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Epic Music
2004-02-04, 4:43 AM #1
Anyone have music that they would like to reccomend that they consider "epic". Maybe like Verdi's "Dies Irae", Holst's "Mars Bringer of War", the Lord of the Rings main theme, or a good deal of anything by John Williams (Esp. Summon the Heros (which movie is that from?) and that trench run song + victory fanfare from the first SW movie)

Just music that would befit a final battle between the forces of light and darkness, ect, ect...

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2004-02-04, 4:50 AM #2
I want it that way-Backstreet Boys.

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2004-02-04, 4:58 AM #3
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I want it that way-Backstreet Boys.

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2004-02-04, 5:09 AM #4
FFVII - Aeris' Theme.
FFVIII - The Oath.
FFX - Someday The Dream Will End.
Green Day - F.O.D.
Anything by John Williams.

Not really a light-dark duel, but more to evoke feeling. F.O.D. is in there because of the line "Let's nuke the bridge we torched 2000 times before / This time we'll blow it all to hell..."


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2004-02-04, 5:12 AM #5
O Fortuna

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2004-02-04, 5:22 AM #6
After Forever - Mea Culpa and After Forever - Ex Cathedra.

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2004-02-04, 6:00 AM #7
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2004-02-04, 6:20 AM #8
Led Zeppelin - Achille's Last Stand

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2004-02-04, 6:25 AM #9
Beethoven's 5th and 9th Symphonies for sure.

Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. You havent really heard until you've heard it performed live with cannons. And you're sitting right next to the cannons.

I've heard it performed that way twice, and it is an experience to behold. There is actually a part in the score for the cannons. Also, because the cannons were so far away from the orchestra (it was performed outdoors) they had to fire the cannons off a half-second early to give the sound time to travel to where the orchestra was.

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2004-02-04, 7:17 AM #10
Dvorak - Symphony 'From the New World'

Smetana - Vltava from 'Ma Vlast'

If these aren't what you're looking for, they get extremely close.

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2004-02-04, 7:29 AM #11
Jean-Michel Jarre's Rendez-Vous Part 2 and Ethnicolor are actually only two Jarre-tracks I consider really 'epic'. Especially when you have felt their full power live... The first one is neo-classical and especially the part before middle part and the end are truly 'epic'. As for 'Ethnicolor', the beginning isn't the best part, but after that everything gets better. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

As for classical music... I really have to say that Carmina Burana and Beethoven's 9th Symphony are really so powerful and good music that heart bounce from it's pit through your brains etc. And for heavy metal... Deep Purple's 'Child in Time' is really enough to excite anyone. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif] [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

Or then just me.

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2004-02-04, 7:38 AM #12
Vaclav Nelhybel's Symphonic Movement is excellent. However, you may have trouble finding a quality recording.

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2004-02-04, 7:43 AM #13
I know this will garner me ridicule, but I find "Green Sleeves" off of Gary Hoey's Christmas album to be epic in it's own right.



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2004-02-04, 7:53 AM #14
FF8 - Opening Cutscene song... i think it's called Libertaie Fatalie or something like that.

Requim for a dream is a good song too
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2004-02-04, 7:58 AM #15
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Romjae:
FF8 - Opening Cutscene song... i think it's called Libertaie Fatalie or something like that.

Requim for a dream is a good song too </font>


Yes, Liberi Fatali.

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2004-02-04, 8:01 AM #16
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

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2004-02-04, 8:06 AM #17
I don't know if this is what you want. Wagner is pure operatic pomp and bombast. Just the type of stuff Williams imitates to such acclaim. Then of course you've got Bach. The opening measures of Toccata & Fugue in D minor you'll probably recognize as the typical cartoon vampire jingle. Another typical one that Septic already mentioned is Carl Orff's Fortuna Imperatix Mundi. Then of course you've got Mozart's unfinished Requiem (try the Kyrie and Lacrymosa segments). Try some Camille St. Saëns too, the Danse Macabre, or the Organ Symphony.
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2004-02-04, 11:08 AM #18
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Joren DarkStar:
I know this will garner me ridicule, but I find "Green Sleeves" off of Gary Hoey's Christmas album to be epic in it's own right.

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I remember a version of green sleeves that was played just by brass. That was good stuff, kindof a nice background to give an introduction. Heh, techincally it's the "theme" for the webcomic I have linked. Bloody green sleeves also seems to have 50,000 versions. Next to the brass one, the jazz version was rather nice.

Now to just find all these songs. But I guess that is half the fun.

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2004-02-04, 11:27 AM #19
led zeppelin - stairway to heaven [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

but seriously, the braveheart main theme.

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2004-02-04, 11:35 AM #20
Nessun Dorma isnt bad at all.

I got a version of the 1812 that is sung in places and has cannons from some russian artillery division and bells from St Petersburg. Its pretty damn good [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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2004-02-04, 12:30 PM #21
The Halo theme. E.S. Posthumous. John Williams, and Don Davis. That's about all I can think of right now.

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2004-02-04, 12:32 PM #22
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by GBK:
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

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2004-02-04, 12:35 PM #23
The Sisters of Mercy- This Corrosion
Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, part 2
Radiohead's later stuff

Or you can get flexor to make one for you [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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2004-02-04, 12:37 PM #24
Oooh! I know two more: the instrumentals of Furious Angels and I'm Not Driving Anymore by Rob Dougan.

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2004-02-04, 12:40 PM #25
The Rocky Theme!

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2004-02-04, 12:56 PM #26
Almost any 8+ minute song by Led Zeppelin.

Stairway to Heaven, Kashmir, Achille's Last Stand, No Quarter(From TSRTS) and The Rain Song(TSRTS) I think are their most epic songs.

Pink Floyd has some epic songs too.

Echoes
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Shine On You Crazy Diamond(Pts. I and II)

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2004-02-04, 3:00 PM #27
Tarawa: heard in the Matrix Revolutions trailer

Two Towers Requiem for a Dream remix: Heard in the Two Towers trailer and Return of the King game.
2004-02-04, 3:02 PM #28
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Cloud:
Two Towers Requiem for a Dream remix: Heard in the Two Towers trailer and Return of the King game.</font>


That's a damn good song

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2004-02-04, 5:12 PM #29
Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries
Carl Orff - O Fortuna
Howard Shore - The Breaking of the Fellowship
The Two Towers version of Lux Aeterna
The theme from Gladiator
Queen - Another One Bites the Dust
Queen - Princes of the Universe
AC/DC - For Those About to Rock

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2004-02-04, 5:19 PM #30
That Final Fantasy VIII song is really good for what you're looking for. Heheh, that's why I used it for this: http://e.1asphost.com/TedNation/fin.html

As for my suggestions:
Most of the Final Fantasy VIII music like the Dollet Landing and stuff.

Hitman 2 main theme

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2004-02-04, 10:45 PM #31
if i knew how to get it out, i would send you 'one musn't fall" from the game tyrian.(made by epic [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif] )
it is a cool boss theme but there are other things in the game that could work.

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2004-02-04, 11:57 PM #32
Gettysburg (1863) by Iced Earth.

33 minutes long, multiple singers, different characters, a full orchestra, cannons... What's not to love?

...And Then There Was Silence by Blind Guardian. The Trojan War in 14 minutes.

the Divine Wings of Tragedy by Symphony X has "Mars, the Bringer of War" as part of it, so does that make it epic by default? [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]
2004-02-05, 12:05 AM #33
Why did I forget Apocalyptica? *slaps self*

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2004-02-05, 12:09 AM #34
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Originally posted by Cloud:
Two Towers Requiem for a Dream remix: Heard in the Two Towers trailer and Return of the King game.

Originally posted by mscbuck:
That's a damn good song
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You guys (and everyone else who mentions this song) get bonus points [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

I also think that some of the instrumental pieces from the Resident Evil games have been quite eerie in creating the desired atmospheric build-up [http://forums.massassi.net/html/redface.gif]. Also, as far as games music is concerned, Perfect Dark and Deus Ex have some fantastic soundtracks - mean and moody -- and both have ace plots and weapons galore too!!! [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

And anything by John Williams is a given *chants: "Starwars - we are not worthy" [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]*

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2004-02-05, 2:36 AM #35
Well, I love all those FF songs, and John Williams, but I think "TTT-Samwise The Brave" is very epic.

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2004-02-05, 2:46 AM #36
Well, I love all those FF songs, and John Williams, but I think "TTT-Samwise The Brave" is very epic.

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2004-02-05, 7:33 AM #37
Electric Light Orchestra - Wild West Hero

Not really epic but I like it.

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