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Topic: The longest song you know
Posted By: Elderflower Man
Subject: The longest song you know
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 13:24
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Basically, what is the longest song/piece you know of? I'm sure that I won't be the only one to immediately think of Transatlantic's The Whirlwind, but since that's technically a suite, what's the longest single track you know of? Since I have just seen it on Spotify, I will say Acid Mother's Temple's "Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo", which is a whopping 65 minutes and 15 seconds long. Also, I'm hoping that this is not a topic which has already been explored. :P
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 13:31
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If you don't think a song requires vocals, Darkest Before Dawn clocks in at one hour and fourteen minutes. Philip Glass' Music With Changing Parts One hour one minute as does Eno's Thursday Afternoon. Oldfields' Amarok falls just a minute short of those.
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Posted By: rod65
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 13:47
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I'm inclined to stick with vocals as an integral component of a song. The word "song" means music that is sung as opposed to music that is exclusively instrumental. That said, the longest song I know is Galleon's "The Ocean," clocking in at 52:05. Though it is divided into parts in the notes, it is a single track on the CD. Not a huge fan of the lyrics, by the way--too heavy-handed for my taste--but instrumentally it is quite good. |
Posted By: apps79
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 13:50
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The longest thing I've heard so far is (Ithink) the 66-min long ''The Girl who Was... Death'' by DEVIL DOLL,but this one includes about 27 minutes of silence. ------------- When the power of love overcomes the love of power,the world will know peace... listen to www.justincaseradio.com , the first ever Greek Progressive Rock radio |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 13:56
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Garden of Dreams by The Flower Kings, at a hair on a gnat's arse short of an hour long.
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Posted By: mark4art
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 14:00
| I must confess I actually listened to Darkest before Dawn today 73.58 (no vocals) perhaps with vocals and excellent is Green Carnations Light of Day,Day of Darkness at 60.05 and already mentioned Galleon's The Ocean at 52.05. Not as long but as good Echolyns Mei at 49.33. These are the longest of many lengthy tracks in my library. |
Posted By: mark4art
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 14:06
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http://www.dprp.net/longsongs/longsongs.php This list is pretty comprehensive. Must confess I love the album by various Artist "Odyssey" 9 tracks the longest being 28.16 and the shortest being 21.32. Fantastic 3hrs 41 mins and 35sec, this is certainly the longest album I have! |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 14:27
Holy cow you are right. I had to look it up, but yep, its in the definition. I guess I have to start calling Canvas Solaris tracks "pieces" or "movements", neither of which are attractive terms. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
rod65 wrote:Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 14:39
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 14:41
You could try calling them compositions, or simply tracks. To be honest, when they get up to 20 minutes, "song" doesnt really seem to fit.
Anyway, Fantomas Delerium Cordia comes in at 1hr 14 minutes and 16 seconds. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 14:42
| Elderflower: Cool call on The Whirlwind being a suite. Maybe this just gets up my nose because I don't like Transatlantic but The Whirlwind is not a song. It's a group of songs just like a regular album, except there are no gaps of silence between the tracks. PLENTY of other albums do this but are not considered single songs. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 14:43
I think of Canvas Solaris albums as one song recordings...no vocals so how can they be different "songs"......you can say its one long piece of music
 The best one to me is TFK Garden of Dreams -------------   
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Posted By: JS19
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 14:52
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Green Carnation's Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness is a couple of seconds over 60 minutes ... it's also excellent :) ------------- 
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 15:02
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Hi, I was going to say that YES's "Tales from Topographic Oceans" is the one ... but it is hardly a song ... it's more like a Symphonic Work in 4 parts!
I would re-consider calling things like that "a song" ... when they are that long. It's hardly that!
I would say that Klaus Schulze has the longest anything there is out there ... but calling it a song? ... hmmmm ... let me get right on that and write some lyrics! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 15:05
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Steve Roach has to take the crown for the composer of the most albums with the mostest longestesst songs..ever?
Does anyone know if there is another artist like him? -------------
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Posted By: SFranke
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 15:15
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"Just an Old-Fashioned Schulze Track" from La Vie Electronique 4 ( I believe) is around 75 minutes. The real winner is Cage's "As Slow As Possible." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2728595.stm - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2728595.stm |
Posted By: spookytooth
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 15:21
Yup, Cage's "As Slow As Possible" definitely takes the cake...it won't be completed until about the year 2640. It's slower than drone music! ------------- 
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Posted By: JS19
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 15:24
My ears are bleeding :/ -------------
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Posted By: mark4art
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 15:30
Klaus Schulze |
Posted By: RoeDent
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 15:45
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I prefer to call them 'pieces' once they get beyond a certain length, usually around 15-20 minutes. And on the subject of The Whirlwind, the new live version of that piece is one single track lasting 79:52, which must mean that the band consider it to be one single piece of music. Same goes with The Incident, Garden of Dreams and Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. The only reason they split them is for ease, so you don't have to scroll through the disc if you want to hear a particular section. That is the difference, imo, between a 'track' and a 'song' or 'piece'. Classical symphonies are split into movements, usually with one CD track per movement, but they are still considered one single, unified piece of music. |
Posted By: Elderflower Man
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 17:13
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For clarification, I tend to refer to pieces on any rock album as "songs", simply because that's the name I've had for them. Though I think that I usually refer to instrumentals as instrumentals. =P I'll add that to the OP if that helps. Anyway, suites, pieces, symphonies, songs- I'd like to hear about all of it, because I do love my long songs. But I think it is necessary to define pieces that are divided into sections that can stand alone from those that are intended as continuous, unbroken pieces of music in all forms. To use Dream Theater as an example, Octavarium has movements within it, but that's an unbroken piece of music, whereas Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence is a suite, clearly defined into eight sections that can stand on their own, so I tend to feel slightly as though SDOIT was cheating. :P It does help when they get grouped as one track on an album, I suppose. Maybe that's just me. ------------- All your hearts now seem so far from me, It hardly seems to matter now. |
Posted By: questionsneverknown
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 17:43
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Perhaps not a song, but one of the longest compositions I'm aware of is Morton Feldman's String Quartet II, which takes around 6 hours to perform . . . and it actually does get performed. For the musicians, it's an endurance test, like hiking the Grand Canyon, with similar experiences of beauty to compensate for the pain. ------------- The damage that we do is just so powerfully strong we call it love The damage that we do just goes on and on and on but not long enough. --Robyn Hitchcock |
Posted By: topographicbroadways
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 19:23
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you can't really discount something for being a suite long compositions are written in sections any 15 minute+ piece you think of will have movements i struggle to think of any long pieces that aren't suites in movements unless you start thinking of late 60's psych songs that could last 15 minutes or 2 hours depending on how much acid was in the bands system -------------  
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Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 19:57
| Isn't The Whirlwind a single song divided into sections? That's how I've always thought of it... The live one track version is 80 minutes. |
Posted By: Mushroom Sword
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 19:58
Lol it reminds me of this... Edit: From Here: http://www.cracked.com/funny-2359-progressive-rock/ Which is where I got my name from. |
Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 19:59
 That's actually the link for my signature right now  |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 21:32
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http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=18569 - This. And it's one hell of a song. A honourable mention goes to song/album Requiem Apocalyptique by http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4597 - Guillaume de la Pilliere . Very good, too. ------------- |
Posted By: Kazuhiro
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 21:52
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"Interlude/Theme From Jack Johnson" collected in Agharta of Miles Davis is 56 seconds for one hour.
The name of a song has adhered separately. However, it will be able to be interpreted as a set.
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Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: November 15 2010 at 22:11
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I don't consider The Whirlwind a song because there are clear divisions in it. It doesn't trundle along continuously from beginning to end. You can feel one tune stopping and another one starting.
I mean by this token any album without gaps between tracks is song.
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Posted By: JasonL
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 05:28
| If live jams count, then John Coltrane's version of "My Favorite Things" on Live in Japan is about 57 minutes. And Phish once did a version of "Runaway Jim" that went 58 minutes. It seems to me that this is a different kind of thing, though, than a planned composition. |
Posted By: RoeDent
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 06:12
It's all about context. You have to read comments by the band as to whether they consider something like Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (for example) to be a single piece of music or seperate songs. |
Posted By: Mr. Maestro
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 06:50
Personally, I think it all depends on whether or not the artists intended the piece to be taken as a single song or simply an extended, lengthy conceptual piece. I always thought of The Whirlwind as a single song myself, just with track divisions to mark the transitions between movements.
Outside of that, though, the longest single-track song I've ever heard is Galleon's "The Ocean," which was discussed pretty heavily on the first page. I agree with everything that was said - the lyrics are fairly lousy, but the instrumental work is fantastic. ------------- "I am the one who crossed through space...or stayed where I was...or didn't exist in the first place...." |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 07:01
Are we talking length or stuff that just seems to take too long? 
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Posted By: Elderflower Man
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 12:49
Technically, I mean length, although definitely discuss the stuff that just takes too long. It'd be good for a laugh.  ------------- All your hearts now seem so far from me, It hardly seems to matter now. |
Posted By: firstlensman
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 12:50
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Yes, The Whirlwind IS one song just as Requiem by Mozart (for example), which has 14 movements, is considered one work (K. 626). I have The Whirlwind in one MP3 file (300mps) on my I-Pod.
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Posted By: Ronnie Pilgrim
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 12:51
| The Top 40 drivel I overheard and is now stuck in my head. I can't tell you the exact length of it, but it seems to go on forever. |
Posted By: dave-the-rave
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 13:23
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La Monte Young and the Forever Bad Blues Band - "Young's Dorian Blues in G" from Just Stompin': Live at the Kitchen (I have this, and it's one live piece that needs 2 CD's to contain it. I thought it was an hour and 20 minutes or so, but the RS review says '2 hours.' I'll check tonight when I get home.) Young recorded Just Stompin': Live at the Kitchen with his band in 1993. Clearly influenced by the blues of John Lee Hooker and John Coltrane, the album also somewhat resembled the work of the Velvet Underground and modern rock experimentalists Sonic Youth. David Fricke gave the album four stars in his review in Rolling Stone. "Two hours, one song (never mind 'song,' one chord progression), no break—and zero boredom," noted Fricke. In his review of Just Stompin'in the Detroit Metro Times, Jurek said, "The band plays dynamically, from soft to hard and back, gradually building in both intensity and tension, laying back just enough—without letting the air out—to allowthe musicians (and listeners) to breathe and start again, until the music reaches an unbearable pitch [that] shatters all divisions between blues, Indian classical music, punk, heavy metal, grunge, modal jazz and noise, because it's all of them and none of them at once." Some more about the piece here, if anyone is interested: http://melafoundation.org/fbbpress.htm |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 13:31
| Pretty sure Robert Rich's Somnium counts. It's a 7-hour song in 3 parts. |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 14:26
Didnt the Grateful Dead do songs that went on for days?? ------------- |
Posted By: rod65
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 14:28
I was going to suggest "compositions" or "tracks" as well. I like "compositions" because this refers to the artistry that goes into them rather than merely to space on a disk. |
Posted By: JasonL
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 15:03
| I think there's a sense in which the "song"/"track"/"suite"/etc. terminology we're using is kind of a relic of recording technology. Thick As A Brick is clearly one song, but it's traditionally been listed as two because of the way vinyl works. Plus, what you're recording it on sets limits: forty-five minutes in the vinyl era, seventy-five or so for the CD era. Since record labels aren't ready to give up entirely on CDs yet (with good reason - people do still buy them), it seems like that's the limit for professionally published music for right now. But there must be some band out there with a ninety-minute, two-hour song on mp3! Where? |
Posted By: The_Jester
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 16:05
| Amarok. |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 16:23
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somnium_%28album - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somnium_(album ) |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 16:24
Didn't see this post...
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 16:31
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The longest song I know? The tune Walter sings  ------------- 
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Posted By: spookytooth
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 16:37
....Wow, that's long...and some reason I'm not surprised Robert Rich would do something like that. -------------
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Posted By: rod65
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 16:46
For the most part, I agree with you, especially where the limitations imposed by the medium are concerned. On a related but rather speculative note, yes, TAAB is definitely one song, but its form has been affected by the necessity of breaking it up roughly in the middle--not just in terms of the physical split, but in terms of writing the song to end at one point and then begin again on the other side while clearly remaining one song. That is, the vinyl medium imposes compositional constraints other than just a 45 minute upper limit. I wonder what the composition would have sounded like had they been able to take that break in the middle out of the picture. Probably almost exactly the same, I imagine, but maybe not. Like I said, pure speculation. |
Posted By: ozzy_tom
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 19:36
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Nathan Mahl - "The Sentence - De Mortuis Nif Nisi Bonum (of the dead speak nothing but good)" (54:02) http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1992 - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1992
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 19:38
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Bass Communion's Epidural from collaboration with Nick Potter and Jonathan Coleclough.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Coleclough_/_Bass_Communion_/_Colin_Potter - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Coleclough_/_Bass_Communion_/_Colin_Potter ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 19:39
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I think that's the longest anyways.... ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: unclemeat69
Date Posted: November 17 2010 at 03:06
I consider that one 14-hour piece in 10 parts. As for continuous non-stop pieces I might go for The Whirlwind or any old fashioned Klaus Schulze tracks. ------------- Follow your bliss |
Posted By: omardiyejon
Date Posted: November 17 2010 at 03:53
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this drone doom song (yes it is not prog at all  ) is almost 9 hours long. i believe it is not even a song actually  the artist(s) is http://www.bunalti.com/?p=146528 - Alexis Brantes|Malakias|Bicho|Stijn Van Cauter|Diegothey are from belgium ------------- http://www.normalisr.com/?username=omardiyejon" rel="nofollow - http://www.normalisr.com/?username=omardiyejon |
Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: November 17 2010 at 09:33
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The longest I've heard in its entirety is Green Carnation's Light of Day, Day of Darkness at 60 minutes and 6 seconds. Surprisingly it's very good and almost never resorts to ambiance. -------------  
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Posted By: Progdaybay
Date Posted: November 17 2010 at 16:12
| I would say that "Whirlwind" of Transatlantic is the longest, near 78 minutes, even if it is divided in parts. Just check the "live" version they perform at 79 minutes. |
Posted By: JS19
Date Posted: November 18 2010 at 01:07
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This thread is giving me deja-vu, I'm sure several of these have been mentioned more than twice already. -------------
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Posted By: Mr. Maestro
Date Posted: November 18 2010 at 12:17
Indeed. By the way, has anybody mentioned "The Whirlwind" yet? ------------- "I am the one who crossed through space...or stayed where I was...or didn't exist in the first place...." |
Posted By: JasonL
Date Posted: November 18 2010 at 12:28
Very true - and the same is true of The Passion Play, where I actually think the side-to-side transition is a bit more logical (even though I prefer TAB on the whole). But were there any other forty-five-minute songs in the vinyl era? I can't really think of any. The necessity to break it up is enough of a discouragement, it seems. |
Posted By: Xanatos
Date Posted: November 20 2010 at 19:05
| Longest song? Mmmm for me that would be "I" from Meshuggah and "Octavarium" from dream xD |
Posted By: GaryB
Date Posted: November 20 2010 at 20:30
| Off the top of my head I would say Gravedigger by Janus. The title track is all of side two and has gotta be twenty minutes long. |
Posted By: Deleuze
Date Posted: November 20 2010 at 21:27
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Bull of Heaven - Like A Wall In Which An Insect Lives and Gnaws the song lasts 50 000 hours (or 3 million minutes) Download it for free: http://bullofheaven.com/ (the entire song file is 3,9 terabyte...) ------------- 
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: November 20 2010 at 21:38
What the hell? I think I'll download an excerpt just out of curiousity. ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Neue regel
Date Posted: November 20 2010 at 21:54
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For songs above 60+ i would go with the second Green Carnation (LOD,DOD). When I bought the CD in 2003, i freaked out when I saw just a single 60' 06" song ( given that fast-forward was a nightmare in the pre-mp3 eras, so I could not handle and spin easily favourite parts of the song) "The Girl..who was death" by devil doll is weird ~70 min but has a long silence break Also some ambient/black metal projects like 'Darkspace' have notoriously long songs (in parts), like the 76 min. Darkspace I EDIT: I forgot some nice projects of Fredrick Thordendal (Meshuggah) in. "Special Defects".Also an hour piece long or something. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Neue_regel_" rel="nofollow - Neue Regel's Last.Fm 
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Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: November 21 2010 at 00:55
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There's a specific version of Runaway Jim by Phish that I have that is over 60 minutes long. Thats the longest single track I believe I've listened to....maybe I've heard an ambient track that was longer, but according to earlier posts that isn't a song. ------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
Posted By: JasonL
Date Posted: November 21 2010 at 17:10
11/29/97, right? |
Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: November 21 2010 at 17:26
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You Suffer - Napalm Death.
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: November 21 2010 at 17:45
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Also noteworthy, What's Your Name by Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
Somewhere in the 1:10:00 range. ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: 40footwolf
Date Posted: November 21 2010 at 22:51
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Not counting classical music, I think it might be Fantomas' "Delirium Cordia" at 75 minutes. ------------- Heaven's made a cesspool of us all. |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: November 21 2010 at 23:45
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Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: November 22 2010 at 17:19
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Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: November 22 2010 at 17:22
So I'll bring up Beethoven's 9th. About 66 minutes long. There are vocals in Movement IV.
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Posted By: turtle
Date Posted: November 23 2010 at 02:40
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Brian Eno has a piece that lasts 10,000 years without repeating. I haven't listened to it all (!), but there is a short extract available on CD: http://longnow.org/store/january-07003-bell-studies-cd/ - http://longnow.org/store/january-07003-bell-studies-cd/
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Posted By: Neue regel
Date Posted: November 23 2010 at 03:40
10 thousand years long song?? Give me a break, is that some kind of post-modern joke? At first I really thought it was a joke and laughted MAO, but then I followed the link and saw that description was for real !! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Neue_regel_" rel="nofollow - Neue Regel's Last.Fm
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Posted By: squirting
Date Posted: November 26 2010 at 19:34
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Absolutego by Boris. About 65 minutes of drone. ------------- "So that's it? After 12 years; so long, good luck?" "Now I don't recall saying good luck." |
Posted By: Blackbeard
Date Posted: November 27 2010 at 09:41
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The longest songs i have heard are: Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness Mike Oldfield - Amarok and i like them both :-) |
Posted By: KABSA
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 17:03
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i know this is PA so the assumption is a prog related song but you did`nt say accapella song so no accompaniment i had a travellers/gypsy lp [1971] one solo voice trk was 10 minutes + long "takes some doing ., to remember etc ., and to deliver" no chorus ., no repeat lines either
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Posted By: Tengent
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 18:52
| Out of all the prog on my iPod, Led Zeppelin's Dazed and Confused (The Song Remains the Same version) is the longest single mp3 at 29:18. Looking at my classical music, Olivier Messiaen's La Transfiguration De Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ is the longest piece I have (including all movements) at 1.6 hours. |
Posted By: kglenz
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 19:35
"by by miss american pie" - seems like the longest song in the history of recorded music. 
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Posted By: Jake Kobrin
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 20:44
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There's some electronic stuff that's around 9 hours long. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Neil-Kobrin/244687105562746" rel="nofollow - SUPPORT MY FATHER AND BECOME A FAN Jacob Kobrin Illustration |
Posted By: parapet
Date Posted: November 30 2010 at 08:23
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I heard that some guy from The Netherlands, who has 12 different bands and projects, has made one song doom\metal album lasting about 78 minutes, but it might have been a myth... It's called something like beyond black void all that was the some guy but the different proj... ------------- SMART preachers of our doom Telling us there is no room. Not enough for all mankind And the seas of time are running dry. |
Posted By: Juan Carlos de Mulde
Date Posted: November 30 2010 at 11:08
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What about Stockhausen's "Licht" cycle. It is about 29 hours long.... He wrote 25 years on it. ------------- http://www.lastfm.de/user/SSsebastian/?chartstyle=SidebarPlain" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: December 04 2010 at 23:11
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The Whirlwind (Transatlantic) is like 77:50. ------------- http://ow.ly/8ymqg" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: December 04 2010 at 23:13
10,000 YEARS?? My god that's superfluous ------------- http://ow.ly/8ymqg" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: thehallway
Date Posted: December 07 2010 at 04:28
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Some classical works (usually German Operas) just last hours and hours.... and you aren't allowed to cough the whole way thru it!
Something by Mahler... I can't remember the name.... but the 6th movement was at least forty minutes (with the others all around the 20 minute mark) and there were only about two verses of lyrics in the whole movement.... describing something about a woman's lover ascending to heaven
....which I suppose takes a while, but still! ------------- http://www.thefreshfilmblog.com/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Xaxaar
Date Posted: August 14 2011 at 19:17
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: August 14 2011 at 19:25
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When questions like this come up, I always assume we're talking about "written" music. Not noise music or droning music that just repeats; or the long player thing, which is improvised anyway I believe. Aside from classical music, which I am not an expert on, I think Transatlantic - "The Whirlwind" (78 minutes) is the longest song written. Others are The Flower Kings "Garden of Dreams" which is 60 minutes. I'm sure there are many things longer, but I don't remember/know them. The problem with songs written longer than a CD can hold, is there has to be breaks or intermissions. I don't think there's any real reason for one song to be so long. At that point, it's not a song any more once you start marking the time by hours. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm 
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Posted By: thehallway
Date Posted: August 15 2011 at 03:15
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In progressive rock, song length has become like penis size....... ------------- http://www.thefreshfilmblog.com/" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: August 15 2011 at 12:07
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Probably Amarok by Mike Oldfield. ------------- 
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: August 15 2011 at 12:34
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Posted By: voliveira
Date Posted: September 22 2011 at 09:02
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"The Whirlwind" of the Transatlantic. It is 77 minute-suite divided into 12 songs ------------- "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be" Matthew 6:21 |
Posted By: mongofa
Date Posted: September 27 2011 at 11:43
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The longest song I have heard all the way through is A Passion Play by Jethro Tull
Erik Satie's "Vexations" is over 19 hours long when played correctly. It is basically just a theme repeated 800 some-odd times but Satie intended it that way...correct me if I'm wrong
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: September 27 2011 at 11:58
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The longest one which will probably end up in my collection soon is Klaus Schulze's Into the Blue - 78:25.
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Posted By: colorofmoney91
Date Posted: September 27 2011 at 14:46
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The longest 1 movement piece that I know of is Morton Feldman's Piano and String Quartet, which runs at about 80 minutes. ------------- http://hanashukketsu.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow - Hanashukketsu |
Posted By: kingcrimsonfan
Date Posted: September 29 2011 at 21:04
by the way on that tena novak song where can you find that cd? ------------- 
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Posted By: Slaughternalia
Date Posted: September 29 2011 at 21:47
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Doesn't John Cage has some pretentious piece of sh*t that will still be playing for hundreds of years or something? ------------- I'm so mad that you enjoy a certain combination of noises that I don't |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: September 29 2011 at 21:56
| I remember reviewing something that had a near two hour piece, but can't find it-- off the top, I guess the Grobbies 'Solar Music Berlin' live at 53 mins |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: September 29 2011 at 22:35
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I know Klaus Schulze has a "track" that takes up at least two full CDs.
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: September 29 2011 at 22:38
Good thing Listening Room implemented mod controls. |
Posted By: kingcrimsonfan
Date Posted: October 01 2011 at 22:33
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I heard the flaming lips were writing a 6 hour song -------------
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: October 01 2011 at 22:47
Oh this is  but I'm drawing a blank...but I do know threads like this have popped up before and someone found an 89 minute song, it was literally enough to fill an entire CD. Of course the internet isn't bound by length limits and I have heard of songs being hours long. Someone here on PA told me about this band "Nanocyborg Uberholocaust" that makes drone songs supposedly like 3 or 4 hours long in some cases. Depending how far you want to push it....technically the longest song ever made is still going on. It was written by John Cage, called "As Slow As Possible" which started being played in 2001 and is slated to take 639 years to finish. |
Posted By: Littlecarrots
Date Posted: October 02 2011 at 23:25
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Punch Brothers suite "The Blind Leaves the Blind" is up to 42 minutes long, the lengthiest "song" I have, but I guess is like an average 3-minute pop-song when compared to same things I've already read here
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