best songs longer than 30 minutes

Tell me them. I want this thread to be the ultimate repository of great songs that are 30 minutes long or longer.

Chris Butler - "Devil Glitch"

See, now I have never heard *of* this ^ much less heard it. Thank you. More please!

Unrest – “Hydro” (33:23.3)
(more a “groove” than a song?)

don't overthink the word "song" ... grooves are fine. noise is fine. drones are fine. single tracks are fine. even single tracks made up of a bunch of different songs run together are fine.

the key is run time > 30 minutes and you dig it. the more variety, the better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f-BED95oVo

Autechre “all end”
Autechre “perlence subrange 6-36”
Insides “Clear Skin”
Spacemen 3 “an evening of contemporary sitar music”
Liars “This Dust Makes That Mud”
Brian Eno “Thursday Afternoon”
all get a pretty regular kicking around my joint

Miles Davis - He Loved Him Madly

Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor

Swans, The Seer and Bring the Sun/Toussaint L'Ouverture

and now cheating by referring to my library,

Oren Ambarchi "Sagittarian Domain"
Brian Eno "Discreet Music"
The Velvet Underground "Sister Ray" (live at The Matrix)

Does Metal Machine Music count? Obviously it's split into sides, but ...

Jethro Tull
-Thick as a Brick
-A Passion Play
(Both are divided in two parts but I'd argue that they count, it's really to fit on the LP sides.)

Apart from the already mentioned Eno albums (Thursday Afternoon & Discreet Music), other 30> Eno's are:
-Neroli (and also New Space Music on the reissue)
-Reflection

David Sylvian did some nice ones:
-The Beekeeper's Apprentice
-When Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima
-There Is A Light That Enters Houses with No Other House In Sight

One more Eno (any long Eno piece is great): I see that Iced World, the last track on The Drop, is also over 30 minutes on the original CD edition of the album.

How the hell have we gotten this far without The Creator Has A Masterplan?

I'll chuck in Orthrelm's OV as well as a tasty bonus

Disintegration Loops

Dopesmoker, too

On the Blu-ray edition of Neil Young & Crazy Horse' Psychedelic Pill, there's a crazy jam session called Horse Back where they somehow make their way to Cortez The Killer, it's over 30 minutes, cool stuff.

pharoah sanders - the creator has a master plan

oh imago said that LOL

"Colder Still" from my favourite Nurse With Wound album, Thunder Perfect Mind.

E2-E4 by Manuel Göttsching is a full hour

Lindstrøm's cover of Little Drummer Boy is 45 minutes long. (Sadly his Where You Go I Go Too is only 28:58)

There's a LOT between 25 and 30 that I love

45:33 by LCD Soundsystem. Fuck a Someone Great.

kate bush an endless sky of honey

deftones "mx"

ricardo villalobos "fizheuer zieheuer"

Villalobos' Bionic Sad (should be somewhere on the internet still) is 45 minutes long and amazing.

pretty much anything by Eliane Radigue Or Pauline Oliveros

Tony Conrad & Faust - 'From the Side of Woman and Mankind' (album version is 27 minutes, but the 'complete version' on the reissue is four minutes longer)

Motorpsycho - 'A K9 Suite' (live)

Stuart A. Staples - 'Music for a Year in Small Paintings'

Wrekmeister Harmonies - 'Night of Your Ascension'

Godspeed You Black Emperor - 'Motherfucker = Redeemer'

man nice DN

Cheer-Accident - Trading Balloons

52 minutes long, almost impossible to find until Skingraft reissued it recently

Naked City - Leng T'che
Merzbow/Pan Sonic - V
Lee Ranaldo - Ambient Loop for Vancouver
Henry Kaiser's "Dark Star/The Other One" cover
Allman Brothers - Mountain Jam
Nurse With Wound - Funeral Music for Perez Prado
most of The Necks' discography
all my favorite Morton Feldman works

Ground Zero - Consume Red

Beethoven's 9th Symphony

the orb "blue room"

Working for a Nuclear Free City, "Jojo Burger Tempest"

most of what i have in this category are bootlegs or classical compositions or both. excluding that i'll say "imperivm" by ictus

Lots of AMM.

The Double (Emmet Kelly and Jim White) - Dawn of the Double

Velvet Underground - Sweet Sister Ray (not the same as Sister Ray)

Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon

Folke Raabe - What

The Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini

Echolyn - Mei is the first one that comes to mind

could also name like 6 different Magma albums that are technically all one composition (and usually are referred to as such on the live albums)

Music for 18 Musicians

I noticed that the 2 VU tracks on Columbia University fall about 2 minutes of the 1/2 hour mark each. But do love the Nothing Song.

just remembered "The Ikon" by Todd Rundgren's Utopia is just over 30 minutes, so yeah that one

Monster Magnet - Tab...

Lard - Time To Melt

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/musicblog/2012/03/27/the-six-best-songs-over-thirty-minutes-long

Fela Kuti - Unknown Soldier

Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too

It's actually 29 minutes but it's worth the inclusion.

A lot of classical music classifies in here if you don't dissect movements of a piece.

Matmos - Ultimate Care II

^good call

sleep - dopesmoker

B. Fleischmann - Take your time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDqRA9mSLFU

Steve Roach - Looking for Safety

I think Steve Roach and Fela Kuti have several 30+ minute songs.

FSOL: Lifeforms (remixes) ep.

Putting in a second vote for “Cassandra Gemini” just so it stands out more
I don’t know if I’ve ever heard another song that maintains its... I don’t know, “song-ness”, sense of continual interesting development along a single path, as well and for as long as that one does. Maybe “My Sweet Lord / Today Is A Killer” by Nina Simone but that’s sub-30mins.

Agreed... I'd say Jim O'Rourke's "The Visitor" does the same, despite being an instrumental, and having multiple movements & sections, then again so does CG.

Lars Horntveth - Kaleidoscope
Thirtysixtwentyfive - Four Tet
The Peter Saville Show Soundtrack - New Order
Stranded on Riegel 3 - Pete Namlook and Tetsu Inoue
Sleep - DJ Olive

Sleep - DJ Olive

this is great. buoy is also great

that reminds me

Climax Golden Twins - Sleep

aka "Lovely"

Michael Gordon - Weather

excellent job, all. keep going!

There's a LOT between 25 and 30 that I love

― imago, Friday, June 29, 2018 2:38 AM (thirteen hours ago)

i'll start a 20-30 minute thread at some point. if I could do this one over again, i might go 30-60 on this one, and another for 60+. anyway...

"Weight - Breath - Sounding Trees" - Cecil Taylor European Orchestra (1:03:49)
"Involution/Evolution" - Cecil Taylor European Orchestra (58:51)
"My Favorite Things" - John Coltrane (57:19) (from Live In Japan)
17 Musicians In Search Of A Sound: Darfur - Bill Dixon (56:37)
Persepolis - Iannis Xenakis (55:10)
"April 1965" - Tony Conrad (53:37)
"Sun Blindness Music" - John Cale (42:44)
"My Generation" - the Who (33:05) (from Live At The Fillmore East 1968)

Does it count if it's programmed as one long track but really it's a continuous flow of 18 short songs?

Richard Buckner - "The Hill"

Jóhann Jóhannsson - Virðulegu Forsetar

Coil - Queen Of The Circulating Library

Zoviet France - Cyclonic Sub Alien (54:18)

Does it count if it's programmed as one long track but really it's a continuous flow of 18 short songs?

LP sleeve lists 18 songs. Disqualified unless somehow Lovesexy counts.

ok - Virðulegu Forsetar is split into four parts "for technical reasons" so technically it might be disqualified too but really is one long piece.

Woob - On Earth !

ok - Virðulegu Forsetar is split into four parts "for technical reasons" so technically it might be disqualified too but really is one long piece.

:-)

TERRY RILEY IN C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alo3KFRfLvE

^ That song makes me cry tbh

AMM - Newfoundland
Morton Feldman - Patterns in a chromatic field
Oren Ambarchi / John Tilbury - The Just Reproach
Oren Ambarchi - Knots
Olivia Block - piano and organ
Skogen - ist gefallen in den schnee
Klaus Lang / Trio Nexus - SAIS.
https://erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/erstlive-005
Radu Malfatti / klaus filip - imaoto
Autechre - AE_LIVE-DUBLIN
Jason Lescalleet - The Pilgrim
+Minus - A Rainy Koran Verse [UK Live]
Kevin Drumm / Jason Lescalleet - The Abyss (title track)
Keith Rowe / John Tilbury - enough still not to know
Rafael Toral - Wave Field
Gas - Narkopop (continuous mix)
Charlemagne Palestine - Strumming Music
Philip Jeck - Vinyl Coda IV
Gavin Bryars - the sinking of the titanic (good version)
https://erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/cloud - "yellow cloud" (on disc two)
Lee Ranaldo - Amarillo Ramp

Epic list

The Who sell out

Northern Exposure Vol 1

forgot a couple of absolute favorites:

http://windsmeasurerecordings.net/catalog/wm18/
http://www.everycontactleavesatrace.net/2016/09/06/the-process-marvin-tate-joseph-clayton-mills/

The Process is free to download in its entirety (mp3 format)

https://youtu.be/2J3jJXNBK7k

Haptic - Abeyance

Jed Speare "At The Falls"

Sigurd Berge "Blikk"

Not sure how it breaks down into individual songs, but

La Monte Young - The Well-Tuned Piano

isn't there a song or two or three on Vision Creation Newsun that's 30+ minutes? or Super Ae? Boredoms definitely have some

https://tradgrasochstenar.bandcamp.com/track/amithaba-in-kommer-g-sta

Miles Davis - He Loved Him Madly

― supreme court justice samuel lance-ito (voodoo chili), Friday, June 29, 2018 1:03 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and "calypso frelimo"

nikhil banerjee - lots
zia mohuiddin dagar - lots
ram narayan - lots
thomas köner - daikan
peter brötzmann trio - music marries room to room
maniacs dream - turku hold 'em track 1
jim o'rourke - happy days
fushitsusha - i saw it...
fushitsusha - the wisdom prepared
earth - like gold & faceted
rafael toral - harmonic series 2
prince - i would die 4 u long version
anthony braxton quartet - comp. # 367c

Acid Mothers Temple - "La Novia"
Bardo Pond - "Circuit VIII"
Bardo Pond - "From the Sky"

I'd love to add Kinski's "The Misprint In The Gutenberg Print Shop" but it's only 29:05.

Adele - someone like you

doesn't terre thaemlitz have a ministick that's several hours/days long or something?

practically eveything by tv victor

buncha andrew chalk

Jem Finer, Longplayer (lasts 1000 years)

The Necks / Drive By