Recommend me some EPIC music!

[Holdfast]

Please recommend some of the most bombastic, OTT, and grandiose music you can think of!

I've had Kamen's Robin Hood theme buzzing round in my head all day long. Man, it even made going grocery shopping awesome.

I'm sure you know the piece I mean, but if you haven't, here it is, to give you an idea of what kind of music I'm hankering for right now... any era/genre is acceptable to me though obviously orchestral works are perhaps a bit more likely to fit the criteria.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTRjPdFnAs0&feature[/yt]

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvvq2PsgyHA[/yt]

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mb0Wpsfjks[/yt]

 

[auntiehill]

this has to be included...utter class

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl5McGN2L-E

^ Now found in movie-trailers everywhere!


Trevor Jones' Last of the Mohicans
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqoFrNhrmoY&feature=watch_response[/yt]

Henry V Battle of Agincourt by Simon Rattle
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1rUfsn3Ydw[/yt]

Opening Theme to John Adams Miniseries
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDGVcq2UFNE[/yt]

Epic Yourself Out, my friend.

 

[Kegg]

Obligatory Gustav Holst link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I

Just as required grabs from E.S. Posthumus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5BV4M4uyFE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvV-SE3dDZ0

Really, E.S. Posthumus are pretty much synomyous with 'epic orchestral music'. Even if you've never heard of them, you've heard them used in a half-dozen movie trailers and TV ads and the like.

 

[RandyS]

Anything by John Williams.

(well, except for the Ewok March)

 

[Skellington]

Please recommend some of the most bombastic, OTT, and grandiose music you can think of!

You asked for it! This sprang immediately to mind:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEJ8lpCQbyw&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/yt]

 

[iguana_tonante]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEt41bYQBgE&feature=fvst[/yt]

 

[Holdfast]

Some great suggestions, thanks! I've been randomly browsing youtube for more music too. Some good stuff, but a lot of what's tagged as epic there is just high tempo intense all the way, rather than swooping up and down the intensity scale, if you know what I mean.

The grand swoopy stuff is more interesting to me than the super intense constant stuff.

this has to be included...utter class
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl5McGN2L-E

^ Now found in movie-trailers everywhere!

Yeah it's a very cool track. Here's something a bit creepy though: Breivik apparently had that playing on repeat during his shooting spree.

Henry V Battle of Agincourt by Simon Rattle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1rUfsn3Ydw

Enjoyed this a lot; hadn't heard it before, at least not presented fully like this. Thanks!

grabs from E.S. Posthumus

Yeah, I came across them while browsing youtube, but found some of their stuff a bit lacking in variation. Not the worst offenders for that though; that would be Immediate Music/Globus. Some cool stuff, but too much of it sounds very similar.

Good call on Holst's Planet suite though; definitely my cup of tea. One of the few classical CDs I own.

Sticking with the classics:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoR4jeB6OI0[/yt]

^ was one of my mother's favourites, and it rubbed off on me. We actually used it at her funeral, too.

Anything by John Williams.

(well, except for the Ewok March)

Hey, even that would be EPIC if you were an Ewok!

But since you mentioned Star Wars:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt0UuNpUqK4[/yt]

and of course:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzWSJG93P8[/yt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEt41bYQBgE&feature=fvst

Nice choice. And from one sub movie to another:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=078xleu3qSk[/yt]

and

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ3MkrSc5yY[/yt]

Please recommend some of the most bombastic, OTT, and grandiose music you can think of!

You asked for it! This sprang immediately to mind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEJ8lpCQbyw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Yeah, that qualifies! I suppose we should also include the Flash Gordon theme....

 

[Shazam!]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ZULMk1zy0

 

[Holdfast]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ZULMk1zy0

Not really the epic I was looking for, as Obi-Wan might once have said... lol'ed though; I hereby decree that this should be the new rickroll.

 

[RandyS]

Hey, even that would be EPIC if you were an Ewok!

But since you mentioned Star Wars:

Not just Star Wars, but Indy Jones, Superman, Jurrasic Park, Space Camp, etc.

Like I said, anything by John Williams.

Another favorite composer of mine is James Horner, but I don't know if his stuff is considered bombastic. But I would argue that it's "epic".

 

[Shazam!]

LOL but seriously...

So-so movie, but an epic track, particularly 2:23 onwards:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyZOARb94zU&feature=related

 

[Greg Cox]

War of the Worlds: The Musical.

 

[Balrog]

http://www.youtube.com/embed/AyggY_R3jU8

 

[IndyJones]

I've had Kamen's Robin Hood theme buzzing round in my head all day long. Man, it even made going grocery shopping awesome.

Another good piece by Kamen (RIP)

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZOJ0_sRznM&feature=fvst[/yt]

And are you sick of the Olympics yet?

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3kNRyh_rj8[/yt]

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Courtyard Apocalypse - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 - Alexandre Desplat

Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor) - Sunshine - John Murphy

Labor of Love - Star Trek - Michael Giacchino

Moving Mountains - Various Trailers - Two Steps from Hell (my personal favorite of theirs is Heart of Courage from the Mass Effect 2 trailer, but that doesn't really have as much of the variation you were looking for)

Time - Inception - Hans Zimmer

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Scrawny71, Queen always works for epic rock

To me, most of the symphonic metal genre is pretty epic, original Nightwish most of all.

Well crafted songs, usually with an opera quality female voice.

 

[Evil Twin]

Did somebody say epic?

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNY0D4z5FJ4[/yt]

One of my all-time favorite soundtracks.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhZhzt1rh7o[/yt]