favorite epic songs/tracks

number one would probably be 'suppers ready' by the classic peter gabriel fronted genesis. how i love this track and it all flows so well. pink floyds 'echos' is great too but i cant remember if thats 20 minutes.

then it would probably be manuel gottschings 'e2-e4' followed by steve reichs 'music for 18 musicians'.

and im digging the shit out of jim o'rourkes the visitor. fantastic album.

'suppers ready' in all its (edited) glory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzWdDCtC1IM

if its long and you like it its epic

and i second coltranes 'ascension'

shit i forgot

Bel Air by Can (19:53, close enough)

Blue Room - The Orb

The Visitor - Jim O'Rourke

echoes

Pink Floyd, 'Atom Heart Mother' and 'Echoes'.

Zep, 'Dazed and Confused' (from 'The Song Remains The Same')

  On 2/7/2010 at 8:41 AM, Z_B_Z said:

pink floyds 'echos' is great too but i cant remember if thats 20 minutes.

Indeed it's 23:29 and fantastic.

A couple of these are a bit under 20 minutes...but epic none the less.

Psychic TV - Electric Newspaper 1 (1:14:01 that's pretty epic)

Orbital - The Box

Underworld - Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream Of Love

Van der Graaf Generator - A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers

Yes - The Remembering (High The Memory)

Yes - Revealing Science Of God (Dance Of The Dawn)

Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick 1&2

Rush - 2112

Bubu - El Cortejo de un Día Amarillo

the van der graf generator track looks interesting. i like their album 'godbluff'.

sofia gubaidulina - offertorium

Dunno if it's cheating but I've got a 20+ minute live version of Pink Floyd's 'A Saucerful of Secrets' (probably my fave Floyd song) recorded in Montreux which sounds awesome. I'd kill for a version with pristine sound quality.

Tortoise - Djed

*:zoviet-france:* - Shamany Enfluence (off shounting at the ground lp )

*:zoviet-france:* - Cyclonic Sub Alien (off what is not true 50 mins)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Sleep (23:17)

Arvo Pärt - Sarah Was 90 Years Old (25:29)

Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa (+/- 25 min)

Miles Davis - Pharaoh's Dance (20:06)

Miles David - Bitches Brew (26:29)

Alfred Schnittke - Concerto For Piano & Strings (+/- 23 min.)

Autechre - Sublimit (15:52)

Deathprod - Dead People's Things (18:34)

Gavin Bryars - The Sinking Of The Titanic (70+ min)

Henryk Gorecki - Symphony No. 3 (+50 min)

Lustmord - Godeater (22:41)

Lustmord - Aldebaran of the Hyades (24:56)

Lustmord - Metastatic Resonance (25:41)

Lustmord + Melvins - Pigs Of The Roman Empire (22:29)

Opeth - Black Rose Immortal - (20:14)

Sickoakes - Wedding Rings & Bullets In The Same Golden Shrine (part1+2= 37 min.)

Slow Six - The Lines We Walked When We Walked Once Together (30:32)

Stars Of The Lid - Virginia (20:03)

Tool - Third Eye (13 min)

Ween - Vallejo (live version) (30 min.)

WIlliam Basinski - Disintegration Loops (4h55min)

William Basinski - El Camino Real

William Basinski - Vivian & Ondine

William Basinski - The Garden Of Brokenness

all +40

acceptance of absolute negation by six organs of admittance

All time post 20 minute favourite is Harold Budd - Abandoned Cities

Pink Floyd stuff like Echoes and Ummagumma

Oophoi - behind the wall of sleep

Tau Ceti - Somnium

Steve Roach - Darkest Before Dawn

Bill laswell - Chakra

Robert Rich - Oak spirits

Brain/Mind Research - Symphonies of the planets disc 5

Brian Eno - Music for prague

Jochem Paap - Mrg-rvx

Aloof Proof - the ghost ship

Windy & Carl - Kate

Brüder des Schattens, Söhne des Lichts - Popol Vuh

It's not 20+, but it's almost 19 minutes long. I love this fucking song. One of my favorites, long or short.

Confusion, TDTMN, Look and Laugh, Just Like That, Coffin for Head of State - Fela Kuti

20+

Dopesmoker - Sleep

63 minutes

Vladislav Delay - Huone

Lots of stuff by Godspeed - pretty much all of Lift Yr Skinny Fists and f#a#.

Mogwai - My Father My King

Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea

Tortoise - Djed

I'm a big fan of The Mars Volta's live versions of Drunkship, Roulette Dares, and Cicatriz circa 2003-05

Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too

Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe

Amon Duul II - Phallus Dei

an awful lot of the back catalogue of Tangerine Dream but especially Richochet

oh yeah and if you really want to have your mind rearranged by a Christmas Carol gone wrong...

Lindstrom - Little Drummer Boy (45 minute edit) - absolutely freaking epic

  On 2/7/2010 at 6:26 PM, Ron Manager said:

Lots of stuff by Godspeed - pretty much all of Lift Yr Skinny Fists and f#a#.

This.

Also (some of these are slighty less than 20 min):

Aidan Baker - The Sea Swells A Bit

Ashra - Night Dust

Animal Hospital - His Belly Burst

Fabio Orsi - The Wild Light Of The Moon

Greg Davis - Full Spectrum (both songs)

Harold Budd - Gypsy Violin

Kawabata Makoto - Kawabata Makoto

Mountains - Etching

Steve Hillage - Garden Of Paradise

Zelienople - Hollywood

Black To Comm - Charlemagne & Pippin

Hush Arbors - If There Be Spirits, Let Them Come

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Crystal Rainbow Pyramid

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - La Le Lo

Boris - Untitled (off Smile)

Popol Vuh - Einsjäger & Siebenjäger

Sir Richard Bishop - Mahavidya

White Rainbow - Thursday Rollers And Strollers

Klaus Schulze - any album of his from the 70s pretty much (especially Moondawn, X, and Timewind)

Manuel Göttsching - Dream & Desire

Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4

Tim Hecker - Norberg

Labradford - Twenty

Stars Of The Lid - December Hunting For Vegetarian Fuckface

The North Sea & Rameses III - Night Of The Ankou

Bit by Aphex Twin

Do symphonies count?

Anyways...lots of the stuff mentioned in here, especially the floyd :)

Other stuff:

Earth - Ouroboros is broken

Nurse With Wound - Creakiness

Nurse With Wound - Two Golden Microphones

The Orb - A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld (Loving U) (from Live 93)

Pete Namlook - Air

The Fires of Ork - Gebirge

ummm what am I missing...

Mike Oldfield - Taurus II, Ommadawn I, Amarok

Marillion - Grendel

GSYBE - Storm

Orbital - The Box (parts 1 + 2)

  On 2/7/2010 at 1:29 PM, triachus said:

 

 

Deathprod - Dead People's Things (18:34)

 

is there a vocal sample in this about teaching children the reality of death or something to that effect? its on morals and dogma, right?

some damn fine picks in this thread. im keeping stuff in mind to check out later.

  On 2/7/2010 at 8:30 PM, Z_B_Z said:

  On 2/7/2010 at 1:29 PM, triachus said:

 

 

Deathprod - Dead People's Things (18:34)

 

 

is there a vocal sample in this about teaching children the reality of death or something to that effect? its on morals and dogma, right?

 

Dead People's Things is indeed on Morals & Dogma, but the track with the vocal sample you're talking about is called Treetop Drive 3 (from treetop drive cd)