your favourite song that runs past the ten-minute mark

Loads of these in stoner/doom - Electric Wizard's "Doom-mantia", all the tracks on 'Supercoven', Sleep's "Jerusalem" - 54 minutes!

He Loved Him Madly - Miles Davis, about 32 minutes.

"Love To Love You Baby" - Donna Summer

"The Blue Room" (single mix) - The Orb

I think "Plastic Pulse" gets sort of tedious after a while. The four-movements idea is great, and they make it work to good effect, but I'm not a big advocate of the making-each-movement-as-long-as-a-separate-song idea. I could easily see how some could find this more appealing than an extended noise-fest, a la "Jenny Ondioline," but I would actually rather see an integration of the two, like "Refractions," but less mechanical.

Anyway, this thread is tailor-made for insert-your-favourite-post-rock-band-here, so I'll name older stuff that fits the bill: "Space Is the Place," "The Diamond Sea," "My Favorite Things," "Meadow Meal" (very nearly), and "1/1" (from Music For Airports).

personal favourites are still Piano Magic, with both A Trick Of The Sea, and also Halloween Boat.

also:
Shamek Farrah - First Impressions
Spacemen 3 - Big City
Cerberus Shoal - Broken Springs Spring Forth From Broken Clocks

'Sister Ray', 'Mother Sky', 'Macho City'

"Acid Trax" - Phuture

"Sueno Latino" - Sueno Latino

"Yoo Doo Right" - Can

Repetition rather than development for me, every time. This is because I like my music to reflect my personal life.

"moon revolutions" by the young gods

"The Decline"- NOFX

Stereolab - "Animal Vegetable Mineral"

Is "Frankie Teardrop" over 10 minutes?

yeah i hink. did anyone say "Fur Immer" yet?

oh i'm back on that computer that doesnt like the letter T. hey & "Tarotplane" & "25th Cenury Quaker"

yeah & "Free yr mind & yr ass will follow" by Funkadelic, & "Brainstorm" by Hawkwind. Do you wanna get onto jazz & we could be here all night.

and i still retain a soft spot for Graffity, by 48V Phantom Power

Any long songs you like that you rarely hear through 'til the end? Last night I listened to Manual Gottsching's E2-E4 again -- beautiful, but I'm not sure I've ever listened to the whole thing straight through (it's one piece almost an hour long). Usually after a half hour or so, I either put on something else or fall asleep, as I did last night.

Boredoms Super Ae has 3 or 4 great songs over 10 minutes.

Oo,I forgot about Can.So I have to add Peking O...yes.And Fur Immer does run past the ten-minute mark.

'The Diamond Sea' was my first introduction to songs in double-digit time, so that's a personal favourite.

on the aptly titled "the songs all sound the same" LP, the supersuckers do a 30-min cover of nazareth's "razzamatazz" with no solos.

Plastikman: "Consumed" (11:40-odd)

The first side of Talk Talk's "Spirit of Eden", if that counts as a single thing (it *is* continuous, and coded on the CD as one track).

My favourite example at the moment is Luomo's Vocal City album: pretty much the perfect midpoint between typical minimal techno expansiveness and a Donna Summer extended mix. Tracks heavily repetitive but also very slowly developing so that every few minutes you find yourself in a different place without having realised that the scenery was changing.

European Son

Two great ones: "Plastic Dreams" by Jaydee and "Boys and Girls" by the Hed Boys. Ever-evolving deep house = EXTREME CLASSIC.

a free-jazz version of McCarthur Park on a Jimmy Webb tribute album

Outside of the usual slow-build or transcendent-drone tracks, two songs have always blown me away. I don't have running times on either, but they should both be in the 9-12 minute range:

(1) There's a Lilys track on The Three-Way called "Socs Hip" that's the most through-composed long track I've ever heard. No matter how many twists it runs through, it's so tight that it always seems like a 2:45 pop song.

(2) Yo La Tengo's "Blue Line Swingers," which also manages to be completely compelling throughout the whole thing. Not that other long tracks aren't compelling -- it's just that most of them sort of ask for you to adjust your listening frame to the fact that they're larger compositions. Although a little less so than the above, "Blue Line Swingers" manages to keep a 4 or 5 minute rate of thrills through twice that running time.

You guys will probably take care of all the Germanic and post-rock stuff I'd otherwise have listed...

The Young Gods - Moon Revolutions and Bark Psychosis - Scum. Two tracks that reach a supreme intensity.

Bowery Electric's Slow Thrills, from the first album, when they were, like, good an that...

Mostly, I like the 2 minute long songs, but there are exceptions: Gavin Bryars - Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet. VERY repetitive but hypnotic and quite beautiful. and a new song I just heard last night, from the new Gillian Welch LP, I Dream a Highway.

Three Days - Jane's Addiction Spanish Key - Miles Davis Yoo Doo Right - Can

Stooges "We Will Fall," especially with a handful of mexican valium. They should use it in the new Apocalypse Now director's cut.

Omar isn't around, is he? I can think of a few 10+ min songs that I like, but I don't like getting beaten by mean Spaniard cops ;-p

(I like just about all the songs already mentioned, too, FWIW).

Like a Rolling Stone- Bob Dylan
Colonial Funk- Fela Kuti
George Clinton- Atomic Dog
Grandpa and Grandma- Tortise

personal favourites are still Piano Magic, with both A Trick Of The Sea, and also Halloween Boat.

Yes! Halloween Boat -- is that the second half of the EP? Whatever the name of track 2 is, it's absolutely gorgeous.

Some of my other favorites --

Pink Floyd - Echoes (and several others) Miles Davis - Pharoah's Dance (and many others) Eberhard Weber - Eyes That Can See in the Dark Mahavishnu Orch. - Dream Allman Bros. - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (live) Cerberus Shoal - Omphalos, Breathing Machines, etc. Grateful Dead - "Dark Star" from Live Dead (Phish's "You Enjoy Myself" misses the cut by 10 seconds) Low - Born by the Wires Spool - Ebo most of the tracks on Flowerhead by Datacide

And lots of classical music, ambient, and jazz -- too much to name.

Two of the most recent that I've encountered: Low's "Do You Know How to Waltz" and The Dismemberment Plan's "Respect is Due".

Kraftwerk - Autobahn (22), Eno - Discreet Music (30). Bowie's Station to Station (just over 10).. i don't listen to the times, really. I just happen to get easily entranes. Stereolab 'Jenny Ondioline'

I haven't listened to Stereolab in about three years but this thread's inspired me to give a listen to Jenny Ondioline again and it really is just as heartbreaking and beautiful as I remember it. I wd LOVE to see them play it live.

quicksilver messenger service - "who do you love" both sides of organisation's "tone float" lp

Wot no 'Rapper's Delight'?

i was gonna say bark psychosis 'scum' too, how nice to see on dj martians site information about a new BP record soon:)

others spiritualized 'feel so sad', roy montgomery 'resolution island suite', ectogram 'spitsbergen', inspiral carpets 'plane crash' ha.

Isaac Hayes, "By the Time I Get to Phoenix." Masterful.

Harry Chapin, "There Only Was One Choice." Hamfisted in places but it's kind of a sledgehammer for me.

And if I ever get around to hearing it, I'm sure I'll add Love's "Da Capo" to the list.

I will 3rd Moon Revolutions by the Young Gods. And 2nd 3 days by Jane's. And 1st Godspeed You Black Emperor's Moya as well as Global Communication's 14:31.

Right -- how could I have forgotten "Moya?" I've always had a vague idea that that piece should be used to score the climax of a film about Samson -- the big build and crescendo as he strains against the pillars, then the noisy collapse ...

i also like "sister ray" and "yoo doo right". visions of johanna, desolation row. i think they go for over ten minutes but i can't be sure. close enuff.

Joseph McC - that long song off "Da Capo"! Noooooo! It's the worst thing they ever did! you'll see! it's worse then all the stuff by the late Love lineups that "officially" suck! It's a BIG FUCKIN DRAG!

Visions of Johanna ( one of my fav dylan songs) has two versions one about 13 and one about 7 .

'Desolation Row' by ole Bobby Zed. I could listen to that for hours.

'That's it for the Other One', Grateful Dead - and its bastard progeny, 'Terrapin Station'

Butterfly Bomber & Royal Subjects by King Black Acid, Diamond Sea was mentioned already and Television's Marquee Moon. I just checked and Fools Gold amd One Million Bllionth of Millisecond On A Sunday Morning fall just short.

"A Very Cellular Song" by the Incredible String Band.

Unwound - Terminus (its 9:43) :)

The Dismemberment Plan - Respect Is Due

It is one of my wildest dreams that I will ever be in a room full of people going mental to 'Uncle Jam' by Funkadelic. It is surely one of the finest (and funnest) funk tracks ever, certainly one of the only ones not to get boring despite the 10 minute track length.

By constrast, 'Party People' by Parliament must be one of the worst tracks to exceed 10 minutes.

'Do I Do' from Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium is quite entertaining, despite pointless Dizzy Gillespie solo.

I also have memories of blissing out to Paul McCartney's 'Secret Friend', an synthesiser-based and highly repetitive B-side from around 1980. Is this actually any good or do I have rose-tinted recall?

I found this posted somewhere:

Church Performs 639-year-long John Cage piece Thu Sep 6 10:20:44 2001

FRANKFURT, Germany (September 5, 1:36 p.m. PDT) - A performance of an organ piece by U.S. composer John Cage written to last 639 years began in an eastern German church with 16 months of silence.

The project honoring Cage's avant-garde work started at midnight Tuesday in Halberstadt and foresees taking the composer at his word by stretching Organ2/ASLSP - the letters stand for As Slow As Possible - over centuries.

"We hope each generation will continue the project and as long as there are no more wars or other major disruptions, it will go on until its end," Michael Betzle, head of the John Cage Organ Foundation in Halberstadt, said by telephone Wednesday.

"We know that it may sound like a utopian dream, but we believe that it can be done."

Only the bellows are ready so far on the organ being built for the extended concert in the St. Burchardi Church, 125 miles west of Berlin.

That's no problem, since the first three notes won't be played until Jan. 5, 2003. Until then, time will be marked by the sound of air rushing through the bellows.

Three hundred people attended the opening of the concert, which marked Cage's birthday. He died in 1992 at age 79.

Before the whoosh of the bellows began, other Cage pieces and a modern ballet were performed.

The fifth of the month will serve as the date for all musical changes - such as going from a rest to a note - which will be done by an organist. Afterward, weights on the keyboard are to secure the combination of the notes until the next change.

The church is open every day to visitors.

***** I can't find the original source: Can this be true?