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The longest album ever made

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atari2600land

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In case you're still wondering, I'm still making that. I included in my 90-minute rock opera I made called "Fred the Typewriter." Intended to be on two CDs, I cut out the part about "now is the time to switch to disc 2 to hear the rest of the story" part. So I have 10 hours, 4 minutes and 9 seconds. I'll call it quits at 12 hours, even though these aren't really taking up the whole CD as I intended. I could take up the whole disc by putting in a song that lasts 24 hours, but I don't want to make a 24-hour long song. So how to end this thing? Well, I'm going to do a cover song. What song is long enough to do? Well, if I do it Vanilla Fudge-style, a lot of contenders: Frank Zappa's epic "Billy the Mountain," Transatlantic's "The Whirlwind" are a few that come to mind. But those are too complex. So I've decided to do a Pink Floyd song. Echoes? Atom Heart Mother? No. Shine On You Crazy Diamond. I have a Pink Floyd bootleg album of a concert they did. If you take parts 1-5 and 6-10 of it and put it together, like I did, you get 33 minutes. But if you stretch the first 6 minutes to 20 like I did and add some crazy noises at the end that last for half an hour (like Beck used to do on his early albums, only his hidden tracks were only like a minute long.), which is what I plan to do, that should fill it up. I'm up to 20 minutes, filling 13 minutes with the first 4 notes played in various ways in (hopefully) enough ways to make it interesting and not boring. To find out the notes, I downloaded a MIDI of parts 1-5 and parts 6-10. So now the earworm of B flat, F, G, E is in my mind and I can't get it out. And even this isn't it. The "honor" goes to Breakdancing Ronald Reagan's "Cotton Ball," which is just 24 hours of hissing noise. So mine should be the longest album of actual music. Whenever I get stuck doing someone else's music and can't find the right notes, MIDIs that someone else successfully did what I couldn't are good. The whole project right now is 317 MB, which, when I end it, will probably take up half of a 700MB disc. And the fireplace has been installed and it's nice and warm.

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