A Day in the Life - Beatles. Might have worked at less that 2 minutes (But I doubt it).
Imagine - John Lennon. Not only a dirge but a sanctimonious dirge.
Another one I just remembered is “Turn the Page” by Bob Seger.
I don’t have any problem with long songs like “Edmund Fitzgerald” or “American Pie” because the sheer amount of lyrics makes it easy to keep attention. The ones I dislike are the ones that just repeat a verse (like the 11-minute Dylan song “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands”) or have an eternal fade (like Elton John’s “I’ve Seen That Picture Too”, where the fade must be half the six minute running time). It’s a shame because both songs would be excellent at half the running time.
One Thing Leads To Another - The Fixx.
Good Times - Chic.
Both of these do, indeed, drag on and on, but I LOVE both songs anyway. Even if they do possibly alter my brainwave…
Shooting Star by Bad Company.
I never noticed how tedious that song is until I played it on Rock Band 2. And the lyrics are super-cheesy.
I hadn’t heard any Amy Winehouse until a couple of days ago I heard the Song Rehab. It never ends and is so boring. No…no…no… and I’m asleep, and I think she might be too. (She does have an awesome voice, but give me the Noisettes any day- they have energy.)
I know it is considered a great song, but “American Woman” by The Guess Who is the same guitar riff all … the way … through. Way too long of a song.
Nights in White Satin, Moody Blues. What’s up with that stupid poem at the end? It would have been much better without it.
I don’t mind instrumental segments in songs (like Light My Fire, for example), you’re right about Layla – the ending doesn’t even match the fucking song. It’s just tacked on at the end.
Yes, and Guernica might’ve made a nice postcard, but the real thing is too big.
elmwood mentioned Lynyrd Skynyrd in general, but Free Bird is a champion in the “just end already” category.
Hmm, my apologies for specifically mentioning a Bad Company song. I missed the two posts that agreed that EVERYTHING by Bad Company is far too long.
Free Bird is one of those songs that when you hear it come on the radio you’re all “yeah man, Free bird!” and by then end you’re all “damn, I forgot this song was so long…click”
Suzie Q by Creedence Clearwater Revival. That same guitar riff over and over and over and the hook said fifty thousand times, “Oh Suzie Q, baby I love you, Suzie Q.” zzzzz…
I was coming in to mention CCR. They noodle. I hate noodling.
Good songs but…
David Bowie - Blue Jean
David Bowie - Young Americans
Glenn Frey - The Heat is On
Crash Test Dummies - MMM MMM MMM MMM
You bite your tongue! 
I like most of Harry Chapin’s longer songs because, like **install **said earlier (about other artists/songs), they have enough lyrical content to keep them interesting. “Taxi” is the easiest to pick on, IMO, purely because of the “Baby’s so high that she’s skying” part. Never liked that much.
As for my own contribution to this thread… I love me some Kiss (although that fades with every minute they continue to refuse to hang it up), but “Rock & Roll All Nite” goes on way, WAY too long in most of its iterations, particularly live.
Blasphemer. Blasphemer!
(video, obviously)
That song is a southern rock masterpiece.
To answer the OP, any song that you don’t like seems to drag on and on.
U2,
i still havent found what Im looking for, I’m looking for the end of that song.
In the name of Love (?title) In the name of evan almighty end this song already
SHinedown -
Second Chance - SOmetimes Goodbye is a second chance to hang around for 18 chorus’s. Hello! Mom and Dad hung up a long time ago!
I am chela who’s kids pop rock radio station gives me earworms that pester me all night long.
The ending is my favorite part of Layla! It’s just another cheesy love song otherwise. I’m a big fan of that sort of thing in general. I love how old Black Sabbath songs seem to stop in the middle and play the instrumental part to another song before they get back to finishing the song they started. It’s just a great little break for variety that makes their 7-9 minute songs tolerable.
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Harry Chapin-Taxi
I’d rather bite my ears off.He even made a follow up to this song which I discovered the other day.Which I promptly turned off.
How do I make the link say something else again?..I forgot how.
Notice the link is highlighted after you paste the URL? TYpe in the words/phrase you want to show.
Personally I like most of the long drawn out ending of those classic (60’s/70’s) 5 minute rock songs, and usually get mildy upset when the radio station cuts it off prematurely.
Amen to that. The moronic never-ending first part is followed by the fairly pleasant but repetitious never-ending “coda.” Ironic that it’s the only song that ever got Duane Allman any airplay.
Closer to 18 minutes. It counts as “pop” to me, heard it a several times on AM radio in '68. Yes, the full length version.
My two contributions would be “Hey Jude”, which is pretty lackluster for a Beatles song anyway, and that self-indulgent second part is just horrible. Might have been ok if it had faded out after 30 seconds.
And “The Boxer” by Simon&G. The song is great, musically and lyrically, but that idiotic lie-la-lie (or whatever) goes on far too long, ruins my enjoyment for what came before.