Epic Euphony

    Here are some songs that I think are just as good in quality and have the general epic-ness as the insanely popular prog. rock standard Stairway To Heaven.  It's remarkable how this is one of the greatest songs in history, yet it isn't written in the conventional verse-chorus-verse format.  I think the progressive songs below could have had similar success had they garnered more listeners from better marketing. 

  

Symphony 2 Adagio, Rachmaninoff.  1907. 

Trio And Group Dancers, Charles Mingus.  1963.  

Selflessness, John Coltrane.  1965 

I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain, Tim Buckley.  1967 

The End, The Doors.  1967 

Cygnett Committee, David Bowie.  1969 

I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home, Grand Funk Railroad.  1970 

Stairway To Heaven, Led Zeppelin.  1971 

Brain Damage/Eclipse, Pink Floyd.  1972 

Promise Of A Fisherman, Santana.  1974 

Crime Of The Century, Supertramp.  1974 

Suite Madame Blue, Styx.  1975 

Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen.  1976 

Stargazer, Rainbow.  1976  

Awaken, Yes.  1977 

Sparrow, Marvin Gaye.  1978 

Quandra, Ray Lynch.  1982 

Fade To Black, Metallica.  1984 

Icarus' Dream Suite Op. 4, Yngwie Malmsteen.  1984 

Paradise City, Guns N' Roses.  1987 

I Am The Resurrection, The Stone Roses.  1989 

Three Days, Jane's Addiction.  1990 

Black, Pearl Jam.  1991 

Where The River Goes, Stone Temple Pilots.  1992 

Freedom, Rage Against The Machine.  1992 

Flatlands, Delerium.  1994 

Earth Song, Michael Jackson.  1995 

Eulogy, Tool.  1996 

Remembrance, Delerium.  1997 

Paranoid Android, Radiohead.  1997 

Oh Comely, Neutral Milk Hotel.  1998 

Until The Dark, Sins Of Thy Beloved.  1998 

Angel, Massive Attack.  1998 

A Sequel Of Decay, Tristania.  1999 

Viorar Vel Til Loftarasa, Sigur Ros.  1999 

Slut, Velvet Acid Christ.  1999 

A Loop In Time, Wally Brill (Banco De Gaia mix).  2000 

Jesus Of Suburbia, Green Day.  2005 

Cassandra Gemini, The Mars Volta.  2005 

Day Of The Baphomets, The Mars Volta.  2006 

Navras, Juno Reactor.  2006 

Becoming Insane, Infected Mushroom.  2007 

Ursuline, Malajube.  2009 

Tropical Disease, Air.  2009 

  

    Granted this is all subjective, but I still feel that at least a few of these would have reached Stairway status if the record companies, instead of cloning musical formats to spoon-feed the masses, deemed creatively progressive works more radio-worthy.  Maybe hundreds of years from now, when the fog has risen from this society's basin, more songs like these will get the recognition they deserve.