Let’s talk about Boredoms. The main track on “Super Roots 7,” “7 ---> (Boriginal),” is one of the monster long jams of the last few decades, stranding together Neu!, the Mekons, field recordings, the Velvets, late-‘90s futurist dance music, and anything else they could think to throw in.
And I’ve always thought of their masterpiece album, “Vision Creation Newsun,” which they made a few years later, as a continuation of those ideas. Though it’s technically broken up into different tracks, it’s really all one 68-minute composition, and it’s excellent.
no deafheaven in the comments??? the mf kings of the long vibey metal album. big honeycomb guy personally, but can't go wrong with sunbather and dream house
gotta throw a shout out to the led zeppelin live at MSG album and then made in japan live deep purple
don't forget about mirror reaper by bell witch!!! or machine gun live at woodstock jimi hendrix, goatified longass song heroes!!!!
Geese's "Undoer" (7:00) and Freddie Hubbard's "Red Clay" (12:09) are some of my go-to long songs. Thank you for standing in the face of PinkPantheress' comment that songs should all be 2:30.
incredible playlist forming in here that would take several lifetimes to listen to
marquee moon
dang! it was right there! perfect
fela kuti - zombie (whole album is FLIP MODE)
yo la tengo - spec bepop
cymande - dove
thee oh sees - the virologist
oh true so many felas fit the bill but zombie might be my no.1 pick too
Same!
Have to mention queen of long songs Joanna Newsom (anything on Ys). And one of her inspirations, Roy Harper’s Me and My Woman (13:03)
how did we forget Ys !! never heard that harper, eager to check it out
Cortez the Killer - Neil Young
There are backing tracks on YouTube where you can get your Neil on and shred over it. Basically free therapy.
I'll add:
24 to 24 Live at the Kitchen - Arthur Russell (just under an 1:07:00) it's orchestral disco, it's dance music, it's brassy
Symphony for Improvisers - Don Cherry (19:44)
Bay of Pigs (detail) - Destroyer (11:18)
Tranquility - Sam Rivers (8:58)
wow. Arthur Russell & Destroyer in the same comment. Destroyer has a few long cuts that are so so good, one of my faves:
Destroyer - Laziest River (19:57)
some kind of bonus track on a Japanese edition of Kaputt or something. Hat tip to P Relief and his show Kinda Radio for this one.
Songs:Ohia - Farewell Transmission (7:21)
Bowie - Station to Station (10:16)
Prince - I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (6:28)
Bruce - Rosalita (7:00)
Burial - Rough Sleeper (13:47)
It Feels Like Floating by Mary Lattimore (it does!) clocks in at 11:31 seconds of pure bliss. My wife and I have played it countless nights as we wind down from the day. https://open.spotify.com/track/5P0cbDhsv6wCqyAqfhBxaW?si=745c5ca8f4d84c0b
thank you
This is beautiful.
Its Joanna Newsom - Only Skin (16:53) now and forever…
Let’s talk about Boredoms. The main track on “Super Roots 7,” “7 ---> (Boriginal),” is one of the monster long jams of the last few decades, stranding together Neu!, the Mekons, field recordings, the Velvets, late-‘90s futurist dance music, and anything else they could think to throw in.
And I’ve always thought of their masterpiece album, “Vision Creation Newsun,” which they made a few years later, as a continuation of those ideas. Though it’s technically broken up into different tracks, it’s really all one 68-minute composition, and it’s excellent.
Halleluhwah by Can (18:32)
100%
Maggot Brain...oh my goodness!!! it's so gooooooooood!
no deafheaven in the comments??? the mf kings of the long vibey metal album. big honeycomb guy personally, but can't go wrong with sunbather and dream house
gotta throw a shout out to the led zeppelin live at MSG album and then made in japan live deep purple
don't forget about mirror reaper by bell witch!!! or machine gun live at woodstock jimi hendrix, goatified longass song heroes!!!!
Glad to see someone else recognized the GOAT that is Mirror Reaper.
Scanning over some stats on my personal Spotify I think I have a few to add to the rotation, setting by minimal amount of time at 6 minutes:
The Ghetto (Live at The Troubador, 1972) by Donny Hathaway (12:06)
Moanin' by Charles Mingus/Mingus Big Band (8:59)
Not by Big Thief (6:07)
Maggot Brain by Funkadelic (10:21)
Black Market by Weather Report (6:31)
Quarter to Three - Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK - November 1975 by Bruce Springsteen + E Street (6:45)
Living for the City by Stevie Wonder (7:23)
Untitled (How Does it Feel) by D'Angelo (7:11)
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant by Billy Joel (7:37)
To Old Friends and New by Titus Andronicus (7:01)
Blast from the past but Jesus of Suburbia by Green Day also clocks in at 9:08 lol
Few more, I can't help myself:
Pictures of Success by Rilo Kiley (6:52)
It's All Coming Back to Me Now by Celine Dion (7:37)
Love Hangover by Diana Ross (7:49)
Traffic’s “the Low Spark of High Heeled Boys” instantly came to mind as joyfully long so looked it up: 11:44
Geese's "Undoer" (7:00) and Freddie Hubbard's "Red Clay" (12:09) are some of my go-to long songs. Thank you for standing in the face of PinkPantheress' comment that songs should all be 2:30.