Does anyone know the name of the world's longest song?

American Pie???? :confused: LOL I have no clue.

Though there is like a 16-17 minute Jimmy Eat World song with like a 10 minute guitar solo.

Nope.

Like Amy said though, Jimmy Eat World has a long song... "November Rain" by Guns N' Roses is 8:55 minutes, Mozart and a lot of those classical composits are long as hell...

I know its not that long, but "Like a Stone" by Audioslave seems to last forever to me. I like the song, but it seems to drag on forever.

There've been a few that have taken up entire album sides, most notably "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly, released in 1968 which was 17 minutes long, and "Close to the Edge" by Yes, from 1972 takes up an entire album side (think vinyl albums, NOT CD's or cassettes), but I don't recall how many minutes, prolly around 20.

I heard Emerson, Lake and Palmer did long songs.

The extended version of "Love To Love You Baby" by Donna Summer was like 17 minutes long...

Originally posted by consentida
The extended version of "Love To Love You Baby" by Donna Summer was like 17 minutes long...

Man, was that song hot.:grineyes:

Originally posted by Miss Karly
Nope.

Like Amy said though, Jimmy Eat World has a long song... "November Rain" by Guns N' Roses is 8:55 minutes, Mozart and a lot of those classical composits are long as hell...

Uhhhh...I don't think Mozart, Beethoven and all those guys were necessarily going for radio-friendly 3 & a half minute hits...

a few years ago i made up a song like 20 min long but i forgot it lol

The Beatles have some pretty long songs too.

I Heard It Through The Grapevine that's a pretty long song its 11:30 long.

From the Yes album Relayer, "Gates of Delirium" is a 22 minute song.


Other than traditional songs - check this out:

A recital of a composition by John Cage, the man widely acknowledged as the father of electronic music, started today. The song titled As Slow As Possible is meant to have a duration of 639 years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2728595.stm

NOFX's "The Decline" is about 18 minutes long

I would guess Alice's Restaurant.

LOOK PEOPLE - A 639 YEAR LONG SONG!
Someone must have a comment on these wackos.



Wednesday, 5 February, 2003, 13:00 GMT
First notes for 639-year composition


The first notes in the longest and slowest piece of music in history, designed to go on for 639 years, are being played on a German church organ on Wednesday.
The three notes, which will last for a year-and-a-half, are just the start of the piece, called As Slow As Possible.

Composed by late avant-garde composer John Cage, who died in 1992, the performance has already been going for 17 months - although all that has been heard so far is the sound of the organ's bellows being inflated.

The music will be played in Halberstadt, a small town renowned for its ancient organs in central Germany.

It was originally a 20-minute piece for piano, but a group of musicians and philosophers decided to take the title literally and work out how long the longest possible piece of music could last.

They settled on 639 years because the Halberstadt organ was 639 years old in the year 2000.

"We started discussing - what is as slow as possible for the organ?" Swedish composer and organist Hans-Ola Ericsson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"We, a group of theologians, musicologists, philosophers, composers and organists, met during a couple of years solely to discuss this question. It was rather wonderful to have one topic to discuss at length."

"We came up with the answer that the piece could last for the duration of the organ - that is the lifetime of an organ."

Mr Ericsson said John Cage would have liked what they had done with it.

"It's a sound that we give to the future to take care of, and hopefully the aesthetics and the ideas of John Cage will manage to survive."

The first note is due to be struck at 1800 local time (1700 GMT) on Wednesday.

The performance follows a legal case in which composer Mike Batt was forced to pay a six-figure sum to Cage's publishers, who accused him of plagiarising a silent piece of music.

I wonder who is going to spend the rest of their life playing one note on an organ? I wouldn't be surprised if they gave up after a while.

Originally posted by BJL
I wonder who is going to spend the rest of their life playing one note on an organ? I wouldn't be surprised if they gave up after a while.

I know.... I mean, who's going to be playing it? Or are they just going to put a brick on the key and let it sit there? I mean, for all we know, in 639 years, the world could be ended...