Longest song you've ever heard?

frank zappa has a few songs around the 30 minute mark. the adventures of greggary peccary and billy the mountain being two of them

Dopesmoker by Sleep its 63.07 mins of the best doom/drone your ever hear

Yes albums from the 70's also had many 15+ minutes songs:

Close to the edge - 18:43
The Gates of Delirium - 21:50
The Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn) - 20:25
The Remembering (High the Memory) - 20:38
The Ancient (Giants Under the Sun) - 18:35
Ritual (Nous Sommes du Soleil) - 21:37
Awaken - 15:31

Here's the long songs in my list... many I ommitted.

I don't know if it's been mentioned in this thread yet, but I didn't want to read through 4 pages

Rush - 2112
20:33

Steve Roach & Vidna Omana - Spirit Dome
1:13:30

Days of Static - Exploding head Syndrome (The Cure - Hypnagogic States)
21:27

Tool - Schism (Lustmord Remix)
20:13

Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways (phase one)
18:37

Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Jakob Van Lennepkade
17:28

Lustmord - God Eater
22:42

Lisa Gerrard & Klaus Shulze - Liquid Coincidence 2
30:56

Klaxons - Four Horseman of 2012
19:43

Klaus Shulze - The Theme to Rhodes Elegy
1:05:02

Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Zeigefinger
20:30


[edit on 3/3/2009 by eye open doors]

How To Measure a Planet by The Gathering is 28 minutes.

Also, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence by Dream Theater is a whole cd full, which I think equates up to 40 minutes. Though alot of people dismiss it because it's divided into sections, but it counts as it's a full song.

Originally posted by RANT
The classic is Arlo Guthrie's anti-war ballad Alice's Restaurant at about 23 minutes...


I'm just saying.

Listen to that song every Thanksgiving...good story

Originally posted by FritosBBQTwist

Originally posted by RANT
The classic is Arlo Guthrie's anti-war ballad Alice's Restaurant at about 23 minutes...


I'm just saying.

Listen to that song every Thanksgiving...good story

LOL. I'm a HUGE fan of Arlo Guthrie.

Pretty much any of his live recordings are a lot longer... "Alice's Restaurant" and "The Motorcycle Song" are two of my favorite epic story-songs.

Too bad Arlo is so much older then me, I would've married him back in his younger years


- Carrot

Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness: 60mins

Edge of Sanity - Crimson: 40mins

Wormphlegm - In an Excruciating Way...: 32mins

Manowar: Achilles, Agony and Ecstasy in Eight Parts: 31mins

I probably have a few more half hour or longer songs lying around too.

reply to post by shane84

Does Crimson really count though? I think it does, but I know alot of people who would say it doesn't because it's an album broken up into parts.

Love Edge of Sanity, though. Glad to see other people know who they are.

reply to post by Akherousia


Well the first Crimson is a single 40min track, and it flows pretty well like any progressive song. Are you referring to Crimson 2? That is like a single song but it's broken up into multiple tracks.

reply to post by shane84

I could be. It's been so long since I've listened to Edge of Sanity. So I'm probably thinking of that instead.