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A few in the 12-15 minute range which are:

Muse - Exogenesis Symphony
The Black Mages - Darkness and Starlight, Dancing Mad
Explosions in the Sky - It's Natural To Be Afraid
Hans Zimmer - A Dark Knight (The Dark Knight Soundtrack)
Nobuo Uematsu - Ending Theme (FFVIII OST)

Now for 20+ minutes

Rush - 2112
Dream Theater - Octavarium (longest at 24 minutes)

I'm sure someone will top me.

My longest song is The Allman Brothers, "Whipping Post" Live at Fillmore East. For any rock fan, this 23 minute song... you've just got to hear it. I'm sure that's the longest one I have. Of course, every song on that record is long (the second longest on there is 19 minutes). Oh, and I have FFVI DM and the ending theme.

This post has been edited by BlitzSage on 3rd May 2011 23:41

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Praise Be To Helix!

Well let's see here. I listen to a lot of music, but I can't think of that many songs off the top of my head, but here's a few.

See the Sun Again - Dido
Down by the River - Neil Young
In a Gadda da Vida - Iron Butterfly

Can we count R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet"?

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"You know that feeling you get when you're on a merry go 'round, and you want to jump off to make the spinning stop, but you know it'll suck when you land? I feel like that all the time"- Keno

"I stab my girl until I fall down"
-Yukari
Do you like Horny Bunnies?

Banksy & Paris Hilton - That's Hot

(40:06)

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"We're not tools of the government or anyone else. Fighting... fighting was the only thing I was ever good at, but at least I always fought for what I believed in." - Frank Yeager (a.k.a. Grey Fox)

Dragonforce's Soldiers of the Wasteland. It's about 10 minutes.

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A creature born from eternal darkness and heavenly light. One single entity, birthed of two opposites. They somehow coexist, to create I, the Lunarian Prince...

Symphony X's The Odyssey is just under half an hour.
Aside from that I have a few 20+ minutes

Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons
Nobuo Uematsu - Balance Is Restored
Symphony X - Divine Wings of Tragedy
Tchaikovsky - Romeo & Juliet Overture
Deep Purple - Space Truckin' (Made in Japan)

Plus about 104 songs over ten minutes.

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I fear my heart and fear my soul
Life goes on, it surely will,
Without me and I wonder:
Will I ever see light again?

Life goes on...

Quote (No-Name @ 3rd May 2011 20:08)

Can we count R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet"?

No, we can't. Because it's horrible.

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Praise Be To Helix!

Brother Where You Bound - Supertramp 16:32
False Echos (Havana 1921) - Jimmy Buffet
The Poet and the Pendulum - Nightwish 13:55
Cantus - Song of the Plains - Adiemus 11:29
Funeral For a Friend - Elton John 11:08
Tinntinnabulum - Adiemus 11:03
Ghost Love Score - Nightwish 10:02

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Chewbekah ^_^

Currently Playing: Final Fantasy XIV: ARR, Attack of the Firday Monsters, Animal Crossing: A New Leaf, Lego City Undercover, Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Remix

Recently Finished: Fire Emblem: Awakening

Favorite Game: Suikoden III

Heh, this was fun to explore. I went into iTunes and sorted by time.

I knew the top result would be "+", an arranged track from the Seiken Densetsu series, mainly 2 and 3. My copy is 54 minutes long, but it is cut off at the end and I'm pretty sure it's actually around 70. It's really relaxing and nice to have on in the background while working.

I also have "The World of Mother" which is from the lyrical Mother soundtrack (though this particular song doesn't have lyrics). It's 16 minutes long and is a medley - similar to "+" - of the series. I think it's actually supposed to just be from Mother 1, but the series reuses themes so it seems like it's from multiple games.

A couple tracks from the soundtrack of The Empire Strikes Back are in there, as are a couple tracks from Wild ARMs 2 and some comedy tracks. Other highlights are Telegraph Road by Dire Straits (incredible song), The Black Mages' version of Dancing Mad, and "Notes / Prima Donna" from The Phantom of the Opera.

freeeeeee biiiiiiiird

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Hey, put the cellphone down for a while
In the night there is something wild
Can you hear it breathing?
And hey, put the laptop down for a while
In the night there is something wild
I feel it, it's leaving me

I have a few long ones, but they're mostly all classical stuff, which isn't quite so unusual. Copland's Appalachian Spring is a great one, as is Whitacre's When David Heard. There's a couple other more obscure ones up there too.

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Quote (No-Name @ 3rd May 2011 20:08)

Can we count R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet"?

No, we can't. Because it's horrible.

Thank you for clarifying, BlitzSage The world needs to forget about that asap.

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Most Recently Beat : Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
Favorite Game : Final Fantasy X

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The whole wedding/opera scene from FFVI. The arrangement I have is about 20 minutes, but I can still listen to the whole thing!

Somewhere, I have Stairway to Heaven. That's 12 minutes, I think?

And then next is Paradise by the Dashboard Light at 8:14

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You're telling me that there's no hope.

I'm telling you you're wrong.

Aside from various audiobooks and random clips of noise that I've strung together on my computer, the longest tracks I have are as follows:

The Bled - I Don't Keep With Liars Anymore at 37:40
Cassandra Gemini (Live) - The Mars Volta 36:50
+ the album version of this song, at 31:42
Tereza and Tomas - Bright Eyes at 27:15
and finally,
Swim to the Moon - Between the Buried and Me at 18:47

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Okay, but there was a goat!

Here are my longest songs, which are also some of my favorite songs of all time:

My favorite: Pink Floyd - Echoes (23:29)
Pink Floyd - Dogs (17:09)
Dream Theater - A Nightmare to Remember (16:11)
Tool - Third Eye (13:47)
Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand (10:25)

Most of the rest have already been mentioned, like Octavarium, Dancing Mad, with most of the rest of my longest songs being taken by Dream Theater & Tool.

I believe I have a music C.D. with the full length version of Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick somewhere, but I'm not sure where... It's an actual 45 minute song. Wish I could remember the lyrics from one portion to the next to make sense of it but yeah, I have a hard enough time remembering the words to the average 2-5 minute fare....

This post has been edited by Tonepoet on 4th May 2011 15:41

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Role reversal at its finest.

My longest are mainly prog rock tracks, but i think the top hitters are:

New Found Glory - The Story So Far - 26:36

Yes - many tracks ranging from about 15:00 up to the longest at 23:35

Klaxons - Four Horsemen of 2012 - 19:41 (but that's because it has lots of silence in it)

Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond - 17:31

Pink Floyd - Echoes - 16:29

Snow Patrol - The Lightning Strike [pt 1-3] - 16:18

Dire Straits - Telegraph Road - 14:18

Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner - 13:39

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I believe I have a music C.D. with the full length version of Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick somewhere, but I'm not sure where... It's an actual 45 minute song.

I think that 45 minute Tull track will take some serious beating!

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We apologise for the inconvenience

I have 12 songs that are over ten minutes long, but I listen to a lot of blues, so a lot of it is like Jimi Hendrix's Hear My Train A' Comin' (12:09) and Stevie Ray Vaughan's version of Voodo Child (11:53). I've also got CCR's version of Heard it Through the Grapevine which is 11:07.

By the way, my two shortest songs are Her Majesty (0:26) off of Abbey Road and Uematsu's Rest in Peace (0:29).

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Praise Be To Helix!

I don't have much classical or vidja-game music on my computer, so my longest is Shine On You Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd. Second is Bat Outta Hell by Meatloaf (the live version) and then The Camera Eye by Rush. I also have various songs by Renaissance and Nightwish, and they tend to have some pretty long ones.

Btw, the shortest song I have is "Jingle - It Doesn't End Here" from the Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney OST. Go figure.

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Squenix games completed:

Final Fantasy: 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, Tactics Advance 2
Chrono Trigger
Dragon Quest: 7, 8, 11
Super Mario RPG

The first conventional non-classical song that is long that I can think of is "Stairway to Heaven", which is about 8 minutes long. Obviously there are longer songs out there than this, but I'm not sure if I have a conventional non-classical song (of genres like pop, rock, rap, country, etc.) that's longer. That said, I can't really check since I don't use a playlist that I can look through; I'd have to look through my folders. Another relatively long song is Ritsuko Okazaki's "Serenade" at 6:10 though that's mostly because it has a long (but very pretty) outtro.

Counting non-conventional songs and classical works, there are far more examples:
* Pablo de Sarasate, "Zigeunerweisen": 8:45
* Ralph Vaughan-Williams, Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis: 14:19
* The Black Mages, "Dancing Mad": 12:04
* Denki Groove, "Rainbow": 10:54
* Alexander Goedicke, Concertstück in B minor, Op. 11: 13:48

And this is not counting entire sonatas/concertos/symphonies as single pieces, which they often ought to be considered. Even a short one like the "Spring" concerto from Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" is 9:52; at the top you have things like Beethoven's 9th Symphony, which is over an hour long.

This post has been edited by Glenn Magus Harvey on 5th May 2011 01:05

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If we're counting live releases I have some crap by Phish that goes up to about 56 minutes.

By far the longest thing I have though is a two CD musical collage of a whole bunch of live Dark Stars by the Grateful Dead called Grayfolded. It's like a two hour long Dark Star sundae made of Dark Star... what more could you ask for?

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If you've been mod-o-fied,
It's an illusion, and you're in-between.
Don't you be tarot-fied,
It's just alot of nothing, so what can it mean?
~Frank Zappa

Sins exist only for people who are on the Way or approaching the Way

Songs over ten minutes in my music manager:

9027 Km (OK Go) - 34:47
Dancing Mad (The Black Mages) - 12:05
Albuquerque (Weird Al Yankovic) - 11:23
Trapped in the Drive-Thru (Weird Al Yankovic) - 10:52
Smash (The Offspring) - 10:41
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (Santa Esmerelda) - 10:30

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Reach Down - Temple of the Dog 11:12

I don't much have the patience for long slog songs.

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Just for the hell of it, the complete list of 10+ minute songs in my library

The Odessey... - Symphony X (24:13)
A Change of Seasons - Dream Theater (23:09)
Balance Is Restored - Nobuo Uematsu (21:35)
The Divine Wings of Tragedy - Symphony X (20:41)
Romeo & Juliet Overture - Chicago Symphony Orchestra (20:22)
Space Truckin' (live) - Deep Purple (19:54)
The Divine Wings of Tragedy (live) - Symphony X (19:54)
Beyond This Life (live) - Dream Theater (19:37)
Solos (Bass/Guitar)(live) - Metallica (18:48)
Halloween (live) - Helloween (18:26)
Seek and Destroy (live) - Metallica (18:08)
Dancing Mad - Nobuo Uematsu (17:39)
The Keeper's Trilogy - Helloween (17:07)
Stargazer (live) - Rainbow (17:00)
When the Water Breaks - Liquid Tension Experiment (16:55)
In the Presence of Enemies Pt. 2 - Dream Theater (16:38)
Cello Concerto No.2, Op.101: I. Allegro Moderato - I Solisti Di Zagreb (16:31)
Seek and Destroy/The Outlaw Torn (live) - Metallica (16:31)
Dante's Inferno (live) - Iced Earth (16:23)
Dante's Inferno - Iced Earth (16:19)
In the Name of God (live) - Dream Theater (15:48)
Mistreated (live) - Rainbow (15:41)
Darkness and Starlight - The Black Mages (15:32)
Still I'm Sad (live) - Rainbow (15:05)
1812 Overture Op. 49 - Chicago Symohony Orchestra (15:01)
The Ministry of Lost Souls - Dream Theater (14:57)
Catch the Rainbow (live) - Rainbow (14:46)
Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major No. 1 - I Solisti Di Zagreb (14:21)
These Three Things - Type O Negative (14:21)
The Seven Angels - Avantasia (14:17)
A Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning - Black Sabbath (14:15)
Through the Looking Glass (live) - Symphony X (14:09)
And Then There Was Silence - Blind Guardian (14:07)
Keeper of the Seven Keys (live) - Helloween (13:59)
The King for 1000 Years - Helloween (13:54)
Bach: Violin Concerto #2 in E, BWV 1042 - 1. Allegro - London Symphony Orchestra (13:54)
The Glass Prison - Dream Theater (13:52)
Keepr of the Seven Keys (Remix) - Helloween (13:51)
Trial of Tears (live) - Dream Theater (13:49)
Keeper of the Seven Keys - Helloween (13:37)
Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances - Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra (13:37)
Man on the Silver Mountain (live) - Rainbow (13:35)
Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Iron Maiden (13:34)
Ending Theme - Nobuo Uematsu & Shirō Hamaguchi (13:20)
Ending Theme - Nobuo Uematsu (13:20)
Halloween - Helloween (13:18)
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (live) - Iron Maiden (13:18)
Scene Six: Home - Dream Theater (12:53)
Quintet Op. 16 in E flat Major : Grave - Allegro, ma non troppo - Daren Barenboim (12:46)
High Water Mark - Iced Earth (12:35)
The Sixth Extinction - Ayreon (12:18)
Child in Time (live) - Deep Purple (12:17)
Instrumedly - Dream Theater (12:15)
The Devil to Pay - Iced Earth (12:13)
Dancing Mad - The Black Mages (12:04)
Without Me Today - Daniele Liverani (12:04)
Scene Nine: Finally Free - Dream Theater (11:59)
Heaven and Hell (live) - Black Sabbath (11:57)
Highlander - Lost Horizon (11:56)
Staff Roll - Tōru Minegishi, Asuka Ōta and Kōji Kondō (11:51)
Haunted (Per Version) - Type O Negative (11:47)
This Dying Soul (live) - Dream Theater (11:44)
Padmasana - Buckethead (11:39)
Raise the Knife - Dream Theater (11:36)
Learning to LIve - Dream Theater (11:30)
Save Me from My Destiny - Daniele Liverani (11:26)
Scene Four: Beyond This LIfe - Dream Theater (11:22)
Endless Sacrifice (live) - Dream Theater (11:18)
10,000 Days - Tool (11:15)
Black No. 1 - Type O Negative (11:15)
Rosetta Stoned - Tool (11:13)
Mercyful Fate - Metallica (11:11)
Kinderszen, Op. 115 Nos. 1-8 and 13 - Katia Skanavi (11:08)
Occasion Avenue - Helloween (11:05)
When the Wild Wind Blows - Iron Maiden (11:00)
Scarred - Dream Theater (10:59)
Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in F Minor, BWV 1056 (Excerpt) - London Symphony Orchestra (10:59)
Bloody Kisses - Type O Negative (10:56)
Stream of Conciousness (live) - Dream Theater (10:54)
Sign of the Cross (live) - Iron Maiden (10:49)
Age of Shadows - Ayreon (10:48)
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Dream Theater (10:48)
The Profits of Doom - Type O Negative (10:47)
Another Hand/The Killing Hand (live) - Dream Theater (10:46)
One (live) - Metallica (10:46)
Repentance - Dream Theater (10:43)
Cello Concerto No.2, Op.104: II. Adagio ma non troppo - I Solisti Di Zagreb (10:43)
Sacrificed Sons - Dream Theater (10:42)
Ghost Love Score (Orchestral Version) - Nightwish (10:41)
All My fault - Daniele Liverani (10:39)
Suite Sister Mary - Queensryche (10:39)
Sweet Thing (live) - Jeff Buckley (10:36)
The Big Medley (live) - Dream Theater (10:33)
The FIfth Extinction - Ayreon (10:29)
Ghost Love Score (live) - Nightwish (10:29)
Lazy (live) - Deep Purple (10:27)
One (live) - Metallica (10:27)
Parents - Budgie (10:21)
Beauty of the Beast - Nightwish (10:21)
Child in Time - Deep Purple (10:18)
Paschendale (live) - Iron Maiden (10:17)
Kill-Ride Medley (live) - Metallica (10:16)
The Perfect Element - Pain of Salvation (10:09)
Do You Close Your Eyes (live) - Rainbow (10:09)
Victim of Changes (live) - Judas Priest (10:08)
Haunted - Type O Negative (10:07)
The Way Young Lovers Do (live) - Jeff Buckley (10:06)
Battery (live) - Metallica (10:04)
Ghost Love Score - Nightwish (10:02)

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I fear my heart and fear my soul
Life goes on, it surely will,
Without me and I wonder:
Will I ever see light again?

Life goes on...

Well....

"This is the song that never ends,
It just goes on and on, my friends..."

Sorry, couldn't help myself

I despise MP3s and don't keep them on my computer but judging from my kickass cassette/vinyl/CD collection I will tell you that without a doubt the longest song in my possession is Venom's "At War with Satan" song, clocking at about 19:57 in length. That's the entire A-side of the LP itself.

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I despise MP3s and don't keep them on my computer but judging from my kickass cassette/vinyl/CD collection

Don't forget your thick-rimmed glasses and patchy mustache, hipsterboy. Maybe there's some PBR in the fridge for you to sip ironically.

I sorted my list, and it seems like most of my longest stuff can break down into three or four categories:

1. Tracks with insane gaps leading into "hidden" tracks at the end, such as on Oasis' album "Heathen Chemistry," Neko Case's album "Middle Cyclone," or Our Lady Peace's album "Spiritual Machines."
2. Live stuff - I have at least ten Dave Matthews Band songs from various official live or bootleg live recordings that clock in at 14 minutes or more, for instance, with a smattering of similar tracks from various Billy Corgan bands and a few other groups like OAR.
3. Post-Rock and Ambient - At least one person has mentioned Explosions in the Sky, and in a similar vein I can add in Godspeed! You Black Emperor, A Silver Mt. Zion, Do Make Say Think, Sigur Ros, and Brian Eno, all of whom often have songs clocking in at ten minutes or more.
4. Jazz - I don't have all that much in my collection, but Miles Davis and Coltrane both show up frequently near the top of my list.

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i only have one song that i'd consider a long one.

Aesop Rock - All Day (45:00)

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moé in the streets, senpai in the sheets

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Quote (Allen Hunter @ 5th May 2011 02:47)

I despise MP3s and don't keep them on my computer but judging from my kickass cassette/vinyl/CD collection

Don't forget your thick-rimmed glasses and patchy mustache, hipsterboy. Maybe there's some PBR in the fridge for you to sip ironically.

Nah, I'm not that lame. And cheap beer is just cheap.

I believe mine would be "KUMIKYOKU NICO NICO NON STOP MEGA MIX HI SPEED" which would be 36:16, so very long anyway.
Does own very much, however.

Technically my longest single song on iTunes is a 1:14:59 comedy show, but that doesn't really count.

Other than that, top 5 are:

Do We Really Need This? (live) - Muse (26:10)
Something in the Way - Nirvana (With bonus track (20:35))
15 Minutes - Telepopmusik (15:39)
Alloway Grove - Paolo Nutini (14:13)
DARE (DFA Remix) - Gorillaz (12:15)

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Aujourdhui a commence avec toi.

Kind of makes me wonder how often you guys listen to these songs all the way through? Haha.

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You're telling me that there's no hope.

I'm telling you you're wrong.