Epic songs

I was wondering what other epic long songs are out there. I was listening to "rime of the ancient mariner" by iron maiden and it made me want more. heres some that come to my mind. if you got more, pllease add to the list.

Halloween - Helloween
Inna godda da vida - Iron butterfly
Thick as a brick - Jethro tull
keeper 1 & 2 - Helloween


more plz

 

Tales from Topographic Oceans by Yes has four songs on it that are about 20 minutes a piece.

The Velvet Underground's "Sister Ray" is 17:27 or so, but there is a live version that tops 35 minutes.

Eh, there are a bunch of 'epic' songs out there. Most bands seem to have at least one.

 

progarchives.com
Progressive rock. The songs range from about five minutes to a couple hours apiece. check it out.

 

echoes -- pink floyd

atom heart mother -- pink floyd

shine on you crazy diamond (I - IX) -- pink floyd

dogs -- pink floyd

pigs (three different ones) -- pink floyd

sheep -- pink floyd

thick as a brick -- jethro tull

nine feet underground -- caravan

when the music's over -- the doors

the end -- the doors

to live is to die -- metallica

and justice for all - metallica

disposable heroes -- metallica

master of puppets -- metallica

orion -- metallica

call of ktulu -- metallica


there are many many more....... Im a huge fan of epic songs.... I usually consider a song an epic if its pushing 10 minutes or more...... anything from 8 - 40 minutes

 

Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
Chameleon - Herbie Hancock
Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord - John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana

 

yeah, there are ALL kinds of them out there, but these two popped in my head:

Whipping Post - Allman Brothers
Mountain Jam - Allman Brothers

 

I love epic songs sometimes. Most of the time it's classical music or heavy or power metal songs.

Some of my favourites:
Dominé - The eternal champion
Drakkar - Until the end
Grave Digger - Rebellion (the clans are marching)
Rhapsody - Emerald sword
Therion - To mega therion

Also the album Stronghold by Summoning is full of epic black metal (altough so melodic it's not really black metal anymore) and one of my favourite albums in this genre.

 

harry hood- phish
the divided sky- phish
you enjoy myself- phish
and alot of other phish songs
like a rolling stone- bob dylan (not that long but it most definately is epic)

 

Guyute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PHISH

 

Dream Theater - Change of Seasons.

 

The Decemberists - The Tain

 

Sleep - Dopesmoker

It is an album, but it's just one long song (I think anyway, correct me if i'm wrong)

 

Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin :H

What a monster of a song!

There's also:
No Quarter
Kashmir
Dazed & Confused

Of course, when those songs were played live, they became 'epic' on a grandiose scale..

 

Great album, just like Jerusalem. But I wouldn't call it really epic.

 

Manowar - Achilles, Agony & Ectasy in 8 Parts - 28:37

 

Great song/album!

Robert Rich's Somnium is 7 hours long, and only available in DVD format. Maybe not "epic" in the grand sense of the word, but still...
http://www.robertrich.com/rrsomnium.html

 

Woohoo!

When linking the word "epic" with music, I think of a certain feel to the music, an ambiance of timelessness. I prefer my music to be epic in this sense, and luckily there's some quite great long songs that sound like this.

My favourites:

Iced Earth - Dante's inferno (Rather dark heavy metal; ca 17 min)
My Dying Bride - Crown of sympathy (Doom metal; ca 12 min)
My Dying Bride - The cry of mankind (Doom metal; ca 12 min)
Mourning Beloveth - Dust (Doom/death metal; ca 14 min)
Shape of Despair - Still-motion (Funeral doom metal; ca 16 min)
Manowar - Achilles, agony and extasy in eight parts (Pretentious yet enjoyable heavy metal, ca 28 min)

There's more, I'll edit when more come to mind.

 

Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie

 

"Slip Inside This House"

 

Oh yeah. How could i not have thought of ths song. its one of my favs