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The placement of songs on an album can be a tricky thing to decide, especially when it comes to placing the longest song on the album. More frequently, feeling that the largest piece of music on the record is a good closer or not knowing where else to put it without breaking the flow of the tracks, a band or artist will place it at the end of the album. This is the opposite trope, where a band or artist decides to set their longest song at the very beginning instead. Such a decision is less common, but not unheard of. There's a handful of possible reasons for that: The track is a good representation of the remainder of the album; the band is confident enough in their long song to feature it first; or perhaps the band trusts its listeners and fans that they will join along for the ride without any issue. As a result, it may be a common decision made by bands that are already known for long tracks, especially in genres like Jazz, Progressive Rock, and Progressive Metal, where long tracks are frequent. Much like the opposite trope, there is a possible variation where the longest track on the album is indeed placed first, but is preceded by an album intro, as more commonly seen in concept albums. For the purposes of the trope, we're defining "intro" as a musical piece that isn't structured like a song, but serves as a short introduction of the album's content or themesnote It can either be a musical piece composed of musical excerpts of other songs, or just a piece that isn't structured like a song. Some considerations for this trope: We're only counting full-length studio albums and EPs. Live albums, singles, splits, compilations and cover albums fall outside of the scope of this trope, even if they may feature a possible example of the trope, due to padding, the usual live cutting, and because in compilations and splits the song order is either chronologically-based or isn't given much attention at all. As for the songs themselves, the length of the track itself doesn't matter, the only thing that matters is that the song is the longest in the album and opens it. Also, such a long song must NOT be divided into separate tracks or in the track listing. A single 23-minute song, even if divided into movements, counts. A track that's labeled as "Part 1" with a track labeled "Part 2" later into the album doesn't, even if both parts make it the longest song on the album when put together; unless Part 1 alone qualifies as the longest track. The track listing being considered is the original tracklisting (bonus tracks added in special editions or reissues don't count for the purpose of the trope). For the record, for the tracklisting itself we take all sides as a single tracklisting, so only the first song of the first side qualifies for the tropenote i.e., in an album spanning four sides A-B-C-D, only the first song of side A qualifies for the trope if it's the longest. |
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Dream Theater: Although Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence is more famous for the eponymous 42-minute suite closing the album, said suite is split into tracks 6-13 on the second disc; the actual longest single song is the opener, "The Glass Prison" (13:52). | |
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Crosby, Stills & Nash: The group's self-titled debut album opens with the seven-and-a-half-minute "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes". | |
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Metallica: Inverted on Hardwired... to Self-Destruct with the Title Track "Hardwired", which is only 3:12 long, by far the shortest song on the album and the only one that's under five minutes. | |
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The Album opens with "Eagle", at 5:51, almost a minute longer than the next longest track. | |
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Nursery Cryme opens with the 10:25 track "The Musical Box". | |
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Innuendo begins with the 6:31 title track, which holds the distinction of being the band's longest single. | |
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Sheer Heart Attack opens with "Brighton Rock" (5:08). | |
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Wish You Were Here opens with "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)" (13:32). | |
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Test for Echo begins with the title track, clocking in at 5:56. | |
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Neil Diamond's 2008 album Home Before Dark has all but one of its tracks ("Whose Hands Are These") at over four minutes long, but the first, "If I Don't See You Again", its the longest (7:12). | |
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David Byrne: Rei Momo begins with the 5:45 "Independence Day". | |
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Paranoid opens with "War Pigs" at 7:55. | |
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Ozzy Osbourne: His 2010 album Scream opens on the 6:06 "Let It Die", beating out the next in line by only three seconds. Patient Number 9 opens with the titular track, running at 7:21. |
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Thick as a Brick is usually considered a single, 44-minute song, but it had to be split in two for the vinyl pressing, and as a result the first half technically counts, at 22:40. | |
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Waka/Jawaka opens with the 17:22 "Big Swifty", which takes up the entire first side. | |
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Rush: Side A of 2112 is comprised entirely of the title track (20:34). Hemispheres's Side A is taken up by "Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres" (18:08). Counterparts opens with "Animate" (6:04). Test for Echo begins with the title track, clocking in at 5:56. |
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The Prophecy by Ninja Sex Party begins with the aptly-titled "Intro (The)" (1:11) and is followed by the Epic Rocking "The Mystic Crystal," at 11:54. None of the album's other tracks reach the four-minute mark. | |
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The Queen Is Dead starts with the 6:24 title track. | |
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Welcome To The Pleasuredome'' opens with three 1-minute introductory tracks; "Well", "The World Is My Oyster", and "Snatch of Fury (Stay)"; which lead into the 12 1/2-minute Title Track. | |
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One Size Fits All opens with the 8:45 "Inca Roads". | |
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Manowar: The Triumph of Steel opens with "Achilles: Agony and Ecstasy in Eight Parts" (28:37), by far the longest track they have. | |
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The Works begins with "Radio Ga Ga" (5:48). | |
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Melvins: Gluey Porch Treatments: "Eye Flys" (6:16) Bullhead: "Boris" (8:34) Lysolnote this release, running a total length of 31:21, doesn't actually list or separate the individual tracks; they're separated here for convenience: "Hung Bunny" (10:42); or, if taken as one song, "Hung Bunny/Roman Dog Bird" (18:20) Basses Loaded: "The Decay of Lying" (6:35) A Walk with Love & Death (Death): "Black Heath" (6:41) Bad Mood Rising: "Mister Dog Is Totally Right" (14:09) |
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David Sylvian: Dead Bees on a Cake opens with the nine-and-a-half-minute "I Surrender"; the second-longest track on the album, "Krishna Blue", just barely cracks eight minutes. Blemish kicks off with the 13:42 Title Track, the only song on the album to surpass eight minutes. |
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W.A.S.P. (Band)'s fourth album The Headless Children starts with the 7:16 "The Heretic (The Lost Child)." | |
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Alstroemeria Records: The album DOMINATED DANCEHALL begins with the song "EXTRA LOVE", a 6:47 long (which includes the seamless 1 minute opener "LAUNCH") remix of the Extra Stage theme from Touhou Fuumaroku ~ the Story of Eastern Wonderland with vocals provided by nachi (of ZYTOKINE fame) as well as audio clips taken from the 1961 sci-fi b-movie Battle of the Worlds, making it a Voice Clip Song as well. It is by far the longest song in the entire album and serves as a strong opening for additional dance remixes to follow suit. | |
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ZYTOKINE: The album To You, Who Couldn't Become Neither White or Black is comprised of 2 discs, but disc 1 begins with the longest song in the entire package: "No Longer Human", a 5:06 long remix of "Border Between Dreams and Reality" from Touhou – ZUN's Music Collection with vocals provided by itori. For comparison, the next song after that, "Soft Rain Fell on My Cheek", is only 3:39 long, while the second-longest song in the package, "Path of the Last Goodbye" on disc 2, barely cracks the 5-minute mark with a length of 4:58. | |
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Relayer starts with the longest track in the band's discography, "The Gates of Delirium" (21:46). | |
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Mothership Connection opens on "P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)" (7:41). | |
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Machine Head: The Blackening opens with the Epic Rocking track "Clenching the Fists of Dissent" (10:37 long). The only track on the album that rivals it in length is the closer, the 10:13 long "A Farewell to Arms". Unto the Locust does something very similar with its opening "I Am Hell (Sonata In C#) (8:26 long) and its closer "Who We Are" (7:12 long). |
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The band's self-titled album opens with the nearly seven-minute "Mama". | |
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Side A of Autobahn is entirely occupied by the title track, at 22:30. | |
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Thriller starts with the 6:02-long "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'." | |
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The Yes Album starts with "Yours Is No Disgrace", clocking in at 9:40. | |
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While Tubular Bells is officially billed as one song, the limitations of vinyl means that it's split into two parts. Of these, the 25:30 Part One just barely edges out the 23:20 Part Two for the position of the album's longest track. The 2003 re-recording, meanwhile, averts this trope, subdividing each part into additional movements, with the 8:32 "Finale" (which closes Part One) beating out the 5:52 "Introduction". | |
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Gojira's L'Enfant Sauvage opens with the 6:39 "Explosia", the only song on the album to surpass the 6-minute mark. | |
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Just Another Band from L.A. opens with the 24:47 "Billy the Mountain", which takes up the entire first side. | |
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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars opens with the 4:44 "Five Years". | |
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The title track on My Favorite Things clocks in at 13:44, beating out "Summertime" by about two minutes. | |
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Lil Yachty's 2023 album Let's Start Here begins with "The Black Seminole", at 6:51. | |
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Side A of 2112 is comprised entirely of the title track (20:34). | |
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Francesco Zappa kicks off with the 3:32 "Opus I: No. 1 - 1st Movement: Andante", one of only two tracks on the album to surpass three minutes in length (the other being the 3:04 "Opus I: No. 4 - 2nd Movement: Allegro"). | |
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Indio Solari: El Tesoro de los Inocentes (Bingo Fuel) opens with "Nike es la Cultura" (6:30) | |
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Enigma's MCMXC A.D. opens with the 2-minute Album Intro Track "The Voice of Enigma", which leads into the 11:43 "Principles of Lust". The album's only other Epic Rocking-length track is the 10:32 Album Closure suite "Back To the Rivers of Belief". | |
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Scratch opens with the 5:30 "On the Air", which edges out "White Shadow" by a quarter of a minute for the position of the album's longest track. | |
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Counterparts opens with "Animate" (6:04). | |
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Maggot Brain starts with the 10:21 Title Track. | |
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Goldie: The single-CD, double-CD, and cassette versions of Timeless open with the 21-minute medley "Timeless: Inner City Life/Pressure/Jah", which is sequenced as one track. The double-LP release, meanwhile, omits the song due to its length. The double-CD release of Saturnz Return opens with the hour-long "Mother", which takes up almost all of the first disc. Like "Timeless: Inner City Life/Pressure/Jah" before it, both the cassette and vinyl releases omit the song due to the logistical problems presented by its length. |
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Hemispheres's Side A is taken up by "Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres" (18:08). | |
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I, Robot kicks off with the six-minute Title Track, the only song on the album to reach Epic Rocking status. | |
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The Perfect Stranger opens with the 12:42 Title Track. | |
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The Man Who Sold the World kicks off with the eight-minute "The Width of a Circle"; no other song on the album goes over the six-minute mark. | |
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Babymetal's fourth album The Other One opens with "Metal Kingdom" (5:51). None of the other tracks last five minutes. | |
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Larks' Tongues in Aspic began with the 13-and-a-half minute instrumental epic "Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part One". | |
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New Skin for the Old Ceremony opens with the 4:13 "Is This What You Wanted". The only other song on the album that breaks four minutes is "Take This Longing", which is seven seconds shorter than the opener. | |
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Scorpions (Band) has the 2004 album Unbreakable, which starts with the 5:51 "New Generation." | |
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Both Station to Station and ★ start with the Title Tracks, the longest songs in Bowie's catalog at 10:15 and 9:57, respectively. Of note is that "★" was planned to be even longer, at eleven minutes, but was cut down due to iTunes' ten-minute cap on single releases at the time, with Bowie not wanting to confuse listeners by putting out different versions of the same song in an era where tracks can be individually downloaded and streamed. | |
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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Vrioon, a collaborative album with Carsten Nicolai (credited as Alva Noto), starts with the nearly 14-minute "Uoon I". Insen, another collaboration with Nicolai, starts with the nearly 9-minute "Aurora". |
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Band-Maid's third album Brand New Maid starts with "the non-fiction days" (4:44); the second longest track, "YURAGU," only lasts to 4:05. | |
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Slayer's World Painted Blood opens with the 5:53 Title Track, the only song on the album that surpasses the 5-minute mark. | |
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Ultravox: Vienna opens with "Astradyne", which at 7:07 outpaces the next-longest track, "Mr. X", by just over half a minute. | |
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The Who's ninth studio album Face Dances begins with "You Better You Bet," at 5:36. | |
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Inverted with Cannibal Corpse's Kill, which opens with its shortest song, "The Time to Kill Is Now" (2:03). | |
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Nightwish: The album Dark Passion Play opens with "The Poet and the Pendulum" (13:54). Their 2020 release Human. :II: Nature.'s opening track, "Music", is the longest on the album at 7:23, beating out the album closer "Endlessness" by only twelve seconds. None of the other songs break the six-minute mark, meaning "Music" and "Endlessness" act as Book Ends. |
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Cattle Decapitation's The Harvest Floor opens with the 5:39 "The Gardeners of Eden". | |
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Tubular Bells II opens with the eight-minute "Sentinel". | |
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Vangelis's Soil Festivities opens with "Movement 1"(18:32). | |
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Voyage (2021) begins with "I Still Have Faith In You", at 5:09. | |
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AC/DC: The title track of For Those About to Rock We Salute You is the longest of the album at 5:44. "Spellbound" is next, at 4:39. | |
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Us opens with the 7:06 "Come Talk to Me", which just barely beats out the closing track, "Secret World", as the album's longest by three seconds. | |
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The Cure: The band's 1982 album Pornography opens on the 6:42 "One Hundred Years". 4:13 Dream's opener "Underneath the Stars" is 6:17, while no other track goes above 5 minutes. |
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Off the Wall opens with "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" (6:04). | |
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Blue Train opens with the 10:43 Title Track, the only song on the record to surpass ten minutes. | |
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Tame Impala's album Currents opens on "Let It Happen" (7:46). | |
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Japan: Gentlemen Take Polaroids opens with the seven-minute Title Track. The next-longest song, "Nightporter", just barely falls under that mark. This marks a significant contrast from the band's previous albums, which invariably fell under Longest Song Goes Last. Rain Tree Crow opens with the seven-minute "Big Wheels in Shanty Town". The next-longest song on the album, "Pocket Full of Change", is exactly one minute shorter. |
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Black Sabbath: Paranoid opens with "War Pigs" at 7:55. Black Sabbath Vol. 4 opens with the 8:02 "Wheels of Confusion", though technically this is two songs in one—the last two-and-a-half minutes being a separately-recorded instrumental outro dubbed "The Straightener" on some versions of the album. |
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Tonight kicks off with the 7:11 "Loving the Alien". | |
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Both Five Miles Out and Crises open with side-length suites, "Taurus II" and the Title Track, respectively; on the initial US release of Crises, this is altered to have the title track close out the album instead. | |
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Atom Heart Mother begins with the titular track (23:44). | |
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Queen: Sheer Heart Attack opens with "Brighton Rock" (5:08). The Works begins with "Radio Ga Ga" (5:48). Innuendo begins with the 6:31 title track, which holds the distinction of being the band's longest single. |
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Sunn O))): White 1 opens with "My Wall"(25:30). Monoliths and Dimensions opens with "Aghartha"(17:34). Solstitium Fulminate opens with "Wine and Fog"(21:29). Kannon opens with "Kannon 1"(12:50). |
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Iron Maiden's The X Factor opens with the 11-minute "Sign of the Cross". Not only it subverts their usual Longest Song Goes Last, but marked the first time they opened with an epic instead of a fast-paced rocker (tellingly, their tours usually start with the album opener; The X Factour pushed "Sign of the Cross" to the middle of the setlist and opened with "Man on the Edge"). | |
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Close to the Edge begins with the sprawling 18:42 epic track of the same name. | |
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Tin Machine starts with the six-minute "Heaven's in Here"; no other song on the album surpasses five minutes. | |
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The original standalone release of London Symphony Orchestra: Volume II kicks off with the 24:32 "Bogus Pomp", which takes up the entire first side; later releases append Volumes I and II together, thus resulting in "Bogus Pomp" opening side three instead. | |
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Genesis: Nursery Cryme opens with the 10:25 track "The Musical Box". The band's self-titled album opens with the nearly seven-minute "Mama". |
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Steven Wilson's solo album The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) begins with "Luminol," which at 12:10 takes up the entire first side of the double-LP release. | |
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Studio Tan opens with yet another side-length piece, the 20:40 "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary". When the album's contents were included on the posthumous triple-CD release Läther (produced in 1977 and initially cobbled into several other releases by Warner (Bros.) Records, this one included), the song instead became the closing track, as Zappa had intended. | |
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Can: Delay 1968 kicks off with the 8:20 "Butterfly", which runs for over a minute longer than the next-longest track, "Little Star of Bethlehem" (which, incidentally, is the closer). | |
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Drama opens with "Machine Messiah" (10:18). | |
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Trans-Europe Express starts with "Europe Endless" (9:40). | |
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Mike Oldfield: While Tubular Bells is officially billed as one song, the limitations of vinyl means that it's split into two parts. Of these, the 25:30 Part One just barely edges out the 23:20 Part Two for the position of the album's longest track. The 2003 re-recording, meanwhile, averts this trope, subdividing each part into additional movements, with the 8:32 "Finale" (which closes Part One) beating out the 5:52 "Introduction". Hergest Ridge opens with the 21:29 Part One, which outpaces the 18:45 Part Two. Ommadawn opens with the 19:23 Part One, which beats out the 17:17 Part Two. QE2 opens with the 10:16 "Taurus I"; no other song on the album surpasses eight minutes. Both Five Miles Out and Crises open with side-length suites, "Taurus II" and the Title Track, respectively; on the initial US release of Crises, this is altered to have the title track close out the album instead. The UK release of Islands opens with the nearly 22-minute "The Wind Chimes". In the US release, the song is split into a two-and-a-half-minute first part and a 19-minute second part, avoiding this trope; incidentally, part one ends up being the shortest song on the US version. Tubular Bells II opens with the eight-minute "Sentinel". Return to Ommadawn begins with the 21:10 Part One, which barely outpaces Part Two by just 14 seconds. |
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Propaganda: The original release of A Secret Wish opens with the eight-minute "Dream Within a Dream", the only song on the album to reach Epic Rocking status. | |
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Love Over Gold opens with the fourteen-minute "Telegraph Road", the longest track in their studio discography. | |
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Yukihiro Takahashi: Neuromantic starts with the 6-minute "Glass", the only song on the album to reach Epic Rocking status. | |
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Making Movies opens with the 8:11 "Tunnel of Love". No other track on the album surpasses the seven-minute mark. | |
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King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Their 2013 album Float Along - Fill Your Lungs opens with the 16-minute "HeadOn/Pill", almost 10 minutes longer than the next longest song. Quarters! defies both this trope and Longest Song Goes Last, being made of four songs that are all 10:10 in length. Flying Microtonal Banana opens with the 7:48 composition "Rattlesnake". Polygondwanaland begins its run with "Crumbling Castle (10:46), over four minutes longer than the next longest song, which closes the album. Omnium Gatherum's "The Dripping Tap" clocks in at 18:17, a huge piece compared to the other songs, which are all shorter than 7:38 in length. |
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Art of Noise: The Seduction of Claude Debussy opens with the eight-minute "Il Pleure (At the Turn of the Century)". The next-longest track, "The Holy Egoism of Genius", just barely falls under that mark at 7:56. | |
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