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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Rapsodius on June 08, 2009, 10:32:01 pm
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Well, kind of a 'What are you listening now?' remake.
Rules:
- No home-made songs
- No "compiled" songs: ie taking all the tracks on a CD on a single track
- You must have actually listened the song!!!
Here is my top 3:
1- The Pineapple Thief - What have we Sown? (27:32)
2- Rush - 2112 (20:31)
3- Rhapsody - Gargoyles, Angels of Darkness (19:04)
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Two-Mix discography (no, it's NOT complied, it covers multiple CDs and only has part of the intro to and the chorus of each song).
It's 63:32, IIRC.
The similar Intial D discography was at least two hours long and used even shorter snippets.
Beyond that, somebody I know did The Song That Never Ends for forty-three minutes straight.
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Not sure if it counts, but I've been in a performance of Mahlers 3rd Symphony.
It's 93 minutes long.
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Jethro Tull thick as a brick. One song 2 sides of an LP.
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Listed in the order of [Title] - [Artists] - [Album] - [Length] and omitted where not applicable,
Descent 3 Community Taunts - The Descent Community and SuperSheep - Descent 3 - 28:10
Successor - AutoPilot - Descent 3: Mercenary - 10:09
Ten Minute Rickroll - PanicBomber - 9:59 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfp7FbsnsbU)
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X Japan - Art of Life (29:00)
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Mike Oldfield - Amarok (One hour and seven seconds), Tubular Bells (over one hour), Ommadawn ('bout forty-fifty minutes)
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Komar & Melamid and David Soldier - The most unwanted music - 21:xx (min:s)
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Rhapsody of Fire - Mystic Prophecy of the Demon Knight (16:25)
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Rhapsody of Fire - Mystic Prophecy of the Demon Knight (16:25)
Just like me.
Luca Turilli (lead vocalists and guitar of ROF ,he also have two other bands) is one of my favourite artists.
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Moby Dick (Live version) - Led Zeppelin - approx 25 mins (mostly due to outstanding drum solo by John Bonham)
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The Odyssey (all 4 movements) - Incubus - 27 minutes.
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Alice's Restaurant, 18 minutes and some change.
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The Odyssey (all 4 movements) - Incubus - 27 minutes.
Wasn't that from the Halo 2 soundtrack?
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Top 3 longest:
23:44, Atom Heart Mother Suite
23:31, Echos
17:10, Dogs
Pink Floyd.
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hmm, i though my best was good until I read them
which btw is
Metallica - Outlaw Torn (Unencumbered By Manufacturing Restrictions version) at 10mins 48
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Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts I - IX (26:01)
This may fail on a technicality because the song is broken up into two "tracks" with 3 unrelated tracks sandwiched between, but I have listened to them both back-to-back before.
And this is, of course, Pink Floyd.
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Jesus of Suburbia - Green Day (11-12 min)
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Probably something from Mike Oldfield, but the first that comes to mind is "Jäästä Syntynyt/Varjojen Virta" from Moonsorrow (30:10).
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I used to have a 45:00 medley of Mario songs (it was pretty awesome), but I don't know what happened to it. :(
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6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence - 6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence - Dream Theater - 46 min (on the album it's divided into 8 songs, on the Score DVD/Live Album it's listed as a whole song, and probably longer...)
Stranger in Your Soul - Bridge across Forever - Transatlantic - 30 min
Three Minute Warning - Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tesion experiment - 28:37
Duel with The Devil - Bridge across Forever - Transatlantic - 26:33
Octavarium - Octavarium - Dream Theater - 24 min
A Change of Seasons - A Change of Seasons - Dream Theater - 24 min
out of my 1201 songs in iTunes 161 are 7 minutes or longer
only 489 (just over 1/3) are under 4 minutes. one benefit of listening to prog music :P :D
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Not sure if it counts, but I've been in a performance of Mahlers 3rd Symphony.
It's 93 minutes long.
Well, I know that classical music is lenghty, but it counts as long as it was the same movement, ie when they stop performing, it's another 'song' or movement (properly)
Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts I - IX (26:01)
This may fail on a technicality because the song is broken up into two "tracks" with 3 unrelated tracks sandwiched between, but I have listened to them both back-to-back before.
And this is, of course, Pink Floyd.
Its allright there since it is the same song actually, but splitted
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Not sure if it counts, but I've been in a performance of Mahlers 3rd Symphony.
It's 93 minutes long.
Well, I know that classical music is lenghty, but it counts as long as it was the same movement, ie when they stop performing, it's another 'song' or movement (properly)
It wasn't; it's in five movements. I don't think it's really fair to count classical/art music for this purpose. The longest continuous composition I know is La Monte Young's The Well-Tuned Piano, which, at its longest, runs six hours and twenty-five minutes (and about five hours at its shortest.) But no one would ever call that a "song."
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I had a 14:52:33 version (still remember the number :)) of Prodigy - Breath but it turned out in the 5th minute that after the song ends, the rest is silence :D
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my longest tracks in my playlist which are not length computation errors seem to be all stalaggh projekts, which are essentially black noise and the resulting stimulated mental patients, literally, projekt misanthropia is 35 minutes, projekt nihil is 34:42, projekt projekt terror is 34:11, of course theese are ambient tracks and dont really count as songs. then there is a song by monster magnet called tab, which sounds a lot like an acid trip, and lasts about as long an 32:14, but i think that was something just designed to listen to when yure high.
now as i get into the real songs which actual structure i got:
Bathory\Twilight of the Gods\01-Twilight of the Gods-Through Blood by Thunder-Blood and Iron.mp3
but according to metal archives this is just the first 3 songs of the album lumped together on an ep which ths appears to be a rip of. metal songs sometimes bleed songs into eachother like this as part of set if they all have the same theme. for example iced earth's gettysburg 1863, which is a 3 song civil war epic consisting of, The devil to pay (12:14), Hold at All Cost (7:08), and High Water Mark (12:35), which mesh together and have the same theme but are distinct songs.
next on my list of long songs is a bunch of ambient tracks:
heres what is arguably the slowest band ever, its actually not bad
Sunn0))) - Decay2 (Nihil's Maw)
recently released from prison, varg vickernes bored the **** out of me with this repetitions repeating of 3 notes on a synth
Burzum - Rundgang um die transzendentale Säule Der Singularität (25:11)
ambient side project of bm band darkthrone, sounds like space noise
Neptune Towers - Caravans to Empire Algol (24:33)
more drone, these guys are actually pretty good
Sunn0))) - Bassaliens (23:22)
more space noise
Neptune Towers - First Communion. Mode: Direct (23:09)
heres some long bm
Countess - Total War (21:19)
and some long prog
Opeth-Black Rose Immortal (20:12)
turns out long songs are nothing special, most end up to either be ambient or filler. or a bunch of stacked tracks, and frankly the replayability falls off after a couple times of listening to it if the songs over around 15 minutes. as for long songs wich totally kick ass (and are over 10 minutes):
Mercyful Fate - Satans Fall (11:28)
Bathory - One Road to Asa Bay (10:24)
Opeth - Deliverance (13:36)
Satyricon - Black Lava (14:31)
The Doors - The End (11:41) (theme song from apocalypse now)
Burzum - A Lost Forgotten Sad pirit (10:52)
Bathory - Shores in Flames (11:09)
Countess - March of the Ten Thousand (11:27)
Enslaved - Lifandi Lif Under Hamri (11:31)
Moonsorrow - Raunioilla (13:36)
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Goddamn you've got some nice taste in music, Nuke.
Though I've never been able to get into Sunn o))).
Longest on my playlist...
Dopesmoker by Sleep at 63:31. I hear the original cut was longer, too.
Crimson by Edge of Sanity at 40:00.
Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls by Godspeed You! Black Emperor at 20:42. They have some longer stuff, but this is the only one that isn't packed with ambient and drone elements.
Isolation by Lyrinx at 18:03.
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Looks like a few of these have already been mentioned:
Dream Theater - 6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence (41:54)
Dream Theater - Octavarium (24:00)
Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons (23:10)
Rush - 2112 (20:33)
Arena - Moviedrome (19:46)
Rush - Hemispheres (18:08)
Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize (17:43)
All very, very good songs.
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i found another one
Venom - At War With Satan (19:59)
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Ah, how could I forget...?
Beyond The Network - Skaven - Bejeweled 2 - 30:57
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turns out long songs are nothing special, most end up to either be ambient or filler. or a bunch of stacked tracks, and frankly the replayability falls off after a couple times of listening to it if the songs over around 15 minutes
Not true, it completely depends on the band's creativity. Specially on prog bands, they change the style on the same song, that never bores, for example 2112 from Rush is 20 minutes long, but the guitar solos, the instruments, vary along time, making it sound quite good, and trust me, it can be replayed many, many times.
It happened to me with prog bands, when you replay a lenghty track, you hear more musical details than the first time, and that's a good attribute, it speaks high of the band, since they can do a very long track, with no limits on replayability.
And BTW, ambience is not considered song here, one could take the white noise sound, record it for 8 hours, and claim that they have the longest 'song'. And with respect with the 3 in 1 tracks, as you said there are actually different songs, so they count, but seperately
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All hail the majesty of Prog :D
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly (17:02)
Supper's Ready - Genesis (22:54)
Dogs - Pink Floyd (17:04)
Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull (22:37)
Karn Evil 9 - ELP (29:40)
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Telegraph Road - Dire Straits, 14+ mins. Probably their best ever song.
War of the Worlds - Jeff Wayne - 2 Albums, though, not strictly speaking a 'song', but then many of the tunes mentioned on here aren't songs, there's quite a lot of symphonic writing (not to be confused with symphonic performance) listed above, where several different scores are melded together into one,
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Telegraph Road - Dire Straits, 14+ mins. Probably their best ever song.
War of the Worlds - Jeff Wayne - 2 Albums, though, not strictly speaking a 'song', but then many of the tunes mentioned on here aren't songs, there's quite a lot of symphonic writing (not to be confused with symphonic performance) listed above, where several different scores are melded together into one,
WotW truly amazing
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War of the Worlds - Jeff Wayne - 2 Albums
120+ minutes? :eek:
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Well, the version I have is on Vinyl from the late 70's, I think each side of those was about 30 minutes, so yup, about 120 minutes :D
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Sweet :)
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Well, Floyd, of course, but whenever I see Weird Al in concert I always ask him to play "Albuquerque" at 11:25.
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turns out long songs are nothing special, most end up to either be ambient or filler. or a bunch of stacked tracks, and frankly the replayability falls off after a couple times of listening to it if the songs over around 15 minutes
Not true, it completely depends on the band's creativity. Specially on prog bands, they change the style on the same song, that never bores, for example 2112 from Rush is 20 minutes long, but the guitar solos, the instruments, vary along time, making it sound quite good, and trust me, it can be replayed many, many times.
It happened to me with prog bands, when you replay a lenghty track, you hear more musical details than the first time, and that's a good attribute, it speaks high of the band, since they can do a very long track, with no limits on replayability.
And BTW, ambience is not considered song here, one could take the white noise sound, record it for 8 hours, and claim that they have the longest 'song'. And with respect with the 3 in 1 tracks, as you said there are actually different songs, so they count, but seperately
im not really into prog that much. nor am i into ambient. most of the time i stick to black, death, doom, and thrash metal (on occasion some power and goth metal) which sometimes has its lengthy tracks. prog to me is just too wanky with too much intellectual smug attached and odd time signatures that give me a ****ing headache. long tracks are pretty much a signature of prog (in the same way that very short tracks are typical to grindcore). still rush is a band that earns a great deal of respect from me (though not so much play time). but you put enough solos in one track its length can quickly add up.
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I don't like metal. My preference slants towards songs that fall under the "game" and "soundtrack" genres.
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thats all a bunch of crappy synth
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thats all a bunch of crappy synth
Exactly.
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In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly (17:02)
About time someone mentioned that. I don't know if it's the factual longest I've listened to, but still. :p The only other song of nearly that length I can think of off the top of my head is the ending track of the Descent Community Album project, which clocks in around 15 minutes or so.
thats all a bunch of crappy synth
And black/doom metal is a bunch of guys with laryngitis pretending to "sing." :p
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cn you even name one doom metal band, i dont think you know what youre talking about
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I know I'm a lightweight in this department but it's also one of my favorites:
Ghost Love Score - Nightwish clocking in at 10:02.
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cn you even name one doom metal band, i dont think you know what youre talking about
I know that anyone using insanely-growling lyrics is a band I don't want to have much to do with. If you can line me up any whose lead singers actually know how to, y'know, sing, I'll give them a listen.
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Well, doom metal in its "traditional" form is typically sung, not growled. So, happy listening.
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I just love how every label comes up with a 'nu' kind of metal, just pick an angsty word, stick it in front of the word 'metal', and Bravo, that's your labels 'sound' ;)
Doom Metal
Death Metal
Blood Metal
Scar Metal
Burn Metal
Banana Metal...
The possibilities are endless ;)
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rofl @ Banana Metal
*Liberator tries to picture what metal would sound like with a Caribbean flair...
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I just love how every label comes up with a 'nu' kind of metal, just pick an angsty word, stick it in front of the word 'metal', and Bravo, that's your labels 'sound' ;)
Doom Metal
Death Metal
Blood Metal
Scar Metal
Burn Metal
Banana Metal...
The possibilities are endless ;)
cept for the first 2 none of those are offshoots ive heard of. while the concept of nu-metal was entirely a corporate ploy to "resurrect" a supposedly "dead" sub-genre of rock, by infusing what they thought was "metal" with elements from the various offshoots of mainstream punk rock. the result was total crap that the kiddies bought up in droves, until they got bored with it and bought into other things, like crappy emo music. record companies dont care how good the music is, so long as its selling.
what they failed to realize that is that metal never died. metal was never especially popular, cept for maybe the glam era and 80s hair metal, which not surprisingly was about the same thing as nu-metal is today (or rather yesterday as it didnt last very long), over-marketed crap. the industry just wanted to stir it up, not necessarily generate any real creativity, just an attempt to milk teenagers of their allowances. real metal on the other hand is something that is not for everyone. it was never meant to be popular, it has never been taken seriously, yet surprisingly has been around for well over 4 decades, and still doesnt get its own rack in most record stores.
anyway metal can be summed up in a few basic sub genres, traditional (aka heavy) metal, power metal, thrash metal, doom metal, death metal, prog metal, black metal and death metal. and of course each of those have their own sub genres (death metal comes in a few varieties, gothenburg being one, black metal has its first and second waves) and there are other crossover genres like goth metal and viking metal. there are many more and if i listed em all would take up too much space. if youre looking for actual "singing" rather than guttural (black, death) or yelling (thrash) lean tward power, prog, or doom and possibly some traditional metal as well. goth metal tends to have alot of female vocals, usually soprano, usually paired up with guttural vox (refered to as beauty and the beast vocals). as ford said classic doom metal is usually sung, like black sabbath or candlemass. some black metal offshoots, arcturus for example, have some rather impressive vocals (and everything else too). but anyway if you care more about the lyrics than the instrumentation metal probably isnt for you anyway.
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Never said I cared more about lyrics than instrumentation, but I'd rather not have the intonation of said lyrics utterly ripping me away from said instrumentation. :p In any case, thanks for the clarification on what "doom" actually is; I think I had heard Sabbath described as such once, but I'd forgotten it. The whole explosion of sub-genres from traditional heavy metal has always struck me as being a bit amusing. I know someone who's rather into some of the more esoteric forms, and I think one of my favorites was a song he described as "Scottish pirate metal." :D
All of this is getting rather remarkably off-topic, which I guess is par for the course. :p
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pirate metal is awesome
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I just love how every label comes up with a 'nu' kind of metal, just pick an angsty word, stick it in front of the word 'metal', and Bravo, that's your labels 'sound' ;)
Doom Metal
Death Metal
Blood Metal
Scar Metal
Burn Metal
Banana Metal...
The possibilities are endless ;)
cept for the first 2 none of those are offshoots ive heard of. while the concept of nu-metal was entirely a corporate ploy to "resurrect" a supposedly "dead" sub-genre of rock, by infusing what they thought was "metal" with elements from the various offshoots of mainstream punk rock. the result was total crap that the kiddies bought up in droves, until they got bored with it and bought into other things, like crappy emo music. record companies dont care how good the music is, so long as its selling.
what they failed to realize that is that metal never died. metal was never especially popular, cept for maybe the glam era and 80s hair metal, which not surprisingly was about the same thing as nu-metal is today (or rather yesterday as it didnt last very long), over-marketed crap. the industry just wanted to stir it up, not necessarily generate any real creativity, just an attempt to milk teenagers of their allowances. real metal on the other hand is something that is not for everyone. it was never meant to be popular, it has never been taken seriously, yet surprisingly has been around for well over 4 decades, and still doesnt get its own rack in most record stores.
anyway metal can be summed up in a few basic sub genres, traditional (aka heavy) metal, power metal, thrash metal, doom metal, death metal, prog metal, black metal and death metal. and of course each of those have their own sub genres (death metal comes in a few varieties, gothenburg being one, black metal has its first and second waves) and there are other crossover genres like goth metal and viking metal. there are many more and if i listed em all would take up too much space. if youre looking for actual "singing" rather than guttural (black, death) or yelling (thrash) lean tward power, prog, or doom and possibly some traditional metal as well. goth metal tends to have alot of female vocals, usually soprano, usually paired up with guttural vox (refered to as beauty and the beast vocals). as ford said classic doom metal is usually sung, like black sabbath or candlemass. some black metal offshoots, arcturus for example, have some rather impressive vocals (and everything else too). but anyway if you care more about the lyrics than the instrumentation metal probably isnt for you anyway.
Well, to be honest, my exploits in 'metal' type bands went about as far as Anthrax and Pantera, both of which tended to rollercoaster between metal and heavy rock anyway, Alice in Chains was pretty thrashy in 'Dirt' but they all fell under this big generic 'Grunge' label, which was never quite defined properly.
But I do know enough about metal to know that the stereotype of an unshaven man with long, greasy hair shouting 'WAAAAAGH!!! SKULL!!!' down a microphone is only a percentage of the genre, though this is the image of it that is presented to those who exist outside specialised circles, like most music, I take each tune on its merits, I've liked pretty much everything from 'Air on a G-String' to 'I'm gonna knock you out', so I like to think of myself as pretty open-minded musically.
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Verdi's Requiem, at about 90 minutes long.
American in Paris is about 18 minutes long. Cool thing is, I've not only listened to this song, I've performed it.