IT'S THE "ROLLING STONE" 50 GREATEST EPICS OF ALL TIME POLL

I copied and pasted from somewhere else. Hence: "Wheezer."

And "Grandmaster Funk"

Haha. Yeah.

Totally Wheezer for me.

This reeks of a 'come up with a list of bands, figure out what their longest single is' approach. Still, I can't fully knock that when it results in underrated favorites like "Estranged" and "We're In This Together." But my vote will probably come down to "Marquee Moon"or "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'."

frankie frankie

I mean, in my mind, I don't think songs that are basic verse/chorus/verse/chorus with a long refrain at the end or a noodly midtempo solo (the "Hey Jude" formula, which describes half the songs on this list) are really suitably "epic."

WAHT, no "Sister Ray"?!

I guess I have to go with Cortez.

This reeks of a 'come up with a list of bands, figure out what their longest single is' approach.

OTM

wtf heroin???

lol @ "Natural Milk Hotel"

The End - Doors
The Message - Grandmaster Funk
Ball & Buscuit - White Stripes ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03YUgHAshSo )

I voted for Blue Monday

Should be Grandmaster Flash :~)

"Sister Ray" way over "Heroin"

I voted for JT.

Bel Air by a nose. Completely random list though.

"marquee moon"

"what goes around... comes around" is like the 3rd bet 6+ song on FS/LS.

Dudes, I don't even like, like Frank Zappa or anything, but WILLIE THE PIMP C'MON!! If they'd picked better cuts by Kraftwerk, the Velvets or Neil, it might be something else though. I was also tempted to vote for "When The Levy Breaks" but I don't know if I just feel that way cuz I've been on a Zep kick today and for a few moments this afternoon was convinced they were the best band EVER. But, you know, "Maggot Brain" will win though. And it deserves to!

"what goes around... comes around" is like the 3rd bet 6+ song on FS/LS.

It's not the best song on this list, but it IS the best JT song. If i were to put thought into this, I'd prob. vote "The Message"

you get the impression it was just the people sorting their itunes by length, looking at the list and choosing a few that no one else in the office had mentioned yet.

"All Your Friends" is like the third best 7-min.+ on Sound of Silver.

No.

the rev=rongo hulkington, tonight.

'Sad-Eyed Lady'. I blame Todd Haynes.

Uh, disco?

OUTSIDE THE STREETS ON FIRE IN A REAL DEATH WALTZ
BETWEEN WHATS FLESH AND WHATS FANTASY
HEY MAN THE POETS OUT HERE DONT WRITE NOTHING AT ALL
THEY JUST STAND BACK AND LET IT ALL BE

this is a horrendous list. grandmaster flash in a landslide, please.

Sabbath on a RS list? What's wrong with this picture?
And that's a strange Stones pick, too. Isn't "You Can't Always Get What You Want" over seven minutes long?

Voted for Zep, who were, incidentally, the greatest rock band ever.

guys stop thinking rationally.

between the Zep and the velevet underground, i'l go with Zep.

Went for "B-Boy Bouillabaise" since I don't expect anyone else will. But no "Sister Ray"? "Mr Cale has yet to pay his dues," quipped Jann at a press conference.

That list is so wtf that I'm tempted to vote for something ridiculous -- Mother Love Bone or something. But I can't do that because about half these songs are really fucking good.

No matter how good the song, I won't vote for something that isn't arguably that band's best epic, so that eliminates stuff like "Pictures of You", "Bel Air", and "Autobahn". That still leaves a handful of tough choices ... can't decide ... screw it, I'm getting the Led out.

That list is shite.

Voted "Free Bird".

AUTOBAHN

BECAUSE IT'S THE LONGEST, AND THUS GREATEST EPIC.

MATH

it's not as long as thick as a brick

Not on the list. It's not as long as lots of other great stuff not on that list either.

not listed, not epic. trust the list, it is smarter than all of us.

The 12inch of "Blue Room" for example wau I want my copy back :(

Strickly speaking "Autobahn" is more picaresque than epic.

The last cannot be taken seriously without "Supper's Ready". Have to take one more look to find something to vote for (after all there are lots of great songs in there). Probably "Starship Trooper".

Geir lost his heart to "Starship Trooper"!

Anyroad, No "Street Hassle" ?

(yeah, went for Marquee Moon of course)

Yes it's "Starshop Trooper". Would have gone for "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" had they picked that one instead of "Sheep" (I mean, WTF?)

Yeah, that was a pretty weird choice, too.

One song per artist, apparently--so no "Street Hassle" 'cause Lou is represented by "Heroin" (appropriately enough).

Their Led Zeppelin pick is unusually WTF. I mean, they left out "Stairway To Heaven" for that one?

Scenes From an Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel

instead of "Loan Me A Dime" by Boz Scaggs which is not only produced by Jann Wenner but is epic & great?

idolator will be milking this list for a week...

And "Kashmir," too. Not that I mind, but still...

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I want to vote for Maggot Brain, but it's really just, like a solo (even though it's totally awesome).

So:

Sheep by Pink Floyd

They're all pretty obvious choices for me, but they're honest. (And yeah, what's with their uniformly lousy metal picks? Zep, Sab, and Met have far better epics to offer...)

A year ago it could've been either Bauhaus, The Cure, Bowie, Jane's Addiction, New Order or Neil Young, but now it's LCD Soundsystem without question.

frankie teardrop you ponces

Maggot Brain, easy.

Is Mother Love Bone one of those bands, like Living Color or the Strokes, that RS declared the future of sliced bread and cancer research, and now feel wedded to defending their call? They're a sore thumb on this list.

I was just listening to Shadowy Men's surf-guitar cover of Autobahn, a reminder of what a transitional song it was, still grounded in the rock of the time.

Where/wow do I get that?

I always thought Autobahn would make an awesome track covered in an Oasis style (die Sonne sheinnnnneeeee der Glitzer schalllllll!!!")

http://www.didtheydie.com/morgue/images/bella_emberg.jpg
UNDEAD UNDEAD UNDEAD

haha the worst EVER blur song

Where/wow do I get that?

http://www.chunklet.com/index.cfm?section=blogs&ID=188

Blur have made worse songs, but "Tender" is definitely among their worst singles (and yet one of the "best" on "13")

No Papa Was A Rolling Stone etc

When The Levee Breaks

Bel Air

braveclub and Geir form unholy alliance of RONG

Dear Bendy: Thank you!

Sabbath, Zep and Yes in Rolling Stone? What the hell happened over there?

War Pigs, in a close one over Levee and Starship Trooper.

The sheer WTF-ness of that list is staggering - it's like some kinda bizarre parody of a list or something. But whatever...I'll go with Iron Butterfly because if I don't, nobody will. And because "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida"'s a REAL epic, and an iconic one at that, complete with much-maligned and tragically misunderstood drum solo.

For a Rolling Stone list, it's not bad. I know that's damning with faint praise.

Am I the only one who's gonna rep for the Allman's?

why not "My Mummy's Dead" looped a hundred times?

"Purple Rain"

Came down to either "Layla" or "Station to Station" for me.

WHERE IS FUCKING ORINOCO FLOW? That shit defines epic.

i voted for jungleland fuck all y'all

Gold: "Starship Trooper"
Silver: JA's "Three Days"
Bronze: "Isn't It a Pity"

Orinoco Flow is under 7 minutes. Oh, how I wish it were longer.

Sabbath, Zep and Yes in Rolling Stone?

It's pretty interesting how journalistic perspectives are shifting. Their current online entry for Yes is actually pretty positive (a major change from the 80s album guide.) (Zep is on the current cover of course.) And Mojo had a near-reverent overview of Yes a year or two ago.

When The Levee Breaks is possibly the best song on the list, but it's not an epic

Marquee Moon

True, it's not an epic--just EPIC!

Arse list.

I feel like making a THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS EPICS POLL just to make a point about how stupid this list is. Honestly. Rolling Stone = pants.

HOT RATS!!!!!!!!!

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"Autobahn". Irritating that Can and the Velvets are represented by the wrong tracks.

Where are Paranoid Android and Bohemian Rhapsody?

and Surf's Up?

"Won't Get Fooled Again." In a walk.

"When the Levee Breaks" edging out other worthy choices because of the current Zeppamania sweeping the planet. "Street Hassle" would have definitely been my pick had it been included.

I'm confused by many of the representative choices and saddened by the exclusion of my favorite cheezy epic, Sisters of Mercy's "This Corrosion" - a song that's produced by Jim fucking Steinman, unnecessarily exceeds 10 minutes, and features an opera chorale. An egregious omission.

Stupid, stupid list yes. "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant" for me, of the ones that I love on here it's the most plausibly "epic."

Street Hassle and Funhouse are glaring omissions.

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The only way it could end, really.

Won by an epic that is an epic after all.

"Close To The Edge" is way better though.

Odd that I voted for "Sheep" and it received 0 votes.

Geir, nearly the whole list fits that category.

i'd say "sweet thing/candidate/sweet thing" rivals "station to station" for bowie epic-ness. perhaps even "width of a circle" too.

no "paradise by the dashboard light", no credibility.