"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.
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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Today is not your day.
Tomorrow isn’t looking good either.
Led Zeppelin - “Carouselambra” and “Kashmir” (sp?)
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…
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
“Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts,” by Bob Dylan.
“I can’t think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one’s grammar.”
– Dorothy L. Sayers
MacArthur Park.
::ducking::
“I used to think the brain was the most important organ in the body, until I realized who was telling me that.”
Emo Phillips
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.
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?”
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.
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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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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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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It’s not quite rock, but it is Boz Scaggs and it is Duane Allman on guitar:
Loan Me A Dime
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.
``You’re just an empty cage girl if you kill the bird.’’ – Tori Amos.
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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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.
“Scenes from an Italian Restaurant”
“Paradise by the Dashboard Light”
and of course
“Aja”
Maybe a little too short to be a really long song at around 7:00, but I love “Jessica” by the Allman Brothers Band.
Most of my choices have been taken, but here’s a few others that come to mind:
- Dazed and Confused, by Led Zeppelin, the version from The Song Remains the Same, at around 26 minutes.
- 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…