Longest song you've ever heard?

Here are a few "long ones"

Interstellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd 9:41
Sysephus, parts 1-IV - Pink Floyd 12:29
Atom Heart Mother Suite- Pink Floyd 23:39

The return of the son of Monster Magnet- Mothers of Invention 12:17
Moon Child - King Crimson 12:11
In the Court of The Crimson King - King Crimson 9:22

Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer 20:39
(It's a suite, man!)

I'm Going Home - 10 Years After 9:31 (gives me the chills every time I hear it)

ludwig van beethoven's 9th symphony-74 min long

A Gothic Romance by Cradle Of Filth

It lasts for 8 minutes 45 seconds

I heard of a 72 hour techno song by a friend... I want it now..... lol

Originally posted by cpr12r
I heard of a 72 hour techno song by a friend... I want it now..... lol

That's just stupid...and I don't mean just cos it's techno either. I don't even know how it's possible, how many CDs would you need to put that on?

"The Devil Glitch",

69-minute song that contains over 500 verses, has just been acknowledged by the Guinness Book of World Records to be the "World's Longest Pop Song".

www.nutscape.com...

Jesus Christ! What could anyone have that mauch to say about? Seriously... Oh, and Sauron, neat avatar. I'm a LOTR nerd

Originally posted by psychochick
Jesus Christ! What could anyone have that mauch to say about? Seriously... Oh, and Sauron, neat avatar. I'm a LOTR nerd

Nice Avatar you have your self it is the same rig and one of the guitars my son has, he plays lead guitar in a band called Exigent cheap plug I know but what the hey


[edit on 14/8/2005 by Sauron]

I don't think this contest is for Classical music. Also if anyone said a classical peice of music they are technically wrong. Orchestrated music is not "song" it is a "Peice of Music." Opera consists of vocals and there for is a song. Even as someone has said, Beethoven's 9th symphony, it does qualify as a song for the final movment is the famous Ode to Joy.

Techno doesn't even qualify as a song for most techno does not have words where as if it does it is a song.

A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (possibly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features words (lyrics).

A piece of music exists in the form of a written composition in musical notation or as a single acoustic event (a live performance or recorded track). If composed before performance, music can be performed by memory, through written musical notation, or through a combination of both. Compositions are comprised of musical elements, elements which vary widely from person to person and culture to culture. Improvisation is the act of composing during performance, of assembling elements "spontaneously."

en.wikipedia.org...

Please , if you consider yourself a fan of any type of music take the time to know the basics...

Deny Ignorance.

Oh and the longest song I have ever heard was most like a choral peice by Hildegard of Bingen.

I'm gonna say this straight and simple.

The longest songs that I've heard are as follows.

#1. In Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly
#2. Stariway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
#3. Free Bird - Lynard Skynard
#4. Friends In Low Places (LIVE) - Garth Brooks
#5. Seek ANd Destroy (Woodstock '99) - Metallica
#6. Twilight Zone - Golden Earring
#7. Money For Nothin' - Dire Straits
#8. Blinded Bye The Light - Manfred Mann & His Earth Band
#9. Layla - Eric Clapton
#10. Shout - Tears For Fears
#11. Can't You See - The Marshall Tucker Band
#12. Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
#13. Fallin' In And Out Of Love (Amie) - Pure Prairie League
#14. Money - Pink Floyd
#15. It's A Long Way To The Top - AC/DC
#16. For Those About To Rock - AC/DC
#17. Janie's Got A Gun - Aerosmith
#18. Hells Bells - AC/DC
#19. Will The Circle Be Unbroken - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
#20. She & I - Alabama

Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain - 22mins

[edit on 08/09/2005 by britcitusa]

Originally posted by gimmefootball400
I'm gonna say this straight and simple.

The longest songs that I've heard are as follows.

#2. Stariway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
#7. Money For Nothin' - Dire Straits
#9. Layla - Eric Clapton

All those songs are a maximum 4 min.

LOL longest song. :shk:

Gamma Ray - Revelations (17 min) off of the Majesty promo
Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Opera (live in toronto) (12 min)
Mago De Oz - Finnisterra (15 min)
Dream Theater - Change of Seasons (18 min)
Dream Theater - Octavarium (24 min)

Jethro Tull - "Thick as a Brick"......covers a whole album: 43 mins 44 sec.....

Beat that.......

You can't beat that one.

BTW, Layla by Eric Clapton is 7:02 long.

Tubular Bells by Mike Olfield is easily the longest. It actually lasts for just under 17 days.

The longest song I can remember listening to was Eskimo by Damien Rice, which is 15min57seconds.

Muskrat Love by Captain & Tenille
(ok it just SEEMS the longest)

There are a few songs by Type O Negative that get fairly long...off hand I can only thing of "World Coming Down" and "Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity". Hmmm, now I've gotta dig out my CD's!!

i love dire straits, gimmefootball!!

and sauron, tell your son he and his band are AWESOME!

I want myyyyyyyyyyy, I want my MTVeeeeeee, I want myyyyyyyyy, I want my MTVeeeeeee. To think that Dire Straits performed this song TWO years before MTV Europe premiered is just simply amazing!