Long Ass Song - Pick yer fave

Got at least 15 minutes? Want to listen to a long-ass song?
Here you go.

Free Form Funkafied Filth 24:54
Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida 17:02
Iron Butterfly

Dazed and Confused 26:52
Led Zeppelin

Dr Funkenstein (Live) 15:00
Parliament

The Doors 17:46
The End

Other (15 Min or more)

n/t

by any chance?


PLEASE!!!!

RIngs in at over eight minutes I think.

18:36

I was completely blown away, and am laughing right now as I type this.

How does 19:09 grab you?

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Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield

Sylvan Song/Dream of the Archer - Heart

The Necromancer - Rush

East West - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

Echoes - Pink Floyd

That's some really funny shit

John
Oh, how about "Tarkus" by Emerson Lake and Palmer? Or "Billy the Mountain" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers? Each of those has to run 18 minutes plus.

:yourock:

Don't forget

Bella Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus

Of course, that's as much of an experience as it is a song. :hippie:

I dated a DJ and he would put on "long songs" so we could go out onto the roof of the studio and do what hippies did :smoke: He could hear what was going out over the air and monitor it via a small speaker that was set up. This one time he put on "In a gadda da vidda" and halfway through it started to skip (these were the vinyl days, boys and girls). I thought he was going to have a heart attacking running in to fix it. Needless to say, in our "condition" we couldn't stop laughing.
hahaha! fond memories! :hippie:

you were STONED ???

and you could tell that "In a gadda da vida" was SKIPPING???

that was either the best or the worst dope ever!!

yeah..he had a great ear...but you are right...how could the average person know???
Another time there were a bunch of us (it was New Year's eve, now that I think about it) in the studio and he was so wasted he called the "Greatful Dead" the "Gruntful Dude" .... shear choas!

Was it also used in Red Dragon?

"Supper's Ready" comes to mind.

I was going to mention "Supper's Ready". I'm torn between that and the P-Funk option.

'Supper's Ready' gets my vote, too!

...or 'Close To the Edge', if its long enough!

A favorite Euro noise experience.

What's up with that?

Kind of like Pictures at an Exhibition, only better, IMHO.

--bkl
You're all full of ball!

That's one of my all time favs!

Wrong thread!

The result of too much dope use, no doubt. (Not my own, but that's another story.)

--bkl

Also 'Balashwaar Baksheesh' by Doof. Both run about 20 minutes. Great trippy stuff.

Can! Soft Machine! Faust!

All great choices(surprised to see them mentioned as well)..

my vote goes to either:

Can- Halleluwah
Velvet Underground- Sister Ray

Please stay with us

:)

After being registered for over a year, you'd think that I'd have more than 24 posts by now.

Gordon Lightfoot... Not sure of the length, but it is long and really very good for those of us who love folk...

Yes- Close to the Edge
Procol Harum- In Held Twas in I
ELP- Tarkus and Karn Evil 9


Pink Floyd's already been mentioned. I would add that The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon are largely through-composed, certainly at least the section from Us and Them through Eclipse. Also, Side 2 of Abbey Road is also like this, as is the "Ballet for a Girl from Buchannon" off of Chicago II. If live albums are allowed, Chicago's Liberation jam off of the Toronto album could be added (along with boatloads of Hendrix, as well as Led Zeppelin's many Whole Lotta Elvis versions)

Honorable mention to Traffic's Roll Right Stones at 13 1/2 min and The Incredible String Band's A Very Cellular Song at about 12 1/2.

Edit: Forgot Spock's Beard, which has one or two long songs on most albums. I'll go with End of the Day and The Great Nothing.

I haven't heard that for years. (Haven't been able to play my vinyl for years.) Man, I used to love that song.

had an entire album side with "In a World Without You" on it-I still remember some of it from the 60's but the Freak Out album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention has something called "Return of the Son of Monster Magnet" that runs for less than 15 minutes but it is so COOL even today...

27-28 minutes of modern prog goodness. :)

Not the hit song length, the real, real long LP version.

Nothing can beat Jimmy Page's guitar solo with the bow, John Paul Jones's bass line after the solo, and John Bonham's insane drumming, not to mention Robert Plant singing along with the guitar.

Best Led Zeppelin song EVER!

Whipping Post-at Fillmore East 23:04

That'd have to be my favorite over the 15 minute mark.