With many long songs, you get high quality song writing with flow. Shorter songs are quicker to put together as compared to a 13 minute track which (often times) is intricately put together and organized.
Two excellent points Lats. Post truncated for emphasis.
This. Verily. I definitely think there's something to it, H; but I also think it may be in some cases a coincidence that the song just so happens to be long along with the above wonderful statements. I don't think anyone actually looks at a long song and automatically has some kind of affinity towards it, with or without hearing it, since we're talking strictly length. Although on that note I can't think of any ridiculously long songs that are outrightly shunned or hated either. Again, back up to the above points. The circle continues. Fuck circles. No. That's a glory hole.
Myself? I actually like the shorter songs you mentioned more than the longer ones mentioned with the exception of ACOS, which will forever be my saving grace and hailed as a life-changing epic (the only song worthy of being called an 'epic' in my book, thus far anyway). That goes doubly for more recent records, although the music I've been listening to recently hasn't been lengthy for the most part. Even OSI's Invisible Men, which is completely orgasmic, has fallen to my number 2 spot with For Nothing topping it; the former being 10 minutes long and the latter being 3...soo. Then again, I am almost always in the minority when it comes to musical tastes. Awkwardly so.
So yeah, there's something to it I think, though I wouldn't read too much into it. That said, I don't think it's a problem, nor does it detract from the shorter songs; though I can only speak for myself, and clearly my opinions are all black sheep. Which is okay, cause a black sheep could fuck a white sheep up any day. Animal racism FTW. But there's something to everything. Right? I'M NOT JUST LIVING A LIFE OF RANDOM COINCIDENCE, RIGHT!?
P.S. Though 'filler' is an interesting choice of words. I see that word being thrown around here all too often about songs that someone doesn't like that may just so happen to be short. Eh. There's a lot of that though. Like overrated and underrated. My opinions are underrated so fuck.
P.P.S. Through My Words > Everything mentioned. So beautiful. Like a freshly plucked strawberry straight from the rich, dense soil of California, and it just so happens that a fantastically sexy woman plucked it and nestled it between her thighs, saying to you as she does this, "Hey there shit-stick, fuck you" and then we fuck. Nyquil is an ass-kicker and a bully.