# Rock 'n Roll for the Attentionally Endowed
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 31, 2000, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508 "2000-03-31T03:49:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508/21 "2000-03-31T16:48:00Z")
**"Echoes"** by Pink Floyd.
**"New York City Seranade"** by Bruce Springsteen
**Stash** by Phish
I was going to start listing Grateful Dead songs that fit this category, but I think the list would be just a _bit_ too long.
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### Author:  [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508/22 "2000-03-31T17:14:00Z")
I’ll second (third? fourth?) Dark Side of the Moon, and also Dire Straits’ Telegraph Road.
Does Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells count as a rock song?
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## _SanibelMan_ - [My Homepage](http://members.macconnect.com/~jonkleinow/)
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Today is not your day.
Tomorrow isn’t looking good either.
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### Author:  [@Boris\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boris_B)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508/23 "2000-03-31T17:31:00Z")
Led Zeppelin - “Carouselambra” and “Kashmir” (sp?)
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### Author:  [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508/24 "2000-04-01T06:18:00Z")
What, all this Rush and no one’s yet mentioned **By-Tor and the Snow Dog**? To this day, I still get flashbacks of Geddy Lee yelling (in that inimitable voice of his): “By-Tor!” Never fails to bring a grin to my lips.
Some other favorites of mine, not necessarily as long as those previously mentioned:
Elvis Costello’s **Tokyo Storm Warning**
**Grey Matter** by Oingo Boingo (OK, only the live version is particularly long…)
Wall of Voodoo’s **Call of the West**
**Ballad of Big Joe and Phantom 309** by Tom Waits
Sinead O’Connor’s **Troy**
**Dixie Babylon** by Cracker
The Cure’s **Carnage Visors**
**Echoes** by Pink Floyd
Beth Orton’s **Pass in Time**
Of course, my very favorite long “song” is Wagner’s Ring Cycle, which at about 15 hours blows every other contender out of the water…
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I’m your only friend
I’m not your only friend
But I’m a little glowing friend
But really I’m not actually your friend
But I am
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### Author:  [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508/25 "2000-04-01T06:19:00Z")
“Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts,” by Bob Dylan.
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“I can’t think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one’s grammar.”
– Dorothy L. Sayers
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### Author:  [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508/26 "2000-04-01T06:26:00Z")
MacArthur Park.
::ducking::
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“I used to think the brain was the most important organ in the body, until I realized who was telling me that.”
Emo Phillips
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### Author:  [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508/27 "2000-04-01T06:31:00Z")
As of 1:30, no one had mentioned:
Time has Come today - Chambers Bros (60s)
Do you feel like I do - Frampton (70s)
This Corrison - Sisters of Mercy (80s)
Surprising, at least to me. Or maybe my tastes are quite different
Still looking for that long-winded 90s song.
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### Author:  [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508/28 "2000-03-31T19:04:00Z")
> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by dhanson:
> \*\*Side 2 of “Abbey Road”.
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> \*\*
## Ya beat me to it…I saw Paul McCartney do this live on his _Flowers in the Dirt_ tour. On top of everything else there was a some-15 minute-long guitar battle added into “The End” that just blew everyone away. Don’t believe it when anyone tells you Paul can’t rock!
“Mrs. Krabappel, are you trying to seduce me?”
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### Author:  [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508/29 "2000-03-31T19:52:00Z")
> [@](#):
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> FEMALE
You mean there are actually _women_ who like Rush? Huh! You learn something new every day!
Some of my favorite long songs that weren’t already mentioned :
Type O Negative - Love You to Death (7:07)
Dream Theater - Take the Time (8:20)
Yes - Roundabout (8:34)
Yes - Starship Trooper (not sure of the length because I don’t have an mp3 and I was blitzed out of my mind every time I listened to it)
Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides (9:47)
Elton John - Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding (11:02)
Bob Seger - Travelin’ Man/Beautiful Loser (8:17)
Pink Floyd - Dogs (17:06)
Tool - Eulogy (8:28)
Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland (9:33)
Mother Love Bone - Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns (8:19)
Tool - Opiate (7:48 and one of the most well-written songs EVER, IMHO)
I could go on, but I think my list is long enough, as it is.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508/30 "2000-03-31T20:31:00Z")
> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by Gail:
> \*\*“Inna Gadda Da Vida” by Iron Butterfly…just because on a Simpson’s episode they sang it in church as a hymn (In the garden of eden…baby) The organist did a twenty minute solo and fainted after it…(she was old)…makes me laugh just to think about it.
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> \*\*
Homer: “Hey, Marge, Remember when we used to make out to this hymn”
Rev. Lovejoy: “Wait a minute, this sounds like rock and or roll!”
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### Author:  [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508/31 "2000-03-31T21:28:00Z")
Hello people!! …Stairway to Heaven!
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### Author:  [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508/32 "2000-03-31T22:50:00Z")
Great ones, guys! And thanks to Neutron Star for finally bring Yes into the picture. BTW, “Starship Trooper” is 9:26. Also adding to the Yes list:
“Yours is No Disgrace” - 9:40
“Heart of the Sunrise” - 10:31
“Close to the Edge” - 18:34
“Ritual–Nous Sommes du Soleil” - 21:33
“Sound Chaser” - 9:23
“And You and I:” - 10:07
I _love_ my Yes box set, can you tell?
Keep ‘em comin’!
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508/33 "2000-03-31T23:18:00Z")
Hey! MrKnowitall!!
> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by Coldfire:
> \*\*\* Yes - Soundchaser (this will get you high without any outside help - it is as amazing as it is absurd);\*\*
Thank you… 😉
**neutron star** : dammit, I’d ask you to marry me if you weren’t a dude! Great taste in music man, I love Tool too. Saw them in Amsterdam on their “Aenema” tour - it was the second best concert I ever saw. First being Queensryche’s “Promised Land” tour, where they performed the ENTIRE “Operation: Mindcrime” album, with video backgrounds: AMAZING!!
But then, Queensryche doesn’t make “long” songs, unless “Suite Sister Mary” counts…
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**Coldfire**
_Voted **Poster Most Likely To Post Drunk** _
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**WallyM7** on Coldfire:
_ **"Yeah, he knows a little about everything because they have a good prison library."** _
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### Author:  [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508/34 "2000-04-01T00:03:00Z")
It’s not quite rock, but it is Boz Scaggs and it is Duane Allman on guitar:
**Loan Me A Dime**
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### Author:  [@xekul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xekul)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508/35 "2000-04-01T01:36:00Z")
`Thick as a Brick'' is way up there. But my favourite long song has to be `The Diamond Sea’’ by Sonic Youth. It’s 19m36s.
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``You’re just an empty cage girl if you kill the bird.’’ – Tori Amos.
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### Author:  [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508/36 "2000-04-01T01:54:00Z")
There are a lot of long songs that I like, but none on the scale of those mentioned. As big a Cure fan as I am, I’ve never actually heard “Carnage Visors”. However, the extended remix of “Fascination Street” (about nine minutes) is excellent. I also like “Disintegration” (eight minutes). Other longish songs that I enjoy listening to: “Lamentation” by Delerium, (nine minutes), “Predator” by Front Line Assembly (also about nine minutes), “Needles” and “Hallway” by the Legendary Pink Dots (about ten and twelve minutes, respectively), and “The Howler: An English Breakfast”, by Pigface (two parts, about twenty-five minutes each). I think I will also mention the song “Time To Melt” by Lard, the Ministry/Jello Biafra side project, that clocks in at 31 something minutes. The notes say it’s only about twenty minutes long. They lie. Unfortunately, it’s extremely boring. Who says prog-rock is dead?
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Heck is where you go when you don’t believe in Gosh.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508/37 "2000-04-01T17:30:00Z")
Side 2 of “Abbey Road”. Electric Light Orchestra’s “Concerto For a Rainy Day”: technically 4 songs, but works well as a suite and clocks in at a bit over 16:00.
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### Author:  [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508/38 "2000-04-01T21:42:00Z")
“Scenes from an Italian Restaurant”
“Paradise by the Dashboard Light”
and of course
“Aja”
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2000, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508/39 "2000-04-02T00:05:00Z")
Maybe a little too short to be a really long song at around 7:00, but I love “Jessica” by the Allman Brothers Band.
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### Author:  [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2000, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-n-roll-for-the-attentionally-endowed/15508/40 "2000-04-02T01:39:00Z")
Most of my choices have been taken, but here’s a few others that come to mind:
1. Dazed and Confused, by Led Zeppelin, the version from _The Song Remains the Same_, at around 26 minutes.
2. CCR’s version of Heard it Through the Grapevine.
And thanks for bringing to my attention the fact that my Yes albums have been ignored for way too long. Fear not, the injustice is being corrected, Roundabout is already playing even as I type this. Actually, in the case of _Union_, I was perfectly justified in ignoring it. Too many cooks…
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