Best Long Song

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I’ll try to pick ones I haven’t seen yet:

Mediterranean Sundance/Rio Ancho - DiMeola, McLaughlin and de Lucia
Liberation - Chicago
Station to Station - David Bowie
Sativa - David Grisman
The Eternal Triangle - Dizzy Gillespie
When the Music’s Over - The Doors (I saw The End mentioned, but not this one!)
The Musical Box - Genesis
The Battle of Epping Forest - Genesis
The Cinema Show - Genesis
Root Down - Jimmy Smith
Slow Down Sagg - Jimmy Smith
My Favorite Things - John Coltrane
In My Time of Dying - Led Zeppelin
Achilles’ Last Stand - Led Zeppelin
The Astaire Blues - Oscar Peterson
Demand - Phish
The Divided Sky - Phish
David Bowie - Phish
Pigs - Pink Floyd
Sheep - Pink Floyd
A Saucerful of Secrets - Pink Floyd
Underture - The Who

But I think the best one is:

Song to the Pharoah Kings - Return to Forever

Less than 7 minutes. I think it’s 6:52.

Does anyone else remember Nektar from the early '70s, and their one major U.S. hit, Remember the Future? Though it looks like multiple tracks, it’s actually one song, continued on both sides, but the A side is the only one really played on radio, and qualifies at 16 minutes and 40 seconds. Don’t know if it would stand the test of time, but I used to love this song. For those unfamiliar, you can listen to a clip here.

I missed this post before I composed mine, but you won’t get any dumping on from me – that whole album rocks (man, am I dating myself, or what?!). Great submission.

Rufus Xavier:

That is of course what I meant when I nominated “Corporal Clegg” back upthread. Which is a quite listenable track off the same album, but isn’t anywhere close to 10 minutes long.

:smack:

Sorry, but no I don’t. And the RTF song was the first one I thought of. I guess I can still add

The Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant - Return to Forever 11:26
Do What You Like - Blind Faith 15:17
Lady Fantasy - Camel 12:43
Take A Pebble - Emersom, Lake and Palmer 12:34
Anonymous Two - Focus 26:20
Weather Report Suite - Grateful Dead 12:43
Dead And Gone - Gypsy 10:55
Song For America - Kansas 10:03
Rebubula - moe. 11:27
Jurassic Shift - Ozric Tentacles 11:04
Kashmir - Page/Plant 12:27
Flame - Sky - Santana 11:31
Rollover - String Cheese Incident 10:56
Fool’s Overture - Supertramp 10:52
July Morning - Uriah Heep 10:32
City, Country, City and The World Is A Ghetto - War 13:24 and 10:17
All Blues - Miles 11:35
Chameleon - Herbie Hancock 15:34
Farandole (L’Arlesienne Suite #2) - Hubert Laws 10:56

And while live tracks almost seem like cheating, I’d still add
Let It Rain ('70) - Derek and the Dominoes 19:46
In Your Eyes ('93) - Peter Gabriel 11:34
A Day at the Dog Races ('77) - Little Feat 12:12
Once Upon A Time In The West ('83) - Dire Straits 13:01
Afro Blue and 3rd Stone From The Sun ('98) - Gov’t Mule 29:30/17:06
Angry Eyes ('72-73) - Loggins and Messina 10:05
Heroin ('74) - Lou Reed 12:52
Jumping Jack Flash>Youngblood ('72) - Leon Russell 16:09
Incident At Neshabur ('73) - Santana 15:56
Every Step of the Way ('73) - Santana 11:30
Savor>Toussaint L’Overture ('77) - Santana 12:56
Glad>Freedom Rider ('73) - Traffic 21:00

and honorable mention to
Post Toastee - Tommy Bolin 9:03
The Bomber - James Gang 7:00 (the recently legal long version with “Bolero” teasers)
Plane Crash - moe. 8:54 ( I don’t know why a song with a two minute orchestral intro, a nine minute length and a chorus that consists of the line “I’m too fuckin’ high” isn’t a HUGE radio hit!)

**Gypsy **- “Dead and Gone”
**Camel **- “Lady Fantasy”

To go off topic a bit, I LOVE this song, and I’ll tell ya why. People don’t really listen to the lyrics at the end. The guy basically wants to die to get away from the girl - he doesn’t want to break his promise, but he hates being with her.

Plus, it’s just a great song. But it’s only 8:28, according to my ipod.

I’ll take “In My Time of Dying” by Led Zeppelin, at 10:51.

George

I can’t believe I forgot Neil Young.

“Cowgirl in the Sand” and the live version of “Like a Hurricane” from “Weld” at 13:26 are 2 of my top songs period, regardless of length.

George

Great choice, and one of the most memorable guitar riffs ever!

Maybe not quite 10 minutes, but the live version of Midnight Rambler by the Stones…and normally I hate the Stones’ live stuff.

I’m not sure of the times, but:

Green Grass and High Tides, by the Outlaws.

In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, by the Allman Brothers.

And Canned Heat had a good long song, but I don’t remember the title.

That’s mine.

Plus, Amarok by Mike Oldfield. 60 minutes. The entire CD is one track.
He did it to piss Richard Branson off - and it includes a secret message!

Turn on Your Lovelight on Live Dead might be 10 minutes…

The longest recording that I have (on CD) is A Love Supreme performed by John Coltrane on the album Juan Les Pins Jazz Festival 1965 and clocks at 47:58.

BTW - Coltrane’s longest version of *My Favorite Things * (mentioned earlier) clocks in at 29:00 and its from his Complete Copenhagen Concert concert and CD. This was one of Coltrane’s favorite pieces in concert. I have 14 different versions of this song ranging from jazz artists like Coltrane, Dave Brubeck, Grant Green and Kenny Burrell all the way to the Mekons :eek: on their Fear and Whiskey CD.

One of my favorite extended songs would be Duke Ellington’s Black, Brown and Beige, which clocked in at 48:32 (for all three movements) in its entirety when debuted at Ellington’s 1943 Carnegie Hall Concert. It was roundly panned by both the audience and critics who apparently didn’t want to know what Duke’s opinions were regarding African Americans (the program for the concert included a description, IIRC, written by Ellington or based on an interview with him).

FWIW, I currently have some 800 jazz selections that clock in at 10:00 or over.

I’d heard the name Nina Simone but somehow never heard any of her recordings. On impulse, after reading your post, I bought her up on Real Rhapsody. She is fabulous! Thanks, irishgirl, for turning me on to her.

Not sure of the times, but:
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen (hard to believe no one had mentioned it)
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant (Ballad of Brenda and Eddie) by Billy Joel

For long VU songs, I like Murder Mystery better.

Television- Marquee Moon
David Bowie- Station to Station

Both are REALLY good 10 minutes+ songs.

Perhaps because it’s no longer than 6 minutes, 18 seconds on any recorded version. Cite

Also not qualified. The average length is about 7½ minutes, the only exception being a live, bootleg version that rings in at 9 minutes, 37 seconds.

Great songs, nonetheless.

Also Firth of Fifth by Genesis

Genesis’ “Home By the Sea/Second Home By the Sea” runs about 11:06 on the studio CD and one live version is about 12:14.

La Villa Strangiato by Rush.

Ugh. Thanks for that. Now we have Neil You-know-who ads at the bottom of a perfectly good thread. Everybody watch your step on the way out!