Best of the Songs Clocking 10:00 to 15:00

[Zzzptm]

Is the song 9:59 or shorter?
Is it 15:01 or longer?

NOT FOR THIS THREAD! TAKE THAT NOISE ELSEWHERE!

So take that suggestion for Balakirev's "Russia Symphonic Poem" and shove it!  The Tom Moulton Mix of "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine?" UNACCEPTABLE! 

I'm going to go also with the thinking that a stretched-out live version won't cut it unless the studio version is also in the time window. Use your own judgment on that front.

My first entry must be from the great Fela Kuti, "Water No Get Enemy". This is one I am playing over and over since discovering it, as the message in the lyrics is deep and powerful. Coupled with the instrumentalists, it's a profound ride each time.

[Charger]

In 10th place we have some epic DOOOM METAL


SOLITUDE AETURNUS - EMBRACE

Doom metal legends final album Alone (So far anyways...they have reunited recently) had a bonus track which actually clocked over 10 minutes! It is also their longest song and an absolute masterpiece. Robert’s haunting vocals, John Perez’s epical riffing, tempo changes and the overall mood of the song is heavy as hell. This is some top notch epic DOOOOOOOOM right here!

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Hmmm I may have shot myself in the foot with the 15-minute restriction! I just realised a couple of songs I had in mind are slightly over 15 minutes! But I do have 10, so without a further adieu (or is it "a do"?)...

First choice... I do the last few in order!

Foetus - Slung

A version of JG Thirwell's "Foetus" this is from the 1996 album Gash. A post punk swing tume here clocking in a 11:22 (it has a lengthy instrumental with a drum and horn section and then the guitar and bass come in later which I rather like)!

And yes the start does sound as if they've already started when they remember to switch the tape on!

[Vyn]

Uriah Heep opens up my list with "The Magician's Birthday". If a person can look like a song sounds, I always thought this is what Ken Hensley would look like.

It was the '70s, man. What can I say?

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I need to catch up on your earlier posts... I don't really have the time now!!

The second pick for me is...

Magnum - Don't Wake the Lion

A moody almost proggy song about war (WWI I believe) with slower and faster parts. Clocking in at around 10:30 this comes from their 1988 album Wings of Heaven.

[Charger]

On 9th place we have the center piece of one of the greatest concept albums ever made.


SUITE SISTER MARY by Queenrÿche

This is a great tune...the music is suberb and the duet vocals of Geoff and Pamela work like a charm. Best song on the album too.

[Zzzptm]

Roy Harper - "The Game"

From his HQ album (When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease in the US), released in 1975. Features David Gilmour on guitar and some incredible lyrics from an incredible lyricist. One of my favorite tracks to spin.

[Vyn]

From late 1967, "When the Music's Over" is the last song on the second side of The Doors' second long player, Strange Days. An edited version used to get a lot of rotation on "classic rock" stations. Prior to it being considered "classic", every so often, late at night, the entire song would get played.

[Vyn]

On 9th place we have the center piece of one of the greatest concept albums ever made.

That is one bleak collection of songs! I bought their EP when it came out (basic, by-the-numbers metal), and then never heard anything about them. Then years down the road a friend of mine had picked up mind crime, and I was like, "this is not the same band" lol.

[Zzzptm]

My third entry...

Sky Valley Mistress "Blue Desert"

No two ways about this one, it COOKS. Starts off low and slow, but there's heat in them vocals. The whole song builds expertly into a proper blaze. When I feel like listening to one of the longer Led Zeppelin songs, I put this track on.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Choice number 3

Helloween - Halloween

Y'know I'm not a huge fan of Helloween, but I really like this 13:18 song. It's off the 1987 album Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I

[Vyn]

One of a handful of songs I like from Led Zeppelin happens to fit the timing requirements of this list. To me, this was like my experience with Queensryche and Operation Mind Crime - sounded nothing like their earlier stuff and seem to be a from a band functioning at a higher level - from 1976, I bring you, "Achilles Last Stand":

[Zzzptm]

^For me, "Achilles Last Stand" never really clicked the way Carouselambra or Kashmir did. I think it's one of the reasons I don't like Presence all that much.

My choice today is an offering from Funkadelic featuring Philippe Wynne, recently departed from The Spinners: "Uncle Jam"

Lots of textures in the track, excellent drumming, and it's fun how it musically quotes "Soldier in the Army of the Lord" as Philippe Wynne does his freestyle freaky flow.

[Charger]

I missed yesterday so I'm one behind...




My 8th place is a track from TYPE O NEGATIVE's final album Dead Again called PROFIT OF DOOM

A great doomy track with a classic Type O sound. Tempo changes and other oddities just as you'd expect from the band. I'm quite close of calling this one my all time favourite Type O Negative song.

[Vyn]

For something a little different: Charles Mingus – "Pithecanthropus Erectus". This is the title track of the LP released in 1956. The entire album is fantastic.