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.
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.
It’s getting there. Spotify said I listened to something to the tune of 900 different genres last year. One band can have 12 or more different genres attached.
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
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.
There are plenty of progressive Rock and Metal albums that are also supposed to be listened to as a whole.
And people have been playing Ode To Joy on its own long before there were recordings - single instrument renditions of symphonic pieces exist for a reason.
I’m glad there is still long form music being made both inside and outside the classical world. I really appreciate when music builds a full world of it’s own.
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