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Poll Question: What is Pink Floyd's Greatest Epic?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
3 [1.95%]
5 [3.25%]
1 [0.65%]
1 [0.65%]
10 [6.49%]
2 [1.30%]
63 [40.91%]
32 [20.78%]
7 [4.55%]
25 [16.23%]
2 [1.30%]
3 [1.95%]
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    Posted: October 07 2010 at 22:52
"Epic", in this context, is meant to describe their songs which are greater than 10 minutes in length. I made an exception for "Interstellar Overdrive" because, I mean...come on, it's "Interstellar Overdrive", how could I NOT included it in a list like this?

Anyhow-pick your favorite! My vote goes for first half of "Shine On", personally. "Dogs" is a very close second. 
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Goddamn, I accidentally voted for Shine On I-V, I meant to vote for Echoes.

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Echoes.
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Echoes is my favorite (especially after my brother showed me the whole thing with Echoes synching up with 2001). My second favorite is one that kinda goes under the radar: Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast, which I think is one of their best songs.

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"Atom Heart Mother" is a terrific suite and will get my vote.
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The one that opens Wish You Were Here.
Epic.
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First of all, just because a song is long doesn't mean it is an epic

secondly, I voted for one that definitely isn't an epic: Saucerful
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Dogs, but today is Echoes
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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

First of all, just because a song is long doesn't mean it is an epic

secondly, I voted for one that definitely isn't an epic: Saucerful

Hence the first sentence, which says "For these purposes".
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but that's a false context; there is NO context in which the word epic is primarily based on the length of something.  Why didn't you say best songs over 10 minutes?
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Echoes
IMO the only contender would be Shine on... If it were in one full track (I to IX)
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Shine On VI-IX.  It's Wolf's poll, so he gets to set the context.
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Shine On is lame. Echoes all the way.
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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

but that's a false context; there is NO context in which the word epic is primarily based on the length of something.  Why didn't you say best songs over 10 minutes?

1. noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style:Homer's Iliad is an epic poem.
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resembling or suggesting such poetry: an epic novel on the founding of the country.
3.
heroic; majestic; impressively great: the epic events of the war.
4.
of unusually great size or extent: a crime wave of epic proportions.


If you're going to be condescending and pedantic, at the very least try to be right. 
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With Echoes having enough votes and The Narrow Way none, it's easy for me to vote for the latter.
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Nothing beats Shine On Ya' Crazy Diamond, and I choose part I - V
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Echoes. Absolutely her best.
I think similar polls have been created already and Echoes won every time.

I totally agree about Interstellar Overdive, but apart Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast all of them are masterpieces.
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Echoes of course.
Whatever the question is, if Echoes features in the list that4s the one I go for. Smile
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