Longest time on album before the vocals starts

[Hurm]

Beethoven's Ninth symphony;-) The famous line 'O Freunde nicht diese Töne' isn't sung before more than an hour instrumental symphonic music has been played. The choir members have to wait on stage all that time.:-)

[MoonK9]

Can't remember now if the vocals are at the end of side one or side two of Tubular Bells - but either way its a good while into the music.

TB p1 was the first thing I thought of.

[sergio]

maybe a bit off the topic, but think Tribal Tech-Face First. Song #6 "Uh...yeah, OK". That's all about words in this song and the whole album thereof

[NogbadTheBad]

Can't remember now if the vocals are at the end of side one or side two of Tubular Bells - but either way its a good while into the music.

Well if you are going to count TB the vocals come in at 20:18 in part 1.

[sergio]

Fromuz-Seventh Story, vocals kick in at apprx 20 min time also... +/-

[Scrotum Scissor]

There are vocals for the last two minutes or so of Henry Cow's Unrest album.

And for the last five and a half of their debut, LegEnd. Of course, that one has about 13 seconds of vox already four minutes in as well.

[JKL2000]

I'm not sure, but I think Mike Oldfield's "Crises" takes a pretty long time for the vocals to kick in.