What are the best prog "epics?

My call also. Never forget the first time I heard this. Stunner song.

 

Yes, that is very EPIC. And I've probably listened to it more than all of the other stuff mentioned so far.
And I love a lot of the stuff mentioned.

 

It clocks inn at 5:53 and continues to float in your mind for approximately two more hours...it's epic...

 

I think this deserves a mention as well -

England, Poisoned Youth

 

My personal faves are two oft overlooked little gems from Van der Graaf Generator.

The first from H to He, Who Am The Only One (1970)

Pioneers Over c.

 

and the second from their World Record LP (1976)

Meurglys III, The Songwriters Guild

It's epic but not what most people would call prog.

 

I'm lukewarm on some of it as well, but for them to have made an album with that good material at that point in time... I can't ask for much more.

 

Love "Pioneers Over C", one of their most haunting epics. I like "Meurglys" too, though I could live without the reggae jam at the end.

 

Yes-Close To The Edge
Genesis-Suppers Ready
King Crimson-Lizard (Side 2 Suite)
Jethro Tull-Thick As A Brick
ELP-Tarkus

I'll throw in a few zingers here:

Chicago-The "Make Me Smile" side of Chicago 2. I know they aren't thought of as a prog band but by any definition what they were doing up to Chicago 8 is definitely progressive only with different ingredients in the soup so to speak. It's kind of what I would call Americanized Prog.

Renaissance- Ashes Are Burning

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe-Quartet and Order Of The Universe

Moody Blues-Side 2 of Days Of Future Passed (have to get DOFP in here somewhere)

 

The Undercover Man - Van Der graaf Generator

The Revealing science of God - Yes

 

Absolutely!! Add this one too. Not as sprawling as La Villa but great prog instrumental nonetheless.

 

The greatest ever:
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "1983, A Merman I Should Turn To Be / Moon, Turn The Tides Gently...Gently Away"

 

My favorite it Yessongs.

 

YES!!

 

Alquin - The dance
Camel - The snow goose

 

Mike Oldfield. Ommadawn Part 1.

 

Yes, that whole LP is terrific!

 

Another one that probably falls in the "Art Rock" category rather more than trad "Prog", it is epic though... Bjørn Riis-"Lullaby In A Car Crash"

 

*crickets* not much love for the 2000's prog?

 

I do!

My favorites:
Dream Theater "The Count of Tuscany"
The Flower Kings "Devil's Playground", "Stardust We Are", "The Truth Will Set You Free"
Genesis "Supper's Ready"
Porcupine Tree "Anesthetize"
Rush "2112", "Hemispheres"
Spock's Beard "The Light"
Roine Stolt "Humanizzimo"
Symphony X "The Odyssey"
Transatlantic "All of the Above", "Duel With the Devil", "Stranger in Your Soul"
Yes "Close to the Edge", "The Gates of Delirium", "In the Presence Of"

 

Cinema Show. Peter Gabriel - era Genisis' tour de force. With Aisle of Plenty.

 

My personal favourite is 'Supper's Ready' - 23 minutes of sheer nonsense! Many of you probably know that 'SR' was a merging of two songs into one epic-length number.

 

Yes - The Revealing Science of God
Grobschnitt - Rockpommel's Land
After Crying - A Gadarai Megszallott
Renaissance - Song Of Scheherazade
Caravan - Nine Feet Underground
Circus - Movin' On
Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague of Lighthouse-Keepers
Can - Bel Air
Focus - Eruption