Longest song ever!

[BlueDagger]

What's the longest song you've ever seen/heard/heard of and how long was it?

I don't care if its modern, or some really-really long classical music.

The longest song I have is "Balance Is Restored" from Final Fantasy VI at 21 minutes, 35 seconds - But I know there are much longer ones out there.

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[Undeadpriest]

Well my friend makes me heard a song of techno...who's lasting 2 hours O_o believe me or not

[Weeaboolits]

Indefinite loop http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

[kurisu1974]

The longest song I have heard was In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly from 1968 at 17 minutes and 8 seconds.

[Polly]

Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - 41:58

[DikkyRay]

Albaquerque (sp?) Wierd Al.
Lasts 12 minutes or so

[Blitzkommando]

The longest I have heard, and have, is the extended version (understatment of the year) of What is Love. It weighs in at a heafty 79 minutes and 10 seconds long.

[Bot-Bot]

On 2007-04-18 03:21, DikkyRay wrote:
Albaquerque (sp?) Wierd Al.
Lasts 12 minutes or so


Yeah, the spelling is...
A!...A!
L!...L!
B!...B!
U!...U!
.......
QUERQUE!!!...QUERQUE!!!

/Weird Al Song Joke

[Ketchup345]

Longest I've heard is some songs from Led Zeppelin's How the West Was won album (it's one of their live albums). On that album, Dazed and confused along with two other songs (the CD has it as a single track, and from memory there was no pause between songs) is 25:25.

Longest song made after 1900 I know about is Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick" at 43:50. I believe I have heard some techno songs last much longer.


I'm not sure if you can call Albuquerque a song...

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[Eihwaz]

I'm glad I found this topic before Hrigg did. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

The longest song in my library is Providence, by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. It clocks in at 29:02.

[Nai_Calus]

The longest song on my winamp playlist is a live version of X-Japan's Art of Life, clocking in at a brain-destroying 36:55. Second longest is also Art of Life, the studio version, at 28:56. Considering that the studio version has a 10-minute piano solo, you can imagine the brain damage caused by the live version. Not currently on my playlist, my mp3 got corrupted, but the full vocal performance of the opera from FFVI is 26-something minutes long.

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Dark Side of the Moon yet.

[DizzyDi]

On 2007-04-18 04:55, Norvekh wrote:
The longest I have heard, and have, is the extended version (understatment of the year) of What is Love. It weighs in at a heafty 79 minutes and 10 seconds long.



You mean THE What is Love? By Haddaway? The one immortalized by SNL?

79 minutes? VERY YES!

[Ketchup345]

On 2007-04-18 07:24, Ian-KunX wrote:
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Dark Side of the Moon yet.
Even though it is best to listen to Dark Side of the Moon as a full album, it is still very easy to divide it into the individual songs (the CD lists it as 9 tracks). It is also only 42 minutes long, just slightly shorter than the Jethro Tull song/album I listed above.

[Sinue_v2]

The longest song I've heard was probably a live rendition of Terrapin Station (post Jerry). The song is normally about 17 minuites long, but at this show they extended it out to about 75 minuites.

Though it's hard to say that can compete with an entire show - as usually the shows I've seen don't just have them playing one song at a time. They'll loop from the first song into the second, then loop back to the first leading into the third, then back to the second, then fourth.... ect... ect... So they might play several songs, but all jumbled together into one long continuous 2 hour song.

[washuguy]

The longest song i've heard was like 9 minutes or something... It was this techno song.

[omegapirate2k]

http://www.leekspin.com/

[Weeaboolits]

On 2007-04-18 12:12, omegapirate2k wrote:
http://www.leekspin.com/

I saw that before XD

[Dhylec]

Hm, the kind of music I listened to that might go on forever seems to be classical. Too bad, they aren't really 'songs'. ;]

[Hrigg]

The longest song I have is "Dopesmoker", by Sleep, which clocks in at 1 hour, 3 minutes, and 31 seconds.

However, I think I win this topic.

The song, (if you can call it that http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif) "As Slow as Possible" by John Cage is expected to last 639 years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2728595.stm

[Gaderffii]

Holst's Venus, bringer of peace

[Eihwaz]

On 2007-04-18 19:37, Hrigg wrote:
The longest song I have is "Dopesmoker", by Sleep, which clocks in at 1 hour, 3 minutes, and 31 seconds.

However, I think I win this topic.

The song, (if you can call it that http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif) "As Slow as Possible" by John Cage is expected to last 639 years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2728595.stm


Well, god damn.

Thread over. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

[UnderscoreX]

Kraftwerk - Autobahn goes for around 22 minutes, my dad was a huge fan of Kraftwerk so i've got quite a few of their songs.

[Neith]

Longest I've heard:

Dream Theater- In the name of God: 14:15
Iron Maiden- Rime of the Ancient Mariner: 13:34

I wasn't aware there was a 41-minute Dream Theater song, but I've only just been introduced to the band by a friend.

[Jive18]

I have a techno song on Stepmania entitiled "Ayu Trance 2" that happens to be just over 37 minutes long. Compare this to the average SM/DDR song that is about 1 minute 30 seconds. Playing it felt like an enternity.

[Neith]

On 2007-04-19 13:13, Jive18 wrote:
I have a techno song on Stepmania entitiled "Ayu Trance 2" that happens to be just over 37 minutes long.


Goddamn, I thought playing Free Bird was bad enough on Guitar Hero 2...http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

[Jive18]

Well, it has over 8000 notes throughout the entire chart, but the it's nothing terribly hard. It would be disgusting if it had 16th streams, 16th jumps, drills, etc.

[Wyndham]

I watched leek spin for 1 hour and fifteen minutes straight. I are insane-o.

[Leviathan]

World By Storm By Aiden.

18:00 I tried to download it once but it has yet to finish. =[

Its a pretty good song but the reason its so long is because the singer [wiL Francis] does a speech in it about life &the people that listen to song &how they're like your family. =]

[Blitzkommando]

On 2007-04-18 07:42, DizzyDi wrote:

On 2007-04-18 04:55, Norvekh wrote:
The longest I have heard, and have, is the extended version (understatment of the year) of What is Love. It weighs in at a heafty 79 minutes and 10 seconds long.



You mean THE What is Love? By Haddaway? The one immortalized by SNL?

79 minutes? VERY YES!


One in the same, indeed.

[DonRoyale]

Hrigg, push off.

loop
This is the song that never ends, it just goes on and on, my friends!

SOME PEOPLE, STARTED SINGING IT NOT KNOWING WHAT IT WAS, AND NOW CONTINUE SINGING IT FOREVER JUST BECAUSE...
/loop

You all fail http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_disapprove.gif

[Hrigg]

http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

I still win.

>_>

[Dangerous55]

Alice's DIner by Woody Guthrie's son is like 25 minutes or something. They made it into a movie...

[Ethan-Waber]

there are many many techno songs that reach 2 hours+ not really techno though, mor elike rave dance music.

[Undeadpriest]

On 2007-04-19 17:11, Hrigg wrote:
http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

I still win.

>_>



Look at the second post page 1 its mine and i'm talking about a song who lasted 2 hours...i win...

[Firocket1690]

Boris & Merzbow - A Sun Baked Snow Cave (62:02)

[Eihwaz]

On 2007-04-21 14:58, Undeadpriest wrote:

On 2007-04-19 17:11, Hrigg wrote:
http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

I still win.

>_>



Look at the second post page 1 its mine and i'm talking about a song who lasted 2 hours...i win...


Hrigg wins for having a song that lasts 639 years.

[GreenArcher]

Wait a second...

One will never be able to enjoy the full potential of said 639 year song http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif




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[Undeadpriest]

maybe the all is family lineage will be able to keep up into listening it http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

[HAYABUSA-FMW-]

Isn't there a super long movie-length-like version of MJ's Thriller?

Where the narrator goes on about darkness and zombies and whatnot.

[RuneLateralus]

Longest one I heard was 2112 by Rush.

20:37 seconds.

[Eihwaz]

On 2007-04-22 17:55, HAYABUSA-FMW- wrote:
Isn't there a super long movie-length-like version of MJ's Thriller?

Where the narrator goes on about darkness and zombies and whatnot.


The full music video of Thriller is something like 11 minutes, but not all of that is the actual song. The song itself is about 5 minutes long.

[Feelmirath]

The longest song I've heard is Achilles, Agony and Ecstasy in Eight Parts by Manowar, which is 28:37. My god it's epic. XD