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Favorite "epic" songs
Epic can mean anything you want it to.
Radiohead - Exit Music for a Film Animal Collective - In The Flowers Muse - Knights of Cydonia The Darkness - Get Your Hands Off Of My Woman (Motherfucker) Electric Six - Danger (High Voltage) M83 - We Own the Sky Sigur Ros - Olsen Olsen Deadmau5 - Strobe (epic build up) |
My Morning Jacket - Gideon
Kanye West - Can't Tell Me Nothing Kanye West - Lost in the Word |
Will even take metal songs as acceptable answers
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except epic can't mean anything people want it to, since it has, y'know, a definition. should've gone with a made-up word. otherwise, how are you accumulating anything other than a list of people's favourite songs, period? if epic doesn't mean the same thing to you as it does to me, then we're not really achieving anything here, are we?
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Nope, and I realize this thread is entirely irrelevant, but post your favorite epic songs
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Fine you fucking dick, post your favorite songs that have either epic climaxes, elicit powerful emotional responses using grandiose instrumentations, give you goosebumps, or just get you jacked to get your day going.
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one of my fav songs ever!
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One - Metallica
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Pink Floyd - Echoes
Dream Theater - Octavarium Transatlantic - Strange In Your Soul Symphony X - The Odyssey Genesis - Suppers Ready Rush - 2112 |
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Rockin' in The Free World - Neil Young |
A lot of these are not epic. How can epic mean anything you want? There has to be a definition here.
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Louie Louie. Man, Epic.
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Blue Murder - Valley Of The Kings
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POST ONLY ACTUAL EPIC SONGS |
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Was being "facetious" but hard to "convey" that over the internet.
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facesit this
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Pretty much any Dream Theater song that goes longer than ten minutes.
Pretty much any Symphony X song that goes longer than ten minutes. Pretty much any Prog song that goes longer than ten minutes to be honest. And this: <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/E4yjpT8dkLw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> |
Battles Atlas
Dan deacon wham city Sigur ros starflur There is a really good poptimist article about this |
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Lost in the World is just plain epic. I know it's cool to hate on Kanye, but he's one of the most universally acclaimed artists of the last decade, both critically and commercially. Don't you work for a music magazine? You should know that! |
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Possibly the most epic song of all time |
The obvious:
Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody Zep-Stairway, When the Levee Breaks, Kashmir, Battle of Evermore Floyd-Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Echoes, Dogs, One of These Days, Comfortably Numb Beatles-A Day in the Life Stones-You Can't Always Get What You Want, Sympathy For The Devil The Who-Won't Get Fooled Again, Who are You? Skynyrd-Free Bird Doors-The End Derek and the Dominoes-Layla Now for some others methinks are epic Yes-I've Seen All Good People Elton John-Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, Levon Iron Maiden-Run to the Hills Jimi Hendrix-Voodoo Chile, All Along the Watchtower Radiohead-Paranoid Android The Verve-Bittersweet Symphony Oasis-Champagne Supernova ACDC-Hells Bells Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin Genesis-Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Suppers Ready Nirvana-Smells Like Teen Spirit Pearl Jam- Jeremy, Do the Evolution Eagles-Hotel California Allman Bros-Whipping Post Rush-2112 G n R-November Rain, Don't Cry Metallica-Master of Puppets and because I'm getting bored with the the most epic song of all time is: The Dan Band-Total Eclipse of the Heart |
Whitesnake - Still Of The Night
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This is going to be a long list:
Gang Gang Dance - Glass Jar Slint - Good Morning Captain M83 - Car Chase Terror! Bibio - Pretentious Girls - Hellhole Ratrace Elk - Let's Get Married Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love For Planet Earth Fuck Buttons - Okay, Let's Talk About Magic Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar Flying Lotus - Galaxy in Janaki The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Gentle Sons Twin Shadow - Slow Radiohead - Last Flowers Radiohead - All I Need Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film) J Dilla - Stop Animal Collective - Cuckoo Cuckoo Sonic Youth - Providence Sonic Youth - Pink Stream Sonic Youth - 'Cross The Breeze Sonic Youth - Washing Machine Sonic Youth - Expressway To Yr Skull Joy Division - Ceremony Joy Division - Atmosphere Joy Division - Decades Animal Collective - Penny Dreadfuls Animal Collective - Visiting Friends Zola Jesus - Lightstick Arcade Fire - Headlights Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) Arcade Fire - No Cars Go Arcade Fire - Suburban War Pavement - Fillmore Jive The Avalanches - Since I Left You The Cure - Disintegration The Cure - Plainsong The Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me Xiu Xiu - Suha Pink Floyd - Echoes Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V) Pretty Girls Make Graves - Pyrite Pedestal Rilo Kiley - Asshole Death Cab For Cutie - We Laugh Indoors Explosions In The Sky - Glittering Blackness Explosions In The Sky - Magic Hours Explosions In The Sky - First Breath After Coma Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence Velvet Underground - Heroin DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World Broken Social Scene - KC Accidental Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Warrior Outkast - Da Art Of Storytellin (Part I) Crystal Antlers - Andrew |
Pretty much any Fuck Buttons songs like the end of the world
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lol
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That sounded like a 7 minute long intro to something TBH
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2:40 onward nigguh
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Forgot Sigur Ros - Untitled
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Shisen Posted my list for me.
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To get truly epic, you have to go back a bit...
* Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 * Tchaikovsky - Marche Slave * Verdi - Requiem Dies Irae Beats the fuck out of the Poo Fighters. |
Happy Birthday. FUCKING EPIC.
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Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland, Thunder Road or Backstreets
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M83 - My Tears Are Becoming A Sea
MOST EPIC EVER |
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NOVEMBER RAIN!
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Honestly the most overwhelming song of all time for me. If you haven't done psychedelics it might not hit home as much but holy christ I always feel like my mind is about to explode when it kicks in at 2:30 and builds thru the next minute.
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I love M83, but We Own the Sky.. Epic? Hmmm, I guess it is what you think that word means to you.
For me an epic song has to last a fair whack (5/6mins + ) and have to build into something magnificent. Everything going on sorta thing. Something like: <iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8cZGgtN42ns?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Beautiful |
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A Guitar And A Heart, Coloring The Void and By The Kiss could all be short M83 epics I guess.
I like this new album, but their last 4 beat it for me. Hurry Up, We're Dreaming is probably on par with Digital Shades Vol.1 or maybe slightly better. I've listened to them for so long, I know when I like an M83 straight off, others grow on me. Every M83 song has had it's chance to grow, so I'd prob say It's (for me) their 4th best album. Beating Digital Shades and M83 in hindsight. |
Intro to this song Don't Be Light by Air always makes me laugh. It's epic gone mad.
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You could argue that's "grand" not epic. It's what people think it means I guess Dr Knight. I mean, I use the word "epic" for things that in reality aren't. But that's the modern world.
The majority of classical music is epic in the natural musical sense of the word I suppose. But the 5/6 min thing? well, as I listed above, those M83 songs aren't above 5 mins. |
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Most classical music is not, realistically, "epic." The O Fortunas and Beethoven's Fifths tend to actually be few and far between, actually.
There really is no "natural musical sense," so I'm assuming that just means "whatever I want it to mean" as well. But that's cool if you want it to be that way. I just think it's silly to preclude something like O Fortuna as "epic" due to the length. I guess that's part of my definition. So I asked a question. |
I guess it depends on yr definition of "epic" and a typical characteristic of other "epic" art forms are that they are lengthy; namely poetry ("The Epics.")
Not that I necessarily agree that it's a necessary component in "genre-tizing" or characterizing a song. The M83 song I posted, for instance, is under 3 minutes, but is definitely "epic-sounding." I guess because it conjures up "epic" imagery. |
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I like it allooot! The beat is fucking sick to the next level. Die Antwoord's new album is gonna the shizz!! :p FOK THE SYSTEM! |
It depends on the person too for what images it conjours up. My mate loves Drake and Biggy, he keeps saying this and that about when he listens to music, I just don't get that though.
From what I've known growing up and seeing amongst elders and the media, generally epic is something that builds up and has shed loads going on. Orchestras, perhaps mazy guitars too in certain ways.... Most people who I know who like black metal describe it as epic metal to people who've perhaps head of Motorhead or something. I've heard one friend say Black metal is epic as it incorporates classical music at times, so obviously for him classical music is considered epic. As a child growing up and listen to a lot of classical music (which is totally out of the ordinary for where I grew up), I have to admit too that for me classical music = epic music most of the time. |
Along with the many definitions for epic, I also am a huge fan of songs that crossover into each other on an album. That being said.
[Avenged Sevenfold - I Won't See You Tonight Parts 1 & 2] Avenged Sevenfold - Sidewinder Avenged Sevenfold - Save Me [10 Years - Picture Perfect (In Your Eyes) 10 Years - All Your Lies] HIM - Sleepwalking Past Hope Shinedown - Lady So Divine Rush - La Villa Strangiato Metallica - The Call of Ktulu John Mayer - Out Of My Mind John Mayer - Covered In Rain [Evanescence - Tourniquet Evanescence - Imaginary] [Crossovers] |
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My fave track of all time!! MY NAME IS YOLANDI FUCKING VISSER! FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! GONNA KICK YOU IN THE TEETH HIT YOU ON THE HEAD WITH THE MIC!! Best lyric line ever. |
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