A Question About Songs

[Guest Booker T & The MG's]

"Autobahn" by Kraftwerk is 22:43 is one of my alltime favourite songs, it's more about quality over length, for that reason I have no problem listening to long songs, there are plenty of 3:00 songs that would'nt hold my attention.

[Dan]

Homecoming And Jesus Of Suburbia by Green Day.

[Quom]

It depends on the lyrics. I like music with lyrics. When the band just plays their instuments for like 2 minutes without having any words it shits me.

So in short if there is singing the whole way through I like long songs, if it is just mainly music with occasional singing I don't like it.

[Robsturgh]

Dream Theater - A Change Of Seasons, 23 Minutes.

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[tristy]

Eh, since I started this topic, I'll suggest some songs because I'm bored, and maybe some people will check some of these songs out.

The Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini [31:42]

The Mars Volta - Cygnus...Vismund Cyngus [13:08]

The Mars Volta - Miranda, That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore [13:15]

The Mars Volta - L'Via L'Viaquez [12:27]

Pink Floyd - Echoes [23:28]

Slipknot - IOWA [15:05]

The Melvins ft. Tool - Divorced [14:43]

Tool - Third Eye [13:45]

Tool - Pushit [9:54]

Tool - No Quarter [11:12]

D.O.A w/ Jello Biafra - Full Metal Jackoff [13:57]

Dream Theater - The Glass Prison [13:52]

Opeth - To Bid You Farewell [10:56]

Opeth - The Drapery Falls [10:53]

Opeth - A Fair Judgement [10:23]

Explosions In The Sky - First Breath After A Coma [9:33]

The Doors - The End [11:40]

[Cactus Drags]

Just started getting into Dream Theater, long songs are awesome so long as they go somewhere. If it's just repeating a single riff the whole time, it' just dull.

And who can forget the song that nearly killed Mrs. Glick in the simpsons, "In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly, 17.02

Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner (13.36), Dream Theater - Home (12.53) are also two of my longer tracks on iTunes.

[pigeon]

There's loads of great long songs by the likes of Tool, The Mars Volta, Pink Floyd, Smashing Pumpkins, Metallica, Guns N Roses ...

They're good to have a beer and a joint to.

[Dr. Rated-R]

The reason I ask is I was talking to Veg last night on MSN, and he said he couldn't stand to listen to 7 minute songs because he gets bored with them, where as I love these long songs.

[Guest fultie]

Long songs kick ass. The songs tend to grow more and build rather than a 3 minute kick in the teeth.

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[zero]

It depends... I hate shit like 25 minute techno songs that are just the same damn beat over and over. And some jam bands just shouldn't be jam bands, Incubus coming to mind when I say that. Their songs aren't that great to begin with, but when they turn a 3 minute song into a 20 minute song, I wanna blow my fucking brains out. But by that same token, I hate when radio trims down long songs. So really, it just depends.

[Guest Locutus of Borg]

One that I haven't seen mentioned in this thread yet is the full version of Pink Floyd's "Shine on You Crazy Diamond". I'm talking parts 1-9 back-to-back. A good 25-30 minutes there.

Another good jazz one I've heard is a band called Addison Groove Project doing a jam of Watermelon Man --> Pass the Peas. Awesome traditional jazz jam that lasted about 30 minutes.

I absolutely love jam bands who go out with 4-7 minute songs on a record and turn them into 15-45-75-90 (yes, I have seen a 90-minute jam before) minute jam sessions using three, four, seven songs.

[Underage Politician]

Couple of my favourite 10min plus songs (done from memory so I think they're all over 10mins... I can't be bothered getting all of my CDs out to check):

- Bob Dylan 'Desolation Row'

- Bob Dylan 'Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands'

- Bob Dylan 'Joey'

- Bob Dylan 'Highlands'

- Bob Dlyan 'Like A Rolling Stone (MTV Unplugged Version)'

- AC/DC 'Jailbreak' (Jam Version)

- AC/DC 'Let There Be Rock' (Jam Version)

- Jimi Hendrix 'Voodoo Chile'

- Jimi Hendrix '1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)'

- Led Zeppelin 'In My Time Of Dying' (Live Version)

- Led Zeppelin 'No Quater' (Live Version)

- Neil Young 'Cowgirl In The Sand'

- Neil Young 'Love To Burn'

- Opeth 'Blackwater Park'

- Tool 'Disgustipated'

- Tool 'Third Eye'

- Paul McCartney 'Eleanor Rigby/Eleanor's Dream Medley'

- Paul McCartney 'Hold Me Tight/Lazy Dynamite/Hands Of Love/Power Cut Medley'

- Stevie Ray Vaughan 'Tin Pan Alley'

- Jackson Brown 'Load Out & Stay'

- Jimi Hendrix 'Machine Gun'

- Bruce Springsteen 'Jungleland'

- Justin Timberlake 'I'm Loving It (Live Band Introduction Version)'

I'm sure there's more.

[Guest fultie]

i'm surprised to not see I Want You (She's So Heavy) by The Beatles on UP's list

[Underage Politician]

The only goes for about 8 minutes, if I remember correctly. The ones I mentioned were 10mins or above. But that is my favourite Beatles song.

[Farmer Reil]

I'm surprised there's no Rhapsody love in this thread yet

Also, am I the only one that laughed at PunkRockPete's list of "long" songs he likes, with the longest being 12mins?

No offence meant dude, it was just funny considering Tristy's original post:

I'm not talking like 7 minute songs, I'm talking like 20+ minute songs.

[tristy]

I'm surprised there's no Rhapsody love in this thread yet

Also, am I the only one that laughed at PunkRockPete's list of "long" songs he likes, with the longest being 12mins?

No offence meant dude, it was just funny considering Tristy's original post:

I'm not talking like 7 minute songs, I'm talking like 20+ minute songs.

Most of yours were eight minutes. That's nothing

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[Farmer Reil]

Well yeah, but eight minutes is about average for my playlist. I guess it's long as far as punk rock goes though.

[Guest fultie]

Built To Spill's version of Cortez The Killer is fuckin great

it's about 20 something