Longest Albums You've Heard.

DeadChannel · 04-14-2016, 12:09 AM

Maybe that 4-hour-ish Zs compilation? Or the Disintegration tapes? How long are they? Are they considered a single album?

**Frownland** · 04-14-2016, 12:22 AM

Depends on if you count the first Disintegration Loops (∼1.3 hours) or the whole collection (∼5 hours iirc). I'd say they're different albums because they're released as I, II, III, etc. That Zs boxset has some great stuff, but it makes me wonder if demo related stuff counts. If it does, my new answer would be The Complete Funhouse Sessions from The Stooges because that's around 8 hours and I went through it all in a day before.

Floydy · 04-14-2016, 09:52 AM

Some of those Grateful Dead albums take some beating. I have a CD of one of their performances of 'Dark Star' which is 67 minutes long. That's just one song on the album, the first 15 minutes is tuning up.

**Frownland** · 04-14-2016, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Floydy

Some of those Grateful Dead albums take some beating. I have a CD of one of their performances of 'Dark Star' which is 67 minutes long. That's just one song on the album, the first 15 minutes is tuning up.

You ought to check out Grayfolded. Not super long, but it's their only album that I ever return to. It's a compilation of hundreds of Dark Star performances blended together.

Floydy · 04-14-2016, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

You ought to check out Grayfolded. Not super long, but it's their only album that I ever return to. It's a compilation of hundreds of Dark Star performances blended together.

I will mate, thanks. Whether or not I'll be able to tell them all apart is another matter though.

innerspaceboy · 04-14-2016, 05:04 PM

The Disintegration Loops certainly counts as a set as it was officially released as a 9LP+5CD+DVD box set. Frown is quite right as it clocks in at 5:53:36 for either the CD or LP version.

Skimming through my collection I see a few other long albums or sets of note. Here they are in order of ascending length:

Robert Rich's Somnium Sleep Concert (7:00:01)
Robert Rich's follow-up - The Somnium Continuum (8:00:01)
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater - The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (15:50:44)
Plastikman - Arkives (32:37:46)
The History of Electroacoustic Music Collection (55:19:22)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes BBC Radio Dramas (58:09:45)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Audiobook (62:21:36)
Klaus Schulze - The Ultimate Collection (64:50:32)
The Franklin Mint's 100 Greatest Recordings of All Time (77:19:49)
Beethoven Bicentennial Collection - 80 LP (100:37:50)
111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon: The Collector's Edition (116:41:48)
The World's Greatest Jazz Collection 500CD Box Set (533:53:43) - that's over 22 days of jazz.

Unfortunately, I suggest steering clear of the last item on the list. Licensing prevented the label from including most of what listeners would call "Worlds-Greatest Recordings", and the set is the resulting cutting room floor scraps.

But the other items on the list are excellent stuff.

innerspaceboy · 04-14-2016, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by rostasi

Well, Mr. ISB, our paths cross, but even tho I have nearly all of those that you mentioned,
I didn't really consider collections - Complete Bach sets (modern and period both), Mozart,
and other classical collections or any of the ZBS Media series (Fourth Tower of Inverness,
Ruby, etc...), Alan Watts collection, and a whole bunch more - because I thought that the OP was more interested in singularly defined recordings of works that just happened to take up extensive time. I still don't know if it matters whether it has to be continuous listening tho.

A perfectly reasonable position. So I imagine my present qualifiers would be the vinyl issue of F A ∞ (one album which plays forever) or "7 Skies H3" (one song 24 hours in length.)

Tristan_Geoff · 04-14-2016, 08:56 PM

I want to attempt Chris Rea's Blue Guitars at some point, but as of now I think it's Lift Yr Skinny Fists. I know, I'm a pleb.

Machine · 04-14-2016, 10:33 PM

The longest album I've heard all the way through awake is the sequal to Somnium.

DeadChannel · 04-15-2016, 06:34 PM

Well, if we're including compilations, the merzbox if 50 hours long. Not that I've heard the whole thing.

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DeadChannel Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Canada Posts: 1,259	Maybe that 4-hour-ish Zs compilation? Or the Disintegration tapes? How long are they? Are they considered a single album?

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Floydy Music Addict Join Date: May 2014 Location: Hull, U.K. Posts: 129	Some of those Grateful Dead albums take some beating. I have a CD of one of their performances of 'Dark Star' which is 67 minutes long. That's just one song on the album, the first 15 minutes is tuning up.

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DeadChannel Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Canada Posts: 1,259	Well, if we're including compilations, the merzbox if 50 hours long. Not that I've heard the whole thing.