Select songs of epic proportions

Discussion
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What would make up your playlist?

I’d go with following:

Jesu: ‘Heart Ache’
King Crimson: ‘Starless’
Pink Floyd: ‘Comfortably Numb’ (the live post-Waters version)
Moby: ‘Face It’
Godflesh: ‘Jesu’
Flowering Blight: ‘The Perfect Pair’
Swans: ‘Helpless Child’
Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays: 'As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
Tool: ‘Pushit’
The Doors: ‘The End’
The Who: ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’
Mad Season: ‘November Hotel’
Jane’s Addiction: ‘Three Days’
Krystof Penderecki: ‘De Natura Sonoris no.2’

Also an effective endurance game for Ministry’s ‘Leper’ is to, when it starts, hold your arms out perpendicular to your body (so your body makes a ‘T’ shape, disregarding your neck and head) and see how long you can last holding them out like that. If you can last the whole song you’re a strong man. Note: the song must be played as loud as possible.

How could I forget:

Revolting Cocks: 'Get Down

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Mine would be the following…

Jesu “Ruined”

There is no need for anything else.

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Jane’s Addiction: ‘Three Days’

Hells yeah.

ps, see above comment for: the doors, godflesh and jesu too.

I’d add Black Sabbath Megalomania, and The Writ.

And if you believe the track listing on their first album:

Wasp / Behind the Wall of Sleep / Bassically / N.I.B. is one song, and A Bit of Finger / Sleeping Village / Warning is too. So they’d be up there.

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final- dying star
lull- moments

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Pink Floyd - “Atom Heart Mother” lol

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Faith No More - Just a man

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En Esch: “Soy Botones”

[:)]

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Thrones - Obulus

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Boingo - Insanity

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In no particular order

jesu - star
Janes Addiction- Of Course
Faith No More- Epic
Danzig- How the Gods Kill
Ministry-So What
Metallica- One
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
Social Distortion-Ball & Chain
Aerosmith-Dream On(live version with the U.S.C. orchestra backing the band)
Alice in Chains - Angry Chair
Laibach-2525
Late,
grmpysmrf

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underworld - dark and long train
interpol - the new
metallica - the four horsemen
tool - lateralus
soundgarden - jesus christ pose

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Melvins - Charmicarmicat
Melvins - Hag Me
Lard - Time To Melt
Godflesh - Love, Hate, Slugbaiting
Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
Can - Peking O
Tool - Reflection
Tool - Lateralus
David Bowie - Station To Station
Animal Collective - Banshee Beat
Metallica - One
Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks
Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand

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Boingo - Insanity

Hell yes! Mine would prolly go:

Road to nowhere - talking heads
Aenima - tool
Hoppipolla - sigur ros
Then she did - jane’s addiction
I am the walrus - beatles
Another space song - failure
Blue - a perfect circle
a letter to elise - the cure
Disintegration - the cure
Shake the disease - depeche mode
Stripped - depeche mode
Space oddity - bowie
Weightless and horizontal - jesu
East hastings - godspeed you! Black emperor
Youme and meyou - nebauten
Susej - neubauten

Can’t think of any more at the moment, but there’s certainly more.

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Blue - a perfect circle

That reminds me of another one -
Blue - Human Drama

also

Love and Anger - Kate Bush

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Can “Future Days”
Coil “Time Machines”
Eddie Entropy “Strong Enuff (4 a M.A.N.)”
Faust “Krautrock”
Harmonia “Walky-Talky”
Lard “Time To Melt”
Lustmord “Heresy”
Mother Mallard’s Instant Masterpiece Company “C.A.G.E.”
Neu! “Hallo Gallo”
Nurse With Wound “Homotropy For Mary”
Phillip Glass “Music With Changing Parts”
Skinny Puppy “Download”
Terry Riley “Eastern Man”
Terry Riley “In C”

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Can “Future Days”
Coil “Time Machines”
Faust “Krautrock”
Harmonia “Walky-Talky”
Neu! “Hallo Gallo”
Nurse With Wound “Homotropy For Mary”
Terry Riley “In C”

Those are some great tracks by some great bands! Not sure if half of them are technically ‘songs’ though. Oh well…

What about Mars Volta?? Vitually everything they put out is ‘epic’. Ditto Acid Mothers Temple.

I would add…

Yo La Tengo - Night Falls On Hoboken
Swans - Helpless Child
Stone Roses - Fools Gold

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Killing Joke - Pandaemonium
Ministry - The Fall
PIL - Albatross
The Cure - Disintegration
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
Sonic Youth - Total Trash

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Ministry - The Fall

How the hell did I leave his one out??? Good call, Sir!
Late,
grmpysmrf

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Fuck… too many to mention as I really love the epic songs…

Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah, Tower of Song, The Future, etc

shit… I’ll get back to you… just in a Cohen moment…

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My Bloody Valentine - Soon

Good call, that’s a fucking great track.