We all know that there was a downturn in progressive rock music activity during the 1980s. Thus, there are few "epic" length songs from which to choose. Due to this fact, I have decided to permit a few sub-nine-minute length songs in this list.
Among the All-Time Greatest Epics of Progressive Rock History
- "As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls" (10) - PAT METHENY & LYLE MAYS
- "Gevecht Met De Engel Deel I, II, & III" FLAIRCK
- "Dream Within a Dream" (10) - PROPAGANDA
- "Are You Going With Me?" (10) - THE PAT METHENY GROUP
- "Minuano in 6/8" (10) - THE PAT METHENY GROUP
- "Le cri" (10) - ESKATON
9.5 Songs
"The Sheltering Sky" (9.5) - KING CRIMSON
"Welcome to The Pleasuredome" (9.5) - FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
"The Ninth Wave" (9.5) - KATE BUSH
"Pitié" (9.5) - ESKATON
"Brilliant Trees" (9.5) - DAVID SYLVIAN
"Piktors Verwandlungen" (9.5) - ANYONE'S DAUGHTER
"Wave" (9.5) - DAVID SYLVIAN
"Same Deep Water as You" (9.5) - THE CURE
"Občasná pánská jízda" (9.5) - MODRY EFEKT (Blue Effect)
"Disintegration" (9.5) - THE CURE
"All The Fallen People" - MR. SIRIUS
"Présage" (9.5) - UNIVERS ZERO
9.0 Songs
"Incubus" (9) - MARILLION
"Eskaton" (9) - ESKATON
"Tangram" Set 1 (9) - TANGERINE DREAM
"Memento z banalnym triptykiem" - SBB
"Attente" (9) - ESKATON
"Anniversio" (9) - PAZZO FANFANO DI MUSICA
"The Network of Sparks" - DAVID TORN
"Sleepless" (extended version) (9) - KING CRIMSON
"The Everso Closely Guarded Line" (9) - CARDIACS
"Marsibéli Krónikák I-VI" (9) - SOLARIS
"Emmanations" (9) - UNIVERS ZERO
"The Rainbow" (9) - TALK TALK
"Tota in The Moya" (9) - YEZDA URFA
"Barren Dream" - MR. SIRIUS
"Pressure" (9) - PEKKA POHJOLA
"3, Almost 4, 6, Yea" (9) - YEZDA URFA
"Circles" - TERJE RYPDAL
"The Last Requiem" (9) - AMENOPHIS
"La Ballade De Lénore" (9) - SHUB-NIGGURATH
"Blind Curve" (8.875) - MARILLION
8.5 Songs
"La poderosa muerte" - LOS JAIVAS
"Before the Bullfight" (8.5) - DAVID SYLVIAN
"Último Entardecer" (8.5) - BACAMARTE
"Script for a Jester's Tear" (8.5) - MARILLION
"Mystical Adventures, Pts 1-5" (8.5) - JEAN-LUC PONTY
"Onde" (8.5) - EIDER STELLAIRE
"The Last Human Gateway" (8.5) - IQ
"Esnatzea I & II" (8.5) - ITOIZ
"The Enemy Smacks" (8.5) - IQ
"Widow's Peak" (8.5) - IQ
"Incipit Tragaedia" (8.5) - SHUB-NIGGURATH
8.0 songs
"Third Wind" (8) - THE PAT METHENY GROUP
"Time It's Time" (8) - TALK TALK
"Třiatřicet" (14:25) (8) - MODRY EFEKT (Blue Effect)
"Goshakabuchi" (8) - CODONA
"Tangram Set 2" (8) - TANGERINE DREAM
"Malinye" (8) - CODONA
"Yog Sothoth" (8.0) - SHUB-NIGGURATH
"John and Mary" (8) - JACO PASTORIUS
7.5 Songs
"The Camera Eye" (7.5) - RUSH
"Steel Cathedrals" (7.5) - DAVID SYLVIAN
"La Poderosa muerta" (7.5) - LOS JAIVAS
"Inner Organs" (7.5) - CODONA
"Beauty and the Beast" (7.5) - PEKKA POHJOLA
"Liberty City" (7.5) - JACO PASTORIUS
7.0 Songs
"The Web" (7) - MARILLION
Yet to be determined:
"Le poison qui rend fou, Pt. 1" (), "Le poison qui rend fou, Pt. 2" (), "Samana" () - PRÉSENT
"Dense" (), "La corne du bois des pendus" (), "Combat" (), "Heatwave" (), "The Funeral Plain" () - UNIVERS ZERO; "Hecenia" ( ), Le passage ( ), "Le grimoire" ( ), "La vieille femme et la chandelle" ( ) - HECENIA;
