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
 
penski said:
you see...as slow as possible is only really a 20 minute piece of music.

they've just stretched it out.

I could make barbie girl by aqua last 700 years...it wouldn't make it the longest song...

*n
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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?
 
naffa said:
Cream did a live version of Spoonful which lasted about twenty minutes. Another obvious one is Dazed and Confused by Led Zeppelin which lasts the best part of eighteen and a half minutes iirc.
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i've got quite a few bootlegs (am i allowed to say that? :S), and in 75 / 77 iirc, live versions could hit up to a tad under an hour long. A song that long isn't quite my cup of tea, but give me a nice 73/75 20-30 min No quarter and a jay and i'm in heaven :cool:
 
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.
 
ICEMAN133 said:
i've got quite a few bootlegs (am i allowed to say that? :S), and in 75 / 77 iirc, live versions could hit up to a tad under an hour long. A song that long isn't quite my cup of tea, but give me a nice 73/75 20-30 min No quarter and a jay and i'm in heaven :cool:
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Tool's version of No Quarter > the original imo.
 
jellybeard999 said:
Googling yields the longest pop song - http://www.nutscape.com/ChrisButler/guinness.htm

Since it qualifies "pop" then i assume there is a longer song in another genre ?
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i imagine it's the musical qualification of pop i.e. not classical etc

and yes i imagine there may be some classical pieces getting there, however you have to remember that for anything other than pop (recorded in a studio)
the whole song would have to be performed in one go, which adds considerable restrictions to the length of any "song"
 
I've got a 45 minute mix of Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Gigger Mix.

I've been trying, (unsuccessfully so far), to track down Welcome To The Pleasuredome - The Khan Mix, which runs for 76 minutes.
 
That song that Status Quo know has lasted about 30 years now hasn't it?

The Orb - A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Universe (original vesion was about 45 mins long)
 
I've had remixes that last 25+ minutes, but the longest ones I've heard of are songs by a friend's friend's band, they're all over 45 minutes.
 
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