Long songs that are totally worth it
 

Or not? Talking over 7 minutes here...

Worth it:
Sonic Youth- The Diamond Sea
Pink Floyd- Echoes
Porcupine Tree- Anesthetize
Opeth- The Lotus Eater
Tool- Third Eye

Need editing:
Lynyrd Sknynrd- Free Bird
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club- American X
Steve Roach- Structures From Silence
Creedance Clearwater Revival- I Put A Spell On You

Others?

Worth:

Neil Young - Down by the River
Zep - Stairway, Carouselambra, In the Light
SUICIDE - Frankie Teardrop
Yes - South Side of the Sky, Roundabout, Starship Trooper
Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
Television - Marquee Moon
Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine Parts I-V and V-VIII or whatever they are, Echoes of course too..
Rush - LaVilla Strangiato, Xanadu, Natural Science, Cygnus X-1, shit half their body of work, good tough trivia question to guess how many over 7
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man,
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
MGMT - Siberian Breaks, Metanoia


Not worth it:

Eagles - Hotel California
Don McLean - American Pie ...God i hate that song!

Worth:
Miles Davis- Pharaoh's Dance
Bob Dylan- High Lands
Bob Dylan- Desolation Row
Bob Dylan- Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
Velvet Underground- Sister Ray
Jimi Hendrix- Machine Gun
Funkadelic- Maggot Brain


Not:
Robert Fripp and Brian Eno- No Pussyfooting
I got love for Fripp and Eno. But, this album goes on entirely too long

Sympathy for the Strawberry sy
Rain on Tin sy.

well almost any long sy song.

European Son VU

Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea
Velvet Underground - Sister Ray
Sunn 0))) - 0))) Bow 2
Fantomas - Delirium Cordia
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
The Tubes - White Punks On Dope
Limp Bizkit - Rollin' (Urban Assault Vehicle)
Electric Wizard - I, The Witchfinder

Willie The Pimp by Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly (yes, this is debatable, but its such a classic of stoned excess)

Desolation Row by Bob Dylan

I never understood that long ambient sequence in Karen Revisited. It just sounds like filler to me.

Bunch o' lame asses y'all.

Boris - Absolutego
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Corrupted - most things by them.

Let's get with the program, please!

Great topic and lots of great references in here!

I'd add:

Television - "The Dreamers Dream"
Herbie Hancock - "Head Hunters"
Pink Floyd - "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
My Morning Jacket - "Steam Engine" & "Dondante"
SY - "Hits of Sunshine"
Jane's Addiction - "Three Days" & "Then She Did"
Explosions in the Sky - "Time Stops"
Mudhoney - "Broken Hands"
Yes - "Roundabout"
Cracker - "Euro Trash Girl"

You're beautiful.

Boredoms - Super Going
Shellac - Didn't We Deserve A Look at the Way You Really Are?
most Rodan songs
every A Minor Forest song
tons of drone/ambient/etc

hear, hear!

Shit & Shine's Ladybird

Every good drone song.

The Graze of Days also.

Maggot Brain

Just say the whole of sapphie

The whole of Sapphie.

Happy? Cunt.

My cunt if I had one would be happy.

Francisco Lopez - Untitled #89

Guns n roses. Estranged

Oh fuck yeah, ESTRANGED is an amazing "long track", as is November Rain and Coma. G'N'R were incredible back in the day.

The SHIT man

I keep reading this as LOVE songs. weird.

I'll go with the entire YES catalog with special mention to Siberian Khatru. And of course, the same with Genesis. (Sonic Youth is understood of course.)

And, in no particular order:

Low Spark of High Heel Boys (even with the absolutely horrible recording)
Carouselambra and Kashmir
Disintegration

I gotta make special mention of Cerberus Shoal, who regularly crafted challenging, brilliant 8-12 minute epics, I don't think they ever made a song under 6 minutes.

Elegy for All the Dead Rock Stars

I put this disc in at work and everyone thought the cd was stuck. But, esp with headphones and THC this song is wonderful.

New Order: Blue Monday, Hurt, The Perfect Kiss (the 9min version onSubstance)

The first track on Mr. Boy Dog is 1 minute something... that doesn't count does it?

Anything by Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

till fa#

Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor

Good call on that one !

"Eureka" is also totally worth it.

Can - Mother Sky
Legendary Pink Dots - Premonition 13

IV. Mt. Eerie - The Microphones
The Story of Yo La Tango - Yo La Tengo
More Stars Than There Are in Heaven - Yo La Tengo
The Sprawl - Sonic Youth
Karen Koltrane - Sonic Youth

Actually Ricechex it's Shine on You Crazy Diamond from Floyd's Wish You Were Here Album which definitely belongs.

Cowgirl in the Sand - Neil Young
The End & When the Music is Over - The Doors
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed & You Don't Love Me - The Allman Brothers
Promise of a Fisherman - Santana
1983 A Mermaid I should turn to Be - Jimi Hendrix
Welcome to the Pleasuredome - Frankie goes to Hollywood
Blue Train - John Coltrane

Electric Wizard - Return Trip
Metallica - Orion
Black Sabbath - Hand of Doom
Sonic Youth - Hyperstation
Beck - The Horrible Fanfare/Landslide/Exoskeleton
Earth - Engine of Ruin (not THAT long)
The Doors - The End
Melvins - Boris
Stereolab - Surrealchemist
Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline
The Velvet Underground - Heroin
Swans - Young God

"Untrustable/Part 2 (About Someone Else)", "Velvet Waltz", and "Broken Chairs" by Built To Spill
"Prayers for Rain" and "Disintegration" by The Cure
"Trucker's Atlas" by Modest Mouse
"Blue Monday" by New Order
"When Will You Die For The Last Time In My Dreams" and "Lucia" by Polvo
"Conqueror" by Jesu

~Jeremy~

Joanna Newsom - Only Skin

The fifth movement from Mahler's 2nd Symphony

The Mingus sextet's performance of Fables of Faubus from the 1964 Cornell concert.

If you want to go THERE, Beethoven's 9th, second movement (or the whole damn thing).

Yoo Do Right and soup by can