music Long Songs

[WokeSmeed 124]

14. The longer a song is, the more epic it is.

- The 101 Rules Of Power Metal

 

This thread is dedicated to songs with epic lengths, the longer the better. Share songs that you consider long. Discuss what you think makes a song long.

 

I'm going to start with something that I'm pretty sure everybody can agree is long. Here's Sleep's masterpiece, Dopesmoker. If 63 minutes isn't long, I don't know what is.

 

As for what I think makes a song long, I would say anything longer than 8 minutes. It might be because I've been listening to a lot of long songs for a long time and I'm getting used to long songs.

[That One Techpriest You Used To Know 2,286]

Long songs? 2112 by Rush has always been a favorite of mine.

 

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,809]

Ooh, I have one. 

 

You want long, you got one!

 

 

Octavarium - Dream Theater

[Storm 199]

A good Rockband song I know is long.

 

And 

 

I think anything over 4 minutes is long myself. 

[DixonTheAdversary 1,631]

Iron Maiden is my go to band for long songs. 

 

 

Edited March 8, 2017 by cpl_dixon

[Flutter's lover <3 8,204]

Here's another extremely long song, Pink Floyds "Animals" almost 42 minutes long. Amazing piece too.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbxYp0qe2V0

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 40,270]

This is the perfect thread to post one of my all-time favorite songs. :3

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN3yqMr3ffY

 

I tend to consider anything above 6 minutes to be a long song, usually.

 

Here is another great one:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsh9xzTCFRk&list=FLbNI_y4l7aqOvFbmE3oCsag&index=52

[Mesme Rize 15,681]

Here is one of my favorite long songs. Supper's ready by Genesis. 23 Minutes in length:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szJq1lwnkNw

[WokeSmeed 124]

Now that I think about it, this entire thread could be filled with just stoner rock.

 

Anyway, here's Dreamwalker by Wo Fat. I'm pretty sure that this song isn't about Princess Luna.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui8Fy_qlwUM

[Denim&Venöm 16,498]

I consider 6 minutes or over to be a long song. Unless your name is Metallica, most songs on radio are under 5. 

 

But if while we're on the subject of long songs, here's some Machine Head, who can't seem to get away from short song writing no matter how hard they try. 

 

 

BTW an I the only one noticing most of these are hard rock and metal? 

[Envy 5,998]

I don't listen to many long non-classical music. It can be hard to keep my attention that long if it's not classical. Typically I have to look to Progressive Rock.

 

Darn, it's time for me to go to sleep, and then I listen to this. This song is immensely powerful. Rock music does not often go into this realm of pure atmosphere that classical genres are more prevalent at, but this one really does (particularly in the guitar solo sections), and it's never boring, always changing.

 

And of course, I always have to post this one, just so amazing. This one has shifting meters and some clearly classically inspired instrumental sections.

[Buttonmash1973 1,024]

Dreamfish performing Hymn

 

Edited March 9, 2017 by Buttonmash1973

[StormBlaze 991]

anything over 6 mins is what I consider a long song as the average song would be about 3 mins. my bf likes doing songs that are over 4 mins, here's his longest ones that are on YT, he has more on his soundcloud

 

 

[Sir Hugsalot 8,619]

I love long songs. They always appear as more interesting due to more ideas being stuffed in them and often unusual song structure. Here are my favourite ones:

 

(I love the middle eastern melodies used here, atmosphere is just amazing)

 

Melodic death metal piece that's a great blend of aggressive riffing and more melodic approach to music + acoustic passages.

 

Also I wrote my own song that can apply as a long one. For now it's just an instrumental, but I plan on adding vocals at one point.

[Slozy Ponyash 12]

You have heard of days' long song but maybe more a piece not a song.  It is by Terry Riley.  You can play as long as possibly like.

[Snow Frostflame 3,567]

Well I guess if you take all the songs from Porter Robinson's Worlds album only using songs sung by Avanna (since they're all connected) you'd get a 16 minute song... but here is one really long full song I know of... this use to be mine, and my dad's favorite song when we were kids.

 

 

[BlueStreak98 828]

 

 

Darn, it's time for me to go to sleep, and then I listen to this. This song is immensely powerful. Rock music does not often go into this realm of pure atmosphere that classical genres are more prevalent at, but this one really does (particularly in the guitar solo sections), and it's never boring, always changing.

I'm not a Peter Gabriel-era Genesis fan, but I did always kind of enjoy Firth of Fifth.

 

As for my choice of a long tune that has immense power, I'd go with Telegraph Road by Dire Straits. As somebody who grew up in/around the rust belt, it's as lyrically beautiful as it is musically.

[ZiggWheelsManning 7,348]

Tool - Invincible

Could be about Bon Bon and the secret missions she has  

Could be about Tom Brady  The song is 12 minutes long  

Could be about Trevor Lawrence  Hope brewing for Jacksonville Jaguars  Those Chargers didn't stand a chance  

Could be about the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pirates, who think they're invincible  

[Fluttershutter 2,116]

On 2017-03-07 at 6:46 PM, That One Techpriest You Used To Know said:

Long songs? 2112 by Rush has always been a favorite of mine.

 

 

Came to post this.

Here are a couple of others:

 

 

 

[Whirlwind 1,047]

This epic masterpiece!