The longest most boring song?

[Woodface]

I was listening to Radio Paradise earlier today while sitting down to Sunday dinner. A song began, it never seems to end, I actually felt time was standing still. I’d finished eating before it finished.

It was Desolation Row by Bob Dylan.

I have the album from whence it came, listened to it once, was reminded why.

Any other contenders.

 

[Tony L]

That may well be Dylan’s best track!

 

[Yank]

You're probably not going to like Dylan's "Murder Most Foul" then...

I find both mesmerizing.

My candidate for long and dreary would be "Battle of Evermore" on LZ IV. It may only clock in at 5:38, but it seems much longer. "Four Sticks" is pretty dreary and monotonous too, at only 4:46.

 

[Somafunk]

I consider Sleep by Max Richter to be the most boring song, nearly 9 hours of bliss/horror depending on your sensibilities


Sleep - Max Richter

 

[alanbeeb]

I have found Gillian Welch's "I Dream a Highway" can bring a party to a slow end. But I actually quite like it myself and wish it was longer.

 

[turbo al]

More or less any track from "The Harmony Codex" would do it for me

 

[gavreid]

Supper's Ready?

 

[MVV]

You're probably not going to like Dylan's "Murder Most Foul" then...

I find both mesmerizing.

My candidate for long and dreary would be "Battle of Evermore" on LZ IV. It may only clock in at 5:38, but it seems much longer. "Four Sticks" is pretty dreary and monotonous too, at only 4:46.

I like that too! Sandy with a heavy cold. This is going to be a best songs ever thread and can suggest ‘Sad Eyed lady of the lowlands’

 

[Hazelberry]

Shellac - Didn't We Reserve a Look at You the Way You Really Are

The working title for this was, in fact, “The Long, Slow, Boring Song”. But I've always liked it.

 

[DipsyDave]

Hate saying this seeing as I love most of their other stuff, but Revelation by Love.

 

[Tony L]

Supper's Ready?

They sub-divide it into about 12 distinct banded tracks on the record, I assume to avoid this challenge.

 

[Alex N]

‘7 Skies H3’ by The Flaming Lips is a quite long and boring song; 24 hours long in fact.

This appears to be half of it…

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[gavreid]

They sub-divide it into about 12 distinct banded tracks on the record, I assume to avoid this challenge.

Didn't work though

 

[paulfromcamden]

Not sure it's the most boring, or strictly speaking a song, but there can't be many pieces of music longer than the thousand year Longplayer project.

Longplayer

 

[Colonel_Mad]

I have found Gillian Welch's "I Dream a Highway" can bring a party to a slow end. But I actually quite like it myself and wish it was longer.

I absolutely adore Gillian Welch and would drop everything to see her live again if she ever returned to these shores.

'I Dream A Highway' is 10 minutes too long. Good call!

 

[foxwelljsly]

I defy anyone to endure all 26 minutes of Focus’s ‘Anonymus II’ from Focus III. Starts promisingly enough with some groovy polyrhythmic classical rock and swiftly descends into endless and terrible drum and bass solos. So long, it faded out on side 3 and then back up on side 4.

 

[cj66]

Supper's Ready?

Diving in for argy bargy with that one

I still listen to that, love it.

While we're stirring, every longer Miles Davis track, tedious at best, nerve ringing at worst. ( you'll find me cowering in an air raid shelter )

 

[gavreid]

Diving in for argy bargy with that one

just teasing, it's not my 'era'

 

[foxwelljsly]

I can think of at least two drone metal albums (Boris’s AbsoluteEgo and Sleep’s Dopesmoker) where there is only one 60+ minute track of colliding slow metal. They’re both fabulous, thrilling albums. Not sure I’d have them on for a family meal, though.

 

[Alex N]

Well we're stirring, every longer Miles Davis track, tedious at best, nerve ringing at worst. ( you'll find me cowering in an air raid shelter )

I‘ve been listening to ‘Calypso Frelimo’ nonstop, 24/7/365, for over forty years now. Still does it for me.