Greatest song in excess of 8 minutes.

[slj0101]

[taterguy]

1. Allman Brothers Whipping Post 22:55

[flvegan]

2. Beastie Boys, "B-Boy Bouillabaisse" – 12:33

Last track on "Paul's Boutique"

[Ekirh]

60. I was just listening to that home from work . . .

I'm so glad I bought this damn album months back.

[DS1]

3. Tool - Eulogy 8:23

but there's plenty of longer songs to choose from

[scrinmaster]

28. Pushit.

The live version is amazing.

[DS1]

30. Absolutely

I passed that up only because the live version is longer than the album track which is under 8 minutes

[Ekirh]

61. Damn all the good ones taken . . .

"Cries"

Wait.. is Us and Them over six minutes.. if so there you are. "I'm not even sure if that was picked yet"

[Ekirh]

74. Too late to edit my post . .

But stupid me you said eight minutes.. I thought it was six .... all well.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

79. Another TOOL goodie: Rosetta Stoned.......

clocking in at an epic 11:11

[LostInAnomie]

110. Tool's covers of "You Lied" and "No Quarter"

You Lied: 9:17
No Quarter: 11:12

Damn, Tool is awesome!

[HughBeaumont]

4. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Part 1 (25:36)

Followed closely behind by Isaac Hayes' version of "Something" (11:45).

GREAT looking out on Dopesmoker, BTW.

[qdemn7]

17. Woo-hoo Yes...

Tubular Bells Pt 1.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

57. oh yeah

good choice, got that on my playlist right now

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Genesis, Supper's Ready - 22:54

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supper's_Ready

Though Tubular Bells side 1 and Echoes are pretty damn good.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

41. Seconded n/t

[carpetbagger]

95. Supper's Ready by a nose.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Close to the Edge, or Shine on You Crazy Diamond.

Come to think of it, there's a good number of Yes songs under album-side length that could go (And You and I, Yours Is No Disgrace, Starship Trooper, maybe South Side of the Sky?).

My favorite semi-obscure one would be In Held Twas In I. Procol Harum or the Transatlantic cover, you take your pick.

Life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?

[Longhorn]

6. Pete Frampton's "Do You Feel Like We Do?"

14:16 minutes on the album. Great for zipping down the highway with the top down! :)

American Pie is the best for singing along.

[PeaceNikki]

7. FREEBIRD!!

Not really, I just felt like screaming that.

I'd say "Disposable Heroes" but Metallica has lost my respect. OK, I can still nominate that song.

[formerrepuke]

8. "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" 18:20

[peekaloo]

9. Like A Hurricane by Neil Young

[anarch]

10. "Sister Ray"

or, if you have the vinyl with the lock groove at the end, making the song length theoretically infinite, Sonic Youth's "Expressway thru yr. Skull".

[swag]

19. Excellent choices.

[ghostsofgiants]

24. Darn, didn't notice your post.

Definitely agree.

[Withywindle]

80. "Sister Ray" for the WIN.

I'm not a morning person. NEver have been. When I was in high school, I needed half a pot of coffee and "Sister Ray." Every day. Sometimes twice.

I credit this song with getting my parents to allow me to go to college a year early. Being empty-nesters must've started to sound real good to them. :evilgrin:

[wildhorses]

11. Piano Concerto No. 3 (Rachmaninoff)~40 minutes

The Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 by Sergei Rachmaninoff (colloquially known as the Rach 3) is famous for its technical and musical demands on the performer. It has the reputation of being one of the most difficult concertos in the entire piano repertoire.

The first movement revolves around a diatonic melody that soon develops into complex pianistic figuration. It reaches a number of ferocious climaxes, especially in the cadenza. The first theme in its full form reappears just before the coda. Rachmaninoff wrote two versions of this cadenza: the dramatic and powerful original, commonly notated as the ossia, and a second one with a lighter, toccata-like style. In his recording of the concerto, the composer used the second cadenza.

The second movement is opened by the orchestra and consists of a number of variations around a single lush, heavily romantic melody following one another without a rigid scheme. After the development and recapitulation of the second theme, the main melody from the first movement reappears, before the movement is "closed" by the orchestra in a manner similar to the introduction. Then the piano gets the last word in with a short cadenza-esque passage which transitions into the last movement without pause. Many melodic thoughts of this movement allude to Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto, third movement, noticeably the very Russian, E-flat major melody.

The third movement is quick and vigorous and contains variations on many of the themes that are used in the first movement, which unites the whole concerto cyclically. However, after the first and second themes it diverges from the conventional sonata-allegro form. There is no conventional development; that segment is replaced by a lengthy digression using the major key of the third movement's first theme, which then leads to the two themes from the first movement. After the digression, the movement recapitulation returns to the original themes, building up to a toccata climax somewhat similar but lighter than the first movement ossia cadenza. The last movement is concluded with a triumphant and passionate second theme melody in D major. The piece ends with the same four-note rhythm – claimed by some to be the composer's musical signature – as the composer's second concerto.

Written in the peaceful setting of his family's country estate, Ivanovka, Rachmaninoff completed the concerto on September 23, 1909. Contemporary with this work are his First Piano Sonata and his tone poem The Isle of the Dead.

The concerto is respected, even feared, by most pianists. Józef Hofmann, the pianist to whom the work is dedicated, never publicly performed it, saying that it "wasn't for" him (though this must have been for reasons other than the work's technical difficulty, since Hofmann was one of the greatest technicians in pianistic history). And Gary Graffman lamented he had not learned this concerto as a student, when he was "still too young to know fear".<1>

Due to time constraints, Rachmaninoff could not practice the piece while in Russia. Instead, he practiced it on a silent keyboard that he took with him on the ship to the US.

The concerto was first performed on November 28, 1909 by Rachmaninoff himself with the now-defunct New York Symphony Society with Walter Damrosch conducting, at the New Theater (later rechristened the Century Theater). It received a second performance under Gustav Mahler several weeks later, an 'experience Rachmaninoff treasured' <1>. The manuscript was first published in 1910 by Gutheil. The first performance in England was given by G T Ball (later Sir George Thalben-Ball) at the Royal College of Music in London.

A typical performance lasts around 40 minutes.

[MissMillie]

12. in the genre of classical music.. you bet

followed closely by Bruckner's 8th Symphony

[wildhorses]

16. ~

:thumbsup:

:hi:

:hug:

[regnaD kciN]

97. Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World")...

...followed by the Rachmaninov Second Piano Concerto (the Third is great, but the second one's better).

[ProdigalJunkMail]

13. Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding

ELTON!

[HughBeaumont]

14. Others:

Pink Floyd "Dogs" (17:08)
Gong "A Sprinkling of Clouds" (8:55)
Rush "2112" (20:33)
Neurosis "Through Silver In Blood" (12:11)
Van Der Graaf Generator "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" (23:05)
Van Der Graaf Generator "Lemmings" (11:39)
Mastodon "Hearts Alive" (13:39)

[MissMillie]

15. "Awaken" by Yes (15:26)

holy cow....

[Beaverhausen]

78. Hee

See you next week! :hi:

[MissMillie]

98. Indeed!

:hi: I'm looking forward to it.

[datasuspect]

18. "stationtostation" david bowie - 10:14

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

20. "Thick as a Brick" by Jethro Tull. FORTY-THREE fucking minutes of good rock. I win.

[nclib]

37. I second "Thick as a Brick"

I was looking for that one.

[Rabrrrrrr]

75. And on the Flute-Topia live CD from the 1972 tour, it comes in at 1:08

THAT one fucking ROCKS!

[Richardo]

82. I loved Thick as a Brick

:thumbsup:

[seemunkee]

21. John Coltrane - My Favorite Things

[realisticphish]

22. Le Danse Macabre, by Camille Saint-Saens

Seriously, it's a kickass piece, even if you don't like classical music

[Rhythm]

112. It really is beautiful...

and one of those pieces that i can't help moving to, no matter where i am.

[realisticphish]

114. yeah, definately

If I get married, it's going to be the first dance at the wedding :D

[ghostsofgiants]

23. "Sister Ray" by The Velvet Underground

[EstimatedProphet]

25. Quicksilver Messenger Service - Who Do You Love

Somewhere around 25 minutes

[EstimatedProphet]

26. Also, Dark Star - Grateful Dead

[philosophie_en_rose]

27. November Rain

:)

[asthmaticeog]

29. "Mothersky" by Can and "Luau" by Drive Like Jehu.

Both unfuckwithable.

[ghostsofgiants]

31. Good call on "Luau."

[TommyO]

32. Renaissance: Song of Scheherazade, clocking in at 23:49

Annie Haslam had an incredible voice while she was with Renaissance, and hasn't faded much today!

[begin_within]

33. "Kashmir" and "Rhapsody in Blue"

[stuntcat]

34. Rappers Delight by Sugar Hill Gang

:headbang:
i said a hip hop a hippie to the hippie, to the hip hip hop, you dont stop a rockin to the bang bang boogie say up jumps the boogie, to the rhythm of the boogity beat.

[Orsino]

35. Traffic: "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys"

Not necessarily the greatest song, but as a college DJ I used it for bathroom breaks. Whew!

[LynneSin]

59. I love Low Spark

:D

[nedbal]

86. Low Spark

[greendog]

36. Fairport Convention w/ Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson

"A Sailors Life" 11:26

[Le Taz Hot]

94. Woah!

De ja vu! Damn! I used to do her version of "Matty Groves."

[masshole]

38. Green Grass and High Tides Forever

The Outalws, 9:49. Never been a big Southern Rock fan, but I alwys thought this song blew away "Freebird" as a Southern Rock Anthem.

[HughBeaumont]

39. More:

Yes - "Heart of the Sunrise" (10:34)
godspeed you! black emperor - "Storm" (22:32)
godspeed you! black emperor - "Static" (22:35)
Explosions in the Sky - "First Breath after the Coma" (9:33)
Explosions in the Sky - "Memorial" (8:50)
Mr. Bungle - "The Bends" (10:28)
Sunn o)))) - "Cry for the Weeper" (14:40)
Mike Oldfield - "Ommadawn pt 1" (19:23)
Isis - "Celestial (The Tower)" (9:42)
Isis - "Syndic Calls" (9:39)

[unpossibles]

40. no Bohemian Rhapsody? What? Come on.... n/t

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

49. It's only 5:55. Sorry. n/t

[unpossibles]

52. wow. It always seemed longer. My bad. n/t

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

58. I googled it

to see how long it was beacuse I was thinking the same thing.

[Joe Fields]

42. It's impossible for me to decide...there are so many good ones.

And when I love a song, I really love it. So, to decide which one I love more just can't be done. How does one choose between masterpieces, such as Thick As A Brick, or Machine Gun, or Whipping Post, or Heard It Through The Grapevine, to name but a few? I treat these songs like my children. I play them all the time, and over 30 and forty years have never gotten tired of listening to them.

[Orrex]

43. The 4th movement of the glorious 9th

by lovely lovely Ludwig van.

[MissMillie]

46. Ode to Joy!

good choice

[Crabby Appleton]

66. I was thinking of this, powerful piece. nt

[bleedingheart]

73. I have to agree!

[Crabby Appleton]

77. plus - not too bad for a deaf guy. nt

[deucemagnet]

88. Bezoomny! Real horrorshow!

:thumbsup:

[Seashell Eyes]

44. "The Rite of Spring" by Stravinsky

or Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major Op.35, 1st movement. I love the haunting beginning of "The Rite of Spring" and the solo in the middle of "Violin Concerto in D major."

[muriel_volestrangler]

68. Singing in the Rite of Spring?

New to me. I don't know Op.35, but singing in a violin concerto is unusual, too... :evilgrin:

[gmoney]

45. "The End" by the Doors and "Time Has Come Today" by Chambers Bros.

For me "The End" is inextricably linked with the end of Apocalypse Now, so it just seems that much more powerful to me now.

Dimly remember that Time Magazine did a cool long-form commercial with "Time Has Come Today" basically with just a montage of images from the magazine cut to the music. Don't think they used the 9 minute version, but it was probably the 3-minute single version, and it struck me as very powerful, too. Wonder if that's found its way to YouTube yet.

[Nevernose]

92. Didn't know there was a "long version" of "Time Has Come"

If you get the chance to see Steve Earle and Sheryl Crow playing it on Letterman, though, it's worth it. A lot of spirit there.

[Blue_In_AK]

115. That Chambers Bros. song

brings back LOTS of memories. The long version is definitely the best.

[Inchworm]

47. Alice's Restaurant of course!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_7C0QGkiVo

:hi:

[flvegan]

48. What about...OASIS!!! "All Around the World" is over 9 minutes

Score one for Oasis.

[Strawman]

50. Street Hassle - Lou Reed

[MAGICBULLET]

51. TB Sheets by Van Morrison

Rare Earth - Get Ready (album cut)
MFSB - Love is the Message
Creative Source - Who Is He & What Is He To You
Temptations - Papa Was A Rolling Stone
Manuel Gottsching - E2-E4
Deodato - Super Strut
Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby

[noonwitch]

53. Paradise By The Dashboard Light by Meatloaf

I think it's over 8 minutes. It's a long song.

[Rhythm]

113. 8:28, according to my iTunes stats n/t

[Tikki]

54. "Marquee Moon".....Television.

Tikki

[Starbucks Anarchist]

102. Excellent pick.

[billyskank]

55. Chameleon

off "Head Hunters" by Herbie Hancock.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

56. The End - The Doors

closely followed by Free Bird

common, cant believe you didnt have free bird up there

[RedStateShame]

62. Nearly every song on Miles Davis's "Bitches Brew."

I just got the Bitches Brew sessions boxed set a few weeks ago: 21 tracks, 4.5 hours!!

[leftofthedial]

63. Choctaw Bingo

James McMurtry

[Nye Bevan]

64. "Telegraph Road" by Dire Straits

I used to like to go to work but they shut it all down
I got a right to go to work; no work here to be found
Yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed
We're gonna have to reap from some seed that's sowed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph_Road_%28song%29

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

65. Eight Miles High

as done by Golden Earring on their first Live album. Almost eleven minutes of kick-ass hard rock guitar jamming.

[Oeditpus Rex]

67. The live version of 'Space Truckin''

20:02 of balls-out :headbang:in'.

[billyskank]

69. Curious

is it mandatory to aerate ones genitalia in order to rock to this extended rock extravaganza?

[Oeditpus Rex]

70. Nah

Doesn't hurt, though.



SCHWING! :headbang:

[jpgray]

71. "Halleluwah" or "Future Days"

[Dukkha]

72. Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon (60:52)

It takes a Thursday afternoon to listen to it

[RedG1]

76. full 14 minute 'live' version of Peter Frampton's

"Do You Feel Like We Do" from 1975

[WritingIsMyReligion]

81. Uhm, Miles Davis, BITCHES BREW--pretty much the whole album.

"Spanish Key" especially. "Long" rock is pwned by that album.

[no name no slogan]

83. "Tarkus" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer

Best musical suite about an armadillo/tank ever written.

[HuskerDU]

84. Aerosmith's version of 'Mother Popcorn' on Live Bootleg.

Great band a loooooong time ago. Not too good now.

[BrotherBuzz]

85. Ravel's Bolero

[pokerfan]

87. FREE BIRD ! ! ! ! !

[GoddessOfGuinness]

89. Dies Irae from Verdi's Requiem

Powerful stuff.

[MrScorpio]

90. Greatest use of In a Gadda Da Vida in a movie:

MANHUNTER!

[Lindsey]

91. If "A Day in the Life" isn't 8 min. or longer than I'll go with "Funeral For

A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding....

[Frank Cannon]

99. Damn right

Great movie. Far superior to the ham-and-cheese sequels.

[SnohoDem]

93. I like these...

Hendrix - Machine Gun 12:36
Hendrix - Voodoo Chile 14:59
Elevators - Slip Inside This House 8:06

Special mention for Jazz:

Miles - Flamenco Sketches 9:23

[Nevernose]

96. Voodoo Chile

The night I was born, I swear the moon turned a fiery red.

[Liberal Veteran]

100. Echoes, Pink Floyd 23:31

Great song.

[progressoid]

101. Drumming by Steve Reich - - 84 minutes

[KG]

103. Wharf Rat - 8:32

[nedbal]

104. Led Zeppelin - - Stairway To Heaven 8:02 & there are longer versions live

[BulletproofLandshark]

105. Dream Theater "Home"

For those of you into the whole prog-metal thing. 12:53

A slightly longer live version http://youtube.com/watch?v=w_g13kUZWkE

[jmowreader]

106. Iron Maiden--Rime of the Ancient Mariner (13:52)

[riverdale]

107. I don't think you all listen to the same music I do

Here's a cool one if you can find it:
Marble House (Emperor Machine Vox Edit)
by The Knife

Here's some lyrics to jog the memory..

The moment we believe that we have never met
Another kind of love it's easy to forget
When we are all alone then we do both agree
We have a thing in common this was meant to be

[Swamp Rat]

108. "1983... (A Merman I should turn to be)" - "Moon, Turn The Tides.... Gently Gently Away"

"1983... (A Merman I should turn to be)" (5:48) - "Moon, Turn The Tides.... Gently Gently Away" (8:52) - Jimmy Hendrix.

On vinyl it is one, continuous song.





"1983... (A Merman I should turn to be)"

Hurrah, I awake from yesterday
Alive, but the war is here to stay
So my love, Catherina and me,
decide to take our last walk through the noise to the sea
Not to die but to reborn,
away from lands so battered and torn
Forever, forever

Oh say, can you see it's really such a mess
Every inch of Earth is a fighting nest
Giant pencil and lipstick tube shaped things,
Continue to rain and cause screaming pain
And the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red
as our feet find the sand,
and the sea is straight ahead, straight up ahead

Well it's too bad that our friends, can't be with us today
Well it's too bad
The machine, that we built,
would never save us', that's what they say
(That's why they ain't coming with us today)
And they also said it's impossible for a man to live and breathe under
water, forever,
was their main complaint
And they also threw this in my face, they said:
Anyway, you know good and well it would be beyond the will of God,
and the grace of the King (grace of the King)
(Yeah, yeah)

So my darling and I make love in the sand,
to salute the last moment ever on dry land
Our machine, it has done its work, played its part well
Without a scratch on our bodies and we bid it farewell
Starfish and giant foams greet us with a smile
Before our heads go under we take a last look at the killing noise
Of the out of style, the out of style, out of style (oooh)...

"Moon, Turn The Tides.... Gently Gently Away"

So down and down and down and down
and down and down we go.
Hurry my darling we mustn't be late
for the show.
Neptune champion games to an aqua
world is so very dear.
"Right this way," smiles a mermaid,
I can hear Atlantis full of cheer.

I can hear Atlantis full of cheer...
I can hear Atlantis full of cheer...

[Justin54B20L]

109. "ohio sucks or welcome to bowling green ohio, home of the national tractor pulling championships"

By Mammoths Melting out of the Ice...a local BG/Toledo band...great instrumental song.

or

"The Mariner's Revenge Song" by the Decemberists

[BluePatriot]

111. No Bohemian Rhapsody?

*hums*

[ellisonz]

116. "1983... (A Merman I should turn to be)" - "Moon, Turn The Tides.... Gently Gently Away"

By far.

[nedbal]

117. Bob Dylan - Desolation Row.

[Missy Vixen]

118. Pink Floyd, "Us and Them" n/t