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

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?

Nope, and I realize this thread is entirely irrelevant, but post your favorite epic songs

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.

one of my fav songs ever!

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Yes

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(ignore the whack video)

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One - Metallica

Love how the flow of that song goes.

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.

see, spilchuk knows. i wasn't being a dick, i was just legitimately bewildered as to how 'epic' suddenly means anything people want it to. way to overreact and be a buzzkill buzzkill.

Louie Louie. Man, Epic.

Blue Murder - Valley Of The Kings

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I was pumped for this thread when I read the title but it is "brtl" now.

POST ONLY ACTUAL EPIC SONGS

Pretty sure he didn't mean literally anything. What people consider "epic" can range a lot. There is no exact definition of what an "epic" song exactly is, what

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:shifty:

if you can explain to me how everlong or anything kanye west has written is in any way "epic", then maybe i'll concede.

Was being "facetious" but hard to "convey" that over the internet.

facesit this

:yes: to the entire list. :yes:

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:

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Battles Atlas
Dan deacon wham city
Sigur ros starflur
There is a really good poptimist article about this

Can't Tell Me Nothing is pure epic arena rap

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!

Dickface my definition is not even four posts above yours. Pay attention!!

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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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That sounded like a 7 minute long intro to something TBH

2:40 onward nigguh

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Forgot Sigur Ros - Untitled