I'm making these judgments based on big, epic, sweeping, sound for the most part. (I would sooo recommend "Tonight, Tonight" by the Smashing Pumpkins if you hadn't been the one to recommend it to me, heh.)
"All I Need" by Within Temptation. Building sound! Violins like crashing! The sensation of falling hard and fast in love! Every song by Within Temptation is pretty epic, but they tend to be dark; this one isn't.
X/1999 Theme, String Quartet Version. An instrumental that I found long before I watched the series itself. This romantic instrumental kept me crying to sleep for weeks; I wish I was kidding. It switched my imagination into overdrive. It's played by no more than four violins, but the sound they produce is so tragic that I visualized at least four different romantic and epic storylines to accompany it; maybe this song is what made the series so disappointing.
This is the only instrumental I'll rec, since there are faaar too many that work perfectly. (Lies. VISION OF ESCAFLOWNE OST and every damn song on this page, especially "Athena's Victory!") It's different from most instrumentals in that there's no orchestra, just four violins, and so the sound is cantabile, songlike.
On Your Shore by Charlotte Martin. Damn epic song! More violins, again like the sound of crashing waves! The lyrics imply a romance that went wrong and feelings that remain, but the bit where she repeats, "Here I am, here I am" over and over again seems to me like it should pervade an epic makeout moment.
"The Power of Love" from that Sailor Moon movie. This is... probably not what you were thinking of when you wrote this post, but it IS an epic love song, in its own way...? Okay, fine, so it's CERTAINLY not what you are looking for, but I'll be damned if it doesn't make you gushy and sappy about friendship. (... really, I just wanted to put it on the list. >_>)
I'm not at my computer with my real storage of music, so I think this is it for now. This is probably late and past the moment, but eh, recs never hurt. ^^
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"All I Need" by Within Temptation. Building sound! Violins like crashing! The sensation of falling hard and fast in love! Every song by Within Temptation is pretty epic, but they tend to be dark; this one isn't.
X/1999 Theme, String Quartet Version. An instrumental that I found long before I watched the series itself. This romantic instrumental kept me crying to sleep for weeks; I wish I was kidding. It switched my imagination into overdrive. It's played by no more than four violins, but the sound they produce is so tragic that I visualized at least four different romantic and epic storylines to accompany it; maybe this song is what made the series so disappointing.
This is the only instrumental I'll rec, since there are faaar too many that work perfectly. (Lies. VISION OF ESCAFLOWNE OST and every damn song on this page, especially "Athena's Victory!") It's different from most instrumentals in that there's no orchestra, just four violins, and so the sound is cantabile, songlike.
On Your Shore by Charlotte Martin. Damn epic song! More violins, again like the sound of crashing waves! The lyrics imply a romance that went wrong and feelings that remain, but the bit where she repeats, "Here I am, here I am" over and over again seems to me like it should pervade an epic makeout moment.
"The Power of Love" from that Sailor Moon movie. This is... probably not what you were thinking of when you wrote this post, but it IS an epic love song, in its own way...? Okay, fine, so it's CERTAINLY not what you are looking for, but I'll be damned if it doesn't make you gushy and sappy about friendship. (... really, I just wanted to put it on the list. >_>)
I'm not at my computer with my real storage of music, so I think this is it for now. This is probably late and past the moment, but eh, recs never hurt. ^^