Top 4 longest songs you have heard.

taeli · Post by **taeli** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 9:03 pm

Godspeed You! Black Emporer - Sleep 22mins
Godspeed You! Black Emporer - Atennas to Heaven 19mins
Mogwai - My Father My King 20mins
Mono - Com(?) 16mins

Hm, there's a bunch of othre tracks I got floatin around longer, but these I like lots

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 11:03 am

Sousaphonist wrote:Err, Der Ring, or more fully, Der Ring Des Niebelugen. Darn gender-sensitive articles....

I've never actually heard it yet, though I probably will eventually. I've read the story behind it, etc...
Not that I'm a big opera fan, but it'd probably be interesting. See if they ever decide to perform it around here.

Harlock7876 · Post by **Harlock7876** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 11:55 am

Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness (over 60mins)
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade Of Gray (over 55mins)
I could list a whole bunch more, but I can't think of them right now

HeartbreakerByZep · Post by **HeartbreakerByZep** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 2:18 pm

I can't be sure, but....

Dazed And Confused - 33 minutes (can't remember)
No Quarter - 31 minutes (New York '77)
Like A Hurricane - 29 minutes (Bonnaroo 2002)
Rolling Stone - 21 minutes (Humble Pie Rockin' the Fillmore)

Those songs would be somewhere on my list atleast...

oldwrench · Post by **oldwrench** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 1:44 pm

Trident wrote:George Gershwin--Rhapsody in Blue. 16:27.

Iron Butterfly did a song called something like "Enna Godda Davida" (something to that effect) back in the late '60s or '70s. It's been years since I listened to the song last (praise all things holy) but I remember it being something like 15 minutes long.

That's "In A Gadda Da Vida" The name came from the band leader trying to sing, in the garden of eden, when he was drunk. it's a little over 17 minutes but often was much longer live.

Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Pictures at an Exhibition, 38 minutes

Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick 42 minutes

Those are the ones I can think of at the moment.

Scarface · Post by **Scarface** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 3:44 pm

I've once heard a remix album that is just 70 minutes of one song
That's the longest i've heard

Bote · Post by **Bote** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 4:15 pm

"Child in time" by Deep Purple - over 10 mins. The only long one I like. It gives me chills.

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 7:23 pm

Symphony X - "The Odyssey" = 24:09
X-Japan - "Art of Life (live)" = 34:02
Green Carnation - "Light of Day, Day of Darkness" = 60:04
Hourglass - "The Journey Into" = 26:53

Trident · Post by **Trident** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 10:03 am

Otohiko wrote:
Sousaphonist wrote:Err, Der Ring, or more fully, Der Ring Des Niebelugen. Darn gender-sensitive articles....
I've never actually heard it yet, though I probably will eventually. I've read the story behind it, etc...
Not that I'm a big opera fan, but it'd probably be interesting. See if they ever decide to perform it around here.

Depending on how good of a video store you have around where you live, you might be able to find a performance of it. A lot of opera's actually not that bad if you can handle several hours of singing in a foreign language.

Another long song: Ravel's Bolero is about 13 minutes. (Can you tell which people were raised on classical music?)

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 11:44 am

Trident wrote: Depending on how good of a video store you have around where you live, you might be able to find a performance of it. A lot of opera's actually not that bad if you can handle several hours of singing in a foreign language.

Another long song: Ravel's Bolero is about 13 minutes. (Can you tell which people were raised on classical music?)

I'm cool with that. Besides, it is Wagner, and I never assumed his music to be particularly boring.

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Speaking of which, digging through my King Crimson collection, I must correct some embarassing (for a KC fan) misses, including

Lizard (1971) - almost 23 minutes, and includes KC's take on Bolero

Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part I (1973) - 13:36
Moonchild (1969) - almost 13 min.