Hey I'm King of The World, You Oughta Hear My Song, Come On & Measure Me, THESE ARE AT LEAST 10 MINUTES LONG - RESULTS ILM BALLOT POLL #58

I don't see how Of Montreal are any better than Destroyer though, maybe it's the fact I don't listen to that kind of indie synthpop stuff but to me it's the same sort of hate-crime against my ears and brain.

Richard Dawson was OK but served to remind me that I much prefer music where I can't hear/don't understand the lyrics (or it's some sort of pseudo-mystical bollocks etc) about 95% of the time

It just boils down to the fact that different people like different things, I guess.

I've had a few drinks at lunchtime so I'm not sure how much sense I'm making I should probably stfu for a while

that Zeppelin song is incredible though, and the album it features on one of the greatest ever.

i like the ambition & enterprise of that Destroyer song, even if it ain't strictly my thing. i'll always take something that exasperates because it reaches for too much over something meek & unimaginative.

aw I know different people like different things, wasn't trying to essentialise your tastes - just that I expected more #teamcardiacs solidarity ;) anyway, hate away, ilx needs more hate sometimes

i really do like the Dawson. it only bewildered me for a short time until i realised that dismissing it on the grounds of being "unmusical" was missing the point. besides, i like me a whole lot of free improv, noise etc.; it's not like i wasn't already well groomed for appreciating this.

this thread is formidable and i thank everyone involved in it. sorry to be a pain, but does anyone know the title of that other thread, the 'not an epics' result thread? can't seem to find it.

How long do the images take to make? I've belatedly twigged there's a bit more to it than i first thought, e.g see the way the running time is picked out in multicolours on the Inner Life image, which is very cool.

i am very surprised about how few prog-rock has made it onto the list yet. 40 years ago epic was more or less equal to prog. from the classic period, the seventies up till now it was just "moon in june" and "heart of the sunrise". pink floyd, genesis, king crimson etc. will surely feature in the top 50, i suppose. "youth of america" is such a great fierce song to listen to driving in bad autumn weather on the motorway, it has got so much punch. btw the whole album is perfect, probably my fave record of the eighties.

http://i.imgur.com/p0DOEZ6.jpg

49T. Genesis - Supper's Ready - 5300 points | 6 votes
Duration: 23:06
Youtube
Spotify

I should've nomm'd + voted for some stuff off the first Kansas LP, I think

just in time for easter

Isn't this Geir's favourite song ever?

http://i.imgur.com/L08wQPp.jpg

49T. The Orb - A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld (Loving You) - 5300 points | 6 votes
Duration: 18:49
Youtube
Spotify

wow just scraped into the top 50, kinda surprising

I mean it isn't my favourite thing tbh but still

http://i.imgur.com/W5y5EPO.jpg

48. Cerrone - Supernature - 5375 points | 7 votes
Duration: 10:20
Youtube

http://i.imgur.com/8pyGWhM.jpg

47. Charles Mingus - Haitian Fight Song - 5425 points | 7 votes
Duration: 12:00
Youtube
Spotify

"supernature"! i voted for that one!

Two placings in a row for me. (The Orb & Cerrone)

I don't listen to the Ultraworld album that much these days but it will always have a special place in my heart as I remember my 19 year old self being absolutely blown away by it when it first came out.

Voted for Supernature. What a song and what an album cover.

Genesis + Soft Machine = cor you ppl like yer prog

supper's ready only #49? i am baffled. that is definitely top ten stuff. so varied, so creative, so premature.

http://i.imgur.com/WBANPsW.jpg

45T. Joanna Newsom - Emily - 5550 points | 6 votes | 1 #1 vote
Duration: 12:07
Youtube

Love that Genesis song, it's amazing it hangs together so well(same with "Battle Of Epping Forest"), but I never really got into that Soft Machine album in a big way, I want to try the earlier albums sometime.

joanna newsom? that must be a joke. the dullest music imaginable.

Boo on you. >=(

Eight of mine have shown up already, including "Supper's Ready." After a lifelong (and, for the most part, still ongoing) aversion to prog, SR blindsided me. At one point, I was listening to it twice a day, timing my drives to and from work so that I could hear the whole thing.

this thread is formidable and i thank everyone involved in it. sorry to be a pain, but does anyone know the title of that other thread, the 'not an epics' result thread? can't seem to find it.

Which thread was that?

THIS IS NOT AN EPICS POLL: The 10+ minute long nominations thread, ILM Ballot Poll #58
STILL NOT AN EPICS POLL - VOTING THREAD, ENDS MARCH 28

How long do the images take to make? I've belatedly twigged there's a bit more to it than i first thought, e.g see the way the running time is picked out in multicolours on the Inner Life image, which is very cool.

Not more than 101- minutes per, but then that includes looking for YT and Spotify links and images.

Err, 10-15 minutes.

Yay for "Supernature" and "Haitian Fight Song", both incredible tunes by idiosyncratic geniuses within their respective genres, and both ahead of their time... I remember when I first heard the Mingus tune, I couldn't believe it was from 1957! Dude was doing things no one else had done before him, and no one has really managed to follow up either, such a unique artist he was.

I'm listening "Supper's Ready", and that one seems to go against the "no medleys" rule of this poll? Sounds like a bunch of separate tunes segued together rather than one tune.

wait it out tuomas

Which thread was that?

THIS IS NOT AN EPICS POLL: The 10+ minute long nominations thread, ILM Ballot Poll #58
STILL NOT AN EPICS POLL - VOTING THREAD, ENDS MARCH 28

Hi, thanks for these. I'm looking for the one which was mainly single movement classical pieces? Tuomas curated it, maybe?

aw man, I can't believe I forgot to nominate 'Pithecanthropus Erectus', his most exhilarating '50s epic. I am not down with 'The Clown'.

"The Clown" didn't make the final results (yet -- though I'd be surprised if it did) -- "Haitian Fight Song" from The Clown LP did.

wait, nvm, #47 is 'Haitian Fight Song', which I voted for. I looked at the cover art and was baffled that 7 people had voted for 'The Clown'.

xpost - yeah, what Tarfumes said

voted for Emily!

the Mingus song i voted for hasn't appeared... yet

Ys isn't my favorite, but I generally love Joanna Newsom (after stupidly avoiding her for a long time because, on paper, she is decidedly Not My Thing) and "Emily" is a beautiful song.

Looking forward to checking out so much of this stuff that I've never heard before.

I hope this poll finds room for Van Morrison.

maybe showtime was having an intense negotiation with lynch and he pounded his fist and said Alright, I'll do it for less money if you agree to just one thing, boys, then slapped this on the table

http://i.imgur.com/y5bw9Os.jpg

two hours later lynch walked out to the parking lot and there was still no deal

sorry, wrong thread

twin epics

First time I've ever properly listened to Genesis and I really enjoyed that track.

But I'm resigned to the fact that only my King Crimson, VDGG and Godspeed picks have any chance in the rundown now because I feel like my black/avant-metal picks would have placed already if they would at all.

LASTLY I like the instrumental parts of Joanna Newsom but her voice wants to make me want to bang my head against the wall until all noise stops

Seriously if Newsom didn't have a voice that made me want to destroy all life Ys would likely be one of my favourite albums

For anyone who isn't into Newsom's voice on Ys, it does get more erm.. normal (?) on Have One On Me.

I forgot to vote in this pool, but Emily would have been my #1.

I'm listening "Supper's Ready", and that one seems to go against the "no medleys" rule of this poll? Sounds like a bunch of separate tunes segued together rather than one tune.

Well none of the pieces appear elsewhere and I do think that it all comes round very well in the end. I'm surprised it didn't place higher, really!

I'm looking for the one which was mainly single movement classical pieces?

classical nomination supplemental thread

chances of any of them getting a showing here are looking kind of slim