Epic Songs...

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I have been thinking a lot about songs that lead you in slowly then build you up into a glorious crescendo of emotions and slowly bring you down again. I love the emotional roller coaster that music can take you on. Music is one of my favourite pleasures, it can do so much for me, or with me or too me. Music evokes memories, or makes me feel things, it soothes me, it excites me, it turns me on, it makes me feel - I love it.

Some of my favourite 'epic' songs are:

Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
Eagles - Hotel California
Aerosmith - Dream On
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky
Prince - Purple Rain
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Coldplay - Fix You
Pulp - This Is Hardcore
REM - Everybody Hurts
Peter Gabriel - Red Rain
New Order - Perfect Kiss
U2 - Bad/Walk On/Hands Tha Build America
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) - If You Leave
Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness
Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland/Backstreets
Sting - Burn For You
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Journey - Open Arms
Harry Chapin - Cats In The Cradle
Rush - Tom Sawyer
David Bowie - Life On Mars
Bad Company - Shooting Star
Queensryche - Operation Mind Crime (the whole album is one long epic journey)

There are obviously loads of other Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen and other songs by artists already on my list...

How about you?, what are your favourite epic songs?