Longest rock song ever recorded

[Hugoku]

Tales of Topographic Oceans - Yes over 80 minutes long

next would be
Thursday Afternoon - Brian Eno 61 minutes

Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield is close to 50 minutes

Karn Evil 9 - ELP is 30 minutes
Tarkus - ELPis 20 minutes
Echoes - Pink Floyd is close to 30 minutes
Supper's Ready - Genesis is 20 minutes
Amarok - Mike Oldfield is 60 minutes

Tales of Topographic Oceans is not really a song but rather a suite in several different parts so I guess it does not count as one song.

Brian Eno hardly qualifies as rock.

I'd say Delirivm Cordia which is actually just one 74 minute track

Then again we could enter into a discussion about what really counts as one song (maybe just different songs stringed together)

[sowings]

The CD age has made it easier for artists to produce long songs. I think this category should be broken out to "Vinyl artists" and "CD artists". Though if that Tull song really does span both sides, they were ahead of their time.

[a21schizoidman]

Tales of Topographic Oceans is not really a song but rather a suite in several different parts so I guess it does not count as one song.

Brian Eno hardly qualifies as rock.

I'd say Delirivm Cordia which is actually just one 74 minute track

Then again we could enter into a discussion about what really counts as one song (maybe just different songs stringed together)

yes, but is only broken into 4 suites because well, vinyl can only hold so much, so it was a double album release, each side got one suite

[Julio_Strikes_Back]

Isn't there a song called "The Devil Glitch" that's over an hour long?

[a21schizoidman]

I win




Yoo Doo Right - Can


6 HOURS LONG

[thedoorsdk]

Wrong "Mountain Jam" 33:38 Duane Allman FTW

Edit Damn I thought I was right

I actually have a live Allman Brothers album with a 44 minute performance of Mountain Jam on it. Rumor has it that it was also edited down so that it could fit.

[a21schizoidman]

I actually have a live Allman Brothers album with a 44 minute performance of Mountain Jam on it. Rumor has it that it was also edited down so that it could fit.

Yoo Doo Right had to be edited down too, cuz it started at 12 hours, then went to 6

finally to fit it on one side of vinyl it was edited to 20 minutes

[CycoMiko138]

Not a rock song and not recorded, but:
"The longest - and most boring - musical piece ever "composed" (if the word fits here) is, in all likelihood, a piece for Organ called »Organ2/ASLSP« (As Slow(ly) and Soft(ly) as Possible), conceived by American composer/artist John Cage (1912-1992). An organist shows up at the St. Buchardi Church in Halberstadt, Germany to play a single, lasting note and leaves, to return again the next year and play the note that follows. The piece ends after 639 years, on September 4, 2640."

D___________A___________M__________N___________!

[CycoMiko138]

The longest rock song I've ever heard was Dopesmoker by Sleep.(73:07)

[theantkid12]

Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence by Dream Theater

Something around 40 minutes.