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.

Isn't the end of Motion Picture Soundtrack just a hidden track?

yeah, it's called genchildren or something.

"Tattoo" by Venetian Snares

stop in the name of love

Pantera's "Suicide Note Pt. II" has a pause where you think the song's over, then Dime does one of those harmonic squeals and it comes back. Also, the last song on that album, Sandblasted Skin (Reprise), fades out and comes back slightly louder about 2 or 3 minutes later. Although that might be a better example of giving into the "hidden track" fad of the 90s...

I prefer moments were all the instruments except for one drop out, but it's not really a "solo" (I can't think of any examples right now). Outright pauses in songs kinda kill the momentum if you ask me.

Shady Lane - Pavement

this

"Greedy Fly" by Bush?

There's really great moments of silence in Refused's Tannhauser/Derive track off "Shape of Punk to Come"

"What Do You Want (Kim)" by The Kimberly Gordon Trio

the little girl i once knew-the beach boys

but it gets played live as a complete piece so not sure.

EXPRESSWAY TO YR SKULL!!!! (sort of anyways)

dead kennedys- chemical warfare

stops for a few seconds then broken by jello saying "until" then the song kicks back in.

Ghost - Ballad of Summer Rounder

Jeff Buckley - Mojo pin (especially the silence before the big roll drum towards the end)

Slint - Rhoda

Metallica - Damage, Inc (intro)

There are some Godspeed You Black Emperor tracks that have some stops in them. Providence is the one that comes to mind.

shellac-last song on side a of terraform...the first time i listened i almost flipped it thinking it was over.

a tribe called quest-what? probably has the longest stop in hip-hop that i know of