Epic Songs

[Canty]

This is a slightly drunken post but anyway.

Meatloaf (is it one word or two?). Anyway I always used to think he was some Opera type faggot. Well I've just been listening to "I would do Anything for Love" four times in a row (nearly an hour) and I have completely changed my view on him. I know that this is one of his most recognised songs but fuck me it is a masterpiece. I love it when I am proven wrong by an artist and this is up there with Guns N' Roses and Lynyrd Skynryrd (who I am now massive fans of).

The basis of this thread is to A) grovel at the feet of Metaloaf for some fucking amazing songs and:

B) What other "epic" songs are there? They might be by artists you have always liked, have recently discovered or artists you have changed your mind about after listening to their songs. Please contribute to this thread with whatever suggestions you have.

So far the one's I have come across in the past couple of years are and are good to chill out to are:

Lynyrd Skynryd - Free Bird (Long Version)
Meatloaf - Bat out of hell (long)
Meatloaf - I Would do Anything for Love (love)
Metallica - One (I was never keen on it at first)
Guns N' Roses - Coma (fantastic)

Now your turn.

[Daucus Karota]

Mayhem-Chainsaw Gutsfuck

[Canty]

I forgot to add:

A) By good bands
B) not some reference by some ripped-condom spunkjob

[snyderman]

Guns - November Rain
Estranged

Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vida


Really tho, Metallica "One" is the only true answer.

[Daucus Karota]

I forgot to add:

A) By good bands
B) not some reference by some ripped-condom spunkjob
that means you do not qualify for your own thread

[Solaris]

I used never to like Opeth, but their song 'Reverie/Harlequin Forest' really got me into them.

[camjoe87]

Led Zeppelin - Achille's Last Stand

Marillion - Interior Lulu, Ocean Cloud

Transatlantic - Stranger in your soul

Pink Floyd - Dogs

All pretty epic songs. And probably my favorite songs pushing 10 minutes or over 10 minutes. Great composition in all of them. Some nice time changes in quite a few, and very noticeable changes in the music over the course of the song, just so it doesn't get boring.

[Deadsoul]

Hey Canty, I agree with you on Skynryd and Metallica, but the Loaf? And of all songs "I would do Anything for Love"? I hate that song more than I hate bleeding.

Free Bird on the other hand is one of the best drinking songs ever!

[Pat The Baker]

Jason Becker - End Of The Beginning

[BrainStew]

Suicidal Tendencies - "You Can't Bring Me Down"
Iron Maiden - "Hallowed Be Thy Name"
Iron Maiden - "Infinite Dreams"
and pretty much anything else by Maiden.

[wrathchild]

Iced Earth - Dante's Inferno
Amon Amarth - The Dragon's Flight Across the Waves
Candlemass - The Sorceror's Pledge (and a lot of other C-mass songs)
Helloween - Halloween
Iron Maiden - To Tame a Land, Rime of the Ancient Mariner etc.
Mekong Delta - Dances of Death
Professor Plum - Eye
Quo Vadis - On the Shores of Ithaka
Tool - Lateralus, Eulogy

[asdfkjhg]

Bathory - Blood Fire Death

[CheeseMonkeys]

Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand
The solo in that song is eeeeepppppiiiiccc.

[led_head]

I'm gonna have to agree with Achilles Last Stand, but I think Carouselambra by Led Zeppelin is an epic song that doesn't get enough credit.

I think the Odyssey by Symphony X and Octavarium by Dream Theater are some pretty epic songs as well.

[sublimej311]

The Who - Baba O'Riley
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Foo Fighters - Comeback
Type O Negative - Christian Woman
Creedance Clearwater Revival - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Hurt - House Carpenter
Smashing Pumpkins - Silverfuck
Foghat - Slow Ride
Sugarloaf - Green-Eyed Lady
Mother Love Bone - Chloe Dancer
Avenged Sevenfold - I Won't See You Tonight (Part 1)
Ted Nugent - Strangle Hold
Green Day - Jesus Of Suburbia
Radiohead - Paranoid Android

Estranged is my favorite though.

Snyderman, It's "Quinton" Jackson. Didn't you have
Clinton before?

[ThePope]

Hey Canty, I agree with you on Skynryd and Metallica, but the Loaf? And of all songs "I would do Anything for Love"? I hate that song more than I hate bleeding.

Free Bird on the other hand is one of the best drinking songs ever!

Well, I don't know about "I would do anything for Love", but "Bat Out of Hell" is fucking epic.

[puppetmasterjjk]

the ultimate WoW nerd epic song is that fire and flames song by dragon pewpz

[melodeathpwns]

Turisas-Battle Metal

[snyderman]

Snyderman, It's "Quinton" Jackson. Didn't you have
Clinton before?

Holy Crap!!! I cant believe I did that! Its always been that way, I wouldnt flub it as bad as clinton. :redface:

[MoDilly]

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Dream
Tool - Third Eye
Bucket of Bernie Brains - Elephant Ghost
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
Zeppelin - The Rain Song
Oceansize - Catalyst, Massive Bereavement, Women Who Love Men Who Do Drugs
Smashing Pumpkins - Silverfuck
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Will You Smile Again?

Too tired to list more.

[DerekSmalls]

Turisas-Battle Metal

Awesome song, but I would say Rex Regi Rebellis was more epic.....

[nOrAin]

The Allman Brothers -Midnight Rider
America -A Horse With No Name
Bad Company -Shooting Star
The Beatles -While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The Clash -London Calling
Cream -Crossroads
Derek and the Dominos -Layla
Dio -Holy Diver
Dire Straits -Sultans of Swing
The Doobie Brothers -Jesus Is Just Alright
The Doors -Love Her Madly
Edgar Winter Group -Frankenstein
Iron Maiden -Run To The Hills
Jefferson Airplane -White Rabbit
Jimi Hendrix -All Along The Watchtower
Kansas -Carry On My Wayward Son
Led Zeppelin -Since Ive Been Loving You
Lynyrd Skynyrd -Tuesdays Gone
Manfred Mann -Blinded By The Light
Megadeth -A Tout Le Monde
Metallica -One
Neil Young -Keep On Rockin In The Free World
Oasis -Wonderwall
Ozzy -Bark At The Moon
Pantera -Cemetery Gates
Peter Frampton -Do You Feel Like We Do
Pink Floyd -Learning To Fly
The Police -Dont Stand So Close To Me
Queen -Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen and David Bowie -Under Pressure
Radiohead -How To Disappear Completely
Red Hot Chili Peppers -Under The Bridge
The Rolling Stones -Angie
Rush -2112
Rush -Tom Sawyer
Slightly Stoopid -Closer To The Sun
Soundgarden -Black Hole Sun
Ted Nugent -Stranglehold
Tool -Third Eye
Tool -Jimmy
U2 -Sunday Bloody Sunday
The Who -Baba OReily

[Sc(+)pe]

Cradle Of Filth - Hallowed by thy name. Much more epic than Iron.

[GlutSow]

Rage Against The Machine - Wake Up
Tenacious D - Tribute
Aesop Rock - Daylight
Cage - Shoot Frank
Jedi Mind Tricks ft. Tha GZA - On the Eve of War
Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks
Queen - pretty much anything
Atmosphere - Always Coming Back Home to You

[Avo]

If any of you are unaware of King Crimson music, go now, buy an album and listen to them, their music are fucking epic. I'm talking about 7-10min songs, it's orgasmic.

[The Beetus]

John Scatman - I'm a scatman

Dream Theater - Octavarium

Alice in Chains - Rotten Apple

Brand New - Limosuine

Forgive Durden - For dreamers, nights the only time of day

Liquid Tension Experiment - When the water breaks

Phish - The Divided Sky, David Bowie

Saosin - I never wanted to

Steve Vai - Tender Surrender, Call it Sleep

Symphony X - Smoke and Mirrors, In the Dragon's Den, Church of the Machine

The Dear Hunter - 1878

The Receiving End of Sirens - (practically any of their songs)

[esruC]

Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
Pink Floyd - Echoes, Dogs, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pigs
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
Bob Dylan - Desolation Row
Iron Maiden - Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

[ESP83]

off the top of my head, Coheed and Cambria "in keeping secrets of silent earth 3", the song they normally open with

[BiteMe]

Dissection- Where Dead Angels Lie. It really is one of the best written pieces of music ever. Anyone that likes metal needs to check it out. It will have you headbanging in no time.

[melodeathpwns]

^ That song is great. I like "Thorns of crimson Death" alot better though....

[Davemeistro]

Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Mercyful Fate - Satan's Fall
Stratovarius - Destiny
Cacophony - Speed Metal Symphony
Iced Earth - Travel in Stygian
Nile - User ~ Maat ~ Re
Helloween - The Dark Ride
Marty Friedman - The Forbidden City

[Fungus Amungus]

Anything Tool
Anything Massive Attack

[saosinnn]

Pinback - Grey Machine

awesome song

10+ minutes long.

also "Mr. Brightside (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Mix)" by the Killers.

[liam shart]

contravene - prison sells
dragonforce - through the fire and the flames
x fight everyone x - the anthem

[Led Zep]

Pink Floyd- Dogs fuckin great guitar/lyrics
Pink Floyd- Echoes great song
Pink Floyd- Shine on You Crazy Diamond
Rush- 2112
Allman Brothers Band- Moutain Jam

[Pabst13]

Pink Floyd- Dogs fuckin great guitar/lyrics
Pink Floyd- Echoes great song
Pink Floyd- Shine on You Crazy Diamond
Rush- 2112
Allman Brothers Band- Moutain Jam

love it 2112 is sick but i would have to say the most epic as in everyone knows what it is or a very well written song would be

Eric Clapton - Layla
Tool - Schism their most well known but everything they wrote is epic to me
Rush - YYZ or Overture, Tom Sawyer, whatever anything holla

[P0iletTaper]

Death in Fire by Amon Amarth

[dark_lotus_999]

Sugarloaf - Green-Eyed Lady
That's an awesome song

[melodeathpwns]

ANY song from Moonsorrow. Here's an example of their epicness:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgKEFjNx68o

[stilllife]

Mayhem-Chainsaw Gutsfuck

Congratulations, maybe some PFA to scrape even further down the barrel.

There's plenty of epic songs.

Achilles last Stand by Zeppelin

Black Rose by Thin Lizzy

The groan of Wind by Kalmah

Sleeping Murder by Shape of Despair

Pretty much a majority of songs you'll find from Yes are epic

Agonies of Fallen grace by Old Man's Child

[Daucus Karota]

it was a joke you brown trench coat wearing with a Led Zeppelin record under your arm dinosaur

[Ra at Dusk]

Isis - Carry
Pelican - NightEndDay
Meshuggah - Catch 33