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Rosescar

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Posted: February 16 2006 at 11:17

Kid-A wrote:

Rosescar wrote:

I took these from my iTunes library;

Nirvana - All Apologies (31:32)

Nirvana - Something In The Way (20:35)

Those Nirvana ones are only that long because there are hidden tracks ~15 minutes after the track ends, so those are mostly just silence

I never listened to them

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Posted: February 16 2006 at 11:47

I can't believe no one has put Free Bird in! That's the first song I think of when i think rock epics!

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Posted: February 16 2006 at 12:54

Easy Livin wrote:

A favourite of mine is "Green Grass and High tide" by The Outlaws.

...

"The African Trilogy" by Neil Diamond (superb)

For me also Green Grass and Hight Tides.

From what album is Neil Diamond's The African Trilogy? He did some interesting epic stuff on Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

I really like:

High Falls - The Allman Brothers
Broken Arrow - Buffalo Springfield
Crazy Eyes - Poco
Stranger Than Fiction / Time For A Change - Split Enz
The entire Smile album by Brian Wilson, which really consists of 3 excellent epics
... I'd almost say "The Abbey Road suite", but rumor has spread that the Beatles are prog

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Posted: February 16 2006 at 14:32

Hi Moogtron,

"The African trilogy" was a suite which occupied the whole of the second side of "Taproot Manuscript".

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Posted: February 16 2006 at 17:38

Easy Livin wrote:

Hi Moogtron,

"The African trilogy" was a suite which occupied the whole of the second side of "Taproot Manuscript".

Thanks Easy Livin', I have to check that one out then!

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Posted: March 04 2006 at 17:42

Acid Mothers Temple - Virginal Plane 5:23
Love - Revelation
The Velvet Underground - Sister Ray
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Wilco - Spiders (Kidsmoke)

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Posted: March 04 2006 at 18:51

One famous and excellent one seems to have been forgotten: "Dark Star" by the Grateful Dead at 27 minutes.

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Posted: March 04 2006 at 20:04

BaldFriede wrote:

One famous and excellent one seems to have been forgotten: "Dark Star" by the Grateful Dead at 27 minutes.

Dark Star, yes. There are numerous versions of Dark Star! The Grateful Dead were always open for bootleg tapes of their concerts. I wonder if any rock song has so many live versions as Dark Star.

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Posted: March 04 2006 at 20:36

Moogtron III wrote:

BaldFriede wrote:

One famous and excellent one seems to have been forgotten: "Dark Star" by the Grateful Dead at 27 minutes.

"Brainstorm" by Hawkwind is around 9 minutes long, and there are a million versions of it.

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Posted: March 04 2006 at 23:19

Allman Brothers - Mountain Jam, one of the best live epics ever done.

Steppenwolf - Monster, a very overlooked epic.

Rare Earth - Get Ready and I Know I'm Losing You, Motown's only white group doing epic versions of soul standards.

Cream - Spoonful live on Wheels Of Fire, epic version of a Willie Dixon classic.

That's about all I can think of that hasn't already been mentioned here.

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Posted: March 05 2006 at 08:46

BaldFriede wrote:

One famous and excellent one seems to have been
forgotten: "Dark Star" by the Grateful Dead at 27 minutes.

Not to mention "Terrapin, Part One" - a superb piece of pastoral
progressive that takes up the whole of side two of "Terrapin Station"
(1977).

Rosescar

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Posted: March 05 2006 at 14:35

Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia

I saw an interview with Billy-Joe Armstrong some time ago, everyone was all saying it was so cool and original Green Day had divided it into several parts, and that it contained "narratives" and that it was so long

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Posted: March 05 2006 at 16:56

How about Wagner's "Ring Cycle"?not exactly one song, but the whole idea is pretty much the definition of epic music, 4 operas, 3 of which average about 4 and a half hours. haha. the acts themselves are all epic though, usually being around 45 minutes, and to add on to that, Wagner wanted to emulate the idea of endless melody, so he completely avoids cadences for well, 45 minutes. so you could say that each act is its own song in that case :P. So yeah, pretty epic on all levels haha.

woops, sorry, you said rock, still I think this deserves to be here :P.

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Posted: March 06 2006 at 15:14

Chicago's "Make me smile" suite on their second album ain't too shabby.

Also, maybe not ten minutes long, but Elton John's "Ticking" on Caribou is one of my favorites. It's about a mass murderer so it's not your usual "Crock Rock" stuff.

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Posted: March 06 2006 at 15:25

Elton John's 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight', whilst nowhere near 10 minutes (around 6 or 7), is epic in structure and builds up and up. It's arguably the finest song of his whole career, and it's somewhat disconcerting to think when having peaked, almost everything since has been showbizzy, glitzy rubbish....

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Posted: March 06 2006 at 18:15

Pan Sonic- Radiation !!!!! It must be the longest track i ever heard 1 hour and 1 minutes !!!!!! VERY minimalistic ambient composition

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Posted: March 06 2006 at 18:35

Neil Young has plenty of "epics". A few examples:

- Love to burn (from Ragged Glory CD). 10:03

- Love and only love (from Ragged Glory CD) 10:18

- Change your mind (from Sleeps with Angels CD) 14:39

- Loose Change (from Broken Arrow CD) 9:49.

- Cowgirl in the sand (from Everybody Knows This is Nowhere) 10:30

And so on...

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Posted: March 06 2006 at 22:03

I know y'all don't like punk, but "The Decline" by NOFX is pretty good, clocking in at around 18 minutes with some nice tempo/groove changes and the involvement of more instruments than just guitar, bass and drums. Not proggy per se but still an excellent song.

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Posted: March 06 2006 at 22:17

I|I|I|I|I wrote:

I know y'all don't like punk, but "The Decline" by NOFX is pretty good, clocking in at around 18 minutes with some nice tempo/groove changes and the involvement of more instruments than just guitar, bass and drums. Not proggy per se but still an excellent song.

Probably my favorite Punk work of all time. NOFX was one of the few punk bands who actually pushed some boundaries and are mildly interesting to me (I used to love them).

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Posted: March 07 2006 at 03:29

Moogtron III wrote:

Easy Livin wrote:

A favourite of mine is "Green Grass and High tide" by The Outlaws.

For me also Green Grass and High Tides

Make that three votes for "Green Grass & High Tides".

For epic blues jams (away from The Allman Brothers, who were the undisputed masters of the form), you could do a lot worse than to check out Clapton's "Derek & The Dominos In Concert" - full on four piece blues workouts and unabashed self indulgence ("Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad" & "Have You Ever Loved A Woman" as standout tracks) - lovely!

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