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Anonymous asked in Entertainment & MusicMusicRock and Pop · 1 decade ago

What are the 10 longest and 10 shortest songs in your music library?

And don't count songs with hidden tracks and a lot of blank space. For example, "Something In The Way" by Nirvana is on my playlist and it's 20 minutes long, but the song "Something In The Way" only lasts something like 3 minutes and then there's 10 minutes of scilence and a hidden track, but that won't be on my list. And they have to be musical tracks, I have a few CDs with interviews and a Black Flag CD with a 17 minute long fake commercial and none of those will count. Oh and no live tracks, sorry so many rules but I want this to work right. So here goes:

1) "Sister Ray" - Velvet Underground - 17:27

2) "You Shouldn't Do That" - Hawkwind - 15:42

3) "Up In Her Room" - The Seeds - 14:45

4) "Desolation Row" - Bob Dylan - 11:29

5) "Trucker's Atlas" - Modest Mouse - 10:58

6) "Achilles Last Stand" - Led Zeppelin - 10:23

7) "We Will Fall" - The Stooges - 10:17

8) "Shut Down (Annihilation Man)" - The Germs - 9:41

9) "Land" - Patti Smith - 9:26

10) "Birdland" - Patti Smith - 9:16

Update:

Now the shortest:

1) “You Stupid Jerk” – The Angry Samoans – 0:24

2) “Deny Everything” – The Circle Jerks – 0:28

3) “Field Day For The Sundays” – Wire – 0:28

4) “Hot Cars” – Angry Samoans – 0:33

5) “Don’t Care” – The Circle Jerks – 0:35

6) “Don Giovanni” – Rancid – 0:35

7) “The Todd Killings” – Angry Samoans – 0:38

8) “Tuna Taco” – Angry Samoans – 0:39

9) “Coffin Case” – Angry Samoans – 0:39

10) “Maggie Mae” – The Beatles – 0:41

I’m going to 15 since the Angry Samoans dominated that list:

11) “Brazil” – Wire – 0:41

12) “In Your Eyes” – The Circle Jerks – 0:42

13) “I Wanna Be A Bear” – The Descendents – 0:43

14) “Different To Me” – Wire – 0:44

15) “What We Do Is Secret” – The Germs – 0:44

Congratulations to the Germs for making both lists!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Hmmm I don't know where I've put or stored all my cds & vinyl since I moved last year, so I'll have to wing it by what I could remember or guess & or find quick. for some long ones how about --- Velvet Underground's "Hey Mr. Rain",Damned's- "Curtain Call"(over 17 minutes),Pink Floyd--"Interstellar Overdrive"(original recording session--over 17 minutes too--from their good days before commercializing when Syd Barrett was in em' around 66' or 67' before he overdosed into insanity),The Residents--"Eskimo Concentrate" (over 10 minutes,but I'm sure they have at least one longer concentrate song than that one),Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's Dead"(over 9 or 9 & a half minutes long),Stooges' "We will fall"(more than 10 minutes), Hawkwind's "Brainstorm", Sisters of Mercy's "This Corrosion"(just seconds shy of 11 minutes long)Sisterhood's(A Sisters of Mercy project band)-Sisterhood's "Jihad"(8:13) & Sisterhood's "Finland Red, Egypt White" (8:16), Patti Smith's "Horses",Germ's "Shut Down (Annihilation Man)"(9:35) ,Clash's "Bankrobber Dub"

    Ministry's "Scarecrow" (8:19),Spaceman 3's "Rollercoaster" (13:35) & Spaceman 3's "Starship"(11:26), Wiper's "Youth of America"(10:24),Legendary Pink Dot's "Green Gang",(7:32) & Legendary Pink Dot's "The Grain Kings"(8:12), A Savage Republic's song or 2 but can't find the darn things right now, Jane's Addiction's "Three Days"(10:45), & Jane's Addiction's "Then She Did"(8:15), Sisterhood's "Giving Ground",(7:30), Ministry's "So What"(8:11) Psi Com's "Winds"(Jane's Addiction's Perry Farrell's band before Jane's Addiction)(7:36),Chrome's "Excerpt from Read Only Memory"(Which also might be referred to or as "I am the Jaw")(A band who helped define the terms Industrial/Experimental--They combine punk-psychedelic-industrial-techno-(lots of guitar pedals needed, they started around 1976)(8:18) & Chrome's "Armageddon"(8:33),My Life with the The Thrill Kill Kult's "Cuz it's hot"(12" version)(10:14),Parliament's "Bop Gun(Endangered Species)"(8:29) Psychic TV's "I.C. Water"(lp version)(A song in rememberance of Joy Division's singer Ian Curtis who hung himself in 1980)(8:41),Neu(a project band of Hawkwind & Kraftwerk band members)--Neu's " Hallo Gallo"(10:07), & Neu's "Negativland"(9:33), & Neu's "Fur Immer"(11:16), & Neu's "Leb Wohl" (8:44), & Neu's "E-Musik"(9:57),Clock DVA's "The Hacker" (Viral version)(7:22), Alien Sex Fiend's- "EST(Trip to the Moon)"( 8:32), & Alien(Alien Sex Fiend is kind of like Cramps meets Alice Cooper meets industrial Music- around long long before Marilyn(wannabe)Mans. & Alien Sex Fiend's "Now I'm feeling Zombified" (dub or extended version)(7:56),Suicide's(first band to call themselves punk officially around 1970 or 71',but they're more like combination Elvis meets the Doors meets No Wave meets Industrial)--Suicide's "FrankieTeardrop"(10:24), Helios Creed(Guitarist of & newer singer of Chrome's)Helios Creed's "Spiral Arms"(11:31) & Helios Creed's "Vastness(Flipside)"(10:05), Lard (Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedys working with Ministry's guys)Lard's "They're coming to take me away"(8:25) & Lard's "I am your Clock" (15:27), & Helios Creed's "Obducted-Leaving" (8:05),I was gonna check for more like Black Sabbath,Tangerine Dream, More Floyd, Bu**hole Surfers,Flipper, Swans, Scratch Acid, more Legendary Pink Dots,Revco,Rapper remixes,& more but I ran out of room.Shortest songs I don't have enough time to look through my sizable collection & there's so many I can't remember all of them by shortest by far even less but I'll give a couple or so how about Descendents' "All" (at 1 & a half seconds) & Descendents' "Weinerschnitzel"(10 & a half seconds) Minutemen's shorter remake of Ur*nals' "Ack Ack Ack",plus most everything you mentioned up top especially all the Angry Samoans, except(I think)for a couple of other bands' songs you mentioned but have a lot more shorter songs just not a lot of time to look all through you would not believe the size of the collection.

  • 1 decade ago

    Longest:

    1. Cavern of Tile- Mystified (32:32)

    2. Cassandra Gemini- The Mars Volta (32:32)

    3. Providence- Godspeed You! Black Emperor (29:02)

    4. Echoes- Pink Floyd (23:32)

    5. 2112- Rush (20:33)

    6. Black Rose Immortal- Opeth (20:15)

    7. Cygnus X-1 Book II- Rush (18:08)

    8. East Hastings- Godspeed You! Black Emperor (16:28)

    9. Six Point Two Billion Light Years- A Beautiful Machine (14:34)

    10. Advent- Opeth (13:45)

    Shortest:

    1. 17- Smashing Pumpkins (0:17)

    2. 18 Sekundur Fyrir Solaruppras (0:18)

    3. Soliloquy- From First To Last (0:26)

    4. ...- From First To Last (0:26)

    5. Revelations- Suicide Silence (0:33)

    6. Passive Manipulation- The White Stripes (0:35)

    7. Shave- Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson (0:36)

    8. Five Per Cent For Nothing- Yes (0:38)

    9. Happy Holidays, You B*stard- blink-182 (0:42)

    10. Redemption- The Devil Wears Prada (0:44)

  • 1 decade ago

    10 Longest:

    1. Tehilim by Steve Reich 17:32

    2. A Modern Myth by 30 Seconds to Mars 14:14

    3. French Kiss Off by The Juliana Theory 14:06

    4. The Poet and the Pendulum by Nightwish 13:54

    5. Konstantine by Something Corporate 10:30

    6. Sebastian by Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel 10:10

    7. Dead Boy's Poem by Nightwish 10:09

    8. Radioactive Toy by Porcupine Tree 10:00

    9. Glass and the Ghost Children by Smashing Pumpkins 9:56

    10. You Always Say Goodnight, Goodnight by The Juliana Theory 9:30

    10 Shortest

    1. 1959 by Saves the Day 0:34

    2. Initiation by AFI 0:39

    3. I Wanna Be a Bear by Descendents 0:42

    4. M -16 by Descendents 0:43

    5. Another Boy by Midtown 0:44

    6. Demon's Exit Song from Once More With Feeling, the Buffy Musical episode 0:47

    7. I Like You Ok by Lifetime 0:49

    8. The Blue Note by Underoath 0:51

    9. Just Walk Him Out There and Shoot Him by Saves the Day 0:52

    10. Sleep by Kimya Dawson 0:52

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Shortest:

    1. Melt Banana - Screw Loose - 0:11

    2. Melt Banana - So Unfilial Rule - 0:12

    3. Black Heart Procession - the End of Love - 0:12

    4. DJ QBert - Enter the Wave Twisters - 0:14

    I won't count Sentinel by Pavement (about 5 secs of a guitar riff)

    5. Melt Banana - Scrubber - 0:17

    6. Deerhoof - Sound the Alarm - 0:20

    7. Mark Mothersbaugh - Pagoda's Theme - 0:21

    8. DJ QBert - A Word From Fresh Breath Mouthwash - 0:22

    9. the Beatles - Her Majesty - 0:23

    10. Mark Motehrsbaugh - Look At That Old Grizzly Bear - 0:24

    Longest:

    1. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Providence - 29:02

    2. Miles Davis - B#tches Brew - 27:00

    3. Phillip Glass - Dance II for Organ - 24:32

    4. Miles Davis - Funky Tonk- 23:29

    5. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Sleep: They Don't Sleep Anymore On The Beach / Monheim / Broken Windows, Locks Of Love Part III/ - 23:18

    6. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Static: Terrible Canyons Of Static / Atomic Clock / Chart #3 / World Police And Friendly Fire / ...The Buildings They Are Sleeping Now - 22:36

    7. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Storm: Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven / Gathering Storm / "Welcome To Barco Am/Pm..." / Cancer Towers On Holy Road Hi-Way - 22:32

    8. Phillip Glass - Dance IV for Organ - 20:40

    9. Miles Davis - Pharaoh's Dance - 20:00

    10. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way/It's About that Time - 19:57

    a little redundant I know, but that's the list.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I will have to edit this a little because I am trying to keep it at songs, not like, speeches or comedy routines or anything. Or just, some weird noise or something that takes up like, a 5 second track. I also won't put in classical music.

    10 Longest Songs:

    1. "Goodbye Sky Harbor" - Jimmy Eat World (16:15)

    2. "Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 1-5" - Pink Floyd (13:40)

    3. "Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 6-9" - Pink Floyd (12:31)

    4. "Only One Bullet" - Some By Sea (12:22)

    5. "With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept" - Explosions In The Sky (12:03)

    6. "Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands" - Bob Dylan (11:20)

    7. "Sway" - Lostprophets (10:32)

    8. "Milano" - Sigur Rós (10:25)

    9. "Petur" - Sigur Rós (10:17)

    10. "Underture" - The Who

    10 Shortest Songs:

    1. "There's A Doctor" - The Who (0:24)

    2. "Do You Think It's Alright" - The Who (0:25)

    3. "Meet Me At The Tavern In Bower" - Gatsby's American Dream (0:28)

    4. "Stop" - Pink Floyd (0:31)

    5. "Can't Get It Out Of My Head" - Electric Light Orchestra (0:31)

    6. "In This Temple, As In The Hearts Of Man, For Whom He Saved The Earth" - Sufjan Stevens (0:35)

    7. "It's A Boy" - The Who (0:39)

    8. "22 Seconds" - Goo Goo Dolls (0:40)

    9. "Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It All the Way Out In Bushnell" - Sufjan Stevens (0:40)

    10. "Blew Job" - blink-182 (0:41)

  • Me
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Longest:

    1) "The Poet and the Pendulum" - Nightwish - 13:54

    2) "The Lady of Shalott" - Loreena McKennit - 11:05

    3) "Melpomene" - Elend - 10:25

    4) "Beauty of the Beast" - Nightwish - 10:24

    5) "Volcano Suite" - Amber Asylum - 10:14

    6) "Legend Land (Extended Version)" - Leaves' Eyes - 9:58

    7) "I Want To Die" - Mortal Love - 9:52

    8) "... A Distance There Is ..." - Theatre of Tragedy - 9:45

    9) "Hand of Sorrow" - Within Temptation - 9:21

    10) "The Mermaid's Tears" - Karl Jenkins - 9:20

    Shortest:

    1) "Ite, missa est" - Tarja Turunen - 0:19

    2) "Sunset" - Tarja Turunen - 0:22

    3) "The Escape of the Doll" - Tarja Turunen - 0:33

    4) "Cuppycake Song" - ? - 0:45

    5) "Étude N°" - Orphan Hate - 0:55

    6) "Red" - The Birthday Massacre - 1:11

    7) "Kiteen Pallo" - Nightwish - 1:13

    8) "Seeking For the Reign" - Tarja Turunen - 1:27

    9) "Black" - The Birthday Massacre - 1:37

    10) "Spinning Back the Clocks" - Diabolical Masquerade - 1:42

    11) "Prince Igor" - Sissel - 1:47

    12) "Song 2" - Blur - 2:01

    13) "Chick Habit" - April March - 2:10

    14) "Death's Design (1rst Movement) - Diabolical Masquerade - 2:13

    15) "Lyset" - Leaves' Eyes - 2:15

    I made 15 because some of the "songs" were really intros to a song, but technically were a track.

  • 1 decade ago

    Longest

    1."Echoes" - Pink Floyd (23:31)

    2."March Into The Sea" - Pelican (20:28)

    3."Black Rose Immortal" - Opeth (20:15)

    4."Anesthetize" - Porcupine Tree (17:40)

    5."Dogs" - Pink Floyd (17:04)

    6."Dark City, Dead Man" - Cult Of Luna (15:47)

    7."Ceremony Ek Stasis" - Minsk (15:39)

    8."The Orphans Of Piety" - Minsk (14:42)

    9."In The Mist She Was Standing" - Opeth (14:08)

    10."By The Pain I See In Others" - Opeth (13:50)

    Shortest

    1."Yeah" - Kyuss (0:04)

    2."Declaration" - Akercocke (0:09)

    3."Embryo" - Black Sabbath (0:28)

    4."Mess" - QOTSA (0:35)

    5."Jack The Stripper" - Black Sabbath (0:43)

    6."Untitled (Iron Gland) - Alice In Chains (0:45)

    7."Dusk Falls Upon The Temple Of The Serpent On The Mount Of Sunrise" - Nile (0:51)

    8."Wasted Reprise" - Pearl Jam (0:54)

    9."Capsized" - Kyuss (0:55)

    10."Prologue" - Opeth (0:59)

  • casey
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Longest:

    1. MX/Damone by Deftones (37:19)

    2. Heaven 90210 by Urge Overkill (28:38)

    3. Something in the Way (20:35)

    Shortest:

    1. Miracle Cure by The Who (0:12)

    2. 7th inning stretch by The Gin Blossoms (0:14)

    3. You Always sing the same by The Red Hot Chili Peppers (0:16)

  • 1 decade ago

    Shortest:

    Field Day For the Sundays - Wire - 0:28

    Embryo - Black Sabbath - 0:28

    No One Is Watching - Devotchka - 0:25

    Do You Think It's Alright - The Who - 0:24

    There's A Doctor - The Who - 0:24

    Her Majesty - The Beatles - 0:23

    Keep Stepping - Moloko - 0:21

    Old Man Thunder - Ween - 0:19

    LA Drone - Led Zeppelin - 0:15

    My Cat's Name Is Maceo - Janes Addiction - 0:04

    Longest:

    Right Off - Miles Davis - 26:54

    Tubular Bells Pt 1. - Mike Oldfield - 25:37

    Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd - 23:47

    Echoes - Pink Floyd - 23:32

    Tubular Bells 2 - Mike Oldfield - 23:20

    Sleep - Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 23:18

    Autobahn - Kraftwerk - 22:40

    Static - Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 22:36

    Nerves - Bauhaus - 22:22

    Father O'Blivion - Frank Zappa - 20:41

  • Stimpy
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Geez, you're really going to make me work here...

    Longest - Master of Puppets, Orion, Disposable Heros, the Thing that Should Be, Welcome Home Sanitarium, (All Metallica).

    Gloria - Patti Smith

    Atomic Playboys - Steve Stevens (former Billy Idol guitarist). Crackdown, also Steve Stevens,

    Leper Messiah and Damage Inc both by Metallica.

    The live version of Rebel Yell by Billy Idol was in there but you said no live songs.

    Shortest:

    Intro to Shame (Ratt, does that count since it's an intro?).

    Cry No More (L.A. Guns, the "other" guns band!).

    Heart of the City by Nick Lowe,

    Blitzkreig Bop - The Ramones,

    Human Fly - The Cramps.

    Modern World - The Jam,

    Blank Generation - Richard Hell and the Voids,

    No Mercy and Hollywood Tease, and ***** is Back - L.A. Guns,

    I knew the Bride - Dave Edmunds

    Your Mama Don't Dance - Poison (yeah, I know, alotta hair bands. I'm listening to Skid Row as I write this, LOL!)

    That's 11 in case the intro to Shame doesn't count.

  • Longest

    1. Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull - 43:29

    2. Part One Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield - 25:30

    3. Atom Heart Mother Suite - Pink Floyd - 23:44

    4. A Passion Play (part two) - Jethro Tull - 23:30

    5. Echoes - Pink Floyd - 23:29

    6. Part Two Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield - 23:20

    7. A Passion Play (part one) - Jethro Tull - 21:36

    8. Close To The Edge - Yes - 18:43

    9. Dogs - Pink Floyd - 17:08

    10. In A Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly - 17:00

    Shortest

    1. Miracle Cure - The Who - 0:12

    2. Intro - Muse - 0:22

    3. Her Majesty - The Beatles - 0:23

    4. Stop - Pink Floyd - 0:30

    5. The Office Theme Song - The Scrantones - 0:36

    6. The Grand Vizer's Garden - Pink Floyd - 0:39

    7. Parachutes - Coldplay - 0:46

    8. Basketball Dream - P.O.T.U.S.A - 0:53

    9.The Grand Vizer's Garden (entrance) - Pink Floyd - 1:00

    10. A Spanish Piece - Pink Floyd - 1:05

    If you gave congratulations for making both lists, I would like to congratulate Pink Floyd for making both lists :)

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