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Points: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2007 at 10:23
Hmm...
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (49 Mins)
Meshuggah - Catch 33 (47 Mins)
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (42 Mins)
 
 
 
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Originally posted by The Whistler The Whistler wrote:

Well, Thick as a Brick. I'm not sure I would count anything else...heh, heh...
 
Not even A Passion Play which is longer than TAAB??

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Thick As A Brick (43 min), but a friend told me that there's a Green Carnation song, I think, that lasts like 60 minutes.
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Fantômas - Delerium Cordia (74 min)
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Points: 4160 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2007 at 11:50
Slightly off-topic, but metal fans could find this interesting (although is far for complete).

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Garand/the_longest_songs_in_metal
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

A rather interesting story that might be of interest: John Cage "As Slow as Possible"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_As_Possible

"It was originally a 20-minute piece for piano, but a group of musicians and philosophers decided to take the title literally and work out how long the longest possible piece of music could last.

They settled on 639 years because the Halberstadt organ was 639 years old in the year 2000."

Mind you, there have been some VERY long pauses in the music.  Now if only it could be done on a mellotron. LOL  


 
I think Cage was probably influenced here by Erik Satie's piece Vexations, which consists of a short chord sequence that is to be repeated 840 times.  Apparently it takes upwards of 18 hours to play:
 
 
I suppopse it was a joke!  Unfortunately  (or maybe not) I can't enter it in this thread as I haven't heard it.    
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eh it was already mentioned but thursday afternoon by eno
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Originally posted by chamberry chamberry wrote:

Devil Doll - Sacrilege of Fatal Arms

79:03 minutes

 
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It's probably Garden of Dreams by The Flower Kings (an hour long), although it was divided into several separate parts when I heard it. Some parts were alright but for the most part it was just a waste of CD space, if you ask me.
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Points: 95 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2007 at 15:02
I didn't think there was anything longer than GC's Light of Day, Day of Darkness..  Very informative thread! Star
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Techincally it's not one song, but it's one song file... "Misplaced Childhood (Side 1)" played live in Toronto clocks in at 42:51. Then, "Motherf*cker = Redeemer (Parts I & II)", also performed live in Toronto by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The longest actual, recorded song I own is "Section 10 (A Long Day)" by The Polyphonic Spree; this is 36:30 minutes.
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It's not prog but:

the song Untitled For Vasteras on Merzbow's album Sphere.

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Klaus Schulze:  Into the Blue 78:25   Big%20smile     He actually has longer songs than that, but that is the longest of his I have personally heard.  (for example Picasso geht spazieren, which has three movements that total over 154 minutes!!!)

Flower Kings:  Garden Of Dreams 58:17 (this is the correct time, as I joined it into one track on my computer.........the CD booklet is wrong, which happens a lot with times on Flower Kings CD booklets for some reason)

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Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

A rather interesting story that might be of interest: John Cage "As Slow as Possible"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_As_Possible

"It was originally a 20-minute piece for piano, but a group of musicians and philosophers decided to take the title literally and work out how long the longest possible piece of music could last.

They settled on 639 years because the Halberstadt organ was 639 years old in the year 2000."

Mind you, there have been some VERY long pauses in the music.  Now if only it could be done on a mellotron. LOL  


 
I think Cage was probably influenced here by Erik Satie's piece Vexations, which consists of a short chord sequence that is to be repeated 840 times.  Apparently it takes upwards of 18 hours to play:
 
 
I suppopse it was a joke!  Unfortunately  (or maybe not) I can't enter it in this thread as I haven't heard it.    
 
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Merzbow. Akasha Gulva (73:41), Rainbow Electronics (73:22)
Acid Mothers Temple. What's Your Name? (70:46), The Holly Mountain In The Counter-Clock World (65:36)
Koji Asano. Crevasses (73:32)
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Points: 1381 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2007 at 16:50
So, setting aside ASLSP, what has been the longest trac mentioned??
Devil Doll - Sacrilege of Fatal Arms

79:03 minutes
 
this?
 
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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2007 at 17:55
Originally posted by anael anael wrote:


Merzbow. Akasha Gulva (73:41), Rainbow Electronics (73:22)
Acid Mothers Temple. What's Your Name? (70:46), The Holly Mountain In The Counter-Clock World (65:36)
Koji Asano. Crevasses (73:32)


 
You beat me to it with Acid Mothers Temple - although What's Your Name does drag on a bit. It was part of a 4 CD set where each CD contained 1 song, each clocking in at 60 + minutes.
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Points: 3300 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2007 at 20:23
with the discontinuation of CD's eventually coming, one should expect unlimited track duration...
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Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

Originally posted by anael anael wrote:


Merzbow. Akasha Gulva (73:41), Rainbow Electronics (73:22)
Acid Mothers Temple. What's Your Name? (70:46), The Holly Mountain In The Counter-Clock World (65:36)
Koji Asano. Crevasses (73:32)


 
You beat me to it with Acid Mothers Temple - although What's Your Name does drag on a bit. It was part of a 4 CD set where each CD contained 1 song, each clocking in at 60 + minutes.

Sounds interesting, but exhausting.
I don't know if I could take 4 hours of Acid Mothers Temple mania. I won't end up sane, that's for sure.

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