longest song telegraph road - dire straits about 13-15mins long
well i have this bottle opener that plays a song when it opens a botttle i got it from a promo album giveaway its kinda cool the song is 5seconds long and its about beer ;0(dont ask what band i got it 3 years a go, and it was a small local band)
Live songs shouldn't count. They are extensions of studio albums.
Example:
Do You Feel Like We Do, by Peter Frampton is a standard length song.
But his live versions are up to 20 minutes long.
Now, the shortest and longest songs I know are by the same group.
Echoes, by Pink Floyd, at about 23 minutes.
And Stop, also by Pink Floyd, only 29 seconds.
Pink Floyd also holds the record of the longest song title,
"Several Species of Small Furry Creatures Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict", from their Ummagamma album.
Ironically, "Dogs" is their shortest title, also their second longest song at 17 minutes long.
I've written songs myself that range in the 30 minute milestone.
I know my apprehensions might never be allayed. And so I close, realizing that perhaps the ending has not yet been written...
longest- the past is a grotesque animal by Of Montreal- 12:00 minuets
or overture by The Who but i forget if that is 10 minuets or 20 minuets
shortest- bookends by Simon and Garfunkel- 0:45 seconds