Albums (not live or "best of") with a running time of more than 2 hours

Yeah this was a lot rarer prior to the CD age. Practically every hip-hop and electronic double CD is longer than 120 minutes (sadly.)

Forgetting Operas.

Fushitsusha!

XP: I tried to think of electronic ones, but didn't find too many. Neither "Lifeforms" nor "Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld" are over 2 hours.

I forgot about that Red Hot Chili Peppers extravaganza from last year though.

And, no, it isn't always an advantage. Personally I think it works out with progressive though, because those tracks are so long by the genre's nature that it takes some space anyway. And I love several of those Flower Kings long players.

And, yes, lots of operas, surely. :)

Timeless is pretty close, I think, but even if it isn't 2 hours Saturnzreturn is forever long.

Geir Hongro and his Refinement of the Decline

Also, this is where I get to plug the marvel that is Thighpaulsandra - I, Thighpaulsandra. Fucking astonishing (debut?!) record.

the triple album thread would probably be helpful to cross reference: OK, try this: Nominate a triple album, and we'll run the poll later.. This thread will close so we're making it a poll, sort of

Timeless is pretty close, I think,

Just one CD. Cannot be more than 80 minutes at most then.

but even if it isn't 2 hours Saturnzreturn is forever long.

"Saturnzreturn" of course. No estimated running time on that one, though, as it goes on forever.

the triple album thread would probably be helpful to cross reference

Yes, but most of the albums mentioned in that thread are live or compilations.

Timeless is pretty close, I think

But there's really no way of knowing, is there?

(Sorry)

"Just one CD. Cannot be more than 80 minutes at most then."

There is a two CD version actually. The single disc was a re-release.

""Saturnzreturn" of course. No estimated running time on that one, though, as it goes on forever."

I can't tell if you are kidding haha.

Why, Kesto by Pan Sonic of course.

And speaking of debuts, Supersilent debuted with a three-disc whopper.

Aphex Twin: Drukqs

this one doesn't run more 2 hours...only about 100 minutes

selected ambient works vol. 2 does, however!

I think the K&D Sessions just nudges the two hour mark, but maybe it doesn't count as it's all remixes of other artists' stuff.

A borderline case, I would say. Based on other people's work, but still largely their own, new, work. Unless it was a compilation, containing older stuff.

every drone/noise band in the world to thread.

also Philip Glass' Einstein On The Beach. Nurse With Wound's original 3LP version of Soliloquy For Lilith is just under 2 hours.

Corrupted make a habit of this. In a good way.

I forgot about "Speakerboxx/The Love Below". It may be argued that it was two different albums, but there were released on the same date, together, and there was no possible way to buy them separately.

The ALL NEW MUSIC TRIPLE ALBUM Poll

for reference

Should Prince's Crystal Ball really be in that list? (considering it's mostly old officially unreleased stuff that's been tweaked and given painfully poor mastering)

Pan Sonic - Kesto (234.48:4)

As the name implies, just shy of four hours.

Y'all can thank Miles Davis for forcing Columbia to break the 20 minute mark per lp side with Bitches Brew. I know I'm not being precise here--there may have been some lps > 20', but BB was the first popular music release of 20+ per side, 4 sides.

But as alex in sf said: "Practically every hip-hop and electronic double CD is longer than 120 minutes (sadly.)"

So, it's not how long it is, it's what you do with it. Coltrane's A Love Supreme is just over 33 minutes, while Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is over two hours. A fine album by many people's reckoning (I have it but haven't listened to it years) but I can't imagine that there's much more than 30 minutes worth of listening there.

"Evol" by Sonic Youth

Haha I just came here to mention that.

Why was "Consequences" in that poll upthread? It consists of around 30 per cent music and the rest spoken dialogue, after all. So no "All new music", really.

(Counts as a 2 hour plus album though).

http://www.discogs.com/release/875925

This album has 45 minutes of music on standard CD format plus 2,5 hours more music in MP3 format. I think it counts, it's all unreleased anyway.

Previously unreleased, that is.

Fucking astonishing (debut?!) record.

he'd been making records for yeeeears

Midnight Odyssey's Shards Of Silver Fade

http://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/shards-of-silver-fade