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Favorite big piece of music...

Started by keyboardistmatt, Mon, 2005-10-03, 19:57:17

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What is your favorite big epic piece?

ARENA - "Solomon"
3 (10.7%)
ARENA - "Moviedrome"
9 (32.1%)
DREAM THEATER - "Learning To Live"
0 (0%)
DREAM THEATER - "A Change Of Seasons"
1 (3.6%)
GENESIS - "Supper's Ready"
4 (14.3%)
GENESIS - "Home By The Sea"
0 (0%)
IQ - "Harvest Of Souls"
1 (3.6%)
MARILLION - "Grendel"
1 (3.6%)
MARILLION - "House"
0 (0%)
PINK FLOYD - "Echoes"
2 (7.1%)
PINK FLOYD - "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
2 (7.1%)
RUSH - "2112"
0 (0%)
SYMPHONY X - "The Odyssey"
1 (3.6%)
THRESHOLD - "Critical Mass"
0 (0%)
TRANSATLANTIC - "Duel With The Devil"
0 (0%)
RICK WAKEMAN - "Out There"
0 (0%)
YES - "Close To The Edge"
3 (10.7%)
YES - "Awaken"
1 (3.6%)

Total Members Voted: 28

keyboardistmatt

Here is the 'Best Epic' poll!

Of course there are plenty of other tracks I could have put in here... I just decided not to! 

Each track clocks in at over 10 mins... that's why they are included, and tracks like "Comfortably Numb", "Stairway To Heaven", and "Bohemian Rapsody", etc... are not. :)

It seems a little obvious, maybe, that I'd choose "Moviedrome" here, but it is such a great track.  It doesn't sound the same all the way through.  There are lots of different textures, to keep me interested... (Example... "Tubular Bells" goes on, and on, and on...)
Anyway...

1 vote each then, here we go!
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Appelmoes??

Where are the other Dream Theater and Threshold pieces? :P
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PH

#2
Supper's Ready
Really!

That song is sooooo good. There's a lot to think about in that song.
It's the first epic I ever heard.
And I like songs with references to the Bible.

At the end, the climax is so well done! When the song ends I feel my body shake and the goosebumps are all over me.
Moviedrome is very good too. That song has very much different musical ways, but still manages to sound like 'one' song without sounding 'too long'. I think that's very difficult.

But Genesis is the Master of Prog, it's the norm of Prog. The setter of Prog. Prog begins with Genesis and ends with this very song 'Supper's Ready' by Genesis.


Sorry for my Genesisness. :)

Quote from: Appelmoes?? on Mon, 2005-10-03, 20:04:51
Where are the other Dream Theater and Threshold pieces? :P

Something I'd like to know.
Octavarium is one of my favourites too.

1. Supper's Ready
2. Moviedrome
3. Octavarium

Yes Sir! ;)

Wilford Jr.

I'm going to have to think about this one for awhile before voting.  There are just too many good songs listed here, such as Moviedrome, 2112, Super's Ready, etc.  Maybe we should ahve gotten 2 or 3 votes! ;D
No longer feeling anything
Fading fast
Nothing lasts
Beyond the waking hour

Wilford Jr.

I'm going to have to think about this one for awhile before voting.  There are just too many good songs listed here, such as Moviedrome, 2112, Super's Ready, etc.  Maybe we should ahve gotten 2 or 3 votes! ;D
No longer feeling anything
Fading fast
Nothing lasts
Beyond the waking hour

Appelmoes??

Oh, I voted for Moviedrome, that song just does more to me than the other songs in the list I know.
But I can name other songs that I like even more.

Octavarium - DT
The Great Debate - DT
Narciccus - Threshold
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erik

Awaken !! Brilliant, especially the live version on Keys To Asencension.

Honourable mention for Rocking Horse (20:00 mins.) by Australian prog band Aragon.

Regarding the list:  Marillion's House seems an odd choice (in this context, love the song), shouldn't it be either Interior Lulu, or The Invisible Man or This Strange Engine ? And, some Spock's Beard maybe?

@PH: no need to apologise for 'Genesisness', that's a good trait  ::)
We stare at our screens
All our lives
What a waste of eyes..

Peter

Hmmm, Moviedrome, quite clearly for me.
Arriving somewhere, but not here....

keyboardistmatt

Quote from: Appelmoes?? on Mon, 2005-10-03, 20:04:51
Where are the other Dream Theater and Threshold pieces? :P

The answer lies within my first post in this poll...  ;)
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keyboardistmatt

Quote from: Wilford Jr. on Mon, 2005-10-03, 20:15:41
I'm going to have to think about this one for awhile before voting.  There are just too many good songs listed here, such as Moviedrome, 2112, Super's Ready, etc.  Maybe we should ahve gotten 2 or 3 votes! ;D

At this stage that may not be fair on those who have already cast their votes.  I'm not sure they can vote again! :-\
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Wilford Jr.

Though I will try not to let others' opinions sway me, perhaps you are right.  I was leaning toward "Moviedrome" but I will abstain from voting.
No longer feeling anything
Fading fast
Nothing lasts
Beyond the waking hour

JJ II


CygnusX1

Has to be 'Close to the Edge' out of that lot.

I agree the Cinema Show is right up there, though I'd nominate the live version on Seconds Out.

As for 'House', are you sure you aren't getting it mixed up with 'Interior Lulu'?  The latter is fantastic, the former - well it's just the noise at the end of .com. ;D

keyboardistmatt

There... changed "House" to "Interior Lulu".

...And no. I will NOT be changing ANYTHING else!

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CygnusX1

Hehe, I should have added of course that that's only my opinion. ;D

Moonloop

Too many choices, only one vote  >:(

Went for Echoes in the end  8)
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erik

Quote from: CygnusX1 on Tue, 2005-10-04, 00:50:11
Hehe, I should have added of course that that's only my opinion. ;D
Just in time!!  ;)
House is a beautiful song in my opinion  :)
We stare at our screens
All our lives
What a waste of eyes..

Spad

... I voted for Harvest Of Souls...... I listen to it one time a day since I got the album more than one year ago and I'm not yet bored of it!!!!! I think the ending is one of the most beautiful piece of music I've ever listen.......

But the band I really miss in this poll is The Flower Kings!!!! Where are they!! Almost all of their material is composed by epics!! In my humble opinion, The Truth Will Set You Free is by far the best epic of all epics I've ever listened to....... I've also had the honour to attend 2 of their concerts and in both case I was astonished about how they could reproduce The Truth live as well (and maybe even better) as in the studio..... FANTASTIC!!!

... and let us not forget "Back In The World Of Adventures", "Garden Of Dreams" and the more recent "Love Supreme" and "Drivers Seat"......

Anyone agrees???
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keyboardistmatt

Quote from: Moonloop on Tue, 2005-10-04, 08:29:06
Too many choices, only one vote  >:(

That's the beauty of this poll... you can choose only one! ;)
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keyboardistmatt

Quote from: erik on Tue, 2005-10-04, 10:00:06
Just in time!!  ;)
House is a beautiful song in my opinion  :)

I don't believe it!

I changed it to "Interior Lulu" and there's no votes!

It's back to "House" and that's where it's staying! ;D
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CygnusX1

Quote from: keyboardistmatt on Tue, 2005-10-04, 15:57:35
I don't believe it!

I changed it to "Interior Lulu" and there's no votes!


I would have, but I'd already voted. :(

May be you should try 'This Strange Engine'. ;) ;D

keyboardistmatt

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PH

Still no-one else who voted for the magnificent "Supper's Ready" by GENESIS... :'(
It's a very good song...

I know this is an Arena forum so I know that either Moviedrome or Solomon will come out as "The Best".
Which is no problem of course.

But the mighty GENESIS deserves more than one vote really.

Teunis

I voted for 'Moviedrome' although I'm now getting into IQ. Dark Matter is a great album and 'Harvest of souls' would be the other option. I just ordered 'The Seventh House', the album before 'Dark Matter'.
'I will surrender my heart to the sky
Oh, our love doesn't end here, it lives forever on the wings of time'
-------------------------------------------------------
Toto - Wings of time (Kingdom of Desire)

Spad

Quote from: Teunis on Tue, 2005-10-04, 18:41:27
.... I just ordered 'The Seventh House', the album before 'Dark Matter'.

... and it'll be worth the money you spent!!!! Wonderful, a real masterpiece, IMO even better than subterranea. If we are talking about epics, here we can find one of the IQ's best, the title track!!!!!! But there are also other great track as, for example, Guiding Light above the others....... Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful,  ;D ;D ;D

Good listening!!!
Does it to matter to you?
In the lions' cage we're all the same.