Favourite long songs

vasselmeyer

+1 for Telegraph Road and Shine On...

matdotcodot

KKJale said:

@matdotcodot ;I love "I Dream A Highway". I talked to David about it once and he said they recorded it late at night in a very sombre mood having just returned from John Hartford's funeral. The song went on and on and he was crapping himself that the tape would run out. A few seconds after the last note died away came the sound of "flap flap flap"... they made it. Just...

A few I rather like...

Burn Girl Prom Queen - Mogwai
$29 - Tom Waits
Melody - Serge Gainsbourg
Freedom Flight - Shuggie Otis
Track Goes By - The High Llamas
Some Misunderstanding - Gene Clark

Nice story @KKjale Dave Rawlings comes across as a real Gent in interviews, must have been good meeting him in person.
Just listening to that Mogwai track now...

richardhomer

vasselmeyer said:

+1 for Telegraph Road and Shine On...

And from me....

axisus

I'm a serious prog fan - don't get me started on favourite long tracks!

fields5069

Godspeed You! Black Emperor, particularly the earlier CDs. 

DarnWeight

Low - Do You Know How To Waltz?
Bark Psychosis - Scum
Can - Halleluwah
The God Machine - Seven
Swans - Bring the Sun / Toussaint L'Ouverture
Rodan - The Everyday World Of Bodies

AlexC

The OP is actually about altering the speed of a recorded song. So in that spirit I have listened to all recommendations listed above. In thirty seconds. 
Next up - what’s your favourite album for listening to from the next room? Mine’s anything by Taylor Swift. With the door closed.

EricTheWeary

lewism said:

Maggot Brain by Funkadelic 

Maggot Brain I go between thinking it’s abysmal to thinking its genius, although it is the long song that comes to mind ( I’m not much of a believer in the long song).

AlexC said:

The OP is actually about altering the speed of a recorded song. So in that spirit I have listened to all recommendations listed above. In thirty seconds. 
Next up - what’s your favourite album for listening to from the next room? Mine’s anything by Taylor Swift. With the door closed.

When I was a teenager I had a copy of the I Fought the Law ep and played it at 45rpm for quite a while before someone pointed out to me it was 33rpm. I might see if I can find that on YouTube and try speeding it up. 

lewism

EricTheWeary said:

lewism said:

Maggot Brain by Funkadelic 

Maggot Brain I go between thinking it’s abysmal to thinking its genius, although it is the long song that comes to mind ( I’m not much of a believer in the long song).

AlexC said:

The OP is actually about altering the speed of a recorded song. So in that spirit I have listened to all recommendations listed above. In thirty seconds. 
Next up - what’s your favourite album for listening to from the next room? Mine’s anything by Taylor Swift. With the door closed.

When I was a teenager I had a copy of the I Fought the Law ep and played it at 45rpm for quite a while before someone pointed out to me it was 33rpm. I might see if I can find that on YouTube and try speeding it up. 

I think you have to be in the right mood for Maggot Brain, for me the whole atmosphere makes the song as much as the playing itself.

In a similar vein to your Clash experience, I came across a Charlie Christian LP in my local record shop. Knowing how influential and highly rated he was, I bought it and played it when I got home - mind blowing, incredibly fast and playing much higher notes at high speed far up the neck on a guitar that didn’t have a cutaway. Truly incredible instrumental music for the time. And then I realised the turntable was set to 45rpm.

Nitefly

^^ LOL I did the opposite with a Durrutti Column record my brother lent me - it was 12" so I played it at 33 rpm 

Haven't been able to listen to it since.

tone1

CCR-Heard it through the Grapevine 11 mins
Ancient Mariner-Maiden is a longish one
  

not_the_dj

I do like Maiden’s “Empire of Clouds” 

thumpingrug

This Strange Engine - Marillion 
Ninth Wave - Kate Bush
Sheep - Pink Floyd 
Last Exit for the Lost - Fields of the Nephilim 
New York Serenade - Springsteen

Octafish

The obvious...

Pink Floyd - Echoes

Jimi Hendrix - 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)

Pink Floyd - Dogs

King Crimson - Starless

These two are fucking sublime, can go around all day in my head and I don't get sick of them...

Can - Future Days

John Coltrane - Africa

MagicPigDetective

Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea, all 19 minutes of it.
Type O Negative - Black no.1 (Little miss scare All)
Suede - Asphalt World

lewism

MagicPigDetective said:

Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea, all 19 minutes of it.
Type O Negative - Black no.1 (Little miss scare All)
Suede - Asphalt World

+1 on Asphalt World - there’s an unedited version on the extra disc to the reissue of Dog Man Star that’s 11:25 long and brilliant. At the time the rest of Suede were getting annoyed at Bernard Butler as all of the songs he was putting forward were hugely long.

pintspiller

When I was finding my feet on guitar I loved to strum along to those Neil Young epics like Cowgirl and Cortez

Legionreturns

Wagner's Ring Cycle. 

16 hours, every minute is thoroughly enjoyable! 

equalsql

Oops.. almost forgot
Karen Evil 9 1st Impression by ELP
RIP Keith and Greg.

rlw

axisus said:

I'm a serious prog fan - don't get me started on favourite long tracks!

Indeed.  To me the best albums have one song per side....................or maybe one entire song on a CD.