Top 4 longest songs you have heard.

Iced Earth Fan · Post by **Iced Earth Fan** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 2:13 am

It's simple, just name the top four longest songs you have ever heard of. Here's my list:

1. 32 minuets: Gettysburg from Iced Earth.
2. 16 minuets: Dante's Inferno from Iced Earth
3. 14 minuets: And Then There Was Silence by Blind Guardian
4. 9 minuets: Damien from Iced Earth

CerebralAssamite · Post by **CerebralAssamite** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 5:11 am

Top 4 eh... nice number..

Dream Theater A Change of Seasons 23mins (made an amv outta this to

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Dream Theater Glass Prison - around 13 mins
Abramelin Cantara around 7 mins
SoulDrainer - Daemon to Daemon - around 6 mins

nailz · Post by **nailz** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 8:04 am

Paul Oakenfold Live at the Creamfields - something like 5 hours.
Dj Tiesto pulled off a 24 hour rave once.

Trident · Post by **Trident** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 10:19 am

George Gershwin--Rhapsody in Blue. 16:27.

Iron Butterfly did a song called something like "Enna Godda Davida" (something to that effect) back in the late '60s or '70s. It's been years since I listened to the song last (praise all things holy) but I remember it being something like 15 minutes long.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:06 am

King Crimson - Improv: ZoomZoom - 44:48 (1972, Germany)
King Crimson - Improv: The Rich Tapestry Of Life - 29:50 (1972, Germany)
King Crimson - Improv: Zoom - 22:03 (1972, Germany)
King Crimson - Improv: A Voyage To The Center Of The Cosmos - 15:03 (1974, US)

As for actual pre-written stuff,

King Crimson - Sailor's Tale - certain live versions up to 15min
King Crimson - Get Thy Bearings - certain live versions up to 16min
King Crimson - Starless - 12min
King Crimson - Fracture - 11min

Indeed, my band > all, because it's longer

shai-hulud · Post by **shai-hulud** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:22 am

Fantomas - Delirium Cordia (estimated 74 minutes)
Textures - Polars (18:25)

badmartialarts · Post by **badmartialarts** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 5:57 pm

Wagner's Die Ring is about 14 hours, depending on how long the conductor holds some of the musical transition sections so the scenes can be changed. But that's an opera...it has intermissions and stuff (usually, it's performed over two to four days).

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 7:36 pm

Well, all albums should be cohesive musical works anyway.

I think the only thing that qualifies are stand-alone tracks and such - something that would be a single track on the CD, anyway.

badmartialarts · Post by **badmartialarts** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 8:29 pm

Hrm. That's true. Die Ring is in four parts. The final part, Gotterdammerung ("Twilight of the Gods," I apologize for the spelling) is 4-6 hours by itself, with no breaks in music. So that would have to be the longest song I've heard, followed by the other three parts (Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, and Siegfried)

In-a-Gadda-Da-Vita is 23 minutes long, at least the version I have on cassette tape is. That would be the longest non-operatic song Ive heard. Some of Aphex Twin's songs are around 12 minutes long as well.

badmartialarts · Post by **badmartialarts** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 8:31 pm

Err, Der Ring, or more fully, Der Ring Des Niebelugen. Darn gender-sensitive articles....