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I need some epic new wave for an epic road trip that's coming up. It should conjur epic visual or ideological imagery. It should have epic builds and falls. It might give one chills. It would be epic if I could get some replies of your favorite epics. Examples - The Chameleons' Up the Down Escalator, Echo & the Bunnymen's Silver, or dare I even say Frankie's cover of Born to Run.

Epic: heroic; majestic; impressively great, surpassing the usual or ordinary, particularly in scope or size

I always liked the guitar bands of that era, which make for pretty good driving music. Some songs off the top of my head:

Big Country - Fields of Fire
U2 - A Celebration (or,if you can stand it, One Tree Hill)
The Alarm - The Stand (EP version)
Simple Minds - The Kick Inside of Me
Midnight Oil - Read About It
Divinyls - Boys in Town
Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away
The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
Tears for Fears - Suffer the Children
INXS - All the Voices
Armoury Show - (pretty much anything from Waiting for the Floods)
Nova Mob (Grant Hart) - Evergreen Memorial Drive ("hidden track" on the s/t Nova Mob disc, not the version on Ecce Homo)

Some more:

Ultravox - One Small Day
The Dead Milkmen - Serrated Edge
Crazy 8's - Johnny Q
Haysi Fantaysee - Shiny Shiny (ok, an acquired taste)
Madness - Wings of a Dove (or baggy trousers)
Fishbone - Lyin' Ass Bitch
Stiff Little Fingers - Wasted Life
Mi-Sex - Computer Games
Cramps - New Kind of Kick
Clash - I Fought the Law
Chameleons - Second Skin (I like the Peel Sessions version)
Pogues - (take your pick)
X - Los Angeles
Hoodoo Gurus - Like Wow Wipeout
Dave Edmunds - Girls Talk
Queen / David Bowie - Under Pressure
Vapors - Turnin Japanese
Manufactured Romance - Time of My Life
The Interview - To the People
The Clean - Oddity
Pere Ubu - Street Waves
Spacemen 3 - Transparent Radiation

If you want epic song arrangements, I'd go back to the 60's -- pretty things (sf sorrow), love (forever changes), kinks (arthur, or village green).

Quick spin around my iPod gave me this:


EATB - Show Of Strength
Big Black - Kasimir S. Pulaski Day
X - True Love Pt.2
Felt - Primitive Painters
Paul Gardiner - Stormtrooper In Drag
Ministry - All Day
C Cat Trance - Shake The Mind
The Feelies - Slipping Into Something
Ultravox - The Voice
Cabaret VOltaire - Sensoria
Cabaret Voltaire - Yashar
Abecedarians - Smiling Monarchs
Moev - Ablibis
Blancmange - Blind Vision
Blancmange - Feel Me
Jesus and Mary Chain - Never Understand
Shriekback - Black Light Trap
The Waterboys - We Will Not Be Lovers
New Order - Temptation
New Order - Confusion
New Order - 586
Simple Minds - Changeling
Simple Minds - The American
The The - Perfect
The The - Uncertain Smile
PIL - The Order Of Death
Vital Sines - Collage
Nitzer Ebb - Murderous
Cassandra Complex - One Millionth Happy Customer
Thinkman - Best Adventures
WOrld Party - Ship Of Fools
Front 242 - Masterhit
Front 242 - Headhunter
Front 242 - Quite Unusual
A Split Second - Rigor Mortis
Sisters Of Mercy - Dominion/Mother Russia
Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People

I'll add a few more,

Brian Eno & David Byrne - The Jezebel Spirit
China Crisis - African & White
Depeche Mode - Get The Balance Right
Propaganda - P Machinery
Propaganda - Dr. Mabuse
The Lucy Show - Dream Days
The Psychedelic Furs - India
Lords of The New Church - Black Girl, White Girl

The Alarm - 68 Guns
Waterboys - A Girl Called Johnny
Lords Of The New Church - Open Your Eyes
P.I.L. - Rise
Big Country - Fields Of Fire is a good call Sally
Mission Of Burma - Academy Fight Song
Translator - Everywhere That I'm Not
The Call - Turn A Blind Eye
Roxette - Pretty Much Anything
The Fixx - Red Skies
The Cult - Love
Wire Train - Stone Me (early 90's but fits)
Dramarama - Visiting The Zoo
Lloyd Cole - Perfect Skin
Pete Shelley - Homosapien

Dragon - "Rain"
John Palumbo - "Blowing Up Detroit"
Radio Heart feat Gary Numan - "Radio Heart"
The Jam - "Precious"
The Armoury Show - "Castles in Spain"

and beyond the scope of new wave but may fit:
Sisters of Mercy - "Detonation Blvd"
Eels - "Mr E's Beautiful Blues" - good song for the morning...

Awesome thread!

Definitely start out with a couple of loud, we're-on-a-journey type rockers... And then mine some segues: hot songs that end quietly, cross-faded with quiet start-ups...

The Cars - Good Times Roll
The Skids - Into The Valley
Thompson Twins - Coastline

Roxy Music - Mother Of Pearl
Voice Of America - Story Of Love
OMD -Telegraph
Blue Peter - Don't Walk Past
Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours
The Sound - "a new way of life"
Brian Eno - King's Lead Hat
Talking Heads - The Great Curve
Associates - Skipping
Bauhaus - The Passion Of Lovers
The Blue Nile - Tinseltown In The Rain
The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
David Bowie - "Helden"
Killing Joke - Follow The Leader
Buzzcocks - I Believe
Bill Nelson - Another Day, Another Ray Of Hope
The Cure - one of those 10-minute live versions of A Forest



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[quote][i]Originally posted by coop41[/i]
<br>The Alarm - 68 Guns
Waterboys - A Girl Called Johnny
Lords Of The New Church - Open Your Eyes
P.I.L. - Rise
Big Country - Fields Of Fire is a good call Sally
Mission Of Burma - Academy Fight Song
Translator - Everywhere That I'm Not
The Call - Turn A Blind Eye
Roxette - Pretty Much Anything
The Fixx - Red Skies
The Cult - Love
Wire Train - Stone Me (early 90's but fits)
Dramarama - Visiting The Zoo
Lloyd Cole - Perfect Skin
Pete Shelley - Homosapien
[/quote]

Right in the middle!![:D][:D][:D]
The Coopster done good!

Ooh, some great stuff. I might be able to fill both sides of a C90. [:p]

[quote][i]Originally posted by wherewereuin82[/i]
<br>Quick spin around my iPod gave me this:


EATB - Show Of Strength
Big Black - Kasimir S. Pulaski Day
X - True Love Pt.2
Felt - Primitive Painters
Paul Gardiner - Stormtrooper In Drag
Ministry - All Day
C Cat Trance - Shake The Mind
The Feelies - Slipping Into Something
Ultravox - The Voice
Cabaret VOltaire - Sensoria
Cabaret Voltaire - Yashar
Abecedarians - Smiling Monarchs
Moev - Ablibis
Blancmange - Blind Vision
Blancmange - Feel Me
Jesus and Mary Chain - Never Understand
Shriekback - Black Light Trap
The Waterboys - We Will Not Be Lovers
New Order - Temptation
New Order - Confusion
New Order - 586
Simple Minds - Changeling
Simple Minds - The American
The The - Perfect
The The - Uncertain Smile
PIL - The Order Of Death
Vital Sines - Collage
Nitzer Ebb - Murderous
Cassandra Complex - One Millionth Happy Customer
Thinkman - Best Adventures
WOrld Party - Ship Of Fools
Front 242 - Masterhit
Front 242 - Headhunter
Front 242 - Quite Unusual
A Split Second - Rigor Mortis
Sisters Of Mercy - Dominion/Mother Russia
Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People

I'll add a few more,

Brian Eno & David Byrne - The Jezebel Spirit
China Crisis - African & White
Depeche Mode - Get The Balance Right
Propaganda - P Machinery
Propaganda - Dr. Mabuse
The Lucy Show - Dream Days
The Psychedelic Furs - India
Lords of The New Church - Black Girl, White Girl


[/quote]

CFNY listener.

Some artists that haven't been mentioned yet (I think)

Cactus World News - The Bridge
The Church - Is This Where You Live, Tantalized
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Dubh Chapter - Touch and Go
March Violets - Walk into the Sun
Pylon - Stop It
Stranglers - Always the Sun
X - Blue Spark

The Stiffs-Standing Ovations
Tv Smith's Explorers-Last words from a great explorer
Sparks-Decline and fall of me
Simple Minds-Wasteland
Skafish-Obsession
The Sound-Winning
Motors-Metropolis and Forget about you
City Boy-The day the earth caught fire
Teardrop Explodes-Reward
20/20-Beat City
Sweeney Todd-Tantalize
Stiff Little Fingers-Is that what you fought the war for

Tenpole Tudor - Let The Four Winds Blow

Music for Pleasure - Time

The Call - "The Walls Came Down" and "Scene Beyond Dreams"

Big Country - "Wonderland"

Payola$ - "I'll Find Another (Who Can Do It Right)"





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