Favorite Long songs

[grübermeister]

By long i guess I'm saying over 6 minutes or thereabouts. Mine would have to be (in order of length- shortest to longest):

Like a Rolling Stone- Bob Dylan

Come on! Feel the Illinoise!- Sufjan Stevens

Teen Age Riot- Sonic youth

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart- Wilco

Knocked Up- Kings of Leon

Spiders (kidsmoke)- Wilco

B-boy Bouillabaisse- Beastie Boys

The Diamond Sea- Sonic Youth.

[ZQFMGB]

Television- Marquee Moon (10:47)
The Who- Doctor Jimmy (8:36)
a-ha: Cold as Stone (8:24)
The Beatles- I Want You (She's So Heavy) (7:47)
Oasis- D'You Know What I Mean? (7:42)
LCD Soundsystem- All My Friends (7:37)
Interpol- Specialist (6:39)
Talking Heads- The Great Curve (6:27)
Joy Division- Decades (6:10)

That should be sufficient.... there are loads more six minute songs that I could include, but i'll leave it at this.

[grissom]

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart- Wilco

+
destroyer - rubies
ted leo/pharmacists - stove by a whale
pink floyd - time
pink floyd - us and them

[jase]

BROS

and most stuff by Sigur Ros, Fiery Furnaces, GY!BE etc

[randolert]

2112-Rush

That Song is amazingly long

[Sniper Squirrel]

pink floyd - time


definitely that one

[grübermeister]

Sad eyed lady of the Lowlands and Hurricane By Bob Dylan. I Also like Reservations by Wilco. Ball and Biscuit by The White Stripes. Oh, and Heroin by the Velvet Underground can't believe i missed out that one.

[Drew]

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[xander biscuits]

Television- Marquee Moon (10:47)


Phil Keaggy Salvation Army Band
Almost everything by Led Zep

[Captain Yesterday]

To me a long song is at least 9:00.

"Inside Looking Out" - Grand Funk Railroad (9:31)
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" - Creedence Clearwater Revival (11:07)
"Bat Out of Hell" - Meat Loaf (9:52)
"Free Bird" - Lynyrd Skynyrd (9:19)
"In-A-Gadda-Vida" - Iron Butterfly (17:02)

[BeyondBeyond]

Actually, most of my favourite songs is over six minutes in length.

Here's my roughly put together Top 25 (without order):

Pink Floyd - Echoes (23:32)
Pink Floyd - Dogs (17:08)
Devin Townsend - The Death Of Music (12:15)
Devin Townsend - Deadhead (8:05)
Opeth - The Moor (11:26)
Opeth - The Drapery Falls (10:56)
Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa-Silentium (16:17)
Charles Mingus - Hobo Ho (10:11)
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son (9:53)
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here (12:02)
Porcupine Tree - Buying New Soul (10:26)
Elend - Apocalypse (9:13)
Scott Walker - Clara (12:45)
Voivod - Jack Luminous (17:28)
Venetian Snares - All The Children Are Dead (9:07)
Bjork - Unison (6:51)
David Bowie - A Small Plot Of Land (6:35)
Deathspell Omega - Bread Of Bitterness (7:49)
Type O Negative - Black No.1 (11:15)
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses (10:56)
Rainbow - Stargazer (8:28)
Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand (10:26)
Dead Can Dance - Persephone (6:36)
Metallica - The Call Of Ktulu (8:55)
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson (40:07)

Good stuff.

[gheorghe]

hahaha did you just misspell sufjan stevens?

[gheorghe]

my vote goes to

smashing pumpkins - soma
animal collective - the purple bottle
led zeppelin - stairway to heaven
dan deacon - wham city
pavement - fillmore jive
aesop rock - coffee

and probably some equally obvious others i'm too lazy to look for

good call on i am trying to break your heart

[TheSuperiorGerbil]

-Black sabbath: Warning (10:33)
-The doors: The end (11:42)
-Frank Zappa: Gumbo Variations (16:57); The Ocean Is the Ultimate Solution (13:18);Te torture Never Stops, Inca Roads [live] (10:55), Little house I Used To live In (18:42)
-Iron maiden: Dance Of Death (8:37),Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (13:40)
-Jethro Tull: Thick As A Brick (43:38)
-Led Zeppelin: Achilles' Last Stand (10:25)
-Metallica: The Call Of Ktulu (8:54);Orion (8:22);To Live is To die (9:47)
-Pink Floyd: Dogs (17:04); Pigs (three different ones) (11:29);Shine on You crazy diamond (13:34)
-Primus: Eclectic Eletric (8:35)
-Rush: La Villa Strangiato (9:36)

I don't why but there's just something about long songs that attracts me,and rarely dissapoints (an artist would have to be really stupid/ballsy to keep on so long on a crappy song).The allman Brothers also have some nice long songs, Mountain Jam goes a little over half on an hour.

[America: Fuck Yea!]

my god people... some of these songs are only 5 minutes long.

[gonz]

panda bear - bros (12:30)
GY!BE - Gathering storm (22:32)
Wold Parade - Kissing The Beehive (10:46)
Animal Collective - Banshee Beat (8:25)

i'll think of some more later.

[Greased Scotsman]

Most of my favourite songs are pretty long. The perfect song length for me is about 7 minutes. Although these days even 4 minutes is considered "long" to record companies. Some great songs have been absolutely butchered to made them short enough for radio. Dumbasses.

Richie Sambora - Undiscovered Soul
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
The Who - Who Are You
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
Eric Clapton - Layla
Allman Brothers Band - Jessica
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd - Money
Pink Floyd - Time
Pink Floyd - Us and Them
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Guns N' Roses - November Rain
Guns N' Roses - Paradise City
Guns N' Roses - Civil War
Guns N' Roses - Coma
Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes To Midnight
Iron Maiden - Blood Brothers
Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name
Iron Maiden - The Clansman
Iron Maiden - Journeyman
Bon Jovi - Dry County
Bon Jovi - Blood on Blood
Bon Jovi - Bed of Roses
Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
Ozzy Osbourne - Fire in the Sky
Thunder - Love Walked In

Considerably longer than if you'd asked me to list my favourite songs under 3 minutes.

[My Little Needle]

oh comely

[grübermeister]

I have some more:

Hummer- Smashing Pumpkins (6:57)
Filmore Jive- Pavement (6:39)
The adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (7:10)
Don't Stop till You Get Enough- Michael Jackson (6:06)
Wu Tang: 7th Chamber- Wu Tang Clan (6:07)
Handshake Drugs- Wilco (6:07)

[Reservoir Dog]

Desolation Row - Bob Dylan

[H Thompson]

Alvin Lucier - I am sitting in a Room (45:20) :rolleyes:

[fritz]

cure - carnage visors
swirlies - torr's empathy jam
of montreal - the past is a grotesque animal
lilys - the way snowflakes fall
dino jr - alone
slowdive - rutti
durutti column - please let me sleep
autechre - windwind
shout out louds - hard rain

[billi vanilli]

only in dreams.

we did this thread not too long ago. kevin started it.

[Spartan]

neil young - like a hurricane

[I-CloWn-I]

One- Metallica
Master of Puppers- Metallica
only longs songs i kno

[raheem]

velvet underground- sister ray
isaac hayes- by the time I get to phoenix, walk on by
of montreal- the past is a grotesque animal
funkadelic- maggot brain
neil young- cowgirl in the sand
the who- quick one while he's away

a bunch that have already been mentioned

[ppoi307]

almost anything by Harry Chapin.

Sniper
30,000 Pounds of Bananas
Mayor of Candor Lied

just to name a few

[anthony]

i am the resurrection

[SilverEagle]

Television - Marquee Moon
Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot
Rush - 2112
Isaac Hayes - Walk On By
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (live version from One Nation Under A Groove is the best)
David Bowie - Station To Station
The Who - A Quick One (While He's Away)
The Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon (full 8 minute version with Evening, Time To Get Away)
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
U2 - Zooropa
Yes - Roundabout
The Doors - Light My Fire
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
Stone Roses - Fools Gold
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
Destroyer - Rubies

[MacGyver 666]

All Genesis:

Ripples
Duke's Travels
Tonight, Tonight, Tonight
Domino (Part One-In The Glow Of The Night/Part Two - The Last Domino)
Home by the Sea/Second Home by the Sea
Dodo/Lurker
Eleventh Earl Of Mar
Driving the Last Spike
Supper's Ready
One For The Vine
The Cinema Show
One Man's Fool
There Must Be Some Other Way
The Dividing Line

[erock]

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LCD Soundsystem- All My Friends (7:37)
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one of my faves. Death cab for cutie - I will possess your heart is really awesome, and that's 8 and a half minutes.

[jase]

The first 5 minutes of I Will Possess Your Heart is completely pointless

[Xt'Tapalatakettle]

Any Dream Theater song.

Also, pretty much all of ...And Justice for All by Metallica.

There are plenty of others.

[The Southern Zombie]

NOFX's "The Decline". A little over 18 minutes of awesome...showing off all the variety in the styles of songs they've done over the years, perfectly paced to always be interesting as it slows down, speeds up, quiets down, and perks up in just the right spots, and featuring some truly epic lyrics that manage to be crass, snotty, eloquent, and thoughtful all at once.

[Sloppy Jimbo IV]

Barney the Dinosaur - The Song That Doesn't End (6:14)

[The Southern Zombie]

I thought the song that never ends was from Lamb Chop's Playalong.

[grübermeister]

All Tomorrows Parties- The Velvet Underground (6:00)
Chicago- Sufjan Stevens (6:05)
Black Steel In The Hour of Chaos (6:26)

[Moe Nopoly]

Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell

[grübermeister]

The Longest song ever... hasn't ended yet. It's by John Cage and it's gonna be like 600 years long. Some guy played one note a few years back and another guy is gonna play another in a few hundred years.

EDIT: As Slow As Possible- John Cage (639:00:00:00:00:00)

It's a long song but it's not one of my favourites obviously.

[The mayor of Albuquerque]

of the above:
2112-Rush
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" - Creedence Clearwater Revival (11:07)
Pink Floyd - Dogs (17:08)
The doors: The end (11:42)
Metallica: The Call Of Ktulu (8:54)
The Who - Who Are You
Guns N' Roses - November Rain
Guns N' Roses - Coma
Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name
Pink Floyd - Us and Them
oh comely
neil young - like a hurricane
neil young- cowgirl in the sand
Home by the Sea/Second Home by the Sea
I Will Possess Your Heart

and:
Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
Jane's Addiction - Three Days
Neil Young - Down by the River
Grateful Dead - Eyes of the World
Grateful Dead - Fire on the Mountain
Phish - Run Like an Antelope
Phish - David Bowie
Phish - The Divided Sky
Phish - You Enjoy Myself
The Beatles - hey Jude

[grissom]

Radiohead - Paranoid Android

sort of embarrassing that I forgot this.

real emotional trash is a good call too, mayor.

[TheSuperiorGerbil]

Forgot to mention: "Dark Ages" by Jethro Tull. The variation in quality of music by this band amazes me.

[Clark Westfall]

most of my favorites have been mentioned, others are:
something corporate - konstantine
death cab for cutie - transatlanticism
weezer - only in dreams

[Run CMB]

no reason to list anything already mentioned, so...

the mars volta - cygnus...vismund cygnus (13:02) & l'via l'viaquez (12:22)
jimi hendrix - voodoo chile (15:00) & who knows (9:39)
ataxia - montreal (12:24)

[Paul Butts]

Moo Rah Rah Rain- Animal Collective

[grübermeister]

Real Emotional Trash by Malkmus and More News from Nowhere by Nick Cave

[Slug]

in the garden of eden............. or In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

17:10 (album version)
2:53 (single edit)
19:51 (live version)

[globalhypermeganet]

The Koln Concert, Pt 1. -- Keith Jarrett (26:02)
Hunger Strike -- Estradasphere (19:30)
The Tain -- The Decemberists (18:35)
The Island -- The Decemberists (12:22)
The Decline -- NOFX (18:22)
Funeral for a Friend -- Elton John (11:10)
Concerto D'aranjuez -- Rodrigo (10:00)
Rubies -- Destroyer (9:40)
Freddy Freeloader -- Miles Davis (9:57)
Olsen Olsen -- Sigur Ros (8:25)
$29 --Tom Waits (8:00)

Some of the others mentioned before like "Illinoise" & "Trying to Break Your Heart" I think are awesome but not long enough to qualify. Should be at least 7 mins, IMO

[grübermeister]

I am trying to break your heart is is only 2 seconds away from 7 minutes, i think it still qualifies.

Silverfuck- Smashing Pumpkins (8:43)
Dirt- The Stooges (7:04)
Can It Be All So Simple- Wu-Tang Clan (6:53)