
recently returned to adding artists to this playlist, I got stuck on
Klaus Schulze. I've already added 61 songs of his, and it's not over
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bardberic ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: November 02 2021 Location: PA, USA/Israel Status: Offline Points: 930 |
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Now that Avenged Sevenfold is here, we have another:
Exist: Edited by bardberic - July 17 2023 at 14:22 |
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Trickster F. ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() Joined: February 10 2006 Location: Belize Status: Offline Points: 5308 |
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Should we include this Yes song too? Totally disregarded it.
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AlanB ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: January 19 2013 Status: Offline Points: 1233 |
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You could add Falling For Forever to the Spock's Beard list. I know it was specially written for a compilation album but it is Spock's Beard.
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Stressed Cheese ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 16 2022 Location: The Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 540 |
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No, it's not. It's a group of people. Zappa used the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra to record the song/composition/album called Lumpy Gravy, and used a later line-up to record stuff in 1975. There's two versions of Lumpy Gravy even.
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Trickster F. ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() Joined: February 10 2006 Location: Belize Status: Offline Points: 5308 |
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Thanks a lot for the feedback, everyone! I've included the following previously missing epics into the playlist: Echolyn A Suite for the Everyman Spock's Beard A Guy Named Sid Yes Mind Drive, That, That Is Frank Zappa Billy the Mountain, The Purple Lagoon Alan Parsons Project The Fall of the House of Usher Jethro Tull Baker St. Muse I haven't updated the list in the opening post yet, but I will when I add the expansion (see the very bottom of the post).
Having added Mind Drive and That, That is, I'm still only counting 9. What are the other two?
I do intend to keep manually removing songs that I don't consider to be prog (see Devin Townsend and PTree examples in the OP).
A little hesitant to act upon this suggestion. A lot of albums, concept or otherwise, have songs flowing one into another. Are they all to be treated like single songs? Then again, basing this entirely on whether the song titles refer to the same composition is a flawed approach to take, too. The comment below addresses the same issue:
Any more comments on this bit? It may not be a song, but it's a composition
I did include songs from live releases that don't otherwise appear on records, like some of Magma's tracks and VDGG's Squid/Octopus. Wouldn't Pictures count as separate tracks, though? I've honestly no idea now, especially after thinking about some of the latest comments! *** The list is going to be expanded even more very soon, as I've decided to add the following artists with at least 300 ratings on a highly-rated album (meaning the rating isn't too low, at least circa 4.00). The ones that do have songs above 15 mins in length anyway. This is the expansion: Chris Squire Aphrodite's Child Roger Waters Nucleus Cardiacs Univers Zero Jean-Luc Ponty Klaus Schulze Hiromi Uehara Henry Cow SBB Area Osanna Voivod Supersister Samla Mammas Manna Herbie Hancock Colosseum Solaris Il Bacio Della Medusa Death Kayo Dot Daal Los Jaivas Atheist Agalloch Between The Buried And Me Hypnos 69 Logos Yezda Urfa Steely Dan Maudlin Of The Well Il Rovescio Della Medaglia Roxy Music Fates Warning Ash Ra Tempel Celeste Birds And Buildings Asia Minor Popol Vuh Sieges Even Strawbs Leprous Unreal City Quella Vecchia Locanda Bill Bruford Redemption Roine Stolt Green Carnation Alphataurus Egg Utopia Ozric Tentacles Nemrud Biglietto Per L'Inferno Brand X Steve Hillage Nemo Quiet Sun Seven Impale Galahad Shadow Gallery Traffic The Dear Hunter Locanda Delle Fate Picchio Dal Pozzo Karnivool Kamelot Karfagen Manfred Mann's Earth Band Anthony Phillips Amon Düül II 3RDegree Pavlov's Dog Threshold Gnidrolog Sean Filkins Orphaned Land Procol Harum No-Man Collage Arch / Matheos Magenta Semiramis A.C.T The Decemberists Blind Guardian Unreal City Il Tempio Delle Clessidre Neu ! Oceansize Barock Project Amplifier Corvus Stone Lunatic Soul Weather Report La Maschera Di Cera The Tangent Brian Eno Silhouette Alcest Ange Pallas Mystery Triumvirat Astra Kraftwerk Fish The Pineapple Thief OSI Traffic Höstsonaten Magic Pie Airbag Kaipa RPWL Moon Safari Sky Architect Perfect Beings Glass Hammer Atomic Rooster Electric Light Orchestra That will hopefully give us a more complete and fascinating list to work with. Cheers, everyone!
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BrufordFreak ![]() Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 25 2008 Location: Wisconsin Status: Offline Points: 8629 |
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Yes, Rollon, but how do you categorize/refer to those hundreds of other long-playing songs that aren't considered epics? I think, in Prog World, it's just more convenient to lump all long-playing songs under/within the "epic" moniker--unless someone were to come up with another term to encapsulate and honor those other long jams. |
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kenethlevine ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Prog-Folk Team Joined: December 06 2006 Location: New England Status: Offline Points: 9179 |
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pat metheny "as falls wichita..."
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 45236 |
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That's eight more than Brighteye Brison and nine more than Neograss then.
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miamiscot ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 23 2014 Location: Ohio Status: Offline Points: 3635 |
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Very cool!!! But Yes has 11 epics...
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 45236 |
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Fifty Epic Prog Suites
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Awesoreno ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 07 2019 Location: Culver City, CA Status: Offline Points: 3116 |
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^^It appears the OP is sticking to studio releases, so ELP Pictures and FZ The Purple Lagoon wouldn't be included.
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Stressed Cheese ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 16 2022 Location: The Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 540 |
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No one's gonna point out that "Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra and Chorus" is not a song? Speaking of Zappa, "Billy the Mountain" and "The Purple Lagoon" are missing. For Alan Parsons Project, "The Fall of the House of Usher" is missing. I'd say Supersister is a big one missing (I guess it just wasn't caught by the criteria), and both Todd Rundgren ("A Treatise on Cosmic Fire") and Utopia ("The Ikon" and "Singring and the Glass Guitar"). Treatise and The Ikon both go over 30 minutes even.
I guess it can be hard to determine what an 'epic' is, at times. Some artists just have a lot of interconnected music on their albums (like FZ and KGLW). I always consider You Are What You Is side 2 as one 20-minute thing, but it's not like most of that was written with that in mind. Something like A Turn of the Friendly Card seems much more 'separate' on the other hand.
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richardh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Online Points: 30291 |
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Slight ommission - Mike Oldfields Amarok should be included at 3rd in longest epics list. Ironically Incantations should defintitely not be included as it's in 4 parts. Otherwise why not include Yes - Tales Of Topographic Oceans?!
You could also argue for ELP - Pictures At An Exhibition being included (from the album) as it's a continual unbroken performance.
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I prophesy disaster ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 31 2017 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 5001 |
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Yes, the notion of what is a single piece of music isn't straightforward. For example, under Nektar, you omitted "Journey to the Centre of the Eye". Although this is divided into 13 tracks on the CD, it really is one piece of music. Quite often, long pieces of music are divided into more than one track, complicating an automated approach. Edited by I prophesy disaster - July 04 2023 at 04:23 |
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Sean Trane ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 20638 |
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Yes' Mind Drive (on KTA 3) and the other +/- 20-mins track on Keys To Ascension 1 Circus (switz) - Movin' On in the flipsise of the MO album. Edited by Sean Trane - July 05 2023 at 11:24 |
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prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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