If you watch Led Zeppelin's 'The song remains the same' i'm pretty sure the song 'Dazed and confused' lasted for around 45 minutes, it was edited to around 27 minutes so it could fit on one side of an LP:grin:
Didn't know that, but there's that song "The Beat" by The Look that was pressed in the same way, so it goes "I am the beat" over and over until you turn the thing off.
I have an album by Rush that does that too on the song By-Tor & the Snow Dog. It keeps playing the jingle at the end of the song in the run-out-groove.
The longest song I have in my collection would be Pink Floyds "Atom Heart Mother" weighing in at 23:44.
Followed closely by Floyds "Echoes" coming in at a respectable 23:29.
I remember someone telling me about a death metal track (think it might have been Napalm Death?) coming in at 50 odd minutes...with the drummer playing double-bass drums too! :o - bet they never played that bugger live too often!
Didn't know that, but there's that song "The Beat" by The Look that was pressed in the same way, so it goes "I am the beat" over and over until you turn the thing off.
Oh yeah, the Wildhearts Fishing For Luckies double vinyl rerelease does that on side 4.
Also, the Red Light Green Light single CD does a similar thing, the last track ends and everybody laughs they repeat the same 4 or 5 seconds of the laugh until the CD finishes at 80 mins.
Oh, no. Every time you turn up something monumental and terrible happens.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
Dire straits - Sultans of swing, live from Alchemy
Marillion - Grendel (Live version)
Rush - the 2112 Overture
Endless last-groove albums? Well, Rainbow, Difficult to cure. The guy laughing at the end goes on.... and on...... and on
On the subject of endless grooves, Hawkwind once did an album with a double groove - depending on thich groove the stylus fell into at the start, depended on what you heard. Blew a few minds that one did ;)
On Manowar's The Triumph Of Steel, The Agony And Ecstasy Of Achilles, is nearly 29 minutes long. It really is just 8 tracks merged into one though, but taking out the drum solo it is very good.
Talking about records with strange grooves, one of the oddest ones I have is a Sigur R?s 10" that plays from the inside outwards, i.e. put the needle down where it would usually end and it will spin outwards towards the edge. I'm not aware of that being done on any othe record.
Talking about records with strange grooves, one of the oddest ones I have is a Sigur R?s 10" that plays from the inside outwards, i.e. put the needle down where it would usually end and it will spin outwards towards the edge. I'm not aware of that being done on any othe record.
The Allman Brothers* do some pretty long versions of their songs. Their At Fillmore East recordings have plenty of versions close to 20 minutes and above. Not sure if 'jamming' really counts on this thread.
*mind you, there are usually about 15 in that band so I guess they have plenty of time to rest mid-song :grin:
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Speaking of Krautrock, I knew there was another long song I'd been listening to...
Stuck this on my mp3 player the other day, had to listen to half on the drive to work and half on the drive home :)
I have an album by Rush that does that too on the song By-Tor & the Snow Dog. It keeps playing the jingle at the end of the song in the run-out-groove.
Followed closely by Floyds "Echoes" coming in at a respectable 23:29.
I remember someone telling me about a death metal track (think it might have been Napalm Death?) coming in at 50 odd minutes...with the drummer playing double-bass drums too! :o - bet they never played that bugger live too often!
Was listening to this at work oddly enough, quality track!
Ayurvedism on Pungent Effulgent was excellent, at a not-too-shabby 19 minutes. Ozric Tentacles btw.
Great album, that. :-)
Also, the Red Light Green Light single CD does a similar thing, the last track ends and everybody laughs they repeat the same 4 or 5 seconds of the laugh until the CD finishes at 80 mins.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
Dire straits - Sultans of swing, live from Alchemy
Marillion - Grendel (Live version)
Rush - the 2112 Overture
Endless last-groove albums? Well, Rainbow, Difficult to cure. The guy laughing at the end goes on.... and on...... and on
On the subject of endless grooves, Hawkwind once did an album with a double groove - depending on thich groove the stylus fell into at the start, depended on what you heard. Blew a few minds that one did ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekki_M%C3%BAkk
And I just found this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_types_of_gramophone_records
Also Expressway to yr Skull by Sonic Youth also has the locked groove thing as does side 4 of Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed.
*mind you, there are usually about 15 in that band so I guess they have plenty of time to rest mid-song :grin:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Salt-Marie-Celeste-Nurse-Wound/dp/B002F7IHRY/
1 track. "song" might be pushing it a bit...
Yeah, to be fair, calling the Fantomas one a song is pushing it some too. The last 15 minutes or so are just loops of vinyl crackle. :lol:
Pretty sure their last album was someting like 13.5 hours long and only had 10 songs on it.
It's proggy folk sh*te though, I keep telling mel to play them on his show, but it'll be his entire show if he does :lol:
a 24 hour song, it used to be streamed online but sadly i dont think it is now, although ive got an mp3 of it :P
http://pitchfork.com/news/44455-listen-to-the-flaming-lips-twenty-four-hour-song-starting-right-now/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_Skies_H3