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The song was a reaction to the varying difficult issues facing America in the late 1970s – the fallout from the Watergate scandal, the simultaneous double-digit inflation, unemployment, and prime interest rates (leading to the misery index), and the 1979–1981 Iran Hostage Crisis.
The longest number on the album, the song is a 13-minute reflection on life, love, and amoebas, whose complex structure incorporates a Bahamian spiritual ("I Bid You Goodnight", originally recorded by the Pinder Family [1] [2]). Heron next sings a passage beginning "Who would lose and who would bruise", whose tune is to be reprised later on in ...
ORGAN 2 /ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) is a musical piece by John Cage and the subject of the second-longest-lasting (after Longplayer) musical performance yet undertaken. [1] Cage wrote it in 1987 for organ, as an adaptation of his 1985 composition ASLSP for piano. A performance of the piano version usually lasts 20 to 70 minutes. [2]
When "4th Dimension" by Kids See Ghosts featuring Louis Prima debuted at No. 42 for the week of June 23, 2018, [254] Prima became the artist with the longest gap between appearances on the Hot 100 – 57 years, 130 days since his last previous charted single, "Wonderland by Night", which last appeared at No. 89 on the Hot 100, dated February 13 ...
The Longest Road: 1980: Traces: 2004: 24 years [1] The Softies: Holiday in Rhode Island: 12 September 2000: The Bed I Made: 23 August 2024: 23 years, 11 months, 12 days [71] The Cars: Door to Door: 25 August 1987: Move Like This: 10 May 2011: 23 years, 8 months, 16 days [11] Poltergeist: Nothing Lasts Forever: 1 March 1993: Back to Haunt: 21 ...
Longest Year (2010) Asleep in the Downlights EP (2011) [1] Longest Year is the fourth EP by American ambient band Hammock. ... Length; 1. "Longest Year" 8:24: 2.
The videos for "The Longest Year" and "Day & Then the Shade" were directed by Charlie Granberg and Lasse Hoile, respectively. [3] The versions of "Day & Then the Shade" and "Idle Blood" are remixed versions of songs that previously appeared on their full-length album preceding this release, Night is the New Day. [3]
"America" is a sardonic attack on the mid-1980s United States, referencing Communism, and worrying about nuclear war, a common theme in Prince's lyrics in the 1980s. The song begins with the sound of a record starting and stopping, as if being cued by a DJ .