What are other artists' "Stairway to Heaven"?

I know nothing of them, but not KiWS?

 

Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
Steve Earle - Copperhead Road
Billy Joel - Scenes...
Gordon Lightfoot - Edmund Fitzgerald (or CRT...)
Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam (or Aja...)
Neil - Cowgirl In The Sand (or Down By The River)

 

R.E.M. - Losing My religion (although Everybody Hurts is closer in atmosphere to Stairway)
Deep Purple - Child In Time
Jay-Z - Empire State Of Mind
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
Love - Alone Again Or
Otis Redding - Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
Ike & Tina Turneer - River Deep, Mountain High
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
The O'Jays - Back Stabbers
Richard Harris - MacArthur Park
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus
Alice In Chains - Rooster
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Del Shannon - Runaway
Neu! - Hallogallo
Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (What's Going On is another contender)
Ultravox - Vienna
Velvet Underground - Heroin
Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
The Doors - Riders On The Storm
Rihanna - Umbrella
Grateful Dead - Dark Star
Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin
Pulp - Common People
The Temptations - Papa Was A Rollin' Stone
Allman Brothers - In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed
Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
Gene Vincent - Be-Bop A-Lula
The Shangri-Las - Leader Of The Pack
Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker The Berry
Barry Ryan - Eloise
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
A-Ha - Take On Me
Cockney Rebel - Sebastian
Ben E. King - Stand By Me
Genesis - Supper's Ready
Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
The Who - We're Not Gonna Take it (See Me Feel Me)
Kanye West - Runaway
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run (although Jungleland and Backstreets are more epic)
The Cranberries - Zombie

 

KISS - Black Diamond

 

What would you list as an alternative for the Bunnymen?

 

One probably no one will know. "Konstantine" by Andrew McMahon via the group "Something Corporate." I always thought of this as being his epic song.

 

Devo Uncontrollable Urge
Boomtown Rats I don't like Mondays
dead kennedys holiday in cambodia (jello will love the vote)
reo speedwagon roll with the changes
Alice Cooper Halo of Flies

 

Some more:
Björk - Play Dead
Dionne Warwick - Anyone Who Had A Heart
Pink Floyd - Echoes (or Shine On You Crazy Diamond)
The Marmalade - Reflections Of My Life
Pharoah Sanders - The Creator Has A Masterplan
Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.
Frank Sinatra - My Way
Millie Jackson - If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don't Want To Be Right
David McWilliams - The Days Of Pearly Spencer
New Order - Blue Monday
Billy Preston - That's The Way God Planned It
The National - Fake Empire
David Bowie - Space Oddity
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
The Byrds - Eight Miles High
ABC - The Look Of Love
Syl Johnson - Is It Because I'm Black?
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
Donovan - Atlantis
Ennio Morricone - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Michael Jackson - Thriller
The Yardbirds - Happenings 10 Years Time Ago
Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger
The Four Tops - Reach Out, I'll Be There
Todd Rundgren - Just One Victory
TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
Jacques Brel - Ne Me Quitte Pas
Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Russell Morris - The Real Thing
Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
Fleetwood mac - Oh Well pts 1 & 2
Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers To Cross

 

"Expecting To Fly" ~ Buffalo Springfield (1967 - written by Neil Young, and it features none of the rest of Buffalo Springfield on the recording)

"X.Y.U." ~ Smashing Pumpkins (1996)

 

+1

This one song kept me from away from their amazing catalog for years because I thought that was all they had worth playing from the band!

A lot of songs I can't hear on radio anymore or read about anymore actually have kept me from exploring deeper.

I'll add The Zombies "Time of the Season".

Jeff

 

Eagles - Hotel California. Ugh.

 

I think I read Bowie's "Teenage Wildlife" somewhere in this thread and that'd be my choice for him - you know, it kicks off the second side of the LP with only a few chords and then rises and rises until a very dramatic final part comes around the corner - really feels like a journey to me.
Other choices that come to mind:

Deep Purple - Child In Time
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (yes, the full album - to me it's like a long, segmented singular song, just like 'Supper's Ready' for Genesis)
Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
Genesis - The Cinema Show (because Supper's Ready would be too obvious and lyrics-wise TCS really feels like a journey through the ages compared to the often-silly story arc behind Supper's Ready)
Kate Bush - An Endless Sky of Honey
Queen - The Prophet's Song

 

Yes, but the OP said signatures songs that make you want to go deeper...

"Hotel California" is a warning IMO.

To quote the Big Lebowski...

Jeff

 

Stevie Wright - Evie

 

Go Your Own Way, Fleetwood Mac

 

Signature Song?

 

OP specifically pointed out that he wasn't looking for a signature song. He wants their Stairway To Heaven-ish song.

Happy Holidays.

 

Yeah, ok. I’m with you...

 

More "Dark Star" than "Stairway..." but this qualifies:

 

Three Days {Janes Addiction}

 

Credit to Little Roger and the Goosebumps!

The original title was Gilligan's Island (Stairway).

 

Awesome avatar, I could totally destroy a Bell Burger right now......help me out friend with what you mean? KiWS? I'm lost!

 

Golden Earring: Radar Love.

 

You're right on all counts. I just couldn't resist a knock on that song.

 

Guess again