what is the longest song ever (in minutes)?

Richard Harris's MacArthur Park - ~7 minutes. (Assuming it was a #1 .. was it?)

Also, I'll cast my vote for Satie's "Vexations," which is around 1,700 minutes long and has, unlike many of the longer songs on this thread, been performed live in its entirety.

Or, in the spirit of the first poster, how about my own composition, "Im Anfang War die Tat," consisting of an unspecified number of performers hitting a single gong once in unison every six seconds for twenty-two minutes, to be repeated 1235781297509812751923597986798403163746 times?

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>>But was the album version #1, or just the single? THe single is about 4 minutes, yeah?

Hey Jude was a stand-alone 45, never included on an LP until the grab-bag "Beatles Again" comp from 1970 (and even then, only in the US). Wasn't there some yarn about extending the ending so that it would be a second or two longer than MacArthur Park? Not even sure that MacArthur Park made the top spot in the UK. Anyway, longest UK No1 is, rather depressingly, Oasis' "All Around The World", wich apparently clocks in at 9'38". (Shortest UK chart topper, for the record, is Adam Faith's "What Do You Want", at 1'38".)

http://www.everyhit.com/record7.html

Dogs - 17:03
Echoes - 23:4(?)
Atom Heart Mother - 23:(?)(?)
Sysyphus - 14:43
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (pt I-X) - 25:11

What about Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans? Four LP sides, four songs?

Not Franz Schubert's "Lieder" no.

Longest I own is Forbidden Fields' Field I- Night, which clocks in at 77 minutes. Field II- Of Trees... Frozen In The Sky is 73 minutes long. Bunkur's Bludgeon runs in at just over an hour, and Funeral Dance by Until Death Overtakes Me is 50 minutes.

Starship Trooper - Yes .......9:24
Are You Receiving Me - Golden Earing ......9:33
Interstellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd ....9:41
Born Slippy (Nuxx) - Underworld .....9:44
Sheep - Pink Floyd .....9:46
All I Want Is You - U2 (there is a 2 or so minute break after 6:30 then next song comes on) .....9:52
Desolation Row - Songdog .....9:55
Free Bird - Lynard Skynard .......10:07
Talk (Junkie XL Remix) - Coldplay ......10:14
Carmichael - Neil young .....10:20
Natural Beauty - Neil Young ......10:23
Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin ....10:25
Lazy (Live) - Deep Purple .......10:27
Concerto de Aranjuez - John Williams .......10:27
Maybe Today - Carbon Leaf .....10:29
Carouselambra - Led Zeppelin ......10:34
Trainspotting - Primal Scream .....10:34
In My Time Of Dying - Led Zeppelin .....11:02
Heard It Through The Grapevine - CCR ......11:06
Pigs (Three Different Ones) - Pink Floyd .......11:28
Driftin' Blues - Eric Clapton ....11:31
The End - The Doors ......11:42
A Saucerful Of Secrets - Pink Floyd ......11:59
Lazy - Deep Purple featuring Satriani and Paice .....12:19
Kashmir - Page And Plant ....12:28
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX) - Pink Floyd ....12:31
Machine Gun (Live) - Jimi Hendrix ....12:36
Song That Made Us What We Are Today (Demo) - Red Hot Chilli Peppers .....12:56
Grandpa's Interview - Neil Young .....12:57
Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast - Pink Floyd ......13:30
Do You Feel Like I Do (Live) - Peter Frampton ......13:30
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V) - Pink Floyd ......13:34
Highlands - Bob Dylan .......16:31
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly .......17:02
Dogs - Pink Floyd ......17:08
Moby Dick Live - Led zeppelin (John Bonham drum Solo) ....19:23
Fly on the Wall - The Beatles (A bonus disc for Let It Be...Naked ,ITs just them in a studio practicing going through songs) .....21:58
Echoes - Pink Floyd ....23:28
Atom Heart Mother: Father's Shout/Breast Milky/Mother Fore/Funky Dung/M - Pink Floyd .......23:45

damn soo many more that could go at the start smaller ones about 30 more timing at 9, 8 and 7 minutes

cheers

sorry didnt finish the title :P

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