Favourite LONG song.

Pugsley

And by long i mean 10mins or more (extended live songs dont count).

Id have to go with:
Sonata Arctica - The Power of One

Great song, and its diffrent the whole way through, some great solo's throughout aswell. It also has a very good build up and intro, however there is an extended silence at the end which is a downside (ie: about 30seconds long).

nesthead

i was gonna say Tool - The Grudge (8.10 i think) but i dont think i have any albums with a song longer than 10 mins...

Karl Hungus

Pretty much anything by Opeth.

Probably 'Advent' and 'Forest Of October'.

superconor

Free Bird Live by Lynard Skynard would be my faveourite, but in that case
Inna Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly
17 minutes of Organ Rock! Nyom Nyom!

Gordon

Third rock from the sun by Hendrix is pretty long and its main melody has been used in many a song after Hendrix's death, maybe as a tribute I'm not sure.

Mr E

Nobody Girl by Ryan Adams

Repli

NOFX - The decline (18 mins i think) and it's a great song
Tool - Eulogy
Tool - H
Iron maiden - 7th son of a 7th son
Metallica - master of puppets (9 mins i think)

Karl Hungus

Oh yes, I forgot...

Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness

1 hour long, and its absolutely ****ing brilliant!

phreak

Lost Horizon - Highlander (The One)
Sonata Arctica - The Power of One

all i can think of atm.

Gordon

Originally posted by AngelWhore
Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness

1 hour long, and its absolutely ****ing brilliant!

hour long!! Jebus crimmeny. Don't get many of them to the pound... er.. album eh, EH?! Actually how many songs are in the album that contains that song AW?

PiE

I'd hazard a guess at... one?

Godspeed You Black Emperor! - "Sleep"
Tool - "Eye"
Weird Al - "Albuquerque"

Yea Nofx's "Decline" is damn good too.

Probably more, can't think of 'em right now.

cournioni

Easy one that...
Dream Theater - Glass Prison.
Dream Theater - Home.
Dream Theater - Voices.

Pretty much anything by DT.

Crucifix

Peter Frampton - Do you feel like we do

Karl Hungus

Originally posted by Gordon
hour long!! Jebus crimmeny. Don't get many of them to the pound... er.. album eh, EH?! Actually how many songs are in the album that contains that song AW?

Just the 1 song, Gordon.

I most heartily reconmend it, it's the most amazing thing you could possibly hear. If you look at the musicians involved in the booklet, it takes up 2 pages! They have 2 Choirs, a childrens and opera! About 5 different vocalists, and enough additional musicians to make up an orchestra, along with Saxaphones and everything...

Completely unbeleivable...

Giblet

GNR - Coma.. Just Cool :>

Pugsley

Originally posted by AngelWhore
Oh yes, I forgot...

Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness

1 hour long, and its absolutely ****ing brilliant!

Because its an hour long, im bloody curious! *Snip*

Kali

Pink Floyd - Echoes/Shine On or Free Bird by L.S. would be my choices..

I know you didn't want live songs but Jeff Buckleys live version of Kanga-Roo is bloody amazing as well.. drummer and guitarist just go at it for 5 minutes or so and work up to such a climax

Pigman II

Lynyrd Skynrd - Freebird.

The edit I have clocks in at 9:05 but feels about 0:18.

Honourable Mention : Mogwai - My Father My King (20:12)

mike65

Deep Purple Space Trucking BBC Live 1972
Pink Floyd Shine On...pt 2

Mike.

colin caustic

from the cradle to the grave- subhumans

17 and half mins of sheer excellence!!!!:D

Sarky

Iron Maiden- Rime Of The Ancient Mariner.

It's nearly 15 minutes long. I like it.

Although it doesn't "count", some of the AC/DC live sets can go on for ages , and they're bloody brilliant...

ratman

tool-push it (live):ninja:

loismustdie

bohemian rhapsody - queen or smells like teen spirit but that wouldn't be that long but it IS Nirvana so it deserves a mention

ratman

how did you manage to work nirvana into this thread

loismustdie

i said why, because it's nirvana! and it's kind of long? anyway it's nirvana and i just said it because i knew you were on this site and that it'd annoy you

Pugsley

But Nirvana are cr*p, so they have no relivence in anyway shape or form to the thread.

Dun

I know there was absolutely no need to bring Nirvana into this thread - I'm guessing their longest song is nowhere near ten minutes, but please no more {Nirvana are crap/no they're not/yes they are/no they're not/yes they are/no they're not} "discussions". Not like there's not a ton of them round already..

Anyway, I do like a lot of songs that clock in at almost the ten minute mark, G'n'R - Coma, Metallica - Orion, to name a couple but the only one I can think of at the moment that does go over is Zeppelin's Achille's Last Stand.

Kurdt

dream theater - a change of seasons (25mins)


i reckon the longest nirvana song is about 7 minutes (either of the 'secret tracks' from nevermind & in utero)

iron maiden - the phantom of the opera (almosst ten mins)

Karl Hungus

Right, if you want to drag this into a Nirvana debate, I'm going to lock the thread and ban everyone involved for the night. Stay on topic or get the hell out! :mad:

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Blind Guardian - and then there was silence

Doodee

Pink Floyd - Shine On you crazy diamond

brilliant song
or els eAnother brick in the wall all parts.

great transitions in them.

Giblet

Coma is 10:18, so its over 10 minutes :>

curadh

yeah comas ****in deadly. Definitely my favourite from the 3 big ballads. How long is rocket queen? Phantom of the Opera and Fear of the dark are serious too, not sure if they qualify.

Dun

Originally posted by Giblet
Coma is 10:18, so its over 10 minutes :>

Then that's my fav . Didn't realise it stretched that long, definitely doesn't seem it.

Cheez

Tool - Third Eye
Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamonds

Is orion longer than 10 ins,that aswell so

colin caustic

i know it's been said already but the decline by NOFX is seriously the best long song i ever heard...

Giblet

Yeah Coma is cool because there's never any repeating of verses , and theres no chorus.
And the singing at the end is class.
Rocket Queen is about 6 mins at most, maybe shorter, it just seems long because of the big change in the middle.

nosmo

Tool - Flood
Opeth - The Moor
Opeth - Advent
Opeth - Forest of October
Satyricon - Black Lava
My Dying Bride - Return to the Beautiful

Squall

Thats easy

Stairway to Heaven - The great Led Zeppelin


2nd would be the live aid version of Dire Straits Sultans of Swing
(ok i know you said no live extended versions but i had to mention this, its just so class)

loismustdie

eagles - hotel california

superconor

yeah comas ****in deadly. Definitely my favourite from the 3 big ballads

ballad? more like a kick in the balls!
what are the other 2? dont cry and november rain?

Thomas from Presence

Anything on MEtropolis part II from Dream Theatre.

Brighton Rock (live or studio version), Bohemian Rhapsody and Innuendo from Queen.

Any of the mondo GNR tunes.

I'll think of more later methinks.

mike65

Echoes - Pink Floyd

Mike.

ShevY

Metallica - To Live Is To Die

well 9:45 i think...