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Epic Rocking
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Epic Rocking is the phenomenon where bands release really long songs that either seem to twist and change gears a million times before ending, or just manage to sustain themselves for their prolonged duration. More common in the '60s psychedelic/acid rock era and in the '70s Progressive Rock period. Also quite common in many forms of Electronic Music, particularly in the realm of Ambient, Trance, and Techno, as well as most forms of Heavy Metal music (seriously, in the metal genre — apart from thrash, groove, and grindcore — long tracks are easily more the rule than the exception). This trope is the polar opposite of Three Chords and the Truth: Instead of a short song with lyrics and catchy beat that anybody can play, these bands focus on deliberately complex songs where playing is a matter of superior technical skill and everything else is secondary to the instrumental showmanship and considerations of the sound itself, even lyrics. note There are exceptions, however; The Velvet Underground was notorious for building epic-length songs on as little as a single chord. Lyrics can appear in these songs, but they're often sparse and the song is mostly instrumental. When there are lyrics, expect an Epic Instrumental Opener to precede them and Big Rock Ending to succeed them. Songs featuring this trope also often feature Uncommon Time, since changing time signatures helps maintain the listener's attention in a longer composition, and modulation (which is the same thing, but for key signatures). Done right, they maintain the listener's attention and sound really cool, sometimes downright awesome. Done poorly, they just ramble, cause yawning, and suffer chronic Ending Fatigue. Because of this, bands often have a hard time thinking about where to place the longest song(s) when it comes to the final album order before the release goes gold; the usual place for the longest song is usually the last track in the album, before an outro (if there is one) and the hidden tracks. Put Epic Rocking in a Rhythm Game and you have an instant Marathon Level. A Super-Trope to "Epic Jamming", which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, and Limited Lyrics Song. Only studio versions are included since live examples would bloat the list to hell. Many of those songs have a Subdued Section for everyone's sake. Contrast Miniscule Rocking. And for clarity's sake: This is a trope about long songs. Not about awesome songs. Please don't add a short song here because it's awesome (we have Awesome Music for that) or delete a long one because it's not awesome. The trope doesn't apply to compositions either, as any work involving an orchestra can be expected to last from ten minutes up to several hours with very little "rocking," although it certainly may be epic. Also, this trope only applies to songs 6 minutes or more, anything less is too short to qualify. |
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To clarify, all the tracks on Kind of Blue were recorded live. Only one has two complete takes ("Flamenco Sketches"); one had a replacement ending recorded but it was never used ("Freddie Freeloader"). But the album definitely qualifies, with four out of five tracks clocking in over 9 minutes. Hat tip to "All Blues", 11:33. Expanded reissues of the album feature a bonus track after a full take of the song in which bassist Paul Chambers is heard panting and saying, "Damn, that's a hard mother!" Indeed. | |
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The vinyl edition of Information Society's sophomore album Hack manages to shoehorn 15 tracks totalling over an hour in length onto a single LP. | |
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Dream Theater are no strangers to epic music, but they really took it to an extreme with Black Clouds and Silver Linings. With only 6 songs, the album clocks in at over 75 minutes, with 4 songs clocking in at over 10 minutes. Later, they released The Astonishing, a Rock Opera which totals to 2 hours and 10 minutes long (or 130 minutes) Their other double album, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence is also quite epic; besides the eponymous 42-minute suite, three out of the five songs on the first disc top ten minutes. |
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Homestuck Fancomic VastError also has its fare share of long songs: "Vast Error Vol. 1-3" has "Ultima Hoc Fatum" (6:09). "Repiton" has "Only the Beggining" (6:59). "Vast Error Vol. 4 has "Pandora" (7:12). "Sound Test 1" has "Godroot [Demo] (8:08). "Vast Error Vol. 5: Side 1" has "Storyteller" (7:29), "Searching for Answers" (6:32), "Mx. Misery" (7:10) and "Negative Feedback" (8:43). "Vast Error Vol. 5: Side 2" has "Kingdom Come" (10:00), "Ghost Writer (Extended)" (8:09), "Jettison (Redux)" (6:40), "Fictionalized" (6:22) and "corruptedcultist" (6:03). "Magnum Opus" has "Insecurity" (6:21), "Kheparia" (7:24) and "Analemma" (9:20). "Faux Dramatica" has "Turncoat" (6:00), "Requiem For A Dying Planet (Ft. The Emek Hefer Choir)" (8:11) and "Naught" (6:04). "Fighting Further" has "Go Beyond and Fight Further" (13:22). "Duodenary" has "Duodenary" (6:40), "We Flow" (7:04), "Tempered Mind" (6:04), "Heaven Sent" (6:57), "Naughts and Crosses" (8:47), "Sanguine Rain" (7:28), "Dread Monument" (7:28), and "Life in Motion" (11:38). | |
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The Velvet Underground: "Heroin", "All Tomorrow's Parties" (from The Velvet Underground & Nico) "The Gift" (from White Light/White Heat), "The Murder Mystery" (from The Velvet Underground), "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" (from Loaded). "Sister Ray" from White Light/White Heat is a 17-minute jam recorded in one take. Live performances often stretched to even longer amounts (two version, one on The Quine Tapes, another on The Complete Matrix Tapes, almost forty minutes long each), and sometimes they would also sometimes include an introduction called "Sweet Sister Ray" that itself was almost forty minutes long. A bootleg recording of "Sweet Sister Ray" exists, but unfortunately without the performance of "Sister Ray" that followed. (The band also performed plenty of other lengthy live songs, often improvised and stretching to half an hour or more; the ones that have been recorded can be found on the bootleg box set Caught Between The Twisted Stars). |
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The live version of "The Ocean" by Against Me! clocks in at 8:36, thanks to audience participation. | |
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Blind Guardian has some good examples, like "And Then There Was Silence" (14:06). They usually involve many layers of multi-tracked vocals. | |
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Crosby, Stills & Nash, "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes". | |
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Brothers Osborne did this on "Stay a Little Longer". The original version on their debut EP ended in a long guitar solo, which got even longer when the song was re-recorded for their full-length album. "Shoot Me Straight" goes even further, clocking in at 6:24. | |
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While Metallica are used to long songs and all their albums could be considered epics for it, when you consider sheer length, everything after The Black Album is over 70 minutes (Load manages to peak at 78:59. And that's after shortening one of the songs!). Then comes the infamous Lulu with Lou Reed, which is long enough to be spread across two disks. 5 songs are over 7 minutes long (3 of which are over 11 minutes'). |
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Japanese symphonic power metal band Versailles have "The Love from a Dead Orchestra", "History of the Other Side", "God Palace -Method of Inheritance-", "Princess -Revival of Church-" and "Faith & Decision" (the longest of the lot at 16½ minutes). A few of their other songs are over 6 minutes long. | |
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"Marquee Moon" (10:47 on CD versions, just under ten minutes on vinyl editions) by Television (though granted they were mostly punk by association rather than sound). "The Dream's Dream" (6:45), "Torn Curtain" (7:10), and "Little Johnny Jewel" (7:09) were pretty long too. On remastered versions of Adventure, there's also an instrumental demo of "Ain't that Nothin'" that reaches 9:48. | |
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Starbound's OST is mostly this: Horsehead Nebula is 7:36, Stellar Formation is 7:49, Eridanus Supervoid is 7:33, Haiku is 7:35, Cygnus x1 is 13:22, Large Magellanic Cloud is 6:14, Epsilon Indi is 10:58, Europa is 6:04, Casiopeia is 6:06, Mercury is 6:26, Temple of Kluex is 8:36, Mira (the longest in the soundtrack) is 20:04, Procyon is 9:08, Nomads (Passacaglia) is 10:08, Tranquality Base is 11:55, Arctic Constelation 1 is 11:04, Arctic Constelation 2 is 9:25, The Apex (Apex Theme) is 7:13, The Deep (Hylotl Theme) is 7:09, Drosera (Floran Theme) is 8:18, Event Horizon is 07:15, Impact Event is 6:55, M54 is 10:37 and Starbound is 10:30 |
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Sonic Unleashed has Dear My Friend at 6:09. | |
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"Haunted", at 10:08. A much shorter instrumental version was featured in Descent II and the PSX Descent games. A longer instrumental (but still only half the length of the original) was in the Descent II Expansion Pack Vertigo. | |
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Gorguts' EP Pleiades' Dust consists solely of the eponymous 33-minute song. They have other examples as well, especially "Clouded" from Obscura (9:32) and "Absconders" from Colored Sands (9:08). | |
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Most of, if not all of Kurzgesagt soundtracks are more than 4 minutes long. | |
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The ABC's of Anarchism is a collab with Chumbawamba. The title track on this EP is 13 minutes long. | |
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The Outlaws: "Green Grass and High Tides" (as recently made famous by Rock Band). | |
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Parodied in this article by The Hard Times: "Metal Song Not Even Close To Being Over". A punk accidentally wanders into a metal show and is overwhelmed by their 12+ minute songs. The same article ends with a punchline about how all Hardcore Punk songs are <90 seconds. | |
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Instrumental spinoff supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment has a song called "Three Minute Warning" that runs for over 27 minutes. The band lampshaded it on the back of the cd case, as seen in the page quote. Their second album includes three tracks ("When The Water Breaks", "Chewbacca", "Liquid Dreams") that all run for well over ten minutes. Even more impressively, "Three Minute Warning" was the result of bassist Tony Levin threatening to quit and leave if they "didn't start jamming in three minutes." They literally did the whole thing in one take, making it up as they went. |
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While drawn-out song lengths are nothing new for doom metal, funeral doom band Bell Witch put almost every other band here to shame with their third album, Mirror Reaper, which is a single song clocking in at 83 minutes. The band has several other songs that exceed 20 minutes in length as well, with their average song lasting somewhere around 12 minutes. Only two songs in their entire discography are below 10 minutes in length, with one being an interlude track and another being an album outro. | |
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The CD version of Selected Ambient Works Volume II is 2:36:42 in length, while the vinyl version increases the length by ten minutes with the LP-exclusive track "Stone in Focus". | |
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The Experience Version of Wish You Were Here (1975) contains a 20-minute version of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (basically both halves played back to back). Other songs of notable length from the album are "Raving and Drooling" (early version of "Sheep", 12 and a half minutes) and "You've Got to Be Crazy" (early version of "Dogs", 18 minutes 10 seconds). | |
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And then there are, of course, Zappa's instrumental guitar albums Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar and Guitar, which also have nothing but lengthy guitar solos. | |
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Modest Mouse: "Spitting Venom", "Stars are Projectors", and "Trucker's Atlas" all clock in over 8 minutes long. There's also "Night on the Sun" and "Other People's Lives". | |
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The Black Crowes: they've got a handful of songs that pass the six-minute mark on their studio albums, but as their career went on, and they morphed into more of a jam band, their live songs frequently extended past ten minutes. They even toured with Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page for a while and made him feel right at home. | |
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Most songs by Deerhoof are rather short, but their song "Look Away" is nearly 12 minutes long. | |
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Tales from Topographic Oceans is a double album with just four songs (you read that right). "The Revealing Science of God", "The Remembering", "The Ancient", and "Ritual". All are 20 minutes. Some critics claim it's best to regard them as a single 83-minute song that had to be split up for vinyl, although each has its own distinct style. | |
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On top of that, many trance DJ mixes and sets are famous for going for hours on end. Markus Schulz in particular is known for his extended open-to-close sets (usually clocking in at nearly 8 hours long at minimum). | |
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Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII's final boss theme is 13 minutes long. | |
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Moonsorrow's Viides Luku - Hävitetty lasts 56 minutes and 29 seconds. Okay, that's short for an album, but the shortest track lasts over 26 minutes. The band's EP Tulimyrsky has five tracks and lasts sixty-eight minutes (yes, it's longer than many of their albums). However, two of those songs are re-recordings and two are covers. The one new song is just barely under half an hour in length. Moonsorrow in general is prone to this. Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa only has four proper songs (there are also three short ambient interludes) and the shortest of them is 11:43; the album lasts for over an hour. Verisäkeet has five songs, the shortest being 8:19 and the longest being 19:28; the album lasts for over seventy minutes. |
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The Mummy (1999): Rebirth (8:33) and The Sand Volcano (9:26) | |
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The Mechanisms have a few songs that reach over ten minutes. "Alice" is twelve minutes long, and "Gunpowder Tim vs. the Moon Kaiser" and "Frankenstein" are ten minutes. All three songs consist of different musical interludes separated by spoken word and are basically shrunken-down versions of the band's full albums, which are Rock Operas with a similar alternating structure. | |
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Many of their single-part songs are epically long as well. "Samurai," "Children of the Night," "Guardian Angel," and "Zwara (Sleepwalker)" are all 7-10 minutes long. "Mona Lisa Overdrive," composed for The Matrix Reloaded, is just over 10. | |
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Sly and the Family Stone: "Sex Machine", "Africa Talks to You 'The Asphalt Jungle'", "Thank You for Talkin' to Me, Africa" (itself an Epic Remake of their own "Thank U Falettin Me Be Mice Elf Again"). | |
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's classic singles The Message and "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel" both exceed seven minutes in length. Ironically, the full group appeared on neither of the tracks. Even then, both are outdone by their first single, "Superappin'", which clocks in at twelve minutes. | |
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In the Broad City episode "Fattest Asses," Abbi and Ilana go to a party whose music includes a church bell techno song that lasts at least 27 minutes. | |
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"Reoccurring Dreams" by Hüsker Dü clocks in at 13:47 or 14:01 depending on the pressing. The band's early single "Statues" is 8:45. Finally, "Hardly Getting Over It" is 6:07. | |
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Isaac Hayes: Every cut off his Hot Buttered Soul album qualifies. Particularly noteworthy are his covers of "Walk on By" (12:03) and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" (18:42). | |
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Faith No More: "The Real Thing" (8:12), "War Pigs" (7:44), "Jizzlobber" (6:35), "King for a Day" (6:35). "Zombie Eaters" just barely misses the six-minute cut-off at 5:59. | |
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Jello Biafra/Ministry side project Lard have "70's Rock Must Die", which lyrically is a rant against '70s nostalgia, and musically is 7 minutes of parodying 70's hard rock tropes (gratuitous cowbell, endless guitar soloing, a Power Ballad style bridge, vocal histrionics, an overly repetitive chorus, and of course a Big Rock Ending). They also have straight examples with the 7 and a half minute "The Power Of Lard", the 15 minute "I Am Your Clock" and the 32-minute "Time To Melt" (the latter two don't really go through a lot of changes though, they're just deliberately punishingly slow) | |
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The Weeknd has Kiss Land (7:35) and Tears in the Rain (7:24) on his album titled Kiss Land. | |
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Rhapsody of Fire (previously just Rhapsody). They have roughly one of these per album. Their song "Gargoyles, Angels of Darkness" clocks in at 18:59. However, the record goes to "Heroes of the Waterfall Kingdom" - the last track (besides the bonus track) of the album From Chaos to Eternity - which has a length of 19:42. Rhapsody of Fire is a record in itself. their first 9 albums (out of 11, the last 2 are separate from the rest) can be considered as one single story. One of their albums (the Cold Embrace of Fear) is actually one single continuous song. |
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German rock band Tocotronic used the concept on their third album to provide a juxtaposition to the band's usual short punk songs. The 6-minutes long So jung kommen wir nicht mehr zusammen with a massive overdubbed solo surely steals the show. | |
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Fela Kuti: Most songs are longer than 10 minutes, some live versions take more than one side of an LP. | |
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Caravan have several single-track suites that are longer than ten minutes, including "Can't Be Long Now / Françoise / For Richard / Warlock", "Nine Feet Underground" (their longest studio track, at 22 minutes), "Nothing at All / It's Coming Soon / Nothing at All (reprise)", "The Love in Your Eye / To Catch Me a Brother / Subsultus / Debouchement / Tilbury Kecks", "L'Auberge du sanglier / A Hunting We Shall Go / Pengola / Backwards / A Hunting We Shall Go (reprise)", and "The Dabsong Conshirtoe". They have several others topping seven minutes, such as "Where but for Caravan Would I?", "And I Wish I Were Stoned / Don't Worry", "With an Ear to the Ground You Can Make It / Martinian / Only Cox / Reprise", "Winter Wine", and "Memory Lain, Hugh / Headloss". Also worth mention is the aptly titled bonus track "Derek's Long Thing", which runs for 10:58. Some live versions of these tracks are even longer. | |
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Most of GaMetal's music is only somewhere between 3 and 5 minutes long, but the medleys are always at least 11 minutes long. The longest GaMetal song, by far, is Legend Of The Seven Stars, which covers almost the entire soundtrack of Super Mario RPG and is about 37 minutes long. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) has Kingdom Valley at 6:49 and My Destiny at 6:10. Originating from the same game, the 2009 compilation album "True Colors: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog Volume 2" has Dreams of an Absolution (Starry Night Remix) which comes in at 6:18. |
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Warmen, the mostly instrumental prog-metal side project of Children of Bodom keyboardist Janne Wirman, is definitely about the virtuosity. An excellent example is the title track from the album Beyond Abilities. One of those "guitar" parts is actually played by Janne on keyboard; the other is performed by his brother, guitarist Antti Wirman. In fact, the whole project is basically all about a bunch of the best players in Finnish metal indulging shamelessly in their EPIC SKILLZ. Beyond Abilities, indeed... |
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Lower Dens have "In the End is the Beginning", the final track on their second album, Nootropics. | |
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Æther Realm's "The Magician", an eight-minute track in the tradition of Ensiferum and Wintersun with multiple tempo and tonal changes, telling the story of a novice magician who was drawn into an evil cult, but has a Heel Realization and flees to the mountains to learn how to defeat them. | |
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Bersuit Vergarabat's "La Mujer Perfecta", from Dom Leopardo, is an improvisation that clocks over the 12-minute mark. | |
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Santa Esmeralda's cover of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" which extends a song under 3 minutes to an album version lasting 16 minutes, and a single version (present in the Kill Bill soundtrack) lasting 10 1/2. And they did it again with their cover of "The House Of The Rising Sun". |
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The suite on side two of Abbey Road by The Beatles, if taken as one song. | |
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The full version of "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" by The Temptations is nearly 12 minutes long - a lot of that length is due to a four-minute Epic Instrumental Opener. Even the single edit only cuts it down to about 7 minutes. | |
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From Caprica: "Capricoperatica" (8:42) | |
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Rush were masters of this trope. "Here Again" (7:30) and "Working Man" (7:07) from Rush, "By-Tor And The Snow Dog" (8:37) and "In The End" (6:51) from Fly by Night all qualify, but they really began to show epics with Caress of Steel, which contained "The Necromancer" (12:34), and "The Fountain of Lamneth" (19:57). Subsequent albums continued the trend, with the title track of 2112 (20:34), "Xanadu" (11:05) and "Cygnus X-1" (10:25) from A Farewell to Kings, the title track from Hemispheres (18:08), as well as "La Villa Strangiato" (9:35), "Jacob's Ladder" (7:28) and "Natural Science" (9:17) from Permanent Waves, and "Red Barchetta" (6:10) and "The Camera Eye" (11:01) from Moving Pictures. Subsequent albums cut down on song lengths, but they still had longer songs: "Digital Man" (6:23) and "The Weapon" (6:24) from Signals, "Marathon" (6:11) and "Territories" (6:20) from Power Windows, "Animate" (6:04) from Counterparts, "Secret Touch" (6:34) and "Freeze" (6:21) from Vapor Trails, and "Armor and Sword" (6:38), "The Main Monkey Business" (6:01), and "The Way The Wind Blows" (6:28) from Snakes & Arrows. Clockwork Angels, a return to their '70s sound, featured some of their longest songs in years, "Clockwork Angels" (7:31), "The Anarchist" (6:52), "Seven Cities of Gold" (6:32), "Headlong Flight" (7:19) and "The Garden" (6:59). Live, they would often extend songs further. "Working Man" and "By-Tor And The Snow Dog" frequently clocked in close to 15 minutes. Not to mention the drum solos, which clocked in at 10 minutes. |
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The song "6969" by Ninja Sex Party is an Affectionate Parody of Rush's 2112. The song clocks in at just under nine minutes, and shifts gears five separate times. It's quite the departure coming from a comedy band whose other songs often barely pass the three-minute mark. Their next original album starts with "The Mystic Crystal", which likewise has 5 distinct movements, and tops "6969" by coming in at about thirteen minutes. |
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Eric Church's "Mr. Misunderstood" has a very "American Pie"-esque arrangement that leads through a myriad of tempo and verse changes, including a large anthemic close that finishes the song at 5:18. | |
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Beck has done this a few times in different genres: "Heartland Feeling" on Golden Feelings is a 7:11 spoken word section followed by a folk song. "Bonus Noise" is a rather experimental noise track from Stereopathetic Soulmanure that clocks in at 16:40 (although the first 5 minutes are silence). "The Horrible Fanfare/Landslide/Exoskeleton" is the three-part 10:36 conclusion to The Information, the first part fitting with the hip hop theme of the album, "Landslide" is a more rock-oriented song, and "Exoskeleton" is a Mind Screw conversation set to droning keyboards. |
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Amon Düül II 's album Yeti contains a whopping FOUR examples: "Soap Shop Rock" is 13 minutes, 47 seconds and sectioned, "Yeti (Improvisation)" is 18 minutes 12 seconds, "Yeti Talks to Yogi (Improvisation)" is 6:18, and "Sandoz in the Rain" is exactly 9 minutes. | |
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Heilung are rarely short. In the interest of brevity, we will only list songs over ten minutes. "Othan" 10:18 "Galgaldr" 10:21 "In Maidjan" 12:33 "Afhomon" 13:41 "Hamrer Hippyer" 14:16 |
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Van Morrison is capable of dragging a song out once the Muse takes him. "Madame George" - almost ten minutes. "Haunts of Ancient Peace" - thirteen minutes. The admittedly mellow and rather good "Autumn Song" - eleven minutes. his cover of "It's All In The Game" - fourteen minutes. "Listen to the Lion" - eleven minutes. "Almost Independence Day" - ten minutes. And so on. It's worth noting that at least half of the songs on Astral Weeks qualify for this trope. | |
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Total Recall (1990): End of A Dream & A New Life (8:00) | |
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood's debut double album Welcome to the Pleasuredome's first side of record one claimed several tracks ("Well", "The World Is My Oyster", "Snatch of Fury", "Stay" and "Welcome to the Pleasure Dome"), but in reality, they all combined into the album's title track, lasting a total of about 17 minutes. Even without the intro bits, "Welcome to the Pleasure Dome" itself is over 14 minutes. | |
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Manowar's 27-minute epic "Achilles: Agony and Ecstasy (In Eight Parts)", also a case of Shown Their Work oddly enough. | |
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Air Force One: The Hijacking (7:30) | |
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"Shut Down" by The Germs (9:30), unusual in being a slow, dirge-like, proto-Grunge song rather than The Germs' more usual fast and sloppy (yet vaguely arty) material. | |
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The Ocean is no stranger to this and regularly has extended slow, doomy tracks. Their most prominent example is "The Greates Bane" lasting over 14 minutes. | |
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Death Grips songs don't often last more than 5 minutes, but "Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber)" is an exception, clocking in at about 22 minutes. They also have "Whatever I Want (Fuck Who's Watching)", which is 7 and a half minutes. | |
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Haven (2020) has "Until the End of Time", an extended remix of "The Beginning of Something" played during the game's finale, clocking in at 10:01. | |
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Hoosiers: The Finals (13:21) | |
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The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Genesis, a Rock Opera which lasts 94 minutes spanning two discs. Every Peter Gabriel Genesis album to a lesser extent too, as every album from Trespass to Selling England by the Pound has multiple songs topping seven or eight minutes, including the 23-minute "Supper's Ready". Far later in their career, We Can't Dance, which at 71:30 was their longest album since The Lamb, with two of the songs from the album topping ten minutes. |
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Al Stewart: Much of his catalog is longer than average; for instance, "Song on the Radio" (6:19), and "Time Passages" (6:43). He reaches truly epic length with the historical ballads "Murmansk Run/Ellis Island" (7:41), "Roads to Moscow" (8:00), "Trains (8:17), and "Nostradamus" (9:43). All of these pale in comparison to "Love Chronicles", which runs for 18:04. As an added bonus it was also one of the first pop songs to feature the word "fuck", and did so in its literal sense. |
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Melvins have a few examples, the longest being the 22-minute title track to Pigs of the Roman Empire (a collaboration with Lustmord). Although their self-titled album (originally released as Lysol) is indexed as one 31-minute track, it's actually several different songs, including covers of Alice Cooper and Flipper, so it may not count—nevertheless, it contains the 18-minute opener "Hung Bunny/Roman Dog Bird", both parts of which still qualify at about eleven and seven-and-a-half minutes, respectively. Just barely beating "Pigs of the Roman Empire" by 30 seconds is "Hands First Flower", which is technically a solo piece by one-time member Joe Preston (as a tongue-in-cheek nod to KISS doing the same thing, they had put out three solo EPs under the Melvins name in one year): It's much more in line with drone metal than the rest of their material, which makes sense because Joe Preston had joined the band just after leaving the already mentioned Earth. |
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Guitarist Samantha Fish usually does this about once per album: The title track to her first studio album, Runaway, was mostly an excuse for her to show off some fiery blues licks; it clocked in just over 6 minutes. The title track to Black Wind Howling was similar; with a blistering solo, the track was just short of seven minutes long. The album Wild Heart featured three songs over six minutes long, but only one of them was really a rocker: the haunting post-grunge number "Lost Myself". With "Somebody's Always Trying" from Chills & Fever, Fish took an old R&B number from the '60s and added a full-scale psychedelic melt into the middle of it, with lots of guitar and devices and sound-effects, nearly tripling the length of the just-over-two-minute original. |
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Suicide's "Frankie Teardrop" (10:27). | |
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Guns N' Roses: As far back as Appetite for Destruction, there was "Rocket Queen". Use Your Illusion I and II had several more, including "November Rain", "Estranged", "Locomotive", and "Coma". "Paradise City" from Appetite is a possible example, considering it clocks at nearly 7 minutes and gets faster and faster as it goes. From Chinese Democracy, we have "There Was A Time", which clocks in at just above 6:30, and two other 6 minute tracks, "Sorry", and album closer "Prostitute", which is pretty epic in the same way as "Paradise City". Among the fans that actually like Chinese Democracy, "There Was A Time" is widely considered the most epic song, and during at least one of the concerts found on Youtube (from the LA Forum, December 21, 2011), you can hear the audience shout "THERE WAS A TIME" at several times, more and more frequently as the concert progresses. |
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"Heaven Help My Heart" by Wynonna Judd goes 6:08 thanks to a very long ending. | |
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Special mention must be given to "Catch the Rainbow", which is a not-at-all-short six and a half minutes in the studio, and gets expanded into a fifteen-minute epic live song, featuring Ritchie Blackmore and Cozy Powell trying to out-awesome each other while Ronnie James Dio screams his head off. Most of their live material is like this. | |
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WASP have tended towards this on many occasions. The Headless Children has "Thunderhead" at 6:49 and "The Heretic (The Lost Child)" at 7:22. There are three tracks on the Concept Album The Crimson Idol that qualify - "Chainsaw Charlie (Murders in the New Morgue)" clocks in at 7:36, "The Idol" at 8:40, and the climatic "The Great Misconceptions of Me" at 9:29. The unsubtly named Kill Fuck Die has "The Horror" at 8:26 and Helldorado chips in with "Damnation Angels" at 6:27. Unholy Terror has the unholy trinity of "Loco-Motive Man" at 6:03, "Evermore" at 6:10 and "Wasted White Boys" at 6:49. The first half of the double concept album The Neon God has "Sister Sadie (And the Black Habits)" at 7:42, "Asylum #9" at 6:19, and "What I'll Never Find" at 6:02 whereas the second half only has "The Last Redemption" but it clocks in at an insane 13:39! Dominator is relatively restrained with only "Heaven's Hung in Black" at 7:14 meeting the trope. Not bad for a band whose first single was a three-minute thrashout called "Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)"... | |
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The Downward Spiral and The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails. Especially the latter, which is a double album. | |
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Insomnium's 2016 album Winter's Gate is a single track that runs just over 40 minutes long. They usually break up its seven movements into separate songs in live shows, but during their 2018 headlining tour they played the entire thing through. | |
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Mirror's Edge Catalyst's OST, produced by the aforementioned Solar Fields, totals nearly 5 1/4 hours in length, and more than half of the tracks are suites between 15 and 25 minutes long. | |
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Cormorant have “Ballad of the Beast�, “Hanging Gardens�, “The Emigrant’s Wake�, “Funambulist�, “Unearthly Dreamings�, “Waking Sleep� and “A Sovereign Act� clocking-in around 9–12 minutes in length. On their latest album, Diaspora, they’ve really let loose, with “Sentinel� being nearly sixteen and “Migration� being more than twenty-six minutes long. | |
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Most tracks in the expansive Homestuck soundtrack typically last from around 1 minute to just over 4, with a few on each album that go for less than 1 or more than 5, and a few notable ones that go even longer: Midnight Crew: Drawing Dead's "Ace Of Trump" and Homestuck Vol. 4's "Three In The Morning (RJ!'s I Can Barely Sleep In This Casino Remix)" are both 6:29, The Felt has "Variations" (6:03), AlterniaBound has "Rex Duodecim Angelus" (6:39), Medium has in particular "Rain" is 6:34 and "Wind" a whopping 8:03, The Wanderers has "Carapacian Dominion" (7:20), Homestuck Vol. 8 has the longest one in the official soundtrack, "Cascade" (13:14, though it's technically a medley of four tracks from the same album rewritten and meshed together to accompany the second-longest animation in the story), coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A has Nine Lives One Love (6:33), Homestuck Vol. 9's penultimate track, "A Taste For Adventure", is 8:24, Symphony Impossible To Play opens with the 7:00 "Overture", One Year Older has "The Scratch" (7:34) and "Negastrife" (6:29), Genesis Frog has "Pondsquatter (Live Chamber Version)" (6:02), and Cherubim ends with "Eternity Served Cold" at 8:20. [S] Collide solely consists of the four tracks that accompany the longest animation, but since they're listed separately on the album the only one to reach this territory is the last one, "Heir Of Grief", which is 6:12. Act 7 consists solely of the exactly 9:00 track "Overture (Canon Edit)", the third longest in the soundtrack. The final canon album, Homestuck Vol. 10, has "Creata" (8:12), "Moonsweater" (7:57), "Ascend" (6:12), the second-longest track "Renewed Return" (9:10), and the final track "Conclude" (7:47). From the Gaiden albums, Land Of Fans And Music has "Beginnings (Press Start To Play)" at 6:18, "MeGaDanceVania" (6:04), and "Heir-Seer-Knight-Witch" at 7:59. The Unofficial MSPA Fans albums have few: the Sburb OST with "Sburban Prelude [Main Menu]" (6:35), "Layers Upon Layers [Build]" (11:47), "Endgame Execution [Black King Battle]" (8:50), and "Gods Of The New World [Universe Creation]" (7:19), Land Of Fans And Music 2 with "Chronology" (7:44), "Who Mourns For Jack Noir?" (7:21), "Dance-Stab-Dance" (11:12), Land Of Fans And Music 3 with "Emissary Of Dance" (9:12), "The Metamorphosis Of Rose Lalonde" (9:56), and "Garden Of Eden" (Part 1 is 8:15, Part 2 is 10:39). Beforus has "MOG^3" (7:01), "For Beforus" (8:02), "Caligomancy" (6:12), "Dear Heart" (6:42), "Thief Of The Ring" (6:06), "Rex Duodecim Daemonia X (ReDuX)" (7:40), 『H☯MESTUCK VAP☯RWAVE 2016 RUH​-​RUH​-​RUH​-​REï¼ï¼©ï¼¸ã€�アンドレア・ヒューシー・グーグル翻訳 has ï¼�ç§�ã�¯ã�‚ã�ªã�Ÿã‚’騙ã�—ã�¾ã�—ã�Ÿï¼�( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) at 6:43. Ancestral has "Spider's Eclipse" (10:00), "Protector" (6:12), and "Handmaiden's F(l)ight" (6:01). Land Of Fans And Music 4 has "Crystalendofgames" (6:55), "HOMOSUCK. DIRECTOR'S CUT, OF THE YEAR EDITION." (6:40), "Dance Of The Dead" (13:04), "Noble Ascendance" (6:31), "The Sin And The Salvation" (8:53), "Pseudumbra Phauxtasm" (6:30), "Crystalmethequins (Broken Bad)" (6:33), "Revisit/Rewind" (6:13), "Homestuck Sonata" (7:46), and "Skaian Rebirth" (8:31). Xenoplanetarium has "Depths And Water" (7:15). Moons Of Theseus begins with the 10:25 "Home" and also includes "The Return" (6:12), "Negligent Murmur" (6:29), and ends with "Violet And Gold" (7:20). DIVERGING DELICACIES includes "Gone in a moment" (7:12), "I Am Ascending (And It Is Terrible)" (7:09), and "Heritage For The Future" (6:30). Friend Symphony has "Dumbass Terminal" (6:01). Land of Fans and Music 5" has "Firefly Storm" (6:46), "A Dream Of Broken Clocks" (6:31), "Blood Rite" (6:13), "One Hour Later (6:54), "Infinite Zest" (6:00) and "Ophiuchus (Full Suite)" (28:27). Land of Fans and Music 5 Act 2 has "The Deceased Friends And Family" (07:36), Stuck (10:25), "Light in the Darkness" (07:52), "GALACTIC INCOHERENCE ~ Cosmic Na N Propagation" (09:46), "'Til Death, We Grieve" (06:48), "Lost Memories" (07:20), "Stargazing with Gods" (9:45) and "Home/Stuck (a compilation of "Home" from Moons of Theseus and the aforementioned "Stuck") (20:09) Beyond Canon, the first official album of the "Post-Canon" era, "only" includes one track that qualifies, the 7:12 "Light Burns Out (Gestalt)". |
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Anything by Charles Mingus, who wrote some of the most melodically complex jazz songs of all time (look up "Hora Decubitus" or "The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife" if you don't believe us). Then there's "Epitaph", a piece clocking in at 127 minutes that was never performed in full before his death. It carries all the complexity of Mingus' normal work, but just at an insane length. |
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Relayer only has three songs. "Sound Chaser" is 9-and-a-half minutes, and "To Be Over" is 9 minutes, but the real winner is their then-longest song, the 22-minute (only one part!) "The Gates of Delirium". | |
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Neurosis's music can be described as "trance metal" for a reason: songs can take their time building steam. They have the occasional song that's under 4 minutes, but a lot hover around 9-12, and one clocks in at over 26 (although roughly the last 10 of this is a repeated sample resembling a Broken Record). Combine this tendency with the soft-loud dissonance and challenging lyrics, and you have the reason their fanbase is niche. | |
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Star Trek: Insurrection: The Healing Process (7:15) | |
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Agalloch, who have a style pretty similar to Opeth. Their longest song, "Faustian Echoes", is over twenty minutes long. "Black Lake Niðstång" isn't far behind at around eighteen minutes long. | |
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Babatunde Olatunji, famous for Drums of Passion, was well known for long epic drum jams with his band. | |
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"(I've Had) The Time Of My Life", Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes' smash hit from Dirty Dancing, clocks in at an unbelievable 6:47. Yes, it's that long. If it's played uncut on the radio (which many pop stations don't do anymore for good reasons), even if the outro is faded away, it still takes up quite a bit more than five minutes of air time. | |
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Nina Simone's rendition of "Sinnerman" runs for 10:20. | |
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Every Peter Gabriel Genesis album to a lesser extent too, as every album from Trespass to Selling England by the Pound has multiple songs topping seven or eight minutes, including the 23-minute "Supper's Ready". | |
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The Sugarhill Gang, setting the norm for rap with the 14 minute, 35 seconds Rapper's Delight. | |
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Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Jajouka is an album that was merely produced by Brian Jones, but it doesn't feature him on vocals or instruments at all. Instead we hear the wonderful performances by the Master Musicians of Jajouka, a Moroccan folk group. All music on this album was performed live and plays out as one long epic performance, but shortened somewhat because in Real Life the actual length of these chants can stretch out to several hours! | |
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Parodied in This is Spın̈al Tap with "Jazz Odyssey". | |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has "Skyrim Atmospheres," a forty-minute piece that takes up an entire CD on the soundtrack album. | |
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The final boss track of Persona 4, The Genesis, is nearly 8 minutes long with no looping. It's one of the longest tracks in Shin Megami Tensei history, if not the longest. | |
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Theocracy has at least one song on every album that's over 10 minutes. "The Serpant's Kiss" from their self-titled album is just barely shy of 12 minutes, while "Mirror of Souls", the title track of their second album, runs for 22 minutes, 26 seconds. | |
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"Black Juju" from Love It to Death is a nine-minute horror epic. | |
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The Sonic Adventure 2 soundtrack features the Chao Race and Chao Garden medleys, the former clocking in at 6:45 on the original Japanese soundtrack and only a few seconds shorter on later releases and the latter, released only on the original Japanese soundtrack, coming in at 8:10. | |
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The Yes Album, their first album after the shift from Psychedelic Rock to Progressive Rock, has the 10-minute "Yours Is No Disgrace", the 9 and a half minute, 3 part "Starship Trooper", the 7-minute, 2-part "I've Seen All Good People", and the 9-minute "Perpetual Change". | |
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Undertale has the song of the same name, clocking in at 6:21 on the soundtrack. | |
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As originally released, "All Too Well" was five and a half minutes - the longest song to have appeared on one of her albums at that point but not really qualifying for the trope. Red (Taylor's Version) includes the fittingly named "10 Minute Version" - this is the song as she originally wrote it, with many additional verses that ended up getting cut for the album version. The extended track as released clocks in at 10:13, while the acoustic "Sad Girl Autumn" version is slightly shorter at 9:58, with both releases constituting her two longest recordings to date. | |
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From Defiance (TV series): "Battle of the Volge" (8:33) | |
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Blackened Death Metal band Behemoth has "The Reign Ov Shemsu-Hor" with 8:26. | |
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The Sonic Generations soundtrack has the End Roll medley version 2, at 7:22. | |
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St Germain is notable for tracks that often stretch from 6 to 12 minutes and more. Tourist has several tracks of six to seven minutes in length. | |
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Star Trek: First Contact: The Dish (7:05) | |
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Wintersun has its share of long songs, too. The debut album's ending "Sadness and Hate" is over ten minutes long, while "Sons of Winter and Stars" from Time I is 13 and a half. The eponymous "Time" is almost 12 minutes, if counted with the ambient-esque outro. | |
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Ray of Light has "Skin" (6:22) and "Frozen" (6:09) | |
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From Defiance (video game): "Mount Tam" (7:50), "Theme from Defiance (Extended Version)" (7:03) | |
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From Human Target: "Flipping the Plane" (10:54), "Skyhook Rescue" (7:05), "Confronting Baptiste" (8:51), "Gondola" (8:44), "Bertram" (7:00) | |
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(What's the Story) Morning Glory? closes with "Champagne Supernova" (6:57). | |
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Deep Purple's Concerto for Group and Orchestra: Well... how much more epic can you get? The tracks are veritable jams that stretch out several minutes, like the 25:13 "Symphony No. 6, Opus 95" and the title track, which goes on for 51:43 straight ahead!! All this backed by a huge classical orchestra. | |
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Later, they released The Astonishing, a Rock Opera which totals to 2 hours and 10 minutes long (or 130 minutes) | |
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Avenged Sevenfold, especially in City of Evil. The shortest song is two seconds short of five minutes, and the two longest are 8:46 and 9:14. Their self-titled has "A Little Piece of Heaven" at eight minutes flat, and Nightmare has only two songs under five minutes with "Save Me" topping out at 10:56. The Stage takes this even further having only two songs under five minutes, the title track spanning 8:30, and "Exist" topping out at 15:41. | |
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Big Big Train can usually be counted on to throw in at least one epic track per album: "East Coast Racer," "For Winter," and the title track of The Underfall Yard all approach or beat the 20-minute mark. | |
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Disturbed: "Overburdened" | |
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True Blue has "Live to Tell" at 5:51. | |
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Negativland: Helter Stupid has an 18-minute title song that focuses on the media and how murder has been associated with music in the past. This is the longest song they have made. The ABC's of Anarchism is a collab with Chumbawamba. The title track on this EP is 13 minutes long. The title track of True False is 10 minutes long. |
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Gentle Giant, as noted above, used this a lot less than most progressive rock bands did, but they still have plenty of examples: "Giant" (6:24), "Alucard" (6:02), "Nothing at All" (9:08), "Pantagruel's Nativity" (6:52), "The House, the Street, the Room" (6:03), "Plain Truth" (7:36), "Prologue" (6:14), "Schooldays" (7:37), "Peel the Paint" (7:32), "The Runaway" (7:16), "Way of Life" (7:53), "Experience" (7:50), "In a Glass House" (8:26), "Proclamation" (6:56), "Playing the Game" (6:46), "Free Hand" (6:16), "His Last Voyage" (6:27), "Interview" (6:54), "I Lost My Head" (6:59), "Memories of Old Days" (7:18) | |
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The D4DJ franchise has the song "LOVE!HUG!GROOVY!!", which features all 24 members of the series' original six units, and is about 6 1/2 minutes long. When the song was added to D4DJ Groovy Mix, a Rhythm Game designed with two-minute songs in mind, it was split into three separate songs, with each one representing two of the units, although the full version can be played through an Easter Egg. | |
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Halo: The Delta Halo Suite on Halo 2's OST is the longest piece in the series, at over 11 minutes. Also the "Truth and Reconciliation Suite" from the Halo: Combat Evolved soundtrack, an 8:26 piece that combines several game themes including the series' main Recurring Riff. |
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From Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome: "The Last Battle of Osiris" (8:39) | |
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Stereophonics: "Rooftop" (6:13), "Help Me (She's Out of Her Mind)" (6:54), "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (6:50) and "This Life Ain't Easy (But It's the One That We All Got)" (6:12) | |
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Asaki: His album Tentei features the full version of "Tentei", the only song on the album to hit the 10-minute mark. | |
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Deerhunter use this in "Desire Lines" and "He Would Have Laughed" with extended outros, as well as their more experimental album closer "Calvary Scars II / Aux. Out". | |
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Alcest have a lot of long songs. The longest would be either "Le secret", which clocks in at more than fourteen and a half minutes, or "Écailles de lune", which clocks in at nearly twenty but is divided into two parts. | |
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Every album released by progressive rock supergroup Transatlantic. SMPT:e, Bridge Across Forever and Kaleidoscope top 75 minutes each with just four or five songs each, with each album having at least one 20-30 minute song. The Whirlwind, while split into twelve tracks, effectively consists of one long song, and The Absolute Universe takes the format of The Whirlwind even further by offering three versions to choose from (A 90-minute version called "Forevermore", an hour-long version called "The Breath of Life" and a 100-minute Blu-ray called "The Ultimate Version" that combines elements of both). | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Also the "Truth and Reconciliation Suite" from the Halo: Combat Evolved soundtrack, an 8:26 piece that combines several game themes including the series' main Recurring Riff. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Burzum has engaged in a fair amount of this. The longest track, "Rundgang um die transzendentale Säule der Singularität", is nearly twenty-six minutes, though it's arguably a subversion as it's pretty repetitive. Many of his songs are in the 7-14 minute range. His examples tend to be less complex from a songwriting standpoint than many of the other examples here because his aim is more to induce a state of trance in a listener than it is to rock their face off. That said, while they usually don't contain too many riffs, they're usually pretty technically demanding ones (either on drums, bass, or guitar - the synthesizer parts are simpler, however). | |
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Sound Horizon's Moira is just two minutes shy of a full hour and a half. While this is impressive in itself, Revo's commented that the album is more or less a single song that was broken up into sections for practical reasons. | |
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Todd Rundgren was fond of stretching the vinyl format to its limitations, to the point where several albums had to be EQ'd and mastered more quietly to make them fit on a single record. A Wizard, a True Star is over fifty-six minutes long; Todd Rundgren's Utopia is over fifty-nine; Initiation, depending on the release, is nearly sixty-seven minutes long or even longer. Initation was even printed with a technical warning indicating that playing it with a worn needle would ruin the disc and recommending that the album be recorded to tape to preserve the sound quality. His double album Something/Anything? didn't stretch the vinyl format's limitations as badly, but came in at nearly ninety minutes long. Rundgren really likes this trope. | |
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The Equalizer & Other Cliff Hangers by Stewart Copeland, which is a collection of reworked pieces from The Equalizer soundtrack. This is only the first track. | |
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Stevie Ray Vaughan: "Texas Flood", "Lenny", "Little Wing". | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Successor project Drudkh, which became their main project after they lost interest in the right-wing politics Hate Forest was associated with, also does this extensively. Their longest song is actually their first song on their first release, "False Dawn", which runs for almost sixteen minutes, and apart from intros or outros, it's rare that a song doesn't exceed the six-minute mark. Their average song length is probably around eight minutes long. | |
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drukQs is just over 100 minutes in length. | |
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Eagles' "Hotel California" clocks in at 6:31. Most radio stations even play that version without any cuts. They fade it out a bit early eventually, but that still means almost six minutes of air time for one song. And Journey of the Sorcerer (best known as the theme of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), which goes for about 6:37. Their more recent release "Long Road out of Eden" nearly doubles that at 10:15. "Waiting in the Weeds" and "Last Good Time in Town" from the same album manage 7:45 and 7:06 respectively. Don Henley's solo hit "The Garden of Allah" is just under 7 minutes. |
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Referenced in Rock Band World. One goal is named "Play For Long Time", and you have to play some of the longest songs in the Rock Band catalogue. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Faunts' M4 is officially an EP, and priced as such. To be fair, it does only have 5 songs. It's still 39.2 minutes long, pretty much full album length. There is only 1 song under 7 minutes long. | |
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"Born to Fly" and "Backseat of a Greyhound Bus" by Sara Evans both have very long instrumental codas that bring them up to five-and-a-half minutes. | |
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Sparklehorse occasionally delved into this, with Morning Hollow (7:23) and Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain (10:35). | |
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Zapp & Roger's early albums have several songs that go way over the 6-minute mark. Special mention goes to "Dance Floor", which is 11 nonstop minutes of electro-funk. | |
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maudlin of the Well's Bath and Leaving Your Body Map were released separately, but are considered by the band to be two halves of a Distinct Double Album. Together they reach a running time of two hours and two minutes. | |
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Ummagumma has a live version of "Astronomy Domine" that lasts 8 minutes and 22 seconds, and every song on the studio disc also qualifies, with the exception of "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict". | |
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Marianas Trench like to open and close their albums with epic songs around 6-7 minutes long, full of musical and lyrical references to their older songs and complex melodies and harmonies. For a good example, see “Masterpiece Theatre III� (6:41), or “End of an Era� (7:40). | |
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Hexode's first EP has "Beginnings" and "Hope", 10:47 and 13:07, and on Melancholy there lies a 26-minute long drone piece entitled "Please Help Me". It's worth noting that the latter mostly consists of the same riff repeated over and over again. | |
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goreshit songs don't usually go into this, but it can happen occasionally. Examples include it's sad, i don't give you new shoes, one way to hannover and burn this moment into the retina of my eye. | |
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Savatage toes the line in length. While their longest songs range from seven ("Alone You Breathe") to ten ("Morphine Child") minutes long, they are as complicated in change of pace and tone as other examples here. | |
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Bowie also has "Width of a Circle" which could be 15+ minutes live. (The studio version from The Man Who Sold the World is 8:09). | |
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The Rolling Stones: "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" (from Sticky Fingers), "Goin' Home" (from Aftermath), "Midnight Rambler" and 'You Can't Always Get What You Want'(from Let It Bleed), "Memory Motel" (from Black and Blue),.... | |
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Kansas has a number of these, including "Song for America", "The Pinnacle", and "The Wall" And "Magnum Opus" on the Leftoverture album, which, despite being several songs in a medley, clocks in at 8:26. |
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Shellac's 1998 song "Didn't We Deserve a Look at You the Way You Really Are" clocks in at 12:19 and is the longest track by the band. | |
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A Hawk and a Hacksaw's "No Rest for the Wicked" is over 8 minutes long. | |
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Madness composed "The Liberty of Norton Folgate" (10:12) as the climax of their concept album of the same name. | |
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Matmos' album The Consuming Flame: Open Excercises in Group Form is almost three hours long, spread across three discs consisting of 44 songs. | |
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Justified in RayCrisis. The arcade version, as well as the home ports' Original Mode, have background tracks that are 11 to 16 minutes long each. This is because the same track plays for four of the five stages you play each playthrough, or in the case of the home ports, jumps from one section to the next when moving to a boss or the next stage. Extra Mode in the home ports goes further, with a 23-minute and 18-second track, designed to accommodate the usage of two more stages. | |
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Mogwai: "Like Herod," "Mogwai Fear Satan," "Christmas Steps," "My Father, My King"... | |
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Hell March by Frank Klepacki from Command & Conquer: Red Alert. Over six minutes long, and about halfway through it changes from metal to ambient electronica. | |
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Jaga Jazzist's longest track is the 28-minute long "Out of Reach (or Switched Off)"—although 22 minutes of it is taken up by a vocal skit in Norwegian. Their longest proper song is "Toccata", at 9 minutes. | |
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90125 has the 6-and-a-half minute "Changes" (No relation), and the 7 and a half minute "Hearts". | |
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"Self-Righteous" by Third Eye Blind (from "Out of The Vein") clocks in at 6:18. The full version of "The Red Summer Sun" from "Blue" clocks in at 6:12 (the original track is only 5:25 and removes the guitar solo at the end). |
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Shinedown: "Lady So Divine" (7:09) | |
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Canadian folk/black metal band Skagos can get this way. More of their songs exceed ten minutes than don't, but Anarchic takes the cake, being comprised of either two or three tracks (depending on the release format) and exceeding sixty-five minutes in length. If you're feeling particularly adventurous you can splice the material from the two different releases into a continuous suite of music. | |
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Animals has a lot of this, excluding the "Pigs on the Wing" Book Ends. | |
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Speaking of Peter Gabriel, "Down to Earth" from the WALL•E soundtrack is almost 6 minutes. | |
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Gamma Ray has Insurrection at 11:33 and Heading for Tomorrow at 14:32 | |
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Bob's Burgers: In "Ears-y Rider", a biker gang holds a wake for their former leader, Horny Dave, at the mortuary next door to the restaurant. The song they play for him is at least 21 minutes long. | |
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Stratovarius: Several across all albums but the Song "Elysium" from the album of the same name really takes the cake, clocking in at 18 minutes 6 seconds long. | |
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The Who: "A Quick One, While He's Away", "Underture", "We're Not Gonna Take It", "Won't Get Fooled Again", "Who Are You", "Eminence Front", "I've Known No War". "The Song is Over" deserves special mention. It's the one song that Pete Townshend has sworn he'll never play in concert because it would simply be impossible for four people to play all the parts it requires. The Live at Leeds versions of "My Generation" and "Magic Bus" clock in at 15:47 and 7:48, despite being 3-minute songs originally. In live performance, "My Generation" is regularly extended by incorporating quotations from other songs in their catalogue. |
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Pat Metheny's "The Way Up (68:10)" is exactly that. Technically, it's divided on the album into four sections, but it's really just one really, really long track. And one hour, eight minutes, and ten seconds long. | |
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Renaissance's average song length is probably something over seven minutes—this is including their shorter tracks. One classic, "Ashes Are Burning", clocks in at 11:21. That's the studio version; the live version is over twenty minutes. The suite "Scheherazade" takes up an entire album side and lasts 24:39. | |
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X Japan: "Dahlia," "Silent Jealousy," "Forever Love," "I.V.", "The Last Song," "Tears", "Rose of Pain". And then there's "Art of Life". 30 minutes studio version, 33 minutes performed live. |
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While not itself an example, the song "Where It's At" in the Bend-Aid episode of Futurama becomes this accidentally when Beck sings it. The song starts normally enough, and there's a slight fade indicated a time jump after the characters are done talking, and then Beck comes on. | |
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Be Here Now has several examples, including opener "D'You Know What I Mean" (7:43), "Magic Pie" (7:10), "Fade In-Out" (6:51), "All Around The World" (which is also the longest single to hit number one in the UK) (9:19), and "It's Gettin' Better (Man!)" (7:03). | |
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Freak Out!, Absolutely Free and We're Only in It for the Money by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. Not to mention later live albums like Roxy & Elsewhere, Zappa in New York, ... where the performances often take up more than 12 minutes! His double albums Joe's Garage, Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar and triple album Läther also have long jams. (Läther runs for almost three hours, by the way; the longest song is twenty-one minutes long.) | |
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Brooklyn, NY's Krallice do this almost exclusively. Up until their 2015 album Ygg huur, and excluding the EP Orphan of Sickness, which was a Cover Album, and the single Traditional, they had only five songs shorter than seven minutes, and one of those was an Album Intro Track. Ygg huur is less of an example, as four of the songs clock in at 6:42 (they have exactly the same length down to the millisecond) and the others are even shorter, but they still have the complexity of Krallice's other material. | |
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Portal 2 makes use of procedurally generated music, which is produced in real-time by the game's engine (the extra melodies made while the player accomplishes a task, for example.) Mike Morasky, the game's composer, said that one piece of music "only repeats itself every 76,911 years, 125 days, 7 hours, 56 minutes and 30.3 seconds." The soundtrack naturally contained excerpts of all of these pieces. | |
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Far later in their career, We Can't Dance, which at 71:30 was their longest album since The Lamb, with two of the songs from the album topping ten minutes. | |
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The Cardigans had a B-side called "Cocktail Party Bloody Cocktail Party". It was 15:50 long and was an instrumental lounge piano medley of most of the songs on their then-current album Life. | |
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Nightwish: "The Poet and the Pendulum," "Ghost Love Score," "Fantasmic," and "Beauty of the Beast" to name a few. "The Greatest Show on Earth" from Endless Forms Most Beautiful takes the cake with an epic length of 24 minutes. |
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Curtis Mayfield: "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go", "We the People Who are Darker than Blue", "Move on Up". | |
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The foundation then turned their attention to a John Cage composition titled As Slowly As Possible. Someone raised the idea of playing it on an organ, which will continue emitting sound as long as air keeps flowing through the pipes. So in 2001, they began a performance in a German church that will last until 2640. | |
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John Zorn: His album Music for Children has a 20:54 track which is nothing but three wind machines playing with some feedback. The longest track in his work so far is the 47:49 "The Dream Membrane" on the album "The Dream Membrane" (2014) with David Chaim Smith and Bill Laswell. |
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His final album, ★, gives us the 9:58 title track. It was over eleven minutes when originally recorded, but iTunes imposes a ten-minute restriction on singles and Bowie didn't want to use a different version of the single on the album. From the same album, "Lazarus" is 6:22. | |
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Vagrant Story has Climax of the Graylands Incident which clocks in at just shy of 12 minutes. | |
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Every album by Summoning (bar their first one, Lugburz). Most of their songs are 7 minutes or more, but special mention goes to "Land of the Dead", a beautifully melancholic piece that goes on for 13 minutes. | |
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The ending credits song of Fate/EXTRA CCC, "Memories of CCC", is easily the longest song in Fate Series history, clocking in at 18:14 as a rearrangement of all the key themes into one medley. | |
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Parodied in Saturday Night Live in "The Tom Arnold and Madonna Story" where Tom Arnold submits his record for publishing and the first complaint of the record company executives is that his Johnny Be Good cover lasts 9 and a half minutes... and that's the shortest track on the whole record. Parodied again on the same show years later by Jack Black and the cast; in an attempt to make a response to the overly trite birthday song everyone knows and hates, a 7-minute "epic" was written with plenty of pretentious lyrics set to a mixture of medieval and progressive rock, full of druids and witches, and signifying... nothing. |
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Extreme Prejudice: The Plan (9:24) | |
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Sonata Arctica's "The Power of One", "Destruction Preventer", and "White Pearl, Black Oceans" | |
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Panopticon has a few examples, but The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness stands out as a Distinct Double Album (the first half being mostly Black Metal, the second half mostly Bluegrass, Folk Music, or Country Music) with a running time of more than two hours. | |
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Bat Out of Hell, by Meat Loaf. In the sequels, the CD format allowed for running times surpassing 70 minutes. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: The Sonic R soundtrack features remixes of "Work It Out" and "Super Sonic Racing" that clock in at 7:24 and 6:04, respectively. The Sonic Adventure 2 soundtrack features the Chao Race and Chao Garden medleys, the former clocking in at 6:45 on the original Japanese soundtrack and only a few seconds shorter on later releases and the latter, released only on the original Japanese soundtrack, coming in at 8:10. Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) has Kingdom Valley at 6:49 and My Destiny at 6:10. Originating from the same game, the 2009 compilation album "True Colors: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog Volume 2" has Dreams of an Absolution (Starry Night Remix) which comes in at 6:18. Sonic Unleashed has Dear My Friend at 6:09. The Sonic Generations soundtrack has the End Roll medley version 2, at 7:22. |
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AC/DC has "Jailbreak" from the Live at Donington DVD. All 14-odd minutes of it (compared to the 4:40 from the '74 Jailbreak album). On the AC/DC Live album, "High Voltage" and "Let There Be Rock" also pitch in with respectable times of 10:33 and 12:17 respectively. The "Live at River Plate" version of "Let There Be Rock" is even longer, at a whopping 18:06. Most of it is Angus soloing. |
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dEUS: They have several epic jams like these: "Suds & Soda", "Hotellounge" (Worst Case Scenario), "Theme From Turnpike", "Fell Off the Floor, Man" (In a Bar, Under the Sea), "Instant Street" (The Ideal Crash)... | |
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Korn had "Daddy" from their self-titled album at about 9 minutes, and "My Gift to You" from Follow the Leader at over 7 minutes. The album See You on the Other Side had a few songs that were about six minutes. | |
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MGMT have a couple of long, multipart songs: "Metanoia" is almost 14 minutes, while "Siberian Breaks" is a little over 12. | |
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Death metal band Nile have quite a few: "To Dream of Ur" from the album Black Seeds of Vengeance clocks in at over 9 minutes, "Wrought" and "Extinct" from their In the Beginning compilation are 8 3/4 and 9+ minutes respectively, "Unas Slayer of the Gods" from In Their Darkened Shrines is 11:43 (and the four-part title track totals about 18 minutes), "User-Maat-Re," "Von unaussprechlichen Kulten," and the title track from Annihilation of the Wicked are 9 1/4, 9 3/4, and a little over 8 1/2 minutes long respectively, "What Can Safely Be Written" and "Even the Gods Must Die" from Ithyphallic are 8 1/4 and 10 minutes long respectively, and "4th Arra of Dagon" and the title track from Those Whom the Gods Detest run 8:40 and 8:06 respectively. Couple this with their tendency to write songs with absurdly long names ("Libation Unto the Shades Who Lurk in the Shadows of the Temple of Anhur," "Invocation of the Gate of Aat-Ankh-es-en-Amenti," "Dusk Falls Upon the Temple of the Serpent on the Mount of Sunrise," "Chapter of Obeisance Before Giving Breath to the Inert One in the Presence of the Crescent Shaped Horns," "Papyrus Containing the Spell to Preserve Its Possessor Against Attacks from He Who Is in the Water," "Permitting the Noble Dead to Descend to the Underworld," and "Yezd Desert Ghul Ritual in the Abandoned Towers of Silence") and they pretty much qualify. Ironically, most of those songs with absurdly long titles fall under Miniscule Rocking. |
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Trance songs routinely clock around 7-8 minutes, but usually this includes an extended intro/outro to aid DJs in crossfading two songs together. One example that's particularly long even without the extended intro/outro is "Remember Magnetic North", a collaboration between BT, Sasha, and Jan Johnston, that clocks in at about twelve and a half minutes total. Earlier, Sasha did a 12-minute remix of "Remember," which has a rather creepy 5-minute intro with time-stretched vocal samples. And before that, his 13:10 remix of "Embracing the Sunshine." Songs in the Goa trance subgenre are generally in the 9-12 minute range. On top of that, many trance DJ mixes and sets are famous for going for hours on end. Markus Schulz in particular is known for his extended open-to-close sets (usually clocking in at nearly 8 hours long at minimum). |
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Slipknot: "Gehenna," "Gematria [The Killing Name]," "Iowa." "Scissors" and "Skin Ticket." | |
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Erotica has "Where Life Begins" (5:59), "Words" (5:57) and "In This Life" (6:23) | |
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UFO: "Rock Bottom", "Love to Love". | |
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Foo Fighters has the 7-minute long "Come Back" and "I Am a River". (Many of their songs have shifts and false endings, but are usually concise enough to not fit the trope.) | |
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A good rule of thumb for The Cure is that the gloomier they get, the more epic their rocking becomes. Most albums have at least one song over six minutes, but it wasn't until their eighth album Disintegration that they broke the 7:00 barrier, which they did with four tracks - the average track length is only a couple of seconds under six minutes, and the longest, "The Same Deep Water As You", runs 9:19. They topped the latter with "Watching Me Fall" from Bloodflowers (11:13). Also worthy of note is "The Promise" from The Cure (10:21). The soundtrack to "Carnage Visors" (a short film they used in place of a support act in the early 1980s) runs 27:51 and can be found on the Faith reissue CD. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean's The Kraken. | |
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Justice has "Planisphere," an EP that clocks in at 17:39. While it's technically divided into 4 parts that can be listened to individually, the full effect is reached from hearing it in order. | |
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The 13th Warrior: Valhalla/Viking Victory (10:35) | |
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Traffic: Studio material: "Glad" (6:59), "Freedom Rider" (6:20), "John Barleycorn (Must Die)" (6:20), "Every Mother's Son" (7:05), "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys" (11:35), "Many a Mile to Freedom" (7:26), "Rainmaker" (7:39), "Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory" (6:05), "Roll Right Stones" (13:40), "Tragic Magic" (6:43), "(Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired" (7:31), "Dream Gerrard" (11:03), "Graveyard People" (6:05), "Walking in the Wind" (6:48), "Far from Home" (8:33), "Nowhere Is Their Freedom" (6:57), "Holy Ground" (7:48), "State of Grace" (7:16). Several of the band's later albums consist almost exclusively of this trope, but oddly, none of the songs on their first two albums qualify, though "Dear Mr. Fantasy" (5:44) comes close. The band live was definitely this trope. Last Exit, a half-studio, half-live collection released as a stopgap while the band had temporarily broken up, gives us "Feelin' Good" (10:43) and "Blind Man" (7:15). Welcome to the Canteen gives us a 6:21 "Forty Thousand Headmen", a 10:57 "Dear Mr. Fantasy", and a 9:02 "Gimme Some Lovin'". On the Road is exclusively this trope, with "Glad/Freedom Rider" (20:35), "Tragic Magic" (8:31), "(Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired" (10:31), "Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory" (6:51), "Light Up or Leave Me Alone" (10:56), and "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" (17:47). The Last Great Traffic Jam has "Walking in the Wind" (7:12), "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" (14:37), "John Barleycorn (Must Die)" (6:57), "Dear Mr. Fantasy" (7:44), "Gimme Some Lovin'" (7:26), and "Light Up or Leave Me Alone" (16:27). |
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While their older, Peterpan version of "Ku Katakan Dengan Indah" falls below the 6-minutes mark (5:34, still their longest song), Noah's version plays this straight with the 6:11 duration. | |
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Hans Zimmer has more than a few, but some of the notable ones are Waiting for a Train from Inception at 9:30; Hello Beastie from Pirates of the Caribbean at 10:12; A Dark Knight from the soundtrack for The Dark Knight, which is 16:15; and the king of them, Man Of Steel (Hans' Original Sketchbook) from the film of the same name, which is just over 28 minutes. | |
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Cornershop marked the launch of their official website by livestreaming a 24-hour remix of "Spectral Mornings". The original version is a mere 14:24 long, which isn't even their longest song; “The Turned-On Truth� runs to 16:43. | |
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Blondie: The full version of "Call Me" (originally the theme song for the film American Gigolo) runs for eight minutes. "Rapture" runs for six and a half minutes, with the "Special Disco Mix" of the song clocking in at an even ten minutes. | |
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Therion are going more and more in this direction as time goes on. Vovin had the three-part Draconian Trilogy, Deggial had Via Nocturna, Sirius B had Kali Yuga (which recently saw a third part added on with the release of Sitra Ahra), Gothic Kabbalah had Adulruna Rediviva (which clocked in at a deliciously nerdy 13 minutes and 37 seconds long), and Sitra Ahra features Land of Canaan which, while not as long as Rediviva, is still an impressive 10 minutes as well as being one of the most eclectic songs they've written...and considering Therion's history, that's saying something. | |
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Time and a Word has a 6-minute cover of Bufffalo Springfield's "Everydays", the 6-minute "Astral Traveller", and the 6-and-a-half-minute "The Prophet". | |
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Indeed, the entire album In the Court of the Crimson King (1969) is epic rocking, with the shortest song being six minutes, and the longest being over twelve. Note that many fans feel the latter track ("Moonchild") is way too long even for King Crimson since it's two minutes of the actual song followed by ten minutes of instrumental noodling. On the remastered edition, about three minutes of this section were removed. | |
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Iron Butterfly: The original version of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" spans to 17 minutes. | |
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Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" clocks in at 18:34. | |
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The self-titled debut has a 7-minute cover of "I See You" by The Byrds, and the 6-and-a-half-minute "Survival". | |
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Boris tend to switch genres from album to album, but whenever they do Drone/Doom it can get quite lengthy too - their songs in the style average 15-20 minutes and a few ("Absolutego," "Flood," "Sun Baked Snow Cave") go on for over an hour. | |
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Diablo Swing Orchestra has "Stratosphere Serenade" clocking in at 8:25 and "Justice for Saint Mary" at 8:17. | |
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"Yes Sir, I Will" by Crass, clocking in at over 40 minutes to become the longest punk song ever (!). Although it is technically supposed to be all one song, the song is split into multiple tracks (seven, to be precise) and doesn't play like a single, flowing 40-minute opus. The longest individual track, however, is just over twenty minutes long. The song's length is actually related to the concept of the album, believe it or not. In the wake of The Falklands War, the band felt that their previous approach to writing Protest Songs was fundamentally flawed. They had previously been writing songs that critiqued one specific aspect of society, but this carried with it the implication that these were separate struggles. The band, by this point, wholly rejected this interpretation, and instead considered all political struggles to be interrelated,note In academic and activist circles this is referred to as intersectionality. so they felt their music should reflect this. Thus, they composed and performed a single, epic-length piece critiquing aspects of society such as religion, war, capitalism, sexism, government, police brutality, censorship, and even the punk movement itself, and the album closes (apart from a brief news excerpt featuring the source of the album title) with an appeal to the listener to take direct action. The band have other examples as well, such as "Ten Notes on a Summer's Day" (there are two versions, both over ten minutes), "Nagasaki Nightmare" (8:23), "Reality Asylum" (6:38), "Bloody Revolutions" (6:18), "Big A, Little A" (6:13), and "What the Fuck?" (6:46). |
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dälek: "Untitled" (43:54) takes the cake, but they have plenty of others, such as "Black Smoke Rises" (12:02), "Images of .44 Casings" (10:27), "Praise Be the Man" (12:01), "Music for ASM" (16:37), and "Abandoned Language" (10:13). dälek are perhaps unusual among hip-hop groups in that while they are a vocal group, they also have a strong emphasis on instrumental passages. (They're also unusual among hip-hop groups for their sound, but that's another story...) | |
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Edguy have "Eyes of the Tyrant" (10:00), "The Kingdom" (18:23), "Theater of Salvation" (14:10), "The Pharaoh" (10:37), and "The Piper Never Dies" (10:37). Also, Edguy frontman Tobias Sammet's project Avantasia has a few more: "The Seven Angels" (14:17), "Let the Storm Descend Upon You" (12:10), "The Scarecrow" (11:12), "Savior in the Clockwork" (10:41), and The Great Mystery (10:03) beat the 10-minute mark, with "The Tower" (9:43), "Stargazers" (9:33) and "The Wicked Symphony" (9:28) not far behind. |
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Epica (an example of a Meaningful Name) has "The Divine Conspiracy," "Consign to Oblivion," (Both of which are title tracks for albums of the same name), "Design Your Universe," (Title track again) "Kingdom of Heaven," (From same album as DYU, but is even more epic at 13:35) and about half of the songs on their first any of their albums qualify as these. | |
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Canadian singer/songwriter Matthew Good tends to have one of these per album since he went solo. Avalanche has three, "Avalanche," "While we Were Hunting Rabbits," and "Near Fantastica," White Light Rock and Roll Review has "Blue Skies Over Bad Lands,"note And "Ex-Pats of the Blue Mountain Symphony Orchestra", but only because of a hidden song Hospital Music has the opening track "Champions of Nothing"; Vancouver has "The Boy Who Could Explode," "The Vancouver National Anthem" and "Empty's Theme Park"; and Lights of Endangered Species has "Non Populus." Arrows of Desire also has a song that just barely fits into this category, clocking in at 6:45, called "Letters in Wartime." | |
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Tame Impala has several examples, including "Runaway Houses City Clouds" (7:15), "New Person, Same Old Mistakes" (6:03), "One More Hour" (7:12), and most infamously, "Let It Happen" (7:47). | |
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Parodied in a season one episode of Flight of the Conchords, when Bret writes a love song for his girlfriend, Coco, and asks Jemaine to critique it. When he sings it for Jemaine, the camera keeps cutting to moments that clearly happened several minutes later as Jemaine moved around the apartment until a final cut when Bret finished singing. Jemaine's first complaint is the two-hour length of the song. Parodied again in a season two episode when the duo is commissioned to write a jingle for a 30-second toothpaste commercial, but wind up turning in an eighteen-minute ballad. | |
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Several of the songs on Vylet Pony's Carousel (An Examination of the Shadow, Creekflow...) clock in at over 6 minutes, but the 8-minute long "Hush!" is easily the standout. It also starts with a full-out "The Reason You Suck" Speech in the form of a slam poem overlaid on top of harsh electronic drawls before morphing into chill ambience and hard rock. | |
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Quadrophenia by The Who. | |
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"Sister Ray" from White Light/White Heat is a 17-minute jam recorded in one take. Live performances often stretched to even longer amounts (two version, one on The Quine Tapes, another on The Complete Matrix Tapes, almost forty minutes long each), and sometimes they would also sometimes include an introduction called "Sweet Sister Ray" that itself was almost forty minutes long. A bootleg recording of "Sweet Sister Ray" exists, but unfortunately without the performance of "Sister Ray" that followed. (The band also performed plenty of other lengthy live songs, often improvised and stretching to half an hour or more; the ones that have been recorded can be found on the bootleg box set Caught Between The Twisted Stars). | |
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Black Sabbath's first record with Ronnie James Dio Heaven and Hell. | |
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Tormato has the 6-minute "Arriving UFO", the 7-minute "Future Times/Rejoice" and the 8-minute "On The Silent Wings Of Freedom". | |
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Magma has several songs that are at least 30 minutes long. | |
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The album version of "Heroes" is over six minutes long, and the instrumental "Warszawa" (on Low) is also over six minutes. It segues into "Art Decade" which is also instrumental, so they could be thought of as one ten-minute piece. | |
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μ-Ziq's debut album Tango n' Vectif has three versions: a CD version that runs for 78:24, a vinyl version with a different tracklist that runs for 90:35, and a CD reissue that combines all the songs from both original versions - alongside new tracks - for a total length of 2:23:21. | |
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Peter Frampton: The live version of "Do You Feel Like We Do?" off of Frampton Comes Alive! clocks in at 14:15, and he makes the guitar talk to you. | |
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Squarepusher's album Ultravisitor runs for 79:41. | |
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Similarly, but not that similar, many stoner metal bands have followed in Sleep's footsteps making overly long songs, such as Bongripper's Great Barrier Reefer, Boris Absolutego, and pretty much every song by the band Earthless. | |
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Green Carnation's "Light of Day, Day of Darkness" clocks in at 60:06. No wonder the version featured on the Damnatus album was only an "excerpt"... "9-29-045" from The Acoustic Verses is no slouch at fifteen minutes, either, and each of their other albums contains at least one example of this trope. As for The Rise and Fall of Mankind (the sequel to "Light of Day..."), it's been postponed, but will apparently be released at some point in the future. |
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Phish: In concert, the band has several songs that they can stretch to 10, 20 or even 30 minutes long. Even just counting their studio recordings, there's "You Enjoy Myself", "Esther", "The Divided Sky", "Fluffhead", "Reba", "Run Like an Antelope", "Tweezer", "Maze", "It's Ice", "Guyute", "Pebbles and Marbles", "Time Turns Elastic", "Fuego" and "Petrichor". There's also several long songs that they only play live, such as "Harry Hood", "Mike's Song", "Runaway Jim" and "Harpua". The band also has songs that were relatively short as studio recordings, like "Bathtub Gin", "Split Open and Melt" and "Down with Disease", but can turn into jamming epics during their concerts. | |
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Aerosmith had one in their debut, "One Way Street" (7 minutes), but it got more common from Get a Grip on (more often than not, with a Big Rock Ending that goes too long): that album had three six-minute songs, including the singles "Living on the Edge" and "Amazing"; Nine Lives has five tracks surpassing 5 minutes, the longest being the album closer, the 8-minute long "Fallen Angels"; and Music from Another Dimension! has both "Street Jesus" and "Out Go the Lights" nearing 7 minutes. | |
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Some of their earlier albums can count, too. Atom Heart Mother and Meddle both have songs that take up a whole side of the album. | |
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Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber was originally just the concept album, and it is regarded by some people as being the best version (I mean, it has Ian Gillan and Murray Head as Jesus and Judas, respectively!). From "Overture" (the beginning of the album), "Heaven on Their Minds", "What's the Buzz/Strange Thing Mystifying", and "Everything's Alright" are all performed as one extremely long song, clocking in at about 17 minutes (!) | |
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Anne Briggs' version of "Young Tambling" is a bit over 10 minutes long. (And completely a cappella, to boot.) | |
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Sloan: Before I Do (7:04) since most of their songs aren't more than 5 minutes. | |
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"The Asphalt World" from Dog Man Star by Suede is 9:25. The extended version on the 2011 reissue is 11:27. | |
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Sun Ra's performances are all hypnotic and mystical performances of epic length, like for instance on the album The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra. | |
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"Food for the Gods" by Fireaxe. Spans three disks, and is just a few minutes under 4 hours long. | |
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Built to Spill are especially known for this in indie rock circles, mostly because of their album "Perfect From Now On" and their tendency to extend songs into lengthy jam sessions when playing live. | |
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From Battlestar Galactica (2003): "Assault on the Colony" (15:09), "Something Dark Is Coming" (8:55), "Prelude to War" (8:26), "Storming New Caprica" (7:50), "Among the Ruins" (7:45), "Violence and Variations" (7:35) | |
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Iron Maiden, A Matter of Life and Death. Eight of the ten songs are at least 6:30 in length (the other two are at least 4:30), with some over 9 minutes. And it works, interestingly enough...the songs are grand and sweeping and well-done. Not bad for a band in its fourth decade of activity (it was released in 2006). The following album, The Final Frontier, is similar, eventually clocking at 76 minutes, and having an 11-minute long song. And then The Book of Souls had to be spread across two disks, as it featured three songs over 10 minutes (18 in the case of the album closer). Senjutsu followed suit, with the second disk having only four songs given 3 pass the 10 minute mark. |
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Blinx: The Time Sweeper's final boss theme has eleven separate sections for every single hit you score against it (plus one ending crescendo after you score the final hit). The full song uninterrupted clocks in at just over nine minutes. | |
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Cytus, being a Rhythm Game of Eastern origin, usually averts this trope due to primarily using songs around 2 minutes long, but exceptions exist: "Disaster", "Buried", and "Vanessa" from the Alive chapter are 6:13, 6:14, and 7:10, respectively, Incidentally, before the Chapter L update, "Vanessa" only had the second most notes of any track; the record holder for most notes in a chart went to a track that is a little under half as long. From Chapter L: "L2" and "L3" are 7:37 and 6:36, respectively. |
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The Delta Halo Suite on Halo 2's OST is the longest piece in the series, at over 11 minutes. | |
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Close to the Edge only has three songs. The 18-minute, 4 part title track, the 10-minute, 4-part "And You and I", and the 9-minute "Siberian Khatru". | |
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It became a trend starting once Bruce Dickinson returned in 1999. The third reunion album, A Matter of Life and Death (featuring the aforementioned "The Longest Day") has only two of the 10 songs clocking under six minutes; follow-up The Final Frontier, only has two songs under 6 minutes ("The Alchemist" at 4:29, "Mother Of Mercy" at 5:20) ; and then The Book of Souls has three clocking over 10 minutes (album closer "Empire of the Clouds" is the band's longest ever at 18). | |
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The U.S. black metal scene is full of this, perhaps due to the influence of late nineties band Weakling. Weakling had only five songs, the shortest of which was 10:28 and the longest of which was 20:39. Other bands notably prone to this include: Fauna, one of the first bands from the Pacific Northwest and a major influence on Wolves in the Throne Room. The band's first album, Rain, consists of a single 63-minute long song. The band's second album, The Hunt, is either seventy-two or eighty minutes of continuous music (depending on the release) and was initially released as a single track, although later reissues have divided it into seven tracks. The band's third album, Avifauna, consists of three songs and two short ambient interludes; of the songs, the shortest is 17:02 (with the longest being 29:23), although it's also worth noting that, again, the entire piece is continuous. Fauna's side projects are often prone to this as well; Echtra has a thing about all of his tracks being exactly twenty-three minutes long (as a reference to the 23 Enigma; on the two latest albums the two songs run together continuously), and the band's acoustic folk side project Fearthainne doesn't have a single song below thirty minutes in length (unless you count the intros to each album, which are three and five minutes respectively), with the longest being forty-five. Fauna's predecessor Threnos was prone to this as well, albeit to a lesser extent; two of their songs exceeded thirteen minutes in length. Santa Cruz, CA's Fell Voices. To date (June 2013) they have recorded ten tracks, the shortest of which is a mere fragment at 15:20. Several of the band's songs break the twenty-minute mark and the first (untitled) track on their (untitled) 2010 album is over twenty-two. Arcata, CA's Ash Borer. "Rest, You Are the Lightning" is a mere snippet at 7:54. All the band's other songs break the ten-minute barrier, with the untitled song from their split with Fell Voices and "My Curse Was Raised in the Darkness Against a Doomsday Silence" both breaking or approaching twenty. Louisville, KY's Panopticon. While sole member Austin Lunn has been known to release shorter tracks, the large Post-Rock influence on his music means this trope is pretty frequent as well. A list of examples over ten minutes in length includes: "Flag Burner, Torch Bearer" (10:40), "I, Hedonist" (15:08), "...Speaking..." (12:51), "The Lay of Grimnir" (13:06), "...Speaking...(Collapsed Version)" (10:40), "La Passione di Sacco & Vanzetti" (11:37), "The Death of Baldr and the Coming War" (15:43), "Aptrgangr" (15:11), "Merkstave" (10:02), "Living in the Valley of the Shadow of Death" (11:29), "The Road to Bergen" (10:33), "From Bergen to Jotunheim Forest" (10:53), "The White Mountain View" (10:57), "Resident" (11:15), "Patient" (20:01), "Bodies Under the Falls" (10:25), "Black Soot and Red Blood" (10:04), "Killing the Giants as They Sleep" (12:19), "Where Mountains Pierce the Sky" (12:43), "The Long Road" (23:28, and in three movements), "Chase the Grain" (12:14), "A Superior Lament" (11:01), "Håkan's Song" (12:35). Every band Panopticon has recorded a split with to date - namely, Wheels Within Wheels, Vestiges, When Bitter Spring Sleeps, Waldgeflüster, Lake of Blood, and Skagos (the latter two of which are mentioned further down in this article) - has also exhibited this trope, though not always on the Panopticon splits. Portland, OR's L'Acephale: "Against a Sea of Weeping Sleep" (21:02), "Euntes ibant et flebant" (16:50), "Stahlhartes Gehäuse" (18:43), "Psalm of Misery" (12:05 in the Stahlhartes Gehäuse version), "Perdition" (12:40 on vinyl, 24:42 on CD, although around eleven minutes of the latter is silence; note that the CD version is still longer with the silence trimmed), "The Book of Lies/Seventh Gate" (16:21), "From a Miserable Abode" (18:09), "November Song" (25:27), "Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted" (23:00). The remix of this last is even longer, being exactly 93 minutes long (which, as with Echtra's example, is a deliberate choice of length, in this case being a significant number in Thelema; it's quite possible the 23-minute length of the original is also deliberate in L'Acephale's case). This isn't a complete list. Additionally, "November Song" is from a split with another band, Huldrekall, whose side is itself an example of this trope, at 25:14 in length (although it contains four songs stitched together into one track as Siamese Twin Songs). Related project Hail (which contains several of the same members as L'Acephale) also does this a lot, with examples including "Kalevala Rune" (10:17), "Crimson Madrigal" (29:56, although slightly over eleven minutes of this is silence), "Go Forth Through the Darkness - Marjatan virsi" (10:16 and 10:09 in each version), "Straasha" (10:23), "Isa - Abeille noir" (15:10), "The Autopsy I" (12:01), "Exit" (10:05), "The Autopsy II" (14:14), "The Autopsy III" (16:42), "Isa or the Bees Journey for Lemminkäinen" (25:08), "Barrows Embrace" (19:04), "Blood Revenge of Death" (35:22, although this is a live performance including three songs as one track), "Upon the Blackened Surface" (12:00), "The Feast - The Bleep" (14:35), "Wet Hat" (15:35), "Black Bûn Eclipse" (23:20). "Rocking" applies to some of these more than others, as they are prone to producing ambient music as well as Black Metal. Los Angeles' Lake of Blood have used this trope pretty extensively in recent years. "Proxigean Arcanum" is 17:10, "Omnipotens" is 16:15, "Destroyer of Vices" is 15:23, "In Wells of Shadow" is 12:03 on The Burial Grounds Sesssions and 13:31 on Omnipotens Tyrannus, "Agape" is 13:21, "Tyrannus" is 12:09, "Blood & Mercy" is 11:13. California's Petrychor have a number of good examples as well: "Dryad (I Make My Home)" is 10:56, "In Remembrance" is 10:44, "Of Grandest Majesties" is 13:18, "Beneath Highway and Street" is 14:20, "Tomorrow It Will Rain Over Bouville" is 13:04, "The Place Where the Red Stars Hang" is 14:04, "Planets Born of Human Ash" is 13:26, and the capstone, "Apocalyptic Witchcraft" is 26:19. Perhaps unsurprising since the sole band member plays in a Post-Rock group (Beware of Safety). He also has an ambient project called Carbonscape that exhibits this trope to an even greater extent, with an average song length of about twelve minutes (the longest track to date being "Time Is a Green Orchid", which runs for 23:44). Illinois' Njiqahdda does an awful lot of this. It would be impractical to list all the band's songs that qualify since their discography pretty much defines Archive Panic, but as an example, The Path of Liberation from Birth and Death has six tracks, the longest of which is almost twenty-six minutes long on the CD (it's a few minutes shorter on the vinyl edition). All of the songs except the intro are at least ten minutes long. The band's other projects Njiijn, Oaks of Bethel, and Funeral Eclipse are, unsurprisingly, prone to this as well. Brooklyn, NY's Krallice do this almost exclusively. Up until their 2015 album Ygg huur, and excluding the EP Orphan of Sickness, which was a Cover Album, and the single Traditional, they had only five songs shorter than seven minutes, and one of those was an Album Intro Track. Ygg huur is less of an example, as four of the songs clock in at 6:42 (they have exactly the same length down to the millisecond) and the others are even shorter, but they still have the complexity of Krallice's other material. This list is far from exhaustive. Feel free to add more examples. |
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Similarly to the Queen example above, "Sweet Thing"/"Candidate"/"Sweet Thing (reprise)" are usually considered one song and were usually performed together live. Together they reach 8:51 in their studio version on Diamond Dogs (they also segue directly into "Rebel Rebel", which brings the whole sequence up to 13:25, though that transition wasn't always replicated live). Meanwhile, the title track very nearly reaches six minutes and, when paired with the Album Intro Track "Future Legend", reaches 7:06. | |
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Arcata, CA's Ash Borer. "Rest, You Are the Lightning" is a mere snippet at 7:54. All the band's other songs break the ten-minute barrier, with the untitled song from their split with Fell Voices and "My Curse Was Raised in the Darkness Against a Doomsday Silence" both breaking or approaching twenty. | |
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Kamelot has one roughly every other album. "Elizabeth", the last song on Karma, being about 12 minutes long. "Memento mori", the penultimate song in The Black Halo, clocking in at just under 9 minutes. "Poetry for the Poisoned", the title track for its album, being about 9 and a half minutes. "Prodigal Son" for Silverthorn is just under 9 minutes. |
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A Night at the Opera by Queen. "Bohemian Rhapsody" is one of the more mainstream rock songs there. | |
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Kayo Dot's Hubardo runs for almost 100 minutes. It's also a really weird Concept Album with some of band's most ambitious material to date, so it fits the other definition of "epic" as well. | |
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The industrial group Einstürzende Neubauten has the 8:04-minute-long Kollaps, a song about the collapse of civilization, complete with chainsaws, screaming, and references to Genghis Khan. They also have Headcleaner (15:04), Perpetuum Mobile (13:42), and Pelikanol (18:34). | |
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Tangerine Dream and their alumnus Klaus Schulze were fond of this trope. Many of their albums consist of no more than two songs, and both tracks on Schulze'sTimewind are at least twenty-eight minutes long (the A-side breaks thirty). This is from an era in which it was uncommon for album sides to surpass twenty-three minutes in length, mind you. Better yet, the 2-CD reissue of Timewind includes the forty-minute "Echoes of Time", an alternate take of "Bayreuth Return" that was too long to fit on a vinyl LP. | |
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Kendrick Lamar has several of the songs on good kid, m.A.A.d city, the most obvious being "Money Trees" (6:26), "Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst" (12:03) and "Real" (7:23). The follow-up, To Pimp a Butterfly, has the 12:06 album closer "Mortal Man". DAMN. has the song "FEAR." (7:40) while demo album untitled unmastered. has "untitled 07" (8:16). |
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Anthrax's fifth album, Persistence of Time, has 3 songs clocking in at around 7 minutes long. However, at the same time, they Covered Up Joe Jackson's "Got The Time" and made it last some 2 and a half minutes. | |
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Iced Earth: "Dante's Inferno (16-minute tour of Dante's Hell)", "The Coming Curse", "Travel in Stygian", "When the Night Falls", all of the "Gettysburg" trilogy... | |
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Santa Cruz, CA's Fell Voices. To date (June 2013) they have recorded ten tracks, the shortest of which is a mere fragment at 15:20. Several of the band's songs break the twenty-minute mark and the first (untitled) track on their (untitled) 2010 album is over twenty-two. | |
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Brazilian band Legião Urbana has "Faroeste Caboclo," a 9-minute-long song (with 42 stanzas and no choruses or solos) about a poor boy from the countryside who moves to the country's capital and becomes an outlaw folk hero (it even earned a movie adaptation!). They managed to surpass it with 11-minute long "Metal Contra as Nuvens." | |
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Since they are a post-metal band, it's rare when Cult of Luna doesn't do it. If they aren't on an interlude track, then rarely does a song dip below six minutes. Most obvious in "Dark City, Dead Man" at 15:49 and "Vicarious Redemption" at 18:45. | |
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Pantera: "Cemetery Gates", "This Love", "Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks", "Suicide Note Pt. I & II", "Floods", "It Makes Them Disappear". | |
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The Sonic R soundtrack features remixes of "Work It Out" and "Super Sonic Racing" that clock in at 7:24 and 6:04, respectively. | |
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Fairport Convention spin out their version of the traditional ballad "A Sailor's Life" to 11:20. A good half of that is an extended jam featuring electric guitar and folk fiddle. Also qualifying, in approximate chronological order, are "Reno, Nevada" (7:44), "Percy's Song" (6:57), "Matty Groves" (8:10), "Tam Lin" (7:14), "Quiet Joys of Brotherhood" (10:17, although part of this is a Hidden Track; the actual song is still around eight minutes long, though), "Sloth" (9:15), "Flatback Caper" (6:22), "Bonny Bunch of Roses" (10:48 in its 1970 recording, and 12:38 in its 1977 one), "One More Chance" (7:59), "Jack O'Rion" (11:04), "Sigh Beg Sigh Mór" (7:16), "Red and Gold" (6:45), "The Wounded Whale" (6:43), "The Golden Glove" (6:05), the 1997 recording of "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" (6:32), "Wat Tyler" (6:31), "Portmeirion" (6:01), "The Crowd" (6:13), the 2002 recording of "The Deserter" (6:59), "The Light of Day" (6:15), "I'm Already There" (6:42), "The Fossil Hunter" (6:16), and "Mercy Bay" (6:47). Also of note is "Babbacombe" Lee, whose vinyl edition listed five tracks and ran for forty-one minutes, with the longest track being 13:20 (however, these could be considered to consist of multiple songs or song fragments; CD reissues broke them into multiple tracks apiece). On the whole, they did this less often from the mid-seventies through The '90s, but they began demonstrating more willingness to stretch out again by the turn of the millennium. |
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Can's "Yoo Doo Right" from "Monster Movie" at twenty and a half minutes is already a rather lengthy song. However, it turns out the song actually came from a six-hour jam session that they had to shorten in order for it to fit on the record. There's also "Soup", "Oh Yeah", "Peking O", "Amugn", "Halleluhwah", "Mother Sky", "Vernal Equinox", "Future Days", "Ibis", "Paperhouse", and many, MANY more. | |
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"Daydreaming", from A Moon Shaped Pool is just a few seconds longer than "Paranoid Android". | |
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Parodied in the Homestar Runner CD Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits with "Moving Very Slowly", a metal song with a very long outro which fades out, then fades back in and finishes. | |
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Tetris on Commodore 64 out of all systems has a single soundtrack spanning to 26 minutes long without a single loop! | |
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"Long Season" by Fishmans is a 41-minute-long Dream Pop behemoth (technically, it's split into multiple tracks on the identically-named album, yet is one track on the live album 98.12.28 男��別れ) that has a Recurring Riff playing throughout nearly the entire piece, yet it never becomes boring. | |
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Drama has the 10-minute "Machine Messiah", the 6-and-a-half minute "Does It Really Happen?", and the 8 and a half minute "Into The Lens". | |
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Showbread has a few of these. "Stabbing Art to Death" clocked in at over seven minutes in its first release, and "Age of Reptiles/Age of Insects" is all but eleven. The average length of a Showbread song is five minutes, if you factor in songs such as "And the Smokers and Children Shall Be Cast Down", "Matthias Replaces Judas", "The Bell Jar", "The Pig (Anorexia)", "The Death (Anorexia)", "The Beginning (Anorexia)", "The Flies (Nervosa)" (both of these are instrumentals), "The Goat (Nervosa)", "The Beginning (Nervosa)", "The Fear of God", "A Man With a Hammer", and "The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things". | |
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From Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), "Teenage Wildlife" runs for 6:56. | |
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While they've always had tendencies of this, Immortal started doing this a lot with At the Heart of Winter, which consists exclusively of this (the shortest song is still over six minutes long, while the longest is nearly nine). Since then they have at least one track on each album at or exceeding seven minutes in length. | |
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Afro Celt Sound System has numerous extended songs, the longest being “Eistigh Liomsa Sealad / Listen to Me / Saor Repriseâ€�, “Mojaveâ€�, and “Rise Above Itâ€�, each 10 minutes. And “Rise Above Itâ€� is half of a Siamese Twin Song—if we include its other half, “Riseâ€�, then the total length is 13 minutes. | |
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Celeste has Resurrections (9:38), Checking In (7:04), Golden (8:28), Quiet and Falling (7:27), In the Mirror (9:37), Reach for the Summit (11:09), Heart of the Mountain (6:22), Summit (No More Running Mix) (8:37), Fear of the Unknown (6:00), and Farewell (8:21) The Strawberry Jam mod has this too: Bluebird (6:24), Blueberry Bay (Ebb and Flow Mix) (7:52),Horizon (6:30), Cyberstrider Madeline (8:11), Raspberry Roots (Tree of Life Mix) (6:59), Exquisite Corpse (Bonus) (8:14), Glide (7:08), Tectonic Trenches (7:52), Warm Fish (7:55), Mango Mesa (Relics of the Past Mix) (10:21), Impeded (6:22), Bounded by Thoughts (7:17), Jaded (PsyCabob) (7:36), Starfruit Supernova (Pillars of Creation Mix) (14:23),Shattersong (6:10), Flying Lanterns (8:16), Cabinet Madeline (Pumber Edition) (6:20), Passionfruit Pantheon (Apotheosis Mix) (13:28), and Shatter the Pantheon! (8:15) |
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Silver Mt. Zion, a spinoff band of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, retains the tradition of writing lengthy songs, albeit to a less extreme extent. This is Our Punk Rock and 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons are both albums comprised of four songs each, ranging from 12 to 17 minutes per song. Notable examples outside of those two include "Ring Them Bells (Freedom Has Come and Gone)" (13:59) from Horses in the Sky, "There is a Light" (15:19), and "'Piphany Rambler" (14:18) from Kollaps Tradixionales, and "Austerity Blues" (14:18) from Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything. | |
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Mike Oldfield often does one-song albums, such as Tubular Bells (source of the famous theme from The Exorcist) and Amarok (that being a CD instead of an LP, lasts 60 minutes!) Likewise Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, Incantations (a double album), Tubular Bells II (although sections are titled individually) and Return to Ommadawn. | |
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Hypnospace Outlaw combines this with Mundane Made Awesome with in-universe musician Chowder Man's Ready to Shave. The player can listen to it in its entirety. It's a fairly complex Prog Rock song, almost seven minutes long, and, this bears repeating, it's about shaving. As a comically convoluted metaphor for Order Versus Chaos, maybe; it's hard to tell with anything in Hypnospace. | |
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Fire Emblem: Awakening has Id ~ Purpose at 8 minutes even and Don't speak her name! at 7:52. Old Battlefield, which immediately follows the former on the OST, also narrowly qualifies at 6:05. | |
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"Cygnet Committee" (9:35), proof that not all rockers liked the sixties. Also on Space Oddity, "Memory of a Free Festival" is 7:09 and "Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed" is 6:12. The title track doesn't top the six-minute mark but otherwise has the feel of a condensed version of this trope, comprised as it is of several discrete sections à la "Good Vibrations". | |
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The Soft Machine's 1970 Third and Tangerine Dream's 1972 Zeit both kicked off a short-lived early-70s fad for double albums consisting of four songs, one per side. Tangerine Dream honed the concept by using just one note per song, for a total of four notes in the space of 80 minutes. | |
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Wolves in the Throne Room has a lot of albums that could qualify. The best example is probably the vinyl edition of Two Hunters, which has five songs and runs for around seventy minutes. The CD edition has four songs and goes on for about fifty. | |
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Fragile has the 8 and a half minute "Roundabout", the 8-minute "South Side of the Sky", and the 11 and a half minute "Heart of the Sunrise", their longest song to that point. | |
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Snow Patrol's "The Lightning Strike", the closing track off their A Hundred Million Suns album, clocks in at over sixteen minutes long; it's made up of three songs that began composition separately, but the band found that they tied in nicely as a "lighting storm into calm into daybreak" epic piece. The song has its own special visual setpiece presentation during live performances. | |
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Going for the One has the 8-minute "Turn of the Century" and 6-minute "Parallels", but they are eclipsed by the 15 and a half minute "Awaken". | |
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Ensiferum does this from time to time, most notably with "Lai Lai Hei", which changes musical styles and tempos many times in its 7:15 run. Ensiferum have produced even longer songs beyond Jari's departure with "Victory Song" at 10:43, "Heathen Throne" at 11:09, "The Longest Journey (Heathen Throne Part II)" at 12:49 (listening to both Heathen Throne songs back to back makes it one hell of a journey) and "Passion Proof Power" at 16:59 making it Ensiferum's longest song to date. | |
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Chain Reaction: Out of the Hole (9:12) | |
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Scar Symmetry has "Holographic Universe", the title track from their third album, which runs to 9:05. | |
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Finnish doom band Reverend Bizarre, unsurprisingly, liked this trope a lot. "They Used Dark Forces/Teutonic Witch" is almost half an hour long and two other songs from the same album exceed twenty-five minutes. Around half of their songs exceed ten minutes in length. | |
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His album Music for Children has a 20:54 track which is nothing but three wind machines playing with some feedback. | |
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Fantômas, another Mike Patton band, has "Surgical Sound Specimens From The Museum Of Skin (Delirium CordÃa)," which takes up an entire album on its own and clocks in at nearly an hour even if you don't count the 20 minutes of respirator noise at the end. | |
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Psych/Garage genre busters King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have indulged a number of lengthy tracks. Although their first two albums featured nothing over four minutes, third album Float Along - Fill Your Lungs opens with the 16-minute jam Head On/Pill. Downplayed by the fact that's it's really two songs as a medley, Head On going for... four minutes and Pill for twelve. Maybe it's not so downplayed. Other notably long tracks include Am I In Heaven at 7:05 and Her & I (Slow Jam 2) at 8:15 from I'm In Your Mind Fuzz Sixth album Quarters is comprised of four songs each clocking in at 10:10. None of the tracks on Nonagon Infinity are super long (besides maybe Evil Death Roll at 7:15) but the whole album plays in an unending loop without stopping, so you might consider it to have an infinite runtime. Rattlesnake (7:48) and Open Water (7:13) from Flying Microtonal Banana. Murder of the Universe features three suites of smaller chapters. Towards the end of 2016, a shortish song called Crumbling Castle started to appear in the band's setlists, presumably to be released on the next album. But in the following year (in which five albums were to be released) albums came and went and Crumbling Castle never appeared... until it was posted to Youtube as the lead single for Polygondwanaland, now running for 10:44 and eventually preceding another album of song suites that ran together. The ending version of KGLW is 8:28, ending the pair of microtonal albums "KG" and "LW" Like many other artists mentioned here, their live versions can get carried away as the jam out improvised medleys of many different tracks, as seen on some of their "official bootleg" live recordings. |
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Most Friday Night Funkin' songs last about one or two minutes, but Triple Trouble from the Sonic.EXE mod clocks in at eight and a half minutes. | |
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Swedish Progressive Metal band Seventh Wonder has an average song length of around 6 minutes, many surpassing such, but the title track to their 2010 album "The Great Escape" clocks in at 30:21. | |
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Journey to Silius' Stage 2 theme, "Underground Concourse," runs for nearly five minutes before looping. | |
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Innerspace: Gut Reaction (7:46) | |
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"Somebody Up There Likes Me", from Young Americans, is 6:35. Two of the bonus tracks from the Rykodisc version, "It's Gonna Be Me" and "John, I'm Only Dancing Again", also top the six-minute mark. | |
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Bathory have many epic tracks such as Blood Fire Death (10:28), Shores in Flames (11:07), One Rode to Asa Bay (10:23), Twilight of the Gods (14:02), and many more. | |
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DragonForce. They topped themselves with "The Edge of the World", which is just over eleven minutes long. Most of their songs run about six-and-a-half to eight minutes. | |
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The River Wild: Vacation's Over (9:51) | |
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