The Long Songs

by **StoneCold** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 3:13 pm

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Missed this one all those years ago, cool tune.

Cheap Trick - GRH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zlqmN_DDcQ

by **StoneCold** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 3:16 pm

PowerChords wrote:Here is Rolling Stone's 50 best songs over 7 minutes long list. See if your fave is on this list.

Granted it's a RS' list so it probably means nothing.

...

How true that comment was. The Cheap Trick tune is better than a lot of the songs on that list.

Website · by **steveo777** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 3:32 pm

Necro thread alert! :lol:

by **Archetype** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 2:17 am

Seventh Wonder- The Great Escape. 30 minutes and 23 seconds of joy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6WLAckjO0M

by **koberry** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 3:17 am

Since this is a Journey board, I'll send a nod to Dixie Highway, Topaz & Look Into the Future...

I've always liked How Soon is Now by The Smiths

by **Jonny B** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 1:40 am

As far as non-progressive goes, there are 3 'epic' rock/metal songs that I judge all long songs by:

'Chance' by Savatage
'Black In the Burn' by Masterplan
'Poet & the Pendulum' by Nightwish

I generally only listen to music when I'm driving, and get bored real quick if the music isn't just right. So I don't waste my time with other rock/metal songs of length unless it can live up to my 'Big 3.'

by **verslibre** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 9:19 am

StoneCold wrote:Which songs that go on for over 5 minutes do you like

I listen to loads of prog rock and "long song" to me is over 10 minutes, minimum.

P.S. Too many to list!

by **Peartree12249** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 11:52 am

Pink Floyd - Set The Controls For The Heart of The Sun

http://youtu.be/SyEk0CRJjww

by **ebake02** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 12:25 pm

Joe Bonamassa - Sloe Gin

by **No Surprize** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 10:40 pm

Damn so great picks and I agree. "Shine on you crazy Diamond" is so fucking awesome and I never get tired of hearing it. "Others like "Do you feel like I do", "Can't you hear me knocking", my favorite Journey tune "Dixie Highway", Carouselambra" are great long tunes. Kiss, their longest tune was a live version of "Into the Void", a little over 9 minutes.

by **Peartree12249** » Sun Feb 09, 2014 2:28 am

Live version of Traffic's Low Spark of High Heeled Boys.

http://youtu.be/R8M8R835Ck4

by **Peartree12249** » Sun Feb 09, 2014 3:22 am

Live version BCC - Song of Yesterday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wfq6azZA6w

by **Peartree12249** » Sun Feb 09, 2014 6:55 am

Gary Moore - Over The Hills and Far Away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkrw6xnVuZ0

by **ebake02** » Tue Feb 11, 2014 8:06 am

ebake02 wrote:Joe Bonamassa - Sloe Gin

Forgot a Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1_6yCHnSI4

Jeff Healey Band's cover of While My Guitar Gently Weeps is another good one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j3-EXejYao

by **FinnFreak** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 6:44 am

Mike Oldfield - "Amarok" – 60:02

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJjGTxoXtSI

From the album's back cover:

"HEALTH WARNING -
This record could be hazardous to the health of cloth-eared nincompoops.
If you suffer from this condition, consult your Doctor immediately "

John -

by **conversationpc** » Fri Feb 14, 2014 3:17 pm

Enigma869 wrote:Not sure exactly how long each song is but "Stairway To Heaven" (which seems to be the longest song ever recorded)...

The following are songs that are at least TEN minutes plus that I have in my favorites folder...

The Allman Brothers Band - Nobody Knows (10:58)
Amaran's Plight - Revelation (13:11)
Amaran's Plight - Shattered Dreams (13:09)
Avantasia - The Seven Angels (14:17)
Jason Becker - End of the Beginning (11:46)
Boston - Walk On Medley (12:22)
Budgie - Parents (10:21)
Chicago - Devil's Sweet (10:04)
Deep Purple - Child in Time (10:19)
Deep Purple - River Deep, Mountain High (10:07)
Deep Purple - Son of Alerik (10:02)
The Doors - The End (11:41)
The Doors - When the Music's Over (10:56)
Dragonland - The Book of Shadows (15:01)
Dragonland - The Old House on the Hill (13:56)
Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons (23:08)
Dream Theater - A Mind Beside Itself (20:24)
Dream Theater - A Nightmare to Remember (14:46)
Dream Theater - Blind Faith (10:21)
Dream Theater - Breaking All Illusions (12:25)
Dream Theater - Bridges in the Sky (11:01)
Dream Theater - Endless Sacrifice (11:24)
Dream Theater - Illumination Theory (22:17)
Dream Theater - Learning to Live (11:30)
Dream Theater - Lost Not Forgotten (10:11)
Dream Theater - Outcry (11:24)
Dream Theater - Repentance (10:43)
Dream Theater - Stream of Consciousness (11:16)
Dream Theater - The Best of Times (13:09)
Dreamscape - 5th Season (14:37)
Edguy - The Pharaoh (10:37)
Edguy - The Piper Never Dies (10:07)
John Elefante - This Is How the Story Goes - 11:06
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9 (29:54)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus (20:39)
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray (53:45)
Fates Warning - Epitaph (11:56)
Fates Warning - The Ivory Gate of Dreams (22:05)
The Flower Kings - Driver's Seat (18:20)
The Flower Kings - Last Minute on Earth (11:51)
The Flower Kings - Retropolis (11:07)
Focus - Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! (14:00)
Focus - Eruption (23:03)
Gamma Ray - Insurrection (11:31)
Genesis - Supper's Ready (22:51)
Genesis - The Battle of Epping Forest (11:39)
Genesis - The Musical Box (10:25)
Keith Green - The Prodigal Son Suite (12:20)
Helloween - Halloween (13:18)
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys (13:38)
Ice Age - Perpetual Child (10:29)
Ice Age - To Say Goodbye (11:31)
Iced Earth - Dante's Inferno (16:28)
Iced Earth - Gettysburg (31:54)
Iced Earth - Something Wicked Trilogy (20:08)
Iced Earth - The Suffering Scarred (17:37)
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (17:10)
Iron Maiden - Alexander the Great (10:05)
Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner (13:34)
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick [Part 1] (22:39)
Elton John - Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding (11:09)
Kansas - Incomudro - Hymn to the Atman (12:17)
Kansas - Song for America (10:01)
King Crimson - Fracture (11:13)
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic - Part IV (14:00)
Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand (10:25)
Led Zeppelin - In My Time of Dying (11:05)
Lemur Voice - Alone / Stabs of the Past / Alone Again (12:38)
Liquid Tension Experiment - 3 Minute Warning (28:34)
Liquid Tension Experiment - When the Water Breaks (16:57)
Machine Head - Clenching the Fists of Dissent (10:34)
Magellan - Magna Carta (14:46)
Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force - Asylum (11:21)
Manowar - Achilles, Agony and Ecstasy in Eight Parts (28:40)
Mastedon - One Day Down by the Lake (See You Real Soon) (10:41)
Brian May & Friends - Blues Breaker (12:41)
Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) (11:58)
Gary Moore - I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know (10:10)
Scars - Ball and Chain (12:53)
Neal Morse - The Creation (18:23)
Mystery - The Awakening (10:13)
Opeth - A Fair Judgement (10:23)
Opeth - Blackwater Park (12:08)
Opeth - Hessian Peel (11:25)
Opeth - Reverie / Harlequin Forest (11:39)
Opeth - The Drapery Falls (10:53)
Opeth - The Grand Conjuration (10:21)
Opeth - The Leper Affinity (10:23)
Opeth - Wreath (11:10)
Axel Rudi Pell - Casbah (10:01)
Axel Rudi Pell - The Clown Is Dead (12:12)
Axel Rudi Pell - The Gates of the Seven Seals (10:37)
Axel Rudi Pell - The Masquerade Ball (10:39)
John Petrucci - Animate-Inanimate (11:37)
Pink Floyd - Dogs (17:04)
Pink Floyd - Pigs (Three Different Ones) (11:26)
Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 1-5 (13:40)
Proto-Kaw - Theophany (11:44)
Queensrÿche - Suite Sister Mary (10:39)
Redemption - Desperation (21:20)
Redemption - Love Kills Us All / Life in One Day (11:00)
Redemption - Sapphire (15:55)
Redemption - The Fullness of Time (21:38)
Redemption - Window to Space (13:26)
REO Speedwagon - Dead at Last (10:09)
Rush - "2112" (20:33)
Rush - Cygnus X-1 (10:21)
Rush - Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres (18:07)
Rush - The Camera Eye (11:01)
Rush - The Fountain of Lamneth (19:57)
Rush - The Necromancer (12:32)
Rush - Xanadu (11:07)
Santana - Flame Sky (11:33)
Michael Schenker - Aardvark in a VW Smoking a Cigar (13:46)
Michael Schenker - Three Fish Dancing (14:01)
Scorpions - Lonesome Crow (13:29)
Seven Witches - Jacob (17:01)
Shadow Gallery - Cliffhanger (23:22)
Spock's Beard - A Guy Named Sid (20:26)
Spock's Beard - The Doorway (11:35)
Spock's Beard - The Light (15:32)
Spock's Beard - The Water (23:10)
Styx - Movement for the Common Man (13:14)
Symphony X - Rediscovery (13:26)
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy (20:42)
Symphony X - The Odyssey (24:14)
Temple of the Dog - Reach Down (11:11)
Ten - Soliloquy / The Loneliest Place in the World (10:32)
Ten - The Robe (10:09)
Transatlantic - All of the Above (30:59)
Van Der Graaf Generator - Lemmings (11:39)
The Who - Underture (10:09)
Yes - And You and I (10:09)
Yes - Awaken (15:35)
Yes - Close to the Edge (18:40)
Yes - Dreamtime (10:45)
Yes - Heart of the Sunrise (10:37)
Yes - In the Presence Of (10:24)
Yes - Machine Messiah (10:25)
Yes - Mind Drive (18:38)
Yes - Ritual-Nous Sommes Du Soleil (21:31)
Yes - That, That Is (19:15)
Yes - The Gates of Delirium (21:54)
Yes - The Revealing Science of God-Dance of the Dawn (20:23)

...and there are literally hundreds, if not thousands of other songs in my collection that are at least six minutes or longer and others like Jethro Tull's "A Passion Play" that is the full length of an album, over 40 minutes.

by **SF-Dano** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 5:08 am

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by **Rick** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 3:59 pm

Journey - La Raza Del Sol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nesrF926fBw

by **FinnFreak** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 12:11 am

Longest Hit Single

The Orb's 1992 hit "Blue Room" had a duration of 39 minutes and 58 seconds, two seconds shorter than the maximum permitted for a single under chart rules. There was, however, a second CD available which that featured shorter mixes.

Longest Top 40 track not to have a shortened version on sale is also the Number One with the longest running-time; Oasis' "All Around The World" (1998). It has a duration of 9 minutes 38 seconds.

The longest 7" A-side - and available in only that format - was "Inside Looking Out" by Grand Funk Railroad. It is 9 mins 31 secs long and scraped into the Top 40 at no. 40 in Feb 1971.

The first Number 1 to have a playing time of more than four minutes was Harry Belafonte's "Mary's Boy Child" (1957; 4 mins 12 secs).

Shortest Hit Single

The shortest duration of a hit single is 36 seconds. The track in question is "The Ladies' Bras" by Jonny Trunk & Wisbey; a download only single (2007). It beat the record set just a few weeks previously by "Spider Pig" - a track from the 2007 Simpsons Movie - by 26 seconds.

This record for shortest physical single is held by Nukleuz DJs. The title/lead track of their 2003 "DJ Nation - Bootleg Edition" EP was a mix of each of the other six tracks on the EP (available on three separate CD/12" singles) clocking in at just 1 minute 15 seconds seconds.

In terms of a complete physical song (ie. not a medley and/or download), "Let's Get Together" by Hayley Mills (1961) clocked in at is 1 minute 25 seconds. The US version of "Some Kinda Earthquake", an instrumental single by Duane Eddy, was abridged (1 minute 17 seconds in duration, 1959) but the British version ran at the full 1 min 53 secs.

The shortest chart-topper is Adam Faith's "What Do You Want" from 1959 (1 minute, 38 seconds).

...and more at: http://www.everyhit.com/record7.html

John -

by **Liam** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 4:37 am

In my playlist at the moment....Dream Theater - Learning To Live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e03cdj5sS2E

by **kgdjpubs** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 1:12 pm

and my favorite....

Magnum - Don't Wake the Lion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZQCHUAupU4

Bob Catley and Tony Clarkin at their best, and one amazing song

by **Liam** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 6:06 am

Another VERY underrated favorite of mine...Siberian Khatru by Yes. Not over 10 minutes, but it's still a good song. Personally, I like the live version from Keys To Ascension the best, but I can't find that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0HnIr6jYWU

by **FormerDJMike** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:51 am

Triumph R&R Machine!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAj4f3qHGq8

by **Liam** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 4:04 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEuOoMprDqg

by **SF-Dano** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:14 am

Couple from the fantastic Flying Colors

Infinite Fire - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ablME8jlpdk
Everything Changes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWM71rKHGto

by **StoneCold** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 4:40 pm

SF-Dano wrote:Couple from the fantastic Flying Colors

Everything Changes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWM71rKHGto

Only song I've heard from them. As it started it seemed like a combination (homage?) of different bands from the 60's, 70's.

The intro reminded me of the main title from An Officer and A Gentleman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7IOEajU1LE

Went into an acoustic part, good vocals. Moody blues style with some ethereal guitar work. Really threw me for a loop at 3:00, complete change up. Beatles Sgt. Pepper sound.

I'll have to check out their other work. Rarely hear one song with that many styles in it.

by **SF-Dano** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 9:45 am

StoneCold wrote:
SF-Dano wrote:Couple from the fantastic Flying Colors

Everything Changes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWM71rKHGto

Only song I've heard from them. As it started it seemed like a combination (homage?) of different bands from the 60's, 70's.

The intro reminded me of the main title from An Officer and A Gentleman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7IOEajU1LE

Went into an acoustic part, good vocals. Moody blues style with some ethereal guitar work. Really threw me for a loop at 3:00, complete change up. Beatles Sgt. Pepper sound.

I'll have to check out their other work. Rarely hear one song with that many styles in it.

The whole CD is fairly musicly diverse from tune to tune also. It is one of the factors I enjoy most about it. Really good CD from beginning to end.
Couple more examples:
Forever In A Daze - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVMwArreXos
Fool In My Heart - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHlXNraMiO4

by **StoneCold** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 4:33 pm

FinnFreak wrote:Longest Hit Single

The Orb's 1992 hit "Blue Room" had a duration of 39 minutes and 58 seconds, two seconds shorter than the maximum permitted for a single under chart rules. There was, however, a second CD available which that featured shorter mixes.

Longest Top 40 track not to have a shortened version on sale is also the Number One with the longest running-time; Oasis' "All Around The World" (1998). It has a duration of 9 minutes 38 seconds.

The longest 7" A-side - and available in only that format - was "Inside Looking Out" by Grand Funk Railroad. It is 9 mins 31 secs long and scraped into the Top 40 at no. 40 in Feb 1971.

The first Number 1 to have a playing time of more than four minutes was Harry Belafonte's "Mary's Boy Child" (1957; 4 mins 12 secs).

Shortest Hit Single

The shortest duration of a hit single is 36 seconds. The track in question is "The Ladies' Bras" by Jonny Trunk & Wisbey; a download only single (2007). It beat the record set just a few weeks previously by "Spider Pig" - a track from the 2007 Simpsons Movie - by 26 seconds.

This record for shortest physical single is held by Nukleuz DJs. The title/lead track of their 2003 "DJ Nation - Bootleg Edition" EP was a mix of each of the other six tracks on the EP (available on three separate CD/12" singles) clocking in at just 1 minute 15 seconds seconds.

In terms of a complete physical song (ie. not a medley and/or download), "Let's Get Together" by Hayley Mills (1961) clocked in at is 1 minute 25 seconds. The US version of "Some Kinda Earthquake", an instrumental single by Duane Eddy, was abridged (1 minute 17 seconds in duration, 1959) but the British version ran at the full 1 min 53 secs.

The shortest chart-topper is Adam Faith's "What Do You Want" from 1959 (1 minute, 38 seconds).

...and more at: http://www.everyhit.com/record7.html

John -

Thanks for that post. Interesting stuff.

Here's The Orb's "Blue Room" mentioned early in the post.

40 minutes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Db3YNsrxA

by **SF-Dano** » Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:09 am

Metallica
The 4 Horsemen -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GCUSsNJjRw
Creeping Death - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5lXEFdZAmU

Megadeth
Holy Wars ... The Punishment Due - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d4ui9q7eDM
Tornado of Souls - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr9q9d8-NhM

MR

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