There are a lot of really long tracks out there. I have a preference for those of a rockier persuasion but don’t want to limit the thread to any particular genre. To qualify as Epic, the track must be at least 10 minutes long; so go on, tell us what your favourites are and why we should hear them.
I’ll start with this one, at 19m.02s. Another Day from the album, The World is a Game, by Canadian rockers, Mystery. For me, it has everything; soaring guitars, big drum fills, fast parts, slow parts, changes in tempo and timing and decent - if at times a little awkward - lyrics that tell an interesting story. The last word in high-fidelity it is not, but what it lacks in absolute SQ, it more than makes up for in being… well, Epic.
How about this one, just over 10 mins long from Welsh rock band Budgie. The track “Parents” was from the “Never Turn Your Back On A Friend” album released in 1973. It always appears on their best of releases and takes me back whenever I hear the track - a classic rock track
Someone else will no doubt suggest Echoes by PF, so I’ll suggest Waiting for Cousteau by Jean-Michel Jarre. The title track from his 1990 album, it was only 22min on vinyl, but nearly 47 minutes on the CD. Quite unlike any track he’s done before or since, it’s an ambient soundscape with a quasi-aquatic feel.
Plague of Lighthousekeepers-Van der Graaf Generator
Hallelulwah- Can (side 2 of TagoMago)
Close To The Edge-Yes
so many more as well than these
Stephen
i quite enjoy paul simon’s recent seven psalms - it plays as a single 33 minute track thou containing seven ‘movements’ so maybe not really a single track
Then there’s this. Apparently edited down from several hours to twenty-and-a-half minutes. Really, it should go on for a lot, lot longer. Oh, and THAT drumming!
