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Excellent long tracks please (of any genre)

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by MrScagdenSir

I'm a member of emusic which means that I get a certain number of track downloads per month. Now obviously you get more music for your money here if you download very long tracks rather than using up all your downloads on minor threat and ending up with only 30 minutes of music to show for it.

My favourites so far:

The Fantomas - Delerium Cordia - Mike Patton fuelled horror rock (1 hour plus track)
Boris - Absolutego - 2 tracks of superb drone.

Anyone got any other faves in a similar vein?

MrScagdenSir | 23 Apr '08, 19:35 | Send note | Report this | Reply

in no way simular but

Richardo Villalobos made a 37-minute long single called Fizheuer Zieheuer which is pretty good a real builder that one.


damn you beat me to it!

the vinyl lasts over an hour as the other track is another 30ish minute exploration in 808 kick drums and old school latin american samples...!


ace aint it

I love that guy. It is a simple track but still keeps you interested and you come out the other side going wow what was that all about hehe.


good call!

his remix of blood on your hands is a good 18 minutes too! and thats a peach


Damn right

awsome mix.


Pretty much anything by Reverend Bizarre

If you like Boris you should appreciate their rockin' brand of Doom, and iirc few of their tracks clock in at under ten minutes, in fact their new LP is 2 hours of music spread across six tracks and two discs.

I'd also recommend Nadja, Electric Wizard, Burning Witch, Grayceon and Mouth of the Architect - all bands that excel at the lengthy jam.


Just had a quick look on emusic

They don't seem to have Bitches Brew or In a Silent Way by Miles Davis.
If you like drone maybe try Birchville Cat Motel?
How about some krautrock? They've got the first Faust album. 3 tracks in about 35 minutes.


Moya

on new slow riot for zero Kanada, beautiful and about 15minutes long


ooh spooky

I just posted about that very track on this thread

http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/3201048

but ta anyway


I was going to contribute

but then I realised long to me is about ten minutes.


sleep - dopesmoker/jersualem

hour long doom metal epic


I want this one

the band is called Sleep?


The Field

sound of light ep - 4 x 15 minute tracks. except the last one is currently knackered, so don't download it!

The Drift have some great long post-rock tracks around 11/12 mins.

Earth - ripped on fascist ideas - 31 mins.

Godspeed you black emperor.

some long jazz stuff - albert ayler, charles mingus.

i got the boris and fantomas ones too ;o)


man with a movie camera - the cinematic orchestra

just over an hour of genius...

:)


not one track...

sadly that's 17 tracks on emusic.


NOFX 'The Decline'

Fucked Up 'Year of the Pig'


I was going to suggest Fucked Up

They're great value for money!


how about..

do make say think - goodby enemy airship

joanna newsom - only skin

yo la tengo let's be still

from monument to masses - sharpshooter

jaga jazzist - swedensborgske rom

that's practically an hour of fun.


i once saw yellowcard

soundcheck by playing the decline
it wasn't very good


marquee moon - television

thin blue flame - josh ritter
real emotional trash - stephen malkmus & the jicks
bela lugosi's dead - bauhaus

not really really long, but over 7 mins i think for all of them. marquee moon is about 10.

longer than that...
23 minutes over brussels - suicide - 23 mins long.


marquee moon might be my favorite song

would love to see that live.


..My Father

My King


There's loads on emusic,

a couple of quick faves. Dirge is similarish to Boris, the others are ambient:

William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops 1 (http://tinyurl.com/6x9clw)

Dirge - Wings of Lead Over Dormant Seas (http://tinyurl.com/2reowc)

Windy & Carl - Antartica: Bliss Out V2 (http://tinyurl.com/6aoymh)


that is exactly the sort of thing

I already has Disintegration Loops on saved for later.

The others also sound fab and have joined it.

Ta


not long enough...

ride - leave them all behind
flowered up - weekender


...

Zozobra by Old Man Gloom - 27 mins of awesome metal, ambient noise and a great guitar solo 21mins in.

Capture & Release by Khanate - 2 tracks of over 45 mins.

Leng Tch'e by Naked City. 31 mins of weirdness.

Ascension by John Coltrane for around 40 mins of free jazz.


And...

the album Here Where Nothing Grows by Ocean. 3 tracks over 64mins. Some of the best doom metal I've ever heard.


My two-penneth

The Decemberists - The Tain
The Decemberists - The Island
Fucked Up - Year Of The Pig
Death Cab For Cutie - Stability
Black Mountain - Bright Lights
Neutral Milk Hotel - Pree-Sisters Swallowing A Donkey's Eye
Animal Collective - Visiting Friends
Morrissey - The Teachers Are Afraid Of The Pupils


No idea how long but i wish sometimes they never end

Stereolab/Nurse with wound -Simple headphone mind
Mogwai - My father, my king
Can- oh yeah
Orbital - II
OM -At giza


An excellent long track is

babe I'm on fire by Nick Cave.

Actually, its probably a *bit* too long.


^

good choice sir!
You Made Me Realise on the My Bloody Valentine 'Loom' boot is quite tasty.


anything off

Earth2 by earth
anything by godspeed you black emperor, especially lift your skinny hands,
thurston moore solo work?
anything by merzbow (do they have sun baked snow?)


Earthless!

If 20+ minute psychedelic stoner wagouts are your thing.

If not, why not?


Yeah!

"Sonic Prayer" is ace.


Yes,

Earthless are fucking amazing. The live albums on emusic are essential too.


Earthless sound fab.

I like the idea of both Earth and Earthless being recommended within a few posts of each other.


^

Brilliance.

*Machines (Apologies)


Marquee Moon

but that's already been said as it's pretty much a cliche in long song discusions (dosen't meen it's not brillient though).

Also anything on Joanna Newsom's Ys.


Try Corrupted - El Mundo Frio

The stolen paragraph below contains spoilers!

"El Mundo Frio will probably remain the heaviest, creepiest, most beautiful, epic, expansive slab of slowcore doom drone you will ever hear. Ever. One hour and twelve minutes. A cloud of shimmering drone underpins hazy, haunting piano and warm chordal swells, plucked harps and simple finger picked guitars. For almost ten minutes, Corrupted creep along dreamily, stepping lightly, drifting lazily through a stark ambient soundfield, before the heavens collapse and the sky begins to fall in huge crushing chunks, and massive stabs of super distorted guitars swell and crumble into an abstract pounding rhythm. Completely heavy, but strangely lovely at the same time. A lilting melody is hidden somewhere beneath all that buzz and rumble. Eventually the stabs slowly mutate into a creeping, loping post rock rhythm, with minor key strums, simple shuffling drumming and growled semi-spoken vocals, before the whole thing fades to almost nothingness, revisiting the delicate shimmer of the beginning of the record. The last twenty five minutes are mostly ambient with snatches of that hypnotic post rock, and a brief but furious explosion of soul crushing heaviness with the same vocals delivered now in a glass gargling gurgle, and then the track drifts off into ten plus minutes of barely there dreaminess, mostly single notes on the harp drifting like snow flakes against a black night sky. So lovely."


i heard that the other week

damn fine. why do they sing in spanish though?


it did

follow the lines down


maybe...

No Disco Future by Melchior Productions Ltd. at 32:27
45:33 - LCD Soundsystem
Now We're Even - Smart Went Crazy at 21:46
Some Velvet Underground?
Bright Lights - Black Mountain at 16:41
Skylon! - Gruff Rhys at 14:36
Mogwai Fear Satan and the remixes
Out There - Studio at 15:58


Dopesmoker - Sleep

Over an hour of dirty, stoner metal. Amazing


aah...

already had Dopesmoker...what about Kyuss's album 'Welcome To Sky Valley', 1 album spilt up into 3 songs...


Bloemfontien - The Longer Now

Drone-like post rock, mesmerising and beautiful. 5 track album is 70 odd mins long.


3 of the best

Joanna Newsom - Emily
Yes - Heart of the Sunrise
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere


Yeah, I'd definitely say

Joanna Newsom and also The Island and The Crane Wife 1 and 2 by the Decemberists


Go

for some Jim O'Rourke.


Legendary Pink Dots

There are a few massive ones but try premonition II


Any Godspeed

Any Joanna Newsom off Ys
Sao Paulo off the end of Guillemots first album - very good, even if you're not into them usually.


How bout...

'Out Of Egypt, Into The Great Laugh Of Mankind, And I Shake The Dirt From My Sandals As I Run' by Sufjan Stevens?

Oh, I see what we're doing, not long names...

Surely someone's mentioned anything by Godspeed You! Black Emporer??


Television - Marquee Moon

less than eleven minutes, but pretty much one of the best things to come out of the 70s


..

'SAI' - OOIOO
'I Did Are' - Afrirampo
'Look Away' - Deerhoof
'Pink Lady Lemonade' - Acid Mothers Temple


The Orb or Orbital

Have a bunch of long tunes also Kinski 'Schedule for using pillows and beanbags', Ride 'grasshopper' (instrumental post prog from whiny indie band shock) Mercury Rev 'shh/peaceful/very sleepy rivers' and there's a couple of tracks on 'fantasma' by Cornelius that are 12 and 17 mins (only Jap import tho?) Finally, is Daft Punk's 'Alive' one track on emusic?


check out Nurse With Wound, Current 93 and Coil

they've got loads of epic tracks and fit in nicely with what you are liking about Boris (look for "Time Machines" by Coil)! Also: SWANS, Opeth, My Dying Bride, Bob Dylan's "Highlands" is seventeen minutes long and so cool.


FREEBIRD


Stereolab 'Jenny Ondioline'

Just over the 18 minute mark and its great.


David Bowie

Station to Station


'I dream a highway' by Gillian Welch

Incredible. Absoloutely incredible.