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Albums where the longest song was a single

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Inspired by Kanye West's "Stronger." Led Zeppelin is disqualified because they never released singles. "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "November Rain" are shorter than "The Prophet's Song" and "Coma," respectively.

― da croupier, Saturday, 29 September 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

mew, frengers (comforting sounds)

― Just got offed, Saturday, 29 September 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

xtc, nonsuch (the ballad of peter pumpkinhead)

― Just got offed, Saturday, 29 September 2007 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

OK Computer - "Paranoid Android"

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Def Leppard's "Rocket" (single #7) just squeaks over album track "Gods Of War" by three seconds (according to wikipedia) on Hysteria.

― da croupier, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't the single for "Rocket" edited, though? I don't think the video version was, but the radio version definitely was.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

you're right!

― da croupier, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Nas - One Love

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

tricky - 'maxinquaye'

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

primal scream - 'screamadelica'

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

the art of noise - 'who's afraid of the art of noise'

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

The Electric Soft Parade - Holes In The Wall (Silent To The Dark)

― Just got offed, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

the orb, probably

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

saint etienne - 'so tough'

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

saint etienne - 'sound of water'

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

my bloody valentine - 'loveless'

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Guns N' Roses- Estranged (Use Your Illusion II)
Guns N' Roses- Paradise City (Appetite for Destruction)

― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 29 September 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," Iron Butterfly
"Get Ready," Rare Earth

Both hits as singles, but the album versions were an entire album side long.

And Led Zeppelin DID release singles. At least in the US. Even though they were known as an album band, they did have the occasional Top 40 hit on occasion. Maybe Zep didn't release singles in the UK???

― Rev. Hoodoo, Saturday, 29 September 2007 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

Zep did have singles, but "Stairway" wasn't one of them.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 29 September 2007 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

I get all confused as to what album it was originally on (being that the UK and US versions were different), but whichever Smiths album first featured "How Soon Is Now?"

― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 29 September 2007 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

That was Meat is Murder.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 29 September 2007 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

How Soon Is Now wasn't on any of the original issues of their albums, it was an extra track on the US version.

― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 29 September 2007 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

I actually hate that song for some reason. Heard it too much maybe.

― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 29 September 2007 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

"won't get fooled again" is the longest song on who's next, but the single version is about 4 1/2 minutes shorter than the album version. so maybe that doesn't count.

― Lawrence the Looter, Saturday, 29 September 2007 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

blue line swinger by yo la tengo is the longest track off electropura, but was released as a single in a severely edited version, so probably doesn't count so much

― electricsound, Saturday, 29 September 2007 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

UK people, how long was the version of "Blue Room" that actually got played? cuz nobody was spinning the 40-minute unedited one, right?

― bernard snowy, Sunday, 30 September 2007 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True, and what's interesting is that "Watching the Detectives" is only 3:42, yet the longest song on the album by about 15 seconds...

― stephen, Sunday, 30 September 2007 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

If Common People were ten seconds longer.......

― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 30 September 2007 00:47 (nineteen years ago)

Oasis, Champagne Supernova

― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 30 September 2007 00:48 (nineteen years ago)

Album version of Blue Room is an edit of earlier single, doesn't count here. (album edit also about 13 minutes longer than 7" edit)

― energy flash gordon, Sunday, 30 September 2007 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

OK Computer - "Paranoid Android"

"Fake Plastic Trees" and "There There" too

― abanana, Sunday, 30 September 2007 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

If tracks that were edited for single release counts, you may also add "Welcome To The Pleasure Dome" by Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 30 September 2007 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, lotsa edited-for-single-release tracks would qualify.

"I Feel Love" (5:55) outlasts everything else on I Remember Yesterday. (And was also released in an extended 12" version, fwiw.)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Sunday, 30 September 2007 05:46 (nineteen years ago)

American Pie
Alice's Restaurant Masacree
Sunshine of Your Love

― mulla atari, Sunday, 30 September 2007 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

"Hey Jude" was pretty long, but I don't know if it was the longest, or even which LP it was from.

― nickn, Sunday, 30 September 2007 06:29 (nineteen years ago)

Steely Dan "Do It Again"
Sonic Youth "The Diamond Sea"

― Alex in Baltimore, Sunday, 30 September 2007 07:35 (nineteen years ago)

Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True, and what's interesting is that "Watching the Detectives" is only 3:42, yet the longest song on the album by about 15 seconds...

i thought that song was only on the us version of the album (in a similar manner to "how soon is now"/meat is murder)?

― Lawrence the Looter, Sunday, 30 September 2007 07:42 (nineteen years ago)

Well, "Hey Jude" would've been the longest track - it was their third-longest track ever, in fact - but it never appeared on a proper (non-compilation" album.

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― Myonga Vön Bontee, Sunday, 30 September 2007 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

i thought that song was only on the us version of the album (in a similar manner to "how soon is now"/meat is murder)?
-- Lawrence the Looter, Sunday, 30 September 2007 07:42 (10 hours ago) Link

i wouldn't know, i'm not a die-hard fan or anything, and i do have the US version of the album so that's entirely possible that it's not on the UK version

― stephen, Sunday, 30 September 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Laurie Anderson - Big Science

― Paul in Santa Cruz, Sunday, 30 September 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

MARQUEE MOON!

― Mark G, Monday, 1 October 2007 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

The Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection

Champagne Supernova wasn't a single in the UK.

― ailsa, Monday, 1 October 2007 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

Ride, Going Blank Again - I think 'Leave Them All Behind' was the longest track, no?

'I Am The Resurrection' is a bit of a cheat as a single, on the part of Silvertone.

― Matthew H, Monday, 1 October 2007 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

Public Enemy "Black Steel in the Hour Of Chaos" from Nation of Millions. I don't think it was really even editted that much for the single. And, the second longest song was also a single: "Don't Believe The Hype."

― city worker, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

Bowie Heroes & Young Americans

― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Rockin' Robert Seger:

Beautiful Loser ("Katmandu")
Night Moves ("Night Moves")

― henry s, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

"Tubular Bells"? ;)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 1 October 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

And the correct Oasis answer is "Be Here Now", "All Around The World" being longer than any other track they have ever released.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 1 October 2007 17:33 (nineteen years ago)


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