Ok…well you go away and come back to find a 2 page thread.
Nice.
Anyway, we don’t HAVE to be too pedantic about 10minutes, if it FEELS like 10minutes, and is over 5, it’s probably ok 
And wow, you people have some good taste in music!
Laina_f, you’re very welcome.
From the album Zoolookologie by Jean Michel Jarre … I had to look up if it matches the length, and it does. 
I love this track. I used to listen to this sometimes by myself as a young teen when we went on holiday, camping out somewhere in the South of France - I would sometimes retreat to the car and listen to a tape of this. It was one of the rare and first songs that gave me goosebumps - especially the point where I imagined that out of the ancient, dinosaur infested tropical forests, suddenly highly developed alien lifeforms emerged in their spaceship off to fly home and report on this odd and backward planet.
Yeah well, I was a young teen. I still like it a lot though and I’ve listened to it for a long time (for instance on a walkman while cycling, the song Photographes de Chine always turned my head at some point because it made me think someone yelled at me, then foolishly realising - again - that it was the song).
Other long songs I like off the top of my head are the Derek and the Dominos long version of Layla, and November Rain by Guns 'n Roses (which I probably like partly because it’s structure resembles the first).
Something not too many people will remember is the Arcadia project by the three core Duran Duran members (John Taylor, Simon le Bon, and Nick Rhodes) which was one of my first albums when I got my own record player (I think I was 12) and which is just great. Sting even did some guest backing vocals on one of the songs. Most of the songs are a bit longer than usual.
Looking it up (something I never did before post internet), it seems I’m not the only one who appreciated it.
The Animals “Sky Pilot.”
I just love Frankie Lane’s* El Paso Fantasia. Young cowboy falls for Mexican femme fatale, shoots a rival, flees to the hills, cannot stay away from the love of his life so comes back, gets shot for his troubles and dies in her arms. I mean, what more could you possibly want in a song?
*Yes, that’s Lane with no “i”, the one with an “i” is a different one. This one’s Irish.
I nominate The Saga begins by Weird Al (about Star Wars episode 1, to the tune of American Pie)
Brian
Did you see him hitting on the Queen, thogh he’s just 9 and she’s 15?
“Desolation Row” - Bob Dylan
“Spoonful” - Cream
"Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic
My Brother!!! Probably my favorite rock song ever.
Man, I do loves me some Tommy Bolin.
I’m not sure that was 10 minutes.
And the live version of Toad. Well, we drum freaks like it!
Rutti by Slowdive
Steeleye Span - Montrose (15’ 16")
Mr Fox - The Gypsy (12’ 58")
Albion Band - **The Task ** (12’ 28")
Fairport Convention - Sloth (The live version on the album ‘The Boot’ runs 19’ 29")
But that’s enough obscure folk/rockers…
Christo Redemptor - Charlie Musselwhite at 11:46
Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands - Bob Dylan at 11:18
Marquee Moon - Television at 10:41
Trilogy- Sonic Youth 14:06
Do What You Like - Blind Faith 15:16
Blues Deluxe / Bba Boogie - Jeff Beck 16:42
Interstellar Overdrive- P Floyd at 9:41
-Goodbye Sky Harbor is a great choice, whoever said it. Always thought they peaked on that album—hell, maybe even that song.
-Bright Eyes “Let’s Not Shit Ourselves” is barely 10, but damn good. Same thing as above. His best CD.
-Sigur Ros definately has a handful of tracks at 10 minutes plus. Of course, I don’t remember titles in Icelandic.
and, from my younger days: Tool, Third Eye.
You forgot Tam Lin.
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Demand, although it’s long, isn’t really a ‘song’ in the sense that it’s three parts of different songs combined to close out the Hoist CD. The long part (the 2nd part) is really clip taken from a live version of Split Open and Melt which is a pretty long song in it’s own right. In fact, any of Phish’s songs in their live versions can extend quite a bit. I have a tape of them playing Runaway Jim for about 40 minutes. :eek:
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I’ll add almost any song from the prog-metal outfit Dream Theatre, starting with their song Metroplis, Part I. Because I like that one a lot.
30,000 Pounds of Bananas by Harry Chapin.
Funnier than hell.
Oh My My by Jane Siberry 20:12
My #1 favorite song.
My #2 favorite song.
My #3 favorite song.
I could add Natural Science and The Camera Eye by Rush, Black Blade by Blue Oyster Cult, and Tarkus by ELP. Or how about Even in the Quietest Moments by Supertramp? Or Heaven forbid Lords of the Ring by Styx.
If I had to say “greatest” tho, It would be a tossup between Hey Jude and American Pie.
And **The Bonny Bunch of Roses ** (14 minutes something). OK, I’m not a total geek.
I love long-ass songs. The longer, the better. Some not mentioned yet:
Fates Warning, “A Pleasant Shade of Gray” - 53:41
Jethro Tull, “A Passion Play” - 45:11
Edge of Sanity, “Crimson” - 40:00
Emerson Lake & Palmer, “Pictures at an Exhibition” - 33:48
Iced Earth, “Gettysburg” - 31:54
Emerson Lake & Palmer, “Karn Evil 9” - 29:32
X-Japan, “Art of Life” - 29:00
Manowar, “Achilles, Agony & Ectasy in 8 Parts” - 28:37
The Cure, “Carnage Visors” - 27:42
Dream Theater, “Octavarium” - 24:00
Dream Theater, “A Change of Seasons” - 23:08
Yes, “The Gates of Delirium” - 21:55
Yes, “Ritual” - 21:35
Fates Warning, “The Ivory Gate of Dreams” - 21:25
Venom, “At War With Satan” - 20:01
Rush, “Hemispheres” - 18:05
The Doors, “Celebration of the Lizard” - 17:18 (“Live in New York” box set version)
Marillion, “Grendel” - 17:14
Jethro Tull, “Baker St. Muse” - 16:40
Spock’s Beard, “At the End of the Day” - 16:30
Iced Earth, “Dante’s Inferno” - 16:29
Uriah Heep, “Salisbury” - 16:22
Alan Parsons Project, “The Fall of the House of Usher” - 16:10
Fates Warning, “Still Remains” - 16:08
Hawkwind, “You Shouldn’t Do That” - 15:41
Yes, “Awaken” - 15:38
Burzum, “Det Som Engang War” - 14:21
Dream Theater, “In the Name of God” - 14:14
Bathory, “Twilight of the Gods” - 14:02
Anathema, “Velvet Thorns (of Drynwhyl)” - 13:57
Dream Theater, “The Glass Prison” - 13:52
Iron Maiden, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” - 13:45
Dream Theater, “The Great Debate” - 13:43
Frankie Goes to Hollywood, “Welcome to the Pleasuredome” - 13:40
Helloween, “Keeper of the Seven Keys” - 13:38
Scorpions, “Lonesome Crow” - 13:29
Emerson Lake & Palmer, “Pirates” - 13:20
Helloween, “Halloween” - 13:18
Dream Theater, “Trial of Tears” - 13:07 (plus about 2 dozen more songs between 10 and 13 minutes…getting kinda ridiculous)
Uriah Heep, “Paradise/The Spell” - 12:41
Rush, “The Necromancer” - 12:30
Emerson Lake & Palmer, “Take a Pebble” - 12:27
Keith Green, “Prodigal Son Suite” - 12:18
Opeth, “Blackwater Park” - 12:08
Deep Purple, “April” - 11:52
Hawkwind, “Brainstorm” - 11:33
Type O Negative, “Black No. 1” - 11:15
The Cure, “Watching Me Fall” - 11:13
Ayreon, “The Banishment” - 11:08
Credence Clearwater Revivial, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” - 11:04
Led Zeppelin, “In My Time of Dying” - 11:04
The Doors, “When the Music’s Over” - 11:00
Rush, “The Camera Eye” - 10:56
Type O Negative, “Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)” - 10:56
Supertramp, “Fool’s Overture” - 10:51
Uriah Heep, “July Morning” - 10:36
Yes, “Heart of the Sunrise” - 10:34
Angra, “Carolina IV” - 10:33
Death Angel, “The Ultra-Violence” - 10:32
Bathory, “Blood Fire Death” - 10:28
Led Zeppelin, “Carouselambra” - 10:28
Yes, “Machine Messiah” - 10:27
Led Zeppelin, “Achilles Last Stand” - 10:26
Rush, “Cygnus X-1” - 10:25
Genesis, “The Musical Box” - 10:24
Katatonia, “Scarlet Heavens” - 10:24
Pink Floyd, “Sheep” - 10:18
Genesis, “Fading Lights” - 10:16
Ayreon, “Amazing Flight” - 10:15
Deep Purple, “Child in Time” - 10:15
Dawn, “Falcula” - 10:12
Opeth, “Nectar” - 10:09
Grand Funk Railroad, “Closer to Home/I’m Your Captain” - 10:08
Guns N’ Roses, “Coma” - 10:08 (honorable mention to “November Rain” which is 8:53)
Exciter, “Wake Up Screaming” - 10:00
Jethro Tull, “Budapest” - 10:00
You could, but only “Tarkus” and “Camera Eye” are over 10 mins. “Natural Science” = 9:16, “Black Blade” = 6:33, “Even in the Quietest Moments” = 6:26, and “Lords of the Ring” is a mere 4:31!
Okay, if that’s the way we’re playing then the most beautiful long song is The Banks of the Nile in the version by Sandy Denny in on Fotheringay.