Happened across a couple of tracks from my youth and it got me thinking about long songs (5mins+)

Maybe a bit indie disco but have some Wedding Preset…

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka2NrHWl8no[/video]

And some Shed Seven…

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcZ52OaEiIU[/video]

You’d be getting some S*M*A*S*H too if I could find it on youtube 🙂

Oh and love this too, all 7 minutes and 30 seconds of it…

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooi6eINWBOA[/video]

new order. blue Monday. extended version.

I can never make it past 6 minutes, it would be a great 3-4 minute song:

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avk5YDc1dsk[/video]

Ah loads by New Order. I’d rather the Sister Ray cover though, all 9 minutes of it…

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxaCZZcECE8[/video]

It’s the way he goes a bit mental at the end

[video]http://youtu.be/UPqHXr_XFbc[/video]

and from my yoof

[video]http://youtu.be/4z_7oEG4Gvg[/video]

[video]http://youtu.be/HsTJaP2tC0A[/video]

Magma – ‘Mëkanïk Dëstruktï? Kömmandöh’ Only 46 mins. Not for everyone (not for many?) – but it totally blows me away and has done for over a decade, even so far as making most of the other music I listen to kind of limpid. Christian Vander (drummer/composer) even invented a whole new language in order to carry the myths described by the music. Genius, silly, operatic, complex, repetitive, dynamic, moving, in fact it defies all description. Wagnerspacerockummlautmathjazzfusion? nah, I give up. It is the very antithesis of today’s 55 second concentration span. Now I’m getting no more work done until after lunch 👿 headphones it is. dark room it is.

[video]http://youtu.be/61cIieQOdac[/video]

Underworld have some big juicy long ones. Can’t quite match the 46 mins above, but…
[video]http://youtu.be/ACz968isIhg[/video]

Pulp – David’s Last Summer. about 7 minutes worth, including quite a lot of synth.

🙂

Just about every track from Verve’s Urban Hymns… Ashcroft may write some good songs but he has no idea how to finish one.

I am the resurrection full version
Fools gold 9:53

I am the resurrection full version
Fools gold 9:53

Nonsense.

Doors, full version of Light my Fire.

But also The End – which takes ages of saying this is the end, before it actually is the end. Or rather the Eeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnddddddd.

Edit – David’s last Summer, good call! Love the line about the pale skin bikini, proper poet is Cocker.

Jimmy Eat World – Goodbye Sky Harbor

All 16 minutes and 13 seconds of it 🙂

Spotify Link

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH3PoJ4VIUI[/video]

Ah, a “getting your money’s worth out of a quid in the CD jukebox” thread!

Telegraph Road (Dire Straits), November Rain (GnR), One and Orion (Metallica) were always sage choices, and if you could find Pink Floyd’s Echoes in there you were set for the long haul.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUjUIP2ugG4[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHVJVQzHv5Q&list=RDZHVJVQzHv5Q[/video]
This is the track that spring to mind for me. 4mins of just getting started

Good old KLF could stretch out a tune.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_hnYKTys8rU[/video]

Longer live versions also available:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBhL-TgD4lA[/video]

…and if you could find Pink Floyd’s Echoes in there you were set for the long haul.

I’ll see your Echoes and raise you a “Thick as a Brick”.

5+ minutes, long? Pah.

Not a favorite but it does go on a bit this:

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Freebird.. 🙄
Meat Loaf – Bat out of Hell.. 😈

can’t do youtube at work but….

Iron Butterfly – In a gadda da vida – used to great affect in the original manhunter wuith brian cox (not the scientist) as hannibal.

Led Zepplin – Moby dick (live) ‘ladies and gentlemen…John Bonham’

Led Zepplin – Moby dick (live) ‘ladies and gentlemen…John Bonham’

Drummers eh? 🙄
Toad – Ginger Baker.

Guns and Roses – November Rain. cheesy but a classic.

Metallica – One – fab 7/8 minutes of life
Doors – The End- indeed +1, when I’m in the mood it just is fab, makes me feel all existential… off to look up what that word means,

Underworld have some big juicy long ones

+1. And a back-catalogue that has been for me the BEST soundtrack to my solo rides over the last decade. Used to slap on headphones and lose self in the Wyre forest for hours. Found out recently Karl Hyde is from Bewdley. funny old world.

Sorry Muzzle!

Just to add I include these as they have short versions which were singles/radio versions but I actually prefer the full length versions, particularly the outro to resurection which is chopped in the shorter version.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtMVpL3B_6Y[/video]

Has anyone put Flowered Up Weekender up? Cant see youtube links in work.

The Damned Curtain Call

The Tubes White Punks on Dope

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAXYMOgHQI4[/video]

Feel the motorik

Not that long in terms of music but MrMud and Mr Gold by Townes Van Zandt has a lot of words!

Manuel Gottsching and Neu! Will be keeping my eye on this thread. Maybe due a list of similar motorik choons to cycle with, always looking out for some to add.

Can – Oh Yeah
[video]http://youtu.be/49PvnYCKZkM[/video]

Stereolab – Blue Milk
[video]http://youtu.be/0-ypdFhOcNU[/video]

Toy – Left Myself Behind
[video]http://youtu.be/dcQ2nXDvWDY[/video]

Tuesdays Gone – Lynryd Skynyrd

or the Metallica version on Garage Days which is even longer

G’n’R- I take your November Rain and give you Coma 10+ minutes

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CnSTSixzcg[/video]

How could I forget D.O.A. and Jello Biaffra Full Metal Jackoff, killer intro and repeat to fade “embrace the red white and blue reich”

Can – Halleluhwah (18.32) my absolute favourite Can song.

Velvets – Sister Ray (many different versions, there was a three record bootleg, sweet sister ray, with nothing but it on it, but there’s a 38.00 version recorded live in the matrix San Fran. 🙂 )

Blood Embrace – Superwolf (a mere 7.55)

Beware (extended version) – Al Green (15)

One Fine Morning – Bill Callahan (8.45)

Cat Power – Nuthin But Time (10.54)

Chris Woods – England in Ribbons (12.58)

Credence Clearwater Revival – I Heard it through the grapevine (11.04)

Old Neil has got quite a few classics running towards 10 minutes (my favourite, On The Beach fails just shy of 7 though)

Even Roxy Musics If There Is Something spins to 6.34

And last, but not least, my current favourite song of the the moment: I Break Horses – (smog) which scrapes in a 6.13

I could go on (and on, and on).

I love long songs me I really do….

Dirge – Wings of lead over dormant seas

Clocks in just on the hour

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCdTsOaa6W0[/video]

‘What goes on’ live 1969 by Velvet Underground
‘Street Hassle’ by Lou Reed
‘Bogus Man’ by Roxy Music
‘Spill the wine’ by Eric Burdon / War

For Pigface
[video]http://youtu.be/LMa7iqPaKPk[/video]

for me
[video]http://youtu.be/Pg_kOhUFQR0[/video]

Long song thread? Sounds like a job for Mogwai

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyHdUG9RbE0[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgDQN2qls9c[/video]

Or maybe ye olde Wildhearts.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuHVrh3NL6w[/video]