EPIC songs - please help!

[sonic_happiness]

Howdy folks,

I'm after some recommendations for really epic, massive-sounding songs that I may not have heard of that I should get off my ass and download.

If you're wondering what I'm talking about, I'm thinking tunes along the lines of 'Valkyrie Missile' by Angels and Airwaves.

I know, i'm not the biggest fan of the band either, let alone Delonge's whiney vocals, but that song is probably the best example of what I'm after.

I'm talking about the way it builds and builds, from the slow-burning, synth-heavy intro to the huge, anthemic crescendo that kicks in around the six-minute mark.

Hopefully that makes sense! Please, recommend away. Genre is irrelevant - punk, rock, pop, indie, hardcore, whatever. The bigger and more epic, the better.

Many thanks to all in advance!

X

[Regards]

I have a feeling you'd love Explosions In The Sky - All Of The Sudden I Miss Everyone. Yes, the whole album.

[Jaimehere]

Black Rose Immortal by Opeth-20 MINUTE PROGRESSIVE DEATH METAL lol makes your ears tired xD

and when i think of epic i have one band in mind... AMON AMARTH

also try some Folk Metal bands like Turisas, Ensiferum and Finntroll

[kianacarly]

When I think of epic songs, I think of Muse.

[fanberlinboy]

(*Fin), The Haunting, Dance Dance Christa Paffgen - Anberlin
23 - Jimmy Eat World
Everything Must Go - Taking Back Sunday]
Daisy - Switchfoot

Those come to mind right now.

[dancelukedance]

Mastodon

[Jaimehere]

Mastodon

especially songs on their new album and especially on the song The Last Baron @_@

[dancelukedance]

especially songs on their new album and especially on the song The Last Baron @_@


Yea crack the skye is fucking awesome and the epitome of 'Epic'

[mycuban]

Boys Night Out- the closers on all their albums
Coheed and Cambria- just listen to all of em
As Cities Burn- Contact, Timothy
Brand New- Limousine, Luca
Built to Spill- Alot of the songs on You In Reverse
Manchester Orchestra- Where Have You Been, Colly Strings
Mewithoutyou- In A Sweater Poorly Knit

[Chop[chop]]

Manchester Orchestra- Where Have You Been, Colly Strings


These aren't necessarily my favourites, but as mycuban said:
Where Have You Been - Manchester Orchestra
Colly Strings - Manchester Orchestra

I'd add (sticking to a similar genre):
Pride - Manchester Orchestra
The River - Manchester Orchestra
Oh Comely - Neutral Milk Hotel
Limousine (MS Rebridge) - Brand New.

[Metal Now]

Boys Night Out- the closers on all their albums
Coheed and Cambria- just listen to all of em
As Cities Burn- Contact, Timothy
Brand New- Limousine, Luca
Built to Spill- Alot of the songs on You In Reverse
Manchester Orchestra- Where Have You Been, Colly Strings
Mewithoutyou- In A Sweater Poorly Knit

All of these, I came in here to say "Welcome Home" by Coheed is a tune.

[joeag1985]

Vheissu by Thrice. An album of epic proportions from start to finish.

[WordzandDreamz]

I have a feeling you'd love Explosions In The Sky - All Of The Sudden I Miss Everyone. Yes, the whole album.

def. came in here to post this.

[pleasedontask]

Transatlantiscm - Death Cab For Cutie
Where The Streets Have No Name/With or Without You- U2

As well as alot of the songs on Razia's Shadow.

[nikaidoh]

Glenn Branca, "Lesson No. 1 For Electric Guitar" Experimental/No Wave
Mogwai, "Mogwai Fear Satan" Post-Rock
Yo La Tengo, "Night Falls On Hoboken" Post-Rock
Slint, "Good Morning, Captain" Post-Rock
Yes, "Siberian Khatru" Progressive-Rock
Velvet Underground, "Heroin" Avant-Garde Rock
Chick Corea/Return To Forever, "Crystal Silence" Jazz
Keith Jarrett, "Ritooria" Jazz
Grateful Dead, "Jack Straw (live in paris 1972" Rock


I hope these songs are what you're looking for, and if not, I hope you enjoy them anyways.

[SLoT]

Classical music.

[SandManTEND13]

The Final Countdown- Europe!! :)
I am a fan of Muse really I fell like

[FullCollaspe]

Arcade Fire- No Cars Go

[Chop[chop]]

Vaka - Sigur Ros.

[briewer]

Sigur Rós in general.

[briewer]

Classical music.
Yes. Classical music is mad epic. I don't know why nobody really appreciates it.

[micahistheballs]

Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada

[danielineffigy]

sum 41 - A.N.I.C.

[SLoT]

Yes. Classical music is mad epic. I don't know why nobody really appreciates it.

Oh they do, just not really in America, and definitley not on AP for the most part.

[briewer]

Oh they do, just not really in America, and definitley not on AP for the most part.
Those were kind of the two demographics I was referring to.

[maxvsmaradona]

Red Sky by Thrice

[SLoT]

Those were kind of the two demographics I was referring to.
Right. haha, well then... I'm not sure why they don't appreciate it, it's probably because popular music has been programmed into the mass majority for a while now.

[makeshiftmind]

The Flatliners - K.H.T.D.R.

[bowl of oranges]

Sonic Youth- "Teen Age Riot"

[maxvsmaradona]

Also, Untitled 05 by Brand New

[Brokenhill]

Pink Floyd:

"Atom Heart Mother"
"Echoes"
"Careful With that Axe, Eugene"
"One of These Days" (A mini-epic)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "Storm"

Rush - "2112"

[DejaNew]

Transatlantiscm - Death Cab For Cutie
Where The Streets Have No Name/With or Without You- U2

As well as alot of the songs on Razia's Shadow.
What? Not exactly epic haha.

[apegutt_90]

Jimmy Eat World - Just Watch the Fireworks

[anthonydarko]

Anything by Emperor will do.

[chipdip18]

Europe - The Final Countdown




End the thread now.

[ThePartialGlow]

Radiohead - Let Down

[Chris Reynolds]

I have a feeling you'd love Explosions In The Sky - All Of The Sudden I Miss Everyone. Yes, the whole album.

Wow, very rarely do I enter a thread and the first reply is what I was going to say. This album is the perfect example of epic

[Regards]

Wow, very rarely do I enter a thread and the first reply is what I was going to say. This album is the perfect example of epic
:thumbup:

[Chris Reynolds]

Especially Birth and Death of the Day...that song gets me everytime

[WhitestKidUKnow]

bowie - space oddity.

[StormSnares]

Wake up - arcade fire
red sky - thrice
interlude 2.0 - the graduate

[Thesleepingwell]

These are some of my personal favourite 'epic' songs:

NOFX - The Decline (1 song - 21 mins long)
Type O Negative - World Coming Down
Santana - Black Magic Woman
Machine Head - Blood Of The Zodiac
The Smashing Pumpkins - Soma
Type O Negative - These Three Things
The Smashing Pumpkins - Starla
Paramore - Let The Flames Begin (Live version from The Final Riot!)
Iron Maiden - The Legacy
Sepultura - Endangered Speices

[mattmatumbo]

I have a feeling you'd love Explosions In The Sky - All Of The Sudden I Miss Everyone. Yes, the whole album.

In fact most of their music is based around crescendos so all of EITS would be good.

These songs are all done with great crescendos.

"...In 2050, When We Know We'll All Be Dead Anyway"- Because of Ghosts
The Battle of Mont Royal- Because of Ghosts
The Bending- Hopesfall
Freedom Blade- This Will Destroy You
Brutalism & The Worship of The Machine- This Will Destroy You
A Three Legged Work Horse- This Will Destroy You
So Many Cowboys, So Few Indians- The Samuel Jackson Five
How to Evade Your Over Obsessive Shadow- The Samuel Jackson Five
Most Mogwai songs
Most Bravo Fucking Bravo songs.

Oh and of course, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture

[joeag1985]

bowie - space oddity.

Good one.

[SpyKi]

Fightstar - Mono

One of my favourite songs. The ep version is better. This is a must if you want epic songs.

other epic songs..

Fightstar - Until Then
Fightstar - Lost Like Tears In Rain
Fightstar - Sleep Well Tonight
Anberlin - (Fin*)

All amazing.

[Mikey Radigan]

Cursive- Staying Alive

[ThemChains]

Epic is not a term used to describe music. Ever.

[Tead42]

I can't believe no one has said:

Big Shot (Hands in the Sky) by Straylight Run

[Machu505]

The Mars Volta - "Son et Lumiere"
The Mars Volta - "Inerciatic ESP"
The Mars Volta - "Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)"
The Mars Volta - "Tira Me a las Aranas"
The Mars Volta - "Drunkenship of Lanterns"
The Mars Volta - "Eriatarka"
The Mars Volta - "Cicatriz ESP
The Mars Volta - "This Apparatus Must be Unearthed"
The Mars Volta - "Televators"
The Mars Volta - "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt"

And as an added bonus:
The Mars Volta - "Day of the Baphomets"

[eliselovesmusic]

Wolfmother - Colossal Woman

one of the best Aussie bands out there, I must say.

The climax of Jeff Buckley's Mojo Pin is awesome too. And while you're at it give Buckley's Eternal Life a listen too. Probably his most rambanctious song.

[murrich]

Listen to the album City of Caterpillar.

[reesa]

Transatlantiscm - Death Cab For Cutie
yes! awww i'm gonna go listen to it right now...

[introduction]

if no ones said it yet, stand and feel your worth - thrice.

[Broden Terry]

Fightstar - Mono

One of my favourite songs. The ep version is better. This is a must if you want epic songs.

other epic songs..

Fightstar - Until Then
Fightstar - Lost Like Tears In Rain
Fightstar - Sleep Well Tonight
Anberlin - (Fin*)

All amazing.

And perhaps Wake Up, also by Fightstar :nod:

[joeag1985]

Fightstar - Mono

One of my favourite songs. The ep version is better. This is a must if you want epic songs.

other epic songs..

Fightstar - Until Then
Fightstar - Lost Like Tears In Rain
Fightstar - Sleep Well Tonight
Anberlin - (Fin*)

All amazing.

It's a cover song though. If you want to hear the original masterpiece then I suggest you get your hands on a copy of the "Walking Cloud and Deep Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined" album by Mono. The song Halcyon (Beautiful Days) in particular. Amazingly composed. Fightstar used the same guitar parts for their version.

Actually...

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[joeag1985]

yes! awww i'm gonna go listen to it right now...

I was listening to Passenger Seat whilst driving home last night. Amazing song. Best time to play it really... Although, I probably would have got a better experience of the song if I was the passenger ha.

[joeag1985]

Wolfmother - Colossal Woman

one of the best Aussie bands out there, I must say.

The climax of Jeff Buckley's Mojo Pin is awesome too. And while you're at it give Buckley's Eternal Life a listen too. Probably his most rambanctious song.

I was trying to find a video on youtube of Jeff Buckley playing Hymne A L'Amour in Paris. I've a live audio recording of it. Gives me chills anytime I hear it.

This lady did it better than anyone though...

RZ5FlrNSHsg

[nikaidoh]

I was trying to find a video on youtube of Jeff Buckley playing Hymne A L'Amour in Paris. I've a live audio recording of it. Gives me chills anytime I hear it.

This lady did it better than anyone though...

RZ5FlrNSHsg


Yes! I love Edith Piaf

[joeag1985]

Yes! I love Edith Piaf

Nice. High five! (Forgive me, I'm utterly useless at emoticoning... it that's even a word)

[nikaidoh]

Nice. High five! (Forgive me, I'm utterly useless at emoticoning... it that's even a word)



It might as well be a word, lol

[deFobbed14yrs]

the matches- darkness rising. there are parts that shawn's voice sounds soo good that i wanna cry.

[zeropunk16]

Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Tarkus
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 (Preferably the live version from Neverender)

[happygilmoreat]

I don't know if this is really epic, but Konstantine by Something Corporate has gotta be close

[Rey1789]

Jimmy Eat World - Dizzy

[chipdip18]

It's the final countdown! Da Na Naaaa Na! Na-Wa-Wa-Wa!

[SpyKi]

It's a cover song though. If you want to hear the original masterpiece then I suggest you get your hands on a copy of the "Walking Cloud and Deep Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined" album by Mono. The song Halcyon (Beautiful Days) in particular. Amazingly composed. Fightstar used the same guitar parts for their version.

Actually...

OO6Zrd9X2p0

It isn't a cover. :-|

[Bloodsucker II]

Thrice - For Miles

.....Don't download, just buy the damn album

[Burn_Burn_Burn]

Transatlantiscm - Death Cab For Cutie
Where The Streets Have No Name/With or Without You- U2

As well as alot of the songs on Razia's Shadow.

Haha, I came in here to say Razia's Shadow.

I've been listening to Glasvegas, and that sounds epic.
Um, yeah.

[_><_]

Thrice - Of Dust and Nations

[eliselovesmusic]

I was trying to find a video on youtube of Jeff Buckley playing Hymne A L'Amour in Paris. I've a live audio recording of it. Gives me chills anytime I hear it.

This lady did it better than anyone though...

RZ5FlrNSHsg


I reckon both versions are pretty good really, and I give total props to Jeff just attempting to cover such a high class song.

Nice to hear from another Buckley fan :-)

[joeag1985]

I reckon both versions are pretty good really, and I give total props to Jeff just attempting to cover such a high class song.

Nice to hear from another Buckley fan :-)

Yeah I have an old cd/live album thing around here somewhere where he sings part of the song. It sounds amazing. Can't seem to find it anywhere on youtube though.. you'd think that site would have positively everything.

...and indeed. Good to hear from another one too :)