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What is the slowest song ever? I know there is a DDRMAX song called bag. It is about 50-67 BPM.

― alex --- -------, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

Probably some funeral doom song.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

Barry Manilow's "Could It Be Magic" sounds like it's around there.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

Well, Nine Beet Stretch of course.

If we go with duration and not tempo ... I think there's a Cage piece that goes on for months, and Satie's 'Vexations" is pretty long.

But the first thing that came to mind is Corrupted's "Llenandose de Gusanos" which runs about two hours. First a looooooong section of piano, then a loooooong section of sludge doom, then the second disc, "VIII El Mundo" is the sound of the earth once everything's been laid waste.

― Brakhage (brakhage), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

Ok, I didn't look to see this thread before I posted ....

― Brakhage (brakhage), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

That Neu song off the first album...soooo slow. I forget what its called.

pppp

― pppp, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

Moby covered the New Order's "Temptation." It's pretty damn slow.

Uncle Tupelo's "Lili Schull" is astoundingly slow.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

yeah, this wins (also linked from the longest song thread)

― Ha ha ha, you're so dud! (wetmink2), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 01:59 (twenty years ago)

Isn't the Neu! song on 2? I mean, if you're talking about "Super 16." Khanate's pretty fucking slow. As is Codeine (though I love Codeine and honestly can't stand Khanate).

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

low - transmission
melvins - lysol (side a)

― g. (discos), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

the band Earth makes some incredibly slow guitar music. fucking damn good band. Low as well...

― erehwon (greentypewriter), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

yeah codeine was the first band that popped into my head

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

teeth of lions rule the divine

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 04:17 (twenty years ago)

There was a band called Gaugue in the 90s that released a v slow 7" called something like the self same second EP. I remember that beig very slow - must listen to it again and confirm....

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 07:42 (twenty years ago)

can we make ti a mainstream thread ?
george micheal "different corner"
jason donovan "sealed with a kiss"
kylie / jason " especially for you"

― retroman, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 08:09 (twenty years ago)

some early swans would probably win here....

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

Aether by The Necks goes at Lance-Armstrong-resting-heartbeat tempo.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

Reckless - Australian Crawl

― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

are we talking songs or tunes here? if it's songs then Earth and that organ thing are out.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

DJ Screw to thread.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

"In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins is kind of unusually slow for a pop song, isn't it? It's an adagio anyway.

In the non-pop division, perhaps the slowest piece in my CD collection is the "The Second Dream of the High Tension Line Stepdown Transformer" by La Monte Young, a minimalist drone piece for 8 trumpets that unfolds very gradually over the course of a CD.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Wire, "Heartbeat"

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

some early swans would probably win here....
-- Jack Battery-Pack (Jackbatterypac...), September 27th, 2005.

Exactly what I was thinking. Public Castration Is A Good Idea has some real knuckle-draggers on it. The Melvins' Lysol (upthread) was a good pick as well. Kilslug / Upside Down Cross anyone? They (and The Melvins to some extent) were just trying to slow down Black Sabbath at their slowest (which I guess would be the song "Black Sabbath").

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

bohren und der club of gore, anyone?

― andrew_g, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Does any1 know BPM here? of the song i mean.

― alex --- ----, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

i think 'white tail' is low's slowest song

― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Wire, "Heartbeat"
Surely this is more quiet than it is slow.

One song that comes to mind is track 5 on the Sigur Rós ( ) album.

― Ross Godfrey (scatter), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Track 3a (2waynice) by Keith Fulelrton Whitman comes to mind. . .

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm not really sure if drone counts... I mean, what makes that any slower than any of the other tracks on that album?

― Ross Godfrey (scatter), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

Among chart hits in the U.S., it's gotta be Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

Led Zeppelin - "You Shook Me"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

Holding back the Earth, Sunn, Thrones ideas... I'd put ten bucks on Windham Hill, for something involving a synth and a depressed thumb.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

Slowest I can think of are "Black Sabbath" and the Eagles' "Teenage Jail." (Can't tell which is the faster 'cause the differing time signatures - one 4/4, one 3/4 - confuse me. Plus I don't own that Eagles song anyway.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

I Only Have Eyes For You - The Flamingos

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

borissss

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

I say "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet".

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

John Cage: 4'33". 0 BPM.

― Gunnar Degnbol, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

4'33' doesn't count as a 'song'.

Radiohead 'Pyramid Song'

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Red House Painters - 24

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

type o negative's vile cover of 'black sabbath' is torturously slow

the cure - 'the funeral party'
my dying bride - 'turn loose the swans'

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

in terms of slow covers, the highest velocity-reduction ratio must surely be lamones young's cover of 'blitzkreig bop', which apparently took an hour to get to the end of '1-2-3-4'.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Cage has got rhythm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2728595.stm

― bendy (bendy), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Uhhh...

+"Money is Flesh" (live at the ICA, 1986) or "Sealed in Skin" by Swans (like being brutally murdered... in slo-mo...)
+"The Funeral Party" - The Cure (will second; it is a dirge, of course)
+This one single by Earth (16 RPM? )
+Something by the Melvins (obvious choice)

― J.H. Malerman (xada_hgla), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Barber's "Adagio For Strings", followed by Albinoni's "Adagio".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

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