Albums where the longest song was a single

mew, frengers (comforting sounds)

xtc, nonsuch (the ballad of peter pumpkinhead)

OK Computer - "Paranoid Android"

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

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

you're right!

Nas - One Love

tricky - 'maxinquaye'

primal scream - 'screamadelica'

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

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

the orb, probably

saint etienne - 'so tough'

saint etienne - 'sound of water'

my bloody valentine - 'loveless'

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

"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???

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

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?"

That was Meat is Murder.

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

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

"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.

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

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

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...

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

Oasis, Champagne Supernova

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)

OK Computer - "Paranoid Android"

"Fake Plastic Trees" and "There There" too

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

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.)

American Pie
Alice's Restaurant Masacree
Sunshine of Your Love

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

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

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)?

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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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

Laurie Anderson - Big Science

MARQUEE MOON!

The Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection

Champagne Supernova wasn't a single in the UK.

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.

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."

Bowie Heroes & Young Americans

Rockin' Robert Seger:

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

"Tubular Bells"? ;)

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