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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: MDV on September 04, 2010, 10:04:28 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2U4A5pB97I
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Any other takers?
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that can't be epic, it's not power metal on about dragons and all that other "epic" rubbish
absolute love this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSYNhfkNGco
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quite epic mdv, great guitar counterpoint, but not as epic as
http://www.youtube.com/v/JTD1QW3SM60?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1-a_81Kqr8
Trial - Reflections
epic up yer arse!
EDIT: Had to add the lyrics...
the wreckage of humanity has been strewn across the land
and now the hour of desperation is at hand
we the maggots feed off the dead
seeking solace in a bed of broken glass
we bleed infected water
beneath bright skins of polished steel
through empty, yearning, starved and frustrated hearts
which long for risk and reason
this is a standard and sterile half-life to lead
empty facades conceal slow decay
within these new dark ages which breed discontent
to give up all hope to see the dawn
reveals a victims face beneath the veneer
struggling to show that it's been wronged
led astray by the myths of the father
with acient wounds often ignored
fighting for scr@ps from the table
while slowly we rot on the floor
struggling for balance amid these unholy lies
reflecting terror and chaos
we are born into suffering
with constructs, icons, idols and eyes
which manifest and forecast our fear of our own demise
but on the eve of the apocalypse
you can burn these words into my flesh:
"we are the tortured and insane disillusioned and mundane
unknown and unnamed desperate and enslaved
and we want something more"
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Four versions of the "Most Epic Song":
1. Couldn't find complete footage of him performing it, but this is the definitive and "original" version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wadrAU6baV0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wadrAU6baV0)
2. Or you can have the songwriter himself singing it in 1999 (not much of singer, but a fine ivory-tickler):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slAzJ19abww (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slAzJ19abww)
3. This is quite a monster version in a medley by a much better singer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIqgeUKr9Gg&feature (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIqgeUKr9Gg&feature=related)
4. And here's a version by one of my all-time-favourite singers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7nhSclIEYM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7nhSclIEYM)
There's loads of other versions about (if you want the 70/80s version by that disco woman... search for it yourself...).
Anyway, the search for "Most Epic Song" is over, no-one's ever gonna top this beauty... :lol:
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the new heathen is indeed pretty great huh!
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How are we defining "epic"? On a grand scale? Going through multiple "movements"? Or just long and/or pompous?
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How are we defining "epic"? On a grand scale? Going through multiple "movements"? Or just long and/or pompous?
I didnt really have a defintion in mind, but to me its a song that sounds sort of big and grand and sweeping. Doesnt really matter how complex it is, and longer is better but not a requisite.
Why, what does 'epic' mean to you? All the above?
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How are we defining "epic"? On a grand scale? Going through multiple "movements"? Or just long and/or pompous?
I didnt really have a defintion in mind, but to me its a song that sounds sort of big and grand and sweeping. Doesnt really matter how complex it is, and longer is better but not a requisite.
Why, what does 'epic' mean to you? All the above?
Just wondering - I mean sometimes people say "epic" when all they mean is "good". I think I agree with your definition.
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Just wondering - I mean sometimes people say "epic" when all they mean is "good"
Dang kids!
My favourite "epic" tunes are probably doom or black metal tunes. Or ludicrous 70's prog like Magma, come to think about it.
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The first thing that sprang to mind was Dopesmoker by Sleep.
(Maybe staggered rather than sprang)
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Pretty much all of Yes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zul3CkreL8
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candlemass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3uvf0cn0jo
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Metallica's Orion will always be Epic in my mind
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I didnt really have a defintion in mind, but to me its a song that sounds sort of big and grand and sweeping.
Epic and sweeping...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVCiggfDMWY
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I didnt really have a defintion in mind, but to me its a song that sounds sort of big and grand and sweeping.
Epic and sweeping...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVCiggfDMWY
Pretentious and annoying.
Orion is epic though!
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For most epic I think I'd have to choose:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAzdgU_kpGo&ob=av3n
Extra raving fantasy Tolkein bonus points in this live video for Jimmy Page actually looking just like Gollum.
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Epic!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Ww_GhGAB0
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yoABwIlX3s&ob=av2e (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yoABwIlX3s&ob=av2e)
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Metallica's Orion will always be Epic in my mind
+1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-EXt3FG8NM
then
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzWY1-Yiulg
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C2MVJMvuHI
Oh yes.
Edit: Orion's a pretty nice call.
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i hope this counts as epic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhH65LQ6ehQ
edit: smooth strings, big schenker lead. defo epic
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Here's a real epic :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UTQdtcgOkA
Great lyrics!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6IPBN6ARkE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6IPBN6ARkE)
\m/\m/
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6IPBN6ARkE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6IPBN6ARkE)
\m/\m/
I haven't clicked, it's Stargazer, isn't it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twdSq22pDzo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twdSq22pDzo)
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Gossamer by the mighty Smashing Pumpkins surely qualifies for this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CpsHvaSoxU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjRFzZW_3Xc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYoRYxBF8CY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6lgUs1hT7c
Absolute highlight of the "If All Goes Wrong" DVD. and people had the NERVE to leave during this song when they did the Filmore residency in 2007. Maybe there wasn't enough talk of rats in cages for those people. Probably my favourite thing the Pumpkins have done since Billy resurrected the band in 2007 with a new line-up. Up there with the Mellon Collie-era versions of "Silverf***".
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6IPBN6ARkE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6IPBN6ARkE)
\m/\m/
I haven't clicked, it's Stargazer, isn't it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twdSq22pDzo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twdSq22pDzo)
Of course :) The track that invented epicness IMO.
I'll add this to the mix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjQ6no6PUm0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjQ6no6PUm0)
I'll add these guys to the mix, who I actually though were the other guys the first time I heard them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0FjGFayAAE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0FjGFayAAE) lol that the whole track (all 3 parts) doesn't fit in a youtube clip
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I didnt really have a defintion in mind, but to me its a song that sounds sort of big and grand and sweeping.
Epic and sweeping...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVCiggfDMWY
Pretentious and annoying.
Orion is epic though!
what about this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhInUrdOAjA
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Its long, and at least parts of it are better than I remember scar symmetry being
But its not epic.
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To fully qualify as epic, one has to make use of uilleann pipes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyJEytBlp1I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyJEytBlp1I)
Oh, and the video has to be REALLY naff, and contain Nasir from Robin of Sherwood.
Mark.
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Its long, and at least parts of it are better than I remember scar symmetry being
But its not epic.
*wubs scar symmetry* no pleasing some people ;)