Which are the shortest and longest songs in your iPod?

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Inspired by this discussion:

Originally Posted by Otso

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A lot of it's classical, so the movements are counted as songs.

Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield

Yes - number of songs is very misleading - so a Mahler Symphony (for example) has movements or tracks that are 30 minutes long - you can't equate that with a 2-minute song!

Originally Posted by Otso

And on the other hand you have the likes of Webern's work, where the movements aren't often even a minute long.

Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield

Or live Jazz where most tunes are stretched out to about 15 minutes...you just can't talk about "songs" as such. There are also many prog rock tunes which stretched to cover a whole album side.

Originally Posted by Ray Salamon

A lot of genre's have music that can stretch to 30+ 60+ minutes. Song count doesn't show the whole picture, but in general, it shows enough of one.

So simply sort your music by length on iTunes or your favorite iPod manager (Winamp for me) and let's see which tracks appear as the shortest and longest in your music collection. Here's my info:

Shortest: "Miracle Cure" from The Who's "Live At Leeds (Deluxe Edition)". 0:12.

Longest: "Karn Evil 9" from ELP's "Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends". 35:19.

[TheDarkReaver]

Shortest = Lucifer Canto by Akercocke (0:04)

Longest = 2112 by Rush (20:34)

[WyrdoBass]

Shortest: Rock 'n' Roll Children- Dio [~1minute]

Longest: Freebird (Live in Atlanta)- Lynyrd Skynyrd [~13 minutes]

[bryan bailey]

Shortest - Fantomas - Book 1: Page 13 :04

Longest - Fantomas - Delirium Cordia 1:14:47

[Dave Siff]

The shortest would be "ALL" by ALL.. clocks in at one second. It's not really a song, but it counts!
The longest is probably Rush's "2112".

[Deacon_Blues]

Longest: Pat Metheny Group's "The Way Up, Part 1". Length: 26:27

Shortest: There's many albums featuring short interludes on 15-30 seconds, but one of the shortest real songs must be "The Dream Of The Blue Turtles" which is 1:18. Oh, wait I found another one, really nice short song: "Memmingen" by Blackmore's Night. It's 1:06.

[Georynn]

Originally Posted by bryan bailey

Longest - Fantomas - Delirium Cordia 1:14:47

that's my longest track too...
My shortest is Kyuss - Yeah

[Muusers]

shortest: There's A Riot Goin' On - Sly & The Family Stone (0:04)
longest: In the Beginning God - Duke Ellington (20:01)

[bassybill]

EWF - Kalimba Tree 0:24
Miles - Bitches Brew 26:56

[metallicafan18]

Shortest-Miracle Cure by The Who 0:12


Longest-The Oddyssey by Symphony X 24:14

[God of Rapture]

Shortest: Napalm Death - You Suffer -- 1.316 seconds (Guinness Book of Records as the shortest recorded song ever)

Longest: Fantomas - Delìrium Còrdia –- 74:17

[Jerose]

Shortest: Who's Knocking On the Wall - They Might Be Giants (part of Fingertips): 0:04

Longest: You Enjoy Myself - Phish: 40:33

[armywalaby]

Bloodhound Gang - Overheard in a Wawa Parking Lot 0:04

Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Score) 41:34

And I was thinking it was either A Change Of Seasons or Octavarium for the longest before I looked...

[L-A]

Shortest is one of my own band's recordings. The keyboard player doing a 16-second request between two songs

Longest is Weddings, by Broken Social Scene. I didn't expect this one, actually. Octavarium comes third.

[ryco]

Short: Waiting for the Meat - Fear @:40

Long: The Ikon - Todd Rundgren's Utopia @ 30:27

ELP's Tarkus is up there @ 20:35

[Otso]

Shortest (Not counting some random incomplete live clips from a Charlie Parker collection): R.Strauss: Eine Alpensymphonie, Op.64, Am Wasserfall - Karajan and the Berliners 0:17

Longest: Free Jazz, A Collective improvisation by the Ornette Coleman Double Quartet 37:11

Followed by the fourth movement of Mahler's (just as used as an example by Bruce Lindfield ) sixth symphony (30:13), also Karajan/Berliner Philharmoniker.

[tplyons]

Shortest recording: Intro - The Offspring (Conspiracy of One) at 0:05

Shortest song: Bill's Private Parts - Steve Vai (Flex-Able) at 0:16

Longest song: Spleen - Staind (Dysfunction) at 21:02

[bluewine]

Jimi Hendrix, Rainy Day, Parts 1 & 2

Mountain, South Bound Train from Woodstock

BTW thats Woodstock 1969, the only Woodstock

[The_Ox]

Shortest Song: Yes-Five Percent For Nothing (0:37)


Longest Song: Yes-Close To The Edge (18:42)


I still need to get my mitts on a copy of Relayer or 2112

[Deluge Of Sound]

Shortest: F--- Electrons - Crucial Unit :04

Longest: Dopesmoker - Sleep 1:03:32