# Songs with long instrumental sections **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 9, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-instrumental-sections/356129 "2006-05-09T21:19:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-instrumental-sections/356129/41 "2006-05-11T18:19:05Z")
I’m reminded of the episode of _The Simpsons_, where Bart switches the traditional hymn to “In the Garden of Eden” by I. Ron Butterfly. The organist eventually collapses, people are holding up lighters, and Homer says, “Hey Marge, remember when we used to make out to this hymn?” Good times. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-instrumental-sections/356129/42 "2006-05-11T18:29:13Z")
> [@DooWahDiddy](#): > > Nitpick: That’s technically two songs. Every CD I’ve ever seen of both the American and London versions, as well as the score, list it as either “Bangkok/One Night in Bangkok” or “Golden Bangkok/One Night in Bangkok”. Oooooh, good point. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-instrumental-sections/356129/43 "2006-05-11T18:32:32Z")
_My Sharona_ had a longer, cooler guitar solo on the album than on the single. I only recently discovered that the Guess Who’s _American Woman_ starts off with a bluesy acoustic bit, though that’t not entirely instrumental. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-instrumental-sections/356129/44 "2006-05-11T18:33:30Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Exactly - there’s no point in “pretending” to play the song; if they shorten it, I don’t even care that it’s In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. There’s a damn good reason it had a reputation for being the tune DJs would play when they had to go to the bathroom. Heh. One of my friends had the perfect line-up for getting the most airtime out of the dollar you’d put in to the CD-jukebox at the bar. Four songs would get you over an hour of music (jamming it up for others who put their dollar in afterwards) if you played your cards right. Jungleland has some nice instrumental parts; it’s not played so often because it’s long but I think when they do play it they play the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-instrumental-sections/356129/45 "2006-05-11T18:33:42Z")
But a great one just came on my iTunes… Elton John’s “Tonight”, especially the Australian concert version. And of course “Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding”, although the radio stations never seem to cut that one, and rightfully so. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-instrumental-sections/356129/46 "2006-05-11T18:44:55Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Jethro Tull’s **Thick as a Brick** has a cut-down version that I’ve occasionally heard on Classic Rock stations, taking the 45+ minutes of the original and making it about 7-8 minutes. I wanted to say this one! I think the short version is on several “Greatest Hits”-type collections. But I don’t think it’s just the instrumental parts they cut out, I think a few of my favourite verses are missing too. Does it have “So! Come on ye childhood heroes!..” or “In the clear white circles of morning wonder…”? I wonder if there was ever a radio version of **A Passion Play** where they edited out the story of the hare who lost his spectacles. That would be a shame. Heh. Anyway, probably better suited for a Jethro Tull message board. One thing that’s great about CD’s is not having to flip the sides for albums like this. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-instrumental-sections/356129/47 "2006-05-11T18:47:03Z")
Dire Straits “Money For Nothing” ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-instrumental-sections/356129/48 "2006-05-11T19:48:14Z")
A good one just came up on my iPod: “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is” by Chicago. I’d never heard the piano intro until I got this MP3! ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-instrumental-sections/356129/49 "2006-05-11T19:59:13Z")
**MrSquishy** , IIRC an edit of A Passion Play was released as a single and peaked at #80 I think. I can’t recall which portion of the “song” was used, perhaps someone else knows? ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-instrumental-sections/356129/50 "2006-05-11T20:18:47Z")
> [@Wee Bairn](#): > > **MrSquishy** , IIRC an edit of A Passion Play was released as a single and peaked at #80 I think. I can’t recall which portion of the “song” was used, perhaps someone else knows? Here we go: [http://www.asklyrics.com/display/Jethro\_Tull/A\_Passion\_Play\_Edit\_No.\_8\_Lyrics/21085.htm](http://www.asklyrics.com/display/Jethro_Tull/A_Passion_Play_Edit_No._8_Lyrics/21085.htm) Now that I’ve see that, I seem to recall having this edit on some compilation or other. I think it just had kind of an ugly fade-in, fade-out around it. \ **Wee Bairn** , are you a fan of **The Broons**? Just curious if that’s where you got your username. \ ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-instrumental-sections/356129/51 "2006-05-11T20:32:28Z")
There were actually two singles from **A Passion Play** released in the USA: “Edit 8” was the “Colours I’ve none…” section, with “Edit 9” on the B-side (“Flee the icy Lucifer”). After this, Chrysalis issued “Edit 10,” the last section of the LP, backed with “Edit 6,” better known as “The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles.” There was also an LP released to radio stations with the entire album divided up into the ten “edits.” **Thick as a Brick** was also issued to radio stations in a banded version, but it was not even the entire album–side two was significantly shortened. ---
**Author:** ![Petey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f1d935/32.png) [@Petey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petey)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-instrumental-sections/356129/52 "2006-05-11T21:04:00Z")
> [@JohnBckWLD](#): > > Dire Straits “Money For Nothing” Someone was talking about songs edited for albums. “So Far Away”, “Money For Nothing”, “Your Latest Trick”, and “Why Worry” were all edited for the LP version of “Brothers in Arms” (Or you could say they had extended versions on the CD) ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-instrumental-sections/356129/53 "2006-05-11T21:22:59Z")
Talking Heads’ \*\*Stop Making Sense \*\* has several cuts that are just slightly extended on the CD compared to the LP; just a few more bars of instrumental, or one extra refrain. It’s as if they had to make cuts to squeeze all the songs onto the LP, but they were able to put things back when it came out on CD. (I’d been listening to the LP for years before getting the CD version…which caused some definite WTF? moments.) ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-instrumental-sections/356129/54 "2006-05-12T00:47:54Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Live version, though…right? I’d have to say that doesn’t count. There are many examples of songs that have 3:00 studio versions, but get padded out to 30 min in concert. Nope. I don’t think I’ve ever heard the live version. The one I have is identical to the single at the beginning and end, with the additional instrumental part in the middle. It has the violin solo, and a lot more. I’m going to move my rare stuff from cassette to mp3 soon - when I do I’ll time it. I have a lot of stuff from rare tape nights that have since come out on box sets, and just as much that I’ve never seen anyplace else. They would never be able to get away with it these days. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-instrumental-sections/356129/55 "2006-05-12T02:29:26Z")
The Modest Mouse cover album I mentioned earlier is called “Tiny Cities” and it’s by Sun Kil Moon [sic]. And those who love long instrumental sections would probably dig King Crimson’s (some argue, progressive rock’s) first album “In the Court of the Crimson King”. I believe it’s almost 45 minutes long with five tracks. The instrumental play is amazing, too! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-long-instrumental-sections/356129.md?page=2)