― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 10:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 10:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
I would recommend "The Hymns From The Grand Terrace" as written by Jimmy Webb and performed by Richard Harris. It's "only" 9 minutes, but it's definitely ace.
― wardytron, Wednesday, 16 April 2003 11:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 11:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 11:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
But the longest track I adore is the 15 minutes long Funkadelic's "Knee deep". Classic.
― Sami (Sami), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 11:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 11:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
You seemed the miss the word "great" in my post. "Mother" = utter shite.
― schnellschnell, Wednesday, 16 April 2003 11:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
if i looped Cliff Richard's 'Congratulations' over and over The Orb's 45 minute version of 'Blue Room' would this count?
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 11:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― willem (willem), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 12:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Long player . ." a thousand year musical composition" http://www.longplayer.org/
I think eno made some generative programs that could tinkle and make refridgerator like noises forever..
― jk@?___________________, Wednesday, 16 April 2003 12:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
Green Carnation - Light of day, day of darkness (an exact hour, I think, and quite good)
Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra - The Key To The Gates Of Apocalypse (not entirely sure how long this is, as i don't have it. 70-something minutes, I think! But from what I've heard, it's basically a bunch of songs in one long track. What I heard from it wasn't very impressive, but I know many people who love it)
I'm sure there are a few in sludge too, though the longest one that comes to mind now is Boris' Absolutego, which is what, 55 or so minutes? Not very songy though, but great stuff.But if we're going down that road, I guess we could mention Merzbow's Rainbow Electronics (73:22) and Robert Rich's 8 hour sleepconcert DVDthing.
Other than that, I quite dig most of what Devil Done have done, which includes several 40 minute songs.
― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 12:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
However, "Amarok" by Mike Oldfield is great too, and I believe that one lasted for 55 minutes or something
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 12:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― neil, Wednesday, 16 April 2003 12:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 13:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― matthew james (matthew james), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 15:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rokovoko, Wednesday, 16 April 2003 16:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 16:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 19:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 19:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 19:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
Ok, so technically an album, but it sounds like one big long GREATEST song ever.
― Chewshabdoo, Wednesday, 16 April 2003 20:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also, the KLF's 'Chill Out' is sort of a single track (and Jimmy Cauty's 'Space' too).
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 21:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mitch, Wednesday, 16 April 2003 21:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 16 April 2003 21:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 16 April 2003 21:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
639 years, wow....
― disco stu (disco stu), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 23:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Carty (mj_c), Thursday, 17 April 2003 09:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 April 2003 09:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
whoa, so that's where nargaroth gets his song titles from.
― your null fame (yournullfame), Thursday, 17 April 2003 10:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― the overfriendly concierge, Thursday, 17 April 2003 15:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yes, and the ep version is even loooooooooonger!
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 17 April 2003 21:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 17 April 2003 21:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 17 April 2003 21:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― rex jr., Friday, 18 April 2003 19:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― rex jr., Friday, 18 April 2003 19:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Leee (Leee), Friday, 18 April 2003 19:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
Alan Silva - "Seasons" (2:24:00)Cecil Taylor - "Second Act Of A" (1:47:44)Anthony Braxton - "Composition 105A" (1:05:21) (it's jazz, like Zappa)Nurse With Wound - "Salt Marie Celeste" (1:01:56)Nurse With Wound - "Music For The Horse Hospital (1:01:45)Cecil Taylor - "3 Phasis" (57:13)Cecil Taylor - "B Ee Ba Nganga Ban'a Eee!" (48:13)Miles Davis - "Gondwana" (46:49)Anthony Braxton - "Composition 129+" (46:07)AMM - "Coffin Nor Shelf" (45:40)AMM - "Like A Cloud Hanging In The Sky?" (45:24)Anthony Braxton - "Composition 110A" (45:09)Anthony Braxton - "Composition 105B" (43:51)Miles Davis - "Zimbabwe" (41:47)Art Ensemble Of Chicago - "Reese And The Smooth Ones" (40:54)
― Keef, Monday, 26 July 2004 01:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 26 July 2004 02:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Monday, 26 July 2004 02:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 26 July 2004 04:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 26 July 2004 06:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 26 July 2004 06:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian Hampson, Friday, 8 October 2004 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 October 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh right, no classicals allowed.....:)
OK, well there's the full version of Rapper's Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang.
And on Loose Ends' album from 1987/8 there are about five songs linked together by the same bassline. That must clock up around 20 minutes. Funky stuff....
― JTS, Saturday, 9 October 2004 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 9 October 2004 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 10 October 2004 10:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Too bad classical is excluded, or I'd mention Morton Feldman's String Quartet #2 (six hours, seven minutes and change on the Flux Quartet recording). But it is, so I won't.
"Grayfolded" isn't 103:32. Oswald made two constructions, "Transitive Axis" (59:59) and "Mirror Ashes" (46:46).
― William Crump (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 10 October 2004 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― William Crump (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 10 October 2004 12:34 (nineteen years ago) link
It goes for 1000 years without repeating. Top that bitches.
― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― JAROD, Monday, 11 October 2004 03:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Those are some of my favorite epics. ;)
― Haywood Jablowme, Thursday, 14 October 2004 01:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― skowly (skowly), Thursday, 14 October 2004 01:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― george gosset (gegoss), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 1 February 2007 10:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 1 February 2007 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 1 February 2007 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― m the g (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link
But hang on, you said the long-form song seems to work only in genres which favour epic or trancelike qualities.
Why can't pop be epic to trancelike again?
(you'll be telling me stairway to heaven isn't a pop song now)
― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link
maybe this is because entering a trance-like state requires amounts of time and an extended approach to composition that's incompatible with the catchy, immediacy of the pop format.
― m the g (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
18 minutes long and pretty amazingly IMO actually manages to hold your attention for the duration.
― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link
hmmmm
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euler, Friday, 11 May 2007 11:51 (sixteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 11 May 2007 11:55 (sixteen years ago) link
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 11 May 2007 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 11 May 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Does ANYONE have a list - or know where to find one - of the 10 (or more) longest UK No.1s? i.e. the list that Oasis' dronefest 'All Around The World' will top?
It's for a low-rent feature.
Cheers!
― Matthew H, Thursday, 23 August 2007 10:43 (sixteen years ago) link
"O Superman" is longest surely?
― Tom D., Thursday, 23 August 2007 10:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Only No.2, wasn't it?
― Matthew H, Thursday, 23 August 2007 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link
You're right!
― Tom D., Thursday, 23 August 2007 11:54 (sixteen years ago) link
im gonna ignore the 'no classical' restriction...morton feldman wrote a six hour string quartet and i love every second i've heard (just listened to an hour and half of it so far)........anyone else dig morty?
― bstep, Thursday, 23 August 2007 14:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, most people round here
― Tom D., Thursday, 23 August 2007 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
the longest song ever (in minutes) is Michael Jatas - Love is Hurting me (15:12 minutes)
― r1o natsume, Thursday, 23 August 2007 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
The 7" single version of Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip's "Thou Shalt Always Kill" repeats the line, "Thou shalt not make generic repetitive music." for infinity.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
But they're shitmunks, to be fair.
― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
12 hours of songs over six minutes on KEXP tomorrow, celebrating the solstice. Streaming at kexp.org from 6am Seattle time, 2pm imago time.
https://www.kexp.org/events/kexp-events/long-songs-longest-day-year/
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/06/20/40528948/20-requests-for-kexps-the-longest-songs-on-the-longest-day-program
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 20 June 2019 21:45 (four years ago) link