Entertainment For Lively Minds
Good long songs – I’m talking 10 minutes +
Posted by seanioio on 3 September 2010 - 1:37pm.
On the way to work this morning I had the ipod on random & ‘Coma’ by Guns N Roses came up. I do appreciate a bit of G’N R when the mood takes me, but in this case I fast forwarded immediately! The reason was that as at over ten minutes I do find that it grates a bit after a while & quite frankly bores the hell out of me!
This got me thinking, are there any ten minute + songs that I do genuinely enjoy listening to. I can think of 3; Anyone else any ideas??
1 – Babe I’m On Fire – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2 – I Dream A Highway – Gillian Welch
3 – Emily – Joanna Newsom
Anyone else any ideas??
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Nearly went for Sloth
Oh boy...
...do I love this track, mit or sans Swarb...
I do
like to stick on The Velvet Underground's Sister Ray when I'm in the mood, which clocks in at 17 min 27 sec.
Or the Sister Ray/Foggy Notion 'medley'
On the Quine Tapes- nearly 29 minutes
Queen of them all
Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
Easy
1) Desolation Row
2) Brownesville Girl
3) Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
No-one does long songs which justify their length quite like Bob. If we are permitted live tracks too then any number of Richard Thompson electric wig-outs would qualify.
Desolation Row!
I knew there was one I was missing. Especially the live version that is on one of the bootleg series.
Highlands.................
..........should be added to the list, and is Brownsville Girl 10 minutes+
oh, and 'Visions of Johanna'
oh, and 'Visions of Johanna' :)
Has to be Dexy's Midnight Runners...
This is What She's Like (from Don't Stand Me Down)
- as far as I know Kevin Rowland and sideman, Billy Adams, actually took method acting classes to help perfect the extensive diaglogue sections of the track. Sadly I couldn't find the full length version on Youtube but its well worth a view if you can find it..
'ere you go...
Dexys Midnight Runners - This Is What She's LikeUploaded by Dexys-Midnight-Runners. - Music videos, artist interviews, concerts and more.
what about
The Stone Roses' Resurrection Song
The Grateful Dead (of course)
"That's it for the Other One" seguéing into "Turn on your Love Light" from "Dick's Picks Vol. 4" (New York City, Feb. 13-14 1970) comes in at a mighty 60 minutes 34 seconds. Probably not the track that you'd want to play to Grateful Dead sceptics if you're trying to convert them to the band...
Call me an old hippy…
… but I do like ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida’ by Iron Butterfly, even though most of its 17-odd minutes consist of the band jamming on a repetitive riff. It’s pleasingly hynotic, though.
Also from the same period, ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ by Arlo Guthrie, which is about 15 minutes.
If we’re allowed tracks from official live albums, I’d add Bruce and the E Street Band’s majestic take on ‘Kitty’s back’ from the ‘Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1975’ set, and Neil Young’s searing ‘Like a hurricane’ from 'Weld’. Both come in at around 15 minutes.
Cop Shoot Cop
by Spiritualized.
Have to be in absolutely the right mood though!
Also by Spiritualised...
..the 13 minute single, Feel So Sad (again the point about the right mood applies)
Van Morrison
Summertime in England.
It ain't why, why, why
It just is.
Some
Shine On You Crazy Diamond parts 1-5 or 6-9 (13+ mins), slagged on the dodgy chorus thread.
Marquee Moon around 10.40 ?
Oh dear Junglelands only 9 mins 35 secs..
Live in New York City clocks in 10 mins 54 secs ... phew.
Donna Summer
Love To Love You Baby keeps it up for a stiff 16 mins 49 secs.
And MacArthur Park Suite is an even longer 17 mins 37 secs.
Cowgirl In The Sand and
Cowgirl In The Sand and Ordinary People by Neil Young
Marquee Moon by Television
All Blues by Miles Davis
Voodoo Chile by Jimi Hendrix
Haitian Fight Song by Charles Mingus
all lovely!
How long have you got?
As an old proggy this is right up my strasse! How about these?
Freebird
Surely
Peter Hammill and VdGG
Does "Flight" count as it's one piece? Also "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" / "Mar-Erg" / "Killer"
all go the distance in my book
Also....
Childlike Faith in Childhood's End - a classic!!
(and yes, surely Flight must count as one piece.....)
If it's a long one you want, it has to be Caravan
9 Feet Underground - 22mins 44secs
Life's A Long Song....
One For The Vine by Genesis
Starless by King Crimson
Awaken by Yes
2112 or Hemispheres by Rush
Spem In Alium by Thomas Tallis
And I'm amazed that no-one has yet mentioned Station To Station....
'Smiling Faces Sometimes' by The Temptations...
is a seriously long tune, but a good one. I'm not always in the right mood to listen to it, but when I am it does the trick nicely...
Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
14 mins 32 sec of a hip hop a hippie to the hippie to the hip hip hop, you dont stop a rockin to the bang bang boogie say upchuck the boogie to the rhythm of the boogity beat.
Now what you hear is not a test
I'm rapping to the beat
I feel an urge..
To change my name to WonderMike..
Just so I could say "Hello"
As Usual...
...Station To Station. 10:13. The train noises last over a minute, mind....
Suppers Ready by Genesis is very long aswell, but it could be argued that it isn't really one song. Or could it?
George Ivan Morrison
Listen To The Lion
11:11
The long one are the best...
Vidrar vel til loftarasa by Sigur Ros
Milano by Sigur Ros
Achilles Last Stand by Led Zeppelin
Come Together by Primal Scream
Oxygene V by Jean Michel Jarre
To name but five.
Three Days by Jane's Addiction
Not sure if it makes the 10 min mark as mine's on vinyl, not CD, & it doesn't have a county-thing.
Checks county thing
10:48. It's in! Good choice. A real singalonga-in-the-car classic.
Includes one minute of recovery time
Includes one minute of recovery time
Astra - The Weirding
Part One
Part Two
This helped get me into work this morning.
Astra
Funnily enough Ouroboros came up on shuffle this morning - what a great album...
I Trawl The Megahertz by
I Trawl The Megahertz by Paddy McAloon; a beautiful piece of music that sounds like nothing else I've ever heard - and all thanks to this fine organ.
It's like nothing else
Here's half of it
It still defines the summer
It still defines the summer of 2003 for me when I listend to it illicitly on MiniDisc at the factory where I was working between university years.
Super Furry Animals
The Man Don't Give A F*ck
err,
Autobahn, anyone?
Absolutely
Yes.
Also The Crane Wife 1 & 2 by The Decemberists, and anything by The Necks (which is a bit of a cheat, given that they don't do 'songs'.
Actually, if we are allowed The Necks, I should also include Keith Jarrett's Köln Concert (apart from Part IIc, which is shorter than ten minutes and not as good as the other parts anyway).
Decemberists
Now the Crane Wife 1&2 is great but from the same album and weighing at a mighty 12m 26s is "The Island", which I think is pure majesty. The climax to "The Landlord's Daughter" section at 8m 57s is worth listening to over and over, even if you can't be chuffed with the rest of it. Which of course you should be.
Pink Floyd - Dogs, Sheep, Echoes & Shine On You Crazy Diamond...
and....
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand
Deep Purple - Child in Time
Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Boz Scaggs - Loan Me A Dime
Television - Marquee Moon
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
Flowered Up - Weekender
Have an Up
for the fantastic Boz Scaggs, who surely does not get the plaudits he richly deserves. I saw him live about 6 years ago and I think he has one of the most underrated back catalogues around.
Have another Up, Mr Almost, sir
We don't have enough mentions of Boz Scaggs on this board, and the "Some Change" album is an absolute copper-bottomed gem.
An up for Weekender...
.
Stereolab
Jenny Ondioline - 18:59, veers from total wig out to streamlined beats and back. Truly wondrous song!
And what about
Blue Room by The Orb?
I like listening to Tangerine Dream.
I'm struggling to think of any of their stuff which comes in at under the ten minute mark.
I like listening to Tangerine Dream.
I'm struggling to think of any of their stuff which comes in at under the ten minute mark.
The Cinema Show
From Genesis - Selling England... 11 minutes and 6 seconds of sheer brilliance. Phil's drumming on this is peerless.
I have come to know this after many, many years of study.
Close To The Edge
An awful lot of prog in the posts above, but nobody has yet mentioned the cornerstone of any progressive collection.
I could list dozens more, but I'll spare you this time ;)
The Master
here is surely Roy Harper;
McGoohan's Blues (his first go at the long form and to be honest, not great)
Me And My Woman
One Man Rock and Roll Band
The Same Old Rock
The Lord's Prayer
One Of Those Days In England (parts 2 - 10)
Work Of Heart (parts 1 - 6)
Burn The World (best heard as the extract Desert Island, which is more than enough of this one)
These Fifty Years
Beat me to it!
For me it's got to be The Same Old Rock and Me & My Woman, both from Stormcock, as well as One of Those Days in England - the rest I can take or leave these days, although some of them have a certain period charm. One that you haven't mentioned - Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith has its moments but doesn't quite hang together.
The Game is pretty darned good, too.
Slap me round the head with a wet haddock
How the hell did I forget The Game?
"I cannot stake a claim, possession is a clue, but not the game"
And of course Genghis Smith, which has its moments as you say.
I really think These 50 Years is a late masterpiece. I love Ian Anderson's playing on it, which additionally got me to listen to Jethro Tull again for the first time in, I'd guess, more than 20 years.
Now that you mention it....
... Thick as a Brick, anyone?
To name but a few ( OK a whole bunch )
Wilco - Spiders ( Kidsmoke ) 10:46
Madness - The Liberty Of Norton Folgate 10:13
The Trammps - Disco Inferno 10:53
Amadou & Mariam - Sekebe 11:41
MGMT - Siberian Breaks 12:09
McAlmont & Nyman - Songs For Tony 17:24
and of course countless jazz recordings like
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder 10:24
John Coltrane - Blue Train 10:43
Thelonious Monk - Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are 13:10
Chet Baker - All The Things You Are 17:45
plus I get the chance to once again plug one of my favourite tracks of all time - though it's cheating, since it's a live recording;
Taj Mahal - You Ain't No Street Walker Mama, Honey But I Do Love The Way You Strut Your Stuff 18:56
James Brown
Make it funky (12:46).
Funky drummer is close enough at 9:13.
Subjective, of course, but...
...I think this is the most thrilling chunk of slide guitar committed to disk...particularly when the solo comes in from another planet.
Ten more from my collection
The Race (Remix) - Yello
Mmm Skyscraper I Love You - Underworld
Machine Gun - Jimi Hendrix
Kosmos - Paul Weller
The End - The Doors
Do It Now - Dubtribe Sound System
Disco Inferno - Trammps
Salva Mea - Faithless
45:33 - LCD Soundsystem
Mellow Mellow Right On - Lowrell
Kosmos
On the original release has about 2 minutes of silence before kicking back in. On the Deluxe Edition reissue the 'outro' section has been edited out entirely, cutting the length from 11:58 to a measly 6:35.
An up arrow
to you for "Mellow Mellow Right On".
Jamie Saft / Merzbow - Slow Down Furry Dub
As ever, some great choices
Some more:
Brian Eno - 1/2
Can - Halleluhwah
Harold Budd - Gypsy Violin
Orbital - The Girl With The Sun In Her Head
Primal Scream - Screamadelica (from the Dixie Narco EP)
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
Cinematic Orchestra - Night Of The Iguana
Little Richard - The 'Rill' Thing
10cc - Feel The Benefit
Focus - Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!
Isaac Hayes - Do Your Thing
Sly & The Family Stone - Sex Machine
The Temptations - Papa Was A Rolling Stone
Julian Cope - The Tower
Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea
Lindstrom - There's A Drink In My Bedroom And I Need A Hot Lady
Neu! - Feur Immer
An Up Arrow...
...for Halleluwah!! A beast of a track.
... and while we're on the subject of Can
... how about "Mother Sky"? Another absolute monster.
A few more that never outstay their welcome...
Global Communication - 14:31
Focus - Eruption
Yes - Gates Of Delirium
Yes- Machine Messiah
Isaac Hayes - By The Time I Get To Phoenix
If I'm in the mood I might choose the ISB's Ithkos (but I really have to be in the mood).
Also, if I may cheat a little, can I add from The Stone Roses "This Is The One"/"I Am The Resurrection", which I know is two songs but I always hear them together....
Good call on
Global Communication. Every track on Pentamerous Metamorphosis would make the 10'+ grade but here's Epsilon Phase
a few picks
Betty Wright - Clean Up Woman (live) 11:56
Charles Mingus - Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting(from Live at Antibes) 12:12
Dream Syndicate - John Coltrane Stereo Blues (from Live at Raji's) 12:12
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile (from Electric Ladyland) 14:58
Isaac Hayes - Do Your Thing (from Shaft) 19:30
Sun Ra - Space Is The Place (from Space Is The Place) 21:15
and an all-time favourite
Pharaoh Sanders - Black Unity (from Black Unity) 37:21
2 sides to a coin
Like most on here, I think I have a wide, varied taste in music.
2 ten minute + songs that are regulars on my car CD player (where most of my music listening happens) are "the liberty of norton folgate" by the nutty boys, & led Zeps "in my time of dying"
I think both songs are quite possibly each bands finest moment.
I have a few...
Pure Reason Revolution - The Bright Ambassadors of Morning
Flowered Up - Weekender (I was always amused by the promo CD I have - clocks in at something like 12.50, but there is a radio edit which is a mere 12.20!!!)
Red House Painters - Make Like Paper
Propaganda - Dr Mabuse
The Damned - Curtain Call
Can't stand anything over 4 minutes normally
Life's too short, but these 2 don't feel overlong :
Lou Reed - Street Hassle. Quite stupendously rude and features The Boss making a rare 'spoken word' appearance
Neil Young - Change Your Mind. I can take or leave the old boy's voluminous outpourings, but Sleeps With Angels is good album & this is a corking track, 2 guitar solos and all.
B Movie
An old favourite from the mighty Gil Scott-Heron. Full version 12.15 according to my itunes.
Spotified
where possible. Only 10'+ tracks have been added where they were available on Spotify so no Led Zep, Floyd or Crimson or Roy Harper.
http://open.spotify.com/user/ahh_bisto/playlist/3KvMXqkcjjunjU2mvy07ne
nearly 12 minutes on the album
Not forgetting...
Mumps from The Rotters Club by the mighty Hatfield and the North.
Also, Tenemos Roads by National Health
Longform tunes that truly make life better....
Have a nup for Tenemos Roads.
10:44
Quick question.........
How long constitutes the shortest album?
The Kes soundtrack a few years ago was 19 minutes long.
'Friends' by The Beach Boys is under 24 minutes, I think.
'The Sound of Fury' by Billy Fury ditto.
stuff taste how about some extended head banging indulgence
the boogie
Opening Tracks
Opening track of Eye Contact by Gang Gang Dance is a real beauty at over 11 mins, starting as pure ambient dreaminess and then gradually building into an elegant disco stopmper. Wonderful.
Puts me in mind of another great opening number which comes in at a paltry 8 minutes.
Little regarded
but there is this, the longest track on an overlooked but beautifully strange album
Health warning: may also contain fretless bass