Epic Songs

[Mazey]

Eddie Hazel - RIP ...maggot brain , i still have the original vinyl lp....

 

[Tommyboy]

Joe Walsh- Life's Been Good.

I always loved cruising on the highway to this song, while smoking some weed or course.

 

[Bill]

Most Godspeed! You Black Emperor songs are pretty long, but this is one of my favorites: GYBE - "Storm"

That is a good song but I prefer The Dead Flag Blues

Dat Intro and outro

 

[Max Power]

Godspeed is the epitome of "epic" music, although I can only take so many twenty-minute long tracks with huge long climatic build ups before it wears on me. My favorite track off "Lift yr skinny fists" is Sleep. So good. And my favorite Godspeed track by far is Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls.

This is me every time it plays:

 

[MrGrunge]

^ Check out this fan-made video for Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls. Saw it for the first time on acid and it nearly destroyed me.

 

[|>R()|)!G/-\|_]

Faith No More - "Epic"

 

[RareForm]

m83 // Moonchild

A lot of post-rock bands have plentiful epic songs, I think that's kind of the point.

This Will Destroy You
Red Sparowes
Saxon Shore
And So I Watch You From Afar

I'm being really lazy right now. There are a lot more epic songs in my catalogue. I'll come back, I promise...

 

[Mysterie]

sigur ros - glosoli
the flaming lips - race for the prize
mogwai - glasgow mega snake
the pixies - where is my mind?
bright eyes - the calender hung itself

thats all that comes to mind atm

 

[Fixed5217]

sonic youth - the diamond sea
phish - mike's song
mogwai - mogwai fear satan
yo la tengo - hot chicken (1 or return)
Built to spill - carry the zero
Brian Jonestown massacre - Straight up and down

so many more; these are a few of the ones i've gravitated to recently

 

[ColtDan]

this is going down for me as an epic. its not quite an epic... but almost. definitely amazing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDI6HTR9arA&list=FLC--uZVwp7qLoKuU0unjPTA&index=1&feature=plpp_video

 

[Hardcoreprawn]

Jeff Buckley-Hallelujah

 

[shady4091]

I second Porcupine Tree's Voyage 34, especially Phase I

Psychedelic masterpiece beyond a doubt.

And, Fair to Midland - The Greener Grass

 

[IamMe90]

Anesthetize - Porcupine Tree

Octavarium - Dream Theater

Ghost of Perdition - Opeth


also Good Morning Captain is one of the best songs ever. Washer is also quite epic.. that ending, jesus.

 

[CoffeeDrinker]

Let's get some other stuff in here:

Iiit's Allll Riiight Ma......

 

[ashamedmommy]

Starshiptrooper: Yes
Tom Sawyer: Rush
Rocket Queen: Guns and Roses
terrapin station: Grateful Dead
Good good thing: Descendents
Just like heaven: the cure

Being a huge lover of music, I have many more...

 

[AndroidsDreamofBTC]

Massive Attack - Angel

 

[superelephant]

Maggot brain 2.0?

Three Days.

 

[Myshkin]

I don't venture into NEMD enough these days. Great thread, Jed. I can think of quite a few candidates but as it's thirty years since it came out then it'd be churlish of me to ignore:

Wipers - Youth Of America

Visceral, psychedelic and totally gripping. It's a shame Greg Sage is doing nothing but cruising in Phoenix these days.

The next one only comes in at six minutes so it won't meet some people's criteria but it's epic nonetheless:

Felt - She Lives By The Castle

That opening couplet ("How could you be so cold with me / When I have been so warm with you") gets me every time. It's not at all poetic, just plaintive and direct, and Lawrence's voice just reinforces it. And let's face it, we've all been there at least once, eh?

 

[Shameful]

The Velvet Underground - Sister Ray

and

Modest Mouse - The Stars are Projectors

 

[Shameful]

oh yeah and

Built to Spill & Caustic Resin - When Not Being Stupid Is Not Enough

or

Built to Spill & Caustic Resin - She's Real