Poll: Do you like Long songs?

[RottingAwesome]

If it's a really good, diverse song, then yeah.
If it's really repetitive and could just as easily be 3 minutes and just as good (possibly better) well then no

good example: Wake Up by Rage Against the Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy51yLLO7YY

 

[unoleian]

Two songs definitely in that "long" category come immediately to mind, and I love/really like 'em

Dogs, at 17+ minutes, and Atom Heart Mother, at 23+ minutes, both by Pink Floyd, are pretty damn good. Dogs especially, it's like, one of my most favorite songs ever. Atom Heart Mother is...good throughout different parts, but it's a very peculiar taste, IMO. Not everyone digs it. It was very avant-garde at the time, and still kinda is. The vocal parts are an aqcuired taste, I'd say. But the "spaghetti-western-space-opera" vibe it has going on is certainly compelling...

 

[Tanto-chan]

Metallica for starters and then on of my favorite songs by two of my favorite artists in 10 minutes long and also a lot of dream theater

 

[Klarinette]

Only if it carries well and goes somewhere, sure. Something that just drones on for the sake of being a long song... no.

 

[Kaymish]

some songs are just not long enough i have a couple that are over 10 minutes long and they are awesome

 

[Yoshemo]

Still love this one. It has a bit of a story

 

[Shynobee]

One word:

Albuquerque!

If you don't know what it is, YOU BEST LOOK IT UP SON!!!

 

[WJC]

Yes.

Now excuse me while I spend the next 20 minutes of my life listening to A Change of Seasons by Dream Theater.

Quoted for being awesome.

OT: Yeah I like long songs as long as they *should* be long (a perfect example of a song that should be twenty minutes long is ACoS above), I don't like padding.

Even more OT since he was talking about eight or nine minute songs: yeah they're about where I'm at, I find it hard to listen to any song much under four minutes cause it goes past so quickly

 

[arrapippol]

Beethoven Symphony no. 9.... 1 hour and a bit of pure epicness (yes, i listen to classical music)

 

[Sir Reginald Bathwater]

Dream Theatre's 'The Count of Tuscany', 'Octavarium', and 'In The Presence of Enemies' are awesome. Also, The Keeper of the Seven Keys is 13:37, iirc.

 

[Code Monkey]

One of my favourite songs is about 10 minutes long. If I'm in the mood, I'll listen to it the whole way through.

 

[The Small Cheese]

Telegraph Road by Dire Straits. 15 mins long, but I usually ignore the last guitar solo (I can't hear it over the drums)

 

[DustyDrB]

God, someone should really hit me for not mentioning this one earlier:
Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant Massacree".

Yea, I'm no metal fan. Give me a folk song any day.

 

[Laserbeam Ostrich]

I quite like Trucker's Atlas by Modest Mouse and it goes on for like, 11 minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl9vGHVT_Xs

 

[Mr. Google]

*puts on musical snob hat*

Har, you think 9 minutes is long?

Try listening to Dopesmoker by Sleep. It's an album that's all one song, and it's an hour long.

It's surprisingly listenable. I sometimes listen to it falling asleep.

So yes, I love long songs. When you listen to Stoner/Doom metal, it kind of comes with the territory.

*puts on retaliation hat*
I just used 9 minutes as a random starting point cause thats about twice as long or more as most average songs (3 to 4 minutes)

 

[Mr. Google]

One word:

Albuquerque!

If you don't know what it is, YOU BEST LOOK IT UP SON!!!

YES!!!!!

 

[Mr. Google]

But my exceptions are anything by Bruce Springsteen. I love that man and all of his music. Also classic rock/metal bands like Led Zeppelin and Rolling Stones

Dont mean to be that guy but I hate Bruce Springsteen with a passion its not the lyrics or anything but his voice is just pure shit

 

[Queen Michael]

Sure, they're great. Tori Amos' best song, I Can't See New York, is about seven minutes.