Recommendations on 20+ minute epic songs
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Topic: Recommendations on 20+ minute epic songs
Posted By: progfannick1991
Subject: Recommendations on 20+ minute epic songs
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 01:30
| Hello. I've been listening to prog for quite a while, and have grown to love the epic songs (I love looking for albums with songs over 10 minutes long). However, I want my progressive library to grow and I want more 20 minute epics to listen to. So what are your favorite 20 minute songs and what would you recommend for me? I want to listen to more epics outside of the ones by the favorites such as Yes, Genesis, etc. The more obscure the better. |
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Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 02:14
| THE WAY UP by the Pat Metheny Group. One hour long, almost 100% instrumental, totally epic and undeniably prog. The Live DVD version is even better than the CD. |
Posted By: Harry Hood
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 02:38
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You really can't go wrong with any epics by The Tangent, Transatlantic, IQ, or the Flower Kings. Goddamn those guys know how to write epics. I could list many reccomendations but I don't want to see this thread turned into some kind of list war, so instead, I'll give you one by each: "In Darkest Dreams" by The Tangent" "Duel With The Devil" Transatlantic "Harvest Of Souls" by IQ "Love Is The Only Answer" by The Flower Kings There are probably more obscure ones (also don't want this thread to turn into an "obscurity" war), but I feel these bands write more consistently awesome epics than their 70's counterparts.Honestly epics in the 70's were kind of hit or miss, but these guys deliver in a big way. ------------- 
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 02:48
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Without knowing what you have already... Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall (the disc 2 has two side-long epics) Colosseum - Live Tangerine Dream - First four albums if you have enough patience for space music otherwise from Phaedra to Sorcerer Collegium Musicum - Konvergencie (The shortest track is over 10 minutes) Mostly Autumn - The Gap is Too Wide (from The Spirit Of Autimn Past) Mother Nature (from The Last Bright Light) Let me suggest Ayreon - The Human Equation. It's a long concept album. If you like epics you may like this too. If you like very long epics try Neal Morse or Transatlantic (their last live is a triple CD with only 6 songs and all excellent!!!) This is just what comes to my mind, but if you give us an example of the epics that you like I think we can suggest tons of things. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 02:59
You could do worse than check out The Flower Kings album Unfold The Future... there's a couple of good ones there (in a double CD with no filler - cracking album  )------------- 
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 04:21
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Pretty much everything Transatlantic does is an epic,so you might want to try them. I have been listening to Focus quite a bit lately and they have some good 20+ minute epics.Anonymous II on Focus III,Eruption on Moving Waves and of course Hamburger Concerto on the album of the same name. -------------  |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 05:09
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My favorite epic is the 19-minutes Les Porches de Notre-Dame, by Maneige. ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 05:24
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Another one...Harmonium S'on Avait Besoin.... ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 06:10
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German neo-prog band Martigan's cd-Vision-has 2 epics that are very good. Also, Nektar's Remember the Future and A Tab in the Ocean. Spock's Beard cd-V- has 2 great epics, At the End of the Day and The Great Nothing. Their debut cd also has 2 very good epics, The Water and The Light.
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 06:40
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Time for another long list. Devil Doll- The Girl who was... Death Green Carnation- Light of Day, Day of Darkness Edge of Sanity- Crimson Transatlantic- All of the Above Todd Rundgren's Utopia- The Ikon Transatlantic- Stranger in Yourn Soul Wobbler- Hinterland Spock's Bear- The Great Nothing Transatlantic- Duel with the Devil Deluge Grander- Inaugural Bash Nemo- Barbares Universe Zero- Le Faulx The Tangent- A Place in the Queue Lesbian- Loadbath Renaissance- Song of Scheherazade IQ- Harvest of Souls Pink Floyd- Atom Heart Mother Spock's Beard- The Water Dream Theater- A Change of Seasons Magenta- Metamorphosis Lesbian- Black Stygian The Tangent- In Earnest Discipline- Into the Dream Osanna- Animale Senza Respiro Grayceon- Sleep Giant Squid- Metridium Fields Thieves Kitchen- The Long Fianchetto Symphony X- The Divine Wings of Tragedy The Tangent- In Darkest Dreams Museo Rosenbach- Zarathustra Hattfield and the North- Mumps Focus- Hamburger Concerto Noekk- Codex Deserta Opeth- Black Rose Imortal Zaar- Sefir That should keep you busy for a while. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: rdtprog
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 07:13
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here's a big list, but you don't know what are the best ones : http://www.dprp.net/longsongs/longsongs.php" rel="nofollow - http://www.dprp.net/longsongs/longsongs.php |
Posted By: Garden of Dreams
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 09:02
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Brother Where You Bound?-Simon Says The Door-Neal Morse The Underfall Yard-Big Big Train Chupacabras-Phideaux The Cathedral-Par Lindh Project Any of the long songs from The Flower Kings
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Posted By: rdtprog
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 09:31
I was thinking of that same one from Simon Says (a hommage to Yes Relayer's cd) There is 2 recents epic on the same cd from Sean Filkins that is great, also, here http://www.seanfilkinsmusic.co.uk/ |
Garden of Dreams wrote:Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 09:35
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Ritual- "A Dangerous Journey" Spock's Beard- "The Great Nothing" ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: hobocamp
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 09:40
| Lizard by King Crimson. Not really an obscure band by any means, but not well regarded here. Ditto A Passion Play and The Revealing Science of God. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 10:00
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Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard
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Posted By: PhideauxFan
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 10:03
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Posted By: PhideauxFan
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 10:08
Posted By: Lizzy
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 10:16
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Far East Family Band - Parallel World Magna Carta - Seasons ------------- Property of Queen Productions... 
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 10:24
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Sleeping In Traffic - Beardfish
Mei - Echolyn
Static - Godspeed You! Black Emperor ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 10:31
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Caravan - 9 Feet Underground (In The Land Of Grey And Pink) ELP - Tarkus Nice - 5 Bridges Suite YES - Tales From Topographic Oceans - Close To The Edge Eloy - Agony of Atlantis at 2 PM.....(Oceans) After Crying - A gadarai megszállott ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Purple_Floyd
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 10:37
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One that hasn't been said so far : Rush - 2112 :) Dream Theater has a few ones : Count Of Tuscany (19mins) A Change Of Seasons (23mins) Octovarium (24mins) In The Presence Of Ennemies (Pt.1 & 2) and SDOIT (42 mins, Thouth it could be considered 8 differents songs) Green Carnation did a one hour song, but I find it incredible boring : Light Of Day, Day of Darkness Three Minute Warning, more of a recorded long jam then anything else The Mars Volta also recorded a 20+ mins Jam in their live album. Redemption has many of them too : Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Fullness Of Time, Desperation. Transatlantic : Stranger In Your Soul, All Of The Above, Duel With The Devil. |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 12:44
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You could try the last two Magic Pie albums - both have epics and they're excellent!
Babares by Nemo has already been mentioned and i endorse that but their new album has one too called Loins Des Yeux which might just be even better.
Also try Singring And The Glass Guitar - Utopia
Not to everyone's tastes but I love it! - Suite Per Il Sig. K - Jumbo
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Posted By: For6luca
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 12:47
| Seventh wonder - The great escape |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 14:56
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Supersister - Pudding En Gisteren (Dutch Canterbury):
Others you can check out:
Univers Zero - The Funeral Plain
Can - Bel Air
I don't think these have been mentioned yet...
Godspeed You Black Emperor (a few)
Mike Oldfield (a few)
Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plight Of Lighthouse Keepers
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 15:11
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For me, the first one that springs to mind is Van Der Graaf Generator's "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers." |
Posted By: Thin_Man
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 15:19
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Jean Luc Ponty - Mystical Adentures Capability Brown - Circumstances Focus - Hamburger Concerto Focus - Anonymus II Refugee - Grand Canyon, Credo Vangelis - Heaven and Hell ------------- Have you seen the old world dying Which was once what new worlds seem |
Posted By: Kosmonaut
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 16:23
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Quite the long list, but it's hard to stop when you are having fun ^^ Amon Düül II - Phallus Dei Bubu - El Cortejo de un Día Amarillo Clearlight - Clearlight Symphony Herbie Hancock - Sleeping Giant Acid Mothers Temple - La Nòvia, Blue Velvet Blues, Blues Pour Bible Noire, Soleil de Cristal et D'argent, Starless and Bible Black Sabbath Aera - Sechs Achtel Alan Sorrenti - Aria Ash Ra Tempel - Amboss, Traummaschine Atlantic Ocean - Weather (Including Snow, Wind, Sun) Baby Grandmothers - Being is More Than Life II Björn J:son Lindh - Musik från en storstad Confluence - 4 Voyages Finch - A Passion Condensed Island - Empty Bottles Janus - Gravedigger Jonas Hellborg with Glen Velez - Ritual Love-Death, Regicide Kaipa - Skenet bedrar Magma - K.A III, Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré II Maneige - Les porches de Notre-Dame, Le Rafiot Miles Davis - Pharaoh's Dance, Bitches Brew Moon Safari - Other Half of the Sky Motorpsycho + Jaga Jazzist Horns - Tristano Nil - Le gardien Omega - Suite Pangée - Quartus Frénésis Pesniary - Gusliar Pogonophobia - Part XII Pär Lindh Project - The Cathedral, Mundus Incompertus S.B.B. - Wolność Z Nami Sun Ra - Space is the Place The Muffins - The Adventures of Captain Boomerang The Smell of Incense - A Floral Treasury The Spacious Mind - To Earth With Love, Seashore Trees Träd, Gräs och Stenar - Sommarlåten Universal Totem Orchestra - Saturno Unobstructed Universe - Unobstructed Universe Utopia - The Ikon Øresund Space Collective - Vermis, Pf746-3, MTSST Some of these are a few seconds shorter than 20 mins. |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 18:14
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[insert Klaus Schulze here] The Muffins - Chronometers, The Adventures of Captain Boomerang Cluster - 21:17 Hatfield and the North - Mumps Can - Yoo Doo Right Sotos - the tracks from Platypus Electric Orange - Neuronomicon Plus others which have been mentioned (Magma, Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, etc.) ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Anthony H.
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 18:30
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 20:13
| Triumvirat-Illusions On A Double Dimple and Mister Ten Percent |
Posted By: Slaughternalia
Date Posted: May 17 2011 at 20:47
I forgot how much I love that album
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Posted By: PhideauxFan
Date Posted: May 18 2011 at 04:22
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 18 2011 at 08:56
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Tunnels - 7,584,333,440 Miles Away
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Posted By: mourningknight
Date Posted: May 18 2011 at 10:56
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Canarios- Ciclos (double album, four songs) and Pulsar- Halloween (single album, two songs).
Not just epic songs, but, epic albums! ------------- 
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Posted By: Slaughternalia
Date Posted: May 22 2011 at 18:09
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Here are some of my favourites while trying to avoid the super obvious: We Spin The World Other Half of the Sky Osanna Oro Caldo Animale Senza Respiro Maneige Les Porches de Notre-Dame Nektar Remember the Future Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells Ommadawn Caravan 9 Feet Underground Bubu El Cortejo De Un Día Amarillo
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Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: May 23 2011 at 15:12
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Lots of good stuff mentioned here.
I'd suggest these as the first three you should hear.
Mike Oldfield - Amarok
Genesis - Supper's Ready
Transatlantic - Duel with the Devil
The Flower Kings - I am the Sun would be on here but it's split into two parts. ------------- 
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Posted By: seb2112
Date Posted: May 24 2011 at 18:04
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Miles Davis - Bitches Brew and Funky Tonk (from Live Evil)
Deathspell Omega - Chaining The Katechon Meshuggah - I Abigor - Time Is Sulphur In The Veins Of The Saint These 4 are 19 minutes long but deserve to be mentioned Present - Promenade Au Fond D'un Canal Jean-Luc Ponty - Music For Violin And Low Budget Orchestra Soft Machine - Out-Bloody-Rageous Shylock - Le Cinquieme I kept it to songs that werent mentioned already |
Posted By: Slaughternalia
Date Posted: May 24 2011 at 18:44
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Here's a super obscure gem that's great if you can get your hands on it: Mr. Sirius – The Nile For A While
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Posted By: Mr. Maestro
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 11:46
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Hmmm... most of my favorites have probably already been mentioned, but I don't suppose it would hurt to repeat them: "The Underfall Yard" by Big Big Train "Hamburger Concerto" by Focus (my all time favorite song) "Milliontown" by Frost* "Atom Heart Mother" by Pink Floyd ------------- "I am the one who crossed through space...or stayed where I was...or didn't exist in the first place...." |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 13:23
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Staying away from ones I've noticed listed already (lots of ones I really love in Kosmonaut's list), Art Zoyd''s "Glissements Progressifs du Plaisir"" (30:42) from Haxan (though it may try your patience). And Jean-Paul Prat's Masal. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 14:47
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Alice's Restaurant. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: zoviet
Date Posted: June 03 2011 at 02:47
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yes i love this thread hahaha
Tortoise - Djed (from Millions Now Living Will Never Die)
Yes - Gates of Delirium (from Relayer)
Can - Bel Air (from Future Days)
Pink floyd - Echoes (from Meddle)
Kraftwerk - Autobahn (from Autobahn)
Miles Davis - He Loved Him Madly (from Get Up With It)
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Posted By: Lofcaudio
Date Posted: June 03 2011 at 20:31
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If you like epics, check out these three albums that involve Neal Morse:
One (The Creation and The Separated Man)
Sola Scriptura (The Door and The Conflict)
Bridge Across Forever (Duel with the Devil and Stranger in Your Soul)
Three albums...six outstanding epics.
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Posted By: Kallabow
Date Posted: June 04 2011 at 04:06
I add Hergest Ridge to this list. Another great one. ------------- 
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: June 04 2011 at 05:52
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A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers - Van Der Graaf Generator
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: June 04 2011 at 05:58
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: June 04 2011 at 06:01
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AND!!!!!!!
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Posted By: tupan
Date Posted: June 04 2011 at 10:52
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The Underfall Yard, from Big Big Train, is legally free for download here: http://www.bigbigtrain.com/downloads/index.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.bigbigtrain.com/downloads/index.html I recommend the song The Harvest, from Brighteye Brison. ------------- "Prog is Not Dead and never has been." (Will Sergeant, from Echo And The Bunnymen) |
Posted By: JoGideon
Date Posted: June 05 2011 at 00:38
Trace - King Bird from the album Birds |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: June 07 2011 at 09:25
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My new favorite epic is Seeds of Gold by Neal Morse on Testimony 2 Disc 2.....excellent. -------------   
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: June 07 2011 at 15:45
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Posted By: colorofmoney91
Date Posted: June 07 2011 at 15:58
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A lot of songs from Miles Davis' fusion albums are 20+ minutes in length, and they're all fantastic. ------------- http://hanashukketsu.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow - Hanashukketsu |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: June 07 2011 at 17:57
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Cassandra Gemini - The Mars Volta
The best way to spend 32 minutes.
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Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: June 07 2011 at 19:23
I would havbe to disagree with you. -------------   
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: June 07 2011 at 19:38
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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: June 07 2011 at 19:51
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So damn good- never gets old. ------------- |
Posted By: N-sz
Date Posted: June 08 2011 at 00:49
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vV7k5rqptY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vV7k5rqptY
Only almost 12 minutes, but it's an obscure, intense, and creepy song. I think it's great for either atmosphere or for getting into the details.
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Posted By: JS19
Date Posted: June 08 2011 at 04:18
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