I want 20 minutes (and more) long songs!

Partially to be awkward, I wrote a 37 minute long Krautrock song on my second album back in 2014. 

Now I'm not quite sure why I did it. I'd written 17 minute songs before, this one just grew and grew into a kind of symphony. I try to avoid doing massively long songs now, to be honest. I wasn't particularly bothered about being awkward or making it impossible to play on radio, it was just an enormous one off. ;-)

I suppose some people replying to the thread will say "why write a long piece ? " to which the answer is "why not, it's art, no rules other than the ones you choose to follow."

Anyway, here it is, somewhat Teutonically. ;-)

https://brotherhoodofthemachine.bandcamp.com/album/trip-hazard

I listened to harvest of souls from a reply on this thread, and wow. It does strongly emulate suppers ready, but nevertheless it was amazing.

dougmcauliffe wrote: Logan wrote: ^ And stretch two minutes of material into a twenty minute song. Do you like the same song written over and over again just slightly different? Well do I have have an artist for you!

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A few more I thought of:

Univers Zero - La Faulx (25:18)
Gerard Manset "La Mort D'Orion" (24:28)
Ash Ra Tempel "Traummaschine" (25:24)
Bubu "El Cortejo de un Día Amarillo" (19:25) Yes, not quite, but a good long one. never-the-less.
Herbie Hancock "Sleeping Giant" (24:48).
Earth and Fire "Song of the Marching Children" (18:20) Thought about mentioning this before even though its under 19 minutes, but I find this too good not to mention.

And then there are a tonne of long electronic instrumentals, such as by Tangerine Dream and lesser known ones, and electric jazz acts.

Edited by Logan - December 12 2019 at 02:58

Logan wrote: ^ And stretch two minutes of material into a twenty minute song.

Do you like the same song written over and over again just slightly different? Well do I have have an artist for you!

They say Neal Morse can write a 20 minute song in under 10 minutes

Off the top of my head, I can think of three:

The Underfall Yard by Big Big Train
Visions by Haken
Creature by The Tea Club

Bjorn J:Son Lindh - "Musik från en storstad"
Caravan "Nine Feet Underground"
Pink Floyd "Echoes"
Focus "Eruption"
Focus "Hamburger Concerto"
Jean-Paul Prat "Masal"
Can - "Bel Air"
Magma - "Theusz Hamtaahk"
Art Zoyd "Glissements Progressifs du Plaisir"
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - "Osorezan" (five seconds under)

Everything is in the title (sorry for being this impolite but I'm craving for it right now)

I have listened to:

-YES: Close To The Edge

-KING CRIMSON: Lizard, Lark's Tongues In Aspic (The Suite)

-JETHRO TULL: Thick As A Brick, A Passion Play

-ELP: Tarkus, Karn Evil 9

-RUSH: 2112, Cygnus X-1 Books I & II

-MUSEO ROSENBACH: Zarathustra

-VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR: A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers, Flight (Hamill)

-GENESIS: Supper's Ready

-PINK FLOYD: Atom Heart Mother

-MIKE OLDFIELD: Tubular Bells, Ommadawn, Amarok

-RENAISSANCE: Song Of Scheherazade

-KRAFTWERK: Autobahn

-RICK WAKEMAN: Journey To The Center Of The Earth

-MAGMA: M.D.K.


Thanks you all in advance for your wise advices!