Long songs

[Sephychu]

2112- Rush (20:33)
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence- Dream Theater (42:02)
Alcoholics Anonymous- Dream Theater (56:57)

 

[Inverse Skies]

List your favourite songs that last longer than 7 minutes. I say list because songs that last longer than 10 minutes won't be found on youtube.

The Odyssey by Symphony X (24 minutes)
The Divine Wings of Tragedy by Symphony X (20 minutes)
A Passion Play by Jethro Tull (45 minutes)
Shogun by Trivium (12 minutes)

Longer than 7 minutes? Hahahaha! I listen to classical music, and symphonies can happily go for an hour and a half in some cases! Seven minutes is nothing, I would hazard a guess that 85% of the movements I listen to within symphonies or concertos go for longer than that time. For example, with Beethoven's Violin Concerto, the first movement is 25 minutes long,


which would require three videos just to post up! So I could happily make a very long list of songs along those lines, but I won't bother. Just enjoy what I've put up, because it is amazing.

 

[aruseusx]

Longer than 7 minutes? Hahahaha! I listen to classical music, and symphonies can happily go for an hour and a half in some cases!

Well symphonies are meant to be long. They were like movies for the people back then.

For example, with Beethoven's Violin Concerto, the first movement is 25 minutes long,

Fair enough most of A Passion Play if Ian Anderson faffing around with his flute and spoken word interlude.

Hahahaha! I listen to classical music.

Well that explains why you were so up about it.

Though mostly I'm a metal-head, I enjoy classical music at times and this was one of the cases. Though Mozart owns Beethoven anyday. The fact that requiem wasn't finished by him you could have imagined how awesome the rest of it would have been.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

A Nightmare to Remember by Dream Theater is pretty awesome. In fact, all of those songs on that album except for Wither are all longer than 8 minutes and amazing. I also really like the Poet and the Pendulum by Nightwish. And of course Bat Out of Hell by Jim Steinman/Meat Loaf.

 

[Inverse Skies]

Though mostly I'm a metal-head, I enjoy classical music at times and this was one of the cases. Though Mozart owns Beethoven anyday. The fact that requiem wasn't finished by him you could have imagined how awesome the rest of it would have been.

Really? Mozart over Beethoven? I've found that upon listening to say, all 27 of Mozart's Piano Concertos compared to Beethoven's 5 that Mozart was much more formulaic than Beethoven, Beethoven was more willing to try new things and break out from the accepted ways of doing things so to speak. Things like opening his 4th piano concerto with solo piano, his third symphony being the longest to date when it was written and his 9th bringing choral pieces into a symphony for the first time. I guess if you look at output then Mozart was by far and away the best, no-one except maybe Bach comes close to equalling the amount of songs that he wrote over a given time period, but I've always felt that Beethoven has a lot more depth to his songs. Personally I've just enjoyed them more.

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

Jesus of Suburbia ~ Greenday

You're not allowed an opinion anymore. Terribly sorry.

Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34: Phase III (19:24)
The Velvet Underground - Sister Ray (17:27) LOVE LOVE LOVE
Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34: Phase II (17:24)
Pink Floyd - Dogs (17:04)
Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34: Phase I (12:54)
Pink Floyd - Pigs (Three Different Ones) (11:21)
Daft Punk - Too Long (10:00)
The Stone Roses - Fools Gold (9:54)
Black Flag - Armageddon Man (9:14)
The Prodigy - Narayan (9:05)
The Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection (8:13)
Blur - Battle (7:43) LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE
Blur - Caramel (7:38) This song is to be played at my funeral.
Muse - Citizen Erased (7:19)
Gorillaz - Hong Kong (7:12)

That'll do.

 

[McNinja]

Mana by Equilibrium - 16:48

 

[Manhattan2112]

Hemispheres by Rush
2112 by Rush
The Camera Eye by Rush
The Necromancer by Rush
Xanadu by Rush
Roundabout by Yes
Finally Free by Dream Theater
Beyond this Life by Dream Theater
Blind Faith by Dream Theater

And that one Dream Theater Compilation of instrumental bits that this guy on Youtube made (and it's probably gone), that lasts just over an hour and a half. It's quite fantastic.

P.S. I saw someone put Glasgow Kiss by John Petrucci, but I thought that song was 6 minutes something. If it isn't, that goes up there too.

 

[Dauntlessidiot]

Mike oldfield:
Tubular bells 1 (parts one and two) = around 25 mins each,but are technically one song so, ~50 MINUTES! (beat that)
Crises=21 mins
First steps = 10 mins
millenium bell = 7 mins 30 secs
Sentinel = 9 mins
bell = 7 mins
mont st. michel = 12mins
(yes, I listen to a lot of mike oldfield)

Bach:
brandenburg concerto 3 = around 12-15mins (depends on orchestra in the recording)
(cos I have to play the [brutal] cello part and i like classical)
THe three movements of the bach double violin concerto
(again,cos I have to play the cello part and i like the tune)

My chemical romance - welcom to the black parade (i think is longer than 7 mins, correct me if im wrong)

Anything with that features a cello as the main instrument

there are alot more, but I cant think of any off hand

 

[Banana Phone Man]

Nina Simone - Sinnerman. 10 minutes long.

 

[Manhattan2112]

10,000 Days - Tool - 11 minutes. Tool is the only band that can keep me interested in a song for over five minutes.

See, it's weird that way. Honestly, Tool is the only band I can think of that writes songs like that that are completely uninteresting. I think they're good - but their songs just seem to go on and on, without ever really doing anything interesting. That's just my opinion though.

 

[FROGGEman2]

Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield- 45 minutes
Requiem, Mozart- ???

 

[wizzerd229]

Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd

 

[Njaard]

To name a few:
Opeth - Bleak: 9 min
Rush - Cygnus X-1 Book II Hemispheres: 18 min
Porcupine Tree - The Incident: 55 min
Between The Buried and Me - White Walls: 14 min
Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize: 18 min
Between The Buried and Me - Disease, Injury, Madness: 11 min
Iron Maiden - Rime of The Ancient Mariner: 13 min
Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name: 7 min
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son: 10 min
Iron Maiden - To Tame a Land: 7 min
Metallica - ...And Justice For All: 10 min
Opeth - Park: 12 min
Between The Buried and Me - Sun of Nothing: 11 min
Between The Buried and Me - Ants of the Sky: 13 min
Mastodon - The Czar: 10 min
Mastodon - The Last Baron: 13 min
The Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini: 32 min
Machine Head - Halo: 9 min
Between The Buried and Me - Swim To The Moon: 18 min
Megadeth - Holy Wars: 6:31, but it's awesome enough to call it 7
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet: 7 min
Iron Maiden - Paschendale
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 1: 10 min
Dream Theater - Wait for Sleep/Learning to Live: 14 min
Black Sabbath - War Pigs: 7 min

To be honest, most of my library consists of songs that are longer than 7 minuttes ^^

 

[aruseusx]

Though mostly I'm a metal-head, I enjoy classical music at times and this was one of the cases. Though Mozart owns Beethoven anyday. The fact that requiem wasn't finished by him you could have imagined how awesome the rest of it would have been.

Really? Mozart over Beethoven? I've found that upon listening to say, all 27 of Mozart's Piano Concertos compared to Beethoven's 5 that Mozart was much more formulaic than Beethoven, Beethoven was more willing to try new things and break out from the accepted ways of doing things so to speak. Things like opening his 4th piano concerto with solo piano, his third symphony being the longest to date when it was written and his 9th bringing choral pieces into a symphony for the first time. I guess if you look at output then Mozart was by far and away the best, no-one except maybe Bach comes close to equalling the amount of songs that he wrote over a given time period, but I've always felt that Beethoven has a lot more depth to his songs. Personally I've just enjoyed them more.

Well in the end it all comes down to taste and I haven't listened to all their songs as they both have over 200 songs. But then as I said earlier I'm mainly a metalhead and the longest non-progressive metal song is At War With Satan by Venom as I recall.

I assumed that the average song length was 7 mins because if you took all the classical, folk, rock, metal(Over 70,000 metal bands exist btw), pop, techno, rap, etc. it would probably be something like 7 minutes.

Also Beethoven was the first punk.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Atom Heart Mother Suite - Pink Floyd ~24 minutes (That motorbike, yeah!)
Everlasting Love - We Love Katamari OST ~17 minutes (It just always cheers me up)

 

[Fightgarr]

Am I judging my songs based on the merits of it being a 'long song' or is it just songs I really like that happen to be long? I suppose it wouldn't make much of a difference either way, eh? Well here's a few I like:
Subterraneans - Philip Glass
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs - Chick Corea
Cicatriz E.S.P. - The Mars Volta
The Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant (Parts I&II) - Return to Forever
Old Castle, By the River, In the Middle of Forest - Hiromi Uehara (As performed by Hiromi Uehara and Chick Corea)

 

[AgentNein]

Hurricane by Bob Dylan

Hands down!!!!!!!

 

[narutorules44]

in a gadda da vida

 

[RagingMetrosexual]

Erik Saties's Vexations is a relatively short piece of music...

But it's "meant" to be repeated 840 times.

A performance of it in the 60s lasted 18 hours and 40 minutes.

I think I win