Very good, but OVERLONG songs?

[WildRanger]

Name some tunes that are musically very good to you, but it would be better if they were (much) shorter.

My picks are Cygnus X-1 Hemispheres by Rush, All Around the World by Oasis and I'm Your Captain by Grand Funk Railroad. All these songs are very good but unnecessarily long.

[Elite]

When a song is unnecessarily long, how can the full song still be 'good'? Or is a small part of the song good then?

[Crow]

Napalm Death - You Suffer

cool tune but at least twice as long as it needs to be

[MirrorMask]

Napalm Death - You Suffer

cool tune but at least twice as long as it needs to be

 

[Lonk]

Pink Floyd - Echoes

Love the tune, but that middle section is a bit too long, only to come back to the same music from the first 5 minutes.

[MirrorMask]

Nightwish's intro for The Greatest Show on Earth goes on forever. And the outro as well. It's like the doctor ordered a 24 minutes song at all costs.

[Stadler]

I feel like El Barto might weigh in on this one (I'm pretty sure he likes this song), but "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'" by the Stones.  I LOVE that song, but the interlude kind of drags on a bit... once - with vinyl and cassette (one of my finest hours) made an edit that had a few bars of the interlude, then went right into that cool ascending riff that brings the band back in.... Love it.

Kiss Black Diamond; Kiss Cold Gin.  They didn't really know how to end songs back then. 

[RoeDent]

There's no such thing as an overlong song. Every song is exactly as long or as short as it needs to be.

[MirrorMask]

There's no such thing as an overlong song. Every song is exactly as long or as short as it needs to be.

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[The Walrus]

There's no such thing as an overlong song. Every song is exactly as long or as short as it needs to be.

I strongly disagree with this

[Crow]

There is not a single song that has even been released that is the appropriate length for a song, which is either 0.0000000000011885 picoseconds or 10.5 billion years

[cramx3]

There's no such thing as an overlong song. Every song is exactly as long or as short as it needs to be.

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One of the worst songs Ive ever heard from my favorite band.  I'm not even sure if you can just simply say its overlong, its just terrible all around including being longer than 0 seconds.

[KevShmev]

The Flower Kings - The Truth Will Set You Free

Could have been a really good song at about 17 or 18 minutes instead of a bloated mess that drags on and on and on.

[Stadler]

There's no such thing as an overlong song. Every song is exactly as long or as short as it needs to be.

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One of the worst songs Ive ever heard from my favorite band.  I'm not even sure if you can just simply say its overlong, its just terrible all around including being longer than 0 seconds.

Not arguing with you, because I get it, it's not a great song, but I think I'm one of the few people in this world not named "Harris" that doesn't outright hate it.  I kind of dig it, at least in the context of the album (and I like the full version better than the edit). 

[Adami]

There's no such thing as an overlong song. Every song is exactly as long or as short as it needs to be.

Nah.

[Lonk]

There's no such thing as an overlong song. Every song is exactly as long or as short as it needs to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmkC_leNM7M

[Buddyhunter1]

There's no such thing as an overlong song. Every song is exactly as long or as short as it needs to be.

In other news, every song in the universe is objectively good

[pg1067]

Layla.  The first three minutes are gold, and the rest is garbage.

[hefdaddy42]

Layla.  The first three minutes are gold, and the rest is garbage.

You're insane.

[Fritzinger]

Layla.  The first three minutes are gold, and the rest is garbage.

Absolutely NOT. That second half (I always call it "coda") is just BEAUTIFUL and I almost like it better than the far more famous first part.


First thing that popped into my head is Steve Hackett - Shadow Of The Hierophant. Great song, finale a little too long.


In contrast to that, sometimes lengthy parts or songs can be extremely fascinating, like many Tangerine Dream Songs.
Or that haunting percussion/female vocal part of Mike Oldfield's Incantations, Part Two. I could listen to that part for hours.

[nobloodyname]

There's no such thing as an overlong song. Every song is exactly as long or as short as it needs to be.

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Don't you think I could save your life

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Don't you think I could save you
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Why the edit?

(PS - I actually really like the song but yes... far too repetitive!)

[DTA]

The Flower Kings - The Truth Will Set You Free

Could have been a really good song at about 17 or 18 minutes instead of a bloated mess that drags on and on and on.

I do feel like Truth is overlong, but I feel like every part fits so I'd have trouble figuring out what to shorten/remove.

The first song that popped into my head was Church Of Your Heart by TFK. The first 6 minutes or so is one of my all-time favorite sections of music from them, but the song drags for an extra 3 minutes of unnecessary stuff.

[The Walrus]

Most Transatlantic songs fits the bill here honestly

[TAC]

Most Transatlantic songs fits the bill here honestly

Even the short ones.

[Learning2Live]

Beatles - I Want You/She's So Heavy (that outro just never seems to end and over-extends its welcome)
DT - A Nightmare to Remember (I like a lot of portions of that song, but there's a lot of fat that could have been trimmed off of that one to make a better more-concise song)

[DTA]

Beatles - I Want You/She's So Heavy (that outro just never seems to end and over-extends its welcome)
DT - A Nightmare to Remember (I like a lot of portions of that song, but there's a lot of fat that could have been trimmed off of that one to make a better more-concise song)

How did I forget this one? I feel like this is a pretty good 9 minute song with 7 minutes of repetitive garbage surrounding it. Same with most of the 12-step songs imo.

[Stadler]

Beatles - I Want You/She's So Heavy (that outro just never seems to end and over-extends its welcome)

Beatles fanatic, but that's a good call.

[ChuckSteak]

Deliverance by Opeth is the first that comes to mind. That repetitive outro could be shorter.

[The Walrus]

Deliverance by Opeth is the first that comes to mind. That repetitive outro could be shorter.

There's a whole lot of Oldpeth that should've been left on the cutting room floor to be honest. Even though I do love those first two albums more than the stuff that came after.

[RoeDent]

So my opinion is wrong again. Fanbloodytastic. It's mob rule round here. You have to tow the party line or else you get destroyed.

[Adami]

So my opinion is wrong again. Fanbloodytastic. It's mob rule round here. You have to tow the party line or else you get destroyed.

Nah.

[Lonk]

Your opinion is not wrong. This whole thread is based on opinion of what you think is too long (for a song).

[WildRanger]

There's no such thing as an overlong song. Every song is exactly as long or as short as it needs to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmkC_leNM7M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5P7bo5hKgQ

[Phoenix87x]

I love Master of Puppets, but I always thought it was one verse too long.

[mike099]

Beardfish - Sleeping in Traffic - 30 minute song  Great song that takes all kinds of twist and turns.

In the Gada da Vida -  Back when I listened while smoking weed, the song did not feel overlong, but now it does.