The Longest Song You Ever Heard

Slartibartfast wrote: fuxi wrote: THE WAY UP by the Pat Metheny Group: 68 minutes without a break, consistently exciting, warmly recommended to all progheads! (For more details please read my review)   Can't agree with you there.  The Way Up is divided into tracks rather than a continuous  piece of music.   The one's I cited are continuous pieces, there's no spots where you could put a track break in any of them :   Steve Roach - Darkest Before Dawn 1:14 Philip Glass - Music With Changing Parts 1:02 Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon 1:01 Mike Oldfield - Amarok 1:00 Miles Davis - Gondwana 47 Miles Davis - Zimbabwe 42

The fact that there are track breaks (or brief pauses) doesn't mean that it is NOT a continuous piece of music. I've read an interview with Metheny in which he clearly stated that he considered it as such.

Many symphonies from the romantic repertoire sport long movements, and track breaks are often introduced to make it easier for the listener to find a particular passage, but the music is continuous.

fungusucantkill wrote: There is a song that is playing in Germany right now that is 78 years long, Quarter note = 1 week Hows that for length!

There is a song that is playing in Germany right now that is 78 years long,

I think.

Mascodagama wrote: Now here's an ambitious piece of work:   http://www.rermegacorp.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RM&Product_Code=nitschMusik   As far as I can understand, this is a single 48-hour composition spread over 51 CDs.  And a three-volume set of books containing the full score and associated art to go with it.  There's something rather proggy about the sheer extravagance of the undertaking, even if the music is actually nothing related to rock.  Without having heard anything by Nitsch, the whole idea of it rather appeals to me!   Sadly I'm unlikely to fork out £230 / $450 to own it...

I would also like to hear it (Four orchestras, a 100-person choir, a tuned percussion section, and a big synth!), but would never shell out all that cash.  Chris Cutler's a nice guy (and a communist), so maybe I could get him to hook me up for cheap.....

Act 1 (43 minutes) and Act 2 (58 minutes) (if you count them as one) by Gyorgy Ligeti from the album "Le Grand Macabre"

I have a version of "Thick" which last for 68'43. It was recorded in Tokyo, on August 23, 1974.

Now here's an ambitious piece of work:

Edited by Mascodagama - February 14 2007 at 13:53

Ive heard a Grateful Dead live recording where they play for two and a half hours straight. Of course, there are more then one song in that, they just dont stop between songs and there is alot of improv. For a composed song, something by Klaus Shulze perhaps?

Depends if you count Tales From Topographic Oceans as one long piece in four sections or not. If you do, then that is the longest I have heard.