all songs with a stop in...
 

the longest I've heard is: indochine - "le message" ( about 20 secondes )

I often like songs that I have a break in, it's often a moment of emotion.
There's a few others i'm sure so I'm asking you if you know other songs like this.
Give songs that you like only, not trying to be exhaustive here

asking this to france's national music forum too we'll see. Thank you

crass-theyve got a bomb
it has a pretty break to give the audience time to reflect the horrors of nuclear war

Seele Brennt by Einsturzende Neubauten has some pretty long pauses.

radiohead- motion picture soundtrack

can't think straight, but:

Ulan Bator - llumiere blanche (not exactly "silence" but there's the amazing gap between 3:40 and 4:50, greatest "reprise" evah) they're french too he he

Not exactly the same...

Surprised Fugazifan didn't think of that five second or so pause in "Waiting Room," unless he doesn't like it. Not super long, but I heard a live version where they stretch that pause pretty far.

There's a Scissor Shock song where there's about a minute of complete silence in the middle of a track (it's a 13 minute song) and then it goes into the noisiest, craziest thing ever.

now as a listener, that would piss me right off.

haha.

it's the first song on the album too.

BBC version of Mogwai's Like Herod

Almost all Gastr Del Sol songs have long "stops" in them. That's part of what makes their sound awesome.

Also, Taku Sugimoto's entire career is built around stopping.

i just hope you sell that album cheaper than the rest to acknowledge the fact that people are effectively getting a minute's less sound than they'd be expecting. A massive warning sticker too.

Hahaha. It's an hour long album! And it cost like $4.

Make it $3.80. Cover yourself.

dammit! That was gonna be mine.

Shellac
just before "...at the dog and pony show."

when it gets AWESOME

eric's trip - my room

Yeah, now that I'm thinking about it, "silent parts" in songs are often the most memorable. There needs to be more bands who use silence as part of their music.