True. You can't tell me that The Light, The Creation, The Separated Man, At the End of the Day, The Doorway, Flow, etc. aren't all epic.
Fair enough, but I think Neal himself might consider his lengthier pieces to be his "more epic" epics.
If I included anything that was over 10 minutes long, the list would be incredible! Then, of course, there'd be the obligatory "Let's rank them"...
Either way, here's what I would consider in Neal's Epics list:
"The Light"
"Go The Way You Go"
"The Water"
"The Doorway"
"Time Has Come"
"The Good Don't Last"
"Harm's Way"
"Flow"
"Crack The Big Sky" (by 1 second, it's 9:59 long, but I think it's a bit epic)
"The Healing Colors Of Sound"
"At The End Of The Day"
"The Great Nothing"
"A Whole 'Nother Trip"
"The Creation"
"The Separated Man"
"The Door"
"The Conflict"
"The Conclusion"
"Lifeline"
"So Many Roads"
"Set The Kingdom" (pretty epic riffing!)
"Seeds Of Gold"
"All Of The Above"
I included AOTA mostly because his demo made up a large majority of the final song, where as DWTD and SIYS did include sizable contributions from the rest of Transatlantic. I also did not include Flying Colors' "Infinite Fire", despite it sounding a LOT like it was a Neal Morse demo to begin with.
I also didn't include pieces like "Help Me/The Spirit And The Flesh", or even "Author Of Confusion" and "Reunion", although the latter is pretty epic to me. I suppose, if you wanted, you could include ALL three of those. Then one might also consider if the 8 "Parts" of Testimony/Testimony 2 could be considered epics as they are all viewed as songs in a single piece of music (segued together), and many times, they do sound like they SHOULD be one piece. In that case, you have 8 more epics that you could consider adding to this list, ranging from 10:33 to 41:08.
-Marc.