The longest song you know of

Sweetloaf said:
Jerusalem by a band called Sleep is about 50 mins long I think.
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Correct, I was thinking of mentioning that but it's been split up into several tracks.

Likewise A Pleasant Shade of Grey by Fates Warning was split up into twelve tracks at 55 minutes.

The Green Carnation album I mentioned in th first post is the longest track I know that hasn't been split up, at 60 minutes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_of_Day,_Day_of_Darkness

The Delerium Cordia song is the longest mentioned that hasn't been split up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delìrium_Còrdia
 
alexthecheese said:
Why wouldn't it? I know it states that it's a 20 piece of music, but that's only if it were played on the piano. The very idea of it being played on an Organ is because the notes can ring out as long as he wished, and he wished that as a piece it encompassed 600-odd years.

It is a bit silly and it doesn't really hold any water for me, but after reading about the guy it seemed that he was into questioning the boundaries of music - surely the passage of time is quite a big one in that regard?
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I suppose what he means is the original version. Any song could be stretched out depending on who is playing it and they want to interpret it.

Therefore the longest possible recorded song could only be the length of a CD since anything more would split it up. Above that, any performed song by the artist and composer.
 
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