I've got a lot:

A Long Day - Polyphonic Spree (36:30)
River of Transfiguration - Six Organs of Admittance (23:50)
Echoes - Pink Floyd (23:27)
All four Godspeed songs on Lift Yr Skinny Fists are around 20 mins each.
Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin (BBC) (18:36)
Mask - Jeff Gautier Goatette (17:59)
Only Skin - Joanna Newsom (16:53)
Handguns and Firearms - Japancakes (16:43)
Highlands - Bob Dylan (16:31)
Monolith - Beta Band (15:48)
Less Than You Think - Wilco (15:04)
Heron King Blues - Califone (14:55)
Beauties Can Die - M83 (14:38)
Dance With Me - The Juan MacLean (14:05)
Danger Bird - Neil Young (Live) (13:34)
Expensive Shit - Fela Kuti (13:36)
Untitled 7 - Sigur Ros (12:59)
Visiting Friends - Animal Collective (12:36)


Okay, this is getting annoying. I have at least 30 more. That list is good enough.

One of my favorites is another Wilco tune from the same album: Spiders

My files get deleted a lot so I currently have two

RJD2 - Work (11:39)
Explosions In The Sky - The Only Moment We Were Alone (10:14)

I will say David Cross - If Baseballs Had AIDs On Them has to be one of my favorite long runners. Absolutely hilarious.

So instead of just naming long songs which all of us obviously have in our collections, which long songs hold up? What are the best ones that hold your attention for 15 minutes and are better for being so long?

My favorite long song is Sonic Youth's Diamond Sea which is really a 4 to 5 minute typical Thurston Moore sung Sonic Youth tune with a 10 minute drone/feedback workout at the end which doesn't get boring for a single second. Its Sonic Youth at their very best and captures everything amazing about them in one song. The song is gorgeous, and the ending takes you to another level. Sit in your living room and put it up loud and its just jaw dropping awesome.

I'm new to these forums, so here goes just a few of mine...

Pursurance - John Coltrane (21:30)
Refractions in a Plastic Pulse - Stereolab (17:32)
Anna Begins (Live) - Counting Crows (13:54)
Year of the Horse - Sufjan Stevens (13:18)
The Story of Yo La Tango -Yo La Tengo (11:48)
Desolation Row - Bob Dylan (11:22)
Static/Diamond Bollocks - Beck (11:19)
Kanga Roo - Jeff Buckley (10:23)

All of mine hold up except for THAT last one.

No love for "Diamond Sea", and you can make it through all of "Night Falls on Hoboken"?????

Unless you were referring to your Polyphonic Spree song. Can't tell with your post.

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Counting now, i've got 40+ songs which are longer than 15 minutes, and i reckon the majority hold up pretty well.

My favourites would have to be the godspeed! tracks on 'lift your skinny fists' (though they are more like suites than singular songs), and much of the stuff from miles davis' fusion period (i'm thinking 'in a silent way' and 'bitches brew' in particular)

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Originally posted by Hophead:
No love for "Diamond Sea", and you can make it through all of "Night Falls on Hoboken"?????

Unless you were referring to your Polyphonic Spree song. Can't tell with your post.

The Spree song is the loser, and why is it so difficult to understand? "Hoboken" kicks its ass, but it's not really important to me anymore.

I'm a big YLT fan, but "Night Falls on Hoboken" is one of their few mis-steps in my opinion. Its it not the length, either. It just goes nowhere, in my opinion. I guess by putting it at the end of the album its not hurting anyone.

the end by the doors holds up
most of shine on you crazy diamond by pink floyd
sleep by GYBE
providence by GYBE

Pink Floyd dominates this for me (excluding Dane Cook):

Echoes- Pink Floyd (23:28)
Dogs- Pink Floyd (17:08)
Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt.1- Pink Floyd (13:34)
Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt.2- Pink Floyd (12:25)
Pigs (Three Different Ones)- Pink Floyd (11:28)
Free Bird- Lynyrd Skynyrd (10:07)

I have 224.


These are my favorites (one song/artist):

"Tessio" ~ Luomo
"Do While" ~ Oval
"Bro's" ~ Panda Bear
"Garbagemx36" ~ Autechre
"We Will Diffuse You" ~ FennO'Berg
"New Animals from the Air" ~ Eluvium
"Refractions in the Plastic Pulse" ~ Stereolab
"A Huge Evergrowing Pulsating Brain..." ~ The Orb
"The Past is a Grotesque Animal" ~ Of Montreal
"Storm" ~ GYBE
"Water" ~ The Roots
"Only Skin" ~ Joanna Newsom
"Timeless" ~ Goldie
"(Circle)" ~ Boredoms
"The Sinner" ~ Orbital
"And a 1,2,3,4" ~ Jim O'Rourke
"This Dust Makes That Mud" ~ Liars
"Let's Call It Love" ~ Sleater-Kinney
"The Diamond Sea" ~ Sonic Youth
"Pass the Hatchet..." ~ Yo La Tengo
"Visiting Friends" ~ Animal Collective
"Bolerish" ~ Ryuichi Sakamoto
"The Land Between Solar Systems" ~ Múm

and last but certainly not least, ALL of The Supreme Collection: Volume 1 by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan! I can't single out one song from it!