longest prog track?
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Topic: longest prog track?
Posted By: greenback
Subject: longest prog track?
Date Posted: September 27 2004 at 20:40
I have Mike Oldfield - Amarok: 60 minutes
Anything longer or close?
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Posted By: Vegetableman
Date Posted: September 27 2004 at 21:29
Devil Doll - Sacrilege of Fatal Arms (79:03)
------------- "Mister Fripp, your music is quite different than everything else out there. In one word, how would you describe it?"
"Progressive.... yeah, that's it..."
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Posted By: dropForge
Date Posted: September 27 2004 at 22:05
Is that a single, continuous track? I think we've got a winner...
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: September 27 2004 at 22:09
I don't like really long tracks. Than its harder to go to a point and listen to it. Break the song into parts so you can go to your favorite parts.
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Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: September 27 2004 at 22:18
carl! wrote:
I don't like really long tracks. Than its harder to go to a point and listen to it. Break the song into parts so you can go to your favorite parts. |
that's sacrilege...you have to listen to it as it was meant to be...in it's complete form...are you the type of guy who listens to In A Gadda Da Vida only in its single form?....probably not if you are a member of this site!
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Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: September 27 2004 at 23:29
Can't beat 78 minutes however I'LL BE BACK, there is always classical music. ( don't know the exact name but wagner created a piece, I believe it's called the ring, which lasts some 8 hours, im looking for excact information, like I said I'll be back)
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: September 28 2004 at 00:27
Tuxon wrote:
but wagner created a piece, I believe it's called the ring, which lasts some 8 hours, im looking for excact information, like I said I'll be back |
As a fact it's called Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelungen), it's a collection of 4 operas related (like a concept album) only that in this case you need 14 CD's more or less.
But it's not 8 straight hours, not even Wagner wouldc resist that number of hours, it's divided in:
- Rheingold (The Rhine Gold)
- Die Valkure (The Valkyrie)
- Siegfried
- Goterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods)
It's a lifetime experience, but to be honest not easy to listen.
Iván
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: September 28 2004 at 00:37
well, some long songs are amazing, anonymus 2 and eruption by focus or ash ra tempel's and Jade Warrior songs are very good long songs. But 60-80 minutes? damn, to much of a good thing!
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 28 2004 at 00:46
The "longest prog track" is actually Dick Heath's long and storied life: 81 years and counting! ![Shocked](https://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley3.gif)
Pass the cream of wheat, please....![Wink](https://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley2.gif)
------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy.
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Posted By: lobster41
Date Posted: September 28 2004 at 08:59
While it may be sacrilege, gdub411, I have to agree with carl! that a loooooong piece can be difficult to listen to in its entirity. I rarely have a full hour that I can devote to listening (truly listening) to music. If I have 15 minutes, I can listen to a shorter track, or go to a section of the longer track.
As an example, I purchased the first Transatlantic disk when it first appeared. I did not listen to it in full for probably two years, because the first track is 30 minutes long. I kept getting interrupted, and could never fully appreciate the piece. It wasn't until I heard the whole thing that I realized what a great disk it is. Now if I only have a few minutes, I can listen to "We All Need Some Light".
I love AMAROK, but I have only listened to it twice, both times in the car on business trips. It makes no sense to throw it on when you know that in ten minutes you have to run an errand.
Sorry for the sacrilege.
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: September 28 2004 at 09:15
I bought IQ's 'Dark Matter' last week. So far I have been unable to listern to all of 'Harvest of souls' I dont seem to have a 25 minute window anywhere Still, if the rest of the album is anything to go by, the wait will be worth it.
I have never listerned to 'Topographic oceans' in one hit. 'The revealing science of God' is about all I can bare in one go, before I'm Yessed out. No offence to Yes fans ![](smileys/smiley2.gif)
The ultimate is 'Suppers Ready' I can not and will not listern to parts of this track. I have to have the whole thing. Even when the vinyl offered the chance to skip sections, I wouldn't. On the CD, of course. the whole of SR is one track.
------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: September 28 2004 at 09:46
Peter Rideout wrote:
The "longest prog track" is actually Dick Heath's long and storied life: 81 years and counting! ![Shocked](https://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley3.gif)
Naughty and you force me to go search the web for juicy bits about your ancestors. Did you know that........
Now tell me Peter, what positions do you place your ear-trumpets to get the best stereo effect from your 8 track player- and have you cracked it for quad yet ?
Pass the cream of wheat, please....![Wink](https://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley2.gif)
Wrong: Viagra and some comfy slippers please. |
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Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: September 28 2004 at 13:17
ivan_2068 wrote:
Tuxon wrote:
but wagner created a piece, I believe it's called the ring, which lasts some 8 hours, im looking for excact information, like I said I'll be back |
As a fact it's called Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelungen), it's a collection of 4 operas related (like a concept album) only that in this case you need 14 CD's more or less.
But it's not 8 straight hours, not even Wagner wouldc resist that number of hours, it's divided in:
- Rheingold (The Rhine Gold)
- Die Valkure (The Valkyrie)
- Siegfried
- Goterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods)
It's a lifetime experience, but to be honest not easy to listen.
Iván
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Thanx Ivan, My brother has it somewhere in his archive, The eight hours I refered to was on remembering it consist of 4 pieces, therefor I guessed 2 hours a piece. I attempted to listen to it once, it's great but a little to long to listen to completely, you saved me a trip to my brother (and how embarrissing) asking him about music, would be the world upside-down. I'll go anyway and try and listen to it once more.
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Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: September 28 2004 at 13:36
Personally I don't mind if I have to shut it off and resume listening to it later due to time constraints.
I have notice recently that bands like Dream Theatre with their 6 Degrees of Inner Turbulance they allow the listener to pick it up at some different point in the tune by having it sectioned off into 8 parts .Personally I have never done that myself.
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: September 28 2004 at 15:32
Is it only eight hours? I was under the impression it was ten or eleven..? Still I've only heard excerpts from it.
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: September 28 2004 at 15:47
Managed to get through 'Harvest of souls' by IQ this evening ![](smileys/smiley4.gif)
It WAS worth the wait.
------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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