Longest song you've ever heard?

well one of mozarts songs was like 40+ minutes. but the longest one ive heard is "albuquerque" (sp?) by weird al.

I can't remember the name of it, but is a song by the Dire Straights. I remember on the vinyl record that the one song took up the whole side, and the song really sucked.

Originally posted by BlackShadow
I can't remember the name of it, but is a song by the Dire Straights. I remember on the vinyl record that the one song took up the whole side, and the song really sucked.

Telegraph road is 15 minutes, but it can't be that; since the solos in that were amazing.

[Edited on 2-9-2004 by websurfer]

my friend has a lot of drone metal. The longest song i ever heard by any drone metal band was like 94:32

The Mars Volta has a song thats pushing 15 minutes.

Well, American Pie is long, SHow That Never Ends by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer is long, the full version(not radio edit or cd/tape edit) is over 20min. But the longest?

Indagoddavita, full version, played in concert, with a 3 HOUR guitar solo. Thatsjust the guitar solo, 3 Hours! ALthough, someone mentioned a song by Wagner that is 12 hours.

If it's the Wagner I know of, he is the guy who has done War, Zarathrusta, Ride of the Valkries(sp?) and In the Hall of the Mountain King.

Also, go Arlo Gunthrie! Alice's Resturant is great! Also love Cow Patti and Motorcycle Pickle song! Although City of New Orleans isn't to shabby either.

Originally posted by TJ11240
The Mars Volta has a song thats pushing 15 minutes.

The last song on Frances The Mute (Cassandra Geminni) pushes on to half an hour.

Having said that, the album is not stop noise from start to finish, which is 1 hour 16 mins long.

See Cassandra Geminni live. Woo mama. I was wigging out like some guy with at least 4 wigs! YES, 4!



[edit on 2-6-2005 by EvilSpallacus]

I still say drone metal is the longest.

Originally posted by EvilSpallacus

Originally posted by TJ11240
The Mars Volta has a song thats pushing 15 minutes.

The last song on Frances The Mute (Cassandra Geminni) pushes on to half an hour.

Having said that, the album is not stop noise from start to finish, which is 1 hour 16 mins long.

See Cassandra Geminni live. Woo mama. I was wigging out like some guy with at least 4 wigs! YES, 4!



[edit on 2-6-2005 by EvilSpallacus]

Wow thanks for the clarification. The Mars Volta rocks.

Longest I've heard is Kraftwerk's Autobahn - 22:43

Originally posted by James the Lesser
If it's the Wagner I know of, he is the guy who has done [...] and In the Hall of the Mountain King.

Wagner didn´t make "In the Hall of the Mountain King". It was Edvard Grieg, a norwegian composer...

Meshuggah - I 21min long
Opeth - To Bid You Farwell 15min long

X Japan - Art Of Life (28:59)

kashmir by led zeppelin.. almost 9 minutes long I think.

its also super annoying, I think. its also a fairly slow song so it feels like it takes 20 minutes to listen to it.

Here is one for the record. The longest song 639 years to complete.
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[edit on 13-7-2005 by kenshiro2012]

I'm not sure if this has been said yet, but Mike Oldfield's album "Tubular Bells" consisted of two parts. Part 1 was 25:30, while Part 2 was 23:19. I think it can also be argued that any Jethro Tull album is basically one long song, so that is around a 75 minute song right there.

Classical tracks and live versions notwithstanding...

I think one of the longest I've ever heard is Nick Cave's "Babe, I'm on Fire".

It rounds out at a respectable 15 minutes or so. The video is hysterical...if you can get past the lyrics

Well, the longest have been verious techno songs at over 1h15m. The longest was around 1 hour 23 minutes.

2112 Overture/The Temples of Syrinx - 20:33

Originally posted by groingrinder
For three years in the nineties the live version of "Texas Flood" was the only song that I listened to. Nobody wanted to ride anywhere with me.

Yeah, Stevie Ray was awsome. I still miss him.:shk: