[MonsieurFish]

So about once a year I discover a song, that contrary to my main rock and roll category of music (Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Soundgarden etc...), just blows my mind. The kind of song I'm talking about is generally either a piano solo song, or piano accompanied by strings or some sort of orchestra, and if you find the right one, its hard to find a better piece of music.

For example, recently on my ipod, my top 25 most played playlist consisted of my general sort of music, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses, Smashing Pumpkins, The Killers, Pearl Jam etc.... but at the top of this list.... a song called "Central Park" from the movie King Kong, written by James Newton Howard (never heard of him).

This is the song: (the quality is kinda bad, but it goes so well with the scene and it was the only one that had the video too)




When watching this, I literally nearly bawled my eyes out, and music in the background just blew my mind it was so perfect.

Another one of these songs occurs in the movie V for Vendetta, and it's called "Valerie". This piano part repeats alot throughout the movie, but the best and longest version of it is in this song.

The part im talking about starts at exactly 4:08 of this video clip and runs until the end.



Today I found another one of these songs, for the first time in over a year, which is much too long. It came from the movie "The Snowman" which I now remember I watched when I was a little kid and cried my eyes out a million times to.



There's also a piano version of this song which is just as good, if not better.

Anyways, hearing this song for the first time in probably 15 years today is making me crave for more. Maybe I'm weird and the only one who actually enjoys this stuff, but if not, could someone please direct me to some of their favourite "epic" songs in this style?

edit:

a couple more of these types of songs that I love, although not as epic, and a little more mainstream are:

Metallica: Ecstasy of gold



And the end part of On Every Street by Dire Straits, starting at 2:41 is the part I mean:



There is a better version out there from their live album On the Night, but i couldn't find it on youtube.