Your Fave Bombastic Overblown Epic Song

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  1. Devin

    Devin Time's Up Thread Starter

    Good one. It's not only pretentious, it's post-tentious!
     
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  3. samthesham

    samthesham Forum Resident

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    Christ! I have hated that song from day 1 of its 1971 release!
     
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  4. weirdo12

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    Jonathan Donahue is good weird. I LOVE this song.

    Mercury Rev - The Dark Is Rising

     
  5. Devin

    Devin Time's Up Thread Starter

    Symphony X- The Odyssey. A noodling turgid 24 minute atomic bomb of bombastic grandiose. Even I couldn't get all the way through this one.
     
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  6. PopularChuck

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    The Wall in its entirety wins, hands down.
     
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  7. Chris DeVoe

    Chris DeVoe RIP Vickie Mapes Williams (aka Equipoise)

    All right. You want bloated and pretentious? How about a 30 minute long song? It's pretentious, post-tentious and just plain tentious all the way through.

    Utopia The Ikon

     
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  8. TheSeldomSeenKid

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    You beat me to it. I loved everything MUSE had done until I got to this Last Song on 'Black Holes and Revelations' as heard the Spaceship(?) and Galloping Horses and thought,'Crap, MUSE has become Bombastic Queen'(which continued on a few Songs on their next Album 'The Resistance'). I kept thinking, how could Bellamy sing that Song with a Straight Face? The Video is also Bombastic and Overblown.

    The reason it fits though, as I had to get used to it as an ending Song on several of their Concerts since it was released, and seeing it live earlier this year, I was ok with it, as guess I tolerated it better as Concert Song, but rarely have listened to it from the Studio Album, and mostly on their Live CDs and BluRay Concerts that I own. Bombastic, Overblown and Epic-Yes.

    Then, again their last Album, Simulation Theory also fits, as seems like the Music was created to be played for Arenas and fit a Concept(Virtual Reality), as opposed to just writing Great Songs(like they did for most of their first 4 Albums-IMO).
     
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  9. bekayne

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    Locomotive-Mr. Armageddon

     
  10. MKHopkins

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    Good god is the bridge in this bombastic.

    But it’s Steinman so of course it is.
     
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  11. TheSeldomSeenKid

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    Not only Bombastic, but also Bloated. I can live with just 6-7 of the Songs from that Album, and 'Comfortably Numb' is a Top PF Song for me. But wait, it gets worse, as then Waters puts out 'The Final Leftovers'
     
  12. Devin

    Devin Time's Up Thread Starter

    Would've been a great 40 minute single album though.
     
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  13. weirdo12

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    Try to listen to this entire song. It's long. It's like a whole 9 minutes. If you think it sucks, roast me. It twists and turns and begs you to want to hear the ending if you give it a chance.

    The Tragically Hip - The Depression Suite

     
  14. BroJB

    BroJB Large Marge sent me.

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    Bohemian Rhapsody is certainly one of the most self-consciously bombastic songs ever made. It's done with such a wink, and yet so ludicrously pompous, that I never quite know how to take it.
     
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  15. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    I don't understand the objection. Of course you could find something all those things and still dig it.

    Great thread idea, by the way. I think, after having said that, that I personally probably have an extra aversion to those qualities since I'm having a hard time coming up with an example! I don't think this entirely qualifies, but it does seem a bit bombastic to me and I love it:

     
  16. TheSeldomSeenKid

    TheSeldomSeenKid Forum Resident

    Discovered most of Pink Floyd's Albums in the Mid 2000s and Love that Song, but you did not even include the Full 23:42 Album Version in all it's Overblown Greatness. Think on the Album version that it is around the 13-14 Minutes Mark is where I hear some George Clinton P-FUNK Type Music.
     
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  17. samthesham

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    I have always heard Beatles / Sgt. Peppers record as pretentious, contrite, bloated & full of conceits...

    I did not like Pepper in 1967 & I still don't like the album in 2019

    The same goes for side 2 of "Abbey Road" excluding "Here Comes The Sun"
     
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  18. Steve Mc

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    Does this count? I kind of love it....
     
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  19. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    Good point about Abbey Road, and I like that album too, so there's one for me!
     
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  20. Devin

    Devin Time's Up Thread Starter

    Love it or not it's definitely a unique and brilliant work of sonic art. There's been nothing quite like it before or since.
     
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  21. SurrealCereal

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    Nektar - Remember the Future
    Section for section it's actually pretty tasteful and accessible, but taken as a 36 minute prog rock epic about an alien granting enlightenment to a blind boy, you could say it's pretentious and overblown.
     
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  22. Crimson jon

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    I kind of love the whole album. Yea it counts for sure!
     
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    That was the second thing I thought of, Meat Loaf from Bat Out Of Hell, after Springsteen's "Jungleland."
     
  24. tikibar

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    My favorite is Rage Against the Machine's song, WAKE UP. Also famous as the closing scene soundtrack in The Matrix, this one bombs the bombast at full blast. I love it!

     
  25. SurrealCereal

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    Deep Purple - Child In Time
     
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