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Renkls 
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 Topic: Progressive Rock Songs 30+ minutes
Posted: June 22 2012 at 04:44 |
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Hello all,
I know topics such as this (the length of prog songs) comes up frequently, but I've been contributing with this guy over on RYM in regards to the longest progressive rock based songs with a lower limit of 30 minutes. I've always been curious to the obscurities that arise in prog rock that never get heard - and from this list and in my own time I've uncovered quite a few.
Like this one for example, which I enjoy quite a bit.
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=9406
But yeah, the topic of this thread is suggestions aside from those mentioned in the link to more 30+ minute long prog rock epics.
here's the link:
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/progshine/as_mais_longas_faixas_do_rock_progressivo___the_longest_tracks_on_progressive_rock
Hopefully it's a good initial guideline to some artists not afraid to be an affront to commercial radio.
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Cthulhu42
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Posted: June 22 2012 at 07:58 |
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Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play
Transatlantic - Stranger in your Soul and All of the Above
Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (I don't really see it as one song, but I know others do)
Edited by Cthulhu42 - June 22 2012 at 08:03
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Fox On The Rocks
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Posted: June 22 2012 at 12:35 |
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Mike Oldfield - Most of his albums from the 70's. Though split into parts, I'd consider them as whole, consecutive pieces of music.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Providence
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
The Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini
The Flower Kings - Garden Of Dream and The Truth Will Set You Free
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Monadology
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Posted: June 22 2012 at 13:22 |
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echolyn's Mei clocks in at just over fifty minutes.
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: June 22 2012 at 15:17 |
Might wanna check these out:
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=73219&KW=longest http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=56438&KW=longest
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The Doctor
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Posted: June 22 2012 at 15:36 |
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Jethro Tull - TAAB and APP
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Phideaux - Snowtorch
Echolyn - Mei
Can only think of 5 off the top of my head. Never really dug the full thirty minutes of The Truth Will Set You Free, it seemed like a third could have been cut out of the song and it would have made the song a whole lot better. And Garden of Dreams, I just could never quite consider that as one complete song, it always struck me as a collection of songs. The same with Transatlantic's All of the Above (which really just runs VerseA/ChorusA three times, then VerseB/ChorusB three times, then VerseC/ChorusC three times, etc., etc.
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Posted: June 22 2012 at 20:20 |
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Surprised no one said it already, though perhaps I'm confused by your phrasing, songs OVER 30 minutes? Or below? Nonetheless, a fantastic track (which is an acquired taste) is The Ikon by Todd Rundgren's Utopia. The length is 30:26, if you're a fan of extended solos, this is a MUST. I love me my Todd Rundgren. And this is one of the many reasons (track-wise).
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Raccoon
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Posted: June 22 2012 at 20:22 |
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Nevermind, The Ikon is at 59. Prog bless.
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CCVP
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Posted: June 22 2012 at 21:03 |
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Not rock, but Dream Theater's Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence is 42 minutes long.
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AlexDOM
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Posted: June 22 2012 at 22:26 |
Green Carnation Light Of Day, Day of Darkness Moon Safari Other Half of the Sky
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Anthony H.
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Posted: June 22 2012 at 22:42 |
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The Truth Will Set You Free by The Flower Kings.
The Truth Will Set You Free by The Flower Kings.
The Truth Will Set You Free by The Flower Kings.
The Truth Will Set You Free by The Flower Kings.
The Truth Will Set You Free by The Flower Kings.
The Truth Will Set You Free by The Flower Kings.
The Truth Will Set You Free by The Flower Kings.
The Truth Will Set You Free by The Flower Kings.
I think you get the point.
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Posted: June 22 2012 at 22:43 |
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Singularity Between Sunlight and Shadow
43+ minutes. Broken in to tracks on the CD, but actually one continuous song.
Edge of Sanity Crimson
40 minutes exactly
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Renkls
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Posted: June 23 2012 at 06:33 |
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The list is specified for songs over thirty minutes long, in an unbroken track. Six degrees and other songs broken into tracks aren't included. I'm just wondering if anyone knows of any others?
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darkshade
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Posted: June 23 2012 at 11:59 |
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Neal Morse's new album due out in September is going to have a 33 minute epic.
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Sagichim
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Posted: June 23 2012 at 12:04 |
 Raccoon wrote:
Surprised no one said it already, though perhaps I'm confused by your phrasing, songs OVER 30 minutes? Or below? Nonetheless, a fantastic track (which is an acquired taste) is The Ikon by Todd Rundgren's Utopia. The length is 30:26, if you're a fan of extended solos, this is a MUST. I love me my Todd Rundgren. And this is one of the many reasons (track-wise).
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All true. Amazing track.
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wjohnd
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Posted: June 23 2012 at 12:12 |
darkshade wrote:
Neal Morse's new album due out in September is going to have a 33 minute epic.
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Interesting. Is much known about the album? Loved sola scriptura, but not been convinced by much of his other solo work.
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wjohnd
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Posted: June 23 2012 at 12:14 |
sagichim wrote:
Raccoon wrote:
Surprised no one said it already, though perhaps I'm confused by your phrasing, songs OVER 30 minutes? Or below? Nonetheless, a fantastic track (which is an acquired taste) is The Ikon by Todd Rundgren's Utopia. The length is 30:26, if you're a fan of extended solos, this is a MUST. I love me my Todd Rundgren. And this is one of the many reasons (track-wise).
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All true. Amazing track. |
Haven't listened to todd r in many a year. Thanks for the reminder.
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richardh
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Posted: June 23 2012 at 12:45 |
Amarok (Oldfield) is the longest one I know with no seperate parts , a complete peice that lasts 60 minutes.I don't know any others over 30 minutes. ELP - Karn Evil 9 comes close at 29 minutes although the live versions with the drum solo pushed it to 35 minutes.
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Anthony H.
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Posted: June 23 2012 at 13:25 |
Renkls wrote:
The list is specified for songs over thirty minutes long, in an unbroken track. Six degrees and other songs broken into tracks aren't included. I'm just wondering if anyone knows of any others?
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"Mount Analogue" by John Zorn.
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darkshade
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Posted: June 23 2012 at 13:36 |
Renkls wrote:
The list is specified for songs over thirty minutes long, in an unbroken track. Six degrees and other songs broken into tracks aren't included. I'm just wondering if anyone knows of any others?
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I don't know why that matters. The reason most bands split the really, really long tracks up is because they are so long, this way you can navigate to where you left off if you had to take a break for some reason. You don't want a single track of Garden of Dreams do you (1 hour long) and then scan through it to find where you left off, do you?
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