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The longest track I've ever listened to

 
    • heuffel said...
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    • 12 Jan 2010, 11:52

    The longest track I've ever listened to

    What is the longest track you've ever listened to?
    My "best" are from Earth, Sunn O))), Darkestrah - more than 30 minutes. The best I can remember is Sunn O)))'s Helio)))sophist - 48:17.
    I've once listened to a track that was about 65 minutes, but can't remember which track it was :)
    But, in generall, the "worst" relations length/track account are in classical music - symphonies, piano concertos/sonatas for example (Ludwig van Beethoven, Dmitri Schostakovich, Sergei Rachmaninoff), etc.

    Edited by heuffel on 15 Feb 2010, 08:34
    • logrus said...
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    • 13 Jan 2010, 10:48
    Probably Sleep's masterpiece "Dopesmoker", around hour and a few minutes long.

    http://www.doomsmoker.pl/ (Polish doom metal & stoner site)

  • live sets are often 4+hrs long, and as bootlegs come as a single track,

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    Edited by hjbardenhagen on 3 Aug 2011, 14:11
    • Phage said...
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    • 24 Jan 2010, 10:13
    The Hunt by Fauna is pretty much the full lngth of a CD, 1 hour and 20 mins, damn good stuff!

  • My longest so far is Ryo by Kawabata Makoto, if i remember correctly. (67:48)
    http://www.last.fm/music/Kawabata+Makoto/_/Ryo

    but i just checked and Delirium Cordia by Fantomas is longer (74:12)

    • oolpian said...
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    • 27 Jan 2010, 19:37
    http://www.bullofheaven.com/
    number 118- 1453 hours= 2 months

  • Either Erol Alkan's Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animations (which although available as seperate tracks I have as one track on my ipod) or 45:33.
    Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve is just under an hour and LCD's 45:33 is 45 mins 58 seconds.

    • heuffel said...
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    • 28 Jan 2010, 10:32
    omg, oolpian :) but the player there indicates "only" cca. 98 minutes (?)

    • heuffel said...
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    • 28 Jan 2010, 10:40
    OK, I already know why. But still, this is incredible :)

    • oolpian said...
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    • 28 Jan 2010, 14:24
    heuffel, there are some excerpts of this track, look at the full version ;)

    • heuffel said...
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    • 28 Jan 2010, 22:57
    Yes, I see :) 117 GB :-X Have you ever listened to the whole track (without breaks) :) ;)?

    • oolpian said...
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    • 29 Jan 2010, 09:22
    No, i don't do drugs...without them it's impossible ;)

  • Jean-Michel Jarre - En Attendant Cousteau (47 min)
    Sunn O))) - Helio)))sophist (48 min)

    Don't remember any longer Tracks.

    Music is Life.
    • heuffel said...
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    • 9 Feb 2010, 13:24
    Once again listened to Wyrd's Heathen - pretty long too: 51:11

    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 10 Feb 2010, 23:28
    logrus said:
    Probably Sleep's masterpiece "Dopesmoker", around hour and a few minutes long.
    this

    • juju89 said...
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    • 13 Feb 2010, 19:34

  • The longest, whixh's title I know is the great Crimson by Edge of Sanity! It's 40 minutes.
    I listened to too longer, but I can't remember to it's title... it was ambient...

    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 18 Feb 2010, 13:08
    Robert Rich - Somnium Part 1 is 270 minutes long. The whole album, a continuous piece, is over 7 hours long

  • Those 30+ minute examples seem funny, compared with the 639 years of playtime for John Cage's composition: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2728595.stm

    I often listen to CD's that contain just one track of collective improvisation or other experimental music; Cecil Taylor's live recordings are often like that, and lately I bought a download of Evan Parker's collaboration with a few other musicians, a track of 77 minutes.

    Of course, those examples are restricted by the CD format.

    • heuffel said...
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    • 22 Feb 2010, 01:13
    Yeah, OK, PirtePiraja, do you think, that this composition "As Slow As Possible" is really a music piece? Look, if I have my computer on, and "listen" the whole day to the "sound" which the cooling makes, I could say it is "a very slow music of my computer", what do you think? Maybe tomorrow I will work with my notebook, which has a cooling that makes some another "tone" - but in fact, I can't remember the "tone" of my computer's cooling, I can't get any rhytm (which is very importnat when listening to music), any melody (ok, not every composition has a melody) etc.
    In fact, I could take any piece of music - let's say some Wagner's opera (they are pretty long, too) and tell the musicians to play it as slow as possible, and I get for example a 25-years-long piece.
    And, by the way, my question was: what is the longest track you've ever LISTENED TO. So - have you listened to the whole John Cage's composition? :)
    I don't want to argue, just thinking of the whole thing...

  • dopesmoker

    http://cllct.com/art/davidjonasse
    my personal project, stoner/jazz/doom
  • It *is* actually interesting to think what qualifies as music, what we accept as music, about the restrictions of the media (Rich's Somnium is on an audio DVD, as I just found out) and the limitations of our attentiveness and stamina. Does there have to be *a* listener in order that there is music? I guess Cage's 639-year composition may have "rhythm and melody", but on a monstrous scale... If our definition of music depends on rhythm and melody, as we are accustomed to observe them, a lot of modern experimental music does not qualify as music; "musique concrète", for example.

    I personally do enjoy rhythm and melody – been listening mostly to reggae (ska, dub, roots) for quite a few weeks now. And I must confess I am not a big fan of John Cage's music, even though his *ideas* are interesting.

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