It’s Friday night and the music never stops on Deadsplinter. Let’s make this playlist last all through the night!
There’s a lot of 3 minute songs out there, but occasionally artists put out a track that is double that running time or more. And quite often those songs are epic. Share your favorites!
Thanks for listening to the music play, Deadsplinter.
The standard by which all other long songs are judged: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly. It took up the entire 2nd side of the album. The rumor about the singer being so loaded that he slurred the words “In the garden of Eden” is mostly true with this correction: it happened during the original writing of the tune, not during the recording session, but they decided to keep the title the way it was anyway.
When I was in radio, this was the song I would put on when I needed to go pinch a loaf and nobody was in the studio.
Talk about being in the Garden of Eden.
yeah..what can i say…..i just have a thing for blind guardian
The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Straight Up and Down
Sorry, had to go with low hanging fruit.
decades ago, I have vague memories of being a summer camp counselor, and getting clearance from the higher ups to play this track as the last song for the dances, specifically because it was sorta longer than average. (also, teen me and people teen me associated with were very pro Led Zeppelin…)
Not to bring down the mood but –
Very nice choice @Lymond
Jane’s Addiction – Then She Did…
This Bill Evans cut is 14 minutes and change, and it’s not boring for one second.
Vanilla Fudge turned every pop cover into an 8 minute epic. Content warning: organist Mark Stein has some very hairy-ass shoulders.
https://youtu.be/zBtKYBKg_yU
Like Vanilla Fudge, the group Rare Earth made a living doing 10-minute epic versions of hit songs.
I don’t know why the Vanilla Fudge link above didn’t embed, but it’s worth it for watching Tim Bogert play terrific bass while tripping balls. Here’s an even better example of completely stoned bass playing.
Didn’t know this music video was as long as it was.
I’m not sure why this is a “re-edit”. Better Half had this record. It is indeed over 10 minutes; we used to dance to it.
From the same era, possibly the same year. The 70s were good for long songs. When I was old enough to dig into my older siblings’ record stash I was surprised at how short some of the songs from the 60s were, less than three minutes.
Here’s a short one you may have heard of:
@MatthewCrawley GOOD ONE! I had no clue it was that long though lol
Gods of War by Def Leppard
@myopicprophet
This song is 3 minutes bet FEELS forever
@myopicprophet Aww it’s LambChop! ❤️
This is actually all one song:
Green Grass and High Tides, The Outlaws, coming in at 9:52.
One of the best songs ever
Marquee Moon
plus another fave
Ty Segall – And, Goodnight
You are correct @KeitelBlacksmith.
8:42, four weeks at #1
I almost included this one in the post
I don’t listen to Tull as much as I used to, but thanks for posting this, I feel like the album version is pretty much the go-to for too-damned-long-song-tracks…