Favorite Song Exceeding 7 Minutes?

[john_rambo]

OK So the average song these days is probably anywhere from 2 and a half to 5 minutes, but some songs take an extra step and make themselves longer than that. To me 7 Minutes is what classifies a song as "long". What are some of the songs that despite the length, you can listen to over and over? Here are some of mine...

Hey Jude- The Beatles

This may just be my favorite song of all time. I just love the progression of it, from just Paul and his piano to an entire orchestra. It never gets old.

You Can't Always Get What you Want- The Rolling Stones

This is kind of the same as the last one I mentioned, the progression is just great. Starts with a children's choir that has to be one of the best intros out there, then to just Mick and the Guitar. Then by the end there is a Gospel choir and an entire band. Gotta love it.

Paradise by the Dashboard Light- Meat Loaf

EPIC! Yes, EPIC! I love this song. It is just a great arrangement with all of its different parts that all seem to fit together from the beginning chords to the last "argument" at the end. Meat Loaf just has a knack for these types of songs, but this has to be my favorite.

American Pie- Don McLean

Lyrically one of the best, most confusing songs of all time. I love it. I can listen to this song all the way three times in a row if I really want to. Probably one of the best recorded songs there has been.

Any others?

[Lazy Boy]

"I'm So Afraid" - Fleetwood Mac

The Dance is a great live album as a whole, but this song is the standout track. The opening drum beat, followed by the guitar (I love good guitarists) instrumental, takes a good minute and a half before Mick Fleetwood starts in with the lyrics. I never get tired of listening to it.

[poopontheshoes7]

"Shine On You Crazy Diamond"- Pink Floyd

[athf1980]

Paradise by the Dashboard Light- Meat Loaf
Stairway to Heaven/Kasmir-Led Zeppelin
Free Bird/Tuesday Gone-Lynyrd Skynyrd
One/Master of Puppets/And Justice for all/Orion/call of Kutu-Metallica
American Pie-Don Mclean
Light my fire/Riders on the storm/LA woman-The Doors
"Albuquerque"-Weird Al
Nov. Rain-GNR
The Warning-Black Sabbath
Green Grass and High Tides-The Outlaws
"Won't Get Fooled Again-The Who
"Jesus of Suburbia"-Green Day
Jungleland-Bruce Springsteen
Trapped in the Drive-thru-Weird Al

[BakeTheMooCow]

Hmm.. off the top of my head --

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Sleep
Prince - Purple Rain
The Velvet Underground - Heroin
Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna
Beck - Ramshackle

[one_crow_sorrow]

I'm going to limit myself to one per artist, to keep this relatively short.

Genesis - Supper's Ready (22:54) - This is my number one all-time favourite song. Sheer brilliance.

Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (43:50)
Marillion - Grendel (17:15)
Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers (23:04)
Pink Floyd - Echoes (23:30)
Yes - Close to the Edge (18:43)
Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure (18:17)
Kraftwerk - Europe Endless (9:35)
Klaus Schulze - Friedrich Nietzsche (24:15)
Smashing Pumpkins - Porcelina of the Vast Oceans (9:21)
Cardiacs - Dirty Boy (8:54)
Nadja - Thaumogenesis (61:43)

[mutant_gorilla]

Bridge of Destiny - Arch Enemy

[notchreturns]

The Velvet Underground - Sister Ray
King Crimson - Starless
Bob Dylan - Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
Bruce Springsteen - New York City Serenade
Grandaddy - He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot
Pulp - Wickerman
Sonic Youth - Rain on Tin

[JJFlamingo]

Freebird

[Rated R]

Pigs, Dogs and Sheep from Pink Floyd's Animals.
Eclectic Electric by Primus on Anti-Pop
Southbound Pachyderm by Primus on Tales from the Punchbowl
The Real Thing by Faith No More on The Real Thing
Man of Action by Matthew Good Band on The Audio of Being
Viscera Eyes by The Mars Volta on Amputechture
Roulette Dares by The Mars Volta on De-Loused in a Comatorium
Goliath and Cavalettas by The Mars Volta on Bedlam in Goliath
Cowgirl in the Sand and Down by the River by Neil Young on Everybody Knows This is Nowhere


There are a ton more...I like long songs

[Leonidas.300]

Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden
Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin
Master of Puppets - Metallica

[Le_Big_Mac]

Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
Layla - Derek & the Dominos
The End and Light My Fire - The Doors
Marquee Moon - Television
The Message - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Stairway to Heaven, Kashmir and When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Heroin - The Velvet Underground
You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones
Desolation Row, Visions of Johanna and Hurricane - Bob Dylan
Cowgirl in the Sand - Neil Young
Hey Jude - The Beatles
One and Master of Puppets - Metallica
Time and Sheep - Pink Floyd
Purple Rain - Prince
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
Jesus of Suburbia - Green Day
Ball and Biscuit - The White Stripes
Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa

[starcat]

Civil War, Estranged, and November Rain - GnR

[speedbeaver]

Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven
Peter Frampton-Do You Feel Like I Do (from Frampton comes Alive)
Meat Loaf-Bat out of Hell, Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Tenacious D-City Hall
G N' R-November Rain
Prince-Purple Rain
Bob Dylan-Hurricane
Don McLean-American Pie
George Thorogood-One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Dire Straits-Money for Nothing
Death Cab for Cutie-I Will Possess Your Heart
Foghat-Slow Ride
Black Sabath-War Pigs
Boston-Foreplay/Long Time
Pink Floyd-Us and Them, Comfortably Numb, Time
Lynyrd Skynyrd-Free Bird, Tuesday's Gone
Oasis-Champagne Supernova
The White Stripes-Ball & Biscuit
Nine Inch Nails- We're In This Together
Derek & The Dominos-Layla
Bruce Springsteen-Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)

[therealjohng]

Third Eye - Tool

[lukeisevil]

When Things Explode - UNKLE

[Sidebot]

Fantômas - Surgical Sound Specimens from the Museum of Skin (74:17)
Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness (60:06)
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (42:04)
X-Japan - Art of Life (28:58)
Rhapsody - Gargoyles, Angels of Darkness (19:01)
Rush - Cygnus X-1 Book II Hemispheres (18:05)
Avantasia - The Seven Angels (14:16)
Blind Guardian - And Then There Was Silence (14:07)
Nightwish - The Poet And The Pendulum (13:52)
Helloween - Keeper of The Seven Keys (13:36)
Elvenking - A Poem For The Firmament (12:10)
Virgin Steele - Veni, Vidi, Vici (10:42)
Savatage - Morphine Child (10:11)
Threshold - Pilot In The Sky of Dreams (9:45)
Gamma Ray - Rebellion In Dreamland (8:43)
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Angelheart, Ravenheart Act 1 (Before the Bleeding Sun) (8:40)
Funeral - This Barren Skin (8:10)
Iced Earth - A Question of Heaven (7:40)

[Potter82]

Can't You Hear Me Knocking - The Rolling Stones
Pushit - Tool
Eulogy - Tool
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
When the Leavee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
Time - Pink Floyd
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
Us & Them - Pink Floyd
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
One - Metallica
Fade to Black - Metallica
Master of Puppets - Metallica
November Rain - Guns N' Roses,

& yes, Free Bird

[Badbird]

I guess that would have to be the same song that is my all time favorite:

Sisters of Mercy - "This Corrosion"

also enjoy:


Type O Negative - "Black no. 1"

Iced Earth - "Gettysburg Trilogy"

Meat Loaf - "I Would Do Anything for Love" (yeah, I went there)

Metallica - "Master of Puppets"

Sinner - "A Question of Honor"

Pig - "Prayer, Praise & Profit"

Judas Priest - "Cathedral Spires"

Tribuzy - "Execution"

Iron Maiden - "Powerslave"

Dokken - "Too High to Fly"

Bile - "Jerk"

[HannibalGuy]

Uh...

Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Nile - Unas, Slayer of the Gods
Exodus - Architect of Pain/The Atrocity Exhibition
Miles Davis - Pharaoh's Dance/All Blues/Bitches Brew
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Bob Dylan - Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands/Desolation Row
Hank Williams III - P.F.F.
Black Sabbath - Megalomania/Warning
Rollins Band - Blues Jam/Just Like You/Obscene/Almost Real/What Do You Do

I'm totally forgetting a lot at the moment.

[Ayestrain]

"Riders On The Storm", "The End", "When the Music's Over" / The Doors

[QUENTIN]

Desolation Row & Visions of Johanna (the Royal Albert Hall version) -Bob Dylan

Also my two favorite songs ever.

Oh! Sweet Nuthin', When You Go, Us & Them, Tuesday's Gone, When The Levee Breaks, Astral Weeks, and Hey Jude are excellent choices as well, to keep it to one per artist.

Props to one crow for mentioning the longest awesome song I know, Supper's Ready.

[Jerk Shapiro]

Sir Psycho Sexy that is me, sometimes I find I need to screeeeam...

[poguesfan]

The Doors: The End
Public Image Limited: Albatross
And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda: The Pogues

[Cop No. 633]

A Quick One While He's Away - The Who

Desolation Row - Bob Dyland

I Want You (She's So Heavy) - The Beatles

Haitian Fight Song - Charles Mingus

Mr. PC - John Coltrane

Bold As Love - Jimi Hendrix (instrumental version... one of the best guitar performances ever)

Machine Gun - Band of Gypsys

Someone's In the Wolf - Queens of the Stone Age

Spanish Key - Miles Davis

Right Off - Miles Davis

Bela Legosi's Dead - Bauhaus

Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt - The Mars Volta

The Curse of Milhaven - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (close, almost 7 minutes)

[Ayestrain]

10,000 Days (Wings Pt. II), Intension, The Patient, Eulogy, Pushit, Lateralus - Tool
No Quarter - Led Zeppelin
One More Red Nightmare - King Crimson
Black Metallic - Catherine Wheel
It's All Right Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - Bob Dylan
Duress - Swervedriver
Drifting Down Streams - Dead Meadow
Dogs - Pink Floyd

[jaw2929]

My favourites:

-Through the Fire & Flames and Disciples of Babylon by DragonForce

-Homecoming & Jesus of Suburbia by Green Day

-Comeback by Foo Fighters

-Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd

-Master of Puppets, Unforgiven III and That Was Just Your Life by Metallica

-Lateralus by Tool

-United States by Smashing Pumpkins

[NathanRomano]

That Was A Crazy Game Of Poker- O.A.R.

[Major Mojo]

Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden
Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin
Master of Puppets - Metallica

Holy crap i was going to say exactly those songs..!!!! :eek:

I would also have added Sympathy For The Devil- Rolling Stones.

[Le_Big_Mac]

I would also have added Sympathy For The Devil- Rolling Stones.

6 minutes and 22 seconds. Close but no cigar.

[hrdude]

Halloween - Helloween
Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Iron Maiden
Blackwater Park - Opeth
Overture - Def Leppard
Shores in Flames/Baptised in Fire and Ice - Bathory
Vicarious/Lateralus/Eulogy - Tool

[Major Mojo]

6 minutes and 22 seconds. Close but no cigar.

Oh.. well shit... there ya go.. lucky i was just going to add it then. :D

But i'll definitely include Kashmir too. I should have said that one to begin with.

[Major Mojo]

I'll add Prince's- Purple Rain to my list too.

[dennisv]

Metallica - Disposable Heroes (8:17)

[pablo_super1!]

Gotta be either American Pie by Don McLean or Blueprint by Jay Z. Honorable mention to Weird Al's hilarious trapped in the Drive Thru.

[killuminati003]

The obvious...Stairway to Heaven.

When the Levee Breaks, Also by Led Zeppelin

But my absolute favorite- American Pie by Don McLean.

More later when I think about it.

[Sgizzy316]

Free Bird

[killuminati003]

Hurricane- Bob Dylan
Modern Marvel- Mos Def

[Jerk Shapiro]

I would say that most all of my favorite songs are at or around 7 minutes in length. I've been listening to improvisational jambands for so long now I've gotten used to every tune lasting anywhere from 8 minutes all the way to 15 or 20. No big deal, it's just something you have to get your ears accustomed to. Now when I listen to the radio the songs that come on seem like little snippets of what they really could be.

[Potter82]

You Can't Always Get What you Want - The Rolling Stones (I'm seriously beginning to think that the Stones could be the best rock band ever - provided you ignore their shit for the past few decades)
The Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson - cool I seem to be the first one to name this song, classic progressive rock

[john_rambo]

I just remembered one that is BADASS!

Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again- Bob Dylan

I love this song! I know it's like 7 minutes of random shit by Mr. Dylan, but it is awesome. On a side note, have you heard this guy "sing" lately? Ouch!

[John Galt]

Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand, Kashmir
Black Sabbath - Symptom Of The Universe
Rush - The Fountain Of Lamneth, Cygnus X-1, Hemispheres
Iron Maiden - To Tame A Land, 7th Son Of A 7th Son
Symphony X - The Edge Of Forever, The Divine Wings Of Tragedy, The Accolade, The Odyssey, Rediscovery
Metallica - Master Of Puppets, Am I Evil, The Call Of Ktulu
Fates Warning - Something From Nothing, Still Remains
Sieges Even - Dimensions, These Empty Places
Threshold - Narcissus
Marillion - Grendel