It's an experience

Stoner metal has entered the chat
- 10 minute intro
  Proceeds the weedian
  5 minute solo
  Nazareth
  song continues in this manner for another 45 minutes
- Dopesmoker by Sleep clocking in at a nice 63:29 minutes 🙂
- Endlessly amused that Dopesmoker has two tracks, and one of them is "only" ten minutes long.

'the song really picks up about 7 mins in'
- "Once you get past the first 26 or so episodes where they explain the concept of the show.."

Post rock, "AMATEURS!"
- man, post rock is THE BEST to listen to
  
  Horse listening to its favourite kind of rock

I wish TTRPG battle/ambience music tracks would be at least 10min long, even if they are looped by their creators. So many tracks are great that I buy but are only 2-3min long and aren't created to loop naturally. So my table is constantly listening to the intro/outro sections that tend to be more attention grabbing. I've had to learn to use audacity to fade them in and out but it's extra labor that doesn't always work.
- Load them in mixxx, and then hit the 16- or 32-bar loop button on the sections you want to repeat.
  
  Never heard of that before. I'll check that out. Thanks!

This is more of an exception, but melodic death metal joins the table (OK, it's actually just above 19 minutes)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=X7f2SdZey-Y&si=EE059IBXVlS6vu_4
- Oh come on, post insomnium’s Winter’s Gate (40min).
  
  I don't like Insomnium
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Black metal should also be here.
- I feel the need to drop a link to some doom metal for any newcomers!
  Sunn O))) - https://youtu.be/HkIpddogl_Y
  
  Same with deathcore (I seriously envy his vocal talents)
  Lorna Shore - Pain Remains I-III https://youtu.be/e1zb_c0nyXc?si=utSRmTwm5RtCG-uO
  
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Don't forget improv/jambands!
https://spotify.link/AAg8Sm9zaDb
- The music world was shaken when members of Phish were overcome by the stench of concert-goers, approximately 40 minutes into the song "You Enjoy Myself."

Funeral Doom Metal is too occupied walloping in a blacked pit of despair to join the chat
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kht7EH3PjGw
- Damn, I've heard of black metal and doom metal, but funeral doom metal? Metal subgenres continue to get more specific lol
  
  Pretty soon, there's going to be gloomy metal genres so specific that they're named after specific funeral plots and mausoleums.
  
  Considering it's the norm when you aren't doing something genre typical to take two ir more genres and just smoish the names together. This way you get things like blackened death metal (black plus death) or epic gothic power metal (take a guess). Now smoosh those teo examples together and you get something like blackened gothic melodic death metal. See that there, now we get into the transformative properties of metal subgenres. Death metal with a bit more melody and structure, which power metal has in spades, becomes melodic death metal.
  Fun isn't it? Also I may have bullshitted together half of the above. But it is a real thing
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j6WYhOHRmDs
  
  Heard about Depressive suicidal black metal a while ago.
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Also an experience: a longer overarching story across an entire album.
Examples: Metropolis pt. 2 (Dream Theater), or basically anything Ayreon.
- The term for that is Concept Album.
  They began in the 40s and 50s and really took off in the 60s and 70s. They died out in the 80s and gained popularity again in the 2000s with emo and pop punk bands like MCR, Green Day, Boys Night Out and more.

Also post rock
Godspeed
- Godspeeds are so good, for me it's classical music reimagined with new instrumenty.
  
  The greatest music of my lifetime
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Hey babe, want to hear my mixtape? It's all Rush and there's only like four songs but it's two hours long.
No wait, please come back....

Nightwish has entered the chat.
- Truly the Greatest band on Earth!

Hey, I love all of these

/cries in jazz

I mixed prog rock/metal with electronic and the resulting industrial metal somehow cuts songs down to 5-7 minutes.
- Weird interference effect when you mix 4/4 and 7/8 time signatures, you start dropping bars that fall out of alignment with each other and the song gets shorter as a result.

🎵 And Alice's Restaurant. 🎶
- You can get anything you want

Nine Inch Nails: Let's do all three. At the same time.
- 20 minutes? Classical music? Prog rock? Have we been listening to the same NIN?

Classical music is still looking down at you from above. Kaikhosru Sorabji especially. He wrote a piece for piano that lasts 8 to 9 hours.
- Rookie numbers
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible
- If you count Wagner's Ring cycle as one work, it has Sorabji beat BY 8 to 9 hours!
  
  If you count 7 Skies H3 by The Flaming Lips - you shouldn't.

And live versions of worship music.

May I introduce you all to the decline.
- He's got his and I've got mine
- Amen. Don't pull the trigger squeeze; that will ensure a kill...
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Classical music can also be much longer. Symphonies, masses, or operas are many hours long. Kind of like an album of dozens of the shorter 20 minute pieces.
- Symphonies still have subdivisions that can stand on their own, so a symphony is more like an album and not a single song. The movements of Beethoven's 9th Symphony range from slightly more than 10 minutes to slightly more than 20, for example.
  
  Yeah, but a symphony is meant to be listened to as a whole much more than an album. It of course depends album to album, some have a tight through line, some don't as much. But there wasn't as much of a way to listen to just a single movement before recordings, so you would listen to the whole long thing moreso than the movements individually.

I'd rather have a concept album of songs that play into each other and advance the narrative than one 20 minute song. I hate progressive music. I used to bounce at a bar whose owner's son would book bands, and 90% were prog bands. Averaged 14 minutes a song, brought in lots of people who bought zero drinks but lots of waters. And they were all dickheads.

Close To The Edge has two of Yes's best songs.
Close To The Edge has three songs.
Soft Machine's Third has four songs.
Soft Machine's Third has four sides.

Also 90% of songs by the Swans.

Just gonna drop by real quick to drop my favorite 20 minute prog-rock song
- That is not prog rock lmao
  
  It's not???

Echoes
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- Best nintendo game. hands down.
- I think it was Treeful Of Secrets that featured a one-side version "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" parts 1 & 2, and that's still not as long or as good as "Echoes."

I can hear trance music in this post

Boss Battle music
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Check out this, it's like a blend of classic and electronic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_UOmAed5O8
- I knew from the thumbnail that this is Virtue by Overwerk. Excellent track!
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Thrash metal does a line and plays nine songs instead.

I think Watsky's "Lovely Thing Suite" would be better as a 20 minute song, it ended up releasing as 4 songs that technically flow into eachother but it's a little janky.